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The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.
The Federal Palace in Bern is bustling with activity as the National Council and Council of States debate various important issues during their summer session. The agenda includes the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, federal finances, and the construction of new nuclear power plants.
ENAS offers a private, local storage platform with performance, scalability, and simplicity, eliminating costly licensing and proprietary hardware. It integrates with UniFi for centralized management, secure access, and multi-site backup orchestration without recurring software costs.
The user previously used GNU stow to manage their dotfiles but switched to chezmoi due to symlinking issues. Chezmoi keeps a source directory with copies of live files and applies changes to the home directory.
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.
TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.
Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, donates half a billion dollars to charity, giving away his wealth to those in need. He believes in kindness over riches, inspired by his childhood lessons from Holocaust survivors.
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's AI technology due to concerns over SK Telecom's ties to China. Anthropic revoked access to its models for foreign nationals after the White House ordered it to do so.
The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.
The author is skeptical of RTK's long-term viability due to its misleading savings statistic and critical structural flaws. RTK's optimization may lead to silent failures and decreased task accuracy, making it an operational risk.
The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD) solves the problem of discovering available capabilities for AI clients. ARD lets clients ask what agentic resources can help with a task, returning matching capabilities with details on who provides them.
Modos Flow is a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with higher resolution and touch input, improving on the Paper Monitor Dev Kit. The Flow's crowdfunding campaign is live on Crowd Supply, with cofounders discussing engineering and lessons learned from their crowdfunding journey.
You're revisiting A2A protocol, an agent-to-agent protocol from Google, and wondering if anyone is using it yet. It seems like A2A could enable relevant context and query answering between agents with tools, services, and data.
A lot has happened in transformer quantization over the past few years, from barely being able to quantize a 7B model in INT8 without destroying accuracy, to routinely fitting a 70B model in 4-bits on a single GPU. But existing guides on the topic are fragmented: either focused on a specific technique or on how to use a library. I’ve been working on integer quantization for fixed-point ...
The author chose Emacs as their primary editor due to its wide range of language support and ease of use on Windows. They eventually switched to Linux and continued using Emacs, learning to customize it effectively over time.
I will draw district lines to favor the yellow party. I will use gerrymandering techniques like packing and cracking to concentrate yellow voters in a few districts and split opponents across multiple districts.
Submit your website to various platforms for backlinks and visibility. Choose from launch directories, review marketplaces, and founder networks to reach target audiences and improve search engine rankings.
Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.
The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.
Alberta, a Canadian province, has been rat-free for over 70 years despite being surrounded by infested areas. Its success is due to a proactive rat control program that began in the 1950s, focusing on a narrow border zone and using a combination of surveillance, education, and targeted poisoning.
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.
A writer argues that ancient Egyptians built the pyramids using human labor and ingenuity, not alien assistance. He criticizes the tendency to attribute human achievements to extraterrestrial beings.
Meta and TerraPower agreed to develop up to eight Natrium reactor plants, providing 2.8 GW of carbon-free energy. Meta will fund the deployment of the plants, with delivery starting as early as 2032.
Midjourney is building a machine to reimagine healthcare and body relationships with a new kind of medical imaging. The goal is to make regular health scans accessible and affordable for everyone, potentially preventing 30% of deaths and 50% of healthcare costs.
Agent Builder is now available and uses a persistent memory layer for agents, which is built on Elasticsearch and structured around three categories from cognitive science: episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. The memory system includes features such as hybrid recall with reranking, supersession for contradictions, and per-user Document-Level Security (DLS) isolation, and is designed to ...
Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts. In this post, I will introduce basic architectural concepts and explain why not all suburban/exurban/residential houses are McMansions, as well as what makes a McMansion especially ...