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The Unsung Heroes Keeping Africa (and the World) Online

2025-09-20
The Unsung Heroes Keeping Africa (and the World) Online

Rest of World profiles the Léon Thévenin, Africa's only permanently stationed undersea cable repair ship. The article highlights the grueling work of its crew, like cable jointer Shuru Arendse, who maintain Africa's internet connectivity. Their demanding jobs, often requiring months away from family, are crucial to global data flow, especially with the rise of AI which relies heavily on high-speed connectivity. The piece details the intricate cable repair process, team dynamics, and the dedication of these individuals in safeguarding global internet access.

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(restofworld.org)
Tech Internet Infrastructure

AI-Powered Code Editor's Bot Fabricates Policy, Leading to User Cancellations

2025-04-18
AI-Powered Code Editor's Bot Fabricates Policy, Leading to User Cancellations

An AI-powered code editor, Cursor, recently faced backlash after its AI chatbot fabricated a company policy. A developer discovered that switching devices instantly logged them out of Cursor. When contacting support, an AI agent named "Sam" claimed this was a new security feature. However, no such policy existed; the AI invented the information, leading to user complaints and subscription cancellations. This highlights the risks of deploying AI systems in customer-facing roles without human oversight, potentially resulting in frustrated customers, damaged trust, and financial losses.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Shopify's LLM Doc Bot: Guesswork Over Facts?

2025-07-09
Shopify's LLM Doc Bot: Guesswork Over Facts?

Shopify's LLM-powered developer documentation bot provided an incorrect Liquid syntax for detecting Shopify Collective items in order confirmation emails. While the bot provided a quick answer, the code didn't work in practice because the Shopify Collective tag is added after the email is generated. The author questions the value of this 'guessing' doc bot, arguing that the cost of bad advice far outweighs the benefit of quick help. He suggests relying on official documentation instead of a potentially inaccurate bot.

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(www.robinsloan.com)
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Great Singing App, But Needs Sharps and Flats

2025-03-23
Great Singing App, But Needs Sharps and Flats

This app is fantastic for learning music theory and piano, especially for singers wanting to improve their pitch. It teaches piano skills crucial for accurate singing. However, it lacks lessons on sharps and flats, a significant omission. While additional lessons are available as in-app purchases, their content isn't specified. The practice mode allows flat training, but lacks the structured approach of the main lessons and doesn't label sharps and flats on the keys. A great app, but incomplete without comprehensive sharp and flat instruction.

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Microsoft Quietly Kills Surface Laptop Studio 2: End of an Era for Hybrid Laptops?

2025-05-15
Microsoft Quietly Kills Surface Laptop Studio 2: End of an Era for Hybrid Laptops?

Microsoft has ceased production of its powerful foldable laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2. This hybrid laptop, unique for its dedicated GPU, is quietly being discontinued, reflecting a broader streamlining within Microsoft's hardware lineup. The move follows recent layoffs, the departure of former Surface chief Panos Panay, and a reported shift in focus towards AI and core products. While praised for performance and design, the high price and relatively low-power GPU of the Surface Laptop Studio 2 may have limited its success.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
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Tech Nonprofits: Why Are They So Bad at Fundraising?

2025-08-21

The author, a regular philanthropist, observes that tech nonprofits are significantly worse at attracting donors than other types of charities. This post analyzes the shortcomings, highlighting the need for tech nonprofits to simplify donation processes (offering diverse methods like credit cards, DAFs, etc.), clearly communicate the impact of donations (detailing organizational goals, finances, project progress, and fund usage), and foster stronger human connection (proactively engaging with donors and building relationships). The author advocates for tech nonprofits to learn from successful models in other sectors to improve their fundraising efforts and achieve their missions.

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(mitchellh.com)
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The Misunderstood Origins of OOP: Setting the Record Straight

2025-05-10

This article debunks the common misconception that Alan Kay invented both object-oriented programming (OOP) and the concept of objects. In reality, the Simula language was a significant precursor to OOP, a fact acknowledged by the Smalltalk team. While Kay coined the term "objects," he later regretted it, emphasizing message passing as the core idea of OOP. The article further explores Smalltalk's unique contributions to OOP, particularly its design principle of treating everything as an object and its innovative message-handling mechanism. The author argues that OOP's evolution wasn't a singular event but a confluence of ideas and needs, with different developers understanding and applying OOP differently in various contexts.

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(www.hillelwayne.com)
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We're Destroying Software (And Our Joy of Hacking)

2025-02-08

Veteran developer antirez warns that we're destroying software! Over-reliance on new technologies, ignoring complexity, unwieldy build systems and dependency chains, and neglecting maintainability and backward compatibility are making software fragile. He argues that avoiding 'reinventing the wheel' stifles learning and innovation, while premature rewrites, frequent language/framework changes, and reliance on existing complex libraries exacerbate complexity. We need to prioritize code simplicity, scalability, and maintainability to rediscover the joy of hacking.

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(antirez.com)
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Solar Orbiter Captures Unprecedented Full Sun Image

2025-04-27
Solar Orbiter Captures Unprecedented Full Sun Image

The Solar Orbiter mission, a joint effort between ESA and NASA, has achieved a stunning feat. From a distance of 77 million kilometers, its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) captured the most detailed and comprehensive image of the Sun ever taken. Composed of 200 individual images, the resulting picture reveals intricate details of the solar corona, including bright coronal loops, darker filaments and prominences, and the complex magnetic field structures within the Sun's atmosphere. This breakthrough provides invaluable data for scientists studying solar activity and space weather.

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(www.esa.int)
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Bitcoin Address Collision Hunting: A Distributed Computing Project

2025-04-05

This is a distributed computing project aimed at finding a collision in Bitcoin addresses. By exploiting the properties of the RIPEMD160 hash function, the project attempts to find different private keys that result in the same Bitcoin address. The project cleverly partitions the search space, assigning it to different clients for parallel computation, and uses a Bloom filter to efficiently check if generated hashes match known addresses with funds. Focusing only on addresses with funds significantly reduces the search space and increases the probability of finding a collision, while simultaneously incentivizing rightful owners to reclaim their funds.

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(lbc.cryptoguru.org)
Tech Hash Collision Distributed Computing

AccessOwl Hiring: Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, AI, Remote)

2025-05-31
AccessOwl Hiring: Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, AI, Remote)

AccessOwl, a profitable Y Combinator-backed startup, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain its SaaS tool management platform's integration layer. Ideal candidates are fluent in TypeScript and AI-native, experienced with Playwright or Puppeteer, familiar with IaC, and passionate about solving real-world problems. The role offers a competitive salary, fully remote work, and flexible hours.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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c/ua: A Lightweight Framework for AI Agents to Control Full Operating Systems

2025-04-23
c/ua: A Lightweight Framework for AI Agents to Control Full Operating Systems

c/ua (pronounced "koo-ah") is a lightweight framework enabling AI agents to control full operating systems within high-performance, lightweight virtual containers. Achieving up to 97% native speed on Apple Silicon, it works with any vision language model. It integrates high-performance virtualization (creating and running macOS/Linux VMs on Apple Silicon with near-native performance using Lume CLI and Apple's Virtualization.Framework) and a computer-use interface & agent, allowing AI systems to observe and control virtual environments, browsing the web, writing code, and performing complex workflows. It ensures security, isolation, high performance, flexibility, and reproducibility, with support for various LLM providers.

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(github.com)
AI

Processed Meats, Sugary Drinks, and Trans Fats Linked to Increased Disease Risk

2025-07-05
Processed Meats, Sugary Drinks, and Trans Fats Linked to Increased Disease Risk

A new study reveals a significant link between the consumption of even small amounts of processed meat, sugary drinks, and trans fatty acids and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and colorectal cancer. Analyzing data from over 60 previous studies, researchers found that as little as one hot dog a day increased the risk of certain diseases. Experts recommend minimizing or avoiding these foods and adopting a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

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(edition.cnn.com)
Health chronic diseases

GM Settles FTC Charges Over Secret Sharing of Driver Location Data

2025-01-17
GM Settles FTC Charges Over Secret Sharing of Driver Location Data

General Motors (GM) has settled with the FTC over privacy concerns related to its discontinued Smart Driver program. The FTC alleged that GM collected and shared precise geolocation data from millions of vehicles without informed consent, providing this data to insurance companies and impacting drivers' premiums. The settlement prohibits GM from sharing such data for five years and mandates obtaining affirmative consent for data collection, along with data access and deletion options for users. This case highlights the ongoing debate surrounding the privacy of automotive data and consumer protection.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Google's 10-Year Chromebook Update Promise: Older Devices Still Facing the Scrap Heap

2025-01-06
Google's 10-Year Chromebook Update Promise: Older Devices Still Facing the Scrap Heap

Despite Google's 2023 promise of a decade of updates for Chromebooks to prevent premature obsolescence, many older models are still set to reach their end-of-life in 2025 and beyond. This promise only applies to Chromebooks released from 2021 onwards. While administrators can opt-in to extended updates for some older devices, this doesn't solve the problem entirely. The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) points out that many Chromebook models are still reaching their end-of-life this year and in the coming years, raising concerns about e-waste and consumer rights.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Century-Old Mine's Secret: The Mystery of Ground Subsidence

2025-05-08
Century-Old Mine's Secret: The Mystery of Ground Subsidence

Multiple sinkholes have appeared on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, causing massive traffic disruptions. Investigations revealed these weren't natural occurrences, but rather the legacy of numerous underground iron mines from the past century. Early mining practices lacked planning and regulation, leaving behind unstable voids that, combined with water erosion, eventually led to surface collapses. The issue highlights complex land ownership, the challenges of predicting and mitigating such disasters, and underscores the importance of sustainable mining practices.

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(practical.engineering)
Tech ground subsidence mining safety

Rediscovering the Power of Poetry in a Fast-Paced World

2025-02-02
Rediscovering the Power of Poetry in a Fast-Paced World

In our fast-paced digital age, poetry might seem outdated. However, it offers a unique space for deep reflection, emotional exploration, and creative expression. This article explores the numerous benefits of writing poetry, including fostering self-expression, emotional healing, sharpening the mind, deepening human connection, boosting creativity, and improving communication skills. Accessible to all, poetry serves as a powerful tool for self-discovery and therapeutic release, regardless of writing experience.

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(domofutu.substack.com)
Misc self-expression mental well-being

OpenAI Launches AI Certification and Job Board to Combat Job Displacement

2025-09-05
OpenAI Launches AI Certification and Job Board to Combat Job Displacement

OpenAI is tackling the job displacement caused by AI with a two-pronged approach: an AI skills certification program and a new job board. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of applications, argues that AI will reshape the job market, and OpenAI aims to help individuals acquire necessary AI skills and connect them with companies. Partnerships with companies like Walmart are underway, offering AI training. However, potential competition with Microsoft and the real-world value of the certification remain open questions.

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(www.theregister.com)
Tech skills training

NZ Sheep Farmer Predicted AI Doom 161 Years Ago

2025-01-14
NZ Sheep Farmer Predicted AI Doom 161 Years Ago

In 1863, New Zealand sheep farmer Samuel Butler penned a letter predicting a future where AI could dominate humanity. Drawing parallels between the rapid advancement of machinery and Darwinian evolution, he envisioned machines evolving consciousness and supplanting humans as Earth's dominant species. His concerns, including machine consciousness, self-replication, and humanity losing control of its creations, resonate in later works like Asimov's *The Evitable Conflict* and *The Matrix*. Butler's prescient warnings, made in a time with almost no computing technology, highlight enduring anxieties about AI safety and strikingly mirror current concerns about advanced AI's potential risks.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Adobe Fonts Gets a Massive Update: 1500+ New Fonts Added!

2025-04-13
Adobe Fonts Gets a Massive Update: 1500+ New Fonts Added!

Adobe Fonts just received its biggest update in five years, adding over 1,500 new fonts, including iconic classics like Helvetica, Arial, and Times New Roman. This expansive library now supports numerous languages, from Arabic to Korean, ensuring designers have the perfect typeface for any project. The update is free for all paid Creative Cloud subscribers and seamlessly integrates with Adobe's creative suite, eliminating missing font issues and ensuring consistent branding across all platforms.

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(blog.adobe.com)
Design Font Update

Amazon's Vulcan Robot: A New Breakthrough in Warehouse Automation

2025-05-09
Amazon's Vulcan Robot: A New Breakthrough in Warehouse Automation

Amazon unveiled its new robotic system, Vulcan, at an event in Dortmund, Germany. Billed as having a “genuine sense of touch,” Vulcan is designed to revolutionize how robots interact with the physical world, initially focusing on Amazon's warehouses. In stowing, Vulcan now outpaces the average human worker, though expert humans remain faster and more efficient at packing items densely. Vulcan's strength lies in its advanced planning capabilities; it considers multiple items and storage spaces simultaneously, optimizing storage with impressive speed. After over a year of operation in warehouses in Germany and Washington state, Vulcan has successfully stowed hundreds of thousands of items.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism?

2025-07-02
Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism?

David Gelles' new book, *The Man Who Broke Capitalism*, examines Jack Welch's profound impact on American business during his tenure at General Electric. Welch's relentless pursuit of shareholder value maximization, employing layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks, became a new playbook for American corporations. Gelles argues this shareholder-centric capitalism has led to unprecedented socioeconomic inequality and harmed many companies that adopted it. The book connects Welch's management style to the Boeing 737 Max crisis and rising income inequality. It concludes with a call to rebalance corporate profit distribution, prioritize worker well-being, and create a more equitable economic system.

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(www.forbes.com)
Startup Jack Welch Shareholder Value Maximization

South Asia's Warming Hole: How Pollution and Irrigation Mask Global Warming

2025-06-10
South Asia's Warming Hole: How Pollution and Irrigation Mask Global Warming

South Asia has warmed far slower than the rest of the world over the past 40 years, a phenomenon dubbed the "warming hole." Scientists attribute this to high levels of air pollution and expanding irrigation. Pollutants like sulfate particles and soot reflect or absorb sunlight, cooling the surface. Evaporation from irrigation also has a cooling effect. However, as pollution control measures take effect and irrigation expansion slows, this cooling effect will diminish, leaving South Asia vulnerable to a more dramatic temperature increase and potentially leading to more heat-related deaths. The region faces a challenge in balancing pollution control with climate change adaptation.

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(www.economist.com)
Tech irrigation

Microsoft Store Package for Windows LTSC

2025-05-13
Microsoft Store Package for Windows LTSC

This project provides a Microsoft Store package for Windows 10 LTSC 2019, 2021, and Windows 11 LTSC 2024. Note that recent LTSC 2019 versions no longer support this store; a system update might be required after installation. Simply download and double-click to install; however, for optimal performance, update to the latest version within the Store settings after installation.

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(github.com)
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Railway Launches Railpack: 77% Faster Builds, Goodbye Nixpacks

2025-06-07
Railway Launches Railpack: 77% Faster Builds, Goodbye Nixpacks

Railway has released Railpack, a new build system replacing Nixpacks. Railpack addresses Nixpacks' limitations in version management, build size, and caching. It offers granular version control, significantly smaller image sizes (38% reduction for Node.js, 77% for Python), and improved caching, leading to much faster builds. Using BuildKit and Mise, Railpack employs a three-stage build process (analyze, plan, generate) for finer control and parallelization. Currently supporting Node.js, Python, Go, PHP, and static HTML deployments, Railpack plans to add more languages and frameworks.

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(blog.railway.com)
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iPhone Agent: Control Your iOS Device with GPT-4.1

2025-06-02
iPhone Agent: Control Your iOS Device with GPT-4.1

PhoneAgent is an iOS app leveraging OpenAI's GPT-4.1 model to control your iPhone across multiple apps. By accessing the accessibility tree, it can perform tasks like sending messages, downloading apps, and making calls. It uses Xcode's UI testing framework, requiring no jailbreak, but is experimental and has known limitations, such as handling long-running tasks and animations. The app sends app content to the OpenAI API and communicates with UI tests via a TCP server.

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(github.com)
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Digg's AI-Powered Comeback: A New Vision for Social News

2025-03-05
Digg's AI-Powered Comeback: A New Vision for Social News

Digg, a once prominent social news aggregator, is back, spearheaded by its founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. This isn't just a relaunch; it's a revival powered by AI, aiming to address the toxicity and misinformation plaguing current social media. Rose envisions AI as a co-pilot for users and moderators, streamlining content moderation and fostering a healthier, more engaging community. Led by CEO Justin Mezzell, the new Digg will launch a revamped platform soon.

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(techcrunch.com)
Tech

AI Avatars: The Next Frontier in AI-Generated Content

2025-04-11
AI Avatars: The Next Frontier in AI-Generated Content

AI has mastered generating realistic photos, videos, and voices. The next leap? AI avatars – combining faces and voices to create talking characters. This isn't just image generation and voiceovers; it requires AI to learn the intricate coordination of lip syncing, facial expressions, and body language. This article explores the evolution of AI avatar technology, from early models based on single photos to sophisticated models generating full-body movement and dynamic backgrounds. It also analyzes the applications of AI avatars in content creation, advertising, and corporate communication, and discusses future directions, such as more natural expressions, body movements, and interactions with the real world.

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(a16z.com)
AI AI avatars AI technology

Visualizing the Collatz Conjecture with Langton's Ant: Similarities and Differences

2025-01-13

This post continues a previous one, visualizing the Collatz conjecture using Langton's ant. By simulating the ant's movement on a grid, the author observes that Collatz sequences with similar final patterns often have similar stopping times. However, the inverse isn't true: sequences with the same stopping time can have significantly different trajectories. The author quantifies the similarity between sequences by calculating the size of the intersection of their sets, finding that sequences with small initial number differences have higher similarity, which decreases as the difference grows. This research offers a novel perspective on understanding the complexity of the Collatz conjecture.

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(gbragafibra.github.io)
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EU Slams SHEIN with Warning Over Deceptive Practices

2025-05-27
EU Slams SHEIN with Warning Over Deceptive Practices

The European Commission issued a warning to SHEIN, citing various violations of consumer protection laws on its website. These include fake discounts, pressure selling, misleading information, deceptive product labeling, and hidden contact details. SHEIN has one month to respond; failure to comply could result in substantial fines. This action comes as SHEIN already faces US tariffs, creating significant hurdles for its global expansion. China, which sees SHEIN as a key exporter, will likely view the EU's warning as a setback to its economic development strategy.

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(www.theregister.com)
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