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Oracle Lands $30 Billion Cloud Deal, Sends Shares Soaring

2025-07-01
Oracle Lands $30 Billion Cloud Deal, Sends Shares Soaring

Oracle Corp. announced a massive cloud computing deal worth $30 billion in annual revenue, more than double the size of its current cloud infrastructure business. The deal, expected to begin generating revenue in fiscal year 2028, is one of the largest cloud contracts ever recorded and hasn't yet named the client. This significant win positions Oracle for substantial growth in the cloud market, driving a surge in its stock price. The deal highlights the booming demand for cloud services and AI, with Oracle strategically expanding its market share.

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WhatsApp Patches Zero-Click Vulnerability Exploited in Sophisticated Spyware Campaign

2025-08-30
WhatsApp Patches Zero-Click Vulnerability Exploited in Sophisticated Spyware Campaign

WhatsApp has patched a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) in its iOS and Mac apps that was exploited in a sophisticated spyware campaign targeting nearly 200 users. The vulnerability, used in conjunction with another flaw fixed by Apple (CVE-2025-43300), allowed attackers to steal data via a zero-click exploit, requiring no user interaction. Amnesty International's Security Lab confirmed the attack, which lasted over 90 days. While Meta hasn't identified the attacker, this isn't the first time WhatsApp has faced government-backed spyware attacks, having previously sued and won damages against NSO Group for its Pegasus spyware.

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Judge Sidesteps Google's AI Monopoly in Antitrust Case

2025-09-03
Judge Sidesteps Google's AI Monopoly in Antitrust Case

While Judge Amit Mehta's ruling partially blocks some of Google's anti-competitive practices, it fails to address the company's dominance in generative AI. The decision relies on speculative arguments about the future of AI, overlooking Google's existing monopolies and distribution advantages. Search is a key gateway to future AI interactions, and the judge's leniency allows Google to continue shaping the internet and economy, rather than enforcing laws designed for fair competition and fostering innovation.

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The Electrifying History of the Humble Eraser

2025-05-09
The Electrifying History of the Humble Eraser

This article traces the fascinating evolution of the eraser, from its humble beginnings using bread crumbs to erase pencil marks, to the advent of electrically powered erasers. The story highlights how technological advancements impacted even the simplest everyday tools. It explores the design and usage of erasers across different eras, touches upon the debate surrounding the invention of the electric eraser, and ultimately concludes that despite the digital age, the eraser retains its creative and design value as a tool.

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Google's Kodak Moment: Missing the ChatGPT Revolution

2025-07-23

OpenAI's 2023 launch of ChatGPT represents a potential 'Kodak moment' for Google. Despite pioneering research and vast data resources underlying ChatGPT's technology, Google missed the opportunity to launch a history-making product. Its ad-based business model faces stiff competition from Meta, and losing search traffic to ChatGPT would force a desperate fight for screen-time against rivals like TikTok, Netflix, and game studios. Google's weakness in audio and its failure to commercialize its AR advantage further highlight its strategic shortcomings. Short-term stock pressures incentivize Google's leadership to prioritize immediate profits over a potentially necessary, albeit painful, long-term restructuring. This shortsightedness could ultimately lead to the company's downfall.

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The Swedish Campground in Your Mac Menu

2025-07-07

Early Macintosh designers added the Apple logo to menu items to indicate keyboard shortcuts. Steve Jobs, however, deemed this excessive. A frantic search for a replacement led them to a Swedish campground symbol in an international symbol dictionary. This small, floral icon, chosen for its distinctiveness, remains a subtle part of macOS to this day, a hidden piece of design history.

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The Physics of Sales: From Push to Pull

2025-09-02
The Physics of Sales: From Push to Pull

This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how many founders approach sales: the 'seller-push' mentality. By observing hundreds of sales calls, the author argues that successful sales aren't about convincing customers, but about helping them achieve their goals. The author introduces the 'buyer-pull' theory and lists 11 signals indicating a 'seller-push' approach. Changing this mindset is key to unlocking sales efficiency.

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(howtogrow.substack.com)
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LoopMix128: Blazing Fast and Robust 2^128 Period PRNG

2025-05-10
LoopMix128: Blazing Fast and Robust 2^128 Period PRNG

LoopMix128 is an extremely fast pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) with a guaranteed period of 2^128, proven injectivity, and clean passes in both BigCrush and PractRand (32TB). Designed for non-cryptographic applications where speed and statistical quality are paramount, it significantly outperforms standard library generators and rivals or surpasses modern high-speed PRNGs like wyrand and xoroshiro128++. Its performance is backed by rigorous testing, passing BigCrush and PractRand with zero anomalies, and boasting a proven 192-bit injective state enabling parallel streams.

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type-machine: Simulating Structural Subtyping in Haskell

2025-08-20

Haskell programmers often struggle with data modeling, especially when dealing with record types with many fields. This blog post introduces type-machine, a Haskell library that leverages Template Haskell to simulate structural subtyping using type transformers and Is typeclasses. This simplifies record type manipulation and improves code efficiency. The library provides functions like pick, omit, and record, allowing for easy manipulation of record fields. Benchmarks demonstrate its performance advantages over alternative approaches.

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Massive Dataset CommonPool Leaks Sensitive Personal Information

2025-07-31
Massive Dataset CommonPool Leaks Sensitive Personal Information

A new study reveals that CommonPool, a massive dataset containing 12.8 billion image-text pairs, harbors vast amounts of sensitive personal information. This includes credit cards, driver's licenses, passports, birth certificates, resumes, and even sensitive details like medical history and race. Used to train numerous AI models, including Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, CommonPool's over 2 million downloads mean this private information is likely widely disseminated, posing significant privacy risks. Researchers urge greater attention to data privacy and ethical considerations when building large-scale datasets.

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Cerebrum: A New Framework for Simulating Brain Networks

2024-12-24

A groundbreaking new framework, Cerebrum, combines biologically-inspired Hodgkin-Huxley neuron models with graph neural networks to simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks. Trained and evaluated on three canonical network topologies (Erdős-Rényi, small-world, and scale-free), Cerebrum demonstrated more accurate and robust connectivity inference with scale-free networks. Integrating empirical synaptic data from C. elegans and simulating disease effects (e.g., Parkinson's, epilepsy), Cerebrum is released as an open-source toolkit to foster collaboration and accelerate progress in computational neuroscience. This advancement promises to improve our understanding of brain networks and drive innovation in neuroscience and clinical practice.

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AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution

2025-06-21

AllTracker estimates long-range point tracks by computing the flow field between a query frame and every other frame in a video. Unlike existing methods, it produces high-resolution, dense (all-pixel) correspondence fields, enabling tracking at 768x1024 resolution on a 40G GPU. Instead of frame-by-frame processing, AllTracker processes a window of flow problems simultaneously, significantly improving long-range flow estimation. This efficient model (16 million parameters) achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, benefiting from training on a diverse set of datasets.

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Wharton Esherick's Three-Legged Stools: From Scraps to Iconic Status

2025-06-10
Wharton Esherick's Three-Legged Stools: From Scraps to Iconic Status

Wharton Esherick's Three-Legged Stools are among his most recognizable works. Initially created to supplement income using leftover wood scraps, these stools are not only beautiful and comfortable but also lightweight and easy to move. Esherick shaped them according to the wood grain, carefully designing the leg structure for both lightness and strength. Featured in Armstrong Linoleum advertisements, these stools unexpectedly gained widespread recognition, and today they are highly sought-after collectibles, commanding significant prices.

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Photon: A Blazing-Fast Rust/WebAssembly Image Processing Library

2025-04-10
Photon: A Blazing-Fast Rust/WebAssembly Image Processing Library

Photon is a high-performance Rust image processing library compiling to WebAssembly for safe, fast image manipulation on the web and natively. Supporting formats like PNG, JPEG, and WebP, it boasts over 96 customizable functions, covering image correction, resizing, convolutions, channel manipulation, transformations, monochrome effects, color adjustments, filters, watermarking, and blending. Available natively, via WebAssembly in browsers and Node.js, version 0.3.2 adds duotone filters, image rotation, and dithering. Get started with its comprehensive documentation and tutorials.

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German Hackers Expose Critical Flaws in Iridium Satellite System

2025-02-13
German Hackers Expose Critical Flaws in Iridium Satellite System

German white hat hackers recently demonstrated the interception of text messages sent via the US Iridium satellite communication system, pinpointing users' locations within approximately 4 kilometers. Using readily available equipment—a commercial Iridium antenna, software-defined radio receiver, and a standard computer—they intercepted messages and location data, including those of German Foreign Office employees. The vulnerability stems from weak encryption in older Iridium satellite models. While Iridium has launched a more secure second-generation constellation, many civilian devices still use the unencrypted legacy protocol, exposing tens or even hundreds of thousands of users to significant risks. This highlights the critical importance of satellite communication security and the dangers of relying on outdated, insecure protocols.

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GitHub Actions Security Risk: The Mutable Tag Vulnerability

2025-03-25
GitHub Actions Security Risk: The Mutable Tag Vulnerability

A recent attack on the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action highlighted a security vulnerability. By modifying a mutable Git tag, attackers could inject malicious code and leak secrets from build logs, which are public for public repositories. The author shares a shell script to audit used GitHub Actions, emphasizing the importance of using immutable commit IDs for security. The script analyzes workflow YAML files to identify and count actions, prioritizing those from large organizations or self-written scripts over less trustworthy ones. The author advocates for prioritizing actions from large organizations and writing custom scripts when possible.

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Milwaukee Police Propose Controversial Facial Recognition Trade

2025-04-28
Milwaukee Police Propose Controversial Facial Recognition Trade

The Milwaukee Police Department is considering trading 2.5 million mugshots for access to Biometrica's facial recognition technology, aiming to boost crime-solving efficiency. While officials claim it won't be used alone for probable cause, activists and residents raise concerns about privacy violations, increased surveillance, and potential access by federal agencies. The department hasn't finalized any agreement and promises further public discussion. Debates center on the technology's inherent biases, potential misuse, and the lack of clear protections against federal access, despite assurances from the police. A commissioner even shared a personal anecdote of experiencing bias from facial recognition technology.

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(www.jsonline.com)
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RepoRoulette: Randomly Sample GitHub Repositories

2025-05-20
RepoRoulette: Randomly Sample GitHub Repositories

RepoRoulette is a powerful tool for randomly sampling GitHub repositories, offering three distinct methods: ID sampling, temporal sampling, and BigQuery sampling. ID sampling directly selects random IDs from GitHub's ID space, offering speed but with low hit rates. Temporal sampling chooses repositories updated within a specified time range, allowing filtering by stars, languages, etc. BigQuery sampling leverages Google BigQuery's public GitHub dataset, providing powerful capabilities but requiring a GCP account and billing. RepoRoulette is suitable for academic research, learning resources, data science, trend analysis, and security research.

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Google's Gemini Code Assist Adds Third-Party Tool Integration

2024-12-20
Google's Gemini Code Assist Adds Third-Party Tool Integration

Google announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code completion service. This allows integration with tools like Jira, GitHub, and Sentry via plugins, reducing context switching and boosting developer productivity. Currently in private preview for Google Cloud partners, this feature directly competes with GitHub's Copilot Enterprise, though Google highlights advantages like on-premises codebase support. The addition of tools aims to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency for developers.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Bento: A Pocket-Sized Spatial Computer

2025-06-18
Bento: A Pocket-Sized Spatial Computer

Bento is a unique computer, inspired by the Commodore 64 and cyberdeck aesthetics, designed to fit perfectly under a keyboard which serves as its lid. This provides easy access to internals and storage for peripherals. Primarily intended for use with spatial displays like the XREAL One (though compatible with any USB-C monitor), Bento uses a Steam Deck OLED mainboard, cooler, and battery for optimal power and portability. Unlike bulky XR devices which are limited to basic functions, Bento is designed for real work, offering a powerful and portable solution for spatial computing. The project is open-source and welcomes contributions.

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Agentic Coding: Hype or Reality?

2025-06-08
Agentic Coding: Hype or Reality?

This post reflects on the author's experience with LLMs and critically assesses the hype surrounding 'agentic coding'. While LLMs can generate usable code, building complete software projects, like an HTTP/2 server, requires intense micromanagement and algorithmic supervision. LLMs frequently get stuck, demanding human intervention and context adjustments. The author argues that current 'agentic coding' tools are largely overhyped, their success relying on the effort of experienced engineers rather than autonomous LLM capabilities. Only by addressing the problem of LLM context management can their true potential be unleashed.

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(taras.glek.net)
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FSFE's 2024 Recap: Fighting for Software Freedom

2025-01-14
FSFE's 2024 Recap: Fighting for Software Freedom

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) released its 2024 year-end review, highlighting its progress in promoting free software. This includes participation in FOSDEM, work on DMA implementation, the fourth Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) edition, and presence at the Chaos Communication Congress. Key initiatives involved pushing for broader interoperability from Apple, sustainable funding for open-source ecosystems, and promoting freedom in software, hardware, and data. Looking ahead to 2025, the FSFE plans to continue its advocacy and community building efforts.

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Palestinian Grad Student Arrested: Political Protest Leads to Visa Crisis

2025-03-10
Palestinian Grad Student Arrested: Political Protest Leads to Visa Crisis

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University who played a prominent role in anti-Israel protests, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Authorities revoked his student visa and green card, citing support for Hamas. The arrest is seen as an escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on student political activism, sparking debate about free speech and political retaliation. Khalil was a key negotiator in student protests and faced disciplinary action from the university for his social media activity. The arrest is also linked to the Trump administration's threat to cut funding to Columbia University over its handling of antisemitism on campus.

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(apnews.com)
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Apple's App Store in Brazil: Massive Revenue, Regulatory Battles

2025-09-09
Apple's App Store in Brazil: Massive Revenue, Regulatory Battles

A new study reveals that Apple's Brazilian App Store generated R$63.8 billion (approximately $11.7 billion) for Brazilian developers last year, with 90% of that revenue commission-free. Despite this, Apple faces ongoing regulatory pressure in Brazil, navigating an antitrust lawsuit from MercadoLibre and court orders mandating sideloading and alternative payment methods. Apple is working with CADE, Brazil's competition watchdog, to delay enforcement and highlight the App Store's positive impact on Brazilian developers and the economy.

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(9to5mac.com)
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UnitedHealth Buried Change Healthcare's Data Breach Notice for Months

2025-01-15
UnitedHealth Buried Change Healthcare's Data Breach Notice for Months

Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth-owned health tech company, suffered a ransomware attack last year exposing the sensitive health data of over 100 million individuals. The company delayed notifying affected individuals for months and, shockingly, used “noindex” code to hide the data breach notice from search engines. This secrecy has drawn criticism and prompted investigations and lawsuits from several states. The incident highlights Change Healthcare's significant security flaws and the lack of transparency and slow response from large healthcare organizations in dealing with data breaches.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Windows 11's Adaptive Energy Saver: Smart Power Saving Based on Load, Not Just Battery

2025-07-15
Windows 11's Adaptive Energy Saver: Smart Power Saving Based on Load, Not Just Battery

Microsoft is testing a new adaptive energy saver mode in Windows 11 that intelligently manages power consumption based on system load, not just remaining battery. Unlike the traditional energy saver, which dims the screen, this new mode maintains brightness while optimizing background processes, pausing non-critical updates, and more. It's designed for battery-powered devices like laptops and will automatically turn on and off as needed. Currently in testing for Canary Channel Insiders, it's expected to roll out later this year.

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Automattic Halts Tumblr's Migration to WordPress

2025-07-01
Automattic Halts Tumblr's Migration to WordPress

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced that the plan to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress is on hold. The plan, announced last year to simplify cross-platform sharing for Tumblr's half-billion blogs, is being paused to prioritize user-facing improvements. While the migration is currently stalled, Mullenweg hasn't ruled it out entirely. This also means Tumblr posts won't be readily available on the fediverse in the near future. While WordPress.com has an ActivityPub plugin, migrating Tumblr to WordPress would have provided a simpler path to fediverse integration. For now, Automattic plans to implement fediverse support directly within the Tumblr codebase.

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F-Droid Fake Signer PoC: Bypassing Certificate Pinning

2025-01-04
F-Droid Fake Signer PoC: Bypassing Certificate Pinning

This project is a proof-of-concept demonstrating vulnerabilities in F-Droid's APK signature verification. Attackers can exploit these flaws to forge signatures, bypassing F-Droid's certificate pinning and allowing malicious apps to masquerade as legitimate ones. The vulnerabilities stem from inconsistencies in how F-Droid handles certificate order and verification within the APK signing block. By manipulating these inconsistencies, attackers can inject false certificate information, tricking F-Droid into accepting them as valid. While fixes have been proposed and implemented, further vulnerabilities and bypasses have been discovered, highlighting ongoing challenges in securing APK signing verification.

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AI in the 80s: A Simple Animal Guessing Game That Pioneered Machine Learning

2025-01-12
AI in the 80s: A Simple Animal Guessing Game That Pioneered Machine Learning

This article recounts a simple game, "Guess the Animal," written in BASIC in the 1980s. Using a decision tree, the game asks yes/no questions to guess the animal. Crucially, it learns from mistakes, adding new questions and answers to its knowledge base and saving/loading progress. This showcases early explorations of trainable algorithms, predating modern AI hype. The author recreated the algorithm in C++, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of both implementations. The article highlights how even simple ideas, like decision trees and self-learning, anticipated modern AI.

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(medium.com)
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