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Facebook Secretly Uploads User Photos to the Cloud?

2025-08-29
Facebook Secretly Uploads User Photos to the Cloud?

Meta, Facebook's parent company, is testing a new feature that secretly uploads users' phone photos and videos to the cloud without explicit consent, using them to generate AI-powered suggestions like collages, monthly recaps, and themed albums. While Meta claims the feature is opt-in and prompts users, some report never seeing the prompt and finding the feature enabled by default. This raises serious privacy concerns as Meta accesses users' private, unshared photos and videos. The test is currently limited to the US and Canada, excluding Illinois and Texas due to privacy laws.

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(www.zdnet.com)
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Dell's AI Server Business Explodes: Riding the Generative AI Wave

2025-09-03
Dell's AI Server Business Explodes: Riding the Generative AI Wave

Dell's strategic positioning in the AI server market yielded spectacular results in Q2 of fiscal 2026. Fueled by massive deals with clients like xAI and CoreWeave, and a preference for American-made hardware, Dell's AI server sales reached $8.1 billion, a 2.6x year-over-year increase. While overall server business profitability saw some compression, the robust growth in AI pushed Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group revenue past its PC business for the first time in history. Dell forecasts at least $20 billion in AI system sales for fiscal 2026, demonstrating its ability to capitalize on the generative AI boom.

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(www.nextplatform.com)
Hardware AI servers

Qualcomm Open-Sources EUD: In-Circuit Debugging Over USB

2025-07-01
Qualcomm Open-Sources EUD: In-Circuit Debugging Over USB

Qualcomm quietly released the source code for its Embedded USB Debug (EUD) interface, enabling developers to perform SWD debugging directly over USB without external JTAG tools. EUD, integrated into nearly every Qualcomm SoC since ~2018, provides debugging access to CPUs and Hexagon co-processors. While the initial open-source code had some compilation issues, the community quickly addressed them. Currently supporting chips like Snapdragon 845, 855, and 865, it simplifies debugging U-Boot and the secure world, but kernel debugging support is limited, and SMP support is incomplete.

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(www.linaro.org)
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A Premeditated Murder in 14th Century London: The Forde Killing

2025-06-07
A Premeditated Murder in 14th Century London: The Forde Killing

A premeditated murder shocked 14th-century London's Westcheap area. Priest Forde was ambushed and killed by four men, including Ela Fitzpayne's brother and former servants, shortly after Vespers. Despite identifying the killers, justice was thwarted by Fitzpayne's high social standing. Five years later, only one perpetrator was imprisoned. Further research revealed a long-standing feud between the Fitzpayne family and Forde, including a previous raid on a Benedictine priory. The case highlights the class-based injustice of the era.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Austrian Cloud Provider Ditches VMware for KVM After 500%+ License Hike

2025-01-13
Austrian Cloud Provider Ditches VMware for KVM After 500%+ License Hike

Facing a massive VMware license cost increase (over 500%), Austrian cloud provider Anexia migrated 12,000 VMs to a KVM-based open-source platform. This move not only saved significant costs, preventing an existential crisis, but also garnered customer support. Anexia leveraged its existing Netcup platform and Anexia Engine abstraction layer for a seamless migration, requiring only a single click and brief reboot. This migration showcases the viability of open-source alternatives and highlights the market backlash against Broadcom's aggressive pricing post-VMware acquisition.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Advertising: A Cancerous Metaphor

2025-02-10

This article draws a striking parallel between advertising and cancer, highlighting their shared characteristics: uncontrolled growth, destructive consequences, resilience, and resource consumption. It argues that advertising, far from simply informing consumers, has become manipulative and deceptive, consuming vast corporate resources, polluting media channels, distorting decision-making, and eroding trust. Even in saturated markets, advertising competition becomes a zero-sum game, forcing companies into a vicious cycle of escalating spending. The author uses a powerful metaphor to expose the negative impacts and potential harms of advertising.

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Outdated Tech Costs Bank a GDPR Lawsuit

2025-06-11
Outdated Tech Costs Bank a GDPR Lawsuit

A Belgian bank lost a court case due to its outdated EBCDIC system's inability to handle accented characters, resulting in incorrect customer name records. This highlights the importance of system modernization in the digital age and the strict accuracy requirements for personal data under GDPR. The case raises concerns about the continued use of legacy technologies like EBCDIC, far inferior to Unicode, and their limitations in data processing.

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MentraOS: Open-Source Smart Glasses App Development Platform

2025-09-06
MentraOS: Open-Source Smart Glasses App Development Platform

MentraOS is an open-source platform for developing applications for smart glasses, supporting models like Even Realities G1 and Mentra Mach 1. Developers can use the TypeScript SDK to build apps quickly and distribute them through the Mentra Store. MentraOS handles pairing, connection, data streaming, and cross-compatibility, allowing developers to focus on creating innovative apps. The platform is entirely open-source (MIT license) and boasts a vibrant community.

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(github.com)
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Give Your Old Printer New Life: UoWPrint Wireless Print Server Review

2025-05-04
Give Your Old Printer New Life: UoWPrint Wireless Print Server Review

UoWPrint is a modern print server designed to add wireless capabilities to older USB printers, scanners, and multi-function printers (MFPs). It's easy to use and requires no printer-specific drivers, working seamlessly with Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS via AirPrint and Mopria. Built on an Orange Pi Zero 3, it's compact yet powerful, supporting a wide range of printers (HP, Samsung, Xerox, Canon, etc.), though compatibility varies. The project aims to reduce e-waste and provides a convenient printing solution through open-source software and free tech support.

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(printserver.ink)
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Automating Releases with Claude Code

2025-05-26
Automating Releases with Claude Code

Molin uses Anthropic's Claude Code to automate its 1-3 times/week software release process. Claude Code handles creating PRs, checking diffs, deploying the backend, and publishing JS bundles. Instructions in a `.claude/release.md` file guide Claude Code to check for existing release PRs, create new ones, check merge status and CI checks, merge the PR, and finally deploy to production. This significantly improves efficiency and reduces manual work.

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(www.aluxian.com)
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EA Origin Shutdown: Secure Your Games!

2025-01-25
EA Origin Shutdown: Secure Your Games!

EA is shutting down its Origin platform on April 17, 2025. All Origin users must migrate to the EA app to keep playing and preserve their game data. While the transition is relatively straightforward, it requires a 64-bit system, potentially necessitating an upgrade for some users. Alternatively, players can add their games to their Steam library to avoid using the EA app entirely.

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(www.pcworld.com)
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Amazon's Document Culture: The Secret to Efficient Meetings

2025-03-19
Amazon's Document Culture: The Secret to Efficient Meetings

Amazon's unique document-centric culture dramatically improves meeting efficiency. All meetings begin with reading a document containing all necessary information. This eliminates information gaps, reduces communication barriers, and greatly facilitates remote collaboration. While requiring strong writing skills and presenting document management challenges, this approach significantly boosts team collaboration and ensures participants are well-prepared, minimizing wasted time.

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(justingarrison.com)
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Universal Rules Template for AI Coding Assistants: Supercharge Your Workflow

2025-06-18
Universal Rules Template for AI Coding Assistants: Supercharge Your Workflow

Tired of inconsistent AI behavior across different coding assistants? This template provides a robust, cross-platform framework to elevate your AI pair-programming experience. It leverages established software engineering principles and structured documentation to ensure consistent AI operation, deep project understanding, and optimal workflows across tools like Cursor, CLINE, RooCode, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot. Move beyond simple prototypes and build sophisticated applications with AI partners that truly understand your project.

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(github.com)
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The Twilight of Social Media: Algorithms, Fakes, and a Glimpse of Hope

2025-09-13
The Twilight of Social Media: Algorithms, Fakes, and a Glimpse of Hope

This article examines the current state and future of social media platforms. Overwhelmed by AI-generated spam, fake accounts, and the 'bot-girl economy', genuine human interaction is increasingly sidelined by algorithmic prioritization. Platforms, chasing engagement metrics, disregard authenticity and value, leading to declining user experience and engagement. The article suggests a future of decentralized, smaller-scale social media focusing on genuine interaction within niche communities. It advocates for a public-service model, algorithm transparency, and improved digital literacy to reshape the digital landscape.

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(www.noemamag.com)
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The 90s Web Design Trinity: Zeldman, Siegel, and Nielsen

2025-05-29
The 90s Web Design Trinity: Zeldman, Siegel, and Nielsen

The rise of Flash and CSS in 1997 birthed three distinct web design philosophies. David Siegel championed 'hacks,' Jakob Nielsen prioritized simplicity, and Jeffrey Zeldman blended flair with usability. This article explores their approaches and careers. Siegel focused on aesthetics, Nielsen on usability, while Zeldman found a middle ground, his pragmatic approach proving dominant. Today, Nielsen delves into AI, Siegel pursues diverse interests, but Zeldman remains a web design force, soon to relaunch his personal website with a fresh design. The article offers a nostalgic look at the formative years of web design.

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(cybercultural.com)
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LLM Agents: The New DX Standard for API Development

2025-05-20
LLM Agents: The New DX Standard for API Development

LLM-powered agents are becoming tireless junior developers. They read API docs, issue requests, parse errors, and retry until success. However, API developer experience (DX) is crucial. If an agent stalls due to poor documentation or unclear error messages, human developers will likely hit the same roadblocks. Improving API documentation, providing clear and detailed error messages, and ensuring consistency significantly enhances DX and makes agents more efficient. This benefits human developers and allows agents to act as automated testers, catching issues early.

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(stytch.com)
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Guile-Swayer: Scripting Sway/i3 with Guile

2025-08-19
Guile-Swayer: Scripting Sway/i3 with Guile

Tired of Sway/i3's configuration limitations? The Guile-Swayer project offers a powerful solution, allowing you to fully control the Sway/i3 window manager using the Guile scripting language. Developed after migrating from StumpWM to Wayland, this project replicates StumpWM's flexibility and customization. Guile-Swayer lets you bind keys to execute Guile code, subscribe to Sway events and react to them, retrieve Sway information, and more. It includes modules like workspace-grid for grid-based workspaces, workspace-groups for cross-monitor workspace grouping, and which-key for Emacs-like keybinding hints. With Guile-Swayer, create a highly personalized and efficient window management environment.

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(github.com)
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Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions: Design and Evaluation

2025-02-15

This article delves into the design and evaluation of non-cryptographic hash functions. By analyzing the performance of common functions like FNV-1a, FNV-1, Murmur2, and DJBX33A on diverse datasets (including names, words, IP addresses, and a deliberately biased dataset), the authors reveal key characteristics such as uniformity, collision rate, and avalanche effect. Experiments show Murmur2 excels in the avalanche effect but isn't always optimal for uniformity. The article stresses the importance of dataset characteristics in choosing appropriate hash functions and questions existing evaluation criteria, arguing that a single metric (like the avalanche effect) is insufficient for comprehensively assessing non-cryptographic hash function performance.

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(cacm.acm.org)
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The Illusion of Winning: Society's Hidden Agenda

2025-03-22

Our society is structured like a lottery, rewarding a select few while encouraging millions to compete. While this competition drives progress, the author argues that the individual often sacrifices well-being for a statistically improbable win. Instead of chasing societal approval, the article advocates for focusing on personal fulfillment, enjoying life's simple pleasures, and creating 'infinite games' – pursuits driven by intrinsic motivation, not external validation. The true victory, it suggests, is finding joy in the journey, not just the destination.

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(invertedpassion.com)
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A Ghostly Rendezvous: The 1997 British Museum Mystery

2025-05-03

On June 3rd, 1997, at 2:10 PM, the author, fulfilling a decades-old assignment from his eccentric teacher, waited in the British Museum's Round Reading Room for the arrival of Enoch Soames, a fictional poet from a Max Beerbohm short story. Soames, having made a pact with the Devil, traveled to the future to check his literary legacy. The author recounts a surreal experience, witnessing mysterious notes, peculiar onlookers, and the appearance of a man remarkably matching Soames's description. The man's eventual disappearance leaves the author and readers pondering the intersection of time travel, fictional narratives, and reality.

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(web.archive.org)
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A Weird Node Image Patch: The Mystery of Jar Order

2025-04-09

A Node image patch update caused a prolonged outage of production JVM applications. The root cause was the use of a wildcard `/jars/*` in the JVM classpath. An ext4 filesystem's directory hash seed changed after the patch update, altering the jar loading order. This prevented a client library dependent on a specific version of the Bouncy Castle library from initializing correctly, resulting in a `NoSuchFieldError`. The author investigated, ruling out buildah layer squashing and OverlayFS layer order issues. The problem was ultimately traced to the change in the ext4 filesystem's directory hash seed. Modifying the hash seed in the ext4 image file confirmed this. This incident highlights how seemingly minor system details can have serious consequences, emphasizing the importance of deep understanding of underlying system intricacies.

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(thewisenerd.com)
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France's Stunning New High-Speed Train Leaves Americans Green With Envy

2025-04-10
France's Stunning New High-Speed Train Leaves Americans Green With Envy

The unveiling of France's fifth-generation TGV Inoui high-speed train has sparked a wave of admiration, particularly in the US, where its sleek design and comfortable interiors are seen in stark contrast to the country's comparatively underdeveloped high-speed rail network. While Amtrak is making improvements, lack of funding and political hurdles hinder progress. The article explores the challenges facing US high-speed rail development, highlighting the potential of private projects like Brightline West as a path forward. The superior passenger experience offered by the TGV, including design and convenience, underscores the global gap in rail infrastructure.

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(grist.org)
Tech transportation

Luminal: A High-Performance Deep Learning Library with Search-Based Compilation

2025-08-20
Luminal: A High-Performance Deep Learning Library with Search-Based Compilation

Luminal is a deep learning library achieving high performance through search-based compilation. Its core is remarkably minimal, built upon just 12 primitive operations yet capable of supporting complex models like Transformers and convolutional networks. By aggressively fusing kernels and compiling shape-specific kernels at compile time, Luminal overcomes typical RISC limitations and automatically derives complex optimizations like Flash Attention. Its static compilation approach avoids runtime overhead, with Metal and CUDA support enabling fast execution on Macs and Nvidia GPUs. Significant performance gains have been demonstrated on models such as Llama 3 8B.

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(github.com)
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WASM: The Container Killer?

2025-02-12
WASM: The Container Killer?

WebAssembly (WASM), with its 'write once, run anywhere' capability, is poised to replace container technology. The article argues that while containers solved many problems in software development, they've become cumbersome due to complex tooling and tight coupling. WASM offers a lighter, faster solution, particularly when combined with serverless architectures like Cloudflare Workers. While WASM currently lacks some system interfaces, it's rapidly developing and is positioned to become mainstream. The article encourages developers to learn compiled languages like Go or Rust to prepare for the coming WASM era.

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(creston.blog)
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Ocean's Keystone Species Threatened by Climate Change

2025-09-09
Ocean's Keystone Species Threatened by Climate Change

New research reveals that Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, is significantly threatened by climate change. As ocean temperatures rise, this microscopic bacterium—crucial to the marine food web and climate regulation—could decline by as much as half in tropical oceans within the next 75 years. The study, based on a decade of data collected across extensive ocean voyages, highlights the worrying trend. The reduction in Prochlorococcus will have profound impacts on marine ecosystems, biodiversity, and even human food supplies. Researchers urge a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate this threat.

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(apnews.com)
Tech ocean ecology Prochlorococcus

The Hanseatic League: A 500-Year Rise and Fall of a Medieval Trade Coalition

2025-07-26
The Hanseatic League: A 500-Year Rise and Fall of a Medieval Trade Coalition

From humble beginnings as individual traveling merchants, the Hanseatic League forged a powerful coalition that dominated Northern European trade for nearly 500 years. Their collective bargaining, coordinated actions, and surprisingly effective security measures built a vast trade network, even enabling them to wage and win wars. However, internal divisions, external competition, and shifting economic interests ultimately led to the League's decline. This epic tale illustrates both the power and fragility of coalitions, offering valuable lessons about the importance of shared goals, adaptation, and the enduring impact of even temporary alliances.

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(worksinprogress.co)
Tech Hanseatic League Medieval Trade Trade Coalition

Turning Databases Inside Out: A Paradigm Shift

2025-01-28

Martin Kleppmann's talk challenges the conventional database architecture. He proposes a revolutionary approach: inverting the database. Instead of the traditional global, shared, mutable state, Kleppmann suggests viewing a database as an ever-growing collection of immutable facts. Using a distributed stream processing framework like Apache Samza, data streams are processed in real-time. At its core is a distributed, durable commit log (e.g., Apache Kafka). This approach promises simpler code, better scalability and robustness, lower latency, and greater flexibility for data manipulation.

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(martin.kleppmann.com)
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George Lucas' Narrative Art Museum: A Temple to the People's Art

2025-07-28
George Lucas' Narrative Art Museum: A Temple to the People's Art

George Lucas made his Comic-Con debut, unveiling his long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Housing over 40,000 pieces, the museum celebrates narrative art – from comic books and illustrations to movie concept art – as a vital form of expression. Featuring a unique design with no right angles, the collection spans a vast range, from early comics and strips to original Star Wars and Indiana Jones props and concept art. Lucas emphasized the museum's dedication to showcasing art for the people, highlighting narrative art's role in building shared belief systems.

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(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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The Slow Creep of Totalitarianism: How Germany Fell Silent

2025-09-21

This excerpt from Milton Mayer's *They Thought They Were Free* details the gradual descent of the German people into silence and complicity under the Nazi regime. A philologist recounts how the widening gap between government and people allowed the Nazis to implement their horrific policies incrementally. Each seemingly small step, disguised as an emergency measure or patriotic duty, eroded individual resistance. The author highlights the difficulty of predicting the consequences of inaction and the pervasive uncertainty that stifled dissent. Ultimately, the horrifying reality of the Nazi regime is revealed, but only after it was too late for many to act.

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(press.uchicago.edu)
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