Popular：
Virtualization DNS security formal verification reachability analysis compiler errors macro conflict web extension development framework Bitmap Graphics API inconsistencies All Tags

Mitsubishi Launches Innovative Battery Swap Network for EVs and Trucks in Japan

2025-06-16
Mitsubishi Launches Innovative Battery Swap Network for EVs and Trucks in Japan

Mitsubishi, partnering with Ample and Yamato Transport, is deploying a revolutionary battery swap network in Japan for electric cars and Fuso commercial trucks. This multi-year pilot program will feature over 150 swappable electric vehicles and 14 battery swapping stations in Tokyo, showcasing a "five-minute charging" solution. The initiative aims to overcome the downtime associated with traditional EV charging, boosting vehicle uptime and providing a potential emergency energy source for the grid. Backed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the project utilizes Yamato Transport for real-world delivery operations, demonstrating the practicality of this technology for commercial fleets.

Read more
(electrek.co)
Tech Battery Swapping Commercial Trucks

50 Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security: From Multics to the xz Attack

2025-04-07

This article explores the challenges of open source software supply chain security over the past five decades. From potential backdoors identified in a 1974 Multics security evaluation to the 2024 xz compression library backdoor attack, the problem persists. Russ Cox, a core developer of the Go programming language, draws on personal experience and industry examples to discuss definitions of supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities, the complexity of software supply chains, and methods for strengthening defenses. These include software authentication, reproducible builds, rapid vulnerability discovery and patching, and vulnerability prevention strategies. The article highlights the underfunding of open source software, leaving projects vulnerable to malicious actors, illustrated by the xz attack. Ultimately, the author calls for increased funding and improved security practices in open source to address evolving threats.

Read more
(queue.acm.org)
Tech Vulnerabilities

OpenAI's Mathematical Proof: Why ChatGPT's Hallucinations Are Here to Stay (Maybe)

2025-09-13
OpenAI's Mathematical Proof: Why ChatGPT's Hallucinations Are Here to Stay (Maybe)

OpenAI's latest research paper mathematically proves why large language models like ChatGPT "hallucinate" – confidently fabricating facts. This isn't simply a training issue; it's mathematically inevitable due to the probabilistic nature of word prediction. Even perfect data wouldn't eliminate the problem. The paper also reveals a flawed evaluation system that penalizes uncertainty, incentivizing models to guess rather than admit ignorance. While OpenAI proposes a confidence-based solution, it would drastically impact user experience and computational costs, making it impractical for consumer applications. Until business incentives shift, hallucinations in LLMs are likely to persist.

Read more
(theconversation.com)
AI Hallucination

Playable Quake II in Real-Time: Microsoft's AI-Powered Gameplay

2025-04-06
Playable Quake II in Real-Time: Microsoft's AI-Powered Gameplay

Microsoft researchers have released an interactive, real-time gameplay experience in Copilot Labs, letting you play an AI-powered rendition of Quake II. This uses their Muse model, specifically the improved WHAMM model (10x faster than WHAM), generating visuals at 10+ frames per second. WHAMM achieved this speed by significantly reducing training data (from 7 years to 1 week) and increasing resolution. While limitations exist, such as enemy interactions and context length, this technology opens exciting possibilities for real-time generated gameplay.

Read more
(www.microsoft.com)
Game real-time game generation

410GB of TeleMessage Heap Dumps Leaked: Unveiling the Secret Communications of Politicians and Business Elites

2025-05-26
410GB of TeleMessage Heap Dumps Leaked: Unveiling the Secret Communications of Politicians and Business Elites

DDoSecrets leaked 410GB of heap dump data from TeleMessage, an Israeli company, revealing communications from disaster responders, customs officials, US diplomats, White House staff, and Secret Service members. A trivial vulnerability allowed anyone to download Java heap dumps from the server. Analysis shows the data includes chat logs from various platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal, some encrypted but much of it unencrypted, containing text messages, attachments, and metadata. Researchers identified thousands of TeleMessage customers, including major corporations from finance, energy, and other sectors, such as JPMorgan Chase and Scotiabank. While no extremely sensitive information has yet surfaced, the dataset offers numerous leads potentially sparking further investigations and news stories.

Read more
(micahflee.com)
Tech communication privacy

Netflix Q1 Earnings: Price Hikes Pay Off, Advertising Revenue to Double

2025-04-18
Netflix Q1 Earnings: Price Hikes Pay Off, Advertising Revenue to Double

Netflix's Q1 earnings report revealed $10.5 billion in revenue, a 13% year-over-year increase, and a net income of $2.9 billion. This success is attributed to January's price increases, coupled with continued membership and advertising revenue growth. While Netflix no longer discloses precise subscriber numbers, it projects a doubling of advertising revenue by 2025. The company also plans a TV app homepage redesign, an interactive search feature using generative AI, and further expansion into live content, including talk shows and boxing matches, solidifying its position as a streaming giant.

Read more
(www.theverge.com)
Tech Earnings Report

DSLRoot: A Ghostly Residential Proxy Network with Roots in Russia?

2025-08-26

A Reddit post exposed DSLRoot, a residential proxy network paying US users $250/month to host their equipment. Its history traces back to Russia and Eastern Europe, with its operators shrouded in mystery but linked to a BlackHatWorld user, USProxyKing, involved in malware distribution and robocalling services. DSLRoot claims transparency but its operations raise cybersecurity and privacy concerns, especially given the involvement of a US Air National Guard member with top-secret clearance. The network's size has shrunk recently, likely due to increased competition.

Read more
(krebsonsecurity.com)
Tech

Dayflow: AI-Powered Timeline App for Time Tracking and Privacy

2025-09-25
Dayflow: AI-Powered Timeline App for Time Tracking and Privacy

Dayflow is a native macOS app that records your screen activity at 1 FPS, analyzes it every 15 minutes with AI, and generates a clean timeline with summaries. It's lightweight and privacy-focused, letting you choose between Gemini (BYO API key) or local models (Ollama/LM Studio) as your AI provider. Built out of a desire for a simple, trustworthy timeline, Dayflow aims to be a quiet, respectful assistant, not another dashboard to manage.

Read more
(github.com)
Development

The True Meaning of Friendship: The Warmth of Inclusion

2025-09-24
The True Meaning of Friendship: The Warmth of Inclusion

Alexei, a high-achieving college freshman, showed remarkable kindness to Anna, a shy classmate. Despite Anna consistently refusing invitations to parties, Alexei persistently included her, ensuring she felt part of the group. Years later, Anna expressed deep gratitude, highlighting how this inclusive friendship provided a sense of belonging during her difficult transition to college life. This story underscores the essence of friendship: not shared activities, but genuine care and acceptance.

Read more
(sharif.io)
Misc belonging

Clean Energy Surges to 40% of Global Electricity

2025-04-08
Clean Energy Surges to 40% of Global Electricity

For the first time since the 1940s, clean energy sources – including nuclear, wind, and solar – provided 40% of the world's electricity in 2023. Solar power saw a staggering rise, doubling in just three years and becoming the fastest-growing electricity source, now contributing 7% globally. Despite this progress, fossil fuel electricity generation still increased by 1.4% due to rising demand, pushing emissions to record highs. However, the rapid growth of clean energy, particularly solar and wind, suggests that clean energy growth will soon outpace demand, gradually displacing fossil fuels and becoming the dominant force in the global energy system.

Read more
(news.sky.com)
Tech

The Oda Who Lost, and Lost, and Lost…and Won?

2025-04-17
The Oda Who Lost, and Lost, and Lost…and Won?

While Oda Nobunaga struck fear into the hearts of feudal lords during Japan's Sengoku period, another Oda, Ujiharu, became infamous as the weakest daimyo. Ruling strategically important Oda Castle, he lost and regained it nine times. Despite consistently poor military decisions—often ignoring sound advice—his unwavering refusal to accept defeat earned him the moniker “The Phoenix.” His seemingly reckless charges might have been an attempt to prevent sieges and protect his people. Exceptional diplomatic skills and deep loyalty from his retainers and farmers also marked his reign. Ultimately, his refusal to swear allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi cost him his lands, but he survived—a fate arguably better than that of his more famous namesake, Oda Nobunaga.

Read more
(www.tokyoweekender.com)
Misc Sengoku period Oda Ujiharu

ChatGPT's New Image-Reasoning Models Raise Privacy Concerns

2025-04-17
ChatGPT's New Image-Reasoning Models Raise Privacy Concerns

OpenAI's latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, can accurately pinpoint the location of photos based on visual clues, even identifying specific restaurants and bars. This capability, showcased on social media, has sparked concerns about privacy risks, as malicious actors could potentially use it for doxxing. Tests reveal that even older models like GPT-4o exhibit similar location-guessing abilities, although o3 sometimes surpasses it. While not flawless, with instances of incorrect guesses and system failures, o3's performance highlights the emerging risks of powerful AI reasoning models. OpenAI hasn't yet addressed these concerns in their safety report.

Read more
(techcrunch.com)
AI

From Procrastination to Productivity: A Meta Engineer's Journey

2025-06-07
From Procrastination to Productivity: A Meta Engineer's Journey

An engineer who worked at Meta and Pinterest shares his experience overcoming procrastination. He discovered that action leads to motivation, not the other way around. Instead of waiting for motivation to strike, start with small steps, such as adding a simple log statement to a complex problem. This creates a positive feedback loop: productive work leads to good feelings, leading to even greater productivity. The article also briefly mentions the tech talent shortage and the use of AI in programming.

Read more
(spectrum.ieee.org)
Development engineer

Zig 0.14.0 Release Incoming: Improved x86 Backend and Incremental Compilation

2025-01-17

After a period of quiet development, the Zig Software Foundation is gearing up for the release of Zig 0.14.0. This release focuses on improvements to the x86 backend (potentially becoming the default for debug builds) and incremental compilation (disabled by default, but enabled via a compiler flag). Other improvements include labeled switch continue and upgraded support for nearly all target platforms. The team encourages users to upgrade to the latest master branch and will focus on ensuring a smooth upgrade during the release month. While a 1.0 release is still some time away, the team is committed to delivering stable, incremental releases.

Read more
(ziglang.org)
Development

Website Privacy Policy and Data Collection Explained

2025-09-24
Website Privacy Policy and Data Collection Explained

This website uses technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information for optimal user experience. Consent allows processing data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs. Withdrawing consent may affect features and functions. The policy details legitimate uses of technical storage or access, including enabling specific services, communication transmission, storing preferences, and statistical purposes (both anonymous and non-anonymous). Targeted advertising and user tracking are also mentioned.

Read more
(chipwise.tech)
Misc

Caesar Salad: A Century of Delicious History

2025-07-05
Caesar Salad: A Century of Delicious History

The Caesar salad, a global culinary icon, originated in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924. Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini, faced with limited ingredients, improvised a salad that unexpectedly became a sensation. The original recipe featured romaine lettuce, garlic croutons, and a creamy dressing made with egg yolks, anchovies, garlic, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, salt, and pepper, topped with Parmesan cheese. Today, Caesar salad is enjoyed worldwide with countless variations, from traditional tableside preparation to innovative fusions, continuing its century-long legacy.

Read more
(www.nationalgeographic.com)
Misc Caesar Salad Food History Culinary

Docker Hub Authentication Outage Resolved

2025-09-25

On September 24th, Docker Hub experienced an authentication outage impacting user logins to the Docker Hub Registry and its APIs. The Docker team swiftly identified the root cause and deployed a fix within hours. Monitoring confirms the service is fully restored; users should simply log out and back in to refresh their sessions.

Read more
(www.dockerstatus.com)
Development

T-Carrier: The Forgotten Backbone of Early Internet

2025-09-25
T-Carrier: The Forgotten Backbone of Early Internet

This article delves into the history of T-carrier technology, a digital carrier system that played a crucial role in the evolution of telecommunications and the early internet. Known for its reliability and low latency, T1 lines, a common type of T-carrier, were a prevalent choice for commercial internet access, particularly in online gaming, despite their relatively low bandwidth compared to later technologies like DSL. The article explains the technical details of T-carrier, its relationship to ISDN and SONET, and its eventual decline, highlighting its lasting impact on modern networking.

Read more
(computer.rip)
Tech T-carrier

AI Therapy Bot Shows Promise in Addressing Mental Health Crisis

2025-04-09
AI Therapy Bot Shows Promise in Addressing Mental Health Crisis

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that an AI therapy bot, developed by Dartmouth researchers, demonstrated comparable or even superior efficacy to human clinicians in a randomized clinical trial. Designed to tackle the severe shortage of mental health providers in the U.S., the bot underwent over five years of rigorous training in clinical best practices. The results showed not only improved mental health outcomes for patients but also the surprising development of strong therapeutic bonds and trust. While the American Psychological Association has voiced concerns about unregulated AI therapy, they praise this study's rigorous approach. Researchers emphasize that the technology is far from market-ready, requiring further trials, but it offers a potential solution to the widespread mental health care access crisis.

Read more
(www.npr.org)
AI robotic therapy

JavaFactory: Predictable AI-Powered Java Code Generation

2025-05-20
JavaFactory: Predictable AI-Powered Java Code Generation

JavaFactory is a tool leveraging LLMs to automatically generate repetitive Java code, offering more predictable and stable results than traditional AI code generators. It relies on two core components: Pattern Definition, where units of work (e.g., test generation, implementation generation) are defined in natural language; and Annotation-Based Reference Collection, explicitly specifying required classes using annotations. These defined patterns are reusable for generating various code types (implementations, tests, fixtures). A demo showcases generating 400 lines of code with all tests passing in just 20 seconds. Ideal for developers in repetitive, structured environments (e.g., layered architectures), JavaFactory automates repetitive tasks like dao-repository generation, allowing developers to focus on core logic.

Read more
(github.com)
Development

German Startup Unveils Continuously Operating Fusion Power Plant Design

2025-02-27
German Startup Unveils Continuously Operating Fusion Power Plant Design

Two-year-old German nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion published its "Stellaris" fusion power plant design in a peer-reviewed journal. This stellarator-based design aims for continuous, reliable operation, addressing instability issues plaguing tokamak approaches. Proxima Fusion, backed by €65 million in funding, plans to build a fully operational reactor by 2031. This breakthrough marks a significant step forward in the race for clean energy.

Read more
(techcrunch.com)
Tech nuclear fusion stellarator

Writing Less Slow C, C++, and Assembly Code: A Practical Guide to Performance

2025-04-18
Writing Less Slow C, C++, and Assembly Code: A Practical Guide to Performance

This repository offers practical examples of writing efficient C and C++ code, covering topics from micro-kernels to parallel algorithms. It demonstrates how to leverage C++20 features and compiler optimizations to boost performance (e.g., speeding up trigonometry by 40x), and explores best practices for avoiding performance bottlenecks, such as efficient JSON handling, using STL associative containers, and choosing the right parallel programming model. The project also includes code examples for hardware acceleration using Assembly, CUDA, and FPGA, aiming to help developers write faster and safer code.

Read more
(github.com)
Development Parallel Programming

container: Lightweight Container Tool for Apple Silicon Macs

2025-06-09
container: Lightweight Container Tool for Apple Silicon Macs

container is a Swift-based tool for creating and running Linux containers on macOS as lightweight virtual machines. It's OCI-compliant, allowing you to pull and run images from any standard container registry and push built images. It leverages new features in macOS 26 Beta 1 and has networking limitations on macOS 15; upgrading is recommended. Download the installer from the GitHub releases page and use uninstall-container.sh for removal. User data can be preserved during uninstallation.

Read more
(github.com)
Development

Heavy Metals Found in Fire Retardant Used in California Wildfires

2025-04-06
Heavy Metals Found in Fire Retardant Used in California Wildfires

Following recent California wildfires, LAist partnered with USC researchers to test samples of MVP-FX, a fire retardant used in the Palisades and Eaton fires. The tests revealed the presence of toxic heavy metals including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium. While the manufacturer, Perimeter Solutions, claims the levels are below EPA limits and naturally occurring, their safety data sheet omits this information. Cal Fire and the US Forest Service dismissed the findings, citing potential contamination of the field samples. This investigation raises concerns about the safety and transparency of fire retardants, highlighting potential health risks to firefighters and the public, as well as long-term environmental impacts on aquatic ecosystems.

Read more
(laist.com)
Tech fire retardant environmental safety

RPG in a Box: Game Creation Made Easy

2025-05-14

RPG in a Box empowers users to create games and interactive experiences without any programming or modeling skills. This intuitive tool features a voxel editor, map editor, visual scripting, dialogue system, camera controls, UI customization, item system, and sound effect generator. Export your creations to standalone Windows and macOS games, making it easy to share your work with others.

Read more
(rpginabox.com)
Game

The Universality Conjecture and a Bet on Ramanujan Graphs

2025-04-20
The Universality Conjecture and a Bet on Ramanujan Graphs

The Alon-Boppana bound presented a fascinating challenge: constructing graphs that reach this limit. Sarnak, Lubotzky, and Phillips used number theory to create 'Ramanujan graphs' achieving this bound. A bet arose between Alon and Sarnak regarding the proportion of Ramanujan graphs among all regular graphs. Years later, Horng-Tzer Yau, leveraging the universality conjecture for random matrices, solved this problem, definitively settling the decades-old wager.

Read more
(www.quantamagazine.org)
Math universality conjecture

Algorithms Can't Understand Life: On the Non-Computational Nature of Relevance Realization

2025-05-15
Algorithms Can't Understand Life: On the Non-Computational Nature of Relevance Realization

This article explores the fundamental difference between organisms and algorithms in how they know the world. Organisms inhabit a 'large world' overflowing with potential meaning, requiring 'relevance realization' to discern relevant environmental cues. Algorithms, conversely, exist within predefined 'small worlds,' incapable of autonomously solving the problem of relevance. The authors argue that relevance realization is not an algorithmic process but stems from the self-manufacturing dynamic organization of living matter. This enables organisms to act autonomously and anticipate the consequences of their actions. This ability is key to distinguishing living systems from non-living ones (like algorithms and machines) and offers a novel perspective on natural agency, cognition, and consciousness.

Read more
(www.frontiersin.org)
AI relevance realization biological autonomy

Brain Drain: US Scientists Flee Trump's Science Funding Cuts

2025-04-22
Brain Drain: US Scientists Flee Trump's Science Funding Cuts

The Trump administration's drastic cuts to science funding and workforce are driving a mass exodus of US scientists seeking opportunities abroad. Nature Careers data reveals a 32% surge in applications from US scientists for international jobs between January and March 2025 compared to 2024, alongside a 35% increase in US users browsing international opportunities. March alone saw a staggering 68% rise in views as cuts intensified, with hundreds of federal research grants abruptly terminated and major universities facing substantial funding reductions. European institutions are actively recruiting these displaced scientists, with initiatives like Aix-Marseille University's 'Safe Place for Science' and the Max Planck Society's Transatlantic Program offering refuge and collaboration opportunities. This brain drain reflects not just a search for opportunities, but a forced exodus from US academic institutions.

Read more
(www.nature.com)
Tech Science Funding US Science

Technicolor Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Thousands of VFX Jobs at Risk

2025-02-27
Technicolor Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Thousands of VFX Jobs at Risk

Visual effects giant Technicolor, home to MPC, The Mill, and other prominent brands, has filed for bankruptcy protection in France after failing to secure new investors. The move threatens thousands of VFX jobs across the US, UK, Canada, and India. Some employees are already finding new opportunities; for example, a portion of The Mill's US team is launching a new venture, Arc Creative, with Dream Machine FX. Technicolor's struggles highlight challenges in the post-production industry, raising concerns within the VFX community and jeopardizing numerous ongoing film projects.

Read more
(variety.com)
Tech Visual Effects
1 2 … 37 38 39 41 43 44 45 … 596 597