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FiveM: The alt:V Integration Disaster

2025-02-20

This post details the disastrous integration of the former alt:V team into the FiveM project. The ex-alt:V team demonstrated a profound lack of teamwork, ignoring communication and unilaterally altering code and build systems, resulting in numerous regressions. They failed to test their changes, disregarded backward compatibility, and treated the original development team with arrogance. Specific examples highlight the ex-alt:V team's technical incompetence, lack of accountability, and malicious behavior towards the original team. Ultimately, the destructive actions of the ex-alt:V team led to the departure of the original FiveM developers and plunged the project into chaos.

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AI: Hype vs. Reality – A Technological Shift, Not a Skynet Scenario

2025-03-08
AI: Hype vs. Reality – A Technological Shift, Not a Skynet Scenario

The rapid advancement of AI has sparked widespread concerns about job displacement and even existential threats. This article argues that AI, at its core, is a pattern recognition engine, learning probability distributions from data to make predictions, not truly thinking. While AI achieves impressive results in image generation and text creation, limitations remain, including hallucinations and a lack of genuine logical reasoning. The author draws parallels to past technological shifts, highlighting humanity's adaptability. AI will automate tasks, but also create new opportunities, urging a proactive embrace of change and redirection of human energy towards more meaningful endeavors.

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AI Technological Change

Clean: An Embedded DSL and Formal Verification Framework for ZK Circuits in Lean4

2025-03-27

Researchers have developed Clean, an embedded domain-specific language (DSL) and formal verification framework in Lean4 for building zero-knowledge (ZK) circuits. ZK circuits are prone to bugs, and Clean aims to improve correctness by allowing users to define circuits in Lean4, specify their desired properties, and formally prove them. This project is part of the zkEVM Formal Verification Project, aiming to provide infrastructure and tooling for formal verification of zkEVMs. Clean supports four basic operations for defining circuits: witness, assert, lookup, and subcircuit, and offers a monadic interface for enhanced usability. At its core is the FormalCircuit structure, which tightly packages—in a dependently-typed way—the circuit definition, assumptions, specification, soundness, and completeness proofs. Large circuits can be formally verified by recursively replacing subcircuit constraints with their (formally verified) specifications. The framework has successfully verified simple circuits like 8-bit addition, with future plans to add more low-level gadgets, define common hash function circuits, and build a formally verified minimal VM for a subset of RISC-V.

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(blog.zksecurity.xyz)
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TrapC: A Safer C Extension

2025-03-03
TrapC: A Safer C Extension

TrapC is a new extension of the C programming language designed to enhance memory safety. Removing keywords like `goto` and `union`, and adding `trap` and `alias`, TrapC incorporates C++ features such as constructors and destructors. It boasts automatic memory management, preventing leaks, and uses lifetime management for pointers instead of garbage collection. Despite its minimalist design—maintaining the same keyword count as C—it surprisingly offers significant C++ code compatibility. Presented at an ISO C meeting, TrapC aims to address memory safety concerns more comprehensively than other existing proposals.

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(www.infoworld.com)
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Gravelmap Update: Smarter Gravel Route Planning

2025-02-18

Gravelmap, now part of Whitewater, has received a major update! The new Gravelmap boasts enhanced filter controls to search routes by length, elevation, proximity, and more; a new route list view panel for easy browsing and comparison; improved route surface type detection and filtering for confident riding; and a refreshed homepage. Users can easily add and edit gravel segments, with warnings against duplicates and private property. Overall, the update focuses on smoother, more intuitive, and personalized gravel route planning.

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Misc gravel roads

Pi-hole v6 Released: Performance Boost and Revamped UI

2025-02-18

Pi-hole v6 is here! This release features a major overhaul, integrating an embedded web server and REST API, eliminating lighttpd and PHP for improved performance and a smaller footprint. New features include support for subscribed allowlists, a consolidated configuration file, a redesigned user interface with basic and expert modes, native HTTPS support, and an Alpine-based Docker image for reduced size. The upgrade automatically migrates configurations, but backing up is recommended.

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Stolen Van Dyck Portrait Recovered After 73 Years

2025-03-29

In July 1951, Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. This grisaille, one of thirty-seven oil sketches from van Dyck's Iconography series, embarked on a 73-year journey through the hands of experts, auctioneers, and collectors, spanning continents. A meticulous investigation, involving archival research and international collaboration, ultimately led to its return to Boughton House in 2024, revealing a captivating tale of theft, intrigue, and the persistent pursuit of justice.

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(britishartjournal.co.uk)
Misc art theft Anthony van Dyck Boughton House

Interactive Process Tree Visualization in Jupyter Notebook

2025-03-04
Interactive Process Tree Visualization in Jupyter Notebook

DNB's Cyber Defense Center developed an interactive process tree visualization tool within Jupyter Notebook to enhance incident response efficiency. Leveraging technologies like anywidget, marimo, ibis, Apache Spark, and dependentree, it transforms process creation event logs from EDRs such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint into an interactive tree. Users can filter events, explore the process hierarchy, and select individual processes for detailed inspection. The tool runs in the browser for easy sharing and demonstration.

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(blog.cauchy.org)
Development incident response

Migraine Breakthrough: From Trepanation to Targeted Therapies

2025-02-18
Migraine Breakthrough: From Trepanation to Targeted Therapies

For millennia, migraine treatment ranged from ancient Egyptian clay crocodiles to 17th-century trepanation. Now, deeper understanding of brain mechanisms, particularly the development of CGRP-targeting drugs like gepants, has redefined migraine as a treatable condition. While not a panacea, the success of CGRP inhibitors marks a new era in migraine research. Future breakthroughs may involve further investigation of brain regions like the hypothalamus to develop more effective therapies, offering hope to millions suffering from this debilitating condition.

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(www.nature.com)
Tech migraine neurology

Shapecatcher: Find Unicode Characters by Drawing!

2025-01-18

Shapecatcher is an innovative tool that lets you find Unicode characters by drawing their shape. Currently boasting 11817 glyphs, it's a convenient solution for finding characters whose names you don't know. Simply draw the character, click 'Recognize', and Shapecatcher will find the closest match. While Japanese, Korean, and Chinese characters aren't yet supported (due to font licensing), future updates plan to integrate the high-quality Noto font to address this. The project is still in beta.

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(shapecatcher.com)
Development Character Recognition Drawing

The Alpha Myth Debunked: How Captive Wolves Distorted Our Understanding of Power

2025-01-27
The Alpha Myth Debunked: How Captive Wolves Distorted Our Understanding of Power

This article challenges the long-held misconception that the hierarchical structure observed in captive wolf packs reflects the natural social dynamics of wolves and, by extension, human leadership. Early research on captive wolves popularized the concept of an "alpha" male, implying dominance and aggression as the foundation of leadership. However, later studies of wild wolves revealed a different reality: family-based units guided by experienced parents, where leadership stems from nurturing and protection, not brute force. The author argues that applying the captive wolf model to human society has led to a skewed understanding of power and leadership, contributing to negative outcomes in industries like tech, where high-pressure environments and a focus on dominance foster burnout. The article calls for a reassessment of leadership, emphasizing cooperation and care over aggressive competition and control.

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(anthonydavidadams.substack.com)
Misc leadership wolf behavior masculinity

Critical AMD Zen CPU Microcode Vulnerability Allows Malicious Code Injection

2025-02-03
Critical AMD Zen CPU Microcode Vulnerability Allows Malicious Code Injection

Google's security team discovered a critical vulnerability in AMD Zen CPUs (Zen 1-4). An attacker with local administrator privileges can bypass insecure signature verification to load malicious microcode patches, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of confidential computing workloads protected by AMD SEV-SNP and potentially the Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurement (DRTM). AMD released a fix on December 17th, urging users to verify TCB values for SNP. Further details and tools will be released on March 5th by Google to allow time for remediation.

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(github.com)
Hardware CPU vulnerability

openCFS: A Mature Open-Source Multiphysics Simulation Tool

2025-02-24

openCFS, a finite element-based multiphysics modeling and simulation tool, boasts 20 years of research-driven development. Its core is used in scientific research and industrial applications. Key features include support for various physical fields and their couplings, non-conforming grid techniques, structural optimization, flexible data exchange, scriptable XML input, and powerful built-in libraries. An extensive set of examples, a comprehensive testsuite, and its use in university courses make it easy to learn. A vibrant community and commercial support from EnSimTech UG further ensure its ongoing development and accessibility.

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PyVista: Democratizing 3D Visualization

2025-01-22
PyVista: Democratizing 3D Visualization

PyVista is an open-source Python library simplifying 3D visualization and analysis. Built on VTK, it offers a user-friendly interface, empowering even novice programmers to create compelling visualizations of spatial data. Used across science and engineering, PyVista boasts a vibrant community and provides professional services and support.

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(pyvista.org)
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Lightweight Animation Library: Only 24.5KB, Supports Diverse Animation Effects

2025-04-03
Lightweight Animation Library: Only 24.5KB, Supports Diverse Animation Effects

A lightweight animation library called Animate boasts a mere 24.5KB size yet supports a variety of animation effects such as rotation, translation, and transformation. It provides powerful modules like Timeline, Draggable, and Scroll. Its clean API supports various easing functions and animation combinations, seamlessly integrating with WAAPI. Code examples showcase creating diverse animations, including path-based animations, scroll-triggered animations, and responsive animations.

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(animejs.com)
Development animation library

A Faster Quantum Fourier Transform Algorithm

2025-01-27
A Faster Quantum Fourier Transform Algorithm

Ronit Shah presents an improved algorithm for the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT). Traditionally, approximate QFT requires Θ(n log n) gates, and exact QFT requires Θ(n²) gates. The new algorithm, leveraging a novel recursive partitioning of qubits, reduces the cost of approximate QFT to Θ(n(log log n)²) gates and exact QFT to Θ(n(log n)²) gates. This breakthrough promises significant efficiency gains in quantum computation.

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(arxiv.org)
Tech quantum fourier transform algorithm optimization

Meta Glasses SDK Plea: Unleashing Developer Potential

2025-02-20
Meta Glasses SDK Plea: Unleashing Developer Potential

A developer is urging Meta to release a developer kit (SDK) for Meta glasses. Currently limited in functionality, the developer envisions a community built around an SDK, leveraging a potential background service API to allow third-party apps to send commands. This would enable voice commands like "Hey Meta" to control smart home devices, for instance. Access to a live camera feed, if provided by the SDK, would unlock countless possibilities. This would greatly enhance the customizability and user experience of Meta glasses.

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(communityforums.atmeta.com)
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Hacker News: A Decade of Tech Growth

2025-03-18
Hacker News: A Decade of Tech Growth

Starting in 2011, the author began using Hacker News, initially understanding very little of the technical jargon and companies mentioned. However, through daily reading and deep dives into unfamiliar concepts, the author transformed from a data analyst into an engineer confidently deploying code to millions of users. Hacker News provided not only learning resources but also a supportive community, helping the author improve technical skills and writing, ultimately leading to a significant career leap.

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(vickiboykis.com)
Development technical learning

Chinese Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in High-Temperature Superconductivity

2025-02-18
Chinese Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in High-Temperature Superconductivity

Scientists at Southern University of Science and Technology (Sustech) in China have observed high-temperature superconductivity in a thin film of nickel oxide crystals, achieving resistance-free electricity conduction at a relatively high temperature of 45 Kelvin (-228°C) without high pressure. Published in Nature, this research offers new hope for understanding the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity and designing room-temperature superconductors. The discovery promises to make technologies like magnetic resonance imaging significantly cheaper and more efficient. While the critical temperature of nickel-based superconductors still needs improvement compared to copper-based ones, the team is actively exploring ways to optimize the material's growth and composition to further raise its critical temperature.

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Tech high-temperature superconductivity nickel oxide

The Reclusive Billionaire Behind Tether: A Battle in the Crypto World

2025-03-04
The Reclusive Billionaire Behind Tether: A Battle in the Crypto World

Giancarlo Devasini, one of the world's newest billionaires, leads a reclusive life in Lugano, Switzerland. He lives modestly, but fiercely contends with an American rival he believes is trying to destroy his business. Devasini is the main owner of Tether, whose digital dollar is crucial to the cryptocurrency industry. Tether's importance has made him incredibly wealthy and influential, backed by a top Trump ally.

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(www.wsj.com)
Tech Billionaire

Cloudflare Prevents DNS Conflicts with Formal Verification

2025-01-07
Cloudflare Prevents DNS Conflicts with Formal Verification

Cloudflare uses Topaz, a system that formally verifies the correctness of its internal DNS addressing behavior. Topaz encodes DNS business objectives as declarative programs, each with a match function, a response function, and a configuration. Before deployment, a custom model checker verifies these programs for conflicts and bugs, ensuring reliable and consistent DNS configuration. This improves internet reliability by preventing inconsistencies in IP address resolution.

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(blog.cloudflare.com)
Tech Formal Verification

Skies-ADSB v2.0: Real-time 3D Air Traffic in Your Browser

2025-02-12
Skies-ADSB v2.0: Real-time 3D Air Traffic in Your Browser

Skies-ADSB transforms your browser into a real-time 3D air traffic display. Leveraging ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR receiver, it allows exploration of local air traffic, surrounding airspace, and geography with customizable 3D maps. Built with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Python 3, and WebGL (Three.js), it runs on major modern browsers. Version 2.0 includes breaking changes from 1.x, requiring a fresh install. Users can report bugs, request features, and suggest improvements via the issue tracker. The project thanks Andre Thais CFI and Frank E. Hernandez for their contributions and utilizes public domain map data from Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap.

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(github.com)
Development Air Traffic 3D Visualization Real-time Data

Auto-Commit Bot: Automated Git Commits with Gemini AI

2025-02-01
Auto-Commit Bot: Automated Git Commits with Gemini AI

The Auto-Commit Bot is a Python tool automating Git workflows. It monitors a directory for changes, generates descriptive commit messages using Google Gemini's AI, and commits them. This eliminates repetitive tasks and ensures consistent messaging. Features include real-time file monitoring, auto-committing, AI-powered commit messages, and easy customization. Simply install dependencies, set your API key, and run the command.

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(github.com)
Development

Civilization VII System Requirements: Can Your Rig Handle It?

2025-01-28

Nine years after Civ VI, Civilization VII is finally on the horizon! The minimum and recommended system requirements have been revealed. Minimum specs include an Intel i5-4690 or equivalent, 8GB RAM, a GTX 1050 or equivalent, and 20GB of storage. Recommended specs bump up to an Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB RAM, an RTX 2060 or equivalent. The article highlights that the game is CPU-heavy, making a CPU upgrade a priority for optimal performance. Are you ready to build your empire?

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(www.corsair.com)
Game Civilization VII System Requirements

Sea Turtles' Secret Navigation: It's All in the Dance

2025-02-14
Sea Turtles' Secret Navigation: It's All in the Dance

Scientists have discovered that sea turtles use Earth's magnetic field for navigation, expressing memories of food locations through a unique "dancing" behavior. Researchers trained turtles to associate specific magnetic fields with food, and the turtles responded by excitedly "dancing" when they sensed the familiar field. Published in Nature, this study reveals that turtles possess two distinct magnetoreception mechanisms: a magnetic compass and a magnetic map, suggesting these mechanisms may have evolved separately. This provides crucial insights into understanding animal magnetoreception.

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(www.unc.edu)
Tech animal navigation magnetoreception sea turtles

Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Continuous Profiling Without Production Performance Hit

2025-02-01
Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Continuous Profiling Without Production Performance Hit

Yandex has released Perforator, an open-source continuous profiling tool built on eBPF technology. Perforator collects CPU profiles from production environments without impacting performance. Already deployed on tens of thousands of Yandex servers, it helps developers identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Supporting languages like C++, C, Go, and Rust (with experimental Java and Python support), it features scalable storage, a user-friendly query language and UI, and sPGO profile generation for Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). Perforator boasts minimal resource consumption and is easily deployable on various environments, from laptops to Kubernetes clusters.

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(github.com)
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Open-Source R1 Shakes Up the AI World: Accelerated Development!

2025-01-26
Open-Source R1 Shakes Up the AI World: Accelerated Development!

The AI landscape is exploding with new models. DeepSeek's open-source reasoning model, R1, matches the performance of OpenAI's closed-source o1, but at a fraction of the cost, sending shockwaves through the industry. R1 validates OpenAI's o1 and o3 approaches and reveals new trends: pretraining's diminished importance and the emergence of inference time scaling laws, model downsizing, reinforcement learning scaling laws, and model distillation scaling laws, all accelerating AI development. R1's open-source nature intensifies US-China competition, highlighting the massive geopolitical implications of AI's rapid progress.

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(timkellogg.me)
AI

Run Rails in Your Browser: The Magic of WebAssembly

2025-02-17
Run Rails in Your Browser: The Magic of WebAssembly

Imagine running a fully functional Rails blog in your browser—frontend and backend—without servers or clouds! WebAssembly makes running server-side frameworks locally possible, blurring the lines of classic web development. This post shows how to package a Rails app into a WebAssembly module and run it in the browser, recreating the magic of Rails' famous "15-minute blog" tutorial, but this time, your browser is the runtime. This is not just a technical demo; it showcases the boundless possibilities of WebAssembly, including offline apps and local application development.

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(web.dev)
Development Browser Applications

PubPeer Review: TRF2-S Protein Regulates Axonal mRNA Transport

2025-01-16

A PubPeer post discusses a research article on TRF2-S, a novel RNA- and FMRP-binding protein crucial for regulating axonal mRNA transport and presynaptic plasticity. Published in Nature Communications, the study reveals how TRF2-S influences neuronal growth and function by impacting mRNA trafficking and local translation. This research sheds light on neural mechanisms and potentially offers new avenues for neurological disease treatment.

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(pubpeer.com)
Tech Neuroscience RNA-binding protein Axonal transport
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