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Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

2025-02-26

Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced the completion of phase one of its futuristic city, Woven City, located southwest of Tokyo. Spanning over 700,000 square meters, this innovative urban development will integrate autonomous vehicles, robotics, and advanced digital technologies to offer residents a unique and technologically advanced living experience. The city features dedicated roads for autonomous vehicles, pedestrian zones, and underground passageways for deliveries and waste management. Approximately 360 Toyota employees and their families will begin moving in during the second half of this year, with a projected population of 2,000 residents eventually.

(www3.nhk.or.jp)

Tech

Discord Ads: High CPMs, But Still Experimental

2025-01-31

Discord Ads: High CPMs, But Still Experimental

Discord's ad products currently use a fixed pricing model based on projected reach, frequency, brand lift, and user engagement. Premium inventory CPMs range from roughly $25 to $30, varying by format, region, and reach. Discord uses CPM pricing instead of CPA because both views and engagement provide value, and it's the right economic model for them, competitively positioned within the premium tier but below the highest-priced platforms. While advertising holds promise, it remains a relatively experimental business unit for Discord in 2025; most revenue comes from its Discord Nitro subscription service.

(nowtoknow.com)

Game Discord Ads CPM Pricing Gaming Social Platform

Raising Analog Kids in a Digital World: A Family's Approach

2025-03-30

A couple shares their strategy for raising children with an analog childhood in a digital age. They created a curated playroom filled with books, board games, musical instruments, and other physical toys, minimizing screen time. Emphasis is placed on emotional security, autonomy, and attention span development, supported by clear house rules and consistent family involvement. This philosophy extends to their home design, with a retro color palette creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.

(www.joshuakennon.com)

Misc analog childhood

Mars Dichotomy Boundary Eroded Hundreds of Kilometers

2025-01-21

Mars Dichotomy Boundary Eroded Hundreds of Kilometers

New research suggests Mars' iconic dichotomy boundary, separating the higher southern hemisphere from the lower northern one, may have receded hundreds of kilometers due to water erosion. Researchers analyzed data from the Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, finding that thousands of buttes and mesas near Mawrth Vallis, situated at the dichotomy boundary, share a similar height with a nearby higher-elevation plateau, indicating they are remnants of a larger plateau eroded away. This massive erosion suggests an active water cycle early in Mars' history, consistent with the theory of a northern ocean but also potentially caused by other hydrological processes like ice cap melting. The finding offers new clues about early Martian climate and geological evolution, adding to evidence for a past ocean but also raising new questions.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech Mars hydrological cycle

Biden's Last-Minute Cybersecurity EO: AI, Microsoft, and More

2025-01-16

Biden's Last-Minute Cybersecurity EO: AI, Microsoft, and More

In a parting shot, President Biden issued a sweeping cybersecurity executive order aimed at bolstering federal cybersecurity, regulating government AI use, and subtly targeting Microsoft's dominance. The 40-page order mandates improvements in government network monitoring, software procurement, AI implementation, and the punishment of foreign hackers. It seeks to leverage AI's benefits, introduce digital identities for US citizens, and close vulnerabilities exploited by adversaries like China and Russia. Key provisions include requiring software vendors to prove secure development practices, enhancing cloud authentication key protection (in response to incidents like the Microsoft server breach), and boosting CISA's network monitoring capabilities. The order also promotes AI research for cybersecurity and aims to streamline citizen services through digital identity documents.

(www.wired.com)

Tech executive order

The Vanishing of Color: A Modern Aesthetic Shift

2025-04-02

The Vanishing of Color: A Modern Aesthetic Shift

From cars and brands to film, grayscale and monochrome are dominating the world. This article explores the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing it's not just about materials or fashion trends, but rooted in Western philosophy's long-standing devaluation of color. From Plato to Kant, reason was prioritized over senses, with color seen as sensory interference hindering the understanding of truth. Modernism further dismissed color as excessive ornamentation, pursuing pure form. However, the article argues this rejection of color ignores the harmonious unity of color and form, exemplified by the vibrant hues of Baroque art, where emotion and reason coexist. It's time to embrace color again, enriching our lives.

(www.culture-critic.com)

Design Aesthetics

Bluesky's Trending Topics: A Curated Overview

2025-01-23

Bluesky social media platform showcases a vibrant array of trending feeds, categorized into diverse interests such as science, pets, books, music, gaming, art, Black culture, and sports. These curated feeds, organized by keywords and hashtags, offer users streamlined access to engaging content. The platform also provides tools for users to create and manage their own thematic feeds.

(www.bskyinfo.com)

Tech Curated Feeds

Skip College, Build a $5k/mo Business: A 2016 Retrospective

2025-04-02

Skip College, Build a $5k/mo Business: A 2016 Retrospective

The author reflects on what he'd do if he were 18 in 2016, arguing that traditional paths are obsolete and young people have unprecedented opportunities. He advises skipping college, focusing instead on learning coding, design, and marketing; building an online business generating $5,000/month; and practicing extreme frugality. Through online learning and low-cost living, young people can build financial freedom in a few years, investing consistently in ETFs for long-term wealth growth. Once financially secure, they can pursue passions freely.

(levels.io)

Startup Skill Acquisition

Meta Launches 'Edits' Video Editing App to Capitalize on CapCut's Absence

2025-01-20

Meta Launches 'Edits' Video Editing App to Capitalize on CapCut's Absence

Following the removal of ByteDance's CapCut video editing app from app stores, Meta announced its new video editing app, Edits, on Sunday. Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the app will launch on iOS next month, with Android to follow. Edits boasts a suite of creative tools, including inspiration and idea tracking tabs, and a high-quality camera, along with draft sharing capabilities. Meta's move is seen as capitalizing on the market gap left by CapCut's absence, mirroring previous strategic launches like Instagram Reels and Threads.

(techcrunch.com)

Development Video Editing

California Health Insurance Site Leaked Sensitive Data to LinkedIn

2025-05-15

California Health Insurance Site Leaked Sensitive Data to LinkedIn

The California health insurance website CoveredCA.com was found to be leaking sensitive health information, including pregnancy status, disability, and medication use, to LinkedIn via the LinkedIn Insight tag. An investigation by The Markup revealed this data sharing continued for over a year before CoveredCA removed the trackers following media reports. Experts expressed concerns about privacy violations and highlighted the inadequacy of current regulations in protecting sensitive data.

(themarkup.org)

Tech healthcare data security

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

2025-01-06

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

A University of Waterloo intern attempted to build an app using LLMs and the Greptile API to generate memes that roast GitHub repositories. The process proved unexpectedly challenging. Directly prompting the LLM for roasts yielded generic results. The solution involved separating the task into code analysis (using Greptile to pinpoint specific issues) and roast generation (using the LLM to create targeted humor). Image generation proved difficult due to limitations in handling text, leading to the use of pre-built meme templates and node-canvas for text insertion. Despite the hurdles, the project culminated in reporoast.com, a website capable of generating custom code-roasting memes.

(www.greptile.com)

Development Meme Generation

Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

2025-03-29

Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

After a four-year hiatus caused by pandemics and various challenges, the tech zine *Paged Out!* has been successfully revived and is back on track. This blog post chronicles the magazine's journey from stagnation to resurgence, introducing the new management team and operational model. It also outlines future plans, including improvements to PDF processing, achieving financial self-sufficiency, and expanding the scope of topics covered.

(pagedout.institute)

Misc zine publishing

Herculaneum Papyrus 5: A Breakthrough in Ink Detection

2025-02-05

Herculaneum Papyrus 5: A Breakthrough in Ink Detection

Significant progress has been made in ink detection and segmentation of P.Herc. 172 from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford (Scroll 5). The scroll exhibits unusually visible ink, greatly aiding ink detection model training. While segmentation requires further refinement, preliminary analysis suggests authorship by Philodemus, with words like 'disgust', 'fear', and 'life' identified, along with symbols indicating a finished work. Scroll 5's unique characteristics offer potential as a 'Rosetta Stone' for ink detection in other scrolls. The team has released extensive segmentation data to facilitate research.

(scrollprize.substack.com)

AI ink detection papyrus

Svelte 5: A Conversation with Rich Harris on the Future of Frameworks

2025-01-28

Svelte 5: A Conversation with Rich Harris on the Future of Frameworks

Smashing Magazine interviewed Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, revealing major updates and future directions for Svelte 5. A ground-up rewrite, Svelte 5 introduces clearer state management. Harris emphasizes that Svelte's goal isn't solely market share, but building high-quality, resilient, and accessible applications, and improving overall software quality by addressing widespread flaws. Future efforts will focus on the surrounding ecosystem, including SvelteKit, aiming to become a Rails or Laravel for JavaScript, simplifying full-stack development.

(www.smashingmagazine.com)

Development Web Frameworks

Murena Launches Privacy-Focused Pixel Tablet

2025-02-19

Murena Launches Privacy-Focused Pixel Tablet

French company Murena has released its first tablet, the Murena Pixel Tablet, a customized version of Google's Pixel Tablet running their privacy-focused /e/OS. This Android-based OS removes Google apps and services, preventing data collection. Priced at $549 (significantly more than Google's $399 model), it prioritizes user privacy. While the Google Play Store is absent, the /e/OS App Lounge allows anonymous free app downloads. Paid apps require a Google account. Murena offers privacy-centric alternatives to Google services and includes Murena Workspace, providing productivity apps and cloud storage.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech android

ESA's Fair Contribution Model: A New Approach to European Launchers

2025-03-26

ESA's Fair Contribution Model: A New Approach to European Launchers

ESA's governance, hampered by a 'geo-return' policy linking member state investment to national benefits, has resulted in slow project approvals and cost overruns. The Ariane rocket program, heavily funded by France, exemplifies this. However, the rise of commercial spaceflight and smaller launchers challenges this model. ESA proposes a 'fair contribution' funding model, to be presented at the November ministerial conference. This model shifts funding responsibility to member states most benefiting from the successful launcher programs, aiming for greater efficiency and cost control in European space exploration.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech ESA Space Launchers Funding Model

Why Some UK Gov Services Are Offline at Night: A Legacy Tech Nightmare

2025-01-16

Why Some UK Gov Services Are Offline at Night: A Legacy Tech Nightmare

This post explores why some DVLA (UK Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency) digital services are offline overnight. The root cause lies in a complex legacy system, including a 1980s IBM mainframe and a partially completed modernization effort. Facing a choice between years of rebuilding infrastructure or launching a service with nighttime limitations, DVLA chose the latter to deliver value quickly. The article highlights the challenges of digital transformation in large organizations grappling with legacy technology and the difficult decisions involved in balancing speed and long-term stability. The situation underscores how tricky government digitalization can be, even a decade after initial modernization efforts.

(dafyddvaughan.uk)

Tech legacy systems government services

FPGA-Powered Retro Console Recreates the PlayStation Experience

2025-01-28

FPGA-Powered Retro Console Recreates the PlayStation Experience

Retro Remake's SuperStation One, a $180 FPGA-based PlayStation clone, is set to launch in Q4 2025. This console boasts compatibility with original PlayStation accessories and supports other MiSTer FPGA cores, offering versatility beyond PlayStation games. Featuring modern connectivity like HDMI and USB-C, the SuperStation One also offers an optional SuperDock for playing original PlayStation discs. Its FPGA emulation ensures accurate game performance and low latency.

(arstechnica.com)

Game

The Barefoot Running Craze of 2010: A Short-Lived Trend with a Lasting Impact

2025-03-25

The Barefoot Running Craze of 2010: A Short-Lived Trend with a Lasting Impact

In 2010, a barefoot running craze swept the running world. Fueled by books like "Born to Run" and minimalist shoes like Vibram FiveFingers, people believed barefoot running offered performance improvements and injury prevention. However, the craze eventually faded, leaving behind altered running shoe designs and a reevaluation of running philosophies. While the benefits of barefoot running remain debated and injury risks exist, the movement pushed shoe manufacturers to develop lighter, more natural shoes, profoundly impacting modern running shoe design.

(runningshoescore.com)

Tech barefoot running running shoes running

Distr: Simplifying Enterprise Software Distribution

2025-01-30

Distr: Simplifying Enterprise Software Distribution

Distr simplifies distributing enterprise software to customer-controlled or shared-responsibility environments. It features an intuitive web UI for viewing deployments and agents, a white-label customer portal for customer control, an API accessible via a rich SDK, and is fully open-source and self-hostable. The Distr Hub is distributed as a Docker image with a Docker Compose example deployment. Comprehensive documentation covers self-hosting and building from source, and a JavaScript SDK is available for application integration.

(github.com)

Development Software Distribution

Mastra: A TypeScript Framework for Rapid AI App Development

2025-02-19

Mastra: A TypeScript Framework for Rapid AI App Development

Mastra is an opinionated TypeScript framework for quickly building AI applications and features. It provides essential primitives: workflows, agents, RAG, integrations, and evaluations. Run Mastra locally or deploy to a serverless cloud. Key features include LLM model integration (supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini via the Vercel AI SDK), agent systems enabling LLMs to use tools and access data, typed tool functions, durable graph-based workflows, RAG knowledge base construction, pre-built third-party API clients, and automated evaluations. Get started with `create-mastra` and open the playground with `mastra dev`. Contributions are welcome!

(github.com)

Development AI framework

Meta's Llama Hits 1 Billion Downloads, Aiming for Open-Source AI Domination

2025-03-18

Meta's Llama Hits 1 Billion Downloads, Aiming for Open-Source AI Domination

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company's open-source AI model, Llama, has surpassed 1 billion downloads, a 53% increase since early December 2024. While powering Meta's AI assistant and used by companies like Spotify and AT&T, Llama faces copyright lawsuits and data privacy concerns. Undeterred, Meta plans to release more Llama models, including reasoning and multimodal models, and is investing $80 billion in AI this year, aiming to lead the AI field.

(techcrunch.com)

AI

Hamburger Menus: A Decade Later, Are They Still Usable?

2025-06-17

Hamburger Menus: A Decade Later, Are They Still Usable?

A decade on, the hamburger menu is a ubiquitous navigation pattern. However, the old problems of hidden navigation persist: users overlook it, leading to increased task completion times and decreased satisfaction. While user recognition of the hamburger menu has improved, design risks remain. This article revisits early research findings, shares new research on hamburger menu recognizability, and offers visual design best practices for the hamburger icon. Research shows that the standard three-line icon, top-left placement, and clear labels improve hamburger menu usability. But the article cautions that hidden navigation always adds interaction cost and visible navigation should always be prioritized. Use them wisely, follow best practices, and always test with users.

(www.nngroup.com)

Design Hamburger Menu

Highlighting Bash in Lua with Neovim and Treesitter

2025-01-28

The author built a tool to synchronize packages across multiple machines, using a Lua configuration file. To improve readability and editing of Bash scripts embedded within the Lua configuration, they leveraged Neovim and the Treesitter plugin. Treesitter, through its injection feature, identifies the `script` field in Lua tables and highlights its content as Bash based on a custom query. This significantly enhances code readability and maintainability. The post details the configuration of Neovim and Treesitter, along with the custom query to achieve the Bash highlighting.

(xnacly.me)

Development

Abogen: Instant High-Quality Audiobook and Subtitle Generator

2025-08-10

Abogen: Instant High-Quality Audiobook and Subtitle Generator

Abogen is a powerful text-to-speech tool that converts EPUB, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with synchronized subtitles in seconds. Leveraging the Kokoro-82M model, it produces natural-sounding speech ideal for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and more. Features include multi-language support, custom voice mixing, batch processing, chapter splitting, and installation options for Windows, Linux, and as a Docker image.

(github.com)

Development

Amazon Deal: Uncertainties Remain

2025-02-20

Amazon Deal: Uncertainties Remain

Amazon issued a statement highlighting uncertainties surrounding an ongoing transaction. Potential risks mentioned include failure to meet transaction conditions, regulatory approvals not being obtained, delays or failure to close the deal, and an inability to achieve anticipated benefits. Amazon emphasized that actual results may differ materially from expectations and disclaimed any obligation to update the information unless legally required. Investors are cautioned against undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

(www.aboutamazon.com)

Startup transaction risk

The Future of Scala: Balancing Safety and Convenience

2025-03-26

The Future of Scala: Balancing Safety and Convenience

While Scala's hype has cooled since the mid-2010s, it maintains a strong community and adoption. This article explores the future direction of Scala, with authors Martin Odersky and Haoyi Li arguing that Scala needs continuous evolution. It must improve usability, enhance the tooling experience, and actively incorporate community feedback while maintaining its safety and convenience. They highlight the need to balance safety and convenience, refine existing features, and lower the barrier to entry for newcomers. The article also addresses challenges within the Scala ecosystem, such as IDE support and build tools, and proposes solutions.

(www.scala-lang.org)

Development

Rust Learns from Python's Dynamic Capabilities: Reflection with Serde

2025-05-15

Rust Learns from Python's Dynamic Capabilities: Reflection with Serde

This article details how the author used Rust and the Serde library to mimic Python's dynamic attribute access (__getattr__) mechanism, creating a clean and user-friendly API for accessing system information. The article thoroughly explains the implementation process, including custom trait, Deserializer, and Visitor implementations, and how to leverage Serde's derive(Deserialize) feature to simplify the code. Ultimately, the author successfully built an efficient and user-friendly Rust library that achieves a Python-like concise API, and discusses alternative approaches and trade-offs.

(ohadravid.github.io)

Development

From Iowa Town to Silicon Valley Legend: The Rise of Bob Noyce and the Integrated Circuit

2025-03-05

From Iowa Town to Silicon Valley Legend: The Rise of Bob Noyce and the Integrated Circuit

This expansive piece chronicles the life of Bob Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, a true Silicon Valley legend. From his upbringing in a conservative Iowa town, to his exposure to transistors at Bell Labs, and finally his entrepreneurial triumphs in Silicon Valley, Noyce's life was filled with both opportunity and adversity. His unique management style, emphasizing teamwork and individual responsibility, shaped the very fabric of Silicon Valley's corporate culture. The narrative reveals Noyce's talent, perseverance, and the strong Puritan ethic that fueled his remarkable success, profoundly impacting the course of technological advancement.

(classic.esquire.com)

Tech Integrated Circuit

Russian Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Device Code Authentication in Widespread Attacks

2025-02-15

Russian Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Device Code Authentication in Widespread Attacks

Volexity has uncovered multiple Russian threat actors employing sophisticated social engineering and spear-phishing campaigns to compromise Microsoft 365 accounts via Device Code Authentication phishing. These attacks exploit the less-familiar Device Code Authentication workflow, making them difficult for users to recognize as phishing attempts. The campaigns, often politically themed (e.g., focusing on the US administration), impersonate individuals from organizations like the US Department of State and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, luring victims into fake Microsoft Teams meetings or application access. Volexity is tracking three threat actors, one potentially linked to CozyLarch (overlapping with DarkHalo, APT29). The effectiveness of this attack stems from exploiting users' unfamiliarity with device code authentication, bypassing traditional security measures. Volexity recommends organizations block device code authentication via conditional access policies and enhance user security awareness training.

(www.volexity.com)

Tech russian hackers microsoft 365

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