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C++26: A Giant Leap for constexpr

2025-04-23

C++26 is set to revolutionize constexpr! Upcoming features include constexpr casts from void*, enabling more flexible compile-time memory manipulation; constexpr placement new, allowing object placement within constant expressions; and constexpr structured bindings, bringing compile-time structured binding. These improvements drastically expand constexpr's reach and empower the standard library with significantly enhanced compile-time capabilities.

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(www.sandordargo.com)
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Parcom: A Concise Parser Combinator Library for Common Lisp

2025-04-22
Parcom: A Concise Parser Combinator Library for Common Lisp

Parcom is a concise parser combinator library for Common Lisp, similar in style to Haskell's Parsec and Rust's Nom. Operating directly on strings with no dependencies, it boasts broad Common Lisp implementation support and offers a rich set of parsers and combinators for building custom parsers. Parcom also includes an optional JSON parser supporting Unicode. Its strength lies in its ability to combine existing parsers to create complex parsing logic, delivering powerful functionality through a clean API.

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(github.com)
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Agent Mesh: The Future of Networking for Agentic AI Systems

2025-04-24

Enterprise software architectures are evolving from mainframes to microservices, and agentic systems represent the next leap forward. These systems reason, adapt, and act autonomously, but require a new networking infrastructure. This post introduces the concept of an "agent mesh," a platform enabling secure, observable, and governed interactions between agents, LLMs, and tools. The agent mesh solves communication challenges across agent-to-LLM, agent-to-tools, and agent-to-agent interactions, featuring security defaults, fine-grained access control, and end-to-end observability. It leverages a specialized data plane (agent gateway) optimized for AI communication patterns and supports diverse agents and tools across any cloud environment. With its composable components, the agent mesh empowers enterprises to build scalable, adaptive, and secure intelligent agent systems.

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(www.solo.io)
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TacOS: A From-Scratch OS Running DOOM

2025-04-24
TacOS: A From-Scratch OS Running DOOM

A developer has released TacOS, an open-source operating system with a kernel written in C and assembly. This UNIX-like kernel boasts features including a VFS, scheduler, TempFS, device drivers, context switching, virtual memory management, and physical page frame allocation. Remarkably, it can run DOOM and other smaller user-space programs. It's been tested on real hardware and in QEMU. While still a work in progress with known bugs, TacOS is a fascinating hobby project.

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(github.com)
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Music from a Deceased Composer's Brain Organoids

2025-04-19
Music from a Deceased Composer's Brain Organoids

Scientists and artists collaborated with the late experimental composer Alvin Lucier to create an art installation, "Revivification," using cerebral organoids grown from his white blood cells. These organoids, connected to transducers and actuators, produce music by electrically triggering brass plates. The installation explores life beyond death, the nature of creativity, and the persistence of memory, prompting questions about consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the future of human experience.

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(www.popularmechanics.com)
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AI-Assisted Coding: Mastering the Unit of Work

2025-09-18

Effective AI-assisted coding isn't just about intelligent models; it's about meticulously managing units of work. The author argues that breaking down tasks into appropriately sized units is crucial. Too small, and efficiency suffers; too large, and context loss leads to error accumulation. The ideal unit should possess clear business value, like user stories, enabling human review and error correction, minimizing AI error compounding. The StoryMachine project aims to define more effective units of work to enhance AI-assisted coding efficiency and accuracy, ultimately making AI development less of a gamble and more effortless.

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(blog.nilenso.com)
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MCPEngine: Building Production-Ready MCP Servers on AWS Lambda

2025-04-23
MCPEngine: Building Production-Ready MCP Servers on AWS Lambda

MCPEngine is an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to call external tools. This post demonstrates building three progressively more complex MCP servers on AWS Lambda: stateless, stateful, and with Google SSO authentication. MCPEngine supports streamable HTTP alongside SSE, offering first-class support for authentication, packaging, and other capabilities for building and deploying production-grade MCP servers. The post walks through building these servers, showcasing how to run MCP tools reliably and securely in serverless environments with detailed steps and code examples.

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(www.featureform.com)
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US-China Trade War: 90-Day Truce, Massive Tariff Cuts

2025-05-12
US-China Trade War: 90-Day Truce, Massive Tariff Cuts

In a surprise breakthrough, the US and China agreed to significantly roll back tariffs on each other's goods for 90 days, easing the punishing trade war and boosting global markets. The US will temporarily lower tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, while China will cut tariffs on US imports from 125% to 10%. Both sides committed to establishing a mechanism for continued dialogue on economic and trade relations. The news sent global markets soaring, easing recession fears.

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(edition.cnn.com)
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Wireless Gene Expression Control: Nanoparticles Enable a New Era of Precision Medicine

2025-05-28
Wireless Gene Expression Control: Nanoparticles Enable a New Era of Precision Medicine

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a novel method for the electromagnetic wireless control of transgene expression in mammals using nanoparticles. The approach employs magnetic fields to stimulate multiferroic nanoparticles (cobalt ferrite and bismuth ferrite), generating biosafe reactive oxygen species (ROS) that activate the cellular KEAP1/NRF2 pathway, precisely controlling the expression of therapeutic proteins like insulin. Successfully tested on a diabetic mouse model, this technology allows for remote and dynamic therapy adjustment without injections or implants. Promising applications include oncology, neurology, and regenerative medicine, potentially revolutionizing precision medicine.

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(phys.org)
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The Chordonomicon: 680,000 Songs Reveal the Evolution of Pop Music Chords

2025-04-18
The Chordonomicon: 680,000 Songs Reveal the Evolution of Pop Music Chords

An analysis of nearly 680,000 songs reveals fascinating trends in chord usage across different genres and decades. G major and C major reign supreme, but genre preferences diverge sharply: country music favors simple major chords, while jazz incorporates more complex seventh chords and others. The study tracks the rise and fall of various chord types, highlighting a decline in unique chord usage in recent decades, suggesting a trend towards simpler, more repetitive chord progressions in pop music.

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(www.cantgetmuchhigher.com)
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Beyond Triangles: A Novel Quadrilateral Rendering Approach

2025-04-11
Beyond Triangles: A Novel Quadrilateral Rendering Approach

Real-time computer graphics has long relied on triangles due to GPUs' native support for hardware-accelerated rasterization of triangles only. This leads to C^1 discontinuities in vertex attributes like texture coordinates and normals along the shared edge when quadrilaterals are split into triangles. This article presents a novel method that preserves C^1 continuity across the common edge of two triangles generated from convex quadrilaterals using an algebraic solution for bilinear interpolation coefficients expressed in barycentric coordinates. The method is implemented across Geometry, Tessellation, and Mesh shaders, significantly improving rendering quality with negligible computational overhead.

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(gpuopen.com)
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Ocean Iron Fertilization: A Potential Climate Change Weapon?

2025-04-19
Ocean Iron Fertilization: A Potential Climate Change Weapon?

Since the 1990s, scientists have experimented with ocean iron fertilization to stimulate phytoplankton growth and absorb atmospheric CO2. Early experiments showed that adding iron did lead to phytoplankton blooms, with diatoms becoming particularly abundant. These larger algae absorb CO2 more efficiently and sink to the deep ocean, potentially sequestering carbon. However, iron fertilization also carries potential risks, such as harmful algal blooms and alterations to marine ecosystem nutrient allocation. Scientists are now developing new technologies and regulations to comprehensively assess the effectiveness and risks of iron fertilization, exploring it as a potential climate change mitigation tool. Crucially, this doesn't replace the need for immediate and substantial reductions in fossil fuel use.

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(www.whoi.edu)
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Siflower Unveils High-Performance Industrial-Grade SOC Gateway Chip: SF21H8898

2025-04-21

Siflower Communications has launched the SF21H8898, a high-performance industrial-grade SOC gateway chip built on TSMC's 12nm FFC process. It integrates a quad-core 64-bit RISC-V processor and a dedicated network processing unit (NPU) supporting L2/L3 hardware processing, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, 20Gbps switching capacity, and full wire-speed forwarding. The chip boasts QSGMII, SGMII/HSGMII, and RGMII interfaces and supports IEEE 1588 PTP for precise time synchronization. External DDR3/DDR3L/DDR4 SDRAM and NAND/NOR SPI Flash are supported, along with high-speed interfaces like USB2.0 and PCIE2.0, and low-speed interfaces such as SPI, UART, I2C, and PWM. Ideal for enterprise and industrial control gateways.

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(docs.banana-pi.org)
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Massive Star's Silent Demise: A Black Hole's Unexpected Birth

2025-04-19
Massive Star's Silent Demise: A Black Hole's Unexpected Birth

Astronomers observed a massive star, 25 times the mass of our sun, that unexpectedly collapsed into a black hole without a supernova explosion. Using the Large Binocular Telescope, Hubble, and Spitzer, the team found the star had vanished, leaving behind a black hole candidate. This 'failed supernova' could explain the lower-than-expected number of observed supernovae. The research suggests that up to 30% of massive stars might directly collapse into black holes this way, offering new insights into the origins of supermassive black holes.

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(science.nasa.gov)
Tech stellar collapse

Pixelated Video Isn't Secure: A $50 Bounty and the Power of Reverse Engineering

2025-04-15

A YouTuber pixelated a section of a video showing a folder's contents and offered a $50 bounty for anyone who could decipher it. Within a day, three individuals successfully recovered the information using techniques involving TensorFlow and other tools. This experiment demonstrates that simple pixelation is not a secure method for concealing information, especially in moving videos. AI-assisted reverse engineering makes it surprisingly easy to de-pixelate. The YouTuber concludes that solid color masks are a better solution for hiding sensitive data.

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(www.jeffgeerling.com)
Tech video security

Stop Saying 'Click Here'! Better Link Text Writing

2025-07-02

W3C released a guide on writing more effective link text. It advises against using mechanical phrases like 'click here', suggesting instead concise, meaningful text that clearly describes the link's content, not the mechanics of clicking. The article also introduces W3C QA Tips, a resource offering practical advice for web developers and designers, including how to submit tips and an index of existing ones.

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(www.w3.org)
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Foundations of Computer Vision: A Decade in the Making

2025-06-15

After a decade-long journey, Torralba, Isola, and Freeman have published "Foundations of Computer Vision." Instead of aiming for complete coverage, the book focuses on fundamental concepts, approaching the subject from image processing and machine learning perspectives. It features numerous visualizations and progresses through image formation, learning foundations, signal processing, neural networks, and explores advanced topics like generative models and representation learning. The book's rigorous structure and clear explanations make it suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals alike.

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(visionbook.mit.edu)
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GitHub CEO: Everyone Should Learn to Code, Thanks to AI

2025-04-15
GitHub CEO: Everyone Should Learn to Code, Thanks to AI

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke advocates for everyone to learn coding, starting as early as possible. He argues that the rise of AI has significantly lowered the barrier to entry in software development, enabling even small teams to tackle large-scale projects. AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT simplify the process, making coding more accessible. While acknowledging job displacement anxieties, Dohmke believes developers will adapt and find new innovative fields. He advises continuous learning and a curious mindset to thrive in this evolving landscape.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
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arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Feature Development

2025-04-20
arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Feature Development

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who adhere to them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Apple's Liquid Glass: A New UI Design Language

2025-06-14
Apple's Liquid Glass: A New UI Design Language

Apple unveiled Liquid Glass, a revolutionary new UI design language. Building upon the learnings from Aqua, iOS 7's blur effects, iPhone X's fluidity, the Dynamic Island's flexibility, and visionOS's immersive interface, Liquid Glass isn't a mere recreation of physical materials. Instead, it's a digital meta-material dynamically bending and shaping light, behaving like a lightweight liquid responsive to touch and the dynamism of modern apps. Utilizing 'lensing' for layering and visual separation, it adapts automatically to different sizes and environments, offering 'Regular' and 'Clear' variants. Liquid Glass aims to fundamentally improve the look and feel of apps, making them more organic, immersive, and fluid.

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(developer.apple.com)
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FutureHouse: Building Semi-Autonomous AI Scientists

2025-03-22
FutureHouse: Building Semi-Autonomous AI Scientists

FutureHouse, a San Francisco-based non-profit, is on a mission to automate scientific discovery using AI. They've developed a suite of "crow"-themed tools, including ChemCrow for designing chemical reactions, WikiCrow for summarizing protein information, ContraCrow for identifying contradictions in literature, and the PaperQA series for reliable PDF querying. FutureHouse aims to build semi-autonomous AI scientists, ranging from predictive models to eventually humanoid robots capable of running experiments independently, ultimately accelerating scientific discovery and addressing issues like the difficulty in summarizing and the unreliability of biomedical literature. Challenges include building infrastructure, accessing data, and tackling engineering problems, but AI models excel at hypothesis generation and conclusion drawing. FutureHouse emphasizes the reliability of AI scientists and is dedicated to addressing issues through improved data analysis and reproducibility.

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(www.asimov.press)
AI AI science automated scientific discovery biomedical literature

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-04-22
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners adhering to them. Got an idea for a valuable community project? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Lincoln's Lessons and the Digital Mob

2025-04-22
Lincoln's Lessons and the Digital Mob

This lecture uses Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address as a springboard to discuss the fragility of American political institutions and how modern communication technologies fuel 'mobocracy'. The speaker argues that Trump used various media to incite public sentiment, undermine reason, and erode legal constraints. They highlight how social media's incentive structures, amplification effects, and ease of mob formation exacerbate social division and threaten democracy. The lecture concludes by calling for a rebuilding of democratic culture, fostering reverence for the rule of law, and resisting the spread of 'mobocracy'.

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(ellgood.medium.com)
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AI Deepfake Nightmare: Actors Regret Selling Their Likenesses Cheaply

2025-04-18
AI Deepfake Nightmare: Actors Regret Selling Their Likenesses Cheaply

Cash-strapped actors are regretting selling their likenesses for AI videos, unaware of the potential consequences. Adam Coy, a New York actor, licensed his face and voice for $1000, only to discover his AI avatar predicting disasters. Simon Lee, a South Korean actor, found his likeness used to promote fraudulent health cures. As AI avatar technology advances, companies like Synthesia (valued at $2.1 billion) are profiting, prompting Synthesia to launch an equity fund to incentivize actors. However, lawyers warn that many actors signed contracts with exploitative clauses without fully understanding them, highlighting the ethical dilemmas of this burgeoning technology.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech AI deepfake actor rights

Chrome OLED Mode Extension: Better than Dark Reader?

2025-04-20
Chrome OLED Mode Extension: Better than Dark Reader?

The Chrome OLED Mode extension is a resurrected dark theme browser extension that leverages React's dynamic rendering to add a high-contrast pitch-black theme to websites, improving nighttime readability. Superior to the popular 'Dark Reader' extension, it boasts four operation modes, forty specialized site-specific themes, whitelist management, and automated scheduling. It uses a static browser-side script for efficient DOM updates and is compatible with extension sandbox restrictions.

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(github.com)
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Fudan University Develops Record-Breaking Flash Memory: PoX

2025-04-19
Fudan University Develops Record-Breaking Flash Memory: PoX

A research team at Fudan University has created PoX, a non-volatile flash memory boasting an unprecedented single-bit programming speed of 400 picoseconds—approximately 25 billion operations per second. Published in Nature, this breakthrough pushes non-volatile memory into speeds previously exclusive to volatile memory, setting a new benchmark for AI hardware. By replacing silicon channels with 2D Dirac graphene and leveraging ballistic charge transport, the team overcame the speed limitations of traditional flash memory. PoX's potential applications include eliminating high-speed SRAM caches in AI chips, reducing energy consumption and chip size, and enabling database engines to store entire working sets in persistent RAM. This innovation could reshape storage technology and open new application scenarios.

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(interestingengineering.com)
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Holographic Display Tech: Bringing Your Videos to Life

2025-09-21
Holographic Display Tech: Bringing Your Videos to Life

HLD technology enhances standard 2D video with shadows and lighting effects, making the content appear as if it's on a holographic stage. You can create these videos using AI video generation tools (e.g., Kling, Veo, Runway), real-world footage (e.g., iPhone, DSLR), or digital renderings (e.g., Blender, Cinema4D, Maya). An Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects template and user guide will be provided to add lighting effects. Additionally, you can build real-time applications using tools like Unity3D and Unreal Engine. Templates, tutorials, and user guides will be available soon.

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(lookingglassfactory.com)
Tech holographic display video enhancement

LLMs in Programming: Crutch or Catalyst?

2025-04-20

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for programming, automating tasks and generating code. However, their ease of use raises concerns. While LLMs excel at solving known problems, this reliance risks atrophying engineers' problem-solving skills, especially with novel challenges. Unlike search engines which offer exploration and exploitation, LLMs favor immediate exploitation, hindering deep thinking and problem-solving. Blindly accepting LLM-generated solutions could lead to a loss of algorithmic mastery, ultimately hindering technological advancement.

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(www.carette.xyz)
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Atari's Limited Edition Asteroids Watches Sell Out Instantly

2025-01-30
Atari's Limited Edition Asteroids Watches Sell Out Instantly

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the iconic game Asteroids, Atari and luxury watch brand Nubeo have collaborated on a limited-edition watch. This unique timepiece displays time in an unconventional way using a Japanese automatic movement that drives three discs. The smallest central disc features the original Asteroids triangular ship firing, acting as the second hand. The outer two discs, filled with asteroids, represent the minute and hour hands. Priced at $499 (originally $1650), each of the five styles is limited to 125 pieces and has already sold out. The design is inspired by the Atari 2600 console, and features Swiss Super-LumiNova glow-in-the-dark ink, 21 ATM water resistance, and comes in a retro-styled protective case.

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(www.techspot.com)
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