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Peter Jackson Funds De-Extinction Project: Bringing Back the Giant Moa

2025-07-09
Peter Jackson Funds De-Extinction Project: Bringing Back the Giant Moa

Filmmaker Peter Jackson and Colossal Biosciences have partnered on a $15 million project to genetically engineer a bird resembling the extinct giant moa. Using genetic material from existing birds and advanced gene editing techniques, they aim to create a creature similar to this 12-foot-tall flightless bird. The project, while met with some scientific skepticism regarding the feasibility of fully recreating an extinct species, has garnered support from Māori scholars, highlighting the intersection of science, conservation, and cultural heritage.

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(apnews.com)
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Chinese Paraglider's 28,000-Foot Ascent: A Tale of Real Footage and AI Deception

2025-05-30
Chinese Paraglider's 28,000-Foot Ascent: A Tale of Real Footage and AI Deception

The recent news of Chinese paraglider Peng Yujiang's ascent to 8,598 meters (28,000 feet) after being sucked into a cloud has gone viral. Major news outlets shared videos of the event, but the authenticity is questionable. Analysis reveals AI-generated scenes with inconsistencies in camera angles and the pilot's equipment. While other parts of the video might be genuine, the footage appears to be a compilation of scenes from different times and using different equipment. The incident highlights not only the challenges of high-altitude paragliding but also the difficulties in discerning real from AI-generated content in the media, underscoring the need for critical evaluation of online videos.

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(blog.hyperknot.com)
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Emulating iOS on QEMU: A Challenging Journey

2025-04-05
Emulating iOS on QEMU: A Challenging Journey

This article details a team's journey in emulating iOS on QEMU. Starting with existing open-source projects, they leveraged checkra1n and PongoOS to bypass iOS security mechanisms. They overcame numerous challenges including software rendering, IOMFB display issues, address randomization, and Pointer Authentication (PAC). The team developed tools to generate and apply Mach-O patches and injected shellcode to simulate USB pairing. Ultimately, they successfully displayed the iOS boot screen and unlock interface on QEMU, showcasing a remarkable achievement.

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(eshard.com)
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Gym Class: Hiring a Senior Animation Engineer for Meta Quest Hit

2025-04-25
Gym Class: Hiring a Senior Animation Engineer for Meta Quest Hit

Gym Class, a leading social game on Meta Quest with millions of downloads and a 4.9-star rating, is expanding! They're seeking an experienced Animation Engineer to lead the design, development, and implementation of character animation systems in Unity. This role demands expertise in Unity and C#, proven mobile game animation experience, strong understanding of IK, animation blending, and state machines, and a knack for mobile performance optimization. You'll lead a high-performing team and shape the future of character movement in the game.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Google Unveils Ironwood: A 7th-Gen TPU for the Inference Age

2025-04-09
Google Unveils Ironwood: A 7th-Gen TPU for the Inference Age

At Google Cloud Next '25, Google announced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). This is Google's most powerful and scalable custom AI accelerator yet, designed specifically for inference. Ironwood marks a shift towards a proactive “age of inference,” where AI models generate insights and answers, not just data. Scaling up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips interconnected via breakthrough ICI networking (nearly 10MW), Ironwood is a key component of Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer architecture. Developers can leverage Google's Pathways software stack to easily harness the power of tens of thousands of Ironwood TPUs.

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(blog.google)
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Sonos CEO Ousted After App Disaster

2025-01-13
Sonos CEO Ousted After App Disaster

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has resigned, effective immediately, following the disastrous launch of a revamped app last May. The buggy app, released prematurely with missing features, sparked outrage among customers, plummeting employee morale and leading to layoffs. Despite a subsequent turnaround plan and crisis PR firm, the damage proved irreparable. Spence will receive a $1.875 million severance package. Interim CEO Tom Conrad will now lead the company, tasked with restoring employee morale and regaining customer trust. The app's issues overshadowed the launch of the Sonos Ace headphones, which have reportedly seen poor sales.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech App Failure CEO Resignation

Unlock 3D Photos with Your Eyes: A Simple Guide to Cross-View Stereoscopy

2025-02-26
Unlock 3D Photos with Your Eyes: A Simple Guide to Cross-View Stereoscopy

Your brain is a natural 3D powerhouse! It can reconstruct a three-dimensional scene from just two slightly different 2D images. This article unveils a simple method to experience 3D photos without specialized equipment – cross-view stereoscopy. By taking two pictures of the same scene from slightly different angles, and then focusing your eyes on each image respectively, your brain will magically merge them into a single 3D image. The article explores the artistic potential of 3D photos, arguing that it can better represent the depth and detail of complex scenes like forests and caves, opening up new possibilities for photography and art.

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(moultano.wordpress.com)
Tech 3D vision cross-view stereoscopy

The Rise of Personal Software: AI-Powered App Creation for Everyone

2025-02-05
The Rise of Personal Software: AI-Powered App Creation for Everyone

Personal computers arrived in the 90s, but software remained impersonal and bloated. AI is changing that. Now, anyone can build custom applications to solve their specific needs, without needing coding skills. This isn't about replacing professional developers, but empowering individuals to create their own solutions, fostering appreciation for well-designed software and driving innovation.

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(leerob.com)
Development Personalization

YouTube's Homepage: From 30 Videos to Near-Zero

2025-04-30

Comparing YouTube's homepage in 2019 to the current version, the author notes a drastic increase in ads and a significant decrease in visible videos. While 30 videos were previously displayed, now only five are shown, with a massive ad taking up a sixth of the page. The author predicts that by May 2026, only one video will remain, and by September, there will be none. They lament YouTube's prioritization of profit over user experience, humorously suggesting that future ads might be directly injected into our brains via Neuralink.

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(jayd.ml)
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Chrome's Manifest V3: A Nightmare for Ad Blocker Developers?

2025-02-08
Chrome's Manifest V3: A Nightmare for Ad Blocker Developers?

Google's Chrome Manifest V3 (MV3) extension architecture overhaul continues to cause headaches for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools. While Google claims MV3 aims to improve security and performance, developers like those behind AdGuard and uBlock Origin find its restrictions far more severe than anticipated, limiting or even preventing core functionality. Developers complain that MV3 increases development difficulty and accuse Google of slow responses to developer feedback, even subtly undermining extensions through UI changes. This raises questions about Google's true intentions: is it about improving security and privacy, or subtly limiting extension capabilities?

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(www.theregister.com)
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Deep Dive: Anthropic's Claude Code – Usage, Plans, and Billing Explained

2025-06-04

This article provides a comprehensive guide to Anthropic's Claude Code, a powerful coding assistant. It details how to use Claude Code, its integration with different subscription plans (Pro and Max), rate limits, and billing. The article explains connecting Claude Code to your plan, understanding two distinct systems (API credits and direct usage), navigating rate limits, and managing auto-reload settings. Clear explanations of Claude Code usage limits and billing are provided for both Pro and Max users.

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(support.anthropic.com)
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Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM: Cracking webmssdk.js

2025-04-21
Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM: Cracking webmssdk.js

This project details the reverse engineering of TikTok's custom virtual machine (VM) found within webmssdk.js. The VM is a key part of TikTok's obfuscation and security. The project includes tools to deobfuscate webmssdk.js, decompile the VM instructions into readable code, inject a script to replace webmssdk.js with the deobfuscated version, and generate signed URLs for authenticated requests (like posting comments). The author overcame significant obfuscation techniques, including bracket notation and disguised function calls, to successfully deobfuscate and decompile the VM, ultimately enabling the generation of signatures for authenticated requests.

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(github.com)
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72-Year-Old Historian Seeks Reader Support for Independent Blog

2025-02-24

Robert Zimmerman, a 72-year-old historian, is launching a fundraising drive for his blog, Behind the Black. Known for his independent analysis, he accurately predicted the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Rejecting advertising and sponsorships, he relies solely on reader donations. Readers can contribute via Zelle, Patreon, PayPal, or check; larger donations receive signed copies of his books.

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(behindtheblack.com)
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The SaaS Pricing Revolution: From Per-Seat to Pay-as-You-Go, Driven by AI

2025-04-24
The SaaS Pricing Revolution: From Per-Seat to Pay-as-You-Go, Driven by AI

The rise of AI, particularly computationally intensive reasoning models, is reshaping the SaaS business model. High AI inference costs are forcing SaaS companies to shift from traditional per-seat licensing to usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing. This isn't just a pricing experiment; it's an economic necessity for some to manage the cost of running AI-powered services. Companies like Bolt.new have already adopted token-based pricing, aligning revenue with actual usage. Established players like ServiceNow are using hybrid models, combining base seat licenses with pay-per-use AI credits. This shift may lead to revenue volatility but better reflects product value and attracts investors. However, variable costs for customers and revenue fluctuations for providers are downsides. The future of this model depends on whether AI compute costs decrease.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
Tech Pricing Models

LLMs Saved My Game Dev Passion: Conquering Data Entry Hell

2025-06-25

A game developer hit a roadblock in their Unity3D card game project due to tedious data entry. Traditional Unity editors and Odin proved insufficient for handling complex nested structures and nullable references. The solution? Leveraging LLMs to map Excel data to C# code. The key was a meticulously crafted prompt guiding the LLM to perform structured analysis and code generation, mitigating context poisoning issues. This automated the data entry process, allowing the developer to focus on game mechanics and design.

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(danieltan.weblog.lol)
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FPGA Forth Interpreter CPU using an LFSR

2025-06-02
FPGA Forth Interpreter CPU using an LFSR

This project details an FPGA CPU implemented in VHDL that utilizes a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) instead of a program counter. This approach, while traditionally space-saving, offers minimal benefits on FPGAs. The CPU, running a fully functional Forth interpreter, achieves 151.768MHz on a Spartan-6 FPGA. Remarkably compact, the core consumes only 27 slices. The project includes VHDL code, GHDL simulation instructions, and build instructions for Xilinx ISE 14.7. It showcases the potential of LFSRs for resource-constrained designs and presents a highly efficient Forth interpreter implementation.

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(github.com)
Hardware

Swift: One Language to Rule Them All, From Embedded Devices to the Cloud

2025-06-04
Swift: One Language to Rule Them All, From Embedded Devices to the Cloud

Swift's unique combination of approachability, speed, safety, and interoperability with C and C++ makes it the only language that scales from embedded devices and kernels to apps and cloud infrastructure. Its concise, readable syntax empowers developers of all levels, supporting object-oriented, functional, and generic programming paradigms. The language's progressive disclosure allows beginners to quickly learn the basics while experienced developers can leverage advanced features. A simple example demonstrates how a full command-line tool can be implemented in just a few lines of code.

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(swift.org)
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SourceHut Under Siege: The High Cost of LLM Crawlers

2025-03-18

SourceHut, an open-source code hosting platform, is under relentless attack from large-scale LLM crawlers. Ignoring robots.txt, these bots indiscriminately scrape data, causing frequent outages and severely impacting service stability and developer productivity. The author pleads for a halt to the development and use of LLMs and AI tools, condemning the immense damage inflicted on the open-source community. This isn't just SourceHut's problem; it's a challenge for the entire open-source ecosystem.

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(drewdevault.com)
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AI Uncovers Irrationality in Human Decision-Making During Complex Games

2025-07-09
AI Uncovers Irrationality in Human Decision-Making During Complex Games

Researchers from Princeton University and Boston University used machine learning to predict human strategic decisions in various games. A deep neural network trained on human decisions accurately predicted players' choices. A hybrid model, combining a classical behavioral model with a neural network, outperformed the neural network alone, particularly in capturing the impact of game complexity. The study reveals that people act more predictably in simpler games but less rationally in complex ones. This research offers new insights into human decision-making processes and lays the groundwork for behavioral science interventions aimed at promoting more rational choices.

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(phys.org)
AI Decision Models

Debugging Bash Scripts: Gracefully Handling `set -e` Errors

2025-07-27

This article presents a neat trick for gracefully handling errors triggered by `set -e` in Bash scripts. By using `trap 'echo "Exit status $? at line $LINENO from: $BASH_COMMAND"' ERR`, you can print information like the error line number, failing command, and exit status when the script encounters an error, making debugging easier. This leverages Bash-specific features: `$LINENO`, `$BASH_COMMAND` environment variables, and the `ERR` trap condition. Other shells like sh may behave differently and might not fully support this functionality.

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(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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macOS Sequoia Switches from rsync to openrsync

2025-04-06
macOS Sequoia Switches from rsync to openrsync

In macOS Sequoia, Apple replaced the nearly two-decade-old rsync 2.6.9 with openrsync. This change stems from compliance issues with the GPLv3 license used by rsync 3.x. openrsync uses the more permissive ISC license, allowing Apple more flexibility in updating and maintaining it. While openrsync is compatible with rsync, it only supports a subset of rsync's command-line arguments, meaning some older functionalities might be lost. Users should refer to the official documentation for supported features.

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(derflounder.wordpress.com)
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Alphabet's Laser Internet: Taara Takes on Starlink

2025-03-01
Alphabet's Laser Internet: Taara Takes on Starlink

Alphabet's X, the moonshot factory, birthed Loon, a balloon-based internet project that ultimately failed. However, a Loon engineer spun off Taara, focusing on high-bandwidth internet via laser beams. Taara has launched a second-generation chip, shrinking the technology to the size of a fingernail, reducing costs and boosting speeds. It aims to connect billions lacking internet access and become a crucial technology for future 6G and even 7G networks, potentially challenging the likes of Starlink.

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(www.wired.com)
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The Messy State of TOTP: A Test Suite is Born

2025-03-02
The Messy State of TOTP: A Test Suite is Born

The current TOTP specification is riddled with inconsistencies. Major implementations by Google, Apple, and Yubico subtly disagree on its implementation, leading to idiosyncratic variants in various MFA apps. The official RFC is frustratingly vague. The author built a test suite to check if your favorite app correctly implements the TOTP standard, highlighting ambiguities in digit count, hash algorithm, time step, secret length, and labeling. The author calls for improved specifications to prevent future issues.

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(shkspr.mobi)
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Langfuse Open Sources All Product Features: Building the Open LLM Engineering Platform

2025-06-04
Langfuse Open Sources All Product Features: Building the Open LLM Engineering Platform

Langfuse is open-sourcing all its product features, including managed vector databases, evaluation tools, and the Playground, to accelerate community application iteration and gather feedback. This move stems from Langfuse's vision to be the leading open-source LLM engineering platform. By opening core features, they aim to foster trust, collaboration, accelerate adoption, and iterate faster. Langfuse started as an open-source project and remains committed to this principle. Only Enterprise security and platform team features (e.g., SCIM, audit logs, data retention policies) remain commercially licensed; the rest are MIT licensed. With over 8,000 monthly active self-hosted instances, this move solidifies Langfuse as the top choice for a powerful, truly open-source platform in LLMOps.

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(langfuse.com)
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The Evolution of Album Art: From Utilitarian to Artistic

2025-05-02
The Evolution of Album Art: From Utilitarian to Artistic

This article chronicles the evolution of album art. Early record packaging was simple and utilitarian, but Alex Steinweiss's designs for Columbia Records in the 1940s transformed album covers into eye-catching marketing tools and a form of creative expression. Blue Note Records' collaboration with Reid Miles took album art to new heights, with bold photography and typography that profoundly influenced modern design. S. Neil Fujita's subsequent work at Columbia further integrated abstract art, perfectly blending the artistry of jazz with the album cover. From purely functional packaging to a vehicle for artistic expression, album art reflects the evolution of the music industry and has shaped art history.

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(matthewstrom.com)
Design album art

Ancient Pigments: From Imperial Purple to Han Purple

2025-03-05
Ancient Pigments: From Imperial Purple to Han Purple

This article explores the stories behind several famous ancient pigments, including the costly Tyrian purple of the Mediterranean (made from thousands of snails), the vibrant Egyptian blue (made from sand, salt, and copper), the mysterious Mayan blue (made from indigo plants and clay), and the artistically and scientifically significant Han purple (made by melting sand, barium, and copper at high temperatures). These pigments not only reflect the craftsmanship and aesthetics of ancient civilizations but also contain rich cultural and historical information, and even retain value in modern scientific research.

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(worldhistory.substack.com)
Tech ancient pigments history of technology

Val: An Arbitrary-Precision Calculator Language

2025-04-17
Val: An Arbitrary-Precision Calculator Language

Val is a simple arbitrary-precision calculator language built on top of chumsky and ariadne. It runs on Linux, MacOS, BSDs, and Windows. Installation is easy via Cargo, or pre-built binaries are available. Val features a command-line interface and REPL with syntax highlighting, persistent history, and emacs-style editing. The language supports functions, loops, conditionals, and a rich set of built-in functions covering arithmetic, logical, comparison, and collection operations. Data types include numbers, booleans, strings, and lists.

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(github.com)
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Global Fertility Crash: Worse Than the UN Predicted

2025-07-10
Global Fertility Crash: Worse Than the UN Predicted

The UN's projections on global population growth are overly optimistic; the actual decline in fertility rates is far steeper than anticipated. Many countries, including some middle-income nations, have fertility rates far below those of wealthy countries, defying the traditional modernization narrative. For example, Colombia's 2024 birth rate was only 445,000, significantly lower than the UN's prediction. This downward trend poses a severe threat to economic growth and retirement prospects as fewer young people support a growing elderly population. Japan serves as a cautionary tale, its low fertility leading to slowed economic growth. If the global fertility rate continues to fall, the world economy faces immense challenges.

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(www.theatlantic.com)
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