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Global Plastic Treaty Talks Hit a Snag

2025-08-15
Global Plastic Treaty Talks Hit a Snag

Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are nearing a close in Geneva, but nations remain deadlocked over whether to curb plastic production. The latest draft focuses on reducing problematic plastic products, improving plastic design for recyclability, and better waste management, but it stops short of limiting production or addressing chemicals used in plastics. Countries like Norway advocate for a comprehensive approach including production limits, while oil and gas producers and the plastics industry oppose such limits. Disagreements over the treaty's scope and definitions persist, leaving the outcome uncertain and potentially requiring further negotiations.

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(www.pbs.org)
Tech environmental treaty

WTF: Visualizing Builds to Find Performance Bottlenecks

2025-08-15
WTF: Visualizing Builds to Find Performance Bottlenecks

What the Fork is a cross-platform tool that visualizes the build process of any build system, helping developers identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. By monitoring system calls, it tracks process start and termination, generating an interactive visualization showing process timelines, commands, and arguments. The author demonstrates its power through examples from various projects, revealing issues like lack of parallelism and redundant operations. This allows developers to significantly optimize build times, particularly beneficial for CI builds.

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(danielchasehooper.com)
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Linux Copy & Paste Gets a Retro Upgrade: Say Goodbye to Ctrl+Shift

2025-08-15
Linux Copy & Paste Gets a Retro Upgrade: Say Goodbye to Ctrl+Shift

Tired of Ctrl+Shift+C/V for copy and paste in Linux terminals? Good news! By the end of 2025, most Linux applications will natively support the legacy 'Copy' and 'Paste' keycodes. This is thanks to the rise of programmable keyboards and support for these keycodes in software toolkits like GTK and QT. Several terminal emulators like Alacritty, Foot, and Wezterm already support them, while Gnome Terminal and Konsole are expected to support them after updates by the end of the year. This will revolutionize the Linux copy-paste experience, making it more convenient and efficient.

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(mark.stosberg.com)
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Ghostty's GTK Rewrite: A Triumph of GObject and Valgrind

2025-08-15

The Ghostty terminal emulator's GTK application underwent a complete rewrite, fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and rigorously using Valgrind for memory verification at every step. The result is a more feature-rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. The rewrite addressed previous memory management issues stemming from avoiding the GObject system, simplifying tasks like configuration reloading using GObject's property change notification system. Valgrind uncovered a few memory issues, mostly related to C API interactions, demonstrating the effectiveness of Zig's memory safety features in a large, complex project.

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(mitchellh.com)
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Apple Resurrects Blood Oxygen on Apple Watch, Bypassing Import Ban

2025-08-15
Apple Resurrects Blood Oxygen on Apple Watch, Bypassing Import Ban

Apple announced Thursday a redesigned blood oxygen feature for select Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra models, circumventing an International Trade Commission (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data is now processed on the paired iPhone, viewable only within the Health app's Respiratory section. This follows a recent U.S. Customs ruling allowing Apple to import watches with the revised feature. The change doesn't affect previously sold models or those purchased outside the U.S., applying only to watches sold after the ITC ban in early 2024. Users can access the redesigned feature via an iPhone and Apple Watch software update released Thursday. This follows Apple's ongoing legal battle with Masimo, which accused Apple of stealing its pulse oximetry technology. Masimo won a 2023 ITC ruling blocking Apple Watch imports with blood oxygen monitoring, prompting Apple's removal of the feature. Apple countersued, claiming Masimo copied Apple Watch features, and appealed the ban.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Steam PayPal Payments Disrupted: Valve Explains Why

2025-08-15
Steam PayPal Payments Disrupted: Valve Explains Why

Steam users in certain regions have experienced disruptions to PayPal payments. Valve has attributed this to a payment processing bank abruptly terminating support for Steam transactions, affecting users paying in currencies other than EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, and USD. Valve is working on a solution and suggests alternative payment methods. The issue may be linked to Valve's recent adult content policy changes, though a direct connection remains unconfirmed.

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(www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Game Payment Disruption

Urgent: Plex Media Server Security Vulnerability, Update Now!

2025-08-15
Urgent: Plex Media Server Security Vulnerability, Update Now!

Several versions of Plex Media Server (1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x) contain a security vulnerability. Plex has released an urgent fix (1.42.1.10060 or later). While Plex hasn't publicly disclosed details, they strongly urge all users to update immediately. The risk is higher if your Plex server is exposed to the internet. Update now and review your server settings, disabling external access if necessary.

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(nerds.xyz)
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Self-Playing Guitar System: 9400 Hours of Mastery, $40,000 Price Tag

2025-08-15
Self-Playing Guitar System: 9400 Hours of Mastery, $40,000 Price Tag

Michael Kuzma, a guitarist and electrical engineer, spent 9,400 hours developing his Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System. This invention, attachable to any guitar, uses 3D-printed parts, motors, and actuators to pick and fret. While not quite ready for Hendrix, it can handle Oasis covers. Kuzma even uses it for hands-free busking. The robot guitar can play at speeds exceeding human capabilities (44 notes per second!). Kuzma custom-builds these systems, starting at $40,000, with the final price depending on customizations, the chosen guitar, and delivery location.

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(www.core77.com)
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Galileo and the Birth of Modern Science: A Telescope's Revolution

2025-08-15

Four hundred years ago, Galileo's telescopic observations shook the scientific world. His discovery of Jupiter's moons sparked controversy, with some scholars refusing to believe and others unable to verify. Only Kepler supported him, lacking a suitable telescope at the time. It wasn't until other astronomers independently confirmed his findings that Galileo's discoveries gained widespread acceptance. This period marked the birth of modern science, emphasizing the establishment of facts through experiments and observations rather than relying on textual interpretations. Galileo linked science to exploration, ushering in a new era of fact-based science, though he later faced religious persecution for supporting the Copernican heliocentric model. Today, we take the objectivity and authority of science for granted, a legacy of the era of discovery initiated by Galileo.

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(www.historytoday.com)
Tech Galileo Telescope

EmbedPDF: A Slick, Open-Source JavaScript PDF Viewer

2025-08-15
EmbedPDF: A Slick, Open-Source JavaScript PDF Viewer

EmbedPDF is a framework-agnostic, MIT-licensed, open-source JavaScript PDF viewer easily integrated into any JavaScript project (React, Vue, Svelte, Preact, or vanilla JS). It boasts a smooth, modern reading experience with a clean developer API. Features include annotations (highlighting, sticky notes, free text, ink), true redaction, search, text selection, zoom, rotation, and smooth, virtualized scrolling. It's built with a pluggable architecture and tree-shakable plugins. Contributions are welcome!

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(github.com)
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Citybound: A Million-Life City Sim

2025-08-15

Citybound is an ambitious open-source city builder that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate a city organism arising from the interactions of millions of individuals. Each household (family or business) is individually simulated, managing its own resources and trading to meet needs, leading to emergent economic patterns. The game features microscopic traffic simulation, haptic collaborative planning, and innovative technology like an actor-based distributed simulation engine and a Rust-WASM-JS bridge. Citybound aims to simulate massive cities with millions of inhabitants, featuring real-time interactive editing and community collaboration.

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(aeplay.org)
Game city simulation micro-economy

Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Feature Redesign Rolls Out in the US

2025-08-14
Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Feature Redesign Rolls Out in the US

Apple is releasing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for select Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users in the US via an iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 update. This follows a recent US Customs ruling, allowing blood oxygen data processing on the paired iPhone and display in the Health app's Respiratory section. The update doesn't affect previously purchased watches with the original feature or those bought outside the US.

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(www.apple.com)
Tech Blood Oxygen

Gemma 3 270M: A Tiny but Mighty AI Model for Custom Applications

2025-08-14
Gemma 3 270M: A Tiny but Mighty AI Model for Custom Applications

The Gemma family welcomes its newest member: Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270-million parameter AI model designed for task-specific fine-tuning. Inheriting the advanced architecture of the Gemma 3 series, it boasts strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities, while consuming remarkably low power—just 0.75% battery usage for 25 conversations on a Pixel 9 Pro SoC. Its impressive instruction-following abilities shine in IFEval benchmarks, making advanced AI more accessible for on-device and research applications. Gemma 3 270M excels in high-volume, well-defined tasks like sentiment analysis and entity extraction and is ideal for scenarios requiring rapid iteration and deployment. Developers can leverage its small size for quick fine-tuning experiments, building fleets of specialized models to create efficient and cost-effective production systems.

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(developers.googleblog.com)
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Jujutsu + Radicle: A Near Branchless Workflow

2025-08-14
Jujutsu + Radicle: A Near Branchless Workflow

This article details how the author uses Jujutsu and Radicle together to achieve a nearly branchless version control workflow. Jujutsu, as a transparent layer on top of Git, manages changes using change IDs, simplifying complex Git operations like rebasing and squashing. Radicle leverages Git's storage and protocol, providing a secure and reliable platform for code collaboration. The author details their `.git/config` and `.jj/config` configurations, and how they use commands like `jj new`, `jj edit`, `jj squash`, and `jj rebase` to create, edit, merge, and reorder changes. Radicle's patch mechanism enables efficient code contribution and maintenance, ultimately eliminating cumbersome branch management and improving development efficiency.

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(radicle.xyz)
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I Turned Down a Six-Figure Offer for My Dream Job in Fusion Energy

2025-08-14

After 15 years in the tech industry, the author received two competing job offers. One offered significantly higher pay, stock options, a large bonus, and even a company trip to the Bahamas. However, the author chose a lower-paying position at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion energy company. The author prioritized passion and the importance of meaningful work over higher compensation. They articulated the three key elements of job satisfaction as pay, work, and people; a balance of all three leads to genuine fulfillment.

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(dillonshook.com)
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World Bank Raises Extreme Poverty Line to $3 a Day: A Deeper Dive into the Data

2025-08-14
World Bank Raises Extreme Poverty Line to $3 a Day: A Deeper Dive into the Data

The World Bank's increase of the international poverty line from $2.15 to $3 per day resulted in a 125 million person increase in extreme poverty estimates. This doesn't signify global impoverishment, but rather reflects a higher poverty standard. The adjustment accounts for inflation, but also incorporates changes in low-income countries' own poverty lines. While extreme poverty numbers rose, the data concurrently reveals higher-than-expected incomes among the world's poorest. The article details the definition of the international poverty line, the reasons behind the World Bank data changes, and their implications for understanding global poverty.

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(ourworldindata.org)
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Lenovo's Record-Breaking Quarter: AI PCs Fuel Growth

2025-08-14
Lenovo's Record-Breaking Quarter: AI PCs Fuel Growth

Lenovo kicked off its fiscal year with a bang, reporting record PC sales and dominating the AI PC market. Q1 2025/26 revenue hit $18.8 billion, a 22% year-over-year increase, with profits more than doubling. Its PC and smart devices division saw its fastest growth in 15 quarters, achieving a record 24.6% global market share. Over 30% of Lenovo's PC shipments were AI PCs, giving it a commanding 31% market share in the Windows AI PC segment. While the practical usage of AI PC features is debated, Lenovo's premium models and hybrid AI strategy are resonating with consumers. Motorola's foldable phone success also contributed significantly. Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group also thrived, with revenue up 36% and AI infrastructure sales more than doubling. Despite the recovering PC market, Lenovo's strong performance puts it ahead of competitors, but the long-term success depends on sustained demand for AI PC features.

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(nerds.xyz)
Tech PC Market

Linux ASI Performance Breakthrough: From 70% to 13% I/O Overhead Reduction

2025-08-14

For years, Google engineers have been working on Address Space Isolation (ASI) for the Linux kernel to combat growing CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities. Early implementations resulted in a crippling 70% I/O throughput penalty. Now, that overhead is down to just 13%. Google engineer Brendan Jackman has revived the effort, presenting a solution to the page cache performance issues. While challenges remain, particularly concerning context switching and copy-on-write operations, the significant progress makes ASI a viable contender for a mainstream CPU vulnerability solution.

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(www.phoronix.com)
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Game-Changing Molecule Shows Promise as Carbon Monoxide Antidote

2025-08-14

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have engineered a novel molecule, RcoM-HBD-CCC, showing significant promise as a carbon monoxide poisoning antidote with fewer side effects than existing treatments. This protein-based therapy acts as a carbon monoxide sponge, rapidly removing the toxic gas from the blood in mouse studies and safely eliminating it through urine. Unlike other treatments, it caused minimal blood pressure changes. This breakthrough offers potential for a rapid, intravenous antidote, potentially usable in emergency rooms and even by first responders.

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(www.medschool.umaryland.edu)
Tech medical breakthrough

Org-social: A Decentralized Social Network Built on Org Mode

2025-08-14
Org-social: A Decentralized Social Network Built on Org Mode

Org-social is a decentralized social network running on an Org Mode file served over HTTP. Users create a `social.org` file, add personal info and posts, and upload it to a web server. Simple, registration-free, and database-less, it leverages Org Mode's features for posting, replying, mentions, polls, and more, while remaining compatible with various text editors. Its core values are simplicity, accessibility, decentralization, and adherence to Org Mode principles.

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(github.com)
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Mbodi AI: Revolutionizing Robotics with Human-like Learning

2025-08-14
Mbodi AI: Revolutionizing Robotics with Human-like Learning

Mbodi AI, an AI robotics startup founded by two ex-Googlers, is developing an embodied AI platform that enables robots to learn like humans using natural language. Anyone can teach robots new skills simply by talking to them, with reliable execution in production within minutes. They're hiring a Founding Research/ML Engineer to build cutting-edge ML models and agentic AI systems for robot learning and behavior. Backed by top investors and collaborating with global industrial partners like ABB, Mbodi is pushing the boundaries of robotics and automation.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
AI Natural Language

Meta Found Guilty of Accessing Sensitive Data from Women's Health App

2025-08-14
Meta Found Guilty of Accessing Sensitive Data from Women's Health App

A jury ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from Flo Health, a women's reproductive health tracking app, without consent. Flo Health collected highly personal data, including menstrual cycles, mood swings, and sexual activity, sharing it with companies like Facebook and Google. This case highlights serious data privacy concerns, particularly after the overturning of abortion rights in the US, increasing risks to women's reproductive health information. The verdict raises concerns about other apps' data-sharing practices and the balance between technological convenience and potential dangers.

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(www.malwarebytes.com)
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The Pains and Pleasures of Typeface Licensing: A Designer's Perspective

2025-08-14
The Pains and Pleasures of Typeface Licensing: A Designer's Perspective

A designer shares their experiences navigating typeface licensing across numerous projects. High-quality commercial fonts and supporting independent foundries are key considerations. However, varying licensing terms from different foundries create complexities. The article explores ideal licensing features: clear and easily accessible terms, shareable shopping carts, straightforward payment options, flexible pricing models, and the ability to subset fonts. The author highlights the need for a balance between foundry needs and client usability for a smoother workflow.

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(davesmyth.com)
Design Typeface Licensing Commercial Fonts

Training the Strongest Model on a MacBook Pro in 5 Minutes: A Challenge

2025-08-14

The author challenges himself to train the strongest possible language model on a MacBook Pro in just five minutes. Experiments culminated in a ~1.8M parameter GPT-style transformer trained on ~20M TinyStories tokens, achieving ~9.6 perplexity. Optimizations focused on maximizing tokens-per-second, favoring MPS and avoiding gradient accumulation. Dataset selection proved crucial, with TinyStories' coherent, simple language proving superior. Transformers outperformed LSTMs and diffusion models. The optimal model size for a five-minute training window was found to be around 2M parameters, aligning with Chinchilla scaling laws.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
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ArchWiki's Secrets to Success: Lessons from DebConf25

2025-08-14

Arch Linux's ArchWiki is renowned in the Linux community for its high-quality documentation. At DebConf25, ArchWiki maintainers shared their secrets, covering content strategy, contribution guidelines, and community management. While leveraging MediaWiki's strengths—comprehensive, high-quality, and up-to-date content—they also addressed challenges like the complexity of MediaWiki markup, the high barrier to entry for contributors, and threats from AI-generated content and scraping bots. Future plans include improving community involvement, developing more editor tools, and cautiously incorporating AI. The presentation inspired Debian to revamp its wiki using MediaWiki.

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(lwn.net)
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Data Brokers Hide Data Deletion Options in California

2025-08-14
Data Brokers Hide Data Deletion Options in California

California law requires data brokers to provide ways for consumers to delete their data, but many companies are making it incredibly difficult to find these options. An investigation by The Markup and CalMatters revealed that over 30 data brokers used code to prevent search engines from indexing their data deletion pages. This makes it nearly impossible for Californians to exercise their right to data removal. While some companies removed the code after being contacted, others either didn't respond or claimed the code was to prevent spam. This highlights the challenges of data privacy protection and the passive resistance of some companies to comply with the law.

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(www.wired.com)
Tech California Consumer Privacy Act

AI Tool Anxiety: The Illusion of Efficiency?

2025-08-14
AI Tool Anxiety: The Illusion of Efficiency?

The author recounts their personal experience with the rapid pace of AI tool updates, leading to anxiety and a feeling of constantly falling behind. The article critiques the excessive marketing and anxiety-mongering surrounding AI tools, advocating for a more rational approach. It calls for selective adoption and a return to human-centered thinking, arguing that the illusion of efficiency often masks increased workload and stress.

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(luolink.substack.com)
Misc AI Anxiety

One-Handed iPhone Coding: Beyond Pythonista, a Trio of Apps Emerges

2025-08-14

The author's dream of single-handedly coding on an iPhone has become a reality. Abandoning Pythonista, they now use a combination of three apps: Secure Shellfish (with offline folder syncing), Textastic (code editor), and Working Copy (Git client), running code on a VPS. While this setup has a higher upfront cost (around €57 plus monthly VPS fees), it provides a distraction-free coding experience, offering an alternative to social media and enabling focused, one-handed development.

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(clearsky.dev)
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500 Days of Daily Math: A Journey from Zero to (Almost) Hero

2025-08-14
500 Days of Daily Math: A Journey from Zero to (Almost) Hero

The author recounts his 500-day journey of daily math practice using Math Academy. Initially motivated by a need to understand the math behind AI, he discovered a significant gap in his foundational knowledge, starting from the very beginning. Through consistent effort and strategic adjustments (like dedicated study time, utilizing spare moments, and publicly sharing progress), he's completed multiple foundational courses and is now tackling calculus and linear algebra. This journey has not only boosted his math skills but also cultivated better learning habits and resilience, positively impacting other aspects of his life.

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(gmays.com)
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