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GPU Kill: Cross-Platform GPU Management CLI

2025-09-21

GPU Kill: Cross-Platform GPU Management CLI

GPU Kill is a command-line tool for managing GPUs across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon systems. Easily monitor, control, and secure your GPU infrastructure. Features include real-time GPU usage monitoring, killing stuck processes, detecting crypto miners and suspicious activity, enforcing policies to prevent resource abuse, a web dashboard for cluster monitoring, remote management of GPUs across multiple servers, and AI assistant integration. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. Simple command-line interface and a web dashboard provide user-friendly management.

(github.com)

Development GPU management

France's Nuclear Miracle: How a Laggard Became a Leader

2025-09-21

France's Nuclear Miracle: How a Laggard Became a Leader

In the 1970s, while the global nuclear power industry faltered, France experienced a remarkable surge. Through political will, streamlined regulation, and a unique tax system that incentivized local communities, France built numerous nuclear power plants in a decade, achieving low-carbon electricity generation and becoming Europe's largest electricity exporter. Key to their success were: single buyer, simplified approvals, localized supply chains, fleet building, and economic benefits shared with local communities. While facing cost increases and tighter regulations later, France's nuclear model remains a valuable lesson for other nations, notably China.

(worksinprogress.co)

Tech France

Probability and Duality: From Coin Flips to High-Dimensional Geometry

2025-09-21

This article explores several seemingly unrelated probability problems, such as the probability of a path existing in a random graph and the probability that the convex hull of four points on the unit circle contains the origin, both surprisingly equal to 1/2. The author cleverly uses duality tricks and combinatorial arguments to reveal the deep connections behind these problems. By analyzing the number of cells cut out of a high-dimensional space by linear hyperplanes and studying the properties of random matrices, the author ultimately explains these probability results and poses several unsolved mathematical problems, prompting readers to ponder the curious relationship between probability, geometry, and duality.

(cgad.ski)

Misc duality

Tranquilizers and the Age of Anxiety: Capitalism's Drug Problem

2025-09-21

Tranquilizers and the Age of Anxiety: Capitalism's Drug Problem

This article explores the intricate relationship between drug consumption and modern capitalism. Through personal experience and historical review, the author traces the evolution of anti-anxiety medications, from Miltown in the 1950s to Klonopin today. These drugs, the author argues, are not simply treatments for anxiety, but also products of a capitalist society that generates widespread stress and precarity. The article posits that the pressures, instability, and uncertainty of modern life lead to pervasive anxiety and trauma, with drugs serving as a coping mechanism. The author's personal journey illustrates this, prompting reflection on the complex interplay between drug use and societal structures.

(lithub.com)

Misc History of Drugs Anxiety

Tiny C99 JSON Parser: Zero-Allocation, ~150 Lines

2025-09-21

Tiny C99 JSON Parser: Zero-Allocation, ~150 Lines

A minimal JSON parsing library written in C99, boasting only around 150 lines of code! It features zero-allocation for memory efficiency and a streamlined state. Error messages include precise line and column numbers. Number and string parsing are left to the user, allowing customization with functions like `strtod` and `atoi`. A simple example demonstrates loading a rectangle from a JSON string into a `Rect` struct. This project is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

(github.com)

Development zero-allocation

Google's PSP Encryption Protocol Lands in Linux 6.18

2025-09-21

Google's PSP Security Protocol, an in-transit encryption protocol for TCP network connections, is merging into the mainline Linux 6.18 kernel. After thirteen review rounds, this support for encrypting data in transit is slated for inclusion. Designed for simplicity and scalability compared to IPsec, Google's PSP is currently only implemented for Mellanox MLX5 NICs. While it supports various modes including tunneling, its primary focus is as a more efficient TLS replacement leveraging superior offload capabilities.

(www.phoronix.com)

Tech

The Xanadu Tragedy: An Epic of the Hypertext Dream

2025-09-21

The Xanadu Tragedy: An Epic of the Hypertext Dream

This article recounts how Vannevar Bush's Memex concept inspired two pioneers, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson, who respectively created the NLS and Xanadu systems, attempting to build an ideal internet based on hypertext. Engelbart's NLS demonstrated the potential of hypertext, but ultimately failed to gain widespread adoption due to technological limitations. Nelson's Xanadu was a grander vision, aiming to create a "docuverse" connecting all knowledge, but due to technical challenges, funding issues, and Nelson's personality, it ultimately failed to achieve its ambitious goals. The article explores missed opportunities in the development of the internet and the balance between technical and humanistic considerations, prompting reflections on the future form of the internet.

(www.astralcodexten.com)

Tech hypertext

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-09-21

arXivLabs is a framework that lets collaborators develop and share new arXiv features directly on the site. Individuals and organizations working with arXivLabs embrace our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners who share them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

A Dev's Week-Long Marketing Experiment: From Code to Social Media

2025-09-21

A Dev's Week-Long Marketing Experiment: From Code to Social Media

A developer of a fitness app, Lagree Buddy, challenged himself to focus solely on marketing for a week to promote his app. He tried various strategies, including social media posting, cold emailing fitness studios and trainers, and attending a class by Sebastian Lagree. While the numbers didn't immediately show improvement, he forged connections with Lagreeing at Home and Sebastian Lagree himself, gaining valuable feedback and laying the groundwork for future marketing efforts. The experiment revealed that marketing is far harder than he anticipated, but also opened doors that code alone couldn't.

(www.pixelpusher.club)

Startup app marketing social media marketing developer startup

Microsoft's DXGI Debugger: My Game Accidentally Made the Blacklist

2025-09-21

Microsoft's DXGI Debugger: My Game Accidentally Made the Blacklist

While porting Space Station 14 to ARM64 Windows, the developer encountered a bizarre crash. Debugging revealed the issue stemmed from a Microsoft DXGI optimization for windowed games, forcing "flip" mode, causing illegal instruction exceptions with GetDC() in specific circumstances (the game executable named SS14.Loader.exe). It turned out to be a bug in Microsoft's ARM64 DXGI optimization, enabled only for specific game names, and Space Station 14 was unfortunately on that list. The developer suspects this bug went unnoticed due to the limited number of native ARM64 Windows games. The issue has been reported to Microsoft, and ARM64 Windows support is temporarily postponed until the bug is fixed.

(slugcat.systems)

Development Windows Debugging

LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crusade: Collateral Damage on the Open Web

2025-09-21

LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crusade: Collateral Damage on the Open Web

LaLiga, Spain's top football league, is facing backlash for its aggressive anti-piracy tactics. Partnering with Telefónica, LaLiga uses a broad IP address blocking scheme, approved by Spanish courts, that has resulted in widespread outages for legitimate websites and services, including Amazon, Cloudflare, GitHub, and even Google Fonts. Despite claiming a massive increase in takedown notices, only 11% of targeted streams were actually taken offline. This heavy-handed approach has sparked legal challenges and criticism, yet LaLiga shows no signs of slowing down its controversial campaign.

(reclaimthenet.org)

Tech digital rights management internet freedom

Vec: A Blazing Fast, Leak-Safe Dynamic Array for C

2025-09-21

Vec: A Blazing Fast, Leak-Safe Dynamic Array for C

Vec is a generic, fast, and leak-safe dynamic array for C. It uses contiguous memory, grows geometrically (×2) for amortized O(1) push operations, and offers a method-style API for an object-oriented feel. The library prioritizes safety with overflow guards, bounds-checked accessors, and well-defined behavior for edge cases. Its design balances performance and safety, providing a clean and efficient interface.

(github.com)

Development

Oxford Falls Out of UK's Top 3 Universities

2025-09-21

Oxford Falls Out of UK's Top 3 Universities

In the 2026 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, Oxford University fell out of the top three UK universities for the first time, dropping to fourth place alongside Cambridge. Durham University claimed third place, while the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) retained its top spot for the second consecutive year. St Andrews University held second place. Durham's significant improvement in student teaching quality evaluations propelled its rise.

(hotminute.co.uk)

Misc University Rankings Oxford University Durham University

Touching Time: Stones, Wood, and the Enduring Power of Intention

2025-09-21

Touching Time: Stones, Wood, and the Enduring Power of Intention

The author's experiences living in Rome and Japan led him on a quest to understand what evokes a feeling of connection across time. Initially, he believed it was ancient stone structures, like Roman ruins. However, in Japan, he discovered that even repeatedly rebuilt wooden buildings, like Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), could inspire the same feeling. Ultimately, he realized it wasn't the materials themselves, but the enduring intention, tradition, and continued practice behind the structures—like the centuries-old fire watch patrol in a Tokyo neighborhood—that forms the crucial link to the past.

(aethermug.com)

Misc cultural experience sense of time traditional architecture

European Train Travel: 5-Hour Reach Map

2025-09-21

This map visualizes the area reachable within 5 hours from every major train station across Europe. Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru, it uses data sourced from the Deutsche Bahn website. Hover over a station to see its 5-hour isochrone. The map assumes 20-minute transfers and travel speeds slightly faster than walking, representing optimal travel times. Actual journeys might be longer due to real-world transfer times.

(old.chronotrains.com)

Misc european transport map visualization

Open Source Software Supply Chain Security: A Half-Century of Challenges

2025-09-21

From the 1974 Honeywell Multics system security review highlighting concerns about 'backdoors' to the 2024 XZ attack targeting Debian systems, open source software supply chain security remains a persistent problem. This article explores the complexity of the issue, extending beyond simple dependency graphs to encompass all stages of software building and distribution, including human factors. It proposes solutions such as software authentication, reproducible builds, rapid vulnerability detection and patching, and the use of safer programming languages. Crucially, it emphasizes the importance of funding open source development, as underfunding makes projects vulnerable to malicious takeover. The XZ attack serves as a stark warning: seemingly innocuous 'free help' can conceal significant risks.

(cacm.acm.org)

Development XZ attack

The Perils of Following Orders: A Programmer's Functional Programming Purgatory

2025-09-21

A programmer, after a coworker complains about their functional programming style, is banned from using it by their manager. To keep their job, they reluctantly rewrite a simple function to list coworkers, using imperative programming. Despite their best efforts to avoid functional paradigms, they struggle to fully comply, facing further challenges during code review and ultimately needing to seek guidance from their manager. This humorous anecdote highlights the absurdity of arbitrary technical decisions in the workplace.

(brianmckenna.org)

Development imperative programming

Bluefin LTS & GDX: The Reign of Achillobator Begins

2025-09-21

Bluefin LTS & GDX: The Reign of Achillobator Begins

After nine months, Bluefin LTS (Long Term Support) and Bluefin GDX (AI Workstation) are generally available. Bluefin LTS, built on CentOS Stream 10, offers a stable GNOME 48 desktop with long-term support and an optional Hardware Enablement branch (lts-hwe) for newer kernels. Bluefin GDX targets AI/ML professionals, integrating Nvidia drivers and CUDA, and collaborating with Red Hat on open-source AI/ML tools. Both boast improved installation and secure boot support, aiming for a stable, efficient desktop experience.

(docs.projectbluefin.io)

Development AI Workstation

PostgreSQL 18 Beta: UUIDv7 Makes Database Primary Keys Better

2025-09-21

PostgreSQL 18 Beta: UUIDv7 Makes Database Primary Keys Better

PostgreSQL 18 Beta is out, and its most anticipated feature is native support for UUIDv7. UUIDv7, a timestamp-based UUID variant, solves the sorting and index locality issues inherent in traditional UUIDs used as database primary keys. It offers a compelling combination of globally unique identifiers and temporal ordering, making it ideal for distributed databases needing high performance and scalability. Other performance improvements in PostgreSQL 18 include async I/O and index optimizations.

(www.thenile.dev)

Development

APL's Double-Efficiency Solid-State Refrigeration Breakthrough

2025-09-21

APL's Double-Efficiency Solid-State Refrigeration Breakthrough

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL have developed a new solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology using nano-engineered materials, boasting double the efficiency of commercially available bulk materials. This scalable technology, called CHESS, addresses the growing demand for energy-efficient cooling solutions. Tested in real-world refrigerators, CHESS demonstrated nearly a 75% efficiency improvement. Its minuscule material requirements allow for mass production using semiconductor chip manufacturing, driving down costs and paving the way for wider adoption, potentially extending from small-scale refrigeration to large-scale HVAC applications and beyond.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech Solid-State Cooling Nano-materials Thermoelectric

macOS APFS Disk Utility's Persistent Bug: A Workaround

2025-09-21

macOS APFS Disk Utility's Persistent Bug: A Workaround

macOS Monterey 12.0.1's Disk Utility continues to suffer from a long-standing bug: failure to unmount volumes or containers when repairing APFS disks. This article provides workarounds, including using Disk Utility in Recovery Mode or directly using the command-line tool `fsck_apfs` to check and repair APFS volumes and containers. The article details `fsck_apfs` usage, including check and repair options, and handling encrypted volumes.

(eclecticlight.co)

Development Disk Repair

Calibration: Fighting Oversimplification and Sparse Data

2025-09-21

Calibration: Fighting Oversimplification and Sparse Data

This paper addresses a common problem in model calibration: isotonic regression, due to the calibration dataset being much smaller than the original training set, oversimplifies the probability distribution, losing the model's fine-grained distinctions. The paper analyzes this 'data sparsity induced flattening' phenomenon and proposes several diagnostic methods to distinguish between justifiable simplification due to noise and oversimplification due to data limitations. Finally, it introduces the Calibre package, which, by relaxing isotonic constraints or using smooth monotone models, maintains calibration accuracy while preserving as much of the original model's discriminatory power as possible.

(www.gojiberries.io)

Development model calibration isotonic regression data sparsity

GlucoDataHandler: Cross-Platform Glucose Data Visualization App

2025-09-21

GlucoDataHandler: Cross-Platform Glucose Data Visualization App

GlucoDataHandler is an innovative Android app that gathers glucose data from various sources and displays it clearly on your Android smartphone, smartwatch (Wear OS, Mi Band, Amazfit), and in your car (via GlucoDataAuto). It supports multiple glucose monitoring devices and apps, including AndroidAPS, Juggluco, xDrip+, Eversense, and Dexcom, offering customizable alarms, widgets, and lockscreen display. Tasker integration and data forwarding are also supported. The app has benefited from contributions and support from various community members, making glucose management easier for diabetes patients.

(github.com)

Misc

DEA's New Covert Surveillance Tech: Credit Card Cameras

2025-09-21

DEA's New Covert Surveillance Tech: Credit Card Cameras

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is employing increasingly sophisticated surveillance techniques. Newly revealed procurement data shows the agency purchased 57 audio-video recording devices disguised as credit cards from Swiss company Nagra. These devices, boasting 16GB of storage, are part of a larger trend of the DEA utilizing covert technology, having previously hidden cameras in everyday objects such as streetlights and toolboxes. This latest acquisition underscores the DEA's commitment to advanced surveillance capabilities in its law enforcement operations.

(www.independent.co.uk)

Tech Surveillance Technology Covert Cameras

Gummy Bear Power Bank Conquers Ultralight Backpacking

2025-09-21

Gummy Bear Power Bank Conquers Ultralight Backpacking

A backpacker's quest for weight reduction led to the purchase of a Haribo gummy bear-shaped 20,000mAh power bank. Weighing in at a mere 9.9 ounces, this lightweight marvel is 0.4 ounces lighter than its predecessor, causing a stir in the ultralight backpacking community. In this niche where every ounce counts, this power bank's arrival is akin to discovering a Volkswagen Beetle outperforming a Tesla Cybertruck. Despite the inability to charge via its built-in gummy bear cable, its portability and playful design have won over many backpackers.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech ultralight backpacking

LLMs Fail Simple Task: Matching HTML5 Elements and TLDs

2025-09-21

LLMs Fail Simple Task: Matching HTML5 Elements and TLDs

The author tested three commercially available LLMs on a seemingly simple task: identifying which top-level domains (TLDs) share names with valid HTML5 elements. The results were disappointing, with all three models producing inaccurate or incomplete results, highlighting the limitations of current LLMs even on tasks requiring basic comparison skills. The accuracy, it seems, is heavily dependent on the user's familiarity with the subject matter.

(shkspr.mobi)

AI

BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme Shatters Production Car Speed Record

2025-09-21

BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme Shatters Production Car Speed Record

BYD's all-electric hypercar, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme, has officially become the world's fastest production car, achieving a staggering 308.4 mph at Germany's ATP Papenburg high-speed oval. This surpasses the previous record held by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+. Powered by four electric motors generating over 2,978 bhp and utilizing a 1,200V ultra-high voltage platform and BYD's Blade Battery technology, the U9 Xtreme boasts incredible performance. Only 30 will be produced globally, and the price is expected to significantly exceed the £200,000 price tag of the standard U9.

(www.topgear.com)

Tech

Disney Faces Lawsuit Over Steamboat Willie Copyright

2025-09-21

Disney Faces Lawsuit Over Steamboat Willie Copyright

Morgan & Morgan, a major US law firm, is suing Disney for the right to use images from Steamboat Willie in its commercials. They argue the copyright has expired, but fear a trademark infringement lawsuit from Disney, prompting them to seek a court ruling. Their proposed ad depicts Mickey's boat crashing into Minnie's car, leading her to contact the firm. Disney has yet to respond.

(apnews.com)

Misc trademark infringement

Newtonianism for Ladies: Science, Fashion, and a Dash of Controversy

2025-09-21

Algarotti's *Il Newtonianismo per le dame* uses a dialogue between a narrator and a Marchioness to explain Newtonian physics, cleverly blending scientific education with entertainment. Poems dedicated to prominent figures and a lighthearted approach to optics, rather than mechanics, characterize the text. While seemingly promoting female scientific literacy, the portrayal of the Marchioness's understanding sparks debate: some see her as a passive recipient of knowledge, while others highlight the book's depiction of a woman's curiosity about science alongside fashion.

(www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk)

Tech science popularization gender studies

The Slow Creep of Totalitarianism: How Germany Fell Silent

2025-09-21

This excerpt from Milton Mayer's *They Thought They Were Free* details the gradual descent of the German people into silence and complicity under the Nazi regime. A philologist recounts how the widening gap between government and people allowed the Nazis to implement their horrific policies incrementally. Each seemingly small step, disguised as an emergency measure or patriotic duty, eroded individual resistance. The author highlights the difficulty of predicting the consequences of inaction and the pervasive uncertainty that stifled dissent. Ultimately, the horrifying reality of the Nazi regime is revealed, but only after it was too late for many to act.

(press.uchicago.edu)

Misc political apathy historical reflection

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