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PixiEditor 2.0: A Universal 2D Editor, Free and Open Source

2025-08-03

PixiEditor 2.0: A Universal 2D Editor, Free and Open Source

PixiEditor 2.0 transcends its pixel-art roots, evolving into a powerful universal 2D editor supporting raster, vector, animation, and procedural effects. Its core is a configurable render pipeline and node graph, giving unprecedented control and enabling the creation of even 3D texturing workspaces. The software remains free and open-source, sustained by paid extensions and asset packs. Version 2.0 introduces frame-by-frame animation, vector editing tools, and various workspaces like a card builder and 3D cube texturing tool, along with multiple palettes. While hardware requirements are slightly higher, the developers are committed to improving support for a wider range of configurations.

(pixieditor.net)

Development 2D Editor

Seed7: An Extensible General-Purpose Programming Language

2025-08-03

Seed7 is a general-purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes, surpassing Ada, C/C++, and Java in its high-level features. It supports user-defined statements and operators, treats types as first-class citizens, and offers elegant template and generic definitions. Combining concepts from Pascal, Ada, C, C++, and Java, Seed7 boasts object-oriented features, interfaces, multiple dispatch, static type checking, automatic memory management (without garbage collection), exception handling, and source code debugging. It provides big integer and rational number types, function/operator overloading, and a rich set of predefined types (arrays, hash tables, sets, etc.). Seed7 programs are highly portable, and it offers a database-independent API supporting various databases. Seed7 runs on Linux, Unix, and Windows; its interpreter and examples are GPL-licensed, while the runtime library uses the LGPL license.

(seed7.net)

Development

Figma's IPO: A Win for Antitrust or Just Great Product?

2025-08-03

Figma's IPO: A Win for Antitrust or Just Great Product?

Figma's successful IPO is being celebrated by Lina Khan, former FTC chair, as a validation of her antitrust stance. Khan's previous blocking of Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma sparked controversy in the tech industry. She argues that preventing Big Tech from acquiring startups fosters innovation and competition, ultimately benefiting employees, investors, and the public. However, critics counter that Figma's success is due to its inherent strengths, not regulatory scrutiny. The debate highlights the complex interplay between tech mergers and antitrust regulation.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech

Micron Unveils Trio of SSDs Targeting Diverse Markets

2025-08-03

Micron Unveils Trio of SSDs Targeting Diverse Markets

Micron announced three new SSDs aimed at different markets: the 9650 (PCIe Gen 6, TLC flash, focusing on speed), the 6600 ION (PCIe Gen 5, QLC flash, emphasizing high capacity up to 122.88TB), and the 7600 (PCIe Gen 5, TLC flash, prioritizing low latency). All three leverage Micron's latest Gen 9 276-layer 3D NAND, along with its own DRAM, NAND controller, and firmware. The 9650 boasts significantly improved performance thanks to its PCIe Gen 6 interface, while the 6600 ION caters to massive data storage needs with its enormous capacity, and the 7600 excels in low latency, ideal for AI and similar applications.

(blocksandfiles.com)

Hardware

Generating UML Diagrams at Compile Time with C++26 Reflections

2025-08-03

This article demonstrates how to leverage the new reflection features in C++26 to generate PlantUML class diagrams at compile time. The author cleverly combines `std::meta::info`, the `lift` and `splice` operators, and `std::define_static_string` to automatically extract class information from the code and generate a UML diagram. The process also discusses the use of `std::meta::access_context` and how to handle different types of reflection information, ultimately outputting the generated UML code at runtime. This showcases the power of C++26 reflections, offering new possibilities for code analysis and visualization.

(www.reachablecode.com)

Development Reflections

Helsinki Achieves Remarkable Year: Zero Traffic Fatalities

2025-08-03

Helsinki Achieves Remarkable Year: Zero Traffic Fatalities

Helsinki has achieved a remarkable feat: a full year with zero traffic fatalities. This is attributed to long-term urban planning, reduced speed limits (over half the streets have a 30 km/h limit), improved road design prioritizing pedestrian safety, enhanced enforcement, and better public transportation. While e-scooters present a new challenge, Helsinki is addressing this through regulatory adjustments and improved signage. This success is a culmination of decades of sustained effort, offering valuable insights for the EU's Vision Zero 2050 goal.

(www.helsinkitimes.fi)

Tech speed limits

IOCCC 28: 23 Mind-Bending Winners!

2025-08-03

After a four-year hiatus, the 28th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) is back with a bang! This year saw a record-breaking number of high-quality submissions, resulting in 23 winners—a new record. The winning entries showcased incredible creativity, including a tiny LLM inference engine, a quirky UTF-8 editor, and even a program emulating the Intel 4004 processor. The contest highlighted the remarkable skill of C programmers in the art of code obfuscation.

(www.ioccc.org)

Development

TELO MT1: A Safe Electric Vehicle with 350-Mile Range

2025-08-02

TELO MT1: A Safe Electric Vehicle with 350-Mile Range

The TELO MT1 electric vehicle is making waves in the EV market with its innovative safety technology and impressive range. It utilizes advanced sensors to predict and classify collisions before they occur, coupled with airbags and advanced structural technology for maximum safety. Further enhancing its appeal is a 350-mile range, a 106 kWh battery, and a 20-minute (20-80%) fast-charging capability all packed into a subcompact footprint.

(www.telotrucks.com)

Tech safety technology

Compressing Icelandic Name Declension into a 3.27kB Trie

2025-08-02

Compressing Icelandic Name Declension into a 3.27kB Trie

Displaying Icelandic names in UIs is tricky due to declension. This article details a JavaScript library that solves this by using a trie data structure. The trie is built from public Icelandic name data and cleverly compressed to under 4.5kB gzipped. The author explains the process, from data acquisition and preprocessing to trie construction and compression techniques like merging subtrees and sibling leaves. Testing reveals high accuracy even for unseen names. The final result is a remarkably compact 3.27kB trie, showcasing efficient data representation and algorithmic optimization.

(alexharri.com)

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Software Internals Email Book Club: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

2025-08-02

The Software Internals Email Book Club is starting a new book: "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming", 2nd edition (2020). Discussions will happen weekly via a Google Group, with each member taking turns starting a discussion thread. Participants should read a chapter before its discussion date and share personal insights and experiences. No video calls; communication is purely text-based via email. Sign up via the provided form.

(eatonphil.com)

Development book club software internals

OpenAI's Study Mode: A Sugar-Coated Approach to AI Education?

2025-08-02

OpenAI's Study Mode: A Sugar-Coated Approach to AI Education?

OpenAI's newly released "Study Mode" aims to assist learning by guiding users through interactive questioning and positive feedback, rather than providing direct answers. The author questions the effectiveness of this approach, arguing it may excessively cater to students, leading to reliance on AI instead of independent thought. Through experiments with various AI models, the author demonstrates that "Study Mode" encourages excessive praise and user-pleasing behavior, potentially negatively impacting learning and posing risks to vulnerable students. While acknowledging some benefits, the author emphasizes the potential of AI as a research tool over its over-reliance as an educational tool.

(resobscura.substack.com)

AI

Palo Alto Networks Acquires CyberArk for $25 Billion, Expanding into Identity Security

2025-08-02

Palo Alto Networks Acquires CyberArk for $25 Billion, Expanding into Identity Security

Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced a $25 billion acquisition of identity management and security company CyberArk, marking its entry into the identity security market. The deal, a combination of cash and stock, is Palo Alto's largest acquisition to date and follows a string of purchases since Nikesh Arora became CEO in 2018. This acquisition, exceeding $7 billion in total acquisitions under Arora's leadership, solidifies Palo Alto's position as a major player in the cybersecurity landscape.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech identity security

Tesla Found Liable in Autopilot Crash: $243M Verdict Sends Shockwaves

2025-08-02

Tesla Found Liable in Autopilot Crash: $243M Verdict Sends Shockwaves

A Miami jury found Tesla partially liable for a 2019 fatal crash involving Autopilot, awarding $243 million in damages. The jury assigned one-third responsibility to Tesla and two-thirds to the driver, who was reportedly distracted. Tesla plans to appeal, arguing the driver's negligence was the sole cause. This marks the first time Tesla has been held liable for an Autopilot-related fatality, raising concerns about the safety and marketing of autonomous driving technologies.

(www.wired.com)

Tech

EU Regulations to End Android's Openness?

2025-08-02

EU Regulations to End Android's Openness?

The European Union's Radio Equipment Directive (RED) will take effect on August 1, 2025, with cybersecurity requirements significantly impacting the openness of Android smartphones. The directive mandates manufacturers to block unauthorized software installation, use Secure Boot to verify firmware authenticity, and ensure only signed ROMs can run. This means features like bootloader unlocking will disappear, reducing user and enterprise software control, making Android devices in Europe more iOS-like. Samsung has preemptively removed bootloader unlocking in its OneUI 8 update, and other manufacturers like Xiaomi and Google will have to follow suit to comply. This change enhances security but marks the end of an era of open Android customization.

(xiaomitime.com)

Tech

Children Could Hold the Key to an HIV Cure

2025-08-02

Children Could Hold the Key to an HIV Cure

Research suggests children's immune systems may be more effective at suppressing HIV than adults'. Some HIV-infected children, after early antiretroviral therapy, maintain undetectable viral loads for months or even years after stopping medication. This offers new hope for an HIV cure, with researchers believing children could be the breakthrough point in HIV cure research.

(www.wired.com)

Tech children's immune system viral suppression

Microsoft's Phased Open-Sourcing of WinUI: A Six-Month Roadmap

2025-08-02

Microsoft's Phased Open-Sourcing of WinUI: A Six-Month Roadmap

Microsoft announced a phased approach to open-sourcing WinUI, the user interface framework for Windows 11. Due to WinUI's complexity and deep integration with Windows, open-sourcing won't be a simple switch flip. Microsoft plans a four-phase rollout: Phase 1 increases GitHub mirroring frequency; Phase 2 allows external developers to build locally; Phase 3 enables external contributions and testing; and Phase 4 establishes GitHub as the primary development platform. This will be an incremental process, and Microsoft encourages developer feedback and contributions.

(www.neowin.net)

Development

The Bitter Lesson: A Paradox in AI Development

2025-08-02

The Bitter Lesson: A Paradox in AI Development

Rich Sutton's "bitter lesson" posits that general methods leveraging computation are ultimately the most effective. This article explores this idea's manifestation in fields like Go, chess, speech recognition, and computer vision, and its challenges in enterprise applications. While massive computation yields breakthroughs in some areas, the article highlights limitations in data quality and clearly defined objectives, arguing that efficient specialized models sometimes outperform general-purpose ones, and that computational resources aren't always the optimal solution.

(www.dbreunig.com)

AI

The 'Source of Truth' Illusion in Product Development

2025-08-02

The 'Source of Truth' Illusion in Product Development

The common 'single source of truth' problem in product development often misses the mark. It assumes everyone wants the truth, agrees on what that truth is, and is willing to work towards coherence. This article uses the example of a team juggling initiatives, releases, launches, epics, and various allocation frameworks to illustrate the inherent complexity. Forcing standardization hinders efficiency, while embracing full complexity leads to cognitive overload. The key is finding a balance, acknowledging the nuances, and avoiding the suppression of reality to achieve better operational effectiveness. The author questions how organizational tools and systems reflect power dynamics and whose preferences dominate.

(cutlefish.substack.com)

Development source of truth

Visionary Artist Robert Wilson Dies at 83

2025-08-02

Visionary Artist Robert Wilson Dies at 83

Robert Wilson, a groundbreaking artist celebrated for his highly visual and stylized theatrical productions, passed away at 83. His death, following a brief illness, was announced by the Watermill Center, the arts organization he founded. Wilson's work, ranging from the iconic opera 'Einstein on the Beach' with Philip Glass to collaborations with Marina Abramović, defied traditional theatrical norms, blending music, dance, and visual art into epic, often lengthy performances. A prolific visual artist in his own right, Wilson's paintings, sculptures, and installations graced museums worldwide. His legacy extends beyond his artistic creations to the Watermill Center, a vital hub for the arts he established. Wilson's innovative approach to stagecraft and visual storytelling will continue to inspire future generations.

(www.theartnewspaper.com)

Art Visual Arts

Ladybird July Update: HTTP/3, High Refresh Rate Support, and More

2025-08-02

Ladybird July Update: HTTP/3, High Refresh Rate Support, and More

The Ladybird open-source browser engine made significant strides in July, merging 319 pull requests from 47 contributors. Highlights include: HTTP/3 support, improved rendering performance on high refresh rate screens, a fix for Google reCAPTCHA compatibility, and added support for Trusted Types, improved SVG foreignObject handling, and numerous CSS enhancements such as `content: url(...)`, new pseudo-classes, and logical property groups. Internal improvements include switching to native UTF-16 strings for increased efficiency and fewer encoding-related bugs.

(ladybird.org)

Development

Verizon's Sneaky Price Hike: Exploiting the Three-Year Price Lock

2025-08-02

Verizon's Sneaky Price Hike: Exploiting the Three-Year Price Lock

Verizon announced a three-year price lock in April, but now confirms it's raising prices through fee adjustments. While claiming most customers will see less than a 30-cent increase, Verizon plans to hike several fees, including its Administrative and Telco Recovery Charge, Regulatory Charge, device activation fee, and tablet data plans. These changes, potentially effective September 1st, exploit loopholes in the price lock, which only applies to newer myPlan subscriptions and allows for fee increases. The move has drawn criticism from customers.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech price hike price lock

Google Backtracks: goo.gl Short Links Get a Reprieve

2025-08-02

Google Backtracks: goo.gl Short Links Get a Reprieve

Google has reversed course on its plan to shut down all goo.gl short links on August 25, 2025. Following significant pushback from users and developers who rely on these links, Google will now only disable inactive links—those with no activity since late 2024. Active links will continue to function, preventing a widespread internet-breaking event.

(nerds.xyz)

Tech short links

Cook: AI Won't Kill the iPhone (Yet)

2025-08-02

Cook: AI Won't Kill the iPhone (Yet)

Apple CEO Tim Cook downplayed concerns that AI advancements will dethrone the iPhone. During an earnings call, he highlighted the iPhone's versatility—from communication and entertainment to photography and financial management—arguing its multifaceted utility makes it difficult to replace. While acknowledging Apple is exploring other technologies, Cook suggested future devices would be complementary, not replacements. However, Apple's slower AI rollout has analysts divided on its competitive edge. Some believe Apple's focus on quality over speed, coupled with increased R&D investment in AI, could maintain its premium market dominance.

(www.businessinsider.com)

Tech

India's University Ranking System to Penalize Retracted Papers

2025-08-02

India's University Ranking System to Penalize Retracted Papers

India's national university ranking system will for the first time penalize institutions for a significant number of retracted papers published by their researchers. This move aims to address the country's rising number of retractions due to misconduct. While some retractions correct honest mistakes, India's retraction rate, second only to China and the US, largely stems from misconduct or research integrity concerns. The new policy will penalize universities based on the number of retractions in Scopus and Web of Science databases over the past three years. While intended to deter misconduct, its effectiveness is debated. Some researchers worry that simply adjusting ranking mechanisms won't address underlying issues like incentives for high publication counts at the cost of quality.

(www.nature.com)

Tech research misconduct university ranking

Amazon Bets on Alexa+ Ads: A New Frontier in AI Conversation?

2025-08-02

Amazon Bets on Alexa+ Ads: A New Frontier in AI Conversation?

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed plans to incorporate ads into conversations with Alexa+, its AI-powered digital assistant, during the company's second-quarter earnings call. This move aims to boost product discovery and revenue. Alexa+ is Amazon's response to generative AI assistants from OpenAI, Google, and others, but its business model remains unclear. While Alexa+ has reached millions of users, its rollout has been slower than anticipated. Amazon's substantial AI R&D investment (90% capital expenditure increase in Q2), coupled with 22% ad revenue growth, necessitates exploring new revenue streams. However, challenges remain, including AI hallucinations and user privacy concerns.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech

Atlassian's Cold Goodbye: 150 Jobs Cut, AI in the Spotlight

2025-08-02

Atlassian's Cold Goodbye: 150 Jobs Cut, AI in the Spotlight

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes delivered a cold, impersonal video message announcing the redundancy of 150 employees. The abrupt announcement, lacking empathy, contrasted sharply with Atlassian's professed culture of transparency. While the company claims the cuts aren't directly due to AI replacement, but rather a shift in customer service needs following a cloud migration, the timing coincides with the company's AI integration into its customer support systems. The layoffs, primarily affecting European staff, sparked criticism, particularly when compared to the more empathetic approach former co-CEO Scott Farquhar, who has championed AI adoption in Australia, might have taken. This event highlights the challenging realities of workforce restructuring in the age of AI, mirroring similar job cuts at Commonwealth Bank due to AI implementation.

(www.cyberdaily.au)

Tech

Airportr's Security Flaw Exposes Diplomatic Travel Data

2025-08-02

Airportr's Security Flaw Exposes Diplomatic Travel Data

A UK-based luggage service, Airportr, suffered a major security breach exposing the personal data of thousands of users, including government officials and diplomats. Cybersecurity researchers at CyberX9 discovered simple vulnerabilities allowing access to user information such as travel plans, and even administrator privileges to control luggage. While Airportr swiftly patched the vulnerabilities, researchers warn that other hackers might have already accessed the data. The breach highlights significant security flaws and underscores the need for robust data protection measures across all industries.

(www.wired.com)

Tech

Aurora Expands Autonomous Trucking Ops, Surpasses 20,000 Driverless Miles

2025-08-02

Aurora Expands Autonomous Trucking Ops, Surpasses 20,000 Driverless Miles

Autonomous trucking technology company Aurora announced an expansion of its commercial operations, including growing its driverless fleet to three trucks and surpassing 20,000 driverless miles by the end of June. They also opened a new terminal in Phoenix and expanded to nighttime driverless operations on its Dallas-to-Houston route, significantly boosting efficiency and shortening delivery times. Aurora's L4 autonomous driving system, the Aurora Driver, leverages advanced lidar technology to detect obstacles earlier in the dark, improving safety. This expansion includes partnerships with two customers to pilot autonomous trucking routes from Dallas to Houston and Fort Worth to Phoenix, aiming to transform the trillion-dollar trucking industry.

(www.freightwaves.com)

Tech

Peak Energy Deploys First US Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery

2025-08-02

Peak Energy Deploys First US Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery

New York-based Peak Energy has shipped its first sodium-ion battery energy storage system, marking a threefold achievement: the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery system; the world's largest sodium-ion phosphate pyrophosphate (NFPP) battery system; and the first megawatt-hour scale system using passive cooling. This innovative design eliminates fire risks associated with active cooling systems, resulting in lower operational costs and improved reliability. The company projects shipping hundreds of megawatt-hours of its system within the next two years and is building its first US cell factory, slated for 2026 production.

(electrek.co)

Tech

TraceRoot: 10x Faster Production Debugging with AI

2025-08-02

TraceRoot: 10x Faster Production Debugging with AI

TraceRoot is an open-source debugging platform that accelerates production issue resolution by 10x. It combines structured traces, logs, and source code context with AI-powered analysis. Built on a multi-agent system framework, it enables real-time tracing and logging, leverages structured data to enhance AI agent performance, and integrates with tools like GitHub and Notion. A cursor-like interface allows developers to select logs and traces for AI-assisted analysis. Deployable via cloud (free trial available) or self-hosting.

(github.com)

Development open-source debugging

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