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JobHuntr: Automate Your LinkedIn Job Applications with AI

2025-03-29

JobHuntr: Automate Your LinkedIn Job Applications with AI

JobHuntr.fyi is a macOS desktop app leveraging Ollama-powered AI to automatically apply for jobs on LinkedIn, 24/7, without needing an OpenAI API key. It targets jobs with the "Easy Apply" option (around 70% of listings), handling up to 25 applications daily. The AI intelligently fills out applications based on your resume and FAQ, carefully verifying information. Uncertain questions are saved to your FAQ and applications are skipped. Designed to mimic human behavior and using your IP address, it minimizes the risk of LinkedIn detecting automation.

(github.com)

Development Job Applications

Building a Cross-Platform Encrypted Search Engine: Tackling Browser Storage

2025-03-29

This article tackles the initial hurdle in building a cross-platform encrypted search engine: secure and efficient browser-side data storage. The author compares LocalStorage, IndexedDB, and the FileSystem API, ultimately choosing the FileSystem API for its file-system-like interface, better performance, and consistency with other platforms. The article details using Rust and web-sys to interact with the FileSystem API and implements an AES-GCM encryption layer for security. Finally, a unified `File` trait is created for managing both encrypted and unencrypted files.

(jdrouet.github.io)

Development encrypted storage

Chipmakers Slow Expansions in Japan and Malaysia Amid Weak Demand and Tariff Uncertainty

2025-03-29

Chipmakers Slow Expansions in Japan and Malaysia Amid Weak Demand and Tariff Uncertainty

Leading chipmakers and packagers, including TSMC and Intel, are slowing their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to sluggish demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties. Companies like ASE Technology and SPIL are also scaling back Malaysian expansion plans, adopting a 'wait-and-see' approach alongside numerous other chip suppliers.

(asia.nikkei.com)

Tech chip industry investment slowdown global economy

Ratomic: Mutable Data Structures for Ruby Ractors

2025-03-26

Ratomic: Mutable Data Structures for Ruby Ractors

Ratomic provides mutable data structures for Ruby's Ractors, allowing Ruby code to scale beyond the Global VM Lock (GVL). This early-stage project seeks contributors with Rust and Ruby C extension experience. Ratomic offers Ractor-safe structures like counters, object pools, maps, and queues, designed as class-level constants for sharing among multiple Ractors. The project is licensed under MIT.

(github.com)

Development

Chimpanzees Exhibit Engineering Skills in Tool Making

2025-03-29

A new study reveals that chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park exhibit engineering skills when crafting termite-fishing tools. Researchers found that chimpanzees selectively choose plants, favoring more flexible materials over stiffer alternatives. The preferred plants were 175% more flexible than those not used. This suggests chimpanzees possess a form of 'folk physics,' understanding material properties to optimize tool effectiveness. The findings offer crucial insights into the evolution of human tool use and provide a novel perspective on early human technology.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech Chimpanzees Tool Making

Microsoft Kills Windows 11 Offline Installation Bypass

2025-03-29

Microsoft Kills Windows 11 Offline Installation Bypass

Microsoft is tightening its grip on Windows 11's internet-connected account requirement. The latest Insider Preview removes the bypassnro command, previously used to circumvent the need for internet connection and Microsoft account login during setup. Microsoft cites security improvements as the reason. While registry edits currently offer a workaround, this too may be patched soon. This move aligns with Microsoft's push to upgrade users to Windows 11 and phase out Windows 10, highlighting a focus on security and a specific vision for user experience.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech Microsoft Account System Security

Digital Echoes: The Unseen Costs of Constant Connectivity

2025-03-28

Digital Echoes: The Unseen Costs of Constant Connectivity

This essay explores the hidden psychological toll of our hyper-connected digital lives, focusing on the concept of "digital echoes." The author argues that the constant data collection by smart devices creates a pervasive sense of being monitored, transforming us into performers rather than participants in our own lives. Using smartphones and smart cars as contrasting examples, the piece highlights the difference in data generation and privacy implications. It advocates for a more mindful approach to technology, emphasizing single-function devices and analog alternatives to mitigate the negative effects of constant surveillance. The author concludes that future technological advancements should prioritize user privacy and focused experiences over ubiquitous connectivity and multitasking.

(www.chrbutler.com)

Tech

UK Gov's AI Talent Crisis: Lack of Tech Skills & Broken Hiring Processes

2025-03-28

UK Gov's AI Talent Crisis: Lack of Tech Skills & Broken Hiring Processes

A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office revealed a critical shortage of tech talent within government data departments. Laura Gilbert testified that many government officials in data roles lack the technical skills needed, making it difficult for them to find similar jobs in the private sector. While pockets of excellence exist within the Government Digital Service (GDS), the overall skill level is inconsistent, and hiring processes fail to effectively identify truly skilled candidates. Despite a government initiative, the "Blueprint for Modern Digital Government," promising significant investment in AI talent development and technology upgrades, Gilbert highlighted the need for long-term commitment to data integration, citing the poor track record of past projects. A parliamentary report further underscored the problem, revealing that outdated IT systems hinder AI adoption and funding allocation remains an issue. This highlights the immense challenges the UK government faces in its digital transformation journey.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech Government Digital Transformation AI Talent Skills Gap

Cursor: AI Code Editor – Hype vs. Reality

2025-03-29

Cursor: AI Code Editor – Hype vs. Reality

A Dolt Database developer tested the AI code editor Cursor to see if it lives up to the hype of 10x productivity. Initial attempts using Cursor on a large codebase were underwhelming, with debugging proving cumbersome. However, when creating a new project, Cursor excelled, generating a Factorio mod in a few hours. In a work project, Cursor efficiently generated basic functionality but required significant refactoring. The author concludes Cursor delivered around a 50% productivity boost, far short of the claimed 10x, citing limitations in handling complex code and understanding existing codebases.

(www.dolthub.com)

Development

Postgres Language Server: A Powerful SQL Toolchain for Developers

2025-03-29

Postgres Language Server: A Powerful SQL Toolchain for Developers

This project offers a comprehensive toolchain for Postgres development, built upon Postgres' own parser (libpg_query) for guaranteed 100% syntax compatibility. Employing a server-client architecture with transport-agnostic design, it provides access via LSP, CLI, HTTP APIs, and WebAssembly. Current features include autocompletion, syntax highlighting, type checking (using EXPLAIN insights), and a linter. Future development focuses on enhancing these core features and building a robust infrastructure. Contributions are welcome!

(github.com)

Development Developer tools

Three Bypasses of Ubuntu's Unprivileged User Namespace Restrictions

2025-03-29

Three Bypasses of Ubuntu's Unprivileged User Namespace Restrictions

Qualys Security Advisory details three bypasses discovered in Ubuntu 24.04's unprivileged user namespace restrictions. Attackers can leverage default tools like aa-exec and busybox, or use LD_PRELOAD to gain administrator privileges within a namespace, circumventing security measures. These exploits take advantage of AppArmor profiles that allow creating namespaces with full capabilities, potentially enabling exploitation of kernel vulnerabilities requiring privileges like CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_NET_ADMIN.

(seclists.org)

Development User Namespace

OpenWrt "Two" Crowdfunding Campaign Approved

2025-03-29

GL.iNet's crowdfunding campaign for OpenWrt "Two", a next-generation router, has been successfully approved by the community. Featuring the MT7988 chip, 10G SFP, 5G copper, 2.5G copper ports, and tri-band Wi-Fi 7, "Two" is expected to retail around $250, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the OpenWrt project. Availability is anticipated in late 2025.

(openwrt.org)

Hardware

Raspberry Pi Stratum 1 PTP & NTP Timeserver: The Time Pi Project

2025-03-28

An open-source project, Time Pi, builds a stratum 1 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP) timeserver using a Raspberry Pi 5. Leveraging the TimeHAT add-on board with an Intel i226 2.5Gbps NIC and supporting hardware timestamping, Time Pi achieves high-precision time synchronization, further enhanced by an optional M.2 GPS module. While encountering driver issues with the Intel i226 NIC, the project successfully utilizes Ansible to configure Chrony, NTP, and PTP software, running stably for months. Future plans include outdoor GPS antenna installation, cross-device PTP synchronization testing, and collaboration with Masterclock for advanced time synchronization solutions.

(www.jeffgeerling.com)

Hardware Timeserver

Stolen Van Dyck Portrait Recovered After 73 Years

2025-03-29

In July 1951, Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. This grisaille, one of thirty-seven oil sketches from van Dyck's Iconography series, embarked on a 73-year journey through the hands of experts, auctioneers, and collectors, spanning continents. A meticulous investigation, involving archival research and international collaboration, ultimately led to its return to Boughton House in 2024, revealing a captivating tale of theft, intrigue, and the persistent pursuit of justice.

(britishartjournal.co.uk)

Misc art theft Anthony van Dyck Boughton House

The Regret of ChatGPT's Godfather: Has the Democratization of AI Failed?

2025-03-29

The Regret of ChatGPT's Godfather: Has the Democratization of AI Failed?

In 2017, Jeremy Howard's breakthrough in natural language processing laid the groundwork for tools like ChatGPT. He achieved a leap in AI's text comprehension by training a large language model to predict Wikipedia text. However, this technology fell under the control of a few large tech companies, leading Howard to worry about the failure of AI democratization. He and his wife, Rachel Thomas, gave up high-paying jobs to found fast.ai, dedicated to popularizing machine learning knowledge. Yet, they watched as AI technology became monopolized by a few corporations, becoming a tool for capital competition, leaving him deeply frustrated and anxious.

(www.abc.net.au)

AI Tech Democratization

SignalBot: Security, Features, and Free Use

2025-03-28

SignalBot, a free Signal-based notification bot, employs strong security measures and doesn't store messages or metadata; however, sensitive data usage is discouraged. It offers a generic webhook API supporting plain text and emojis (with Markdown support coming soon) for individual or group notifications. Need custom notification formats or specific integrations? Contact the developer!

(signalbot.one)

Development notification bot

FreeBSD Foundation Provides Framework Laptops for Improved User Experience

2025-03-28

The FreeBSD Foundation provided Framework laptops to developers to enhance the FreeBSD experience on laptops. A developer documented their journey installing and configuring FreeBSD 14.2, including OS installation, graphics driver setup, and challenges encountered such as bezel installation and Wayland desktop compatibility issues. While running KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland presented hurdles, this provides valuable insights for improving FreeBSD's desktop experience.

(euroquis.nl)

Development

Command-line ASCII Art to SVG Logo Generator

2025-03-28

The `ascii-logo-generator` is a command-line tool that creates ASCII art text and converts it into SVG logos. Users can customize fonts, colors, dimensions, and save the output as text or SVG files. It's particularly useful for generating logos for laser cutting. The project is open-source and includes a web-based SVG viewer for testing.

(github.com)

Development

Playstacean: A Crab-Themed PSOne Mod Takes Meme to Reality

2025-03-29

Playstacean: A Crab-Themed PSOne Mod Takes Meme to Reality

YouTuber GingerOfOz brought the meme-ified 'Playstacean' to life, a crab-shaped PlayStation One mod based on concept art by Anh Dang. This isn't just a reskin; it features functional crab claw controllers and intricate internal modifications. The build involved 3D printing, controller port adjustments, and wiring challenges. While GingerOfOz isn't releasing the design files yet, this unique creation will be showcased at the Midwest Gaming Classic.

(gizmodo.com)

Game console mod

Rubik's Cube Solutions and the Math Behind It: A Programmer's Perspective

2025-03-29

This article details a programmer's long journey with Rubik's Cubes and other puzzles. It features personal solving methods, deep dives into the underlying group theory, and a collection of various cubes and puzzles. The author explains Rubik's Cube solutions step-by-step, while delving into the mathematical concepts behind it, including group theory, commutators, and conjugates, drawing parallels with physics (quark theory). Anecdotes and historical notes on Rubik's Cubes complete the story.

(williambader.com)

Game Rubik's Cube Puzzles

Self-Hosting a Nearly Free, Open Source TURN Server on Oracle Cloud

2025-03-28

Self-Hosting a Nearly Free, Open Source TURN Server on Oracle Cloud

This guide details setting up a nearly free, open-source TURN server on Oracle Cloud's free tier, offering an alternative to WebRTC implementations relying on third-party services. It walks through creating subnets, security lists, instance configurations, installing Nginx, Certbot, a PeerJS server, and a Coturn server. The guide covers configuring iptables rules and using coturn-credential-api for authentication, providing complete control over WebRTC communication and enhancing privacy and security by avoiding reliance on Google or other large providers.

(github.com)

Development TURN server Oracle Cloud

Krisp Server SDK: Tackling Turn-Taking Challenges in AI Voice Agents

2025-03-29

Krisp Server SDK: Tackling Turn-Taking Challenges in AI Voice Agents

Smooth conversations in AI voice agents are often hampered by background noise. Krisp's new server-side SDK features two advanced AI models, BVC-tel and BVC-app, effectively removing background noise and extraneous voices, improving speech recognition accuracy and naturalness. Tests show Krisp BVC reduces VAD false positives by 3.5x and improves Whisper speech recognition accuracy by over 2x. Supporting various platforms and audio sampling rates, the SDK offers a robust solution for more natural AI voice interactions.

(krisp.ai)

AI AI voice agents

RTABench: A New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Applications

2025-03-29

RTABench: A New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Applications

Traditional analytics benchmarks often overlook the needs of real-time applications, such as generating fast, targeted insights for specific users, devices, or transactions. RTABench addresses this gap by providing a benchmark that accurately reflects real-time analytics within applications, using a normalized schema, realistic dataset sizes, and queries that match real-world usage patterns. It includes 33 queries covering raw event queries, selective filtering, multi-table joins, and pre-aggregated queries to assess database performance on normalized schemas, selective filtering, and incremental materialized views. RTABench supports multiple databases and welcomes community contributions to expand its database support and optimizations.

(github.com)

Development real-time analytics database benchmark

Atomized Living: The Secret to Happiness is Integration

2025-03-29

This article explores the negative effects of "atomized living," where different aspects of life (fitness, eating, socializing, etc.) are separated, leading to loneliness and overwhelm. The author distinguishes between two types of fun: immediate fun and retrospective fun, noting that an overemphasis on immediate fun (like video games) can lead to dissatisfaction. The author suggests reintegrating life's aspects, incorporating fitness into social activities, transforming meals into shared time with friends and family, for richer experiences and lasting happiness.

(www.nateliason.com)

Misc atomization

Half of US Drinking Water Contaminated with 'Forever Chemicals'

2025-03-28

Half of US Drinking Water Contaminated with 'Forever Chemicals'

The EPA's latest data reveals that nearly half of Americans have drinking water contaminated with PFAS, also known as 'forever chemicals'. These compounds, found in numerous products, persist in the environment and are linked to serious health issues like cancer and immune deficiencies. While the EPA has implemented regulations, millions remain at risk, highlighting the urgent need for widespread testing and remediation efforts.

(www.scientificamerican.com)

Tech drinking water safety

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-03-28

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations partnering with arXivLabs uphold 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 valuable community project? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

PCIe Endpoint on Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs: Open-Source Implementation

2025-03-29

PCIe Endpoint on Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs: Open-Source Implementation

This project implements a PCIe endpoint on Xilinx 7-series FPGAs using the PCIE_2_1 hard block and GTP transceivers. It avoids proprietary Vivado IP cores and is compatible with openXC7. The design includes clock generation, GTP transceivers, and the PCIE_2_1 hard block, supporting PCIe Gen1 x1 and Gen2 x1. It's been tested on Alinx AC7100B SoM and Wavelet uSDR. Docker build and run scripts are provided, along with MSI interrupt and kernel driver support. This project is funded by NGI0 Entrust.

(github.com)

Hardware

Krisp Transforms Call Center Operations for The Office Gurus

2025-03-29

Krisp Transforms Call Center Operations for The Office Gurus

Jordan Gluck, VP at The Office Gurus, praises Krisp's noise cancellation technology as a game-changer. Krisp eliminated noise complaints, dramatically improved customer experience, and resulted in exceptional CSAT scores. The platform's strong security further solidified their trust. With Krisp, agents consistently provide clear calls, making it integral to their success.

(krisp.ai)

Misc customer satisfaction call center

The Mystery of the Passive USB-to-PS/2 Mouse Adapter

2025-03-28

The Mystery of the Passive USB-to-PS/2 Mouse Adapter

Early USB mice often included a green adapter to convert the USB Type-A plug to PS/2. This wasn't a smart adapter; it was purely mechanical, with no circuitry. The mouse itself did the conversion, detecting the signal type (USB or PS/2) and adjusting accordingly. It's analogous to a simple power adapter – the intelligence resides in the device, not the adapter. So, if you find one of these, remember it's just a physical connector; the actual conversion happens within the dual-bus mouse.

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

Hardware Mouse Adapter

400-Million-Year-Old Giant Organism May Belong to Unknown Branch of Life

2025-03-28

400-Million-Year-Old Giant Organism May Belong to Unknown Branch of Life

Scientists are challenging the long-held belief that Prototaxites, a massive organism that lived 400 million years ago, was a giant fungus. New research, analyzing the fossil's unique internal structure and chemical composition, suggests it may represent an entirely new and extinct branch on the tree of life, distinct from all known fungi, plants, animals, and protists. This groundbreaking discovery adds a layer of mystery to the history of life on Earth and highlights the potential for undiscovered biodiversity in the deep past.

(www.livescience.com)

Tech eukaryotes

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