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River Runner Global: Disruptive Hydropower Tech?

2025-01-28

River Runner Global: Disruptive Hydropower Tech?

River Runner Global claims to possess revolutionary hydropower technology that generates electricity from natural river flow without needing large dams. The technology is purportedly low-cost and environmentally friendly, potentially providing clean energy to remote areas. However, details about the technology and its real-world effectiveness remain scarce, and its viability and commercial potential are yet to be proven. Nevertheless, its innovative concept has attracted industry attention.

(river-runner-global.samlearner.com)

Tech hydropower

Google's Privacy U-Turn: Digital Fingerprinting Returns

2025-01-12

Google's Privacy U-Turn: Digital Fingerprinting Returns

Google has reinstated digital fingerprinting for advertising purposes, raising privacy concerns. This technology tracks users across devices by collecting online signals (IP addresses, browser information, etc.), circumventing user control over cookies. While Google claims to employ privacy-enhancing technologies, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office labeled the move "irresponsible," citing reduced user control and potential risks to advertiser behavior. This contradicts Google's previous privacy pledges and reignites debate about data collection and user choice.

(mashable.com)

Tech Digital Fingerprinting

Civilization VII System Requirements: Can Your Rig Handle It?

2025-01-28

Nine years after Civ VI, Civilization VII is finally on the horizon! The minimum and recommended system requirements have been revealed. Minimum specs include an Intel i5-4690 or equivalent, 8GB RAM, a GTX 1050 or equivalent, and 20GB of storage. Recommended specs bump up to an Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB RAM, an RTX 2060 or equivalent. The article highlights that the game is CPU-heavy, making a CPU upgrade a priority for optimal performance. Are you ready to build your empire?

(www.corsair.com)

Game Civilization VII System Requirements

Thailand Cuts Power, Fuel, and Internet to Myanmar Border Areas to Combat Scam Syndicates

2025-02-05

Thailand Cuts Power, Fuel, and Internet to Myanmar Border Areas to Combat Scam Syndicates

Thailand cut power, fuel, and internet access to some border areas with Myanmar on Wednesday in an attempt to cripple scam syndicates operating there. These syndicates, according to a 2023 UN report, are suspected of entrapping hundreds of thousands in illegal online and telecom operations, generating billions annually. The move, overseen by Thai Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, aims to protect Thailand's tourism sector and address safety concerns, particularly after the recent abduction and rescue of Chinese actor Wang Xing in Myanmar. However, reports indicate some scam centers continue operating using generators, raising questions about the effectiveness of the strategy.

(www.yahoo.com)

Tech cross-border crime Thailand scam syndicates

Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

2025-01-18

Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

This article details how a custom-built, low-cost laser fault injection platform was used to successfully bypass the secure boot mechanism of Raspberry Pi's RP2350 microcontroller. Using an infrared laser, the platform cleverly circumvented the RP2350's glitch detectors. A single laser pulse injected a fault, altering the boot ROM's instruction flow, ultimately revealing hidden data. The author provides detailed explanations of the platform's hardware design, software architecture, and the attack process, including manufacturing files and source code.

(courk.cc)

Hardware Laser Fault Injection

Pagecord: Effortlessly Publish Writing from Your Inbox

2025-01-12

Pagecord: Effortlessly Publish Writing from Your Inbox

Pagecord is a Ruby on Rails application that lets you effortlessly publish your writing to your website by simply sending an email. It streamlines the writing and publishing process, automating the steps typically involved in editing and uploading content. The open-source project, hosted on GitHub, provides comprehensive documentation and testing instructions.

(github.com)

Development writing tool

Quiet Quitting: A Symptom of Workplace Imbalance

2025-01-26

Quiet Quitting: A Symptom of Workplace Imbalance

The recent surge in 'quiet quitting' and 'soft quitting' isn't about laziness; it's a response to unfair compensation, excessive workloads, and a lack of work-life balance. Employees aren't necessarily uncaring, but seek alignment between work and personal well-being. The article argues that businesses must address employee needs through fair pay, flexible arrangements, and meaningful work to avoid massive economic losses from disengagement. Fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration is key to creating a more effective and engaging workplace.

(www.forbes.com)

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YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

2025-01-28

YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

Structured, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is seeking a founding engineer. Structured is redefining how developers build and deploy data apps by consolidating the entire analytics stack into code. They're looking for an ambitious, scrappy, and product-minded engineer to build the core SDK, design interactive components, and tackle challenging problems like real-time data sync and cloud deployments. This is a chance to join a stellar team of ex-Meta engineers, own significant equity, and shape a startup from the ground up.

(www.ycombinator.com)

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mcp-agent: A Simple Framework for Building Effective AI Agents

2025-01-29

mcp-agent: A Simple Framework for Building Effective AI Agents

mcp-agent is a lightweight, composable framework for building agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It simplifies the management of MCP server connections and implements all the patterns described in "Building Effective Agents," allowing you to chain these patterns together. It also implements OpenAI's Swarm pattern for multi-agent orchestration. With mcp-agent, you can easily build robust AI applications, such as multi-agent collaborative workflows, human-in-the-loop workflows, and RAG pipelines.

(github.com)

Development

Efficient Linux System Call Interception: Beyond the Inefficiencies of ptrace

2025-01-05

This article introduces a more efficient method for intercepting Linux system calls than ptrace: seccomp user notify. Leveraging BPF filters, it returns only for desired system calls, significantly reducing performance overhead. The author uses their tool, copycat, as an example, demonstrating how to intercept open() system calls to achieve file replacement. The article details the seccomp user notify mechanism, including BPF filter creation and system call argument handling. Security and potential issues, such as TOCTOU attacks, are also discussed.

(blog.mggross.com)

Development System Calls

F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

2025-02-05

F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

F-Droid, a platform providing free and open-source Android apps, has received a $396,044 grant from the Open Technology Fund. This funding will address critical challenges to F-Droid's long-term sustainability, including code refactoring, improving legal strategies for handling government takedown requests, streamlining localization workflows, strengthening donation infrastructure, and enhancing hosting and infrastructure. This ensures F-Droid can continue delivering privacy-focused, open-source apps to users worldwide, even in areas with limited internet access.

(f-droid.org)

Development Funding

Arm's Chiplet System Architecture Spec Opens Up a New Era of Silicon Design

2025-01-22

Arm's Chiplet System Architecture Spec Opens Up a New Era of Silicon Design

Arm has released the first public specification for its Chiplet System Architecture (CSA), with over 60 companies already engaged. The CSA addresses the growing demand for custom silicon and the associated high costs and complexities of monolithic chip production by enabling the reuse of specialized chiplets to create multiple custom systems-on-chips (SoCs) with better performance and lower power consumption. This standardization effort, developed collaboratively with the ecosystem, ensures interoperability and reusability, accelerating innovation and reducing fragmentation. Early adopters are already leveraging the CSA to build solutions tailored for diverse AI workloads. Alphawave Semi, for instance, combines Arm Neoverse CSS-powered chiplets with proprietary I/O dies to create performant chips for various markets. Meanwhile, ADTechnology, Samsung Foundry, and Rebellions are collaborating with Arm on an AI CPU chiplet platform for large-scale AI training and inference, boasting a 2-3x efficiency advantage for GenAI workloads.

(newsroom.arm.com)

Tech Chiplets

Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring System

2025-01-29

Sentry is a system that monitors potentially hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth. By analyzing asteroid orbital data, it calculates the probability and energy of an impact. The system provides information such as impact date, probability, and energy, and uses the Torino and Palermo scales to assess the risk. Sentry continuously monitors and provides early warnings of potential impact risks to Earth.

(cneos.jpl.nasa.gov)

Tech Asteroid Impact Risk Assessment Space Monitoring

The Future of Wi-Fi: Faster, Secure, Smarter Networks

2025-01-11

The Future of Wi-Fi: Faster, Secure, Smarter Networks

The future of Wi-Fi is an exciting landscape shaped by the rise of IoT, the adoption of Wi-Fi 6E/7 and WPA3, and the ever-increasing number of devices connecting to wireless networks. This article explores the evolution of Wi-Fi technology, highlighting how Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 deliver faster speeds, improved reliability, and enhanced security, while WPA3 strengthens security measures. A key focus is Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), providing secure encrypted connections for guest networks without passwords. With growing connectivity demands and the prevalence of BYOD devices, businesses need to adopt more secure and manageable Wi-Fi architectures to meet future challenges.

(www.cloudi-fi.com)

Tech

Gaia Completes Sky Survey: 3 Trillion Observations, 2 Billion Stars

2025-01-15

Gaia Completes Sky Survey: 3 Trillion Observations, 2 Billion Stars

ESA's Gaia spacecraft has completed its decade-long sky survey, amassing over three trillion observations of roughly two billion stars and other celestial objects. This represents a revolutionary leap in our understanding of the Milky Way and our cosmic neighborhood. Despite nearing fuel depletion, Gaia's data continues to grow, fueling scientific research with over 13,000 publications and 580 million catalogue accesses to date. Two more massive data releases are yet to come, promising further revelations about the universe.

(www.esa.int)

Tech Gaia Milky Way

WordPecker: Personalized Language Learning with Duolingo-Style Lessons and Custom Vocabulary

2025-01-20

WordPecker: Personalized Language Learning with Duolingo-Style Lessons and Custom Vocabulary

WordPecker is a personalized language learning app that combines Duolingo-style lessons with your own curated vocabulary lists. Seamlessly add words from books, articles, or videos, and review them through interactive quizzes and LLM-generated lessons. The app tackles the pain points of vocabulary acquisition in traditional language learning by connecting learning to context, boosting efficiency and retention. Currently featuring multiple question types, future development includes progress tracking, list sharing, and more.

(github.com)

Development

Slime Mold Simulation with WebGPU: A TypeScript and Compute Shader Implementation

2025-01-05

Slime Mold Simulation with WebGPU: A TypeScript and Compute Shader Implementation

SuboptimalEng has created a stunning slime mold simulation using WebGPU and TypeScript. This project recreates Sebastian Lague's classic work, leveraging compute shaders for efficient simulation of the slime mold's growth and movement. A detailed setup guide, screenshots, and resource links are included, and the project is deployed to GitHub Pages for easy access. This is a fantastic example to learn WebGPU and compute shaders.

(github.com)

Development Compute Shaders Slime Mold Simulation

DECUServe: A Thriving Online Community for OpenVMS

2025-01-28

DECUServe is a vibrant online community for OpenVMS users, offering a wealth of resources and support. Boasting a massive knowledge base of problems and solutions, it's hosted numerous technical conferences (over fifty!). Users access conferences, libraries, and personal web pages via command line, browser, or newsreader. With SSH, SFTP, and DCLinabox access, collaboration is easy. A supportive, peer-to-peer environment, DECUServe is an invaluable resource for the OpenVMS community.

(decuserve.org)

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Parallels Desktop Now Runs x86 Windows and Linux on Apple Silicon Macs

2025-01-15

Parallels Desktop Now Runs x86 Windows and Linux on Apple Silicon Macs

Parallels Desktop 20.2 adds early support for running 64-bit x86 Windows and Linux operating systems on Apple Silicon Macs. This allows users of M1, M2, and later Macs to run a wider range of operating systems, although performance will be slower than native ARM versions due to emulation. Limitations include USB device support, nested virtualization, and slower boot times, but it's a significant step for developers and users needing x86 compatibility on Apple Silicon.

(www.howtogeek.com)

Development

Atproto: A Decentralized Social Network Revolution?

2025-01-18

Atproto is an emerging decentralized social networking protocol that solves problems inherent in traditional social networks like account-app binding and scattered data storage. It uses Personal Data Servers (PDS) and domain-based identities, allowing users to own their identity and data, and reuse the same identity across different apps. This simplifies development for various 'social-enabled' applications (forums, long-form writing platforms, etc.) and fosters new business models. Compared to the Fediverse, Atproto boasts improved interoperability and user experience. The success of projects like Bluesky further fuels Atproto's growth, promising a new generation of social networks centered around user-owned identities.

(anirudh.fi)

Tech

Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Continuous Profiling Without Production Performance Hit

2025-02-01

Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Continuous Profiling Without Production Performance Hit

Yandex has released Perforator, an open-source continuous profiling tool built on eBPF technology. Perforator collects CPU profiles from production environments without impacting performance. Already deployed on tens of thousands of Yandex servers, it helps developers identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Supporting languages like C++, C, Go, and Rust (with experimental Java and Python support), it features scalable storage, a user-friendly query language and UI, and sPGO profile generation for Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). Perforator boasts minimal resource consumption and is easily deployable on various environments, from laptops to Kubernetes clusters.

(github.com)

Development open source tool

Programmer's Nostalgia: A $30 Custom Voice Recording from the AOL Voice

2025-01-15

Programmer's Nostalgia: A $30 Custom Voice Recording from the AOL Voice

Blogger John Graham-Cumming recounts his 2002 experience commissioning custom voice recordings from Elwood Edwards, the iconic voice of AOL. For $30, he ordered two phrases, "Mail classified by POPFile" and "Use the source, Luke!" for his machine learning email filtering program, POPFile. Edwards even included a bonus "You've got mail, John!" This charming anecdote reveals a personalized touch of the early internet and the humor of tech pioneers.

(blog.jgc.org)

Development personalized service

YC Announces Spring 2025 Batch: X25

2025-01-20

YC Announces Spring 2025 Batch: X25

Y Combinator is launching its first-ever spring batch, X25, bringing its total annual batches to four (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). The 'X' designation, chosen for its common use in programming, reflects YC's tech roots. This more frequent batch schedule aims to better accommodate founders' timelines and rapidly fund the surge of AI-driven startups. Applications are open until February 11th, 8 PM PT, with the program running April-June and culminating in an in-person Demo Day.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup

Visualizing the World's Books in ISBN-Space

2025-02-01

Visualizing the World's Books in ISBN-Space

A developer created a stunning visualization of the world's books using ISBNs. Clever algorithms and space-filling curves map massive datasets into a 2D space, rendered in real-time with WebGL and GLSL shaders. Users can explore publication years, countries, and more, even customizing the visualization. This project showcases the power of data visualization and a developer's passion for knowledge and technology.

(phiresky.github.io)

Development

Grandmaster Blunders: Pressure, Hallucinations, and Psychology

2025-02-01

Grandmaster Blunders: Pressure, Hallucinations, and Psychology

This article delves into the reasons behind grandmaster blunders in chess, analyzing three key factors: pressure, hallucinations, and psychology. Through personal anecdotes and game examples, the author explains how time pressure, complex positions, and mental state lead to seemingly unbelievable mistakes by top-level players. Tips for avoiding these blunders are shared, such as careful move verification and maintaining composure under pressure. The article highlights that both overconfidence and excessive caution can be detrimental.

(lichess.org)

Game blunders strategy

Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python: A New Approach to Boosting Hardware Design Efficiency

2024-12-31

This article introduces a novel approach to hardware modeling using Python – symbolic models. Traditional hardware design workflows involve multiple models (behavioral, architectural, RTL, etc.) for verification, but debugging can be challenging for complex algorithms and data management. The author proposes using Python symbolic models, tracking data origins instead of the data itself, to simplify the debugging process. Using an image downscaler as an example, the article details the construction and comparison of reference and hardware symbolic models, showcasing the advantages of symbolic models in improving design efficiency and confidence, especially when dealing with complex data management and specification changes.

(tomverbeure.github.io)

Development hardware design symbolic models

From Prison to Firefighter: A Second Chance

2025-01-12

From Prison to Firefighter: A Second Chance

A California nonprofit is tackling the challenge of employing formerly incarcerated firefighters, aiming to expand the profession and address workforce shortages. The organization provides crucial support, including certifications, job application assistance, and tech literacy training, even helping with record expungement. The founder, Royal Ramey, a former inmate himself, shares his journey from prison fire camp to a successful firefighting career. He highlights the need to overcome biases within the industry and advocates for increased funding for nonprofits working to integrate formerly incarcerated individuals into the firefighting workforce, especially given the growing demand due to climate change and increasingly frequent wildfires.

(www.npr.org)

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NVIDIA Ingest: Microservices for Efficiently Parsing Massive Documents

2025-01-10

NVIDIA Ingest: Microservices for Efficiently Parsing Massive Documents

NVIDIA Ingest is an early access set of microservices designed to efficiently parse hundreds of thousands of complex, messy unstructured PDFs and other enterprise documents. It extracts metadata and text for embedding into retrieval systems. Leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices, it supports PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, and images, extracting text, tables, charts, and images, contextualizing them, and outputting structured JSON. Embeddings can be optionally computed and stored in a Milvus vector database. A Python client and command-line interface are provided for ease of use.

(github.com)

Development Document Parsing

Alder Lake SHLX Instruction Anomaly: A 3x Performance Mystery

2025-01-02

Blogger Tavian Barnes uncovered a strange performance quirk in Intel's Alder Lake processors concerning the SHLX instruction. Under certain conditions, this instruction runs significantly slower—three times slower than expected. Benchmarking revealed that initializing the shift count register using a 64-bit immediate value causes the slowdown, while 32-bit instructions or other initialization methods do not. This discrepancy is puzzling since SHLX only uses the lower 6 bits of the shift count register. The root cause remains a mystery, but this finding highlights a potential optimization oversight in the Alder Lake microarchitecture.

(tavianator.com)

Hardware instruction latency

Malimite: A Powerful iOS and macOS Decompiler

2025-01-28

Malimite: A Powerful iOS and macOS Decompiler

Malimite is an open-source iOS and macOS decompiler designed to help researchers analyze and decode IPA files and application bundles. Built on top of Ghidra, it directly supports Swift, Objective-C, and Apple resources. It's multi-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux), auto-decodes iOS resources, avoids lib code decompilation, reconstructs Swift classes, and even features built-in LLM method translation. A pre-compiled JAR file is available on the Releases page, with further installation and usage instructions in the Wiki.

(github.com)

Development decompiler

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