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VMware's Free ESXi Hypervisor Returns: A Strategic Pivot or a Necessary Retreat?

2025-04-14
VMware's Free ESXi Hypervisor Returns: A Strategic Pivot or a Necessary Retreat?

After Broadcom's acquisition, VMware discontinued its free ESXi hypervisor, prompting user backlash. Recently, VMware quietly reinstated the free version in vSphere Hypervisor 8.0 Update 3e. This move is interpreted as a response to competitors' free offerings and a potential strategy to boost subscription sales. The article also touches upon the limited mainstream adoption of DPUs/SmartNICs, primarily concentrated among major cloud providers.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Android 16: Faster Updates, Smoother Experience

2025-06-10
Android 16: Faster Updates, Smoother Experience

Google today launched Android 16, initially for Pixel devices, with broader rollout to other phone brands later this year. This marks the earliest major Android release in recent years, prioritizing timely updates for users. Android 16 introduces the foundation for Material 3 Expressive design, enhancing accessibility and ease of use. Key features include streamlined notifications with live updates, providing real-time information for services like food delivery and ride-sharing without constantly checking apps. This initially supports compatible apps and integrates with Samsung's Now Bar and OPPO/OnePlus' Live Alerts.

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(blog.google)
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Secret Mall Apartment: 4 Years Undetected in a Shopping Mall

2025-05-22
Secret Mall Apartment: 4 Years Undetected in a Shopping Mall

In 2003, a group of Rhode Island artists secretly built and lived in a hidden apartment within a bustling shopping mall for four years, undetected. The documentary "Secret Mall Apartment" chronicles their unusual endeavor, highlighting their artistic spirit and quiet rebellion against soulless consumerism and urban development. Their actions serve as a unique protest against the impersonal nature of modern city planning and the erasure of local character, culminating in a surprising discovery and a thought-provoking narrative.

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(modernagejournal.com)
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Building a Linux Kernel Natively on macOS: A Journey Through Compilation Hell

2025-07-03
Building a Linux Kernel Natively on macOS: A Journey Through Compilation Hell

This post details the author's experience building a Linux kernel (RISC-V architecture) natively on macOS. The journey was fraught with challenges: an outdated make version, macOS's ld being incompatible with Linux expectations, missing elf.h and byteswap.h headers, and version conflicts with uuid_t and sed. The author overcame these by using Homebrew to install updated toolchains (make, llvm, lld, libelf, gnu-sed) and creating patches to address header file discrepancies and type definition conflicts. The kernel was successfully built, with macOS showing faster build times than Docker for clean builds, but slower incremental builds. The author concludes that fixing build issues is an ongoing, iterative process similar to continuous integration.

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(seiya.me)
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1978 NOVA Documentary: AI's Boom, Bust, and Uncertain Future

2025-06-04
1978 NOVA Documentary: AI's Boom, Bust, and Uncertain Future

The 1978 NOVA documentary "Mind Machines" features interviews with AI pioneers like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, exploring AI's potential and challenges. Arthur C. Clarke predicts a reshaped society if AI surpasses human intelligence, prompting reflection on life's purpose. The documentary showcases early AI technologies like computer chess and simulated therapists, envisioning future AI's learning abilities, and highlighting AI's cyclical boom-and-bust history.

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(www.openculture.com)
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LSSU Bans Words Like 'Cringe' and 'Game Changer' in 2025 List

2025-01-01
LSSU Bans Words Like 'Cringe' and 'Game Changer' in 2025 List

Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has unveiled its annual list of banished words for 2025, a tradition dating back to 1976. This year's list includes words and phrases like 'cringe,' 'game changer,' 'era,' 'dropped,' 'IYKYK,' 'sorry not sorry,' 'Skibidi,' '100%', 'utilize,' and 'period,' deemed overused, misused, or simply unnecessary. The playful list encourages mindful language use and reflects on the ever-evolving nature of communication.

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(www.lssu.edu)
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Failing My Anthropic Interview (Again): A Reflection

2025-08-29

The author recounts two failed interviews with Anthropic, the first due to a simple mistake, the second due to not being good enough. The post details the author's disappointment and self-reflection, exploring the tension between authenticity and fitting a company culture. The author concludes by embracing the setback and encouraging perseverance.

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(taylor.town)
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Azure Cost Forecasts Explode After Migration Glitch

2025-09-02
Azure Cost Forecasts Explode After Migration Glitch

Several Microsoft Azure customers experienced a surge in cloud service cost forecasts due to a problematic account migration from the Microsoft Online Subscription Program (MOSP) to the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA). Automated budget alerts went off, alarming users who saw costs unexpectedly skyrocket. One user's forecast jumped from £63 to £758.71. While Microsoft claims the underlying issue is resolved, users report difficulties contacting support and some forum comments being deleted. Microsoft advises users to monitor their portals and submit support requests if discrepancies persist.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Astro vs. React Server Components: A Tale of Two High-Performance Architectures

2025-05-07
Astro vs. React Server Components: A Tale of Two High-Performance Architectures

This article compares Astro and React Server Components (RSC), two approaches to building high-performance websites. Astro uses Astro Components (server-side) and Client Islands (client-side), with data flowing unidirectionally. Astro Components handle preprocessing, while Client Islands manage interactivity. RSC uses Server Components and Client Components, conceptually similar but both are React components differentiated by the `'use client'` directive. RSC offers greater flexibility, allowing component sharing between server and client, but has a steeper learning curve. Astro is easier to learn but might encounter limitations in large-scale applications due to its HTML-first output and inter-component interaction constraints. The choice depends on project needs and team expertise.

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(overreacted.io)
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Zero-Downtime Database Migration Verified with PlusCal

2025-03-11

This blog post details how the author used PlusCal, a DSL for TLA+, and formal verification to ensure the correctness of a zero-downtime database migration. A PlusCal model was built simulating user Upsert, Delete, and Get operations on a database, along with a background migration process. By simulating a system without migration and one with migration, and verifying the consistency of Get operation results across all states, the author ensured the correctness of the migration algorithm. Formal verification helped in early detection of flaws, such as improper handling of TOMBSTONES, and highlighted the importance of atomic operations, like the atomicity of checking and inserting data during migration.

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(biradarganesh25.github.io)
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CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader Outperforms BFI

2024-12-25
CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader Outperforms BFI

Blur Busters has unveiled a groundbreaking CRT simulation algorithm for GPU shaders, offering superior motion blur reduction compared to Black Frame Insertion (BFI). Combining Mark Rejhon's CRT beam simulator with Timothy Lotte's variable-MPRT BFI algorithm, it delivers smoother visuals, especially on high refresh rate displays, even for legacy 60Hz content. The algorithm, available on Shadertoy and GitHub, boasts less flicker than BFI and is set to be integrated into RetroArch.

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(blurbusters.com)
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Pentagon Axes $280M AI Project, Prioritizes 'Lethal' AI Over 'Equitable' AI

2025-03-24
Pentagon Axes $280M AI Project, Prioritizes 'Lethal' AI Over 'Equitable' AI

The Pentagon has canceled its troubled Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) project, which ran eight years over budget at $280 million. Along with DCHRMS, over $360 million in grants focused on DEI, climate change, and social programs were also cut. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explained that the department needs "lethal" AI, not "equitable" AI, and will replan the HR system modernization. This is part of the Pentagon's Department of Government Efficiency initiative to eliminate wasteful spending.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Instant PyTorch Training: Hot-Swapping LLMs without VRAM Unloading

2025-04-21
Instant PyTorch Training: Hot-Swapping LLMs without VRAM Unloading

Large language model loading times can significantly slow down development. This project introduces a hot-swapping solution for PyTorch training code. By keeping the model resident in VRAM via a background process, it achieves near-instantaneous startup. Even after the script exits, the model remains loaded, ready for immediate use on the next run. Remote debugging and Dear ImGui UI integration are supported, boosting developer efficiency. Simply replace your `from_pretrained` calls to experience instant execution and easy debugging.

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(github.com)
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On Tyranny: A Graphic Guide to Resisting Authoritarianism

2025-03-28
On Tyranny: A Graphic Guide to Resisting Authoritarianism

A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling 'On Tyranny' has been released, bringing his twenty lessons on resisting modern authoritarianism to life. Illustrated by Nora Krug, the book uses historical examples from Nazism and Communism to illuminate crucial points such as the dangers of misused symbols, the importance of independent research, and the need for precise language. This visually striking edition serves as a powerful call to action, urging readers to actively participate in the fight against authoritarianism.

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(timothysnyder.org)
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Crimson: Revolutionizing Litigation with AI – Hiring Full-Stack Engineer

2025-07-15
Crimson: Revolutionizing Litigation with AI – Hiring Full-Stack Engineer

Crimson is an AI platform for high-stakes litigation, partnering with top UK and US law firms to streamline complex disputes. Their platform drafts pleadings, analyzes judgments, summarizes transcripts, and locates key evidence in seconds. They're seeking an exceptional full-stack engineer to join as an early employee, contributing to the entire tech stack and working directly with users to build and improve core features. This is a chance to be at the forefront of legal tech innovation, backed by Y Combinator and other top investors.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Google's 50-Minute Meeting Fiasco: Good Intentions, Bad Results?

2025-05-15
Google's 50-Minute Meeting Fiasco: Good Intentions, Bad Results?

In 2011, Larry Page, newly appointed Google CEO, aimed to tackle efficiency issues stemming from the company's rapid growth. He implemented a "more wood behind fewer arrows" strategy and attempted to reform meeting culture by shortening hour-long meetings to 50 minutes. However, this sparked an unexpected chain reaction: employees began booking 10-minute meetings to utilize the remaining 10 minutes of each hour, leading to comical 'meeting room wars'. This anecdote highlights how even well-intentioned reforms, lacking thorough consideration, can backfire, causing chaos and employee frustration.

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(www.clientserver.dev)
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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Reveals Terminal Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

2025-05-19
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Reveals Terminal Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Scott Adams, creator of the iconic comic strip "Dilbert," announced on his Rumble show that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, the same type of cancer President Biden is battling. Adams, 67, stated he expects to die this summer. While localized prostate cancer is curable, his advanced stage is not. Despite his own grim prognosis, Adams expressed sympathy for President Biden and his family.

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(www.thewrap.com)
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Flipper Zero Firmware Bypasses Car Security: Single Button Press Unlock

2025-08-08

YouTube channel Talking Sasquach demonstrated a custom Flipper Zero firmware that breaks the rolling code security of many modern vehicles. The attack requires only a single button-press recording from the key fob to replicate all functions, including unlocking doors and trunks, rendering the original key fob unusable. Affected brands include Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Mitsubishi, and Subaru. Currently, there's no easy fix, potentially requiring mass vehicle recalls. The attack's mechanism might involve reverse-engineering the rolling code sequence or a 'RollBack' attack that resets synchronization by replaying captured codes in a specific order.

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(www.rtl-sdr.com)
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How Nintendo Legally Crushed Atari

2025-04-16
How Nintendo Legally Crushed Atari

This article recounts the epic legal battle between Atari and Nintendo, and how it shaped the gaming industry. Atari initially challenged the bundled console-cartridge model with Activision, but ultimately failed in the 1983 crash. Nintendo, with its NES, introduced a lockout chip to prevent unauthorized games. Atari (Tengen) attempted to reverse-engineer this, but lost due to their lawyers' fraudulent actions. The case established fair use principles for reverse engineering but highlighted the crucial role of legal strategy in tech. While Atari technically won the right to reverse engineer on principle, their lawyers' dishonesty cost them the case.

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(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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Mysterious Zen 5 CPU Failures: GMP Tests and Hardware Woes

2025-08-28

The author reports two instances of Ryzen 9950X CPUs failing after running GMP tests. Both incidents occurred in different environments but resulted in discolored areas on the CPU's pin side. Despite using Noctua coolers, the author suspects improper thermal paste application (due to Noctua's recommended offset mounting), leading to poor heat transfer, and that GMP tests might draw power beyond the CPU's specifications. While CPUs have temperature protection, sustained high loads could lead to gradual damage. The cause remains unknown but highlights the importance of high-performance CPU cooling and potential hardware flaws.

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(gmplib.org)
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The Loneliness Epidemic: A Call to Leave the House

2025-06-29
The Loneliness Epidemic: A Call to Leave the House

This article tackles the pervasive issue of loneliness in modern society, arguing that leaving the house is key to combating it. The author uses their experience with a dog and community engagement at a dog park as a prime example of building connections. They highlight the importance of urban infrastructure, like sidewalks, in fostering community. The piece criticizes late-stage capitalism for profiting from and exacerbating loneliness, urging readers to actively participate in community life and experience human connection.

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(buttondown.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-04-14
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a valuable community project? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Adult Language Learning: Listen First, Read Later?

2025-03-15
Adult Language Learning: Listen First, Read Later?

A new study reveals that adults learning a new language benefit more from initially focusing on the melody and rhythm of speech rather than written text. Czech adults listened to Māori, then were tested on distinguishing Māori from Malay. Those who simply listened performed better than those who also read subtitles; reading actually hindered their ability to discern the languages' rhythmic patterns. This suggests that adults should mimic infants, prioritizing the overall sound patterns of a language before tackling written forms, potentially unlocking the brain's inherent language acquisition mechanisms.

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(theconversation.com)
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Qodo: AI-Powered Multi-Agent Code Integrity Platform

2025-04-24
Qodo: AI-Powered Multi-Agent Code Integrity Platform

Qodo, an NVIDIA Inception program member, has developed a multi-agent code integrity platform that enhances and automates software quality workflows with AI-powered agents for code writing, testing, and review. Qodo's core is its deeply context-aware AI agents, built on advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and a state-of-the-art code embedding model trained on NVIDIA DGX. This allows the agents to understand code intent, patterns, and broader structure, generating more accurate code suggestions, reliable tests, and insightful code reviews. To achieve this, Qodo built a robust pipeline for continuously maintaining an up-to-date index and employs language-specific static analysis for chunking large code files, avoiding issues caused by invalid or incomplete code segments impacting LLM performance. In a collaboration with NVIDIA, Qodo's solution significantly improved the accuracy of NVIDIA's internal RAG system (Genie) for code search, ultimately integrated into NVIDIA's internal Slack system for providing developers with more accurate and detailed code information.

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(developer.nvidia.com)
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Shopify's LLM Doc Bot: Guesswork Over Facts?

2025-07-09
Shopify's LLM Doc Bot: Guesswork Over Facts?

Shopify's LLM-powered developer documentation bot provided an incorrect Liquid syntax for detecting Shopify Collective items in order confirmation emails. While the bot provided a quick answer, the code didn't work in practice because the Shopify Collective tag is added after the email is generated. The author questions the value of this 'guessing' doc bot, arguing that the cost of bad advice far outweighs the benefit of quick help. He suggests relying on official documentation instead of a potentially inaccurate bot.

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(www.robinsloan.com)
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China's Digital ID: A Giant Leap in State Control

2025-07-03
China's Digital ID: A Giant Leap in State Control

China will launch national digital IDs on July 15th, shifting online verification from private companies to the government. This represents a massive shift in state control over citizen data, drastically altering how the digital lives of its citizens are managed and surveilled. The move has implications for the distribution of profits in the online economy and could even reshape the future of AI in China. This builds upon the existing national ID card system introduced in 1984.

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(www.economist.com)
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Merlin Bird ID: AI-Powered Birdwatching

2025-06-04
Merlin Bird ID: AI-Powered Birdwatching

Merlin is a powerful bird identification app leveraging AI to identify birds through sound, photo, and a question-and-answer wizard. It works offline, covering the US, Canada, Europe, parts of Central & South America, and India, with more regions coming soon. Users can build a life list of identified birds and explore likely sightings based on location and season. Powered by eBird, Merlin boasts a massive database and community-contributed content.

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(merlin.allaboutbirds.org)
Tech Bird Identification Nature

Blockchain Misuse: Hype or Innovation?

2025-03-18
Blockchain Misuse: Hype or Innovation?

This article critically analyzes the current state of blockchain applications in areas such as supply chain management, object authenticity verification, statement authenticity guarantee, voting, proof of authorship, and land registry. The author points out that many seemingly logical blockchain solutions ignore the core issue of 'blockchain is not the Internet of Things (IoT)', leading to difficulties in guaranteeing data authenticity. The article argues that in many scenarios, distributed databases or digital signatures can solve the problem without the complexity and resource consumption of blockchain. The author believes that currently, only in the area of value transfer does blockchain (such as Bitcoin) demonstrate true value, while the application prospects of smart contracts remain unclear.

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(blog.smartdec.net)
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Verification-First Development: Beyond Test-Driven Development

2025-03-18
Verification-First Development: Beyond Test-Driven Development

This article explores Verification-First Development (VFD), a paradigm that emphasizes establishing verification mechanisms before writing code. This could involve writing tests, defining type invariants, adding contracts, or other methods. VFD differs from Test-Driven Development (TDD), which is a specific case of VFD and focuses on using tests to drive code design. VFD's advantages include reducing the likelihood of skipping verification, early error detection, and improved code quality. However, VFD also has drawbacks: it can slow development, hinder exploratory coding, and verification methods might influence code design. The author argues that VFD, as a technique rather than a paradigm, is more flexible and easily integrates with other approaches.

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(buttondown.com)
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