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Bookshop.org Launches E-book Platform to Support Local Bookstores

2025-02-15

Bookshop.org Launches E-book Platform to Support Local Bookstores

To combat Amazon's dominance in online book sales, Bookshop.org has launched its own e-book platform. This new platform allows independent bookstores to sell e-books directly to customers for the first time, offering nearly a million titles and features like annotation and social sharing. The initiative aims to help local bookstores thrive in the digital age by enabling them to directly profit from e-book sales and fostering community engagement through social media.

(www.usatoday.com)

Startup e-books independent bookstores

Haskell APL Interpreter: A Challenging Journey

2025-06-05

This project details the creation of an APL interpreter in Haskell. APL's array-based nature and highly concise syntax presented significant challenges. The author iteratively refined the interpreter, starting with a basic parser and evolving to a sophisticated implementation leveraging Haskell's capabilities and refining parsing techniques, from context-free grammars to optimized uses of monads and applicatives. While the final interpreter has minor discrepancies compared to Dyalog APL, it functions effectively. The project highlights Haskell's power in handling complex grammars and higher-order functions, while also revealing the steep learning curve and debugging complexities inherent to the language.

(scharenbroch.dev)

Development

IPv4 Exhaustion and the Slow Rollout of IPv6: A 2024 Retrospective

2025-01-12

In 2024, the internet's IPv4 address pool continued to shrink, while IPv6 adoption remained sluggish. This article analyzes IPv4 address allocation data, revealing that the address trading market hasn't effectively recycled unused addresses, leading to volatile pricing. Meanwhile, IPv6 deployment, while growing, falls short of expectations and shows regional disparities. The author predicts a future of highly fragmented internet, with IPv6 adoption being a key factor. The piece delves into technical, economic, and policy aspects impacting internet development and offers insightful future projections.

(www.potaroo.net)

Tech Internet Addressing

Reddit's AI Spam Problem: A Self-Inflicted Wound?

2025-06-30

Reddit's AI Spam Problem: A Self-Inflicted Wound?

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admits the platform is battling a flood of AI-generated spam, engaging in an ongoing "arms race" to detect and block these fake posts. The irony? Reddit's deal to sell user posts for AI training – a $60 million agreement with Google – is fueling the problem. To protect this deal, Reddit restricted access, leaving only Google to index its site. Now, companies are using AI bots to create fake posts on Reddit, hoping chatbots will regurgitate this content for better brand visibility. Huffman confirms this, highlighting the never-ending battle against these bots. Reddit users were already upset about their posts being sold for AI training; this escalating spam problem only exacerbates the situation.

(9to5mac.com)

Tech AI spam

MCPGod: Streamlining Model Context Protocol Server Management

2025-03-14

MCPGod: Streamlining Model Context Protocol Server Management

MCPGod is a command-line tool designed to simplify the management of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It allows developers to easily add, run, list, and remove servers, as well as interact with server tools. Supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux, MCPGod provides detailed logging for easy debugging. Features include adding or removing MCP servers for specific clients, listing all tools on any MCP server, running any tool directly from the command line, and controlling tool/client permissions.

(github.com)

Development model context protocol

LinuxServer.io Launches Webtop: Full Desktop Environments in Your Browser

2025-01-14

LinuxServer.io has released Webtop, a Docker-based project that lets users access full desktop environments through any modern web browser. Supporting multiple architectures and desktop environments like XFCE, KDE, MATE, and i3, it offers several security options including HTTP basic auth and reverse proxy support. Users can deploy Webtop via Docker Compose or the Docker CLI, customizing ports, environment variables, and volume mappings. Webtop also supports PRoot apps, enabling users to install and run native system applications while preserving settings across container upgrades.

(docs.linuxserver.io)

Development

TRRE: Transductive Regular Expressions – Beyond Classic Regex

2025-02-07

TRRE: Transductive Regular Expressions – Beyond Classic Regex

TRRE is a prototype extension of regular expressions designed for more intuitive text editing and pattern matching. Unlike traditional regex, TRRE uses the `:` symbol to define transformations, simplifying text replacement, insertion, and deletion. It provides a `grep`-like command-line tool for efficient text manipulation tasks like word substitution, character insertion/deletion, and even simple encryption/decryption. While still a prototype, TRRE shows promise, especially for complex tasks where its performance can even surpass `sed` in certain scenarios.

(github.com)

Development

Open-Source OLMo-2 Outperforms GPT-3.5? Mac-Friendly Setup!

2025-03-18

Open-Source OLMo-2 Outperforms GPT-3.5? Mac-Friendly Setup!

The open-source language model OLMo-2, with 32 billion parameters, claims to outperform GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 mini. All data, code, weights, and details are freely available. This post details a simple setup for running it on a Mac using the llm-mlx plugin. Download the 17GB model with a few commands and engage in interactive chat or generate images; the example shows generating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle.

(simonwillison.net)

AI

Nevada Under Siege: Major Cyberattack Cripples State Services

2025-08-28

Nevada Under Siege: Major Cyberattack Cripples State Services

Nevada is grappling with a significant cyberattack that has knocked out numerous government digital services. The attack, announced on August 24th, has left state websites and phone lines offline, forcing the closure of state offices until further notice. While emergency services remain operational, officials are working to restore services and warn citizens about potential phishing scams. This incident presents a major test for Nevada's newly established cybersecurity office.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

IBM and GlobalFoundries Settle Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuits

2025-01-03

IBM and GlobalFoundries Settle Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuits

IBM and GlobalFoundries have settled all their ongoing litigation, encompassing breach of contract, patent, and trade secret disputes. Details of the confidential settlement remain undisclosed, but both companies stated it opens the door for future collaboration. The dispute, initiated by IBM in 2021, stemmed from a $1.5 billion chip manufacturing agreement and accusations by GlobalFoundries of IBM's unlawful disclosure of trade secrets. This resolution clears the path for future projects, particularly IBM's collaboration with Rapidus on 2nm chip technology.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech GlobalFoundries

Hacking Claude: Exploiting Compositional Risks in LLMs

2025-07-17

Hacking Claude: Exploiting Compositional Risks in LLMs

Security researcher Golan Yosef achieved code execution on Anthropic's Claude desktop app using a crafted Gmail email, not by exploiting vulnerabilities in the app itself, but by leveraging Claude's capabilities and trust mechanisms. Through an iterative process involving Claude, the researcher guided the LLM to refine its attack strategy, ultimately bypassing its built-in security. This highlights the critical 'compositional risk' in GenAI, where secure individual components can create insecure systems when combined. The research underscores the need for comprehensive security assessments of LLM-powered applications to address this novel attack vector.

(www.pynt.io)

AI compositional risk

PostgreSQL's Surprise: CTEs, DELETE, and LIMIT's Unexpected Dance

2025-05-04

PostgreSQL's Surprise: CTEs, DELETE, and LIMIT's Unexpected Dance

A surprising PostgreSQL behavior emerged when using a Common Table Expression (CTE) with DELETE ... RETURNING and LIMIT to process a batch of items. The intention was to delete only one row, but multiple rows were deleted. `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` revealed a nested loop semi-join optimization, causing the LIMIT 1 clause to be executed multiple times. The solution was to restructure the query, avoiding the CTE and using a subselect directly in the DELETE's WHERE clause. This highlights that CTEs don't always prevent query plan optimizations, and careful plan examination is crucial for critical operations.

(www.shayon.dev)

Development Query Optimization

Reverse Engineering Nintendo E-Reader's Drawing API: A Stack-Based Secret

2025-02-02

Reverse Engineering Nintendo E-Reader's Drawing API: A Stack-Based Secret

A developer, while creating a Minesweeper game for the Nintendo E-Reader, stumbled upon a hidden feature in the `DrawLine` function of its drawing API. Initially, a loop drawing a minimap rectangle using `DrawLine` revealed lines drawing progressively faster. The developer discovered the draw time was determined by a value pushed onto the stack, a combination of the loop counter and another register. By pushing 0 onto the stack, the issue was resolved, revealing a quirky API detail. This showcases the intrigue of reverse engineering and the peculiarities of older processor architectures.

(mattgreer.dev)

Game Nintendo E-Reader

Coinbase Data Breach Impacts 69,461 Customers

2025-05-21

Coinbase Data Breach Impacts 69,461 Customers

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase revealed a data breach affecting at least 69,461 customers. The breach, spanning from December 26, 2024, to earlier this month, involved a hacker who bribed Coinbase customer support staff to access sensitive customer data. The hacker demanded a $20 million ransom to delete the stolen information, which included names, email addresses, phone numbers, government IDs, account balances, and transaction histories. Coinbase refused to pay the ransom.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech

NATS Trademark Dispute Escalates: Synadia Reclaims Project, CNCF Fights Back

2025-05-02

NATS Trademark Dispute Escalates: Synadia Reclaims Project, CNCF Fights Back

A legal battle is brewing over the trademark and marketing of the widely used NATS message server. After Synadia, the former owner, reclaimed the software from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the CNCF is now seeking to have the NATS trademark and logo deleted. The CNCF argues Synadia relinquished all rights in 2018 and must adhere to agreements. Synadia counters that the CNCF failed to foster community involvement, with most contributions originating from Synadia, and proposes switching NATS to a Business Source License (BSL). The CNCF rejects the BSL as non-open source, emphasizing its commitment to open-source values. The core dispute revolves around ownership, trademark rights, and licensing, potentially leading to a project fork similar to the Terraform/OpenTofu split.

(www.heise.de)

Development nats

Free DNS4EU Public Service: Designed for Everyday Users

2025-06-05

Free DNS4EU Public Service: Designed for Everyday Users

The DNS4EU Public Service is completely free for all end-users. While primarily intended for users within the European Union due to its infrastructure's geographic distribution, it doesn't restrict users from other locations. However, it's not optimized for government agencies, enterprises, or communication service providers (CSPs). Built-in DoS protection and rate-limiting measures make it unsuitable for the high-volume DNS traffic typical of ISPs or large enterprises. Rate limits accommodate regular users (shared or dedicated IPs), but not high-volume enterprise or CSP usage. For enhanced DNS protection, dedicated services are available for connectivity providers, governmental organizations, and enterprises.

(www.joindns4.eu)

Tech Free Service Rate Limiting

Free Alt Text Checker: Boost Website Accessibility and SEO

2025-01-11

This free Alt Text Checker tool helps you quickly verify if your website images include alt text. Alt text improves website accessibility for visually impaired users and boosts search engine optimization (SEO). The tool automatically scans web pages, finds missing alt text descriptions, and generates a report to help you improve your site's inclusivity and user-friendliness.

(alttextgenerator.co)

Development website accessibility alt text

NEC2: Legendary Numerical Electromagnetics Code

2025-07-05

This website is a central repository for documentation and code examples related to NEC2 (Numerical Electromagnetics Code), a Method of Moments based electromagnetic simulation software. Developed in 1981 by Jerry Burke and A. Poggio at Lawrence Livermore Labs for the US Navy, NEC2 is now publicly available. The site offers instructions on running NEC2 in a Windows environment, tutorials, sample models, and a user manual (HTML and PDF versions) covering program description and user guides. Additionally, it provides details on constructing a BiQuad antenna, its NEC simulation model, links to a NEC mailing list, and other related resources.

(www.nec2.org)

Development electromagnetic simulation

AI Web Crawlers: Devouring the Open Web?

2025-09-01

AI Web Crawlers: Devouring the Open Web?

The rise of AI has unleashed a swarm of AI web crawlers, relentlessly scraping content to feed Large Language Models (LLMs). This results in 30% of global web traffic originating from bots, with AI bots leading the charge. Unlike traditional crawlers, these AI bots are far more aggressive, ignoring crawl delays and bandwidth limitations, causing performance degradation, service disruptions, and increased costs for websites. Smaller sites are often crippled, while larger sites face immense pressure to scale their resources. While solutions like robots.txt and proposed llms.txt exist, they are proving insufficient. This arms race between websites and AI companies risks fragmenting the web, restricting access to information, and potentially pushing the internet towards a pay-to-access model.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech web traffic

Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs: Recall, Enhanced Search, and Click to Do

2025-04-25

Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs: Recall, Enhanced Search, and Click to Do

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot+ PCs, highlighted by the Recall feature. This release also includes a revamped Windows Search with natural language processing and 'Click to Do,' enabling text extraction from images, on-screen content search, and quick summarization/rewriting. Copilot+ PCs require an NPU capable of over 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), currently supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and Plus, Intel Core Ultra 200V-series, and AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processors. While Recall and enhanced search are available on both Arm and x86, some Click to Do features are currently limited to Arm-based systems.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech

Catgrad: A Category-Theoretic Deep Learning Compiler

2025-02-05

Catgrad is a deep learning framework that leverages category theory to statically compile models into their forward and backward passes. This allows your training loop to run without needing any deep learning framework (not even catgrad itself!). Built upon research papers exploring categorical approaches to deep learning, it enables features like data-parallel algorithms and differentiable polynomial circuits. Installation is straightforward via `pip install catgrad`.

(catgrad.com)

Development

CherryTree Computers Ditches BBB Accreditation: Why Pay for a Logo?

2025-07-22

CherryTree Computers has stopped paying for Better Business Bureau (BBB) accreditation. They found the accreditation process to be more about paying for a logo than a true reflection of business practices. A false negative review was wrongly linked to their business, and the BBB proved unable to rectify the situation. This, coupled with the realization that the BBB offers little actual protection, led to their decision. CherryTree believes their services and happy customers speak for themselves.

(mycherrytree.com)

Startup BBB accreditation business reputation

Waymo's Self-Driving Accident Analysis: Are Humans the Real Culprits?

2025-03-26

Waymo's Self-Driving Accident Analysis: Are Humans the Real Culprits?

This article analyzes 38 serious accidents involving Waymo self-driving cars between July 2024 and February 2025. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these accidents were not caused by Waymo vehicles themselves, but rather by other vehicles driving recklessly, such as speeding and running red lights. Waymo's data shows that its self-driving vehicles have a much lower accident rate than human drivers. Even if all accidents were attributed to Waymo, its safety record is still significantly better than human drivers. Compared to human driving, Waymo has made significant progress in reducing accidents, especially those resulting in injuries.

(www.understandingai.org)

AI

Manifest: A 1-File Micro-Backend for Simplified Development

2025-03-21

Manifest: A 1-File Micro-Backend for Simplified Development

Manifest is a lightweight, single-file micro-backend framework designed to streamline development for 80% of websites and apps needing only basic backend features. It provides essential functionalities like authentication, validation, storage, image resizing, admin panel, dynamic endpoints, REST API, JS SDK, and webhooks. Ideal for rapid prototyping, microservices, CRUD-heavy apps, and headless CMS, Manifest is currently in beta and suitable for small projects and MVPs, but not recommended for critical platforms.

(github.com)

Development micro-backend rapid prototyping single-file

Giant Sloths and Mastodons Coexisted with Humans in the Americas for Millennia

2024-12-25

Giant Sloths and Mastodons Coexisted with Humans in the Americas for Millennia

New archaeological discoveries challenge the long-held theory that humans arriving in the Americas quickly wiped out megafauna. Findings from sites in Brazil, Uruguay, and New Mexico—including modified giant sloth bones dating back 27,000 years, human footprints, and other artifacts—suggest a much longer period of coexistence between humans and megafauna such as giant ground sloths and mastodons. These discoveries challenge the previously accepted Clovis culture as representing the earliest human settlement in the Americas. The research paints a more nuanced picture of early human-megafauna interactions, indicating a complex relationship beyond simple hunting and extinction.

(phys.org)

Misc prehistoric humans megafauna archaeological discoveries

Nuclear EMP: Will Your Electronics Survive?

2025-06-06

This article explores the destructive effects of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated by nuclear detonations on electronic devices. High-altitude nuclear explosions produce widespread EMPs, capable of causing significant damage to electronics even tens or hundreds of kilometers from the blast. EMPs are divided into three phases: E1, the most destructive and short-lived, instantly frying unprotected electronics; E2, longer-lasting but less destructive; and E3, the longest-lasting, primarily affecting long conductors and power infrastructure. The article suggests using Faraday cages and similar methods to protect electronics and points out that modern devices are far more vulnerable to EMP damage than older technologies.

(www.aardvark.co.nz)

Tech Nuclear Detonation Electronics Protection

Tesseral: Open-Source Auth Infrastructure for B2B SaaS

2025-05-28

Tesseral: Open-Source Auth Infrastructure for B2B SaaS

Tesseral is an open-source authentication infrastructure for business software (B2B SaaS). It's a multi-tenant, API-first cloud service compatible with any tech stack. Developers can use the managed service at console.tesseral.com or self-host. It bundles everything needed for user management: customizable login pages, B2B multitenancy, user impersonation, self-service configuration, various login methods (magic links, social login, SAML, SCIM), role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), passkeys/WebAuthn, authenticator apps (TOTPs), API key management, user invitations, and webhooks. SDKs are available for React, Flask, and more, simplifying frontend and backend integration.

(github.com)

Development

Tracking Leaked Location Data from Mobile Apps: A Python-Powered Citizen Science Project

2025-04-18

Tracking Leaked Location Data from Mobile Apps: A Python-Powered Citizen Science Project

Following up on a previous post exposing how mobile apps share location data through ads, the author shares a faster, more scalable method using mitmproxy and Python. This allows users to record app traffic and filter for requests containing sensitive data like location information using custom keywords. A GitHub repo with a detailed guide and Python notebook is provided for participation. A crowdsourced spreadsheet collects observations on data sharing behaviors of various apps, encouraging a citizen science effort to uncover app data privacy issues.

(timsh.org)

Tech

E Ink Unveils Giant 75-Inch Color ePaper Outdoor Display

2025-02-11

E Ink Unveils Giant 75-Inch Color ePaper Outdoor Display

E Ink, in partnership with Samsung, LG, and others, showcased a massive 75-inch Kaleido Outdoor 3 color e-paper display at ISE 2025. This low-power display, operating in temperatures from -15°C to 65°C, boasts 4,096 colors and International Dark-Sky Association certification for reduced light pollution. Ideal for outdoor digital signage like bus stop ads, it's touted as a solar-powered, eco-friendly alternative to energy-hungry LCD and LED screens.

(newatlas.com)

Hardware e-paper outdoor display energy efficient

File Systems: The Proto-Hypermedia?

2025-01-22

File Systems: The Proto-Hypermedia?

This article explores the intriguing idea of file systems as a precursor to hypermedia. It argues that the linking structure of directories and files, along with support for diverse data types, provided a form of flexible and varied information access and organization, echoing core hypermedia principles. While lacking the interactivity and dynamism of modern hypermedia, the article highlights the file system's pioneering role in information management, laying groundwork for later hypermedia technologies.

(jon.work)

Tech file systems information organization

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