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Congress Passes Massive Tax Overhaul: The 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act'

2025-07-05
Congress Passes Massive Tax Overhaul: The 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act'

The House passed the Senate's version of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (OBBBA) on July 3rd, 2025, dramatically reshaping federal tax policy. This legislative shift prioritizes domestic production and pro-business initiatives. Key changes include restoring 100% bonus depreciation, reinstating immediate expensing for US-based R&D, eliminating numerous Inflation Reduction Act clean energy programs, and permanently extending individual tax cuts. The act also introduces new incentives for middle-class families and manufacturers.

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(www.kbkg.com)
Tech Tax Reform Economic Stimulus Domestic Production

Linus Torvalds and bcachefs Developer Part Ways

2025-07-05

Linus Torvalds, the maintainer of the Linux kernel, rejected a pull request for the bcachefs filesystem in the 6.16-rc3 release and hinted at no longer accepting contributions from the project in the 6.17 merge window. This stems from a significant disagreement during code review, with Torvalds stating that bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet refused to accept any questioning or modification of his code. Following a private conversation, both parties decided to end their collaboration.

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(lwn.net)
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My Email Server vs. Google: A Privacy Audit

2025-05-06
My Email Server vs. Google: A Privacy Audit

For 15 years, the author self-hosted their email to maintain autonomy and privacy. However, a recent analysis revealed that roughly one-third of their inbox, and a staggering half of the emails they replied to, originated from Google. This is due to the prevalence of Gmail among their contacts; even emails not directly sent from Gmail are copied by Google if routed through its servers. The author presents compelling graphs visualizing this alarming reality, prompting a crucial discussion about email privacy and control.

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(mako.cc)
Misc email privacy

GitMCP: Effortlessly Access GitHub Project Documentation with AI

2025-04-07
GitMCP: Effortlessly Access GitHub Project Documentation with AI

GitMCP is a free, open-source service that seamlessly transforms any GitHub project into a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint, allowing AI assistants to effortlessly access and understand project documentation. Zero setup is required; GitMCP works out of the box and is completely free and private, collecting no personally identifiable information or queries. Users access GitHub repositories or GitHub Pages sites via simple URL formats. AI assistants can access project documentation through GitMCP, utilizing semantic search to optimize token usage. GitMCP acts as a bridge between your GitHub repository's documentation and AI assistants by implementing the MCP, ensuring efficient and accurate information delivery.

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(github.com)
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SpaceX vs. ULA: A Battle of Orbital Altitudes

2025-04-10
SpaceX vs. ULA: A Battle of Orbital Altitudes

SpaceX and ULA are competing in the rocket launch market. SpaceX dominates low-Earth orbit (LEO) launches with its Falcon 9 rocket, leveraging high launch frequency and reusability for cost-effectiveness. ULA's Vulcan rocket excels in high-energy orbit missions, with its Centaur V upper stage proving efficient for long-duration tasks, particularly placing military payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit. While SpaceX significantly outpaces ULA in launch volume, ULA maintains a strong position in high-energy missions due to experience and the Vulcan's capabilities. Each company holds an advantage in different orbital niches, making the competitive landscape mission-specific.

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(arstechnica.com)
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LLMs Crack a Byzantine Music Notation Cipher

2025-04-04

Researchers discovered that large language models like Claude and GPT-4 can decode a peculiar cipher based on the Byzantine music notation Unicode block. This cipher resembles a Caesar cipher, but with an offset of 118784. The models can decode this cipher directly without chain-of-thought, achieving even higher success rates than with regular Caesar ciphers. Researchers hypothesize this is due to a linear relationship between addition in a specific Unicode range and addition in token space, allowing the models to learn a shift cipher based on this relationship. This phenomenon suggests the existence of yet-ununderstood mechanisms within LLMs.

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(fi-le.net)
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Google Makes Custom ROM Development for Pixel Phones Harder

2025-06-12
Google Makes Custom ROM Development for Pixel Phones Harder

Google's latest Android 16 AOSP release omits device trees and driver binaries for Pixel phones, significantly increasing the difficulty of building custom ROMs. While Google assures AOSP isn't going away and is shifting to a virtual device called "Cuttlefish" as its reference target, developers now face reverse-engineering changes, adding complexity. This impacts the custom ROM community, such as LineageOS and GrapheneOS, requiring them to rebuild device trees from scratch, increasing their workload substantially. Although Google states AOSP isn't being phased out, the changes make supporting Pixel devices more challenging.

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(www.androidauthority.com)
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Learn to Program with Haiku: A Comprehensive Tutorial

2025-04-10
Learn to Program with Haiku: A Comprehensive Tutorial

This book, "Learning to Program with Haiku," provides a step-by-step guide to programming on the Haiku operating system. Starting with fundamental concepts like data types and loops, it progresses to advanced topics such as object-oriented programming and GUI development using C++ and the Haiku API. Through 23 lessons, readers build a complete Haiku application, with source code and resources included. Ideal for beginners, this tutorial empowers users to create their own Haiku programs.

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(www.haiku-os.org)
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Village Roadshow Files for Bankruptcy: A Casualty of the Streaming Wars

2025-03-31
Village Roadshow Files for Bankruptcy: A Casualty of the Streaming Wars

Village Roadshow Entertainment, the prolific film financing company behind franchises like “Joker,” “The Matrix,” and “Ocean’s Eleven,” has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A protracted legal battle with Warner Bros., stemming from the studio's release of “The Matrix Resurrections” on HBO Max simultaneously with its theatrical release, is cited as a major factor. The company's ambitious, pre-pandemic expansion into independent film and television production proved unprofitable, further exacerbating its financial woes. The bankruptcy highlights the disruptive impact of streaming on traditional entertainment businesses.

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(www.latimes.com)
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Browser Makers Battle Trackers in Privacy Arms Race

2025-06-03
Browser Makers Battle Trackers in Privacy Arms Race

Research reveals Meta and Yandex's sneaky use of localhost channels in browsers to share user identifiers. While browsers like DuckDuckGo and Brave effectively blocked this with extensive blocklists, researchers warn this is an ongoing arms race. Chrome, after initially executing the tracking code, recently updated to block the functionality. A long-term solution requires redesigning privacy and security controls for localhost channels, giving users granular control instead of relying on constantly updated blocklists.

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(arstechnica.com)
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How Neural Networks Recognize Cats: From Simple Classifiers to Complex Models

2025-08-24
How Neural Networks Recognize Cats: From Simple Classifiers to Complex Models

Teaching a computer to recognize a cat in a photo isn't straightforward. However, neural networks now easily accomplish this by learning from millions or billions of examples. This article uses cat photo recognition as an example to explain the basic principles of neural networks: building a simple classifier that uses mathematical functions (neurons) to process input data and ultimately find the optimal boundary to distinguish between categories. The article explains the workings of neural networks in an accessible way, understandable even without a programming background.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
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The Heartbreaking Story Behind the 1948 '4 Children for Sale' Photo

2025-05-06
The Heartbreaking Story Behind the 1948 '4 Children for Sale' Photo

A shocking 1948 photograph of a Chicago couple selling their four children sent shockwaves across America. The story behind the image is far more tragic than the picture itself. The unemployed father abandoned the family, leaving the mother unable to cope, resulting in the children being sold separately and experiencing drastically different fates. The youngest child was adopted by a strict but kind couple, leading a relatively stable life; while two others were treated as slaves by their buyers, enduring abuse and hardship. Years later, surviving siblings reunited, recounting their harrowing past and expressing deep resentment towards their mother. This story exposes the desperation and helplessness of lower-class families in 20th-century America, reflecting the shortcomings of child protection at the time.

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(allthatsinteresting.com)
Misc social news child abuse family tragedy

Reproducing Deep Double Descent: A Beginner's Journey

2025-06-05
Reproducing Deep Double Descent: A Beginner's Journey

A machine learning novice at the Recurse Center embarked on a journey to reproduce the deep double descent phenomenon. Starting from scratch, they trained a ResNet18 model on the CIFAR-10 dataset, exploring the impact of varying model sizes and label noise on model performance. The process involved overcoming challenges such as model architecture adjustments, correct label noise application, and understanding accuracy metrics. Ultimately, they successfully reproduced the deep double descent phenomenon, observing the influence of model size and training epochs on generalization ability, and the significant role of label noise in the double descent effect.

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(stpn.bearblog.dev)
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eVisa Scam: $79 Lesson in Canada

2025-08-20

The author mistakenly used a fake eVisa website, evisatravel.org, to apply for a Canadian eTA, paying $79 instead of the official $5 fee. The certificate received from the fake site had many suspicious aspects. After a chargeback, the author received a threatening email warning about a government blacklist. Despite this, the author successfully entered Canada, proving the threat was a bluff. This experience serves as a cautionary tale about fraudulent eVisa websites.

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(anguscheng.com)
Misc eVisa scam Canada visa

Bosch's Revolutionary Brake-by-Wire System Hits the Road

2025-02-18
Bosch's Revolutionary Brake-by-Wire System Hits the Road

Bosch has completed public road testing of its innovative brake-by-wire system, eliminating the mechanical link between brake pedal and brakes. This system, using electric signals, reduces weight and improves space efficiency. Already receiving automaker orders, Bosch projects over 5.5 million vehicles globally will feature this technology by 2030. The system boasts dual redundancy for safety, offers design flexibility, and promises enhanced braking performance and safety. While motorcycle applications face challenges, this technology represents a significant leap forward for automotive braking.

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(newatlas.com)
Tech brake-by-wire automotive technology Bosch

A Lisp Adventure in the Dead Waters of C

2025-06-27

This article explores the power of Lisp's abstractions and the limitations of C, using a C-like language. The author analyzes function parameter evaluation strategies, highlighting how C's pass-by-value mechanism restricts control over function parameters, preventing the implementation of flexible conditional statements and loops like Lisp's if, while, and cond. The article further delves into advanced features like closures and runtime function creation, unavailable in C, ultimately concluding on C's shortcomings in extensibility.

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(mihaiolteanu.me)
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AI Code Generation: Accuracy and Confidence are Key

2025-06-12
AI Code Generation: Accuracy and Confidence are Key

Only 3.8% of developers report experiencing both low hallucinations and high confidence in shipping AI-generated code. These are the teams truly benefiting from AI in production. They trust the suggestions, ship faster, and close the loop with high-quality feedback. Among this low-hallucination group, those who are also confident (17%) report a 1.3x higher likelihood of seeing code quality gains (44% vs. 35%) and 2.5x greater confidence in shipping AI code (24% vs. 9%). This is the 'sweet spot,' where over half (53%) report clear improvements in code quality. This highlights the strong link between accuracy, quality, and confidence: developers seeing fewer errors and higher-quality output are much more likely to trust and use AI in production. Low hallucinations make developers 1.3x more likely to report improved code quality (44% vs. 35% overall), but most developers, even with accurate output, remain hesitant. Automated quality checks can bridge this gap.

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(www.qodo.ai)
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GitHub Now Offers Free arm64 Hosted Runners!

2025-01-16
GitHub Now Offers Free arm64 Hosted Runners!

GitHub has announced the free availability of Linux arm64 hosted runners in public repositories (currently in public preview). These runners, powered by Cobalt 100 processors, offer 4 vCPUs and up to a 40% performance boost compared to the previous generation of Arm-based VMs. Arm-native developers can now build, test, and deploy entirely within the arm64 architecture without virtualization. Simply add the `ubuntu-24.04-arm` or `ubuntu-22.04-arm` labels to your public repository workflow to get started.

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(github.blog)
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Clojure Web Development: A Philosophical Look at Frameworks vs. Libraries

2025-05-21

This article delves into the framework vs. library choice in Clojure web development. The author argues that popular web frameworks, like industrial automation, solidify architecture and thought processes, while the Clojure community favors flexible library combinations. Using Ring and Jetty as examples, the article explains the fundamental principles of building Clojure web applications, including request handling, middleware, and routing mechanisms. It also recommends various introductory resources and mature web stacks, helping developers find their suitable path within the Clojure ecosystem.

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(www.evalapply.org)
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AI Code Review Agents: Helpful, But Not a Silver Bullet

2025-05-07
AI Code Review Agents: Helpful, But Not a Silver Bullet

Many AI code review agents have emerged, using LLMs to analyze code diffs and identify issues. The author experimented with Coderabbit, finding it occasionally catches errors missed by human reviewers, but also generates irrelevant or incorrect suggestions. Building a basic agent is relatively easy using the GitHub API and an OpenAI key. However, LLMs struggle to fully understand code, especially without broader codebase context, leading to inaccurate suggestions. The author concludes that creating a truly helpful agent requires addressing the LLM's understanding of code and leveraging codebase context effectively.

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(www.sourcebot.dev)
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Global Spyware Market Expands Despite Regulatory Efforts: New Players, New Channels, and Mounting Challenges

2025-09-12
Global Spyware Market Expands Despite Regulatory Efforts: New Players, New Channels, and Mounting Challenges

A new report reveals the expansion and complexification of the global spyware market. New vendors, resellers, and suppliers are constantly emerging, including companies from Israel, Italy, and others, as well as shell companies connected to NSO products. These intermediaries obscure the connections between vendors, suppliers, and buyers, making regulation and accountability extremely difficult. The report also finds that countries like Japan, Malaysia, and Panama are involved in spyware activities, conflicting with some nations' international commitments. Despite efforts by the US government, the spyware market continues to thrive, with significant regulatory challenges remaining.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech global regulation global market

AWS VPC: Solving IP Conflicts and Security Issues

2025-06-04
AWS VPC: Solving IP Conflicts and Security Issues

This article tells the story of the birth of Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Early AWS instances shared a single network, leading to IP address conflicts and security vulnerabilities, hindering enterprise migration. To solve this, AWS engineers invented VPC, which uses a mapping service to provide each customer with an isolated private network, addressing IP conflicts and security risks, enabling companies to safely migrate to the AWS cloud platform.

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(www.ducktyped.org)
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Microsoft Copilot Lands on Samsung TVs: Your AI Sidekick, Now on the Big Screen

2025-08-29
Microsoft Copilot Lands on Samsung TVs: Your AI Sidekick, Now on the Big Screen

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, is coming to TVs, starting with Samsung's 2025 lineup. Users can ask Copilot for movie recommendations, spoiler-free episode summaries, and answer general questions. Copilot appears as a friendly, animated character, bouncing around the screen with mouth movements synced to its responses. It's integrated into Samsung Tizen OS, Samsung Daily Plus, and Click to Search, accessible via voice or remote. Signing in allows for a personalized experience using past conversations and preferences. Supported models include Samsung's 2025 Micro RGB, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame Pro, The Frame TVs, and M7, M8, and M9 smart monitors. Microsoft plans to bring Copilot to LG TVs as well.

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(www.theverge.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-06-14
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only works with partners who uphold these values. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Counting Yurts in Mongolia: A Machine Learning Adventure

2025-06-18

This article details the author's journey in counting the number of yurts (gers) in Mongolia using machine learning. The author meticulously documents the process, from data acquisition using Google Maps satellite imagery and model training with YOLO, to deployment on a Docker Swarm cluster leveraging multiple GPUs. The project highlights the challenges of processing vast geographical datasets and the innovative solutions employed. The final count reveals a surprising number of yurts, offering insights into Mongolia's unique blend of traditional nomadic culture and modern urbanization.

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(monroeclinton.com)
Tech Mongolia

Critical Flaw Discovered: NATO Radio Encryption Algorithm Broken

2024-12-29
Critical Flaw Discovered: NATO Radio Encryption Algorithm Broken

Researchers from the Chaos Computer Club have uncovered a critical vulnerability in HALFLOOP-24, the encryption algorithm used by the US military and NATO. This algorithm protects the automatic link establishment protocol in high-frequency radio, but researchers demonstrated that just two hours of intercepted radio traffic are sufficient to recover the secret key. The attack exploits a flaw in HALFLOOP-24's handling of the 'tweak' parameter, using differential cryptanalysis to bypass significant portions of the encryption process and extract the key. This vulnerability compromises communication confidentiality and enables denial-of-service attacks. The research, published in two papers, highlights a serious security risk and underscores the importance of robust encryption algorithms.

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(media.ccc.de)
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Magic: The Gathering – Turing Machines and the Twin Prime Conjecture

2025-04-27
Magic: The Gathering – Turing Machines and the Twin Prime Conjecture

The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering is surprisingly complex, capable of simulating a Turing machine and theoretically performing any computation a computer can. However, using it for calculations is impractical. More intriguingly, players are using the game's mechanics to tackle mathematical problems, such as the twin prime conjecture. One player devised a strategy where the damage inflicted depends on the truth of the conjecture: if it's true, the damage is infinite. While this doesn't prove the conjecture, it showcases a fascinating interplay between games and mathematics, offering a novel perspective for math enthusiasts.

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(www.scientificamerican.com)
Game Magic: The Gathering Twin Prime Conjecture

Vermont Engineer Brings Free Payphones Back to Life

2025-08-05
Vermont Engineer Brings Free Payphones Back to Life

Patrick Schlott, a 31-year-old electrical engineer in Vermont's Orange County, is tackling poor cell service head-on. Frustrated by dead zones, he's repurposed old payphones into free internet-connected calling stations in three towns. Using secondhand phones and his home workshop, Schlott provides free calls across the US and Canada, covering all costs himself. The phones have become a lifeline, particularly helpful for stranded drivers and students. With Vermont banning cell phones in schools in 2026, the need for alternative communication is growing, and Schlott's project is gaining traction, even though he's currently self-funding its operation and exploring sustainable funding models while maintaining the free service.

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(www.npr.org)
Tech community service internet telephony

The Reality of Working for Elon Musk: Genius, Chaos, and Burnout

2025-01-02
The Reality of Working for Elon Musk: Genius, Chaos, and Burnout

This article exposes the realities of working for Elon Musk's companies: intense work, high demands, immense pressure, and the resulting burnout. From Tesla to SpaceX to Twitter, Musk's leadership style is unique and extreme. His pursuit of perfection leads to late-night emails, early morning meetings, and demanding expectations. While this high-pressure environment can inspire employees and lead to rapid learning and achievements, it also causes many to suffer from exhaustion and a severe work-life imbalance. Although Musk's companies have ambitious goals and appeal, the intense work culture isn't for everyone.

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(techiegamers.com)
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