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UK-Ukraine Partnership to Deliver Thousands of Interceptor Missiles Monthly

2025-09-12

UK-Ukraine Partnership to Deliver Thousands of Interceptor Missiles Monthly

UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced "Project Octopus," a new partnership with Ukraine to deliver thousands of interceptor missiles monthly. Ukraine will share technology for a cost-effective interceptor drone proven highly effective against Russian-deployed Shahed drones. The UK will rapidly develop and mass-produce this drone, boosting Ukraine's defenses. This follows a £200 million investment by Ukrainian drone manufacturer UKRSPECSYSTEMS in two new UK facilities – the first major Ukrainian defense investment in the UK.

(www.shephardmedia.com)

Tech military cooperation drone technology

Kanata: Cross-Platform Keyboard Remapper for Enhanced Comfort

2025-02-09

Kanata: Cross-Platform Keyboard Remapper for Enhanced Comfort

Kanata is a cross-platform keyboard remapper for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It allows for multiple layers of key functionality and advanced customization (tap-hold, macros, Unicode). Inspired by kmonad but built with Rust, Kanata offers broader platform support and a more user-friendly interface. It aims to bring the powerful customization of QMK to any keyboard, regardless of hardware, enhancing comfort and productivity.

(github.com)

Development

Samchika: Blazing Fast File Processing for Java

2025-05-23

Samchika: Blazing Fast File Processing for Java

Samchika is a reusable, easy-to-use, and incredibly fast file processing library for Java. Built for multithreading, it handles CPU-intensive file tasks in parallel, ensuring high performance even with massive files. Its simple API allows you to easily plug in your file path and processing logic, with optional runtime stats providing insights into processing time and memory usage. Ideal for large text files (logs, datasets), Samchika excels in log analysis, ETL operations, and large corpus processing. Benchmarks against traditional methods show significant performance improvements, especially on multi-core systems (over 70% gain on files ranging from 200MB to 16GB).

(github.com)

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Amaranth: An Open-Source Hardware Development Toolchain in Python

2025-08-06

The Amaranth project provides an open-source toolchain for developing hardware based on synchronous digital logic using Python. It's designed for ease of use, minimizing coding errors, and simplifying complex designs with reusable components. Amaranth includes a language, standard library, simulator, and build system, covering the entire FPGA development workflow. It seamlessly integrates with existing Verilog/VHDL code and offers a rich standard library with components like clock domain crossing primitives and FIFOs. A sophisticated simulator and build system further streamline the process, making it easier to port designs across different FPGA platforms.

(amaranth-lang.org)

Hardware

Amazon's Book Sale Clash with Independent Bookstore Day: A David vs. Goliath Story

2025-04-27

Amazon's Book Sale Clash with Independent Bookstore Day: A David vs. Goliath Story

Amazon's annual book sale overlaps with Independent Bookstore Day, sparking outrage from independent bookstore owners who accuse Amazon of deliberately scheduling the sale to undercut them. While Amazon claims the overlap was unintentional, many see it as a continuation of Amazon's long history of aggressive tactics against competitors. Indie bookstores, however, have persevered by fostering community bonds and offering a unique shopping experience that Amazon can't replicate.

(gizmodo.com)

Startup Indie Bookstores Business Competition

YC-Backed AI Startup Seeks Top 0.1% Systems Engineer

2025-04-04

YC-Backed AI Startup Seeks Top 0.1% Systems Engineer

Thunder Compute, a Y Combinator-backed AI infrastructure startup, is hiring a systems engineer. They're building technology to drastically improve GPU utilization via sharing and oversubscription at the CUDA API layer. Their core software network-attaches GPUs over TCP, allocating compute where needed most, resulting in 5x+ utilization gains with minimal performance overhead. This is a $100B+ opportunity, requiring a top-tier systems engineer with exceptional C++ skills, deep hardware/GPU architecture knowledge, and experience in low-latency environments (like hedge funds or NVIDIA). The role offers a chance to make a significant impact in a high-growth startup.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Tech GPU utilization systems engineering

Roku Streaming Surpasses Traditional TV Viewing in the US

2025-09-07

Roku Streaming Surpasses Traditional TV Viewing in the US

Nielsen data reveals that for the third consecutive month, US viewers spent more time streaming on Roku devices than watching traditional broadcast television in July. Roku-powered devices accounted for 21.4% of all TV viewing, surpassing broadcast TV's 18.4%. This signifies a major shift in viewing habits. Roku's success isn't solely attributed to its own streaming service, The Roku Channel, but also its vast ecosystem of thousands of apps and live TV providers. Roku aims to be more than a content provider; it aspires to be the gateway to modern television.

(nerds.xyz)

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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of Stealthily Scraping Websites

2025-08-06

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of Stealthily Scraping Websites

Cloudflare, a leading CDN provider, accuses AI startup Perplexity of bypassing websites' 'no crawl' directives using disguised web crawlers. Perplexity denies the accusations, claiming Cloudflare's analysis is flawed. Cloudflare has launched services to block aggressive AI crawlers and a pay-per-crawl program. This conflict highlights the tension between AI data acquisition and website rights, reflecting the challenges posed by AI technology.

(www.zdnet.com)

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Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 Achieves Mach 5+ in Second Hypersonic Flight Test

2025-05-10

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 Achieves Mach 5+ in Second Hypersonic Flight Test

Stratolaunch announced the successful completion of a second hypersonic flight and recovery of its Talon-A2 vehicle in March 2025, exceeding Mach 5 and confirming its reusability following a successful December 2024 test flight. This achievement marks a significant step for the U.S. return to reusable hypersonic flight testing since the X-15 program. The flight was conducted for the Department of Defense's Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program, aiming to accelerate testing of commercially available hypersonic systems.

(www.stratolaunch.com)

Tech hypersonic flight reusability stratolaunch

Trump's De Minimis Exemption Elimination: A Shockwave Through E-commerce

2025-08-01

Trump's De Minimis Exemption Elimination: A Shockwave Through E-commerce

The Trump administration is moving to permanently eliminate the de minimis exemption for imported goods, a move with significant implications for e-commerce giants like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart, and consumers. This elimination will likely lead to higher prices for Chinese-made goods and potentially goods from other countries sold on US platforms. While travelers can still bring back a small amount of duty-free items, many direct-to-consumer shipments will face tariffs ranging from $80 to $200 per item. This action, framed as addressing national emergencies impacting trade and public health, is expected to disrupt e-commerce and consumer purchasing power, with long-term consequences yet to be fully understood.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech trade policy

Advanced Git Configuration: How Core Devs Configure Git

2025-02-25

Advanced Git Configuration: How Core Devs Configure Git

This post delves into lesser-known Git configuration settings that can significantly improve the Git experience. The author shares the best configurations discovered by Git core developers during a "Spring Cleaning" experiment, categorized into three groups: settings that demonstrably improve Git (like improved branch sorting, diff algorithms, push and fetch operations), harmless but occasionally helpful settings (like autocorrect prompting, showing diffs on commit, reusing conflict resolutions), and settings based on personal preference (like improved merge conflict handling, rebase defaults, and filesystem monitoring). Each setting's function is explained in detail with corresponding commands, helping readers optimize their Git configurations for increased efficiency.

(blog.gitbutler.com)

Development Configuration

Paris Crypto Kidnappings: A Series of Brutal Ransom Schemes

2025-05-08

Paris Crypto Kidnappings: A Series of Brutal Ransom Schemes

Paris has seen a string of brutal kidnappings linked to cryptocurrency. Criminals are targeting family members of those wealthy in crypto, cutting off fingers to demand multi-million euro ransoms. Police have successfully rescued hostages and arrested suspects, utilizing phone signals and other investigative techniques. These incidents highlight the security risks associated with cryptocurrency wealth and the audacity of the criminal gangs involved.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-05-09

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 works with partners adhering to them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

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The Gentrification of Video Game History: Erasure and the Hidden Gems

2025-01-03

The Gentrification of Video Game History: Erasure and the Hidden Gems

This article argues that mainstream video game history often overlooks the contributions of non-Western cultures and regions. Using examples from Taiwan, South Korea, and Brazil, the author highlights how language barriers, cultural biases, and differing business models marginalize many deserving games. This ‘centering’ perspective distorts the true picture of video game history, ignoring unique player experiences and cultural contributions worldwide. The article calls for a more inclusive and diverse narrative of video game history.

(felipepepe.medium.com)

Game video game history cultural diversity game industry

The Infinite Tool Use Paradigm for LLMs

2025-05-25

This article proposes a novel paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs): infinite tool use. The paradigm suggests that LLMs should only output tool calls and their arguments, breaking down complex tasks into a series of tool calls. This avoids the context window limitations and error accumulation problems traditional LLMs face when handling long texts and complex tasks. Through external tools (like text editors, CAD software, etc.), LLMs can perform multi-level text generation, 3D modeling, and more, effectively managing contextual information. This approach not only improves LLM efficiency and accuracy but also enhances safety, as models must use tools clearly to accomplish complex tasks, reducing deceptive outputs. Training relies primarily on reinforcement learning, leveraging the 'forgetfulness' of LLMs to address infinite context length challenges.

(snimu.github.io)

AI Tool Use

NetBSD: The Open-Source OS Conquering Space

2025-07-21

NetBSD: The Open-Source OS Conquering Space

NetBSD, a highly portable, open-source Unix-like operating system, has proven itself a critical component in satellite technology. Its use in missions like AeroCube, BRICSat-P, ITSAT, and NASA's SAMPEX highlights its ability to handle the demanding constraints of space. NetBSD's lightweight design, robust reliability, and customizability, along with its real-time capabilities and cross-compilation support, make it a powerful choice for resource-limited spacecraft.

(machaddr.substack.com)

Tech

US Air Traffic Control System: From Floppy Disks to the 21st Century

2025-06-08

US Air Traffic Control System: From Floppy Disks to the 21st Century

The FAA is embarking on an ambitious project to modernize the US air traffic control (ATC) system, currently reliant on outdated technology like floppy disks and Windows 95. This poses significant security and efficiency risks. The upgrade, described as a critical infrastructure project, faces challenges including ensuring continuous operation and system security. While a four-year completion timeline is targeted, experts deem this unrealistic. The project's cost remains unclear, but the FAA is seeking proposals from companies to tackle this massive undertaking.

(www.tomshardware.com)

Tech tech upgrade

AI Bots Are Replacing Google Search: A New Kind of Web Traffic

2025-06-14

AI Bots Are Replacing Google Search: A New Kind of Web Traffic

AI tools like ChatGPT are replacing Google search, creating a massive shift in web traffic. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are deploying bots to summarize web content in real-time, feeding far more data into AI models than any human could. Data from TollBit reveals a 49% surge in retrieval bot traffic in Q1 2025 compared to Q4 2024, an exponential growth. While AI tools decrease human website traffic, overall content access explodes. Websites must adapt to AI visitors, but negotiating payment for content scraped by AI companies will be challenging, amidst ongoing copyright debates. The modern internet, optimized for Google and social media, needs restructuring to accommodate the rise of AI answers.

(www.yahoo.com)

Tech Web Traffic

Beyond Hindley-Milner: A Tutorial on the Cubiml Compiler with Algebraic Subtyping

2025-06-13

This blog post series introduces Cubiml, a compiler tutorial built around a novel type inference system called "cubic biunification," an improvement on Algebraic Subtyping. It addresses the limitations of the Hindley-Milner system's lack of subtyping support, providing more powerful and intuitive type inference. The tutorial walks through the implementation of Cubiml with detailed code examples, covering booleans, conditionals, records, functions, let bindings, recursive let bindings, mutual recursion, and case type matching. The ultimate goal is a compiler that type-checks programs without requiring manual type annotations.

(blog.polybdenum.com)

Development

ChatGPT-powered Da Vinci Robot Performs Autonomous Gallbladder Removal

2025-07-26

ChatGPT-powered Da Vinci Robot Performs Autonomous Gallbladder Removal

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University integrated a ChatGPT-like AI with a Da Vinci surgical robot, achieving autonomous gallbladder removal. Unlike previous robot-assisted surgeries relying on pre-programmed actions, this system, SRT-H, uses two transformer models for high-level task planning and low-level execution. The high-level module plans and manages the procedure, while the low-level module translates instructions into precise robotic arm movements. Built upon the widely adopted Da Vinci platform, SRT-H demonstrates greater flexibility and adaptability, marking a significant leap forward in AI-assisted surgery.

(arstechnica.com)

AI AI surgery Da Vinci Robot

Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Powerful Upgrade: Your Personal Taskmaster

2025-08-21

Google Search's AI Mode Gets a Powerful Upgrade: Your Personal Taskmaster

Google is supercharging its AI Mode in Search, giving it advanced agentic capabilities and personalization. Now you can ask complex questions naturally, and AI Mode will handle the task, such as making restaurant reservations, scheduling appointments, and buying tickets. It searches across multiple platforms based on your preferences (party size, date, time, location, cuisine, etc.), and directly links to the booking page for easy completion. This is powered by Project Mariner's live web browsing, Search's partner integrations, and the power of Google's Knowledge Graph and Maps.

(blog.google)

AI

Former DOGE Aide Violated Treasury Policy by Leaking Unencrypted Database

2025-03-18

Former DOGE Aide Violated Treasury Policy by Leaking Unencrypted Database

Marko Elez, a former aide to DOGE (a Trump-aligned unit run by Elon Musk), violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing personal information to two Trump administration officials. A lawsuit filed by New York's Attorney General and 18 other state AGs alleges unauthorized access to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS), which handles trillions of dollars annually. The investigation revealed Elez violated Treasury regulations by sending an unencrypted database containing personally identifiable information without prior approval. Elez subsequently resigned following the discovery of hateful tweets. While analysis showed Elez didn't alter payment systems, his sending of the unencrypted database still violated BFS policy.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

Microsoft Extends Windows 10 Security Updates: Free? Not So Fast.

2025-06-28

Microsoft Extends Windows 10 Security Updates: Free? Not So Fast.

Microsoft announced free extended security updates for some Windows 10 users, but with a catch: a Microsoft account is required, and enrollment happens via Windows Backup or Microsoft Rewards. This is seen as a strategic move by Microsoft to nudge users towards Windows 11, though updates continue even after account sign-out or discontinuing Windows Backup use. The seemingly free updates mask a push for Microsoft account integration, strengthening its ecosystem control.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech

A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs

2025-01-04

A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs

CNET gained exclusive access to Apple's secretive labs in Cupertino, revealing the technology behind the iPhone 16 Pro's groundbreaking audio and video capabilities. The article details how Apple uses an anechoic chamber for microphone testing, machine learning for audio enhancement, and a Dolby Atmos theater for video calibration. The result? Stunning 4K 120fps slow-motion video and the innovative Audio Mix feature, simplifying professional-level audio editing for everyday users.

(www.cnet.com)

Tech audio technology video technology

Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Feature Redesign Rolls Out in the US

2025-08-14

Apple is releasing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for select Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users in the US via an iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 update. This follows a recent US Customs ruling, allowing blood oxygen data processing on the paired iPhone and display in the Health app's Respiratory section. The update doesn't affect previously purchased watches with the original feature or those bought outside the US.

(www.apple.com)

Tech Blood Oxygen

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.

(www.evalapply.org)

Development

Curl's Dotted Disaster: Two CVEs and a Never-Ending Chase

2025-05-15

Curl's Dotted Disaster: Two CVEs and a Never-Ending Chase

The curl team has had a persistent struggle with trailing dots in hostnames within URLs. Initially ignoring them, curl later reinstated support for websites requiring trailing dots. However, this change inadvertently introduced two security vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-27779 and CVE-2022-30115) affecting cookie handling and the HSTS mechanism respectively. These vulnerabilities stemmed from improper handling of trailing dots leading to incorrect domain matching. curl 7.83.1 addresses these issues, but the author suspects this may be just the beginning of a long-running battle.

(daniel.haxx.se)

Development

Beyond Scalar Select: Batching Event Streams for Efficiency

2025-05-15

The author describes the inefficiency of the scalar select anti-pattern in stateful service design, exemplified by an LSP server. Processing events one at a time leads to delays and resource waste. The proposed solution is to batch process event streams. A `batch_stream` function merges incoming events into batches, significantly improving efficiency. Under low load, it behaves like single-event processing, but under high load, it dramatically reduces overhead, boosting performance.

(matklad.github.io)

Development

Cold War Naval Strategy, Management Wisdom, and the Perils of Bureaucracy

2025-08-02

This collection of excerpts from the Cold War era reveals insightful perspectives on US naval strategy, effective management, and the shortcomings of the American education system. It contrasts the US and Soviet Navies, highlighting the necessity of superior quality over quantity and the importance of an offensive strategy. Furthermore, it underscores the crucial role of individual accountability, long-term commitment, and clear goal-setting in successful organizations, while criticizing bureaucratic inertia and a stifling educational environment resistant to critical thinking. These perspectives offer valuable lessons for modern organizational management and educational reform.

(rickovercorpus.org)

Misc Naval Strategy

Proba-3 Achieves First Artificial Solar Eclipse, Unveiling Sun's Corona

2025-06-20

Proba-3 Achieves First Artificial Solar Eclipse, Unveiling Sun's Corona

The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has achieved a major breakthrough, successfully creating the world's first artificial total solar eclipse in orbit using two precisely-formed satellites. The resulting images of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, demonstrate the capabilities of formation flying technology while providing invaluable scientific data. The mission's ASPIICS instrument captures unprecedented detail of the corona, while DARA measures total solar irradiance. This achievement helps scientists unravel mysteries about the Sun's corona, such as its unexpectedly high temperatures, and will improve space weather forecasting models.

(www.esa.int)

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