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Pilot Study: rTMS Shows Promise in Treating Sleep Bruxism

2025-05-05

A small, open-label pilot study investigated the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on sleep bruxism (SB). Twelve SB patients underwent five days of rTMS treatment. Results showed significant reductions in both the intensity of jaw-closing muscle electromyographic (EMG) activity during sleep and self-reported muscle soreness during and after treatment. This pilot study suggests potential therapeutic benefits of rTMS for SB, warranting further, more controlled studies.

(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Pyrex Explosions: The Fall of a Kitchen Icon?

2025-03-28

Pyrex Explosions: The Fall of a Kitchen Icon?

Since 1915, Pyrex glassware has been a kitchen staple. However, in recent years, numerous reports of Pyrex cookware exploding under heat have surfaced. Investigations reveal a shift in the 1950s to cheaper soda-lime glass from the original heat-resistant borosilicate glass. While tempered, soda-lime glass is far less resistant to thermal shock, making it prone to shattering. Although Pyrex's parent company claims explosions are rare and due to misuse, consumers and experts question this, citing insufficient risk communication. A class-action lawsuit is underway, and consumers are seeking out reliable borosilicate glass alternatives. The incident highlights the importance of material science in everyday products.

(gizmodo.com)

Hardware glass cookware product safety

Xata Agent: Your AI-Powered PostgreSQL Expert

2025-03-13

Xata Agent: Your AI-Powered PostgreSQL Expert

Xata Agent is an open-source AI agent that monitors your PostgreSQL database, identifies root causes of issues, and suggests fixes and improvements. Think of it as a seasoned SRE specializing in Postgres, now part of your team. It watches logs and metrics, proactively suggests configuration tuning, troubleshoots performance problems (including high CPU, memory, and connection counts), offers indexing advice, and even helps with vacuuming. Supporting models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Deepseek, Xata Agent is easily deployed via Docker. The Xata team already uses it daily to manage numerous active Postgres databases. A cloud version is in development.

(github.com)

Development

Puget Systems' Mineral Oil-Cooled PC: A Decade+ of Experimentation

2025-01-27

Puget Systems' Mineral Oil-Cooled PC: A Decade+ of Experimentation

Since 2007, Puget Systems has experimented with mineral oil cooling for PCs, iterating through multiple versions. Starting with a simple aquarium and inexpensive hardware, they refined their design with custom acrylic motherboard trays, efficient radiators, and dual-pump systems, achieving remarkable cooling performance and stability. While patent issues led to the discontinuation of sales, their persistent experimentation and contribution to the DIY community remain noteworthy.

(www.pugetsystems.com)

Hardware mineral oil cooling liquid cooling

DOOM: The Dark Ages Gets a Difficulty Boost Patch – Hell Just Got Harder

2025-05-25

DOOM: The Dark Ages Gets a Difficulty Boost Patch – Hell Just Got Harder

The acclaimed DOOM: The Dark Ages recently received a difficulty-increasing patch. Player feedback indicated the game was too easy, even on Nightmare difficulty, prompting id Software to adjust enemy damage, item drop rates, and the parry mechanic. The update buffs enemy attacks, reduces player forgiveness, and forces more tactical decision-making. Despite a mixed PC launch, the game attracted over three million players in five days and garnered critical acclaim. This update delivers the increased challenge many players desired.

(www.windowscentral.com)

Game Difficulty Adjustment

Hot Chips 2025: A Roundup of the CPU Session

2025-09-11

Hot Chips 2025: A Roundup of the CPU Session

The CPU session at Hot Chips 2025 featured exciting presentations from several industry giants. Condor Computing showcased their new Cuzco core, PEZY revealed details about their upcoming SC4s chip, IBM discussed their already-shipping Power11 chip, and Intel teased their next-gen E-Core based Xeon CPU, codenamed Clearwater Forest. Links to in-depth articles on each are provided for further reading.

(chipsandcheese.com)

Hardware

DiceDB Benchmarks: Outperforming Redis?

2025-03-16

DiceDB Benchmarks: Outperforming Redis?

Benchmarks on a Hetzner CCX23 machine (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) with `num_clients = 4` show DiceDB outperforming Redis in both throughput and GET/SET latency. DiceDB achieved 15655 ops/sec throughput compared to Redis's 12267 ops/sec. DiceDB also exhibited lower p50 and p90 latencies for both GET and SET operations. See the link for detailed benchmark numbers and reproduction instructions.

(dicedb.io)

Tech

Ollama GGUF Model Loading Failure: Outdated ggml Dependency

2025-08-12

Ollama GGUF Model Loading Failure: Outdated ggml Dependency

An Ollama user reported a failure loading a GGUF model. The error log indicates an invalid ggml type (39, NONE) for tensor 'blk.0.ffn_down_exps.weight'. This likely stems from an outdated ggml dependency within llama.cpp. While the GGUF model runs fine with llama.cpp directly, the Ollama platform's failure suggests the need for a ggml dependency update within Ollama itself.

(github.com)

Development

Fossil Fuel-Funded Groups Harass Scientists Blocking Offshore Wind

2025-08-27

Fossil Fuel-Funded Groups Harass Scientists Blocking Offshore Wind

A Brown University report exposes how fossil fuel-funded groups and their lawyers use legal battles and disinformation to impede the development of clean, affordable offshore wind energy on the US East Coast. These groups employ deceptive environmental claims, such as protecting North Atlantic right whales, to delay or cancel wind projects, thus protecting the fossil fuel industry's interests. One law firm even threatened Brown University to suppress research findings. The report highlights the connections between fossil fuel companies, the political right wing, and disinformation networks, and their obstruction of climate action. This incident underscores the challenges of energy transition and the pressures faced by academic research.

(electrek.co)

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OpenAI's Codex CLI: A Local AI Coding Agent

2025-04-16

OpenAI's Codex CLI: A Local AI Coding Agent

OpenAI launched Codex CLI, a local coding agent running from your terminal. Connecting OpenAI's models (including the new o3 and o4-mini) to local code and tasks, Codex CLI allows AI to write, edit code, and perform actions like moving files. This represents a step towards OpenAI's vision of an 'agentic software engineer'. Open source and lightweight, Codex CLI is supported by a $1 million API grant program for software development projects. While AI coding tools have inherent risks, Codex CLI offers a new approach to AI-assisted programming.

(techcrunch.com)

Development

IBM's Starling: A Giant Leap Towards Practical Quantum Computing?

2025-06-10

IBM's Starling: A Giant Leap Towards Practical Quantum Computing?

IBM aims to launch its 'Starling' quantum computer in 2029, boasting 200 logical qubits and the ability to perform 100 million consecutive logical operations with high accuracy—a significant leap beyond current capabilities. While experts question its immediate practicality for solving real-world problems, Starling represents a crucial milestone in quantum computing. IBM's modular approach, connecting multiple modules to scale, is key to its design. The roadmap involves smaller intermediate machines like Loon and Kookaburra before culminating in Starling. This ambitious project signifies quantum computing's move toward practical applications, though technical hurdles remain.

(www.technologyreview.com)

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Critical Flaw Found in Widely Used TETRA Encryption

2025-08-07

Critical Flaw Found in Widely Used TETRA Encryption

Researchers have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the encryption algorithms used in TETRA radio systems, widely adopted by police and military forces globally. The study reveals that TEA1, one of the TETRA standard's encryption algorithms, has a key reduction vulnerability, weakening it to a mere 32 bits and making it crackable in under a minute. Furthermore, flaws in the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) implementation reduce the key size to 56 bits, potentially allowing interception of voice and data communications. These vulnerabilities affect numerous users employing the TCCA E2EE scheme, including law enforcement and military agencies across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. While some algorithms have geographical usage restrictions, TEA1 is also used in critical infrastructure in the US and elsewhere. The findings highlight significant global communication security risks and necessitate urgent security updates to TETRA systems.

(www.wired.com)

Tech

Hacking a Satellite Back to Life: The BEESAT-1 Resurrection

2025-01-04

Hacking a Satellite Back to Life: The BEESAT-1 Resurrection

In 2013, Technische Universität Berlin's BEESAT-1 satellite stopped sending valid telemetry data. Projected to remain in orbit for another 20 years, its recovery would unlock new experiments. However, the satellite lacked both telemetry and software update capabilities. This talk recounts the story of how, by combining space and cybersecurity expertise, the fault was diagnosed without telemetry, software updates were implemented without the existing feature, and the satellite was resurrected in September 2024. The journey involved overcoming significant hurdles, including working with 15-year-old software and hardware and devising a method to upload new software without the standard update mechanism. The presentation details the entire recovery process, highlighting the unexpected challenges and successes.

(media.ccc.de)

Tech Satellite Repair

Kronotop: A Redis-Compatible, Distributed, Transactional Document Database

2025-01-20

Kronotop: A Redis-Compatible, Distributed, Transactional Document Database

Kronotop is a Redis-compatible, distributed, and transactional document database built on FoundationDB. It supports an MQL-like query language, ACID transactions, and an on-disk storage engine with a primary-standby replication model. While still in early development with an unstable API, it already features ZMap (an ordered key-value store), namespaces, and partial support for Redis data structures (strings and hashes). Future plans include support for more Redis data structures (lists, sets, sorted sets) and a Bucket data structure for storing JSON-like documents with MQL query language and transaction support.

(github.com)

Development

Unlocking arXiv: The Ultimate Guide to Scientific Paper Resources

2025-06-02

Unlocking arXiv: The Ultimate Guide to Scientific Paper Resources

This curated list provides a comprehensive collection of tools, libraries, datasets, and resources designed to streamline the process of discovering, reading, and working with scientific papers from arXiv. From semantic search engines and interactive literature maps to AI-powered reading assistants and summarization tools, this guide covers everything from paper discovery to enhanced reading and literature review generation. Several large datasets are also included to support research efforts.

(github.com)

Tech scientific papers AI research assistance

Coding Font Tournament Crowns Source Code Pro

2024-12-30

Coding Font Tournament Crowns Source Code Pro

John Gruber of Daring Fireball highlights a fun coding font selection 'tournament' created by Typogram. Users choose their favorite from 32 free monospaced fonts. While some popular choices like Consolas are absent, and some included fonts are less appealing, it's a worthwhile exercise. Improvements since its initial launch include a JavaScript code example instead of CSS and a wider selection of fonts. Gruber recommends disabling font names to reduce bias. His consistent winner? Adobe's Source Code Pro, with IBM Plex Mono a close second.

(daringfireball.net)

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Off-Grid Blogging: Running a Hugo Site on a Pixel 5 with Solar Power

2025-09-03

An Android enthusiast successfully deployed their Hugo blog to an old Google Pixel 5 phone, powered by solar energy. Leveraging the Termux terminal emulator, they installed Hugo, SSH, and other essential tools to run and maintain the blog. This eco-friendly setup is surprisingly stable and performs comparably to traditional servers, showcasing the potential of low-power devices.

(blog.ctms.me)

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Tackling NYC's Housing Crisis: A Mobility-First Approach

2025-05-14

Tackling NYC's Housing Crisis: A Mobility-First Approach

New York City's housing crisis demands immediate action, but building new housing takes years. This article proposes a faster solution: improve mobility. By optimizing bus lanes, adjusting parking pricing, building protected bike lanes, and upgrading subway information systems, the city can indirectly increase the supply of affordable housing and unlock opportunities for residents. The author cites successful examples from London and San Francisco to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of these strategies, highlighting their rapid implementation and high leverage.

(abstraction.substack.com)

Misc mobility housing

Claude Opus 4.1 Released: Significant Coding Improvements

2025-08-06

Claude Opus 4.1 Released: Significant Coding Improvements

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.1, a major upgrade to Claude Opus 4, boasting significant improvements in coding, real-world application, and reasoning. Version 4.1 achieves a 74.5% score on SWE-bench Verified for coding performance and enhances in-depth research and data analysis capabilities, particularly in detail tracking and agentic search. Companies like Rakuten and Windsurf have praised its improvements in code correction and developer efficiency. It's now available to paid users and Claude Code users, and integrated into the API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

(www.anthropic.com)

AI AI model upgrade coding capabilities

TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat Face GDPR Complaints for Data Access Failures

2025-07-17

TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat Face GDPR Complaints for Data Access Failures

The non-profit noyb has filed three GDPR complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat for failing to adequately respond to data access requests, violating Articles 12 and 15. The investigation revealed incomplete data provision, and even outright ignoring of requests, preventing users from verifying the lawfulness of data processing. noyb filed complaints with Belgian, Greek, and Dutch data protection authorities, seeking fines and enforcement of GDPR compliance.

(noyb.eu)

Tech

Microsoft Cancels Data Center Leases: Overcapacity in AI Computing?

2025-02-24

Microsoft Cancels Data Center Leases: Overcapacity in AI Computing?

Microsoft Corp. has canceled several US data center leases, according to TD Cowen, sparking concerns about potential overinvestment in AI computing capacity. The canceled leases represent “a couple of hundred megawatts” — roughly two data centers — and involved agreements with multiple private operators. This, along with a reduction in converting statements of qualifications to formal leases, suggests a potential recalibration of Microsoft's AI infrastructure strategy or an overestimation of long-term demand.

(www.bloomberg.com)

Tech

Poltergeist: The Ghost That Keeps Your Builds Fresh

2025-08-09

Poltergeist: The Ghost That Keeps Your Builds Fresh

Poltergeist is an AI-friendly universal file watcher that auto-detects and rebuilds any project upon file changes. It supports macOS, Linux, and Windows, offering both a standalone binary and an npm package. Features include a smart build queue, real-time build output, inline error diagnostics, and optimization for both human and AI workflows, dramatically increasing development speed.

(github.com)

Development file watcher auto build

Escaping the Grind: A Mom's Experience with Remote Work in Europe

2025-06-08

Escaping the Grind: A Mom's Experience with Remote Work in Europe

In 2022, a Michigan mom quit her remote people operations job at a US company due to the struggle of balancing work and caring for her one-year-old. After several months of searching, she landed a job as a People Experience Manager at Storyblok, a fully remote Austrian company. She discovered a stark contrast in work-life balance, with European companies offering better work hours and generous paid leave, including Austria's 'care leave' which provides paid time off for childcare needs. While time zone differences present some challenges, she greatly values the improved work-life integration and finds it difficult to imagine returning to a US-based company.

(www.businessinsider.com)

Startup European work culture

BMW Challenges EU's 2035 Combustion Engine Ban

2025-09-11

BMW Challenges EU's 2035 Combustion Engine Ban

BMW's CTO, Joachim Post, strongly criticizes the EU's plan to ban the sale of combustion engine cars by 2035. He argues the ban ignores consumer preferences, charging infrastructure limitations, and energy prices, potentially crippling the European auto industry. While EV sales are growing in Europe, they still represent a small percentage of the market. BMW emphasizes offering customers a choice between combustion and electric vehicles, believing the ultimate decision should rest with consumers, not the EU. This highlights the conflict between legacy automakers and EU policies, and raises concerns about the future of the automotive industry.

(www.motor1.com)

Tech combustion engine ban

Anthropic Pays $1.5B to Settle Copyright Lawsuit

2025-09-06

Anthropic Pays $1.5B to Settle Copyright Lawsuit

AI firm Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude. This marks the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history. While a judge previously ruled Anthropic's use of the books was “exceedingly transformative” and thus fair use, the settlement focuses on the company's acquisition of millions of pirated books from sites like Library Genesis. The settlement avoids a trial where Anthropic faced potential liability for copyright infringement. This landmark case highlights the ongoing legal battles surrounding AI training data and sets a precedent for future AI companies.

(deadline.com)

AI data copyright

Servo's Resurgence: A Year of Explosive Growth and Development

2025-02-05

Servo's Resurgence: A Year of Explosive Growth and Development

Two years after a period of reduced activity, the Servo project is back with a bang! 2024 saw a 143% surge in unique contributors (reaching 129), and a staggering 163% increase in merged pull requests (1771). This resurgence is fueled by significant contributions from organizations like Igalia and a thriving community. Servo boasts major performance improvements, including upgraded core dependencies and added support for floats, tables, Flexbox, and more, achieving a 79% pass rate on WPT tests. Furthermore, Servo now supports Android and OpenHarmony, with successful integration tests with applications like Tauri. A roadmap for 2025 has been published, promising continued growth and innovation.

(servo.org)

Development

Maritime Fusion: Tackling the Commercialization Hurdles of Break-Even Fusion

2025-02-26

Break-even fusion is on the horizon, but initial reactors will be expensive, high-maintenance, and low-capacity, resulting in 5–10 times higher electricity costs. Significant physics challenges for steady-state operation also exist. Maritime Fusion is building fusion reactors for marine applications, targeting a market needing 15 times less power, lower uptime, and costs comparable to alternative fuels, but without emissions. Because fusion doesn't use highly radioactive materials, it bypasses most nuclear safety and regulatory hurdles.

(maritimefusion.com)

Tech marine applications commercialization

The Unexpected Rise of the German Research University

2025-07-10

This article explores the astonishing transformation of German universities from backward institutions in the 18th century to leading research powerhouses in the 19th. Initially hampered by medieval structures and a lack of research focus, reforms at Göttingen, emphasizing publication records and reputation, laid the groundwork. The Romantic movement further fueled change, prioritizing holistic knowledge and research. This culminated in the Berlin model, a research university integrating teaching and research, cultivating students' learning and critical thinking, profoundly shaping global higher education.

(asteriskmag.com)

Tech Academic History German Universities

LLMs Can See and Hear Without Any Training

2025-04-26

LLMs Can See and Hear Without Any Training

This groundbreaking research demonstrates that Large Language Models (LLMs) can understand images and audio without any additional training. By cleverly leveraging existing LLMs, image captioning, audio captioning, and high-quality image generation techniques, researchers enabled LLMs to 'perceive' images and sounds. The project's open-source code and datasets facilitate reproducibility and further exploration.

(github.com)

AI

Finland's Rail Gauge Conversion: A Geopolitical Shift

2025-05-20

Finland's Rail Gauge Conversion: A Geopolitical Shift

Finland is converting its rail network from the Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to the European standard (1,435 mm), a move solidifying its integration with the EU and NATO. Driven by enhanced military mobility and regional security concerns, this multi-billion euro project will remove transport obstacles between Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Construction, starting around 2032, will be partially funded by the EU, representing a significant geopolitical realignment for Finland.

(www.trenvista.net)

Tech Rail Gauge

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