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SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Nikola Founder Trevor Milton After Presidential Pardon

2025-09-19
SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Nikola Founder Trevor Milton After Presidential Pardon

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dropped its fraud case against Nikola founder and former CEO Trevor Milton following a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Milton, previously convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to four years in prison, had his conviction overturned by the pardon. He claims he was subjected to five years of false accusations from the media, prosecutors, former Nikola executives, and short sellers. Despite the pardon, Milton is seeking $69 million in legal fees from Nikola, which is currently in bankruptcy, a demand the company rejects.

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(eletric-vehicles.com)
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Cryptojacking Campaign Targets Misconfigured DevOps Tools

2025-06-03
Cryptojacking Campaign Targets Misconfigured DevOps Tools

A new cryptojacking campaign, attributed to an attacker named JINX-0132, is exploiting misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in publicly accessible DevOps tools to steal cloud computing resources for cryptocurrency mining. The campaign primarily targets HashiCorp's Nomad and Consul, Docker API, and Gitea. Researchers estimate that up to 25% of cloud environments are vulnerable, with 5% directly exposing these tools to the internet and 30% exhibiting misconfigurations. JINX-0132 leverages these flaws for remote code execution, deploying XMRig mining software. Mitigation involves updating software, disabling script checks, restricting API access, and properly configuring security settings.

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(www.theregister.com)
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GIMP 3.0 Released: Seven Years in the Making

2025-03-17
GIMP 3.0 Released: Seven Years in the Making

After seven years of development by volunteer developers, GIMP 3.0 is finally here! This major release boasts significant improvements, including non-destructive filter editing, enhanced file compatibility (BC7 DDS support and improved PSD export), automatic layer expansion, powerful text styling tools, improved layer and color management, and a modernized GTK3 interface. GIMP 3.0 offers easier use, faster performance, and enhanced image editing capabilities. Download it now and experience the difference!

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Regaining Sight: Stem Cell Transplants Repair Corneal Damage

2025-03-09
Regaining Sight: Stem Cell Transplants Repair Corneal Damage

A new clinical trial offers hope for patients with corneal injuries. Scientists have successfully repaired severe corneal damage using a transplant of stem cells from the patients' healthy eyes. The treatment, called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC), involves harvesting stem cells from the patient's uninjured eye, culturing them in a lab for several weeks, and then transplanting them into the injured eye. An 18-month follow-up showed a 92% success rate, with significant vision improvement in many patients, some even progressing from legally blind to low vision. This breakthrough offers new hope for treating corneal injuries and paves the way for larger-scale clinical trials.

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(newatlas.com)
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Global Market Sell-off: Recession Fears and Trade War Uncertainty Deepen

2025-03-10
Global Market Sell-off: Recession Fears and Trade War Uncertainty Deepen

Global stock markets suffered a sharp sell-off on Monday, driven by concerns about a potential US recession and uncertainty surrounding US trade policies. The S&P 500 plunged 2.3%, and the Dow Jones fell 1.2% in the US. European markets also saw declines, with the FTSE 100 down 0.92%, the DAX down 1.69%, and the CAC 40 down 0.9%. The pound weakened against the dollar and euro, and Brent crude oil prices dropped around 1.2%. Companies like Clarksons saw significant share price drops (21.7%) due to geopolitical uncertainties. Analysts attribute the market correction to a combination of trade war anxieties, geopolitical tensions, and an uncertain economic outlook.

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(www.independent.co.uk)
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Crafting Compelling Software Release Announcements

2025-06-25
Crafting Compelling Software Release Announcements

This article unveils the secrets to writing engaging software release announcements. The author stresses focusing on improved user experience, not just a laundry list of features. Examples show how to translate technical details into user-perceived benefits – framing bug fixes as improvements to the user experience, not merely bug eliminations. The article advocates for clear screenshots, concise animated demos, and planning the announcement early in development to ensure it directly relates to user value, avoiding vague phrases like "various improvements and bug fixes."

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(refactoringenglish.com)
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Deconstructing a Flowing WebGL Gradient

2025-04-15
Deconstructing a Flowing WebGL Gradient

This article details the creation of a flowing gradient effect using WebGL shaders. Starting with a simple linear gradient, the author progressively introduces sine waves, time variables for animation, and finally, leverages Simplex noise functions and texture mapping to achieve a stunning visual effect with dynamic blur and layered gradients. The article is richly illustrated and clearly explains core concepts like shader writing, interpolation, and color mapping, making it ideal for developers interested in WebGL and shaders.

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(alexharri.com)
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FSFE's 2024 Recap: Fighting for Software Freedom

2025-01-14
FSFE's 2024 Recap: Fighting for Software Freedom

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) released its 2024 year-end review, highlighting its progress in promoting free software. This includes participation in FOSDEM, work on DMA implementation, the fourth Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) edition, and presence at the Chaos Communication Congress. Key initiatives involved pushing for broader interoperability from Apple, sustainable funding for open-source ecosystems, and promoting freedom in software, hardware, and data. Looking ahead to 2025, the FSFE plans to continue its advocacy and community building efforts.

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Pagecord: Effortlessly Publish Writing from Your Inbox

2025-01-12
Pagecord: Effortlessly Publish Writing from Your Inbox

Pagecord is a Ruby on Rails application that lets you effortlessly publish your writing to your website by simply sending an email. It streamlines the writing and publishing process, automating the steps typically involved in editing and uploading content. The open-source project, hosted on GitHub, provides comprehensive documentation and testing instructions.

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Rails on SQLite: A Double-Edged Sword

2025-09-12

André Arko, a long-time Ruby open source contributor, shares his experience building a Rails application using SQLite. While SQLite simplifies deployment and reduces costs due to its embedded nature, it introduces unique challenges. The article details these challenges, including data persistence, concurrency control, and high availability, offering solutions like persistent storage, WAL mode, multiple database files, and tools like Litestream and LiteFS. Arko concludes that SQLite offers exciting possibilities for building efficient and simple Rails apps but requires careful consideration of its limitations.

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(andre.arko.net)
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NASA Astronauts Safely Return After Unexpectedly Extended Space Mission

2025-03-18
NASA Astronauts Safely Return After Unexpectedly Extended Space Mission

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose planned short space mission stretched to over nine months due to a Boeing Starliner malfunction, have safely returned to Earth. They landed with two other astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. The situation garnered significant attention, with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claiming he offered a plan to return Williams and Wilmore sooner, but it was rejected. NASA denies receiving such a proposal. Despite speculation of the astronauts being 'abandoned', NASA maintains the decision was made to save costs and ensure continuous staffing of the space station. The astronauts themselves stated they were prepared for the extended mission and utilized the time for research and station maintenance.

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(www.cnn.com)
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Cosmoe: A BeOS UI Library Needs Stability and Compatibility Improvements

2025-06-21

Cosmoe, a BeOS UI library built on Wayland, needs further improvement in stability and compatibility despite significant progress in integrating BeOS class libraries with Wayland. Crashes and incorrect behavior remain, hampered by Wayland's complexities. Cosmoe currently implements about 95% of the BeOS API, but crucial features like "offscreen" BBitmaps for accelerated drawing and BFilePanel (Open/Save dialogs) are still missing. Some file-related classes are only partially implemented. Additionally, Wayland's security restrictions prevent certain window actions, like positioning and centering. Refer to the Cosmoe repository's TODO file for more details.

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(cosmoe.org)
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Studio Ghibli at 40: A Legacy Uncertain?

2025-06-15
Studio Ghibli at 40: A Legacy Uncertain?

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Japan's Studio Ghibli, a studio celebrated for its complex plots and fantastical hand-drawn animation, boasting two Oscars and a global fanbase. However, the future is uncertain, with the latest hit "The Boy and the Heron" potentially being the final feature film from celebrated co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (84). The release of OpenAI's latest image generator in March sparked copyright concerns due to its resemblance to Ghibli's distinctive style. Since its founding in 1985 by Miyazaki and the late Isao Takahata, Ghibli has become a cultural phenomenon, further boosted by a second Academy Award in 2024 for "The Boy and the Heron" and Netflix's global streaming of its films.

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(www.japantimes.co.jp)
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The Millennial Barnacle Goose Myth: From Ancient Legends to Scientific Explanation

2025-03-23
The Millennial Barnacle Goose Myth: From Ancient Legends to Scientific Explanation

This article delves into the enduring myth of the barnacle goose, a belief that certain geese originated from barnacles. The myth, rooted in a lack of understanding of bird migration patterns, spread widely through monastic manuscripts and bestiaries in the Middle Ages. The article traces the myth's origins, from an 11th-century riddle to a misattributed reference in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and examines Emperor Frederick II's skepticism and the (debated) involvement of the medieval Church. The Renaissance saw the myth persist in Scottish and Irish writings, until 19th-century zoological advancements, particularly Darwin's research on barnacles, provided a scientific refutation. The article also explores the myth's presence in Jewish literature.

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Jwno: A Highly Customizable Tiling Window Manager for Windows

2025-05-20

Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built with the Janet programming language. It features a unique "magical parentheses" power for precise window control. While still under development (some documentation is incomplete), it offers installation guides, interactive tutorials, and a reference index. Screenshots showcase its use with applications like Emacs and Sonic Pi.

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AI Surveillance: Pandora's Box for Democracy?

2025-09-21
AI Surveillance: Pandora's Box for Democracy?

The State Department's new "Catch and Revoke" social media surveillance program, using AI to review tens of thousands of student visa applicants' social media footprints for signs of terrorism, highlights the intertwined dangers of AI, surveillance, and threats to democracy. The article argues that while AI offers the promise of predicting and controlling behavior, it accelerates existing trends, blurring lines between public and private data, and enabling the use of personal information for decision-making. While AI can be beneficial, the lack of restrictive controls poses a significant risk to democracy. Data trading and surveillance capitalism exacerbate these dangers, pushing private information into the public sphere and weaponizing it. The author emphasizes that AI's accuracy doesn't mean understanding individuals; rather, it categorizes them, erasing uniqueness and threatening the originality celebrated in democracy. The piece calls for stringent controls, similar to those governing nuclear energy, to prevent AI misuse and preserve democratic freedoms.

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(thebulletin.org)
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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.

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(www.stratolaunch.com)
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Will AI Code Generation Replace Human Engineers?

2025-04-15
Will AI Code Generation Replace Human Engineers?

This article explores the productivity comparison between AI code generation models (like Gemini) and human engineers. While currently a single engineer might be more efficient, AI model costs are decreasing, and their capabilities are improving. In the future, a large number of AI models working together, coupled with codebases and development tools optimized for AI, will far surpass human teams in efficiency. The article predicts that the software engineering industry will move towards industrialization, and the role of engineers will shift to managing and supervising AI as 'factory supervisors'.

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(benn.substack.com)
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GM Banned from Selling Driver Data for Five Years

2025-01-17
GM Banned from Selling Driver Data for Five Years

General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years following an FTC settlement. A New York Times investigation revealed GM collected detailed driving data, including acceleration, braking, and trip length, and sold it to insurers and third-party brokers without consent. The FTC accused GM of a misleading enrollment process for its OnStar service, failing to disclose data collection and sale to third parties. The settlement requires GM to obtain consent before collecting driving data and allow data deletion upon request.

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(www.theverge.com)
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DeepSeek Shakes Up the AI World: A Déjà Vu?

2025-02-18
DeepSeek Shakes Up the AI World: A Déjà Vu?

The emergence of DeepSeek models has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, sparking intense debate. This article revisits a 1990 speech by Gordon Moore on VLSI industry trends, highlighting striking similarities between the challenges then – competition from Asia, rising manufacturing costs, government support, and finding applications – and those facing the AI industry today. Moore's cautious stance on neural network chips back then, contrasted with AI's current boom, is thought-provoking. History seems to be repeating itself; technological advancements are rapid, yet fundamental industry questions persist.

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(thechipletter.substack.com)
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The West's Hidden Crisis: How Housing Shortages Are Undermining Everything

2025-03-01
The West's Hidden Crisis: How Housing Shortages Are Undermining Everything

The Western world faces numerous challenges: slow economic growth, climate change, health issues, financial instability, and more. This article argues that the root of many of these problems may lie in an overlooked factor—housing shortages. High housing costs not only increase the cost of living but also affect where people live, their jobs, family size, and even their health. Housing shortages constrain productivity growth, stifle innovation, exacerbate inequality, and lead to regional imbalances. The article calls for addressing housing shortages, arguing that doing so will not only lower housing costs but also improve overall living standards and foster social harmony.

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(worksinprogress.co)
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Lines of Code: A Flawed Metric - A Lisa Team Anecdote

2025-06-26

In early 1982, Apple's Lisa team tracked engineer productivity by lines of code. Bill Atkinson, QuickDraw's creator, found this metric absurd, prioritizing concise, efficient code. He optimized QuickDraw's region calculation, achieving a six-fold speed increase while reducing code by 2000 lines. On the productivity form, he famously reported '-2000'. Management wisely stopped using this flawed metric.

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(www.folklore.org)
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Porting Balatro to the Nintendo E-Reader: A Herculean Task

2025-06-21
Porting Balatro to the Nintendo E-Reader: A Herculean Task

The author, a huge fan of the card game Balatro, attempted to port it to the Nintendo Game Boy Advance's E-Reader peripheral. The E-Reader's limitations—small screen resolution, limited memory, and restricted numerical processing capabilities—presented significant challenges. A prototype was created, but it only includes a fraction of the core gameplay with simplifications like a streamlined scoring system and a reduced number of special cards. The author details the various technical hurdles encountered, including decimal number precision, sprite limitations, memory space constraints, and text display issues, exploring potential solutions. Ultimately, the prototype remains unreleased pending the original game's creator's approval.

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(mattgreer.dev)
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Ruby 3.4.0 Released: Performance Boost and Language Enhancements

2024-12-25

Ruby 3.4.0 is here with exciting updates! Language-wise, it introduces a new syntax for referencing block parameters, improves string literals, keyword splatting, and index assignments, and enhances exception handling. Core classes like Array, Hash, IO::Buffer, Integer, and String have been optimized with new methods added. YJIT has received significant improvements, boosting performance and memory efficiency. The standard library is also updated, including a 1.5x speedup in JSON parsing. This release enhances support for multi-core processors and improves garbage collection efficiency.

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(docs.ruby-lang.org)
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Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N1: Ushering in the Age of Generalist Robotics

2025-03-19
Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N1: Ushering in the Age of Generalist Robotics

Nvidia has released Isaac GR00T N1, an open-source, pre-trained foundation model for humanoid robots, marking the arrival of the generalist robotics era. This dual-system model, inspired by human cognition, features a fast-acting 'System 1' and a slower, reasoning 'System 2' powered by a vision language model. With minimal post-training data, it enables complex tasks like grasping and object manipulation. 1X Technologies successfully deployed it on their NEO Gamma robot for autonomous tidying. The model's open-source nature and customizability promise to significantly accelerate humanoid robot development and propel AI advancements.

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(www.theverge.com)
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APL's Double-Efficiency Solid-State Refrigeration Breakthrough

2025-09-21
APL's Double-Efficiency Solid-State Refrigeration Breakthrough

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL have developed a new solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology using nano-engineered materials, boasting double the efficiency of commercially available bulk materials. This scalable technology, called CHESS, addresses the growing demand for energy-efficient cooling solutions. Tested in real-world refrigerators, CHESS demonstrated nearly a 75% efficiency improvement. Its minuscule material requirements allow for mass production using semiconductor chip manufacturing, driving down costs and paving the way for wider adoption, potentially extending from small-scale refrigeration to large-scale HVAC applications and beyond.

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(www.sciencedaily.com)
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Majority of Britons May Now Consider Themselves Neurodivergent

2025-05-05
Majority of Britons May Now Consider Themselves Neurodivergent

A leading psychologist suggests that a majority of Britons may now identify as neurodivergent due to increased awareness and reduced stigma surrounding conditions like autism, dyslexia, and dyspraxia. Professor Francesca Happé attributes this to both increased diagnoses and self-diagnosis. While celebrating the greater tolerance, particularly among younger generations, she also cautions against overdiagnosis, noting that behaviors once considered mere eccentricities might now be labeled as neurological conditions.

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(www.thetimes.com)
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Testeranto: AI-Powered ATDD Framework for Automating Test Fixes

2025-03-09
Testeranto: AI-Powered ATDD Framework for Automating Test Fixes

Testeranto is an AI-first Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) framework for TypeScript projects, currently under development. It uses a strongly-typed, Gherkin-like syntax for specifying tests and integrates with Aider.ai to automatically fix failing tests. Instead of directly testing your code, Testeranto requires wrapping your code with a semantic interface based on TS type signatures. It runs in the frontend, backend, or both, and can test anything bundlable with esbuild.

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(www.npmjs.com)
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Rare Brucellosis Case Highlights Food Safety Risks

2025-03-23
Rare Brucellosis Case Highlights Food Safety Risks

A rare case of Brucellosis caused by B. suis, a bacteria typically found in pigs, has been reported in the US. The patient, not a hunter, consumed wild boar meat gifted by a local hunter in 2017, handling raw meat and blood directly. While Brucella species have been removed from the select agents list to facilitate research and vaccine development, this case underscores the dangers of consuming undercooked wild game and the importance of food safety.

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(arstechnica.com)
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