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Used Seagate Drives Masquerading as New: A Global Hard Drive Scam

2025-02-09
Used Seagate Drives Masquerading as New: A Global Hard Drive Scam

Online retailers are unknowingly selling used Seagate hard drives as new. Fraudsters have reset the SMART values of drives, often with an average runtime of 25,000 hours, and reintroduced them into the supply chain. While SMART values can be manipulated, the FARM values (Field Accessible Reliability Metrics) remain, revealing the drives' true age. The issue is global, affecting official dealers and impacting customers worldwide. Suspicion points to decommissioned Chia cryptocurrency farms as the source of these drives. Many drives are sold as OEM, lacking manufacturer warranties, making consumer recourse difficult. Buyers are urged to verify warranty status immediately upon receiving drives.

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(www.heise.de)
Hardware hard drive scam Chia farms

NYC Real Estate Boom: Manhattan Dominates Luxury Market

2025-04-30
NYC Real Estate Boom: Manhattan Dominates Luxury Market

NYC's median home sale price jumped 10% year-over-year in Q1 2025, reaching $768,000. Manhattan claimed the top five priciest neighborhoods, with Hudson Yards leading at a staggering $5.355 million median sale price. Brooklyn and Queens also saw significant increases, with multiple neighborhoods in the city's top 50 most expensive areas. However, these increases paled in comparison to Manhattan's surge. The Bronx saw the smallest increase, with no neighborhoods making the top 50. The report highlights the impact of increased transactions and higher-priced homes driving up prices in certain areas, showcasing a dynamic and stratified NYC real estate market.

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SharePoint Zero-Day Exploited Before Patch Release: A Leak?

2025-07-27
SharePoint Zero-Day Exploited Before Patch Release: A Leak?

A critical SharePoint vulnerability disclosed at the May Pwn2Own competition was massively exploited a day before Microsoft released a patch in July. Security researchers suspect a leak allowed attackers to bypass the fix. The incident involved Chinese state-sponsored actors, ransomware operators, and compromised over 400 organizations. While Microsoft issued updated patches, the event highlights risks in vulnerability disclosure and patching processes, underscoring the importance of cybersecurity.

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(www.theregister.com)
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C++26: The Unnamed Placeholder `_` Arrives

2025-01-11

C++26 introduces a game-changing feature: the unnamed placeholder `_`. This solves a long-standing annoyance in C++: handling unused variables. Previously, developers needed `[[maybe_unused]]` or `std::ignore` to avoid compiler warnings, especially with structured bindings. The `_` placeholder can be declared multiple times without conflict and implicitly has the `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute, simplifying code and improving readability. This feature is already implemented in GCC 14 and Clang 18.

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(www.sandordargo.com)
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11M IOPS & 66 GiB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation: A Deep Dive

2025-05-06

This article details the configuration of an AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation with 10 PCIe 4.0 SSDs to achieve 11M IOPS for 4kB random reads and 66 GiB/s throughput for larger IOs. The author tackles bottlenecks like RAM access and CPU limitations, delving into Linux block I/O internals and their interaction with modern hardware. The process includes hardware selection, I/O configuration (direct I/O and I/O schedulers), multi-disk testing, and BIOS settings, ultimately achieving remarkable performance.

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(tanelpoder.com)
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Your Open Office is Giving You Secondhand ADHD

2025-08-16
Your Open Office is Giving You Secondhand ADHD

A developer tracked his coding patterns for a month and discovered he's three times more creative at home than in the office. Constant interruptions in the open office led to significant 'exploring' time (re-reading code) instead of focused coding. This isn't just about productivity; the environment fundamentally alters his work style. Research shows it takes 23 minutes to refocus after an interruption, impossible in a busy office. He used data to convince his manager to let him work from home on complex tasks, reserving office time for collaboration. The article highlights how office environments impact individual productivity and the power of data-driven optimization.

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(floustate.com)
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Beavers Build Dam Overnight, Saving Village?

2025-02-10
Beavers Build Dam Overnight, Saving Village?

Jaroslav Obermajer, head of the Central Bohemian office of the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency, reported to Radio Prague International that beavers built a dam overnight, preventing a village from being flooded. Using rocks, mud, and wood, these industrious rodents created a structure that not only benefits them but also provides habitat for numerous other species and acts as a natural firebreak, carbon sink, and flood control measure. While a Bavarian beaver manager, Gerhard Schwab, praises the beavers' efficiency, he questions the 'overnight' claim.

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(www.nationalgeographic.com)
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The Delight of Visual Rhyme: How Patterns in Art Create Pleasure

2025-08-21
The Delight of Visual Rhyme: How Patterns in Art Create Pleasure

This article explores how the interplay of repetition and variation in art creates aesthetic pleasure. Using Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day" as a prime example, the author analyzes the repetition and subtle variations of geometric shapes like triangles and rectangles, and how these patterns trigger visual satisfaction in the brain. The article further examines Lee Friedlander's photograph "Albuquerque, New Mexico," and works by Roni Horn and Ormond Gigli, arguing that the "same-but-different" repetition patterns in various art forms generate visual rhyme, leading to aesthetic enjoyment for the viewer.

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(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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Unearthing Hidden Gems on Hacker News

2025-08-29

This tool helps you discover recently posted, high-effort content on Hacker News that hasn't received much attention. It searches the HN API's Ask, Show, and New feeds for posts from the last 3-7 days, ranking them by a 'Passion Score'. This score balances text length against engagement (votes and comments), highlighting substantial posts with minimal recognition – perfect for finding insightful contributions the community might have missed.

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Fuzzing Concurrency Bugs with a BPF Scheduler

2025-02-14

At FOSDEM, Jake Hillion from Meta and Johannes Bechberger, an OpenJDK developer, presented their concurrency fuzzing scheduler built using the BPF scheduling framework, `sched_ext`. This scheduler deliberately introduces randomness in scheduling, causing delays and altering thread execution order to surface elusive concurrency bugs. While currently having a significant performance overhead, limiting its use to development debugging, it offers an effective way to uncover real-world logic errors and shows promise for future production use after optimization.

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(lwn.net)
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Mac App Store's AI Chat App Clone Frenzy

2025-09-15
Mac App Store's AI Chat App Clone Frenzy

Searching for "AI chat" on the Mac App Store reveals a comical abundance of ChatGPT lookalike app icons. These apps have nearly identical icons with subtle differences, and their names are equally creative, like "Al Chatbot." The irony? The official ChatGPT desktop app isn't even on the Mac App Store; it's only available from OpenAI's website. This highlights potential weaknesses in the App Store's review process and the opportunistic behavior of developers capitalizing on popular trends.

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(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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Indiana Jones Jailbreak Exposes LLM Vulnerabilities

2025-02-24
Indiana Jones Jailbreak Exposes LLM Vulnerabilities

Researchers have devised a new jailbreak technique, dubbed 'Indiana Jones,' that successfully bypasses the safety filters of large language models (LLMs). This method uses three coordinated LLMs to iteratively extract potentially harmful information, such as instructions on how to become historical villains, that should have been filtered. The researchers hope their findings will lead to safer LLMs through improved filtering, machine unlearning techniques, and other security enhancements.

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(techxplore.com)
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AI Product Management: New Best Practices in a Generative AI World

2024-12-13
AI Product Management: New Best Practices in a Generative AI World

The rise of generative AI and AI-based developer tools is reshaping best practices in AI product management. This article highlights the importance of using concrete examples (inputs and desired outputs) to clearly define product specifications. This not only helps teams move faster but also improves the efficiency of assessing technical feasibility. For example, prompting LLMs to test their accuracy on specific tasks allows for quick validation of product ideas. Furthermore, tools like Replit and Vercel empower product managers to build prototypes independently and gather user feedback, accelerating iteration. In short, AI is revolutionizing AI product management, demanding that product managers master new best practices to meet the rapidly evolving market demands.

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(www.deeplearning.ai)
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Google CEO Testifies: Data Sharing Proposal Would Be a 'De Facto' Breakup of Search

2025-04-30
Google CEO Testifies: Data Sharing Proposal Would Be a 'De Facto' Breakup of Search

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in an antitrust trial that the Department of Justice's proposal to share search data with rivals would be a “de facto” divestiture of the company’s search engine. Pichai argued that sharing data and ranking algorithms would allow competitors to reverse-engineer Google's technology, harming its R&D. The DOJ wants Google to divest Chrome, license search data, stop paying for exclusive placements, and extend the ban to AI products like Gemini. Google counters that this would harm consumers, the economy, and US tech leadership. This marks Pichai's third antitrust trial testimony in recent years, highlighting the intense antitrust scrutiny Google faces.

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(www.moneycontrol.com)
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Greek Youth Revolutionizing Tech: Rockets, Robots, and Supercars!

2025-04-26
Greek Youth Revolutionizing Tech: Rockets, Robots, and Supercars!

A recent report highlights the burgeoning technological talent of Greece's youth. Student teams are making waves in international aerospace, robotics, and automotive engineering competitions. ASAT, for example, consistently ranks among the top student teams in Europe. bitLab's silver medal at WRO 2024 and European championship victory showcase their prowess. Numerous universities are actively involved, with labs like NTUA's Legged Robots Team and AUTH's Robotics Lab leading the charge. This success story not only demonstrates the innovative capacity of Greece's young generation but also offers a beacon of hope for the nation's technological advancement, challenging preconceived notions about Greek technological capabilities.

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(greekanalyst.substack.com)
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Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

2025-05-08
Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

Tattoo removal is no longer a nightmare! Today's picosecond laser technology is revolutionizing how we remove unwanted ink. These lasers shatter ink particles into tiny pieces, allowing the body's immune system to clear them. While the process isn't painless, multiple sessions can effectively fade or remove tattoos. Advances in technology and affordability are making tattoo removal commonplace, comparable to routine maintenance. This boom signals a potential shift in tattoo culture itself, questioning the permanence of body art.

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(www.gq.com)
Tech tattoo removal aesthetic medicine

CallFS: A Distributed, High-Performance REST API Filesystem

2025-07-15
CallFS: A Distributed, High-Performance REST API Filesystem

CallFS is an ultra-lightweight, high-performance REST API filesystem offering precise Linux filesystem semantics across various backends, including local storage, Amazon S3, and a distributed peer-to-peer network. Designed for speed, reliability, and horizontal scalability, it features a modular architecture with components like an API server, core engine, pluggable storage backends, PostgreSQL metadata store, Redis-based distributed lock manager, and a link manager. CallFS provides rich file and directory operations, secure single-use download links, comprehensive security, and robust observability.

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(github.com)
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ARB Assembly Shaders: A Deep Dive Before GLSL

2025-05-15
ARB Assembly Shaders: A Deep Dive Before GLSL

This article delves into ARB assembly shaders, a shading language used in OpenGL before the advent of GLSL. It details ARB shader integration, language features, instruction sets, and comparisons with GLSL. While now largely obsolete, understanding ARB assembly provides valuable insight into the evolution of modern graphics programming and the underlying mechanisms of lower-level graphics technologies.

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(mid.net.ua)
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Modular RAG: Can Reasoning Models Replace Traditional Retrieval Pipelines?

2025-02-26
Modular RAG: Can Reasoning Models Replace Traditional Retrieval Pipelines?

kapa.ai experimented with a modular Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system powered by reasoning models to simplify their AI assistant and reduce the need for manual parameter tuning. Using the o3-mini model, they found that while there were modest gains in code generation, the system didn't outperform traditional RAG pipelines in core retrieval tasks like information retrieval quality and knowledge extraction. The experiment revealed a "reasoning ≠ experience" fallacy: reasoning models lack practical experience with retrieval tools and require improved prompting strategies or pre-training to utilize them effectively. The conclusion is that reasoning-based modular RAG isn't currently superior to traditional RAG within reasonable time constraints, but its flexibility and scalability remain attractive.

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(www.kapa.ai)
AI Information Retrieval

OpenFreeMap Hit by 3 Billion Requests in 24 Hours: A Collaborative Drawing Site's Unexpected Consequence

2025-08-09
OpenFreeMap Hit by 3 Billion Requests in 24 Hours: A Collaborative Drawing Site's Unexpected Consequence

OpenFreeMap, a free and open-source map tile service, faced a massive surge of 3 billion requests in just 24 hours, resulting in 215 TB of bandwidth usage. The culprit? A collaborative drawing website, Wplace.live, whose users bombarded the service with scripted requests. Despite OpenFreeMap's robust architecture and Cloudflare's bandwidth sponsorship, the incident highlighted the need for improved traffic control. The author contacted Wplace.live's developer and plans to implement Cloudflare rules to limit traffic and enhance server configuration to address missing tiles.

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(blog.hyperknot.com)
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Procolored Printer Software Found to Contain Malware; $100k Stolen

2025-05-19
Procolored Printer Software Found to Contain Malware; $100k Stolen

A YouTuber reviewing a Procolored UV printer discovered malware in the accompanying software, triggering a security alert. Security firm G Data investigated and found the software contained SnipVex, a cryptocurrency stealer that stole roughly $100,000 in Bitcoin. The attacker used clipboard manipulation to replace Bitcoin addresses and infected executable files. Procolored responded that the software was likely infected during transfer, removed the software, and provided a clean version. Security experts recommend users thoroughly check their systems and reinstall if necessary.

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(www.neowin.net)
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IBM Layoffs: US Jobs Shifting to India

2025-03-28
IBM Layoffs: US Jobs Shifting to India

IBM's layoffs are far more extensive than previously reported, with a significant number of US employees losing their jobs, while these positions are being transferred to India. Data reveals a surge in job openings in India, contrasting with a persistent decline in the US. An IBM employee recounted being tasked with training new Indian hires, only to receive a layoff notice themselves. Many laid-off employees possessed extensive cloud experience, replaced by less experienced Indian workers, resulting in decreased quality and efficiency. This raises concerns about IBM's offshoring practices and the implications for US workers' rights and the company's future direction.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Visualizing Async Rust Execution Trees with await-tree

2025-04-02
Visualizing Async Rust Execution Trees with await-tree

await-tree is a Rust library for visualizing the execution tree of asynchronous tasks. It traces the execution flow of asynchronous tasks and presents the result as a tree structure, facilitating debugging and analysis of complex asynchronous code. Compared to similar tools like async-backtrace, await-tree supports runtime dynamic spans, more complex asynchronous control flows, and offers higher stability and efficiency. It has been used in production deployment in RisingWave, a distributed streaming database.

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(github.com)
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Cryogenic Computing: Potential and Bottlenecks of High-Frequency Cores

2025-06-09
Cryogenic Computing: Potential and Bottlenecks of High-Frequency Cores

This paper explores cryogenic semiconductor computing and superconductor electronics as alternatives to traditional semiconductors. Facing challenges like increased leakage current and performance degradation at higher temperatures, these technologies offer high-performance, low-power computation. The study uses gem5 to model in-order and out-of-order cores at high clock frequencies, evaluating performance using real-world applications (NPB, SPEC CPU2006, GAPBS). Results reveal potential speedups but also highlight limitations imposed by cache bandwidth.

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(arch.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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X11 DPI Scaling: Debunking the Myth

2025-06-25

The author challenges the common belief that X11 doesn't support DPI scaling by successfully drawing a two-inch circle across multiple screens with varying sizes and resolutions. Using OpenGL and X server configuration events, the author dynamically adjusts the circle's radius based on physical screen dimensions obtained from the X server. Despite encountering minor inaccuracies, like a discrepancy in the TV's reported size, the experiment proves DPI scaling in X11 is achievable. The process highlights the importance of ignoring limitations imposed by others and pursuing seemingly impossible tasks.

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(flak.tedunangst.com)
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Senior Devs Embrace AI Code, But Efficiency Gains Aren't Always Smooth Sailing

2025-09-01
Senior Devs Embrace AI Code, But Efficiency Gains Aren't Always Smooth Sailing

A Fastly survey reveals senior developers are more likely to use AI-generated code than junior developers, with over half of their shipped code originating from AI. While AI can significantly boost coding speed, senior developers also spend more time fixing AI-generated errors, offsetting some time savings. The survey also uncovers the hidden costs of AI coding: high energy consumption and potential vulnerabilities. Despite this, AI still improves developer job satisfaction.

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(www.fastly.com)
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Gen Z Locked Out: How AI Is Aging Silicon Valley's Workforce

2025-09-08
Gen Z Locked Out: How AI Is Aging Silicon Valley's Workforce

Silicon Valley is getting older, and it's not a natural aging process. Data reveals a dramatic decline in the number of Gen Z employees at tech companies, halved in just two years. AI-driven automation is replacing entry-level positions, leaving younger workers displaced while older, more established employees retain their jobs. This trend, fueled by efficiency gains and cost-cutting measures, threatens innovation and long-term stability. Experts advise Gen Z to adapt by mastering AI tools, pursuing upskilling opportunities, and exploring alternative career paths to navigate this changing landscape.

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(fortune.com)
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KDE Linux: An Immutable Arch-Based Distro Aims for Bulletproof Stability

2025-08-10
KDE Linux: An Immutable Arch-Based Distro Aims for Bulletproof Stability

KDE has unveiled KDE Linux, a brand-new, ambitious Linux distribution built on Arch Linux – not a replacement for KDE Neon. This immutable distro features dual read-only Btrfs root partitions, updating like a smartphone OS with whole-system image replacements. Designed for superior stability and security, it's currently pre-alpha, with limitations including a lack of Secure Boot support and Nvidia driver compatibility issues. While early testing reveals bugs (like desktop crashes on login), its radical design and commitment to robustness make it a promising project.

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(www.theregister.com)
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