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Apple TV+ App Finally Lands on Android

2025-02-13

Apple TV+ App Finally Lands on Android

After years of relying on less-than-ideal web or PWA solutions, Apple TV+ finally has a dedicated Android app. Available on phones and tablets via the Google Play Store, the app boasts smooth playback, a clean Material 3 design, offline downloads, and picture-in-picture functionality. While casting support and new episode notifications are currently absent, the app offers a significant upgrade, particularly with the inclusion of Google Play Billing for streamlined subscription management.

(9to5google.com)

Tech

DOJ's Antitrust Proposal Could Kill Browser Competition

2025-03-12

The Department of Justice's proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google case could inadvertently kill browser competition. The plan to ban all search payments to browser developers would severely harm smaller, independent browsers like Firefox, crucial for maintaining an open, innovative, and free web. Losing search revenue would make survival difficult, potentially leaving Google's Chromium as the only cross-platform browser engine and exacerbating the dominance of tech giants. Mozilla argues this won't solve search monopolies but harms consumers by reducing choice and weakening the internet ecosystem.

(blog.mozilla.org)

Tech google

lsof Demystified: Unveiling a Process's Open Files

2025-06-06

This code snippet uses the command `lsof -p $(echo $$)` to list all open files for the current zsh process. The output reveals details such as process ID, user, file descriptor type, device, size, and path, providing a clear picture of the process's interactions with the filesystem. This is invaluable for understanding process behavior and debugging file handle leaks.

(mattrighetti.com)

Development file descriptors

Atproto: A Decentralized Social Network Revolution?

2025-01-18

Atproto is an emerging decentralized social networking protocol that solves problems inherent in traditional social networks like account-app binding and scattered data storage. It uses Personal Data Servers (PDS) and domain-based identities, allowing users to own their identity and data, and reuse the same identity across different apps. This simplifies development for various 'social-enabled' applications (forums, long-form writing platforms, etc.) and fosters new business models. Compared to the Fediverse, Atproto boasts improved interoperability and user experience. The success of projects like Bluesky further fuels Atproto's growth, promising a new generation of social networks centered around user-owned identities.

(anirudh.fi)

Tech

GTA VI Delayed Until May 26, 2026

2025-05-02

GTA VI Delayed Until May 26, 2026

Rockstar Games announced a delay for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, pushing the release date back to May 26, 2026. This marks a full year delay from the previously hinted 2025 release window. Rockstar cited the need for additional time to ensure the game meets quality expectations, apologizing for the postponement. While disappointing for fans, the delay wasn't entirely unexpected, with insiders previously suggesting a 2025 launch was unlikely. The delay highlights the complexities of game development and the commitment to delivering a high-quality product.

(arstechnica.com)

Game Game Delay

File Format Design and ZX Spectrum Game Dev Musings

2025-05-25

The author shares ten tips for designing file formats, covering checking existing formats, readability considerations, using a chunked structure, allowing partial parsing, versioning, writing a specification document, and more. He then details the process of developing a ZX Spectrum fishing game called "Deep Fishing," from design document to code implementation, including asset conversion, pixel drawing, random function usage, and audio design. Furthermore, the author shares his thoughts on playing through the Mass Effect trilogy, and outlines his new year's resolutions, including studying math, exercising, and updating the SoLoud library.

(solhsa.com)

Development file format design

gmap: Command-Line Git Repo Explorer

2025-08-04

gmap: Command-Line Git Repo Explorer

gmap is a powerful command-line tool providing a quick and intuitive way to analyze Git repository activity. Visualize commit history with heatmaps, identify churn-heavy files, explore contributor dynamics, and more. Answer crucial questions like 'which files change most?', 'who contributed the most?', and 'are there dormant code areas?'—all without complex commands. It's a developer's efficiency booster.

(github.com)

Development

Groundbreaking LNP X: Efficient mRNA Delivery to Resting T Cells, Revolutionizing HIV Therapy?

2025-06-08

Groundbreaking LNP X: Efficient mRNA Delivery to Resting T Cells, Revolutionizing HIV Therapy?

Researchers have developed a novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP X) capable of efficiently delivering mRNA to resting CD4+ T cells without pre-stimulation, unlike existing LNP formulations. LNP X's improved lipid composition, incorporating SM-102 and β-sitosterol, enhances cytosolic mRNA delivery and protein expression. Studies show LNP X delivers mRNA encoding HIV Tat, effectively reversing HIV latency, and also delivers CRISPRa systems to activate HIV transcription. This research opens new avenues for HIV therapy development, potentially significantly improving patient outcomes.

(www.nature.com)

AI mRNA delivery HIV therapy

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Shows Promise in Treating Treatment-Resistant PTSD

2025-05-07

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Shows Promise in Treating Treatment-Resistant PTSD

A groundbreaking clinical study reveals that combining vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with traditional therapy led to complete remission of PTSD in all participants up to six months post-treatment. The trial paired prolonged exposure therapy with brief VNS bursts via an implanted device, boosting neuroplasticity and sustaining remission. This offers hope for those unresponsive to conventional methods, with a larger, double-blind Phase 2 trial underway.

(neurosciencenews.com)

Tech Vagus Nerve Stimulation Neuroplasticity

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

2025-03-24

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

Nvidia's CUDA platform, celebrating its 18th anniversary, is far more than a programming language or API; it's the core of Nvidia's software ecosystem, powering numerous "embarrassingly parallel" computing tasks from AI to cryptocurrency mining. CUDA's success stems from Nvidia's consistent long-term investment and steady updates, a stark contrast to competitors like AMD. The success of AlexNet highlighted CUDA's early influence in deep learning, and today, it's the de facto standard in AI, forming a strong competitive moat for Nvidia.

(thechipletter.substack.com)

AI

A Million-Dollar Surprise: De Gaulle's Hidden Collection Found

2024-12-17

A Million-Dollar Surprise: De Gaulle's Hidden Collection Found

A forgotten trove of Charles de Gaulle's personal letters, speeches, and manuscripts has been discovered in a safe, set to be auctioned for over $1 million. The collection, found in a bank vault belonging to his son, includes the handwritten manuscript of his famous 1940 speech calling for French resistance against the Nazis, correspondence with Winston Churchill, early short stories, and personal notebooks offering insights into his intellectual development. This unexpected discovery unveils a fascinating glimpse into the life and thoughts of the iconic French leader, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Anne de Gaulle Foundation.

(www.smithsonianmag.com)

Misc Charles de Gaulle Auction Historical Documents

flint: A Modern KVM Management UI

2025-09-07

flint: A Modern KVM Management UI

flint is a single binary, self-contained KVM virtualization management solution for developers, sysadmins, and advanced home labs. It features a sleek web UI, CLI, and API, enabling efficient VM management without the overhead of complex platforms. The 8.4MB binary requires only libvirt (no other dependencies), offering a streamlined setup. It supports Cloud-Init, a managed image library, and multiple import options, while remaining non-intrusive. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.

(github.com)

Development

Trump's Trade War: Wall Street's Epic Miscalculation

2025-04-04

Trump's Trade War: Wall Street's Epic Miscalculation

The Trump administration's surprise announcement of new tariffs on nearly every country caught Wall Street completely off guard. The market had optimistically assumed a more moderate approach from Trump, a severe misjudgment. Trump's protectionist policies are unprecedented, imposing crushing tariffs not only on strategic rivals like China, but also on Vietnam, Bangladesh, and allies like the EU and Japan. This isn't reciprocal; it's unilateral and overwhelming. The result was a market panic. The article highlights Trump's extreme aversion to trade deficits and his bizarre methodology for calculating tariff rates as key factors. He views any trade deficit as America being 'ripped off,' ignoring the complexities and employing a nonsensical formula to support his view. Ultimately, investors' misreading of Trump led to the market crash, a direct consequence of Trump's consistent stance and policies.

(www.theatlantic.com)

Tech

DeepSeek-VL2: Advanced Multimodal Understanding with Mixture-of-Experts

2025-01-01

DeepSeek-VL2: Advanced Multimodal Understanding with Mixture-of-Experts

DeepSeek-VL2 is an advanced series of large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Vision-Language Models significantly improving upon its predecessor. It excels in various tasks including visual question answering, optical character recognition, and document/table/chart understanding. The series comprises three variants: DeepSeek-VL2-Tiny, DeepSeek-VL2-Small, and DeepSeek-VL2, with 1.0B, 2.8B, and 4.5B activated parameters, respectively. DeepSeek-VL2 achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance with similar or fewer activated parameters compared to existing open-source models. The project is open-sourced, offering model downloads, quick start guides, and demo examples.

(github.com)

AI Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Understanding

Finding Meaning in a Classic Mac: A Personal Tech History

2025-07-08

Finding Meaning in a Classic Mac: A Personal Tech History

The author's father loves classic cars, seeing them as symbols of a bygone technological era. The author, mirroring this, bought a 1989 Macintosh SE/30, not out of nostalgia for the machine itself, but to explore a period of computing he missed. This Mac serves as both a tribute to a past era and a symbol of the progress that has since been made, much like his father's beloved classic cars. The author plans to restore and occasionally use the computer, much as his father takes occasional drives in his classic automobiles.

(blog.decryption.net.au)

Tech classic computer

Thrift Store Find: $30 Valve Potentially Worth $223,520

2025-02-27

Thrift Store Find: $30 Valve Potentially Worth $223,520

A Washington State man, Zach, purchased an aircraft engine air supply valve for $30 at a thrift store. The part, identified as a Honeywell 3290628-4, is reportedly part of a GE CF6-80 engine from an A330-300 and had a reference value of $223,520 in 2011, according to Aeroval. While Zach acknowledges the difficulty of selling the part due to missing documentation and its potentially non-functional state, the story highlights the surprising value of discarded items and the potential for incredible thrift store finds.

(www.avweb.com)

Misc thrift store find aircraft parts unexpected value

Tower of Time: An AI-Assisted Time-Traveling Tower Defense Game

2025-07-04

Tower of Time: An AI-Assisted Time-Traveling Tower Defense Game

Tower of Time is a unique tower defense game blending strategic tower placement with time-manipulation mechanics. Overwhelmed? Rewind time and adjust your defenses! This game, approximately 95% AI-coded using tools like Augment Code and Cursor, showcases the potential of AI in game development. Featuring multiple tower types, energy management, wave-based enemies, and support for keyboard and gamepad, it's a compelling example of AI-assisted game creation.

(github.com)

Game tower defense

Rails Security Audit Reveals Improvements, Highlights Future Work

2025-06-15

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) released a security audit of Ruby on Rails, conducted by X41 D-Sec with support from GitLab and the Sovereign Tech Agency. The four-month audit uncovered 7 security findings and provided 6 recommendations for improvement. The report highlights the maturation of Rails' security over recent years while also outlining areas for future enhancement. OSTIF also celebrated its 10th anniversary and invited participation in upcoming meetups.

(ostif.org)

Development

Were Neanderthals Cold-Adapted or Just Highly Adaptable? Ribcage Reconstruction Offers Clues

2024-12-23

Were Neanderthals Cold-Adapted or Just Highly Adaptable? Ribcage Reconstruction Offers Clues

A new study virtually reconstructs a Neanderthal ribcage from Shanidar Cave in Iraq. The results reveal a unique "bell-shaped" Neanderthal thorax, distinct from modern humans and closer to those adapted to cold climates. However, this doesn't imply exclusive cold-adaptation, as Shanidar 3 and Kebara 2 Neanderthals lived in relatively mild climates. The study suggests Neanderthal body builds were adaptable to various climate types, not just cold ones.

(phys.org)

Tech ribcage reconstruction climate adaptation

PowerPoint Killed Seven: The Columbia Disaster

2025-08-29

PowerPoint Killed Seven: The Columbia Disaster

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of January 16th, 2003, claimed the lives of seven astronauts. An investigation revealed that a piece of foam insulation detached 82 seconds into launch, striking the shuttle's left wing and causing catastrophic damage upon re-entry. The incident highlights the devastating consequences of seemingly minor failures in complex systems, prompting reflection on both spacecraft safety and the effectiveness of communication, in contrast to the often ineffective ‘death by PowerPoint’ presentations.

(mcdreeamiemusings.com)

Tech Space Shuttle Columbia Space Disaster

Blemmyes: Headless Wonders of Ancient Lore

2025-07-02

Blemmyes: Headless Wonders of Ancient Lore

Despite their fictional nature, the headless Blemmyes have become a staple in bestiaries and travelogues, appearing as early as the late tenth-century Marvels of the East. Depictions often portray them in a state of bewildered confusion, their absence of a neck a source of both fascination and amusement. These illustrations frequently pair Blemmyes with equally bizarre companions: a headless archer targeting a trumpet-playing merman, a Blemmye frolicking with a dog-headed friend and an elephant-trunked man, or a Blemmye regretting a wish granted—a head grafted from an angry swan. Sometimes terrifying, wielding clubs and crossbows, other times unexpectedly cute, as seen in a sixteenth-century illustration where an orange Blemmye seems embarrassed by dancing bipedal jackals above where its head should be.

(publicdomainreview.org)

Misc Ancient Lore Mythical Creatures

Maine Prison's Remote Work Program: A Path to Redemption

2024-12-24

Maine Prison's Remote Work Program: A Path to Redemption

Maine's prison system is conducting a bold experiment: allowing inmates to work remotely. This program not only provides inmates with fair market wages, helping them pay restitution, support children, and save for the future, but also instills dignity and hope. Remote work allows inmates to learn new skills, build self-worth, and prepare for re-entry into society. While facing skepticism from victims and the public, the program's positive impact is undeniable, offering a model for prison reform in other states.

(www.bostonglobe.com)

Misc prison reform reintegration

Senators Eye Gutting Section 230: A Threat to Everyday Internet Users

2025-03-25

Senators Eye Gutting Section 230: A Threat to Everyday Internet Users

Several Senators are again attempting to dismantle Section 230, a crucial law protecting internet users. Contrary to claims that it only shields Big Tech, Section 230 provides limited liability for all platforms, disproportionately benefiting smaller ones and individual users. Repealing it would solidify Big Tech monopolies and harm individuals' ability to speak, organize, and create online. The law allows platforms to moderate content without facing publisher liability, incentivizing them to combat illegal activity and harmful content. Repeal would create the opposite effect, leading to a surge in harmful online material.

(www.eff.org)

Tech Section 230 online speech

Microdot: A Tiny Web Framework for Microcontrollers

2025-09-07

At EuroPython 2025, Miguel Grinberg presented Microdot, a lightweight web framework running on both MicroPython and CPython, suitable for systems ranging from IoT devices to cloud servers. Inspired by Flask but significantly smaller, Microdot's creation stemmed from Grinberg's experience with a faulty smart thermostat in his Irish home. He built a MicroPython-based system to control heating and used Microdot to create a simple web interface for monitoring temperature and humidity. Microdot's core is remarkably concise at 765 lines of code, supporting asynchronous operations and common features, with extensions providing advanced functionality. Its design emphasizes simplicity and avoids complexity, making it ideal for building web applications on microcontrollers.

(lwn.net)

Development

Rendering Chrome in a Terminal: The Carbonyl Browser Project

2025-09-05

The Carbonyl project attempts to render web pages within a terminal. The author cleverly uses terminal characters and escape sequences, combined with Rust and C++, to achieve basic web rendering. The article details how to simulate pixels using Unicode characters, handle text drawing, mouse input, and inter-process communication with Chrome, while tackling rendering efficiency and layout issues. While still early-stage, Carbonyl demonstrates the feasibility of rendering web pages in a terminal environment, offering developers a novel area of exploration.

(fathy.fr)

Development terminal rendering

Masimo Sues US Customs to Block Apple's Restored Blood Oxygen Feature on Apple Watch

2025-08-21

Masimo Sues US Customs to Block Apple's Restored Blood Oxygen Feature on Apple Watch

Following a patent infringement lawsuit by Masimo, Apple's blood oxygen feature on the Apple Watch was initially banned. While Apple disabled the feature via software, it recently re-enabled it, calling it a "redesigned" feature. Masimo now alleges that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) overstepped its authority and violated due process by allowing Apple to restore the functionality. The lawsuit seeks to prevent CBP's decision and reinstate the original ban. The central issue is whether CBP violated due process and whether Apple's 'redesigned' feature still constitutes patent infringement.

(9to5mac.com)

Tech Patent Lawsuit

WTF: Visualizing Builds to Find Performance Bottlenecks

2025-08-15

WTF: Visualizing Builds to Find Performance Bottlenecks

What the Fork is a cross-platform tool that visualizes the build process of any build system, helping developers identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. By monitoring system calls, it tracks process start and termination, generating an interactive visualization showing process timelines, commands, and arguments. The author demonstrates its power through examples from various projects, revealing issues like lack of parallelism and redundant operations. This allows developers to significantly optimize build times, particularly beneficial for CI builds.

(danielchasehooper.com)

Development build optimization

Robotics vs. AI: Debunking Complexity Misconceptions

2025-01-11

This article tackles common misconceptions surrounding the complexities of robotics versus AI. The author argues that people often conflate the two fields, assuming advancements in AI directly translate to breakthroughs in robotics. However, the core challenge in robotics lies in the intricate nature of sensorimotor control, far more difficult than commonly perceived. This aligns with Moravec's Paradox: low-level sensorimotor skills are harder to replicate than high-level reasoning. The author further explains how current AI solutions rely on immense computing power and massive datasets, conditions difficult to replicate in robotics. Hardware limitations, data bottlenecks, and model speed are also discussed, alongside a forward-looking perspective on future robotics development.

(harimus.github.io)

AI Moravec's Paradox

Multithreading: The Wrong Design?

2025-04-02

This article challenges the common misconception that multithreading always improves performance. The author argues that modern CPUs don't operate as a shared memory model as often taught, and multithreading introduces significant overhead due to cache coherence issues and synchronization primitives, leading to performance degradation and increased complexity. Duplicating single-threaded code across multiple cores is presented as a more efficient approach, leveraging CPU time more effectively and resulting in simpler, more maintainable code. The author advocates for single-threaded designs like Node.js and Actor models as superior for utilizing modern CPU resources, despite the perception that multithreading is a more sophisticated approach.

(unetworkingab.medium.com)

Development

LLM Elimination Game: Social Reasoning, Strategy, and Deception

2025-04-07

LLM Elimination Game: Social Reasoning, Strategy, and Deception

Researchers created a multiplayer "elimination game" benchmark to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in social reasoning, strategy, and deception. Eight LLMs compete, engaging in public and private conversations, forming alliances, and voting to eliminate opponents until only two remain. A jury of eliminated players then decides the winner. Analyzing conversation logs, voting patterns, and rankings reveals how LLMs balance shared knowledge with hidden intentions, forging alliances or betraying them strategically. The benchmark goes beyond simple dialogue, forcing models to navigate public vs. private dynamics, strategic voting, and jury persuasion. GPT-4.5 Preview emerged as the top performer.

(github.com)

AI Multi-agent Strategic Game

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