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Hugging Face Open-Sources Two Robots: HopeJR and Reachy Mini

2025-05-31

Hugging Face Open-Sources Two Robots: HopeJR and Reachy Mini

Hugging Face Inc. has open-sourced the designs of two internally developed robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a humanoid robot capable of 66 movements, including walking, with robotic arms controlled by specialized gloves. Reachy Mini is a desk-sized, turtle-like robot with a retractable neck, ideal for testing AI applications. Blueprints for both are open-source, with pre-assembled versions selling for approximately $250 and $3,000 respectively. Shipping is expected by year's end.

(siliconangle.com)

AI

C-Tubes: Revolutionizing 3D Design with Flat Materials

2025-08-22

C-Tubes: Revolutionizing 3D Design with Flat Materials

Researchers at EPFL's Geometric Computing Laboratory have developed C-Tubes, a groundbreaking method for creating strong, lightweight curved structures from flat strips of material. Their algorithm precisely bends and connects these strips, avoiding stretching or wrinkling, resulting in surprisingly stiff and durable tubes. This sustainable approach minimizes waste and opens possibilities in furniture, lighting, architecture, and beyond. C-Tubes promises to revolutionize design and construction, offering a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to 3D object creation.

(actu.epfl.ch)

Design

Germany Updates US Travel Advice After Citizens' Detainment

2025-03-21

Germany Updates US Travel Advice After Citizens' Detainment

The German foreign ministry updated its travel advice for the US after three German citizens were denied entry and detained. The updated advice warns that even with an ESTA, entry isn't guaranteed, and minor visa overstays or false information can lead to arrest and deportation. While the ministry insists it's not a travel warning, the cases – including a US green card holder who was subjected to harsh interrogation and detention – highlight potential risks. One detainee, a tattoo artist, was held for over six weeks and allegedly placed in solitary confinement. The incidents serve as a cautionary tale for German travelers to the US, emphasizing the importance of accurate information and adherence to visa regulations.

(www.euronews.com)

Tech US entry travel advice visa

The Wet Media History of the Bathroom

2025-07-11

The Wet Media History of the Bathroom

From the fitness craze of the 1980s to the present day, the bathroom has evolved from a simple washing space into a blend of media and technology. This article traces how media technologies have made their way into this intimate space, from early waterproof radios to high-end bathtubs with multimedia systems, showcasing the pursuit of an enhanced bathing experience. However, the integration of media technology brings complexities; work pressures can intrude on relaxation. The article explores the complex relationship between media technology and bathroom culture through historical and cultural perspectives, examining the underlying social, economic, and gender factors.

(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

Misc media history bathroom culture

AI Comic: A Roman Industrial Revolution Across Time

2025-06-12

Ulyses, an archaeology student, accidentally connects with Marcus, a Roman slave in 79 AD, through a mysterious stone. Their friendship across time allows Marcus to leverage Ulyses' modern knowledge and technology, sparking an industrial revolution in ancient Rome. From steam engines to gunpowder, each technological advancement drives dramatic societal changes, bringing new challenges and conflicts. This AI-generated comic uses a captivating story to explore an alternate history and the complex implications of technological progress.

(thelydianstone.com)

Game

Corporate Software Piracy: The Invisible Hand

2025-03-06

Corporate Software Piracy: The Invisible Hand

This article exposes a hidden truth: widespread corporate use of pirated software, often without consequence. From a National Guardsman in Iraq downloading pirated Microsoft software for a quick network setup to small business owners using cracked software to save costs, and employees in large companies using pirated software to meet deadlines, the author argues that software piracy is ubiquitous in businesses. Companies leverage employee actions and complex workflows to shift the risk of piracy onto individual employees, reaping all the benefits with zero risk. This invisible hand benefits proprietary software companies by preventing businesses from scrutinizing licensing, reducing the urgency to streamline processes or explore open-source alternatives.

(davegutteridge.com)

Startup software piracy corporate behavior

Nintendo's Game & Watch: A Retrospect of Handheld Gaming History

2025-02-09

Nintendo's Game & Watch: A Retrospect of Handheld Gaming History

This article chronicles the history of Nintendo's Game & Watch series of handheld electronic games, from the Silver Series in 1980 to various iterations throughout the late 1980s, including the Gold, Wide Screen, and Multi Screen series. Known for innovative designs, classic games, and elegant aesthetics—features like metallic faceplates, dual screens, and colored LCDs—the Game & Watch series represents a pivotal moment in Nintendo's history and the handheld gaming market.

(itizso.itch.io)

Game

Cloudflare's Open-Sourced OAuth Library: An Archaeological Record of Human-AI Collaboration

2025-06-07

Cloudflare's Open-Sourced OAuth Library: An Archaeological Record of Human-AI Collaboration

Cloudflare open-sourced an OAuth 2.1 library almost entirely generated by Claude, an AI model. The project's Git history meticulously documents every prompt, iteration, and human intervention, offering an archaeological record of human-AI collaboration. Initially skeptical, the lead engineer was amazed by Claude's ability to generate nearly all the code for a production-ready authentication library. The case study highlights the importance of clear prompts, iterative refinement, and timely human intervention for effective human-AI collaboration. The future may see prompts themselves becoming the code, directly driving application execution.

(www.maxemitchell.com)

Development human-AI collaboration

Mayo Clinic Solves LLM Hallucination Problem with Reverse RAG

2025-03-15

Mayo Clinic Solves LLM Hallucination Problem with Reverse RAG

Large language models (LLMs) suffer from 'hallucinations' – generating inaccurate information – a particularly dangerous issue in healthcare. Mayo Clinic tackled this with a novel 'reverse RAG' technique. By linking extracted information to its original source, this method eliminated almost all data-retrieval-based hallucinations, enabling the model's deployment across its clinical practice. The technique combines the CURE algorithm and vector databases, ensuring traceability of every data point to its origin. This enhances model reliability and trustworthiness, significantly reducing physician workload and opening new avenues for personalized medicine.

(venturebeat.com)

AI Reverse RAG

ChatGPT Saves the Day: AI Diagnosis Prevents Stroke

2025-09-14

ChatGPT Saves the Day: AI Diagnosis Prevents Stroke

The author, experiencing headaches, eyelid drooping, and other symptoms, consulted ChatGPT. Initially, ChatGPT suggested benign causes, but as symptoms worsened, it prompted the author to check pupil size. Unequal pupils led ChatGPT to urgently recommend an ER visit. A carotid artery dissection was diagnosed, and timely treatment prevented a stroke. The article highlights AI's potential in medical diagnosis while raising concerns about its future impact.

(benorenstein.substack.com)

Tech Medical Diagnosis Stroke Prevention

75Hz E-Paper Display Dev Kit Breaks the Speed Barrier

2025-09-10

75Hz E-Paper Display Dev Kit Breaks the Speed Barrier

Modos, a two-person startup, has launched a groundbreaking e-paper display development kit boasting a record-breaking 75Hz refresh rate. This open-source FPGA-based kit overcomes the long-standing perception of e-paper displays as slow. The kit supports various e-paper panel sizes and includes a comprehensive hardware and software package, enabling developers to create smooth, responsive applications. While initially aiming for an e-paper laptop, Modos pivoted to this dev kit due to panel size limitations, opening exciting possibilities for low-power, high-resolution e-paper applications. It even allows repurposing displays from older e-readers.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Hardware e-paper display

Trystero: Real-time Collaboration Reimagined

2025-08-29

Trystero is a fascinating real-time collaborative platform leveraging technologies like BitTorrent, Nostr, MQTT, IPFS, Supabase, and Firebase to synchronize mouse movements and clicks in real-time. Simple code allows joining rooms, listening for peer joins/leaves, and broadcasting/receiving mouse movements and clicks. Trystero's potential extends far beyond this, supporting audio/video streams and binary data, opening up endless possibilities for real-time collaboration.

(oxism.com)

Development

AI Winter Bites: Silicon Valley Layoffs and a Tough Job Market

2025-05-22

AI Winter Bites: Silicon Valley Layoffs and a Tough Job Market

Early in the pandemic, the tech job market boomed. But 2023 brought massive layoffs, fueled by economic uncertainty and the rapid advancement of AI, which is automating entry-level roles. Even graduates from prestigious universities like Berkeley and Stanford are struggling to find jobs, highlighting the need for strong, specialized skills in today's challenging market.

(sfstandard.com)

Tech Silicon Valley layoffs AI impact on jobs

The Whispering Earring: A Paradox of Happiness and Free Will

2025-08-07

The ancient treasure vaults of Til Iosophrang hold a magical earring that provides its wearer with optimal advice, ensuring maximum happiness. However, at a cost: it gradually takes control of the wearer's mind, causing their neocortex to atrophy, ultimately turning them into an individual acting purely on instinct. Finally, a man named Kadmi Rachumion uncovers the earring's secret and locks it away deep within the vaults, a warning that the line between freedom and happiness is sometimes more subtle than imagined.

(croissanthology.com)

Misc fantasy story philosophical implications

Vantage: Making Observability Affordable

2025-02-09

Vantage: Making Observability Affordable

As observability tools become ubiquitous, the cost of monitoring cloud infrastructure is also rising. Vantage, a cloud cost management platform, helps businesses visualize and manage the costs of their observability tools through integration with Grafana Cloud. This article introduces the concept of FinOps and how to apply FinOps to observability, focusing on how Vantage helps users monitor the cost of using Grafana Cloud to optimize spending and achieve sustainable cost control.

(grafana.com)

Tech cloud cost management

Lenovo Unveils SteamOS-Powered Legion Go S Handheld

2025-01-08

Lenovo officially announced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console at CES, the world's first officially licensed SteamOS handheld. Pre-loaded with Valve's Arch Linux-based SteamOS, it features cloud saves, Remote Play, and full access to the Steam Store and Library. Powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor and Radeon 700M graphics, it boasts an 8-inch 1200p display, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of SSD storage. Priced at $500 USD, it will be available in May. Notably, it uses the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, not the newly announced Ryzen Z2.

(www.phoronix.com)

Game Lenovo Legion Go S

Exploring HTTPS Certificates for Onion Services: Enhancing Security and Functionality

2025-08-28

This document explores various methods for integrating and validating TLS/HTTPS certificates for Onion Services to enhance their security and functionality. While Onion Services inherently provide end-to-end encryption, HTTPS certificates unlock features like HTTP/2 and payment processing, bolstering security. The article details the pros and cons of existing CA validation, ACME for .onion, self-signed certificates, and innovative approaches such as self-validating certificates using the .onion private key and PKCS#11 modules. The ultimate goal is to seamlessly integrate Onion Services with modern web development.

(onionservices.torproject.org)

Tech Onion Services HTTPS Certificates

Christie's First AI Art Auction Sparks Controversy: $728K Sales Amidst Artist Protests

2025-03-09

Christie's First AI Art Auction Sparks Controversy: $728K Sales Amidst Artist Protests

Christie's held its first-ever AI art auction, generating $728,784 in sales and attracting a young audience. However, the auction faced protests from over 5,600 artists who claim AI models were trained on copyrighted works without permission, exploiting human artists. Christie's responded that art often builds upon previous works and that the auction aimed to explore the digital art space. Refik Anadol's 'Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams – A' fetched the highest price at $277,200.

(www.cnet.com)

Art Christie's auction

Reverse-Engineering IP Cameras: Hardware Support List

2025-08-05

Reverse-Engineering IP Cameras: Hardware Support List

This document details the supported hardware list for a firmware project targeting IP cameras. It meticulously lists the SoC, image sensor, Wi-Fi module, and flash chip size for each supported camera model. The project highlights that some manufacturers change hardware components between batches of the same model without notice, making precise hardware matching critical. The list encompasses indoor, outdoor, and bulb cameras, along with development boards and modules. Potentially supported and unsupported hardware are also outlined, with a call for community donations to accelerate project development.

(thingino.com)

Hardware IP Cameras

AI Unveils the Visual Secrets of Psychedelics: Analyzing 60,000+ Trip Reports

2025-02-25

AI Unveils the Visual Secrets of Psychedelics: Analyzing 60,000+ Trip Reports

UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Sean Noah is using AI to analyze over 60,000 psychedelic trip reports from the Erowid website. His novel approach takes a bottom-up, rather than top-down, method to identify visual effects. The study revealed that less than 5% of reports describe visual effects, with psychedelics having the highest percentage and opioids the lowest. This research not only offers a more comprehensive understanding of psychedelics' impact on visual perception but also provides new tools for studying how the brain generates visual perception itself. Future work will integrate fMRI scanning to further explore how psychedelics affect brain activity.

(themicrodose.substack.com)

AI

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Loses Appeal, Fraud Convictions Upheld

2025-02-25

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Loses Appeal, Fraud Convictions Upheld

A federal appeals court upheld the fraud convictions of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the failed blood-testing company Theranos, and her business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Holmes's 11-year sentence and Balwani's 13-year sentence remain in effect. The court found that Holmes and Balwani made misleading statements to investors, portraying Theranos' technology as more advanced than it was. While they can still appeal to a larger panel or the Supreme Court, this ruling represents a significant setback.

(www.msnbc.com)

Startup

Private Equity's Fire Truck Monopoly: A Public Safety Crisis

2025-07-28

Private Equity's Fire Truck Monopoly: A Public Safety Crisis

A crisis is brewing in American fire departments: skyrocketing fire truck prices and extended delivery times, driven by private equity consolidation of manufacturers, are endangering public safety. Aging fleets are retiring with no affordable replacements—new trucks cost upwards of $2 million—leaving many departments understaffed and ill-equipped. Some are resorting to using dilapidated vehicles or pickup trucks, severely impacting response times. This crisis highlights the negative impact of private equity consolidation on essential services and has spurred calls for antitrust investigations.

(thehustle.co)

Tech

Entropy Attacks: Exploiting Flaws in Random Number Generation

2025-03-28

A cr.yp.to blog post reveals a critical vulnerability in random number generation—entropy attacks. The conventional wisdom holds that hashing multiple entropy sources enhances randomness, but the author demonstrates that if a single source is compromised, attackers can manipulate the hash output and control generated random numbers. This poses a significant threat to cryptographic systems relying on randomness, like DSA and ECDSA, enabling attackers to steal private keys. EdDSA, due to its deterministic signature generation, offers stronger resistance. The article advocates for minimizing entropy sources and employing deterministic cryptographic approaches to mitigate the risks associated with constantly adding new entropy.

(blog.cr.yp.to)

Tech

iPhone Air: Surprisingly Repairable, Despite its Thin Profile

2025-09-21

Apple's new iPhone Air boasts a remarkably thin design (5.64mm), but what's even more surprising is its impressive repairability. Through clever engineering, Apple placed the logic board above the battery, simplifying repairs while maintaining a slim profile. Battery replacement is easy, utilizing electrically debonding adhesive strips, eliminating the need for dangerous prying. While the battery is smaller, efficient power management delivers decent battery life. The modular USB-C port also facilitates repairs, although Apple doesn't currently offer replacement parts. Overall, the iPhone Air strikes a balance between thinness and repairability, earning a provisional 7 out of 10 repairability score.

(www.ifixit.com)

Hardware repairability thin design

Genesis: A Revolutionary Universal Physics Engine

2024-12-19

Genesis is a general-purpose physics platform designed for Robotics/Embodied AI/Physical AI applications. It's a multifaceted tool: a universal physics engine built from the ground up, simulating diverse materials and phenomena; a lightweight, ultrafast, Pythonic, and user-friendly robotics simulation platform; a powerful, fast photorealistic rendering system; and a generative data engine transforming natural language descriptions into various data modalities. Genesis aims to lower the barrier to entry for physics simulations, making robotics research accessible; unify state-of-the-art physics solvers; and minimize human effort in data collection and generation. The underlying physics engine and simulation platform are open-source, with the generative framework to be released soon.

(genesis-world.readthedocs.io)

AI physics engine robotics simulation generative AI

The Gruen Transfer Goes Digital: How Websites Are Designed to Confuse You

2025-04-23

The Gruen Transfer Goes Digital: How Websites Are Designed to Confuse You

Ever felt lost in a supermarket, only to buy things you didn't need? That's the Gruen Transfer—a deliberately confusing layout designed to make you forget your original purpose. This article argues that this tactic has spread online, with Facebook's newsfeed being a prime example, filled with ads and irrelevant content that keeps users endlessly scrolling. Many websites employ similar strategies to encourage impulsive purchases. The article explores the negative impacts of this and mentions EU regulations aiming to simplify user experience and reduce unnecessary complexity.

(sebs.website)

Design

NIST's Flawed Kyber-512 Security Calculation: A Controversy Over Standardization

2025-06-22

This cr.yp.to blog post exposes a serious error in NIST's calculation of the security level for the Kyber-512 post-quantum cryptosystem. The author demonstrates that NIST nonsensically multiplied two costs that should have been added, resulting in a severe overestimation of Kyber-512's security. This error stems from NIST's mishandling of memory access costs, misinterpretations of existing literature, and a lack of transparency in its standardization process. The author also reveals the close collaboration between NIST and the NSA, and the unfair treatment of alternative candidates like NTRU. The post details the flawed calculation and calls for a complete overhaul of NIST's standardization procedures to ensure transparency and reliability.

(blog.cr.yp.to)

Tech

Reverse Engineering an ESP32 Smart Home Device: Remote Control and Home Assistant Integration

2025-04-15

Reverse Engineering an ESP32 Smart Home Device: Remote Control and Home Assistant Integration

The author, obsessed with connecting everything to Home Assistant, tackled a sleek air purifier only controllable via its proprietary app. To achieve seamless automation, he reverse-engineered the ESP32-based device. Analyzing the app revealed a WebSocket connection to a cloud server. By intercepting network traffic and using a UDP proxy to forward to the cloud server, UDP packets were captured. These packets were encrypted. Disassembling the device revealed an ESP32-WROOM-32D microcontroller; the firmware was extracted using esptool. Analysis revealed the use of the mbedtls library for encryption, identifying AES-128-CBC as the algorithm. Finally, a Node.js script was written to perform a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, integrating the device into Home Assistant.

(jmswrnr.com)

Development

Qodo Gen CLI: Automate Your SDLC with AI Agents

2025-06-25

Qodo Gen CLI: Automate Your SDLC with AI Agents

Qodo Gen CLI is a powerful command-line interface for building, managing, and running AI agents. Developers can create custom agents to automate workflows across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), integrating AI capabilities into any IDE. Supporting leading LLMs and flexible deployment options, Qodo Gen CLI offers both terminal and browser-based interfaces. Automate tasks like code review, documentation generation, and test coverage, boosting efficiency and allowing developers to focus on building features.

(www.qodo.ai)

Development SDLC automation

Website Cookie Policy and User Privacy

2025-07-26

Website Cookie Policy and User Privacy

This website uses technologies like cookies to store and access device information for optimal user experience. Agreeing allows processing data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs. Disagreeing or withdrawing consent may negatively impact features. The website states that technical storage or access is strictly for legitimate purposes: 1. Providing explicitly requested services; 2. Communication transmission; 3. Storing preferences not requested by the user; 4. Statistical purposes (anonymous); 5. Creating user profiles for advertising or cross-site tracking for marketing.

(research.eye.security)

Misc

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