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The Unix Trinity: dmr, kt, and bwk

2025-02-12

In Unix history, the initials dmr, kt, and bwk represent legendary figures: Dennis M. Ritchie (dmr), co-creator of Unix and the C programming language; Ken Thompson (kt), co-creator of Unix alongside Ritchie; and Brian W. Kernighan (bwk), co-author of influential Unix programs and books like "The C Programming Language" and "The UNIX Programming Environment". These three giants shaped the foundations of Unix and profoundly impacted modern computer science.

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World-First? Meteorite Crash in Canada Caught on Home Security Camera

2025-01-18
World-First? Meteorite Crash in Canada Caught on Home Security Camera

A Canadian homeowner's security camera captured what might be the world's first video and audio recording of a meteorite impact. The meteorite landed precisely where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier on Prince Edward Island in July 2024. The homeowner, alerted by strange debris, reviewed the footage to witness the event. The University of Alberta confirmed the meteorite, named the "Charlottetown Meteorite," as an ordinary chondrite. This unique event, complete with sound recording, adds a new chapter to the island's natural history and highlights the unexpected value of home security footage in scientific research.

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Voice-Pro: The Ultimate AI Voice Conversion and Multilingual Translation Tool

2025-01-27
Voice-Pro: The Ultimate AI Voice Conversion and Multilingual Translation Tool

Voice-Pro is a cutting-edge AI-powered web application designed to revolutionize multimedia content processing. It offers an all-in-one solution for content creators, researchers, and multilingual communication professionals, integrating YouTube video downloading, voice separation, speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech. Key features include Whisper, Faster-Whisper, and Whisper-Timestamped speech recognition; F5-TTS and E2-TTS for zero-shot voice cloning; real-time translation across 100+ languages; and AI cover creation (RVC technology). Voice-Pro provides easy installation and updates for Windows users.

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Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect: Extracting the Private Key

2025-01-20

Security researchers reverse-engineered the Bambu Connect printer app, revealing it uses Electron and employs code obfuscation and asar packaging to protect its private key. Researchers detailed a multi-step process, including using asarfix to repair the asar file, analyzing main.node with Ghidra, and ultimately extracting the private key and certificates. The process also involved RC4 decryption and URL decoding.

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EZRGB: Powering Animated Holiday Light Shows with DBOS

2024-12-25

EZRGB uses DBOS to simplify the creation and deployment of animated holiday light shows. Their EZSequence platform allows users to purchase pre-made sequences and automatically map them to their house layouts, eliminating the complex manual process. Built with WordPress, DBOS Transact, AWS SQS, and S3, the platform offers a scalable and reliable solution, proving that even a niche market can benefit from robust technology.

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Metformin's Secret Revealed: Mitochondria Hold the Key

2024-12-18
Metformin's Secret Revealed: Mitochondria Hold the Key

A new study unveils the precise mechanism of action for metformin, a widely used drug for Type 2 diabetes. Researchers discovered that metformin lowers blood sugar by interfering with mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses. Specifically, it blocks mitochondrial complex I, a crucial part of the cell's energy-producing machinery. This research, published in Science Advances, used genetically engineered mice to demonstrate that metformin targets disease-contributing cells without significantly harming healthy ones. This provides a deeper understanding of how this 'wonder drug' works.

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Bacteria Build Living Gels in Polymers: A New Twist on Biofilms

2025-01-26
Bacteria Build Living Gels in Polymers: A New Twist on Biofilms

Caltech and Princeton University scientists have discovered that bacteria growing in polymer solutions, like mucus, form long, intertwined cables—a kind of ‘living Jell-O.’ This is significant for understanding diseases like cystic fibrosis, where thickened lung mucus fosters dangerous bacterial infections. The discovery also has implications for studying biofilms (the slimy coatings on surfaces) and their industrial impacts. The researchers found that external pressure from the polymers forces the bacterial cells together. A theoretical model accurately predicts when these cable structures will form. The reason for cable formation remains a mystery: it may be a bacterial defense mechanism or conversely, a way for the body to expel the infection more easily. This unexpected finding opens up new avenues of research into bacterial growth and biofilm control.

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Meta's Internal Emails Reveal Obsession with Beating GPT-4

2025-01-15
Meta's Internal Emails Reveal Obsession with Beating GPT-4

Leaked internal emails reveal Meta executives and researchers were fiercely focused on surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4 while developing Llama 3. Messages show a strong desire to outcompete rivals, even dismissing open-source competitors as insignificant. Their ambition led them to use the LibGen dataset, containing copyrighted works, for training, now resulting in multiple copyright lawsuits. While the released Llama 3 proved competitive with leading closed-source models, even outperforming some, Meta's aggressive tactics highlight the intense competition and risks in the AI race.

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Conquering the StarCraft: Brood War Translation Barrier with LLMs and Open Source

2025-01-17
Conquering the StarCraft: Brood War Translation Barrier with LLMs and Open Source

A StarCraft: Brood War (BW) player tackled a long-standing community problem: translating Korean-language strategic analyses and commentary videos. BW's culture is heavily rooted in Korea, creating a significant barrier for non-Korean speakers. The author cleverly combined Whisper for transcription, Google Colab's free GPU resources, and ChatGPT for translation, alongside a custom userscript. This dramatically improved translation speed and accuracy, solving the 'Foreigner Knowledge' problem and making Korean-language BW insights accessible to a wider audience.

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Stop Forcing Dark Mode!

2025-01-19

A blog post vehemently criticizes websites that force dark mode. The author points out that high-contrast dark mode (e.g., pure white text on a pure black background) causes eye strain and discomfort. The article uses contrast ratios and personal reading experiences to illustrate the problem, recommending that website designers follow WCAG guidelines and choose appropriate contrast instead of blindly pursuing dark mode. The author argues that dark mode is beneficial in specific situations (e.g., OLED screens, dark environments), but forcing it is a terrible user experience.

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The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: A Visual Journey

2025-01-12

This article visually explains the PhD journey. Knowledge is represented as a circle, and a PhD is depicted as pushing the boundaries of that circle, making a dent representing the contribution of original research. The author uses simple diagrams to illustrate the stages involved, from undergraduate studies to the final breakthrough. The article emphasizes perseverance and the importance of seeing the bigger picture.

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The Robot Dance: A Co-evolution of Technology and Art

2024-12-15
The Robot Dance: A Co-evolution of Technology and Art

This article explores the evolution of the robot dance in art and technology. Starting with Kraftwerk's song "We Are the Robots," the author traces the shift in dance styles from mechanical to organic, and the human fascination with the machinic aesthetic. The author points out that modern robots have transcended traditional robotic movements, exhibiting more fluid and lifelike motions. This shift reflects the co-evolution of technology and art, and humanity's perception of machinery has transformed from initial fear and alienation to closeness and acceptance.

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AsciiDoc: A Superior Alternative to Markdown for Documentation

2025-02-06
AsciiDoc: A Superior Alternative to Markdown for Documentation

Tired of Markdown's limitations? AsciiDoc might be the structured, full-featured alternative you need. It excels at handling tables, footnotes, and cross-references, supports document composition and conditional content, and boasts a unified ecosystem. This guide uses a sample application user guide to demonstrate AsciiDoc's features, including metadata, headings, text formatting, lists, tables, attributes, and conditional content. It also introduces adoc Studio, an editor streamlining AsciiDoc export and management, integrating seamlessly with Git for Docs-as-Code workflows. Combining AsciiDoc with Git and adoc Studio makes documentation more efficient and professional.

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(www.git-tower.com)
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Is America in Decline? Or is it an Information Warfare?

2025-01-07
Is America in Decline? Or is it an Information Warfare?

This article examines the paradox of America's seemingly prosperous economy juxtaposed against widespread public anxiety, distrust in government, and pessimism about the future. The author argues this isn't a genuine decline, but rather the result of information warfare waged by external forces, linked to Russia. These forces utilize disinformation campaigns, social media manipulation, and other tactics to sow discord and instability. The article highlights the role of 'anti-cult' organizations employing information terrorism, demonizing groups through media, fostering division, and even contributing to extreme events like school shootings. The ultimate goal, the author claims, is to incite civil war. The article calls for vigilance against disinformation, exposure of anti-cult organizations, and measures to safeguard American stability.

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Disabling Password Authentication for Internet-Facing SSH: Security Boost or Overkill?

2025-01-18

This article weighs the pros and cons of disabling password authentication for internet-facing SSH. While strong passwords offer protection against brute-force attacks, the author argues that disabling password authentication provides extra layers of security against stolen credentials, SSH server vulnerabilities, and attacks targeting default accounts. However, this also introduces inconvenience, such as the inability to log in without a keypair. The author suggests a careful consideration of the trade-offs based on individual circumstances.

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Nine: A Stunning C64 Demo

2025-02-05

A developer released 'Nine', a small yet incredibly impressive C64 demo at Fjälldata 2025. A video explaining its workings is in the works, but for the impatient, the machine code monitor is available. The demo has been lauded by users, with some calling it the best of 2025. However, one user reported a syntax error when running it on VICE emulator.

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FOSDEM '25 Protest: Targeting Jack Dorsey and Block, Inc.

2025-01-20

A blogger is organizing a protest at FOSDEM '25 against Jack Dorsey and his company, Block, Inc., for their participation in the conference. The protesters argue that Dorsey's role in Twitter's sale and Block, Inc.'s business practices threaten the values of the open-source community. They plan a peaceful occupation of Dorsey's speaking slot on February 2nd to prevent his talk, emphasizing that the protest is not against FOSDEM itself. The aim is to improve FOSDEM's transparency and inclusivity, advocating for a more open decision-making process.

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(drewdevault.com)
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WebAuthn: The Future of Passwordless Authentication

2024-12-26

This book delves into WebAuthn, a public key cryptography-based authentication system designed to replace vulnerable password systems. Starting with the shortcomings of passwords, it progressively introduces core WebAuthn concepts, including U2F, FIDO2, passkeys, and the WebAuthn API's usage. It details public key signature schemes, RP IDs, the CTAP2 protocol, attestation, and various extensions. Server-side implementation, platform APIs (iOS, Android, Windows), and public key formats are also covered. WebAuthn combines security keys and platform authenticators, utilizing random challenges and multiple security mechanisms to effectively address phishing attacks and database leaks, providing users with a more secure and reliable authentication experience.

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Hidden Features of Animal Crossing's NES Emulator Discovered and Exploited

2024-12-29

A hacker named jamchamb reverse-engineered Nintendo's GameCube game, Animal Crossing, uncovering a hidden NES emulator. This emulator not only played the game's built-in NES titles but also allowed loading custom ROMs from a memory card. Further exploitation revealed a method to inject custom code into the game via modified memory card files, ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution and unlocking the game's developer mode. This opens doors for game modification and homebrew content, highlighting the power of reverse engineering and its potential applications in game development.

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Malicious NPM Packages Targeting Cursor.com Deployed by Snyk Researcher

2025-01-14
Malicious NPM Packages Targeting Cursor.com Deployed by Snyk Researcher

A Snyk security researcher deployed several malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com, a popular AI coding company. These packages, named things like "cursor-retreival" and "cursor-always-local", collect system data and send it to an attacker-controlled server upon installation. The attack leverages dependency confusion, aiming to trick Cursor employees into installing these public packages. While the OpenSSF package analysis scanner flagged and reported these malicious packages, NPM hasn't yet marked them as such. This highlights limitations in software supply chain security tools and emphasizes the importance of careful NPM package installation.

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(sourcecodered.com)
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Google Simplifies URL Display in Mobile Search Results

2025-01-23
Google Simplifies URL Display in Mobile Search Results

Google announced a simplification to how URLs are displayed in mobile search results. Previously, mobile search results included website breadcrumbs as part of the URL, but these were often truncated on smaller screens. Now, Google will remove breadcrumbs from mobile search results, displaying only the domain for a cleaner, more user-friendly experience. Desktop search results remain unchanged. This change doesn't require action from developers using breadcrumb structured data; it continues to be supported for desktop search.

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Mixbox: Revolutionizing Color Mixing in Digital Painting

2024-12-29
Mixbox: Revolutionizing Color Mixing in Digital Painting

Mixbox is a revolutionary color mixing library that solves the problem of unnatural color mixing in digital painting by simulating the way real pigments mix. Based on the Kubelka-Munk theory, it treats colors as pigments, offering a simple RGB in/out interface and supporting multiple languages including C++, Python, and GLSL. Mixbox enables more realistic color gradients, richer mixing effects, and natural brushstroke blending, bringing digital painting closer to the feel of traditional painting. It's already integrated into Rebelle and Blender's Flip Fluids add-on and offers flexible licensing options for developers.

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ROCm Device Support Wishlist: Community Input Sought for Future GPU Compatibility

2025-01-20
ROCm Device Support Wishlist: Community Input Sought for Future GPU Compatibility

The AMD ROCm open-source compute platform is seeking community input to determine which GPUs will receive driver support in the future. Currently, ROCm supports select AMD Instinct and Radeon cards, but many users are requesting support for more models, particularly those with 16GB or more VRAM, and reinstatement of support for older AMD GPUs that have lost ROCm compatibility. A GitHub discussion thread has generated significant community engagement, with users actively voting on their desired GPU support.

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(github.com)
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Tele-Present Wind: An Art Installation Bridging Continents

2025-01-24

David Bowen's 'Tele-Present Wind' art installation uses an accelerometer connected to a plant stalk outdoors and 126 mechanical devices in a gallery to simulate wind in real-time. Whether in Bilbao, Spain or Moscow, the installation precisely captures and displays the wind's movement from a location near the University of Minnesota's Visualization and Digital Imaging Lab, thousands of miles away. This seamlessly blends technology and nature, creating a powerful artistic representation of environmental forces.

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(www.dwbowen.com)
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Ransomware Gang Exploits AWS Native Encryption

2025-01-14
Ransomware Gang Exploits AWS Native Encryption

A new ransomware group, dubbed 'Codefinger,' is targeting AWS S3 buckets and leveraging the cloud giant's own server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C) to encrypt victims' data. They use leaked AWS keys to encrypt files with AES-256 and set a 7-day self-destruct timer. This unique approach exploits AWS's own security features, making data recovery difficult without the attacker's key. Security experts recommend restricting SSE-C usage, regularly auditing AWS keys, and implementing the principle of least privilege to mitigate risk.

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(www.theregister.com)
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SteamOS's Rise: A Threat to Microsoft's PC Gaming Dominance

2025-01-09
SteamOS's Rise: A Threat to Microsoft's PC Gaming Dominance

The success of the Steam Deck is no accident; it demonstrates that Windows isn't the optimal choice for handheld gaming. SteamOS-powered handhelds, with their excellent compatibility and competitive pricing, are gradually eating into Windows' market share. More significantly, SteamOS is opening up to more hardware partners, suggesting a potential expansion into gaming laptops and even desktops, posing a serious threat to Microsoft's Windows operating system. Microsoft's heavy investment in gaming is challenged by Windows 11 update issues and shortcomings in its overall gaming ecosystem.

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(www.pcworld.com)
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Run DeepSeek R1 LLM Locally with Ollama

2025-01-29
Run DeepSeek R1 LLM Locally with Ollama

DeepSeek R1, an open-source LLM excelling in conversational AI, coding, and problem-solving, can now be run locally. This guide details using Ollama, a platform simplifying LLM deployment, to run DeepSeek R1 on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It covers installing Ollama, pulling the DeepSeek R1 model (including smaller, distilled variants), and interacting with the model via the command line. Local execution ensures data privacy and faster responses. The article also explores practical tips, including command-line automation and IDE integration, and discusses the benefits of distilled models for users with less powerful hardware.

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(workos.com)
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L3 Systems WristPC Keyboard: A Rugged Wearable Keyboard

2025-01-27

L3 Systems has developed the WristPC Keyboard for portable and wearable computer applications. This rugged QWERTY keyboard features a standard PC keyboard interface and comes in black anodized aluminum or blue ABS plastic housings. Completely sealed, it's designed for use in rain and harsh environments. Its curved back ensures comfortable and secure wrist placement, with an optimized alphanumeric layout and conveniently positioned arrow keys. Optional wrist straps and keyboard illumination are available. Custom keyboards for Aaton Cantar users are also offered (requires separate Gotham Sound Dsub15-USB adapter).

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(www.l3sys.com)
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Lightpanda: A Lightweight Headless Browser for AI and Automation

2025-01-24
Lightpanda: A Lightweight Headless Browser for AI and Automation

Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser designed for AI and automation tasks. Written in Zig, it boasts ultra-low memory footprint and exceptionally fast execution—11x faster and 9x less memory than Chrome. Supporting Javascript execution and partial Web APIs, it's compatible with Playwright and Puppeteer, ideal for AI agents, LLM training, scraping, and testing. Currently in Beta, it already features an HTTP loader, HTML parser, DOM tree, Javascript support (v8), basic DOM APIs, Ajax, XHR API, Fetch API, and DOM dumping.

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(github.com)
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