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Revolutionizing Cross-Chain Transactions with Intents

2025-09-24

Revolutionizing Cross-Chain Transactions with Intents

Traditional cross-chain transactions are complex, time-consuming, and expensive. This article introduces a new approach called "intents," where users simply declare their desired outcome (e.g., swap 1000 USDC for 100 SOL) without specifying the steps. A network of "solvers" automatically fulfills the request. This is analogous to saying "get me milk" instead of giving detailed driving instructions. NEAR Protocol pioneered a cross-chain intent system, leveraging chain signatures to achieve 2-3 second finality and native Bitcoin support, exceeding $1 billion in total volume. Its 1Click API simplifies development, enabling easy creation of cross-chain DEX interfaces.

(blog.shodipoayomide.com)

Development cross-chain transactions intents NEAR Protocol

LeoLabs: Your Gateway to Low Earth Orbit Data

2025-09-25

LeoLabs provides a comprehensive platform for accessing and analyzing data on low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Their services range from real-time tracking and monitoring to collision avoidance predictions and advanced orbit analytics. Users can access a vast catalog of satellite data, conduct conjunction assessments, and leverage APIs and tools for in-depth analysis. This platform is invaluable for spacecraft operators, research institutions, and government agencies.

(platform.leolabs.space)

Tech orbit analysis collision avoidance

Google's AI Bug Hunter, Big Sleep, Unearths 20 Vulnerabilities

2025-08-10

Google's AI Bug Hunter, Big Sleep, Unearths 20 Vulnerabilities

Google's AI-powered vulnerability researcher, Big Sleep, a collaboration between DeepMind and Project Zero, has reported its first batch of vulnerabilities – 20 flaws in popular open-source software like FFmpeg and ImageMagick. While details remain undisclosed pending fixes, the achievement showcases the potential of AI in automated vulnerability discovery. Although human experts reviewed the findings, Big Sleep independently identified and reproduced the vulnerabilities. This breakthrough, however, highlights concerns about AI-generated false positives, emphasizing the need for careful evaluation of AI-driven bug reports.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech vulnerability discovery

YouTube's 20th Anniversary: 20 Trillion Videos and Counting

2025-04-23

YouTube's 20th Anniversary: 20 Trillion Videos and Counting

Twenty years ago, Jawed Karim uploaded the first ever YouTube video, "Me at the zoo." Today, YouTube is a behemoth, with over 20 million videos uploaded daily and over 100 million comments posted daily in 2024. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, YouTube announced major updates to its TV app, including easier navigation, playback improvements, and streamlined access to comments and channel info. YouTube TV will also add a highly requested multi-view feature, allowing up to four channels to play simultaneously. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan highlighted that TV viewing has surpassed mobile as the primary viewing device in the US. YouTube's massive scale continues to drive its dominance in streaming video.

(www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Tech video platform

The Copyright Conundrum of AI Training: Learning Rights vs. Labor Rights

2025-04-12

This article delves into the copyright implications of AI training. Some argue that training AI on copyrighted works requires licensing, establishing a "learning right." The author refutes this, stating AI training analyzes data, not copies it. The core issue is AI's exploitation of artists' labor, not copyright infringement. The author advocates for labor rights, not copyright expansion, as the latter benefits large corporations at the expense of independent artists.

(blog.giovanh.com)

AI learning rights

Andrew Ng Slams 'Vibe Coding,' Says AI Programming Is 'Deeply Intellectual'

2025-06-05

Andrew Ng Slams 'Vibe Coding,' Says AI Programming Is 'Deeply Intellectual'

Stanford professor Andrew Ng criticizes the term "vibe coding," arguing it misrepresents AI-assisted programming as a casual process. He emphasizes it's a deeply intellectual exercise requiring significant effort. Despite his criticism of the term, Ng remains bullish on AI coding tools, highlighting their productivity benefits. He urges companies to embrace AI-assisted coding and encourages everyone to learn at least one programming language to better collaborate with AI and improve efficiency.

(www.businessinsider.com)

AI

50 Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security: From Multics to the xz Attack

2025-04-07

This article explores the challenges of open source software supply chain security over the past five decades. From potential backdoors identified in a 1974 Multics security evaluation to the 2024 xz compression library backdoor attack, the problem persists. Russ Cox, a core developer of the Go programming language, draws on personal experience and industry examples to discuss definitions of supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities, the complexity of software supply chains, and methods for strengthening defenses. These include software authentication, reproducible builds, rapid vulnerability discovery and patching, and vulnerability prevention strategies. The article highlights the underfunding of open source software, leaving projects vulnerable to malicious actors, illustrated by the xz attack. Ultimately, the author calls for increased funding and improved security practices in open source to address evolving threats.

(queue.acm.org)

Tech Vulnerabilities

Google Layoffs: A Chrome Engineer's Bitter Farewell

2025-04-14

Google Layoffs: A Chrome Engineer's Bitter Farewell

A Google Chrome engineer was unexpectedly laid off after a team-building event, leaving him shocked, angry, and heartbroken. He believes the layoff was unrelated to his performance and expresses outrage at the company's unfair treatment. He lost projects, collaborations, speaking engagements, and expresses concern for his future career.

(nerdy.dev)

Tech Google layoffs

Gen Z's 'Career Catfishing': A Rebellion Against Endless Interviews and Ghosting

2025-01-19

Gen Z's 'Career Catfishing': A Rebellion Against Endless Interviews and Ghosting

In a competitive job market, Gen Z is employing a new tactic: 'career catfishing.' They craft idealized online personas to attract recruiters, fighting back against endless interview rounds and the frustrating experience of being ghosted by hiring managers. This trend highlights a generation's challenge to traditional job hunting and a desire for fairer, more transparent hiring practices.

(fortune.com)

Startup Job Hunting

OpenAI's Mathematical Proof: Why ChatGPT's Hallucinations Are Here to Stay (Maybe)

2025-09-13

OpenAI's Mathematical Proof: Why ChatGPT's Hallucinations Are Here to Stay (Maybe)

OpenAI's latest research paper mathematically proves why large language models like ChatGPT "hallucinate" – confidently fabricating facts. This isn't simply a training issue; it's mathematically inevitable due to the probabilistic nature of word prediction. Even perfect data wouldn't eliminate the problem. The paper also reveals a flawed evaluation system that penalizes uncertainty, incentivizing models to guess rather than admit ignorance. While OpenAI proposes a confidence-based solution, it would drastically impact user experience and computational costs, making it impractical for consumer applications. Until business incentives shift, hallucinations in LLMs are likely to persist.

(theconversation.com)

AI Hallucination

From Random Streaks to Recognizable Digits: Building an Autoregressive Image Generation Model

2025-06-08

From Random Streaks to Recognizable Digits: Building an Autoregressive Image Generation Model

This article details building a basic autoregressive image generation model using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to generate images of handwritten digits. The author explains the core concept of predicting the next pixel based on its predecessors. Three models are progressively built: Model V1 uses one-hot encoding and ignores spatial information; Model V2 introduces positional encodings, improving image structure; Model V3 uses learned token embeddings and positional encodings, achieving conditional generation, generating images based on a given digit class. While the generated images fall short of state-of-the-art models, the tutorial clearly demonstrates core autoregressive concepts and the building process, providing valuable insights into generative AI.

(tunahansalih.github.io)

AI

Fail-Safe AI Calls using OpenAI Library and Gemini API

2025-04-06

This article demonstrates a fail-safe approach to making AI calls using the OpenAI TS/JS library. The method allows for fallback to other OpenAI models if the Gemini API hits rate limits. A custom function allows developers to specify multiple AI models as alternatives, ensuring application stability and reliability. Type-safe structured output functions are also provided to simplify handling AI responses.

(sometechblog.com)

Development AI calls fail-safe mechanism

Open-Source Hardware Switch Project: A Journey from Failure to 10G Ethernet

2025-05-13

The author's multi-year journey to build an open-source hardware Ethernet switch is detailed, chronicling its evolution from an initial failure in 2012 using a low-end FPGA to a powerful switch boasting 48 1G ports and dual 10/25G uplinks with a XCKU5P FPGA. The long road included significant learning, skill development, the creation of high-precision probes and software tools, and continuous hardware/software design improvements. While challenges remain, the author is optimistic about delivering a final product by 2026.

(serd.es)

Hardware Ethernet switch

FramePack: A Revolutionary Next-Frame Prediction Model for AI Video Generation

2025-04-20

FramePack is a groundbreaking next-frame prediction neural network architecture that compresses input contexts to a fixed length, making the generation workload independent of video length. This achieves O(1) computational complexity for streaming, setting a new benchmark in AI video generation. It generates high-quality videos using only 6GB of GPU memory on laptops with RTX 3060. Generation speed reaches 1.5-2.5 seconds per frame on an RTX 4090, but is 4-8 times slower on laptops with 3070ti/3060. Its bi-directional sampling method effectively eliminates the common drifting problem in video generation.

(frame-pack.video)

AI next-frame prediction

Amazon Issues Proactive Refunds for Unverified Returns

2025-05-21

Amazon Issues Proactive Refunds for Unverified Returns

Amazon recently proactively refunded a small subset of customers whose returns hadn't been processed. An internal review revealed that these refunds were stalled due to an inability to verify the correct item had been returned. Amazon stated they should have communicated more clearly and sooner with these customers to understand the return status and facilitate resolution. Given the time elapsed, Amazon opted to prioritize customer experience and simply complete the refunds.

(financialpost.com)

Misc Refunds Customer Experience

A5: A Global, Millimeter-Accurate Geospatial Index

2025-05-13

A5: A Global, Millimeter-Accurate Geospatial Index

A5 is a geospatial index partitioning the world into pentagonal cells at 32 resolution levels, with the smallest cell under 30mm² and near-equal area across levels. It simplifies spatial data representation and analysis, enabling calculations of correlations between variables (e.g., elevation and crop yield) and aggregation of point data to understand spatial distribution (e.g., holiday rental density). Implemented in TypeScript, A5 is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license. Compared to other DGGS systems, A5 boasts uniform cell sizes, extremely high resolution (30mm²), and minimal global cell area distortion. This stems from its unique pentagonal tiling of a dodecahedron, minimizing geometric distortion during projection.

(github.com)

Tech Geospatial Index

Optoelectronic Neural Networks: A Dawn for Post-Moore's Law Computing?

2025-04-10

Optoelectronic Neural Networks: A Dawn for Post-Moore's Law Computing?

This review summarizes the rapid development of optoelectronic neural networks in recent years, from the pioneering work in deep learning to the latest advances in building large-scale neural networks using photonic devices. Researchers have explored various optical computing methods, including coherent nanophotonic circuits, diffractive deep neural networks, and photoelectric multiplication to implement deep learning. These studies have not only achieved breakthroughs in image recognition and StarCraft, but also provide new possibilities for breaking the limitations of Moore's Law and exploring new paths for post-Moore's Law computing.

(www.nature.com)

Tech optoelectronic neural networks post-Moore's law

13,000+ 3D Vertebrate Models Now Openly Available!

2025-04-05

13,000+ 3D Vertebrate Models Now Openly Available!

The Florida Museum of Natural History has launched the openVertebrate (oVert) project, an ambitious initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students, and the public. Using CT scans, the project has already created detailed 3D models of the skeletons (and some soft tissues) of over 13,000 specimens, representing more than half the genera of amphibians, reptiles, fishes, and mammals. The oVert team plans to scan another 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens in the coming years, aiming to cover over 80% of vertebrate genera. These models and data will be freely downloadable and suitable for 3D printing.

(www.openculture.com)

Tech 3D models vertebrates

Efficient Indexing in Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparison of Torch, TensorFlow, and Einops

2025-09-24

This article compares different approaches to efficient array indexing in PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Einops. By contrasting `torch.gather`, `torch.take_along_dim`, `torch.index_select`, `torch.take`, `tf.gather`, `tf.gather_nd`, and Einops's `einx.get_at`, it showcases their flexibility and efficiency differences in handling different dimensions and batched indexing, providing developers with a reference for choosing the optimal solution.

(einx.readthedocs.io)

Development array indexing

ProtonMail: Top Features of a Privacy-Focused Email Service

2025-03-14

ProtonMail prioritizes user privacy with its core features: end-to-end encryption ensuring only the recipient can read emails; zero-access encryption, preventing even ProtonMail servers from accessing messages; open-source and audited code for transparency and security confidence; and anti-phishing tools to protect against cyber threats. These features combine to create a robust privacy shield.

(porkbun.com)

Tech

GTK-LLM-Chat: A GTK GUI for Chatting with LLMs

2025-04-21

GTK-LLM-Chat: A GTK GUI for Chatting with LLMs

gtk-llm-chat is a simple and easy-to-use graphical interface built with GTK for interacting with Large Language Models (LLMs). It supports multiple concurrent conversations in independent windows, integrates with the python-llm library for chatting with various LLM models, and boasts a modern interface, real-time streaming responses, Markdown rendering, conversation management, keyboard shortcuts, fragment support, and an applet mode. Installation is straightforward: use pipx to install llm and run `llm install gtk-chat`.

(github.com)

Development

Seagate Unleashes 4TB Xbox Expansion Card, But is it Worth the Price?

2025-06-09

Seagate Unleashes 4TB Xbox Expansion Card, But is it Worth the Price?

Seagate has launched a 4TB storage expansion card for Xbox Series X|S consoles, its first capacity upgrade since 2021. Priced at $499.99 (with a limited-time discount to $429.99), it caters to players with extensive game libraries. However, the price is steep, especially considering Seagate's 2TB card is currently available for $219.99. Western Digital offers competing cards, but not yet a 4TB option. The Xbox expansion cards remain pricier than PlayStation 5 alternatives, which support a wider range of compatible SSDs.

(www.theverge.com)

Hardware Storage Expansion Card

Search Engine Adds PDF Indexing: Conquering the Challenges of Text Extraction

2025-05-13

The search engine recently gained the ability to index PDFs, a feat more complex than it seems. PDFs aren't text-based; they're graphical, representing text as glyph coordinates that may be rotated, overlapping, or disordered. This article details improvements to PDFBox's PDFTextStripper class. By statistically analyzing font sizes and line spacing, it more effectively identifies semantic information like headings and paragraphs. This enhances the accuracy and suitability of PDF text extraction, enabling effective indexing of PDF content.

(www.marginalia.nu)

Development PDF indexing

Instant SQL: Say Goodbye to Tedious Query Building

2025-04-24

Instant SQL: Say Goodbye to Tedious Query Building

MotherDuck introduces Instant SQL, a revolutionary approach to writing SQL. This new feature provides real-time result set updates as you type, dramatically speeding up query building and debugging. No more waiting for queries to run; Instant SQL offers zero-latency feedback. It tackles the age-old problem of slow and tedious SQL writing by enabling real-time result previews, CTE inspection and editing, and effortless breakdown of complex column expressions. It supports all data sources queryable by DuckDB and integrates seamlessly with AI-powered suggestions. This breakthrough leverages DuckDB's speed, AST parsing, precise cursor mapping, and intelligent caching.

(motherduck.com)

Development

High-Altitude Jeffrey Pine Discovery Challenges Climate Change Models

2025-04-22

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford stumbled upon a Jeffrey pine at a record-breaking 12,657 feet elevation in California's High Sierra, 1,860 feet higher than the previous record. Published in Madroño, this serendipitous discovery suggests that climate change is driving Jeffrey pines to higher altitudes, challenging existing models predicting the pace of species migration. Researchers suspect Clark's nutcrackers may be aiding this migration by carrying seeds. The finding highlights the importance of fieldwork in climate change research and calls for more on-the-ground surveys to accurately assess climate change's impact on high-elevation ecosystems.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech species migration

Firefox on the Brink: Could Antitrust Action Kill the Browser?

2025-05-04

Firefox on the Brink: Could Antitrust Action Kill the Browser?

Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim testified that implementing the Department of Justice's proposals to curb Google's search monopoly could put Firefox out of business. Google's deal to be Firefox's default search engine accounts for roughly 85% of Mozilla's revenue. Losing this revenue would force significant cuts and could lead to Firefox's demise. Muhlheim argued that while the DOJ aims to foster competition, the short-term impact could be devastating for Firefox, potentially even strengthening Google's dominance.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

RPG in a Box: Game Creation Made Easy

2025-05-14

RPG in a Box empowers users to create games and interactive experiences without any programming or modeling skills. This intuitive tool features a voxel editor, map editor, visual scripting, dialogue system, camera controls, UI customization, item system, and sound effect generator. Export your creations to standalone Windows and macOS games, making it easy to share your work with others.

(rpginabox.com)

Game

Vietnam Freezes 86M Bank Accounts Over Biometric Compliance: A Crypto Conundrum?

2025-09-24

Vietnam Freezes 86M Bank Accounts Over Biometric Compliance: A Crypto Conundrum?

Vietnam has frozen over 86 million bank accounts due to non-compliance with new mandatory biometric identification laws. This drastic measure, aimed at combating AI-driven fraud, has sparked debate over financial inclusion and the potential of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as an alternative. While the government cites fraud prevention, the move disproportionately impacts foreign residents and inactive accounts, highlighting the tension between security and individual financial freedom in the digital age.

(icobench.com)

Tech

Lune: A Standalone Luau Runtime

2025-05-21

Lune: A Standalone Luau Runtime

Lune is a standalone Luau runtime written in Rust, providing an environment similar to Node.js, Deno, or Bun for other languages. It features fully asynchronous APIs, a small footprint (approx. 5MB zipped), and comprehensive support for filesystem, networking, and standard I/O. It boasts world-class documentation and offers a familiar runtime environment for Roblox developers, including a 1:1 task scheduler port. An optional library for manipulating Roblox place & model files and their instances is also included. While it can run some Roblox games, Lune's primary focus isn't full Roblox compatibility, but rather a performant, concise Luau development environment.

(github.com)

Development

Rendering 1 Million Spheres with OpenGL and WASM: A Debugging Journey

2025-03-01

The author tackled a hiring challenge: rendering one million spheres using OpenGL. The project was then ported to WASM and WebGL to improve performance and accessibility. The article details two crucial mistakes: incorrectly mapping texture coordinates resulting in flattened spheres, and reusing VAOs causing rendering anomalies. The author successfully rendered the spheres and shares lessons learned and resource links.

(uds5501.github.io)

Development

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