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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.

(drewdevault.com)

Misc Protest

Gene Drive Technology Offers Hope in the Fight Against Malaria

2025-03-25

Gene Drive Technology Offers Hope in the Fight Against Malaria

Researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with Tanzanian institutes, have developed a gene drive technology that renders mosquitoes unable to transmit the malaria parasite. This groundbreaking technology could significantly reduce the global malaria burden, saving hundreds of thousands of lives annually, particularly among children. The equitable nature of the technology ensures accessibility without economic or social barriers, offering a new weapon in the ongoing battle against this devastating disease. This collaboration highlights the power of international partnerships in tackling global health challenges.

(www.imperial.ac.uk)

Tech gene drive malaria

Clive Sinclair: The British Microcomputer Maverick

2025-01-23

Clive Sinclair: The British Microcomputer Maverick

Clive Sinclair, a mathematical prodigy, revolutionized the UK and European personal computer market with his affordable and innovative designs, including the ZX80 and ZX Spectrum. His relentless pursuit of low-cost hardware brought computing to the masses, despite later setbacks like the Sinclair QL. His story is a captivating blend of genius, disruptive innovation, and entrepreneurial risk-taking, showcasing the transformative power of technology.

(www.abortretry.fail)

Tech Personal Computing British Tech

DeepSeek R1 Lands on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

2025-01-29

DeepSeek R1 Lands on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

Microsoft announced that the DeepSeek R1 model is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. Joining a diverse portfolio of over 1800 models, DeepSeek R1 offers a powerful, cost-effective AI solution enabling seamless integration of advanced AI for businesses. Rigorously tested for security and featuring built-in content safety filtering, DeepSeek R1 provides a secure and reliable environment for AI deployment. Azure AI Foundry allows developers to rapidly experiment, iterate, and integrate AI into their workflows with built-in model evaluation tools for increased efficiency.

(azure.microsoft.com)

AI AI Model

Cheap Drones Reshape Global Power Dynamics

2025-06-14

Cheap Drones Reshape Global Power Dynamics

Recent successful drone strikes by Israel and Ukraine against enemy targets have sparked concerns about the future of warfare and the global balance of power. The article analyzes the disruptive impact of inexpensive drones: their ability to inflict significant economic damage by targeting critical infrastructure (highways, bridges, power plants, etc.) at low cost represents a stark contrast to traditional large-scale military engagements. This asymmetric warfare capability renders even large nations vulnerable and could lead to a reshaping of the global order, ultimately moving toward a more decentralized and fragmented power structure.

(blog.exitgroup.us)

Tech drone warfare global politics power balance

Why Tracebit Chose C#: A Security Startup's Tech Stack Story

2025-02-01

Why Tracebit Chose C#: A Security Startup's Tech Stack Story

Tracebit, a B2B SaaS security product, surprisingly chose C# over popular alternatives like Python or Go. The author details the reasoning behind this decision, considering factors such as productivity, open-source availability, cross-platform capabilities, popularity, memory safety, garbage collection, static typing, stability, built-in libraries, and tooling. C#'s strengths in productivity, stability, and a rich ecosystem proved crucial for Tracebit's rapid iteration and growth, especially in managing a large codebase and collaborating effectively within a team.

(tracebit.com)

Development Technology Stack Security Startup

VisualCrypto: Open-Source Toolkit for Image-Based Secret Sharing

2025-03-06

VisualCrypto: Open-Source Toolkit for Image-Based Secret Sharing

VisualCrypto is an open-source Python-based toolkit with a web interface for Visual Secret Sharing (VSS). VSS is a cryptographic technique that splits a secret image into multiple shares; each share looks like random noise and reveals nothing on its own, but combining them reconstructs the original image. This toolkit primarily focuses on (2,2)-VSS schemes, requiring both shares to reveal the secret. It supports Visual Cryptography (VC) and Random Grid (RG) techniques, offering both web-based and script-based execution for ease of use and extensibility.

(github.com)

Development Visual Secret Sharing

SourceHut Slams AI Crawlers for Overwhelming Its Servers

2025-03-18

SourceHut Slams AI Crawlers for Overwhelming Its Servers

Open-source Git hosting service SourceHut is battling a wave of aggressive AI web crawlers that are overwhelming its servers. The company has deployed countermeasures, including a 'tar pit' called Nepenthes, and has blocked several cloud providers like Google Cloud and Azure due to excessive bot traffic. This isn't a new problem; SourceHut faced similar issues in 2022 with Google's Go Module Mirror, and other open-source projects have also been affected. While some AI companies have pledged to respect robots.txt, abuse persists, with sites like iFixit, Vercel, and Diaspora reporting issues. The situation is further complicated by sophisticated spoofing, with bots masquerading as legitimate crawlers like OpenAI's GPTBot. This makes log analysis difficult and highlights the growing challenge of managing AI crawler traffic. Ad metrics firm DoubleVerify reported an 86% increase in invalid traffic in the second half of 2024, with 16% attributed to AI scrapers.

(www.theregister.com)

Development AI Crawlers Data Scraping

China to Host World's First Human-Robot Marathon

2025-01-20

China to Host World's First Human-Robot Marathon

Beijing will host the world's first human-robot half-marathon in April, with dozens of humanoid robots competing alongside 12,000 human runners in a 21km race. This event showcases China's push to develop AI and robotics to address an aging population, declining birth rates, and compete with the US in technological advancement. Robots from over 20 companies will participate, with prizes awarded to the top finishers.

(www.scmp.com)

Tech human-robot marathon

OpenAI Considers Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft: A Nuclear Option?

2025-06-17

OpenAI Considers Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft: A Nuclear Option?

OpenAI is reportedly considering filing an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, its largest investor, according to The Wall Street Journal. The potential lawsuit alleges that Microsoft is leveraging its cloud dominance and contractual power to stifle competition. This move could shatter a key AI partnership, which began with a $1 billion investment in 2019 and has since grown to billions more, including Microsoft's exclusive rights to host OpenAI models on Azure. The conflict stems from OpenAI's restructuring and disagreements over Microsoft's equity stake and exclusive cloud hosting rights.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech

Blender Founder Ton Roosendaal Steps Down as CEO

2025-09-18

Ton Roosendaal, founder and CEO of the open-source 3D software Blender, announced he will step down on January 1, 2026. He will transition to the newly established Blender Foundation supervisory board. Current COO Francesco Siddi will take over as CEO, joined by new board members Sergey Sharybin (Head of Development), Dalai Felinto (Head of Product), and Fiona Cohen (Head of Operations). Roosendaal stated that they've been preparing for this since 2019 and is confident in the team to lead Blender into the next decade.

(www.cgchannel.com)

Development CEO Transition

New Superpower Unlocked: Spotting Differences in Images

2025-01-10

New Superpower Unlocked: Spotting Differences in Images

The author discovered a video on Reddit showcasing a 9-year-old girl's incredible ability to quickly identify minute differences between nearly identical images. Initially unable to replicate this, the author found that by crossing their eyes to overlap the images, a third image appeared, highlighting the differences with a shimmering effect. This newfound skill, described as a 'superpower', is shared along with practice exercises and images of varying difficulty levels.

(danielwirtz.com)

Misc visual skills observation

HEXUS Forums to Close Due to UK Online Safety Act

2025-02-25

The HEXUS forums are shutting down or transitioning to read-only mode due to the impending full implementation of the UK's 2023 Online Safety Act. The act requires significant work that the forums currently lack the resources to undertake. This marks the end of a once-vibrant community, a decision lamented by the announcement. Thanks are extended to the site's admins and members for their contributions.

(forums.hexus.net)

Misc Forum Closure

Senior Software Engineer Sentenced for Sabotaging Employer's Systems

2025-03-08

Senior Software Engineer Sentenced for Sabotaging Employer's Systems

Davis Lu, a 55-year-old senior software developer, was found guilty of sabotaging his former employer Eaton Corporation's systems and faces up to 10 years in prison. Before his departure, Lu developed malicious software that locked thousands of employees out of the network, causing significant financial damage. Investigators discovered Lu created malware named "Hakai" (Japanese for destruction) and "HunShui" (Chinese for sleep), along with a "kill switch" that locked all accounts upon his access revocation. He also attempted to delete company data and operating system directories. Despite admitting to the actions, the jury found Lu guilty of intentionally damaging a protected computer.

(www.theregister.com)

Development

Notion: Your All-in-One Workspace

2025-01-06

Notion: Your All-in-One Workspace

Notion is an all-in-one workspace that seamlessly integrates notes, task management, wikis, and databases. Organize your thoughts, manage projects, build team wikis, and create custom databases—all within a single, intuitive platform. Its flexibility caters to diverse needs, from personal knowledge management to complex team collaborations. Notion's clean interface and powerful features are making it a productivity powerhouse for many.

(abhisman.notion.site)

Development

Seven Papers That Changed Computer Science History

2025-01-23

Seven Papers That Changed Computer Science History

This article revisits seven influential papers that shaped modern computer science, ranging from Turing's theory of computation to Google's PageRank algorithm. Each paper's core ideas and significance are explored, with links provided for further learning. A captivating journey through the history of technology.

(terriblesoftware.org)

Tech

Building Games: 3 Months vs. 3 Days with LLMs

2025-08-25

A software engineer with 15 years of experience built two web-based card games based on Argentinian card games in his spare time: one in 3 months, the other in 3 days. The first, Truco, was built entirely by hand using Go for the backend and React for the frontend. The second, Escoba, leveraged the power of LLMs (Claude) to drastically reduce development time for the backend. The author details the process using Go, WASM, and React, providing a minimal Tic-Tac-Toe game as a starting point to encourage others to try game development.

(marianogappa.github.io)

Game

Go 1.24 Cryptography Overhaul: Achieving FIPS 140-3 Compliance

2025-02-06

Go 1.24 significantly refactored its cryptography packages to achieve FIPS 140-3 compliance. This is a major step forward, featuring a pure Go (and Go assembly) implementation of a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module, eliminating reliance on cgo or syscalls. Microsoft Go 1.24 also updated, adding macOS preview support and enhanced Azure Linux support, but maintains its use of system libraries for cryptography, diverging from the official Go approach. New environment variables like GODEBUG=fips140=on and GOFIPS140=latest control FIPS mode; the runtime automatically enables it on FIPS-compliant systems (Azure Linux, Windows).

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

Development

Signal Cryptography Audit: A Weekend Deep Dive

2025-02-18

Signal Cryptography Audit: A Weekend Deep Dive

This article details a weekend-long cryptographic audit of the popular encrypted messaging app Signal, conducted by an applied cryptography expert. The author explains the process and limitations of cryptographic audits, highlighting how companies sometimes misrepresent audit results. Using Signal as a case study, the author examines its implemented encryption mechanisms, outlining future audit priorities. The goal is to empower users to better understand and evaluate the security of encrypted apps, moving beyond marketing claims.

(soatok.blog)

Tech Cryptography Audit Encrypted Messaging

YC Startups: 95% AI-Generated Code – Trend or Fad?

2025-03-06

YC Startups: 95% AI-Generated Code – Trend or Fad?

A quarter of the startups in Y Combinator's latest batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. While AI-assisted coding significantly boosts efficiency, YC partners caution that developers still need code review and debugging skills. AI-generated code isn't perfect and can contain security flaws and errors. This sparks debate about whether AI coding is a future trend or a fleeting fad, and fuels the funding boom for related AI coding tools.

(techcrunch.com)

Development

Fly.io's Secure Cloud Infrastructure: A Deep Dive into Macaroon Tokens

2025-03-30

Fly.io's Secure Cloud Infrastructure: A Deep Dive into Macaroon Tokens

Fly.io, a security bearer token company, details its Macaroon-based security system. The post focuses on its custom tkdb database, leveraging LiteFS and Litestream for high availability and data persistence, and secured communication via the Noise protocol. Token revocation, caching strategies, and leveraging Macaroon features to simplify service token management and enhance security are also covered. Fly.io's experience demonstrates that while some Macaroon features are underutilized by users, they provide significant internal infrastructure benefits, improving reliability and security.

(fly.io)

Tech Security Tokens

Prioritizing Cars Over People: How a College Town Intersection Became More Dangerous

2025-01-14

Prioritizing Cars Over People: How a College Town Intersection Became More Dangerous

A redesign of an intersection in Orange, California, a walkable college town, highlights a concerning trend: prioritizing car speed over pedestrian safety. What was once a safe four-way stop was replaced with a traffic signal, supposedly to 'improve traffic flow and reduce conflict.' However, the upgrade slowed pedestrians, added inconvenience, and only saved drivers mere seconds while significantly increasing the risk of accidents due to drivers running red lights. This $600,000 'improvement' showcases a flawed prioritization of vehicle efficiency over pedestrian safety and comfort, reflecting a common misalignment of values in US street design.

(collegetowns.substack.com)

Misc traffic safety pedestrian safety

The $10,000 Suit: A Journey of Self-Acceptance

2025-02-09

The $10,000 Suit: A Journey of Self-Acceptance

Gary Shteyngart's essay details his quest for the perfect bespoke suit, a journey that transcends mere fashion and becomes a powerful exploration of self-acceptance. From ill-fitting Soviet attire to the awkward sartorial choices of his youth, Shteyngart's pursuit culminates in a collaboration with a renowned tailor and master craftsman. The resulting suit, costing over $10,000, isn't just a garment; it's a symbol of his evolving identity and a testament to his newfound confidence and self-worth.

(www.theatlantic.com)

Misc self-acceptance bespoke

OS/2: Microsoft's Ambitious Next-Gen OS

2025-08-10

A 1987 Computer Language article detailed Microsoft's then-new OS/2, predicting its potential to dominate Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers for the next decade. Its multitasking, comprehensive API, and hardware extensibility were highlighted as key strengths. OS/2's architecture featured three layers: the kernel and system services, the Windows Presentation Manager (WPM), and the OS/2 LAN Manager. The article focused on the kernel and its system services, covering process management, memory management (including virtual memory), device drivers, file management, and inter-process communication (IPC). OS/2 used preemptive scheduling and time slicing, supported protected and real modes, and offered MS-DOS compatibility. Dynamic linking was a crucial element, enhancing code reuse and future-proofing applications. The article concluded by speculating on OS/2's future enhancements and 80386 support.

(gitpi.us)

Development

Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly! Part 0: Setup and First Steps

2025-07-14

This blog post is the first part of a series on x86-64 assembly language. The author recounts outdated university x86 assembly teaching and decides to write a modern tutorial. The tutorial uses Flat Assembler (FASM) and WinDbg, explaining core concepts like registers, memory addressing, and the 64-bit Windows calling convention. A simple Windows program is created, demonstrating compilation with FASM and debugging with WinDbg.

(gpfault.net)

Development x86-64 assembly

Level Up Your Debian 13 Desktop: Essential Tweaks and Tips

2025-08-14

Debian 13 is here! This guide provides essential tweaks to optimize your new Debian desktop experience. Learn how to enable additional repositories (including non-free software), configure your PATH for easier command-line access, join system groups for simplified administration, use Cloudflare DNS for faster browsing, switch to local mirrors for quicker package downloads, enable Snap and Flatpak for broader software access, install the GNOME Software Center, and manage packages with Synaptic. These steps significantly enhance Debian's usability and efficiency.

(teejeetech.com)

Development Desktop Optimization

Sony Secretly Developing AI-Powered PlayStation Characters: Aloy Speaks!

2025-03-10

Sony Secretly Developing AI-Powered PlayStation Characters: Aloy Speaks!

Sony is secretly developing AI-powered game character prototypes. A leaked video shows Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West engaging in conversations with players via voice prompts. The technology combines OpenAI's Whisper, GPT-4, Llama 3, and Sony's proprietary EVS and Mockingbird technologies, running on both PC and PS5. While currently an internal prototype, this hints at the immense potential of AI in game character interaction, sparking discussions about AI's impact on game development and voice actors.

(www.theverge.com)

Game Horizon Forbidden West

Hinge's $550M Secret: Selling Hope, Not Matches

2025-03-23

Hinge's $550M Secret: Selling Hope, Not Matches

Dating app Hinge's success isn't about better matches; it's about masterful branding. Its tagline, "Designed to be deleted," positions it as the app that helps users find love and move on. This contrasts sharply with competitors focused on short-term engagement. In 2024, Hinge raked in $550 million in revenue with 1.5 million paying subscribers. Its story proves emotional marketing, building brand loyalty by selling hope, trumps purely functional features in driving business success.

(www.dikshaupadhyay.com)

Startup emotional marketing

The Gilded Age Mystery: Luigi Mangione, Henry James, and the Unknowable Act of Political Violence

2025-01-21

The Gilded Age Mystery: Luigi Mangione, Henry James, and the Unknowable Act of Political Violence

The murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione has captivated the public, leaving many to question his motives. This article draws parallels between the case and Henry James' lesser-known novel, "The Princess Casamassima," which features a charismatic young revolutionary grappling with conflicting desires for luxury and violence. Both the real-life event and the fictional narrative leave crucial details shrouded in mystery, fueling speculation about the psychology behind political violence and highlighting the limitations of realism in depicting such acts.

(theconversation.com)

Misc Political Violence Psychology

CRISPR Creates Mice with Two Dads

2025-01-29

CRISPR Creates Mice with Two Dads

Chinese scientists have used CRISPR to create mice with two fathers that survive to adulthood. By editing 20 imprinted genes, they bypassed the developmental abnormalities usually seen in bi-paternal mice. This research offers insights into genomic imprinting and potential reproductive technologies, but highlights significant ethical and safety concerns regarding human applications.

(www.technologyreview.com)

Tech gene editing genomic imprinting

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