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Game Exploit: Hackers Can Take Over Your PC via Marvel Rivals

2025-02-03
Game Exploit: Hackers Can Take Over Your PC via Marvel Rivals

A security researcher discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit in Marvel Rivals. Attackers on the same Wi-Fi network can execute arbitrary code on other players' PCs. The vulnerability stems from the game's use of RCE for patching, without verifying server connections, and running with admin privileges. This allows for potential remote takeover of PCs. The researcher highlights the need for game developers to prioritize security, implement robust bug reporting systems, and establish bug bounty programs to incentivize vulnerability disclosure.

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(shalzuth.com)
Game remote code execution exploit

Pokemon Playtest Card Scandal: Tiny Yellow Dots Reveal 2024 Printing Date

2025-01-30
Pokemon Playtest Card Scandal: Tiny Yellow Dots Reveal 2024 Printing Date

A player named pfm discovered that most colored versions of Pokémon playtest cards contain tiny, invisible yellow dots. These dots encode metadata such as printer serial number, date, and time, revealing that many cards were printed in 2024, not 1996 as advertised. This discovery has raised questions about the authenticity of the cards and the grading company CGC, potentially resulting in significant financial losses for investors. Different quality cards have different dot patterns; some high-quality versions lack dots entirely. pfm's findings sparked widespread community discussion and have had a significant impact on the Pokémon card collecting market.

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(www.elitefourum.com)
Game Pokemon Playtest Cards Forgery

World's First Titanium Artificial Heart Patient Discharged from Hospital

2025-03-13
World's First Titanium Artificial Heart Patient Discharged from Hospital

A man in his forties from Australia has become the first person globally to be discharged from the hospital with a titanium artificial heart. The BiVACOR device, used as a bridge to transplant for heart failure patients awaiting donor hearts, previously required recipients to remain hospitalized in the US. After living with the device for over three months, he received a donor heart and is recovering well. This marks the sixth BiVACOR implantation worldwide and the first to exceed a month. Experts hail the innovation but emphasize the need for further research into long-term functionality and cost-effectiveness. BiVACOR, a total heart replacement with only one moving part, promises enhanced durability compared to traditional devices.

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(www.nature.com)
Tech artificial heart

I Found Bugs in Knuth's TAOCP and Got Rewarded!

2025-03-08
I Found Bugs in Knuth's TAOCP and Got Rewarded!

The author discovered several errors in Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" (TAOCP) and reported them to Knuth himself. Knuth not only quickly responded and corrected the errors but also rewarded the author with "hexadecimal dollars" from his fictional "Bank of San Serriffe." The article details the errors found, Knuth's responses, and the corresponding rewards, sharing Knuth's unique correction methods and an amusing anecdote. It highlights Knuth's dedication to accuracy and attention to detail, and the author's respect for the classic work.

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(glthr.com)
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Stop Calling Kin Work 'Emotional Labor': It's 'F*cking Work'

2025-02-03
Stop Calling Kin Work 'Emotional Labor': It's 'F*cking Work'

The author challenges the common practice of labeling the work of maintaining family relationships, particularly that disproportionately done by women, as "emotional labor." She argues this term obscures the crucial importance of this work, which she calls "kin work." This isn't simply emotional management; it's essential labor for maintaining human social networks, ensuring survival and support. Dismissing it as "emotional labor" undervalues its significance and ignores its continued necessity in modern society. The author calls for shared responsibility in maintaining family connections, rather than viewing it as a solely female burden.

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(thefuturefeeling.substack.com)
Misc family relationships gender equality

The $70k Kitchen Computer That Nobody Bought: The Honeywell H316 Story

2025-06-24
The $70k Kitchen Computer That Nobody Bought: The Honeywell H316 Story

The Honeywell H316 kitchen computer, priced at a staggering $70,000 (in 1969 dollars), is a legendary flop. This wasn't just any kitchen appliance; it was a luxurious version of Honeywell's general-purpose H316 computer, notable for its retro-futuristic design and binary interface. The article explores its failures: the exorbitant price, the complex binary programming, and its unrealistic target market (suburban housewives for recipe storage). Despite its commercial failure, the H316 holds a place in tech history as arguably the first consumer-focused computer, making it a holy grail for retrocomputing enthusiasts. However, evidence suggests it may have been a brilliant, albeit expensive, marketing stunt orchestrated by Neiman Marcus, rather than a genuine product failure.

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(kbd.news)
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The Ratchet Effect: How Engineers Build Reputation at Big Tech

2025-01-08

Engineer reputation at large tech companies isn't solely about technical skill; it's a gradual process. Starting with low-level tasks, engineers build trust and gain access to higher-profile projects through consistent success. This "ratchet effect" makes reputation slow to change. Even mistakes can be overcome with continued delivery. However, repeated failures lead to a downward spiral. The author advises new hires to focus on smaller projects to build a solid reputation, avoiding risky attempts to jump to high-profile work immediately.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
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The Future of Chocolate: Beyond Cocoa?

2024-12-24
The Future of Chocolate: Beyond Cocoa?

Soaring cocoa prices, coupled with environmental concerns and labor issues, are creating a crisis in the Swiss chocolate industry. New EU regulations banning deforestation-linked products add further pressure. Startups are responding by developing cocoa-free alternatives, using ingredients like fava beans, oats, sunflower seeds, and carob. Innovative approaches include utilizing more of the cocoa fruit and even converting greenhouse gases into cocoa butter substitutes. While these technologies are nascent, the future of chocolate promises deliciousness, albeit with potentially altered sourcing.

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(www.swissinfo.ch)
Tech Cocoa prices Chocolate alternatives Sustainability

Post-Disaster Aid: Best Practices for Donations and Volunteering

2025-01-16
Post-Disaster Aid: Best Practices for Donations and Volunteering

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) emphasizes that the most effective way to provide post-disaster aid is through cash donations to recognized disaster relief organizations. These organizations can procure necessary supplies based on actual needs, prioritizing local businesses in affected areas to support economic recovery. In-kind donations should be coordinated beforehand to avoid unnecessary burdens. Volunteers should also work through reputable organizations and avoid self-deploying to disaster zones. Post-disaster recovery is a long-term process; volunteer needs persist for months, even years, after the immediate emergency.

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(www.fema.gov)
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Vertical AI's Bitter Pill: The Rise of Horizontal AI

2025-01-21

This post explores the competition between vertical AI applications (AI optimized for specific domains) and horizontal AI applications (more general-purpose, scalable AI). Using personal experience and Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers framework, the author argues that as model performance improves, vertical AI applications struggle to maintain a competitive edge. Except for a rare few possessing exclusive and essential resources, most vertical AI applications will eventually be overtaken by superior horizontal AI. Horizontal AI, akin to a remote coworker, is easily integrated, cheaper, and continuously improves performance through model advancements. The author uses their AcademicGPT project as a case study, showing how a vertical AI application was surpassed by more general horizontal AI models.

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(lukaspetersson.com)
AI vertical AI horizontal AI

How to Inefficiently Build a Website: An Anti-Tutorial

2025-07-28

This article offers a paradoxical guide to website building, focusing on maximizing time and energy expenditure. Key strategies include: indiscriminately installing npm dependencies to create a web of dependencies; choosing a framework before needing one, ensuring continuous learning curves with updates; and always requiring a compilation step, adding extra build processes. In short, this is an anti-tutorial on how to waste time effectively in web development.

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(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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FFglitch Art: A Stunning Collection of Glitch Art

2025-09-13

This is a collection of stunning glitch art created using the FFglitch software. Artists leverage FFglitch's powerful capabilities to create visually striking works, ranging from dynamic cityscapes to abstract artistic experiments. The article lists links to works by multiple artists, including Thomas Collet, Kaspar Ravel, and Sebastien Brias, showcasing the limitless possibilities of FFglitch in the field of glitch art. You can find these breathtaking works on Vimeo, Instagram, Reddit, and Facebook.

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(ffglitch.org)
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Transhumanism: A Cult for Our Times?

2025-03-24
Transhumanism: A Cult for Our Times?

This article explores whether the transhumanist movement exhibits cult-like characteristics. Using Robert J. Lifton's eight criteria for identifying cults, the author analyzes transhumanism's information control, mystical manipulation, purity demands, confession culture, sacred science, loaded language, doctrine over person, and dispensing of existence. The author argues that transhumanism displays similarities to cults in its closed-mindedness, exclusionary practices, and apocalyptic salvation narrative. While not geographically centralized, transhumanism's online communities foster strong group identity and suppress dissent, showcasing blind optimism towards future technologies and devaluation of non-believers. The article concludes that the future trajectory of transhumanism will depend on whether its technological predictions materialize and how its adherents react to reality.

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(ewanmorrison.substack.com)
Misc Transhumanism

CosmoCube: Listening for Ancient Whispers on the Far Side of the Moon

2025-07-13
CosmoCube: Listening for Ancient Whispers on the Far Side of the Moon

To unravel the mysteries of the Cosmic Dawn – the period after the Big Bang but before the first stars – scientists are planning to send a tiny spacecraft, CosmoCube, to the far side of the Moon. Earth's noise pollution makes detecting faint radio signals from this era incredibly difficult. The Moon will act as a giant shield, allowing CosmoCube to listen for signals from early universe hydrogen, potentially revealing clues about the universe's origin, galaxy formation, and the Hubble tension. This UK-led mission, a collaboration between the Universities of Portsmouth and Cambridge and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, aims for lunar orbit within five years.

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(cosmosmagazine.com)
Tech Cosmic Dawn Moon's far side

Large Language Models' Hallucinations: The Missing Piece is Memory

2025-09-10
Large Language Models' Hallucinations: The Missing Piece is Memory

The author contrasts human and large language model (LLM) information processing by recounting a personal experience using a Ruby library. Humans possess sedimentary memory, allowing them to sense the origin and reliability of knowledge, thus avoiding random guesses. LLMs lack this experiential memory; their knowledge resembles inherited DNA rather than acquired skills, leading to hallucinations. The author argues that resolving LLM hallucinations requires new AI models capable of "living" in and learning from the real world.

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(www.robinsloan.com)
AI

Kickstarter Cracks Down on Failed Projects, Boosts Backer Protections

2025-02-11
Kickstarter Cracks Down on Failed Projects, Boosts Backer Protections

Kickstarter is implementing several changes to improve backer experience and rebuild community trust. These include notifying backers when projects fail to deliver or violate platform rules, outlining the platform's response (including restricting creators from future projects); increasing transparency by displaying creator track records, collaborators, and past projects; introducing post-campaign add-ons for continued funding; and adding features like payment installments, improved search filters, and a revamped mobile app to easily view all funded projects (successful and unsuccessful). These changes aim to address long-standing issues of scams and project failures, enhancing transparency and building trust.

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(www.theverge.com)
Startup crowdfunding platform improvements

LLMs: The Next Frontier in Code Assistance

2025-01-14
LLMs: The Next Frontier in Code Assistance

This article recounts the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly their application in code assistance. Using examples like Amazon AWS and Kubernetes, the author illustrates how small technological breakthroughs can give rise to massive industries. The author argues that LLM-powered coding assistants are poised to revolutionize software development, emphasizing the importance of high-quality data (a data moat) for superior code generation. The article concludes with an introduction to Sourcegraph's Cody, an LLM-based coding assistant leveraging Sourcegraph's powerful code search engine to build a 'cheat sheet' – the context window – for significantly improved code generation.

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(sourcegraph.com)
Development Code Assistance

Hong Kong Consumer Council: Shocking Sunscreen Efficacy Test Results!

2025-09-07
Hong Kong Consumer Council: Shocking Sunscreen Efficacy Test Results!

The Hong Kong Consumer Council tested 30 daily-use sunscreens, revealing alarming results! Over 80% performed below their labeled SPF, with some high-SPF sunscreens measuring below SPF15. Many also failed to meet labeled UVA protection levels and ingredient disclosure requirements. The Council urges manufacturers to improve production and labeling accuracy, providing clear instructions. Consumers are advised to choose carefully to avoid inadequate sun protection and potential skin damage.

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(www.consumer.org.hk)
Misc Sunscreen Product Testing

Bukowski and Burroughs: Two Writers' Fascinating Relationships with Computers

2025-05-10

This article explores the relationship between two prominent late 20th-century writers, Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, and the development of computer technology. Bukowski embraced the Macintosh in his later years, experiencing a significant increase in writing productivity and a creative surge. He actively learned new technologies and incorporated them into his creative process. Burroughs, however, displayed a more reserved attitude towards computers, linked to his preference for manual creation and nostalgic attachment to traditional print culture. The article contrasts the writers' differing approaches to computers and prompts reflection on digital-age literary creation, archival preservation, and related issues.

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(realitystudio.org)
Misc Writers

ChatGPT-Assisted Swift App Dev: From Amazing to Crashing

2025-09-01
ChatGPT-Assisted Swift App Dev: From Amazing to Crashing

The author attempted to build a Swift app using ChatGPT-5. Initially, it was impressive, with ChatGPT generating code and modifying the UI based on natural language prompts. However, testing revealed numerous issues: search functionality failed, adding shows to the library didn't work, and ChatGPT's modifications introduced increasing errors and unwanted UI changes. Eventually, the app became unbuildable, leading to a frustrating cycle of troubleshooting that the author couldn't resolve with ChatGPT. This experience highlights that while ChatGPT can assist in development, its reliability and accuracy need improvement, especially for complex projects, requiring significant manual intervention and code review.

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(beard.fm)
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Open WebUI Adds Branding Protection to License

2025-05-06

Open WebUI, an independent open-source AI project, has added a branding protection clause to its BSD-3 license starting with version 0.6.6. This follows a surge in bad actors taking the project, removing branding, and selling it commercially. The new clause doesn't affect legitimate users but prevents those who misrepresent the project and profit without contributing. It allows for modifications and redistribution but mandates clear attribution unless specific conditions are met (e.g., under 50 users, contributor with permission, or enterprise license). Open WebUI remains largely open-source, aiming to balance community spirit with project sustainability.

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(docs.openwebui.com)
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Linux 6.13 Stable Released: AMD Optimizations, Broader Apple Support & More

2025-01-20

The Linux 6.13 stable kernel is here, bringing exciting features like AMD 3D V-Cache optimizations for Ryzen X3D processors, improved power efficiency for AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" servers, support for older Apple devices, and AutoFDO/Propeller compiler optimizations. Initial Intel Xe3 graphics support, NVMe 2.1 support, and expanded Rust language infrastructure are also included. Marking the first major kernel release of 2025, Linux 6.13 significantly boosts performance and hardware compatibility.

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(www.phoronix.com)
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Revolutionary Technique Cuts LLM Memory Costs by Up to 75%

2024-12-17
Revolutionary Technique Cuts LLM Memory Costs by Up to 75%

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup, has developed a groundbreaking technique called "universal transformer memory" that significantly improves the memory efficiency of large language models (LLMs). Using neural attention memory modules (NAMMs), the technique acts like a smart editor, discarding redundant information while retaining crucial details. This results in up to a 75% reduction in memory costs and improved performance across various models and tasks, offering substantial benefits for enterprises utilizing LLMs.

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(venturebeat.com)
AI Memory Optimization Neural Networks

Open Source Under Siege: AI Crawlers Unleash Chaos

2025-03-20
Open Source Under Siege: AI Crawlers Unleash Chaos

A wave of aggressive AI crawlers is crippling open-source projects. Ignoring robots.txt and consuming massive resources, these bots have caused outages at SourceHut, KDE GitLab, and GNOME GitLab. Communities are resorting to desperate measures, from implementing CAPTCHAs like GNOME's Anubis to blocking entire countries. This highlights the disproportionate burden placed on open-source communities and the unsustainable cost of maintaining free software in the age of rampant AI data scraping.

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(thelibre.news)
Development AI crawlers

AWS Labs MCP Server Suite: Boosting Your Development Workflow

2025-04-03
AWS Labs MCP Server Suite: Boosting Your Development Workflow

AWS Labs has released a suite of specialized MCP servers that bring AWS best practices directly to your development workflow. This suite includes a core server for managing other AWS Labs MCP servers, as well as servers for accessing Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, analyzing AWS CDK projects, performing AWS cost analysis, and generating images using Amazon Nova Canvas. Each server has specific installation instructions, generally involving installing uv, Python 3.10, and configuring AWS credentials. Detailed documentation and API references are available on the official website.

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(github.com)
Development MCP Servers Dev Tools

California's Housing Crisis After the Fires: Rebuild or Collapse?

2025-01-16
California's Housing Crisis After the Fires: Rebuild or Collapse?

Recent wildfires in California have destroyed thousands of homes, exacerbating an already dire housing crisis. Los Angeles and other areas have extremely low vacancy rates, making finding rental properties difficult even at high prices. The fires have also caused insurance premiums to skyrocket, leaving many homeowners facing exorbitant costs or losing coverage altogether. This could lead to widespread foreclosures and homelessness. While the government has taken some steps to speed up rebuilding, experts argue these measures are insufficient. The real solution lies in transforming urban planning, increasing high-density, fire-resistant housing, requiring significant policy changes.

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(www.vox.com)
Tech Housing Crisis Insurance Crisis

Bogotá's Ciclovía: A 50-Year Legacy of Open Streets

2024-12-22
Bogotá's Ciclovía: A 50-Year Legacy of Open Streets

Bogotá's Ciclovía, a weekly program closing 75 miles of streets to cars for seven hours, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Born from a 1974 protest against traffic and pollution, Ciclovía has become a beloved tradition, drawing over 1.5 million people each Sunday. Its success has inspired over 400 cities worldwide to adopt similar programs. Ciclovía is more than just a recreational event; it's a testament to community building, improved public health, and a unique solution to urban challenges. The program's longevity and impact highlight its surprising power to foster social cohesion, promote equality, and even resolve political conflicts, demonstrating the potential for transformative urban interventions.

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(slate.com)
Misc sustainable transport community engagement

Absurd Math Error: Earth's Radius Only 4333 Feet?

2025-01-11
Absurd Math Error: Earth's Radius Only 4333 Feet?

A blogger discovered an unbelievable mathematical error in an image posted by a design and construction company. The image incorrectly calculated the Earth's radius when computing the lengths of two circular arcs at different altitudes, resulting in a radius of only 4333 feet, far less than the actual value. The blogger detailed the error in the calculation and pointed out the huge discrepancy between the actual Earth's radius and the calculated result. This erroneous calculation raises questions about the authenticity of information and highlights the importance of carefully verifying information in the information age.

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(www.charlespetzold.com)
Misc Mathematical error Earth's radius Information authenticity

Simple Defer in C: Practical Implementations

2025-01-06
Simple Defer in C: Practical Implementations

This blog post explores practical ways to implement a `defer` keyword in C, enabling automatic cleanup actions (like memory deallocation or mutex unlocking) after a code block. The author first explains the purpose of `defer`, then demonstrates implementations using GCC extensions and C++ features. Finally, a new syntax proposal is presented to simplify `defer`'s implementation and usage, significantly improving C code readability and safety.

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(gustedt.wordpress.com)
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