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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-05-30

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only partners with those adhering to these principles. Got an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

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The Software Trust Crisis: Why We Have to Trust Software (Mostly)

2024-12-31

The Software Trust Crisis: Why We Have to Trust Software (Mostly)

This article explores the difficult problem of trusting software. The author argues that even secure messaging apps rely on trust in the vendor; the sheer volume of code in open-source software makes review impractical; code signing verifies integrity but relies on user diligence and is easily circumvented. The article delves into vulnerabilities in the software supply chain, including code signing, blocklisting, auto-updates, and package managers. It introduces techniques like reproducible builds and binary transparency to enhance software trust, but ultimately concludes that this is a far-from-solved problem, leaving us with the uncomfortable reality of having to trust software vendors.

(educatedguesswork.org)

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QVQ-Max: An AI Model with Both Vision and Intellect

2025-04-06

QVQ-Max: An AI Model with Both Vision and Intellect

QVQ-Max is a novel visual reasoning model that not only 'understands' images and videos but also analyzes and reasons with this information to solve various problems. From math problems to everyday questions, from programming code to artistic creation, QVQ-Max demonstrates impressive capabilities. It excels at detailed observation, deep reasoning, and flexible application in various scenarios, such as assisting with work, learning, and daily life. Future development will focus on improving recognition accuracy, enhancing multi-step task handling, and expanding interaction methods to become a truly practical visual agent.

(qwenlm.github.io)

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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-04-09

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners who adhere to them. Have an idea to improve arXiv for the community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

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Cryptographic Security Shaken: Attack on Fiat-Shamir Transformation

2025-07-10

Cryptographic Security Shaken: Attack on Fiat-Shamir Transformation

New research has challenged the long-held assumption of the random oracle model in cryptography. Researchers demonstrated a method to trick proof systems using the widely adopted Fiat-Shamir transformation, enabling them to certify false statements. This transformation is crucial in systems like blockchains for verifying computations from external servers, relying on the random oracle model's assumption. The research shows that even under this assumption, attacks are possible. This finding necessitates a re-evaluation of the random oracle model and its implications for numerous cryptographic applications, raising concerns about blockchain security and the potential for cryptocurrency theft.

(www.quantamagazine.org)

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Rose Petal Growth: A Geometric Trick Revealed

2025-05-03

Rose Petal Growth: A Geometric Trick Revealed

Physicists have uncovered a previously unknown geometric trick employed in the growth of rose petals. Through theoretical analysis, computer simulations, and experiments with rubbery plastic sheets, they demonstrated that as petals curl outwards, mechanical feedback regulates their growth, resulting in rolled edges and pointed tips. This discovery could have future applications in engineering and architecture. The research highlights how geometric patterns influence developing organisms in nature, emphasizing the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic geometry in shaping biological forms.

(www.nature.com)

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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)

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Rust GPU: Bringing Shadertoy Shaders to Rust

2025-04-12

Rust GPU lets you write GPU programs (shaders) in Rust. The authors ported several popular Shadertoy shaders to Rust with ease. Rust GPU compiles Rust code to SPIR-V, integrating seamlessly into Vulkan workflows. The project leverages Rust features like traits, generics, and macros, simplifying CPU/GPU data sharing. Furthermore, the project contributed back to the ecosystem by fixing issues in wgpu and naga.

(rust-gpu.github.io)

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UK Unveils Revolutionary Quantum Atomic Clock for Enhanced Military Security

2025-01-02

UK Unveils Revolutionary Quantum Atomic Clock for Enhanced Military Security

The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has developed a revolutionary quantum atomic clock with unprecedented accuracy, losing less than a second over billions of years. This breakthrough enhances military operations' security by reducing reliance on vulnerable GPS technology. Deployable within five years, the clock is expected to be miniaturized for mass production, with applications in military vehicles and aircraft. Beyond defense, this technology boosts industrial progress, creates high-skilled jobs, and strengthens the UK's global competitiveness in quantum technology.

(www.gov.uk)

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Amiga 3000UX and Sun: A Deal That Never Was?

2025-07-05

This article investigates unsubstantiated rumors of a deal between Amiga 3000UX and Sun Microsystems. Conflicting accounts from Commodore engineers Dave Haynie and Bryce Nesbitt—one claiming Sun's interest in OEMing the Amiga 3000UX, the other suggesting Commodore's attempt to license Amiga UNIX to Sun—are analyzed. The author casts doubt on these narratives by examining the market and technological context, suggesting they are likely embellished internal rumors. The article concludes that a lack of concrete evidence prevents confirmation of a substantial deal; joint marketing efforts are a more plausible explanation.

(www.datagubbe.se)

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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-04-28

arXivLabs is a framework for developing and sharing new arXiv features directly on the website, fostering collaboration between individuals and organizations. All participants uphold arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. Got an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

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iPadOS 26: Apple's Biggest Update Ever, Redefining iPad Experience

2025-06-09

iPadOS 26: Apple's Biggest Update Ever, Redefining iPad Experience

Apple unveiled iPadOS 26, its most significant iPadOS release to date. This update boasts a redesigned interface, a powerful new windowing system, enhanced Apple Intelligence features, and major improvements to file, audio, and video handling. The refreshed design is more expressive while maintaining iPad's simplicity. The new windowing system offers fluid resizing and organization of app windows. Apple Intelligence is further integrated, including Live Translation, Genmoji, and Image Playground. An enhanced Files app provides more robust file management, and the Preview app arrives on iPad for PDF editing. Creative pros benefit from Background Tasks, audio input selection, and local capture for streamlined audio and video workflows.

(www.apple.com)

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Emulating iOS on QEMU: A Challenging Journey

2025-04-05

Emulating iOS on QEMU: A Challenging Journey

This article details a team's journey in emulating iOS on QEMU. Starting with existing open-source projects, they leveraged checkra1n and PongoOS to bypass iOS security mechanisms. They overcame numerous challenges including software rendering, IOMFB display issues, address randomization, and Pointer Authentication (PAC). The team developed tools to generate and apply Mach-O patches and injected shellcode to simulate USB pairing. Ultimately, they successfully displayed the iOS boot screen and unlock interface on QEMU, showcasing a remarkable achievement.

(eshard.com)

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Type-Driven Development: How Types Simplify Complex Programming

2024-12-19

Type-Driven Development: How Types Simplify Complex Programming

This article explores the concept of "Type-Driven Development," where the author, drawing from experience with the large-scale Heartbeat Typescript project (300k+ lines), demonstrates how Typescript's type system simplifies complex programming problems. The core idea is that by leveraging the type system effectively, allowing types to flow freely across all application layers, starting new features with type definitions, making illegal states unrepresentable, parsing instead of validating data, and maintaining code honesty and specificity, bugs are drastically reduced and development efficiency is improved. The author also shares techniques for using pure functions as type bridges and the type system as an introspection tool, while acknowledging the occasional need to bypass type system constraints.

(mayhul.com)

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Tailscale's NAT Traversal: A Deep Dive

2025-01-05

Tailscale's NAT Traversal: A Deep Dive

This Tailscale blog post details how their VPN overcomes the challenges of NAT (Network Address Translation) to enable direct device-to-device connections. It explains NAT's workings and various techniques to handle NAT and firewalls, including STUN for discovering public IPs, the birthday paradox for faster port probing, and DERP as a fallback relay. Finally, it introduces the ICE protocol, which automatically tries various methods, selecting the best connection to ensure reliable connectivity.

(tailscale.com)

Development

Distro (YC) Hiring a Business Development Representative

2025-01-02

Distro (YC) Hiring a Business Development Representative

Distro, a Y Combinator-backed AI platform assisting sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors, is hiring a Business Development Representative. The role requires 2-3 years of BDR/sales associate experience in vertical SaaS, CRM and marketing tools proficiency, and event management experience. Responsibilities include lead generation, qualification, pipeline advancement, demo management, and CRM maintenance. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance.

(www.ycombinator.com)

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Shallow Understanding of Tech: Good Enough is Good Enough

2025-05-27

The author argues that a shallow understanding of the technologies engineers use is sufficient. Deep dives into database indexes, large language models, etc., enable better decision-making; for example, choosing appropriate models for JSON output and avoiding errors caused by limitations in smaller models. Instead of going deep in one area, the author advocates for broad knowledge across many areas to better adapt to new trends. Learning new technologies should focus on understanding fundamental principles and explaining them simply to others, while using LLMs for fact-checking to ensure accuracy.

(www.seangoedecke.com)

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Seyfert Galaxies: Bright Beacons in the Cosmos

2024-12-31

In 1943, astronomer Carl Seyfert discovered a class of spiral galaxies with unusually bright cores. Their spectra reveal strong, often broad, emission lines, indicating intense central activity. These Seyfert galaxies, comprising about 10% of all galaxies, are thought to be nearby, low-luminosity versions of quasars, powered by a supermassive black hole accreting surrounding gas. The Hubble Space Telescope and other instruments have extensively observed Seyfert galaxies, revealing their diversity and complexity, including different types and their interaction with their galactic environment. Continued study of Seyfert galaxies helps us understand the mechanisms driving active galactic nuclei and the growth of black holes.

(www.seyfertgalaxies.com)

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Employer.com Acquires Bench Accounting: A New Chapter in Small Business Financial Management

2025-01-01

Employer.com, a leader in workforce management and business support solutions, announced the acquisition of Bench Accounting, a provider of bookkeeping services for small businesses. This acquisition ensures Bench customers will continue receiving the same high-quality service while gaining access to future enhancements and capabilities powered by Employer.com's resources. Employer.com is committed to empowering small businesses with the tools and support they need to thrive, and Bench's financial management expertise aligns perfectly with this mission. The acquisition is a win-win for both companies; Employer.com integrates Bench's technology and expertise into its platform, offering a tailored suite of services for growing businesses, while Bench customers continue working with their trusted in-house bookkeepers and retain full access to the Bench platform.

(www.bench.co)

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Archy: A Programmable Text Editor Inspired by THE

2025-09-20

Archy: A Programmable Text Editor Inspired by THE

Archy is a powerful text editor where commands aren't predefined but are user-defined Python scripts. This allows for incredible flexibility; users can craft custom commands to perform actions such as web searches (GOOGLE command) or sending emails (EMAIL command). Unlike THE, Archy's commands exist as documents within the workspace, editable and modifiable on the fly without restarting. Archy also features version control, saving workspace versions for easy rollback. The article demonstrates creating and running custom commands, exploring Archy's design philosophy and its potential applications in modern platforms. The author laments the lack of similar approaches in modern, increasingly locked-down systems.

(arstechnica.com)

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Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera to Silver Lake

2025-04-14

Intel announced it has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its FPGA subsidiary, Altera, to Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm, for $8.75 billion. This move aims to improve Intel's financial position and grant Altera greater independence to focus on growth in the AI-driven market. Altera CEO Sandra Rivera will step down, to be replaced by Raghib Hussain, former president of Products and Technologies at Marvell. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025, leaving Intel with a 49% stake.

(newsroom.intel.com)

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Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash: A Controllable Reasoning AI Model

2025-04-17

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash: A Controllable Reasoning AI Model

Google has released Gemini 2.5 Flash, a new large language model featuring controllable reasoning capabilities. Building upon the popular 2.0 Flash, it significantly improves reasoning while prioritizing speed and cost-effectiveness. Developers can adjust a 'thinking budget' to balance quality, cost, and latency. The model automatically adjusts its thinking process based on prompt complexity, offering modes ranging from no thinking to intensive reasoning. Gemini 2.5 Flash excels on LMArena's Hard Prompts, boasting a superior price-to-performance ratio, making it one of the most cost-effective thinking models available.

(developers.googleblog.com)

AI Controllable Reasoning

AI Hype: Bubble or Breakthrough?

2025-09-19

AI Hype: Bubble or Breakthrough?

This article delves into the pervasive hype surrounding artificial intelligence. From AI's early symbolic paradigm to today's deep-learning-based generative AI, technological advancement isn't linear but rather characterized by contingency and unexpected turns. The explosive popularity of ChatGPT exemplifies this. However, alongside AI's commercialization, a wave of exaggerated claims has emerged, portraying AI as an omnipotent myth. The author criticizes the overly optimistic and technologically uninformed pronouncements of tech prophets like Yuval Noah Harari and Henry Kissinger, arguing that they inflate AI's potential risks while overlooking its limitations and its practical applications in solving real-world problems. The author calls for a rational perspective on AI, urging readers to avoid being blinded by hype and to focus on addressing the practical challenges of the technology itself.

(hedgehogreview.com)

AI tech hype

ZEUS Laser: Michigan's 2-Petawatt Powerhouse Shatters US Records

2025-05-21

ZEUS Laser: Michigan's 2-Petawatt Powerhouse Shatters US Records

The University of Michigan's ZEUS laser facility has achieved a groundbreaking milestone, reaching 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts) in its first official experiment, making it the most powerful laser in the U.S. While this immense power—over 100 times the global electricity output—lasts only for a fleeting 25 quintillionths of a second, its applications are vast, spanning medicine, national security, materials science, astrophysics, and more. As a user facility, ZEUS welcomes research teams from across the globe to submit proposals. The laser employs innovative techniques to generate high-energy electron beams and is poised for a landmark experiment later this year, aiming to reach zettawatt-scale pulses.

(news.engin.umich.edu)

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Meta Prompting: Revolutionizing LLM Prompt Engineering

2025-06-03

Meta Prompting: Revolutionizing LLM Prompt Engineering

This article explores meta prompting, a technique using Large Language Models (LLMs) to create and refine prompts. It details various meta-prompting methods, including the Stanford and OpenAI collaboration's method using a 'conductor' LLM to orchestrate expert LLMs; Amazon's Learning from Contrastive Prompts (LCP), which improves prompts by comparing good and bad ones; Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE), Prompt Agent, Conversational Prompt Engineering (CPE), DSPy, and TEXTGRAD. The article compares their strengths and weaknesses, highlighting how these methods significantly improve prompt engineering efficiency. Finally, it showcases prompt generation tools from platforms like PromptHub, Anthropic, and OpenAI, simplifying meta-prompting implementation and unlocking the full potential of LLMs.

(www.prompthub.us)

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GameNode: Manage Your Entire Game Collection in One Place

2025-04-08

Tired of managing your game library scattered across multiple platforms? GameNode is the solution! This platform lets you virtually manage all your games, update your backlog, rate played titles, and add anticipated releases to your wishlist. Connect with friends, follow their activity, and stay updated on everyone's latest gaming sessions. GameNode imports games and playtime from various sources, simplifying the process. Coming soon to iOS.

(gamenode.app)

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UK Economy Surges, But Future Uncertain Amidst Global Trade Tensions

2025-05-15

UK Economy Surges, But Future Uncertain Amidst Global Trade Tensions

The British economy grew at its fastest pace in a year during the first quarter of 2025, expanding by 0.7%, a welcome boost for the Labour government. The services sector fueled this growth, making the UK the fastest-growing G7 economy in Q1. However, economists predict a slowdown in Q2 due to global uncertainty stemming from US tariffs and new UK taxes. While a US-UK trade deal was announced, reducing tariffs on some goods, the lingering effects of the US-China trade war and rising domestic prices are expected to dampen consumer demand and export growth.

(apnews.com)

Tech UK economy global trade

Anthropic Launches Claude for Education, Taking on ChatGPT

2025-04-03

Anthropic Launches Claude for Education, Taking on ChatGPT

Anthropic launched Claude for Education, a new AI chatbot service aimed at higher education, directly competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu. This tier offers students and faculty access to Claude, featuring a new 'Learning Mode' to foster critical thinking. It includes enterprise-grade security and already boasts agreements with universities like Northeastern and the London School of Economics. Anthropic aims to boost revenue and increase user adoption among students through this offering.

(techcrunch.com)

AI AI education

Eurorack Knob Revolution: A Magnetic Encoder Patch Cable Hybrid

2025-04-25

This post details a novel Eurorack module knob design that ingeniously combines a magnetic encoder with a 3.5mm jack. This hybrid allows knobs to function like traditional controls but also offers the plug-and-play convenience of patch cables, simplifying Eurorack module connection and layout. The author meticulously describes the design process, including hardware selection, circuit design, and assembly testing. While the author acknowledges potential commercial challenges, this design offers a fresh perspective on Eurorack module design and sparks imagination about future modular synthesizer designs.

(mitxela.com)

Hardware Magnetic Encoder Modular Synthesizer

The Transformative Power of Enthusiasm: Building Community Through Belief

2025-04-25

The Transformative Power of Enthusiasm: Building Community Through Belief

Tina recounts her journey from a childhood fascination with enthusiasm to founding the successful CreativeMornings events. She shares key individuals who fueled her dreams with their passion, helping her overcome self-doubt and build a supportive community. This inspiring story highlights the power of enthusiasm, the importance of mutual support, and the creation of positive communities in a challenging world.

(www.swiss-miss.com)

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