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Biden's Last-Minute Cybersecurity EO: AI, Microsoft, and More

2025-01-16

Biden's Last-Minute Cybersecurity EO: AI, Microsoft, and More

In a parting shot, President Biden issued a sweeping cybersecurity executive order aimed at bolstering federal cybersecurity, regulating government AI use, and subtly targeting Microsoft's dominance. The 40-page order mandates improvements in government network monitoring, software procurement, AI implementation, and the punishment of foreign hackers. It seeks to leverage AI's benefits, introduce digital identities for US citizens, and close vulnerabilities exploited by adversaries like China and Russia. Key provisions include requiring software vendors to prove secure development practices, enhancing cloud authentication key protection (in response to incidents like the Microsoft server breach), and boosting CISA's network monitoring capabilities. The order also promotes AI research for cybersecurity and aims to streamline citizen services through digital identity documents.

(www.wired.com)

Tech executive order

1787 Constitution Signing: A Dawn or Dusk?

2025-02-22

1787 Constitution Signing: A Dawn or Dusk?

September 17, 1787 marked the end of the US Constitutional Convention. Despite three delegates refusing to sign, Franklin's heartfelt speech and Washington's support secured the Constitution's passage. A proposal to increase the size of the House of Representatives passed unanimously. However, the signing wasn't the final victory; the real challenge lay ahead in convincing the American people to embrace this new government, leaving its future uncertain.

(www.nps.gov)

Misc US History Constitutional Convention US Constitution

Tailwind CSS v4.0: Blazing Fast and Incredibly Flexible

2025-01-23

Tailwind CSS v4.0: Blazing Fast and Incredibly Flexible

Tailwind CSS v4.0 has arrived! This release is a complete overhaul of the framework, boasting massive performance improvements and increased flexibility. Full builds are up to 5x faster, and incremental builds are over 100x faster. Leveraging cutting-edge CSS features like cascade layers, custom properties, and `color-mix()`, v4.0 is designed for the modern web. Setup is simplified with fewer dependencies, zero configuration, and a single line of CSS. A new CSS-first configuration allows customization directly within your CSS, along with CSS theme variables, dynamic utility values, and variants. Other significant additions include a modernized P3 color palette, container queries, new 3D transform utilities, expanded gradient APIs, and `@starting-style` support. This release significantly enhances developer efficiency and user experience.

(tailwindcss.com)

Development CSS Framework

Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Mimic the DX7

2025-01-19

A vintage synth enthusiast reverse-engineered and rewrote the firmware ROM of the Yamaha DX9, significantly enhancing its functionality to closely match the DX7. By cleverly overcoming hardware limitations and restoring missing features like two additional operators, the hacker enabled the DX9 to load and play DX7 patches. Fixes included improved MIDI handling and a pitch envelope generator. The project's source code is publicly available, showcasing impressive technical skill and passion for vintage synthesizers, even if the target audience is small. This unexpected feat delighted the retro synth community.

(ajxs.me)

Hardware firmware hacking vintage synthesizer

Uber and Waymo Team Up for Self-Driving Rides in Austin

2025-03-04

Uber and Waymo Team Up for Self-Driving Rides in Austin

Uber and Waymo are partnering to bring self-driving ride-hailing to Austin, Texas. Users requesting a ride through the Uber app now have the chance to be matched with a Waymo fully autonomous electric vehicle at no extra cost. The service initially covers 37 square miles of Austin, with plans for expansion. This collaboration combines Waymo's autonomous driving technology with Uber's platform to offer a greener, more convenient transportation option, prioritizing safety with all vehicles meeting Uber's safety guidelines.

(www.uber.com)

Tech

Stolen Van Dyck Portrait Recovered After 73 Years

2025-03-29

In July 1951, Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. This grisaille, one of thirty-seven oil sketches from van Dyck's Iconography series, embarked on a 73-year journey through the hands of experts, auctioneers, and collectors, spanning continents. A meticulous investigation, involving archival research and international collaboration, ultimately led to its return to Boughton House in 2024, revealing a captivating tale of theft, intrigue, and the persistent pursuit of justice.

(britishartjournal.co.uk)

Misc art theft Anthony van Dyck Boughton House

The Open Source Maintainer Crisis: Burnout, Pressure, and an Uncertain Future

2025-02-17

The Open Source Maintainer Crisis: Burnout, Pressure, and an Uncertain Future

The 2025 State Of Open conference highlighted the plight of open source maintainers: volunteers pour countless hours into projects with little support, leading many to quit or consider quitting. The resignation of Asahi Linux lead Hector Martin due to burnout and demanding users exemplifies this crisis. Maintainers face pressure from users, endless requests, and occasional negativity. Even with minimal corporate sponsorship, the demands far outweigh the support. Surveys reveal many maintainers considering quitting, and many projects may become unmaintained. The problem isn't solely financial; it also requires more contributors to share non-coding tasks like community management and fundraising. But change needs a catalyst—perhaps a major project collapse will finally convince people that paying open source maintainers is crucial.

(www.theregister.com)

Development open source maintenance community pressure

CollectWise: Hiring its First Founding Engineer (YC Backed)

2025-01-20

CollectWise: Hiring its First Founding Engineer (YC Backed)

Y Combinator-backed startup CollectWise is searching for its first founding engineer. CollectWise uses generative AI to automate debt collection, achieving 2x the efficiency of human collectors at a fraction of the cost. They're looking for a full-stack engineer with experience in React JS, Node JS, Firebase, AWS, SQL, and GPT-4, who can work independently and take ownership. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing team disrupting a massive, outdated industry.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup

GPL: Boon or Bane for WordPress?

2025-03-04

GPL: Boon or Bane for WordPress?

Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software argues that the GPL license hinders participation and adoption in WordPress. This article counters that argument, asserting that WordPress's thriving plugin and theme community is a direct result of the GPL. The author uses personal experience to show how the GPL protects user freedoms and ultimately fosters a flourishing ecosystem rather than hindering development. While acknowledging limitations, the core principles of sharing and reciprocity are vital for building a robust community and ecosystem – far outweighing license concerns.

(ma.tt)

Development Open Source License

Technologist Shares Practical Tips for Online Privacy

2025-02-17

Technologist Shares Practical Tips for Online Privacy

A technologist with over a decade of experience in the tech industry shares her insights and advice on protecting your online privacy. Initially sharing concise, actionable tips via Instagram, she's now moving to a newsletter format to provide more in-depth guidance. She emphasizes that privacy is a spectrum and offers practical advice on social media, car data, smart home devices, data breaches, and child privacy. Rather than delving into legal specifics, she focuses on the technical aspects and actionable advice, empowering readers to easily improve their privacy in everyday life.

(hannahonprivacy.substack.com)

Tech privacy tips

2025: Another Brutal Year for Startups? Data Suggests So

2025-01-27

2025: Another Brutal Year for Startups? Data Suggests So

Data suggests 2025 could be another tough year for startups. 2024 saw a significant increase in startup closures compared to 2023, with Carta reporting a 25.6% rise to 966 closures (US-based Carta customers). AngelList saw a 56.2% increase to 364 closures. This surge is attributed to the overfunded and overvalued companies from the 2020-2021 boom. Many struggled to secure further funding after inflated valuations. Experts point to a combination of factors: running out of cash, lack of product-market fit, and inability to raise more capital due to previous overvaluation. The trend is expected to continue in the first half of 2025, gradually declining thereafter.

(techcrunch.com)

Startup startup failures funding crunch overvaluation

Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: The Hidden Doomsday Clock?

2025-06-22

Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: The Hidden Doomsday Clock?

While US politicians repeatedly warn against Iran developing nuclear weapons, they remain silent about Israel's existing and far larger nuclear arsenal. The article reveals Israel possesses at least 90 warheads, possibly hundreds more, operating under a veil of secrecy and violating international law. Israel's aggressive actions and bellicose rhetoric, including the Gaza assault and nuclear threats against Iran, escalate regional tensions. The author calls for the US to abandon its double standard, advocating for a nuclear-free Middle East to prevent catastrophic war.

(www.currentaffairs.org)

Tech Nuclear Weapons Middle East Conflict

Thread Safety Nightmare: A Mysterious Crash on ARM64, Even with Safe Rust

2025-01-22

Thread Safety Nightmare: A Mysterious Crash on ARM64, Even with Safe Rust

While porting network I/O code from Python to Rust in EdgeDB, a mysterious crash on ARM64 platforms emerged. Initially suspected to be a deadlock, the root cause turned out to be thread-unsafe behavior in the `setenv` and `getenv` functions. On ARM64, the `openssl-probe` library uses `setenv` to set environment variables, while another thread concurrently calls `getenv`. This reallocates the `environ` array, leading to a crash. The solution involved switching reqwest's TLS backend from rust-native-tls to rustls. This highlights how even in memory-safe Rust, interactions with the C standard library can still introduce thread safety issues.

(www.edgedb.com)

Development C standard library thread safety

Hilbert Curve: A Beautiful Space-Filling Curve and its Visualization

2025-01-18

This article delves into the Hilbert curve, a space-filling curve with excellent clustering properties. The author creatively visualizes it by projecting a 3D RGB color space Hilbert curve onto a 2D plane. The visualization is aesthetically pleasing and intuitively demonstrates the clustering characteristics of the Hilbert curve. The article also explains the algorithm implementation of the Hilbert curve and provides a Python project for generating and visualizing various space-filling curves.

(corte.si)

Development Hilbert curve space-filling curve

Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

2025-03-29

Paged Out!: Resurrection and Evolution of a Tech Zine

After a four-year hiatus caused by pandemics and various challenges, the tech zine *Paged Out!* has been successfully revived and is back on track. This blog post chronicles the magazine's journey from stagnation to resurgence, introducing the new management team and operational model. It also outlines future plans, including improvements to PDF processing, achieving financial self-sufficiency, and expanding the scope of topics covered.

(pagedout.institute)

Misc zine publishing

Exploiting Constraints for Significant Performance Gains: Optimizing Even Number Counting in C++

2025-03-09

This article explores optimizing the performance of counting even numbers in a uint8_t array in C++. By comparing two approaches—using `std::count_if` and a custom counting function—the author demonstrates that the custom function, leveraging the constraint that the number of even values is between 0 and 255, significantly improves performance, achieving up to a 9.5x speedup in tests. The article analyzes the assembly code generated by both methods, explaining the performance difference, and mentions a vectorization issue in specific GCC versions.

(nicula.xyz)

Development C++ optimization vectorization

All the HTML Elements: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-01-25

This article playfully explores every HTML element, from common headings, paragraphs, and lists to lesser-known elements like `` and ``, and even deprecated elements such as `` and ``. An interactive survey is included to test your understanding. It's a fun and comprehensive journey through the world of HTML, showcasing its richness and versatility.

(iamwillwang.com)

Development HTML elements

The Future of Scala: Balancing Safety and Convenience

2025-03-26

The Future of Scala: Balancing Safety and Convenience

While Scala's hype has cooled since the mid-2010s, it maintains a strong community and adoption. This article explores the future direction of Scala, with authors Martin Odersky and Haoyi Li arguing that Scala needs continuous evolution. It must improve usability, enhance the tooling experience, and actively incorporate community feedback while maintaining its safety and convenience. They highlight the need to balance safety and convenience, refine existing features, and lower the barrier to entry for newcomers. The article also addresses challenges within the Scala ecosystem, such as IDE support and build tools, and proposes solutions.

(www.scala-lang.org)

Development

How AI Knowledge Gaps and System Prompts Stifle Tech Adoption

2025-02-14

This article explores how the knowledge cutoffs and system prompt biases of AI models influence developer technology choices. Because AI models' training data lags, new technologies often lack timely support, leading developers to favor technologies better supported by AI tools, even if suboptimal. Furthermore, some AI models exhibit biases toward specific technologies (like React and Tailwind), sometimes overriding user instructions to convert code to their preferred technologies. This results in AI-influenced technology selection, hindering the adoption and development of new technologies. The author suggests that AI companies should increase transparency, disclosing model biases to avoid negatively influencing software development directions.

(vale.rocks)

Development AI bias

The Magic of the Text Editor Cursor: You Always Type Out of Range

2025-03-01

The Magic of the Text Editor Cursor: You Always Type Out of Range

Have you ever wondered why, in a text editor, the cursor always seems to sit at the end of a word, allowing you to add characters seamlessly? This is actually a clever illusion. This article explores the subtle relationship between cursor position and string ranges in text editors, using the metaphor of a 'rake and its prongs' to explain why you always type 'out of range'. It also provides an improved `NSRange` extension for more accurate handling of cursor insertion points.

(christiantietze.de)

Development

Murena Launches Privacy-Focused Pixel Tablet

2025-02-19

Murena Launches Privacy-Focused Pixel Tablet

French company Murena has released its first tablet, the Murena Pixel Tablet, a customized version of Google's Pixel Tablet running their privacy-focused /e/OS. This Android-based OS removes Google apps and services, preventing data collection. Priced at $549 (significantly more than Google's $399 model), it prioritizes user privacy. While the Google Play Store is absent, the /e/OS App Lounge allows anonymous free app downloads. Paid apps require a Google account. Murena offers privacy-centric alternatives to Google services and includes Murena Workspace, providing productivity apps and cloud storage.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech android

Gravelmap Update: Smarter Gravel Route Planning

2025-02-18

Gravelmap, now part of Whitewater, has received a major update! The new Gravelmap boasts enhanced filter controls to search routes by length, elevation, proximity, and more; a new route list view panel for easy browsing and comparison; improved route surface type detection and filtering for confident riding; and a refreshed homepage. Users can easily add and edit gravel segments, with warnings against duplicates and private property. Overall, the update focuses on smoother, more intuitive, and personalized gravel route planning.

(www.gravelmap.com)

Misc gravel roads

Blosc2 3.0: Breaking the Memory Wall, Computing with TB-Sized Datasets

2025-03-31

Blosc2 3.0: Breaking the Memory Wall, Computing with TB-Sized Datasets

Blosc2 3.0 introduces an integrated compute engine, enabling high-performance computation on datasets over 100 times larger than available RAM. By tightly integrating compression and computation and leveraging CPU caches to process compressed data chunks, it effectively addresses the memory wall problem. Experiments demonstrate Blosc2 maintains high performance with datasets up to 8TB, even outperforming in-memory performance with on-disk storage for very large datasets. This is a significant advancement for big data analytics and high-performance computing.

(ironarray.io)

Development

Windows 10's Sunset: 40% of Steam Gamers Face an Upgrade Dilemma

2025-02-14

Windows 10's Sunset: 40% of Steam Gamers Face an Upgrade Dilemma

Microsoft will end free software updates, technical support, and security fixes for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. This leaves a significant portion of users, over 40% on Steam, facing a difficult choice: upgrading to Windows 11. Windows 11's stringent hardware requirements prevent many from upgrading, pushing gamers to explore alternatives like SteamOS. While Valve plans wider SteamOS adoption, a desktop release remains elusive. Continuing to use the unsupported Windows 10 leaves users vulnerable, forcing many to consider upgrading their hardware or operating system.

(www.pcguide.com)

Game

Cloudflare Sues LaLiga Over Excessive IP Blocking

2025-02-24

Cloudflare Sues LaLiga Over Excessive IP Blocking

Cloudflare is suing LaLiga for its massive IP blocking actions. In an attempt to combat piracy of football matches, LaLiga blocked websites DaznFutbolios and RBTV77, but this inadvertently affected millions of users accessing unrelated websites. Cloudflare argues LaLiga's actions were unreasonable, failing to notify cloud providers and concealing the potential harm to third parties, thus threatening the open internet. This lawsuit challenges LaLiga's blocking order and upholds the fundamental right of millions of consumers to access the open internet.

(www.broadbandtvnews.com)

Tech IP blocking

Mermaid Chart Visual Editor Update: Effortless Class Diagram Editing

2025-01-17

Mermaid Chart Visual Editor Update: Effortless Class Diagram Editing

Mermaid Chart recently updated its visual editor to make creating and editing class diagrams significantly easier. New features include changing rendering direction, adding classes and relationships, adding titles and notes, updating diagram configuration, and changing themes and layouts. Users can now easily create and update class diagrams via drag-and-drop, eliminating the need for manual Mermaid syntax. The visual editor also provides a powerful dialog interface for modifying class properties, such as adding attributes and methods, setting visibility modifiers and data types. These improvements make creating and maintaining complex class diagrams more efficient and accessible, especially for team members less familiar with Mermaid's syntax.

(docs.mermaidchart.com)

Development Class Diagram Visual Editor

Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

2025-02-26

Toyota's Woven City: Phase 1 Complete, First Residents Moving In

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced the completion of phase one of its futuristic city, Woven City, located southwest of Tokyo. Spanning over 700,000 square meters, this innovative urban development will integrate autonomous vehicles, robotics, and advanced digital technologies to offer residents a unique and technologically advanced living experience. The city features dedicated roads for autonomous vehicles, pedestrian zones, and underground passageways for deliveries and waste management. Approximately 360 Toyota employees and their families will begin moving in during the second half of this year, with a projected population of 2,000 residents eventually.

(www3.nhk.or.jp)

Tech

FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

2025-01-27

Free Web Hosting Area (FreeWHA) offers free web hosting services since 2005, boasting reliable uptime and a robust feature set. Users get 1500MB of free space, unmetered bandwidth, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.4, FTP access, and an autoinstaller. While free, FreeWHA runs on fast servers and provides responsive support, accepting donations to maintain its operations. The service guarantees 99.8% yearly uptime.

(www.freewebhostingarea.com)

Development free hosting servers

The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy: A Turo Nightmare

2025-02-16

The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy: A Turo Nightmare

Due to a past record, the author experienced a series of issues with the car-sharing platform Turo: the reserved car suffered a flat tire, the replacement arrived late; cancellation failed; the new car was dirty, and registration issues led to a police stop; additional charges were levied upon return. This article highlights the potential risks of the sharing economy: lack of platform oversight, irresponsible individual operators, and difficulty protecting consumer rights. Although the author eventually received a refund, the entire process was time-consuming and laborious, highlighting the shortcomings of the sharing economy's lack of effective regulation and consumer protection mechanisms.

(basedfob.substack.com)

Misc sharing economy

Conquering HN Overload: AI-Powered Personalized Tech News

2025-05-12

Conquering HN Overload: AI-Powered Personalized Tech News

The author, a long-time Hacker News user, struggled with information overload. To combat this, he built two tools: Tobie, a Telegram bot that delivers personalized HN posts based on keywords and vote thresholds; and HaNe, a Chrome extension that provides archived links for paywalled articles, quick access to HN threads, and AI-summarized comments. These tools significantly improved his reading efficiency, reduced screen time, and alleviated information anxiety.

(reorientinglife.substack.com)

Development

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