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Grandpa's Thicker Coins: A Story of Dignity and Entrepreneurship

2025-06-25

After burglars mocked his meager nickels, Theodore Nichols decided to create 'thnickels' – significantly thicker coins. He transformed his garage into a mint, handcrafting these weightier, more dignified coins. Through flyers and online promotion, his thnickels unexpectedly gained attention and he started taking pre-orders. This is a heartwarming tale of an ordinary man turning a negative experience into an entrepreneurial opportunity, all while reclaiming his sense of dignity.

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(thick-coins.net)
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Simple Editor: A Modern Homage to MS-DOS Editor

2025-06-25
Simple Editor: A Modern Homage to MS-DOS Editor

This editor, named "edit", is a modern take on the classic MS-DOS Editor, featuring a contemporary interface and VS Code-like input controls. Designed for accessibility, it's easy to use even for those unfamiliar with terminals. Install the latest version via WinGet or download binaries from the Releases page. Note that the ICU library's version and naming conventions need attention for search and replace functionality.

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(github.com)
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PNG Rises From the Ashes: A 20-Year Hiatus Ends

2025-06-25

After a two-decade slumber, the PNG image format is back with a bang! This update brings native HDR support, official recognition of APNG animations, support for Exif metadata, and general cleanup and improvements to the specification. This resurgence is fueled by collaborative efforts from tech giants like W3C, Adobe, and Apple, and driven by the need for HDR capabilities. Major browsers and software such as Chrome and Safari already support the new spec, with future improvements focusing on compression algorithms and parallel encoding/decoding.

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(www.programmax.net)
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Python One-Liners Made Easy: uv and PEP 723

2025-06-25
Python One-Liners Made Easy: uv and PEP 723

Frustrated with Python's dependency management for one-off scripts? Say goodbye to environment hassles with uv, a blazing-fast Rust-based Python package and project manager. Combined with PEP 723's metadata specification, uv (and its npx-like tool, uvx) effortlessly creates and manages disposable virtual environments, installing dependencies on the fly. The article showcases building a simple executable script to extract YouTube transcripts, highlighting the seamless execution enabled by this powerful combination. No more wrestling with virtual environments – just pure Python scripting.

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(www.cottongeeks.com)
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Apple Wallet Ads for F1 Movie Spark User Backlash

2025-06-24
Apple Wallet Ads for F1 Movie Spark User Backlash

Apple is facing user backlash after its Wallet app pushed notifications advertising a $10 discount on Fandango for the F1 movie. iPhone users are upset about receiving marketing promotions within a built-in utility. While the film uses Apple technology, including iPhone parts in its cameras, users don't want ads in their apps. An upcoming iOS 26 beta update will include a toggle to disable these promotions, suggesting Apple plans to increase such marketing. This reminds many of the infamous U2 album automatically added to iTunes years ago. The negative reaction highlights Apple users' aversion to unwanted ads on their devices.

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(techcrunch.com)
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4Real-Video-V2: Efficient 4D Video Diffusion Model

2025-06-24

Snap Inc. and KAUST have collaborated on 4Real-Video-V2, a feedforward architecture-based 4D video diffusion model. It efficiently computes a 4D spatio-temporal grid of video frames and 3D Gaussian particles for each time step. The key is a sparse attention pattern allowing tokens to attend to others in the same frame, at the same timestamp, or from the same viewpoint. This makes it scalable to large pre-trained video models, efficient to train, and offers good generalization, achieving significant improvements without adding parameters to the base video model.

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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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Judge Rules Anthropic's Use of Books to Train AI is Fair Use

2025-06-24
Judge Rules Anthropic's Use of Books to Train AI is Fair Use

A federal judge ruled that Anthropic's use of published books to train its AI models without authors' permission is legal, marking the first time courts have acknowledged AI companies' fair use defense in LLM training. This decision is a setback for authors suing companies like OpenAI and Meta. While not setting universal precedent, it favors tech companies. The ruling hinges on the interpretation of fair use doctrine, outdated in the age of generative AI. However, a trial will address Anthropic's use of pirated books to build its 'central library' of copyrighted works, potentially impacting damages.

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(techcrunch.com)
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China's AI Boom: 100+ DeepSeek-Level Breakthroughs Expected in 18 Months

2025-06-24
China's AI Boom: 100+ DeepSeek-Level Breakthroughs Expected in 18 Months

Zhu Min, a former deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, predicts a wave of AI innovation in China, with over 100 DeepSeek-like breakthroughs expected in the next 18 months. This is fueled by China's vast pool of engineers, massive consumer base, and supportive government policies. Despite intensifying US-China tech rivalry and US restrictions on Chinese access to advanced technology, China is relying on domestic giants like Huawei for advanced chipmaking. DeepSeek's emergence boosted Chinese tech stocks, but challenges remain, including trade tensions with the US and insufficient consumption. Experts suggest prioritizing domestic circulation and decisive policy action to stimulate growth.

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(finance.yahoo.com)
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RFK Jr.'s Controversial Plan to Make America Healthy Again

2025-06-24
RFK Jr.'s Controversial Plan to Make America Healthy Again

Since taking office, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has implemented radical changes to US health policy, sparking concern among public health experts. His administration has slashed budgets and staff, replaced vaccine advisory board members with skeptics, and largely ignored leading causes of death such as car accidents, drug overdoses, and gun violence. While acknowledging the high rates of chronic disease in the US, Kennedy's approach has been criticized for promoting misinformation and overlooking other significant factors contributing to lower life expectancy, including obesity, lack of universal healthcare, and social issues. This article analyzes the multifaceted causes of America's health crisis and challenges the effectiveness of some of Kennedy's proposed solutions.

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(www.nature.com)
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Autumn: Streamlining Stripe Integration with an Open-Source Billing System

2025-06-24
Autumn: Streamlining Stripe Integration with an Open-Source Billing System

Autumn is an open-source project simplifying Stripe integration for developers. It lets you build any pricing model—subscriptions, credit systems, usage-based billing, custom plans—with minimal code. No more wrestling with webhooks, upgrades/downgrades, cancellations, or payment failures. Deploy via cloud service or self-host with a few commands. Three core functions—`attach` (handles purchases), `check` (verifies access), and `track` (records usage)—make billing logic a breeze.

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(github.com)
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MCP: The LLM Interface That Might Actually Stick

2025-06-24
MCP: The LLM Interface That Might Actually Stick

Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn't magic. But it's simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we're betting it's here to stay. Previous attempts to connect LLMs to the world—function calling, ReAct/LangChain, ChatGPT plugins, custom GPTs, AutoGPT—were cumbersome, error-prone, or limited. MCP's success stems from: 1. Models are finally good enough to handle complex workflows reliably; 2. The protocol is good enough, offering a vendor-neutral standard; 3. The tooling is good enough, with easy-to-use SDKs; 4. Momentum is good enough, with adoption by major players and the community. MCP simplifies tool and agent development, fostering tool reuse and ecosystem growth. It's poised to become the future standard for LLM APIs.

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(www.stainless.com)
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Anthropic's Fair Use Defense: A Major Ruling in the AI Copyright Wars

2025-06-24

A California court ruled partially in favor of Anthropic in a copyright lawsuit over the use of copyrighted books to train its AI models. The court found that Anthropic's use of purchased books for training and converting print to digital formats constituted “fair use,” but using pirated copies did not. This ruling has significant implications for the AI industry, affirming the fair use of legally obtained copyrighted material for training AI models while emphasizing the importance of legal data acquisition. A trial will follow to determine damages for the use of pirated copies, potentially impacting AI companies' data acquisition strategies significantly.

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(aifray.com)
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Mozilla Add-on Policy Update: Streamlining Development

2025-06-24

Mozilla has updated its Add-on policies for addons.mozilla.org (AMO) to simplify the development process. Key changes include: lifting the ban on "closed group" extensions, allowing developers more flexibility; clarifying data transmission policies with updated terminology around data consent and control; no longer requiring privacy policies to be hosted on AMO, instead encouraging self-hosted links; adding a user scripts API policy specifying its use only within user script manager extensions; and updating source code submission guidelines to clarify dependency inclusion. These updates take effect August 4, 2025.

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(blog.mozilla.org)
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Forging Passkeys: Exploiting the FIDO2/WebAuthn Attack Surface

2025-06-24

This article delves into the security of FIDO2 passkeys. The author reverse-engineered commercial hardware keys and platform authenticators, building a software-only authenticator that mimics a FIDO2 device without kernel drivers. This allowed forging and replaying passkey signatures for headless logins. The process detailed includes capturing real-world traffic, decoding HID handshakes, verifying attestation data, building a software CTAP2 engine, and exploiting Chrome's built-in virtual authenticator. The author successfully logged in without a real security key, highlighting vulnerabilities and proposing mitigations like mandatory sign-counter enforcement, CDP permission restrictions, and relying-party-side checks to enhance passkey security.

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(www.nullpt.rs)
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The Bitter Lesson Strikes Tokenization: A New Era for LLMs?

2025-06-24
The Bitter Lesson Strikes Tokenization: A New Era for LLMs?

This post delves into the pervasive 'tokenization' problem in large language models (LLMs) and explores potential solutions. Traditional tokenization methods like Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE), while effective in compressing vocabularies, limit model expressiveness and cause various downstream issues. The article analyzes various architectures attempting to bypass tokenization, including ByT5, MambaByte, and Hourglass Transformers, focusing on the recently emerged Byte Latent Transformer (BLT). BLT dynamically partitions byte sequences, combining local encoders and a global transformer to achieve better performance and scalability than traditional models in compute-constrained settings, particularly excelling in character-level tasks. While BLT faces challenges, this research points towards a new direction for LLM development, potentially ushering in an era free from tokenization.

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(lucalp.dev)
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Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault: A Full-Stack IoT Solution Emerges

2025-06-24
Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault: A Full-Stack IoT Solution Emerges

Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity, has acquired its long-term partner Memfault Inc., a leading cloud platform provider for large-scale connected product deployments. This acquisition marks a significant shift for Nordic, transforming it from a hardware supplier into a comprehensive solution partner. By integrating Memfault's device observability and management platform and secure OTA software updates, Nordic offers a powerful full-stack solution simplifying development, accelerating time-to-market, and enhancing security and reliability throughout the product lifecycle. This allows customers to focus on innovation without navigating fragmented IoT ecosystems.

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(www.nordicsemi.com)
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Amazon's $4B Bet: Same-Day Delivery to Millions in Rural America

2025-06-24
Amazon's $4B Bet: Same-Day Delivery to Millions in Rural America

Amazon announced plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to tens of millions of people in smaller towns by the end of 2026, covering over 4,000 communities. This expansion, fueled by a $4 billion investment in new facilities and delivery drivers, focuses on 'everyday essentials'. While Amazon uses machine learning to optimize inventory, the move raises concerns about competition for local businesses.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Apple's Hardware History: From Capacitor Plague to Butterfly Keyboards

2025-06-24
Apple's Hardware History: From Capacitor Plague to Butterfly Keyboards

This article recounts three major hardware failures in Apple's history: the 1999-2007 capacitor plague, caused by cheap, faulty capacitors leading to widespread motherboard and iMac failures; the 2006-2017 graphics card failures resulting from the EU ban on lead-containing solder, particularly affecting MacBook Pros; and the 2015-2019 failures of the butterfly keyboard design. Despite the significant costs associated with these issues, Apple ultimately resolved them through product improvements and repair programs, demonstrating its strong problem-solving capabilities.

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(eclecticlight.co)
Hardware Apple hardware failure history repair programs

Open-Source Oasis Smart Terrarium: A 3D-Printed Paradise for Plants

2025-06-24
Open-Source Oasis Smart Terrarium: A 3D-Printed Paradise for Plants

Oasis is a fully open-source, mostly 3D-printed smart terrarium designed for humidity-loving plants like mosses, ferns, and orchids. It features high-power LED lighting, a mister for humidity control, fans for airflow, and a temperature/humidity sensor. WiFi connectivity allows control via a phone or computer. The project includes CAD models, electronics designs (KiCad), and software (Rust). While the electronics assembly might be challenging for beginners, the project is largely accessible to DIYers with a 3D printer. Pre-assembled electronics can be ordered, though potentially expensively. The creator plans to eventually offer assembled electronics kits.

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(github.com)
Hardware smart terrarium

Undocumented Power Macintosh G3 Easter Egg Discovered After 27 Years

2025-06-24

A developer accidentally stumbled upon an undocumented easter egg hidden within the ROM of the original Power Macintosh G3. The egg is a JPEG image featuring the team who worked on the Mac models. By analyzing the SCSI Manager code in the ROM, the developer discovered the trigger: formatting the RAM disk after startup and typing 'secret ROM image' into the format dialog. This creates a JPEG file named 'The Team' on the RAM disk, revealing the team photo. This find might be one of the last easter eggs on Macs before their reported banning in 1997, adding a layer of mystery to Mac history.

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(www.downtowndougbrown.com)
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GPU Performance Tuning: Hitting the Roofline Limits

2025-06-24

This article delves into the performance bottlenecks of GPU architectures, focusing on how memory bandwidth and compute throughput limit application speed. Using the Roofline model, it analyzes memory-bound and compute-bound regimes, detailing strategies to increase arithmetic intensity (AI): operator fusion and tiling. Fusion reduces intermediate memory traffic, while tiling maximizes data reuse through shared memory. The article also covers nuanced topics like shared memory bank conflicts, thread divergence, and quantization for performance gains. The ultimate goal is to push kernel operation points towards the compute throughput ceiling in the Roofline model.

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(damek.github.io)
Hardware Performance Tuning Roofline Model

haiku.rag: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Library on SQLite

2025-06-24
haiku.rag: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Library on SQLite

haiku.rag is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) library built on SQLite, eliminating the need for additional servers. It supports various embedding providers (Ollama, VoyageAI, OpenAI, and custom), offering hybrid search combining vector and full-text search. Features include file monitoring, extensive file format support, a CLI, and a Python client for seamless document management and retrieval.

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(github.com)
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Windows 10's End of Life? Why Linux Mint Might Be a Better Choice

2025-06-24
Windows 10's End of Life? Why Linux Mint Might Be a Better Choice

Microsoft's ending support for Windows 10 and aggressively pushing Windows 11 is sparking controversy due to high hardware requirements and forced upgrades. The author argues this is discriminatory and environmentally damaging. They propose Linux Mint as a superior alternative, highlighting its ease of use, low resource consumption, privacy focus, and smoother transition compared to Windows 11. Methods for reducing bloat and data collection in Windows 11 are also offered.

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(technical.ly)
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American Football's Crisis: Declining Participation and Health Concerns

2025-06-24
American Football's Crisis: Declining Participation and Health Concerns

American football faces a serious crisis: declining youth participation, largely driven by parental concerns over player health. Despite the NFL taking action in response to numerous clinical studies highlighting health risks, the article repeatedly emphasizes that 'something is terribly wrong,' suggesting the sport needs fundamental changes to secure its future.

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(www.sbnation.com)
Game American Football Health Risks Youth Participation

Disruptive Electronics: Competitive Pricing, Fast Time-to-Market, and Sustainability

2025-06-24
Disruptive Electronics: Competitive Pricing, Fast Time-to-Market, and Sustainability

This electronic product stands out with its unique performance-to-cost ratio, undercutting conventional solutions while offering performance on par with brand-new mid-range electronics. Leveraging standardized hardware interfaces and popular open-source software frameworks enables rapid development, deployment, and iterative assessment. Critically, it avoids reliance on Asian suppliers, mitigating risks of shortages and long lead times. Furthermore, it positions your product as a market sustainability leader, allowing you to be the 'World's First' circular smart device and significantly reduce your carbon footprint.

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(citronics.eu)
Hardware cost-effective

SourceHut Updates Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

2025-06-24

SourceHut has updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, primarily improving the descriptions of how user data is stored, used, and shared with third parties. The update clarifies account security and adds detail on user access and control over their data. It also introduces restrictions on the use of automated tools to prevent abuse.

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ML Has Monads: It's All About Modules

2025-06-24
ML Has Monads: It's All About Modules

The common perception that Haskell's use of monads is a unique language feature is challenged. The author argues that monads are a matter of library design, not language design, achievable in any modular language. The article uses ML to demonstrate how monads, including the Option and IO monads, can be implemented using its module system. While acknowledging ML's capacity for monads, the author suggests that their default omission stems from potential drawbacks like hindering code flexibility and transitioning between functional and monadic styles.

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(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
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