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Macron: Europe Must Reclaim its Space Power

2025-06-21
Macron: Europe Must Reclaim its Space Power

Faced with the dominance of SpaceX, Europe's space industry is struggling to compete. French President Macron, speaking at the Paris Air Show, urged increased investment, warning that Europe is on the brink of being shut out of the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation market. He stressed the need for Europe to become a space power again, announcing a space summit for early 2026 to foster international collaboration. France's increased stake in Eutelsat is a key part of this strategy to counter Starlink.

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(phys.org)
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Beauty Is Not Subjective: Design's Deeper Logic

2025-06-21
Beauty Is Not Subjective: Design's Deeper Logic

This article challenges the notion that beauty is subjective, arguing that it adheres to principles and structure and can be intentionally created. Good design utilizes hierarchy, symmetry, composition, and spacing to create intuitive and usable interfaces. Studies show aesthetically pleasing interfaces are perceived as easier to use, not due to a superficial bias, but because beauty signals care, competence, and craft, building user trust. Design isn't merely decoration; it shapes the product's core structure and flow, reflecting systematic thinking. The ultimate goal is to make the product understandable and usable.

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(www.andrewcoyle.com)
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Unlocking Google Search: The Secret Power of the `udm` Parameter

2025-06-21
Unlocking Google Search: The Secret Power of the `udm` Parameter

Tired of cluttered Google search results filled with Knowledge Graphs, Local Results, and Related Questions? This article unveils the lesser-known `udm` parameter in Google search URLs, allowing you to precisely control the type of results returned. Learn how to filter for web results (udm=14), images (udm=2), news (udm=12), and much more. A comprehensive list detailing country codes and their corresponding `udm` values is provided, empowering you to explore the hidden depths of Google Search.

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(serpapi.com)
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Augmented Vertex Block Descent: A Breakthrough in Real-time Physics Simulation

2025-06-21

Researchers have developed Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD), a novel physics simulation method that is unconditionally stable, highly parallelizable, and boasts significantly improved convergence and handling of complex constraints. AVBD efficiently handles complex scenarios such as rigid body stacking, friction, joint constraints, and rigid-soft body interactions. A GPU implementation achieves real-time performance, maintaining stability even with millions of objects interacting through collisions. Compared to state-of-the-art alternatives, AVBD demonstrates superior performance, convergence, and stability, with a 2D online demo available.

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Sega Leaks Sales Figures for Major Titles Including Persona 5 Royal

2025-06-21
Sega Leaks Sales Figures for Major Titles Including Persona 5 Royal

A Sega Sammy Holdings management meeting presentation accidentally revealed sales figures for several major titles, including Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Sonic Frontiers, Shin Megami Tensei V, and Persona 5 Royal. The figures, hidden on page 25 behind a grey block, were revealed due to a formatting flaw in the PDF. The leaked data shows impressive sales numbers, with Persona 5 Royal (including the remaster) exceeding one million units. The revelation sparked considerable discussion among fans.

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The Shocking Secret Speech: Khrushchev's Denunciation of Stalin and its Global Impact

2025-06-21

In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a secret report, "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences," at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, launching a scathing critique of Stalin's totalitarian rule and purges. The speech, leaked to the West, revealed the extent of Stalin's brutality, triggering upheaval within the Soviet Union and profoundly impacting the communist world. It sparked de-Stalinization, contributed to the Sino-Soviet split, and, through a dramatic chain of events involving Polish journalists and Israeli intelligence, ushered in a period of brief liberalization known as the Khrushchev Thaw.

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Ditch WhatsApp, Embrace Signal: A Privacy and Ethics Imperative

2025-06-21
Ditch WhatsApp, Embrace Signal: A Privacy and Ethics Imperative

This article strongly advocates switching from WhatsApp to Signal, detailing the reasons why. Concerns over Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) and Mark Zuckerberg's actions, including data sharing, cooperation with law enforcement, and election interference, raise serious ethical and privacy issues. In contrast, Signal prioritizes user privacy and has received endorsements from various organizations. The article concludes by providing simple steps for migrating from WhatsApp to Signal, urging users to prioritize personal privacy and a more ethical online environment.

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Chromium Build System Migrating to Siso

2025-06-21

The Chrome Build Infra Team announces that Chromium's build system is switching from Ninja to Siso, a drop-in replacement for Ninja that natively supports remote execution. External developers simply need to continue using autoninja; it will automatically use Siso after running `gn clean` next time. If issues arise, revert to Ninja by setting `use_siso=false` in your `args.gn`. Ninja support ends in late September, along with the removal of Reclient.

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Infinitely Many New Ways to Find Prime Numbers

2025-06-21
Infinitely Many New Ways to Find Prime Numbers

For centuries, prime numbers have captivated mathematicians. Now, Ken Ono and colleagues have discovered a novel approach using integer partitions. They proved that primes are solutions to infinitely many polynomial equations involving partition functions. This breakthrough offers infinitely many new definitions of primality, potentially sparking further research into combinatorial functions and fostering new mathematical thinking.

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(www.scientificamerican.com)
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25 Years of Computing: Cheap Gadgets That Actually Work

2025-06-21
25 Years of Computing: Cheap Gadgets That Actually Work

A seasoned computer user with over 25 years of experience shares their collection of inexpensive yet incredibly useful adapters and gadgets. From RJ45 angle adapters for easier laptop connectivity to SATA-to-USB adapters for disk cloning, USB-C converters, Bluetooth adapters for enhanced audio, and more, these AliExpress finds solve everyday tech frustrations. Cheap, effective, and a must-have for any tech enthusiast.

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(vermaden.wordpress.com)
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Parisian Panic: A Cascade Delete Disaster in Production

2025-06-21
Parisian Panic: A Cascade Delete Disaster in Production

A software engineer working at Joe AI, a Paris-based real estate startup, accidentally deleted a user record in the production database, triggering a cascade delete that wiped out three months of crucial data. While some data was recovered by upgrading to a paid Supabase plan, the incident highlighted the risks of directly manipulating production databases and the critical need for robust backup strategies. The disaster ultimately spurred the team to improve their development workflow, setting up local Supabase instances, leading to increased efficiency. The experience underscores the importance of learning from mistakes and embracing a culture of risk-taking and iterative improvement.

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(vince.beehiiv.com)
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Samsung's Pre-installed Bloatware, AppCloud, Raises Privacy Concerns in WANA

2025-06-21
Samsung's Pre-installed Bloatware, AppCloud, Raises Privacy Concerns in WANA

Users across West Asia and North Africa are reporting a pre-installed bloatware app, AppCloud, on Samsung's A and M series phones that secretly collects sensitive data and can't be easily removed. Developed by ironSource (now owned by Unity), this app lacks transparency regarding its data practices, raising significant privacy and security concerns. An open letter demands Samsung provide clear information about AppCloud, offer an opt-out, and reconsider its pre-installation practices.

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(smex.org)
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Texas Sheriffs Use Power Tools to Retrieve $32,000 from Scammed Bitcoin ATM

2025-06-21
Texas Sheriffs Use Power Tools to Retrieve $32,000 from Scammed Bitcoin ATM

Texas sheriffs employed power tools to recover $32,000 from a Bitcoin ATM after a Jasper County family reported being scammed out of $25,000. Photos show officers using a circular saw to break into a Bitcoin Depot kiosk, retrieving stacks of cash. The incident highlights the vulnerability of Bitcoin ATMs to scams, with the FBI reporting $107 million in losses related to these machines for Americans over 60 in 2024. While authorities recovered the victim's funds, the online scammers remain at large.

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(decrypt.co)
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Learn Galois Fields for Great Good! (Part 00)

2025-06-21

This series provides a gentle introduction to Abstract Algebra, focusing on Galois Fields (finite fields) and their applications in computer science. The author addresses the lack of accessible resources for computer scientists, offering a step-by-step approach with practical Rust code examples. Topics covered will include Reed-Solomon codes, AES encryption, and more. The focus is on understandability, not optimization, making it ideal for those new to the subject.

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(xorvoid.com)
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Apple Adds Energy Efficiency Labels to iPhones and iPads in EU

2025-06-21
Apple Adds Energy Efficiency Labels to iPhones and iPads in EU

To comply with a new regulation, Apple has added energy efficiency labels to its iPhone and iPad pages in EU countries, also including printed versions. The labels grade energy efficiency from A to G, but Apple, citing ambiguous testing methods, conservatively downgraded iPhone scores from A to B. Labels also detail battery life, repairability, durability, and more. Find details on Apple's website or the European Commission's database.

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(www.macrumors.com)
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Apple's Design Language: A Decade of Swinging Pendulums and Liquid Glass

2025-06-21
Apple's Design Language: A Decade of Swinging Pendulums and Liquid Glass

This article reflects on a decade of Apple's design language evolution, from the minimalist iOS 7 to the current Liquid Glass aesthetic. The author expresses concerns about Apple's design direction, arguing that the new design lacks understanding of classic elements, neglecting usability and accessibility, leading to homogenized app icons and reduced platform stability. The author particularly criticizes Liquid Glass's unnecessary UI changes and questions the leadership of Alan Dye, head of Apple's Human Interface group, suggesting a lack of understanding of the platform's history and user needs.

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(lmnt.me)
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AtomicOS: A Security-First Educational OS

2025-06-21
AtomicOS: A Security-First Educational OS

AtomicOS is an educational operating system built from scratch, prioritizing security over performance. It utilizes a deterministic programming language, Tempo, and implements real memory protection, cryptography (AES-128, SHA-256), and a full MMU. While currently lacking features like a network stack, file system, and drivers, its security-focused design and implementation are noteworthy. The project is open-source but requires attribution and disclosure of modifications.

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(github.com)
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Microplastics in Drinks: Glass Bottles Surprisingly Higher Than Plastic?

2025-06-21
Microplastics in Drinks: Glass Bottles Surprisingly Higher Than Plastic?

A French ANSES study revealed surprisingly high microplastic contamination in glass bottled drinks compared to plastic or canned counterparts, particularly cola, lemonade, iced tea, and beer. Glass bottles averaged around 100 microplastic particles per liter, while plastic and cans showed significantly lower levels (5 to 50 times less). The source? Microplastics likely originate from the paint on bottle caps, released by microscopic scratches from storage friction. Cleaning caps significantly reduced contamination. The study suggests manufacturers explore altering cap storage or paint composition to mitigate this issue.

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(www.anses.fr)
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Proba-3 Achieves First Artificial Solar Eclipse, Unveiling Sun's Corona

2025-06-20
Proba-3 Achieves First Artificial Solar Eclipse, Unveiling Sun's Corona

The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has achieved a major breakthrough, successfully creating the world's first artificial total solar eclipse in orbit using two precisely-formed satellites. The resulting images of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, demonstrate the capabilities of formation flying technology while providing invaluable scientific data. The mission's ASPIICS instrument captures unprecedented detail of the corona, while DARA measures total solar irradiance. This achievement helps scientists unravel mysteries about the Sun's corona, such as its unexpectedly high temperatures, and will improve space weather forecasting models.

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(www.esa.int)
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Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: A Wake-Up Call for Internet Security

2025-06-20
Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: A Wake-Up Call for Internet Security

Cloudflare reported a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, unleashing 37.4 TB of junk traffic in just 45 seconds. Attackers 'carpet bombed' nearly 22,000 destination ports of a single IP address, exploiting the UDP protocol's lack of connection verification to overwhelm the target server. This incident highlights the escalating threat to internet security and the growing scale and sophistication of large-scale DDoS attacks.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Deep Dive into AMD's Instinct MI350: GCN-Based AI Accelerator

2025-06-20
Deep Dive into AMD's Instinct MI350: GCN-Based AI Accelerator

In an interview, Alan Smith, AMD's Chief Instinct Architect, delved into the details of the new MI350 series AI accelerators, based on the GFX9 architecture. While MI350 retains the GFX9 architecture, significant performance improvements are achieved through increased LDS capacity (160KB) and bandwidth, along with the introduction of microscaling formats supporting FP8, FP6, and FP4 data types. Notably, MI350's FP6 and FP4 boast the same throughput, reflecting AMD's confidence in FP6's potential for both training and inference. Furthermore, MI350 omits TF32 hardware acceleration in favor of optimized BF16, offering software emulation for TF32 support. Built with N3P process compute chips and N6 process I/O chips, MI350 optimizes design and reduces compute units to achieve high performance while lowering power consumption.

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(chipsandcheese.com)
Hardware

Microsoft Family Safety Bug Blocks Chrome on Windows

2025-06-20
Microsoft Family Safety Bug Blocks Chrome on Windows

A bug in Microsoft's Family Safety feature is preventing Chrome from opening on some Windows devices. The issue, first reported on June 3rd, causes Chrome to close unexpectedly or refuse to launch. While some users have found workarounds like renaming Chrome.exe or disabling the 'filter inappropriate websites' setting in Family Safety, Microsoft hasn't publicly acknowledged or fixed the problem after more than two weeks. This incident adds to concerns about Microsoft's history of employing questionable tactics to promote its Edge browser over Chrome.

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(www.theverge.com)
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The Lost Genius: Peter Putnam's Unfinished Revolution

2025-06-20
The Lost Genius: Peter Putnam's Unfinished Revolution

This article recounts the life of Peter Putnam, a brilliant physicist who associated with Einstein and other luminaries yet remained unknown due to his refusal to publish his groundbreaking theory of the mind. A 12-year quest by the author uncovered Putnam's unpublished manuscripts, revealing a profound theory with implications for AI and cognitive science. The narrative interweaves Putnam's scientific brilliance with a complex personal story marked by a strained relationship with his mother, his homosexuality, and a quiet commitment to social justice. His tragic death underscores the bittersweet fate of unrecognized genius and the challenges of scientific dissemination.

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(nautil.us)
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arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

2025-06-20
arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

arXivLabs is a new collaborative framework enabling developers to build and share new arXiv features directly on the arXiv website. Individuals and organizations involved share 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 enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs!

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(arxiv.org)
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LLMs Exacerbate the Underutilization of Libraries

2025-06-20

Libraries are underutilized, due to factors like the enjoyment of coding over reading documentation, the Dunning-Kruger effect underestimating library complexity, and internal projects competing with libraries. LLMs worsen this. While 'vibe coding' with LLMs is fun and efficient, the output often pales in comparison to battle-tested libraries. LLM-generated code is susceptible to prompt engineering limitations, whereas library creators possess deeper problem understanding and can leverage LLMs to generate higher-quality code. Ironically, excessive reliance on LLMs for code generation can be perceived as innovation, creating perverse incentives and further exacerbating the problem. For complex tasks, prioritizing established libraries over direct LLM usage is crucial.

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(makefizz.buzz)
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127-Million-Year-Old Termite Poo Reveals Secrets of Australia's Polar Forests

2025-06-20
127-Million-Year-Old Termite Poo Reveals Secrets of Australia's Polar Forests

Scientists have unearthed a 127-million-year-old termite nest fossil in Victoria, Australia, representing the oldest known termite nest and possibly the largest from the dinosaur era. Analysis of hexagonal termite droppings and smaller mite droppings within the fossilized log suggests a relatively mild polar climate (around 6°C). This discovery challenges previous understanding of ancient polar forests and highlights termites' crucial role in these ecosystems.

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(phys.org)
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BYD's Seal EV Achieves Nearly 1200-Mile Range with Solid-State Batteries

2025-06-20
BYD's Seal EV Achieves Nearly 1200-Mile Range with Solid-State Batteries

BYD is testing solid-state batteries in its Seal EV, a Tesla Model 3 competitor. Initial tests show a potential range of nearly 1200 miles (1875 km). After over a decade of research, BYD announced road tests in 2025 and plans to begin production vehicles with solid-state batteries in 2027, aiming for mass production by 2030 at a cost comparable to current lithium-ion batteries. The Seal is expected to be the first model to feature this technology, boasting high energy density and fast charging capabilities, bolstering BYD's global EV market dominance.

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(electrek.co)
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The Curious Case of the Public Domain Jaws Poster

2025-06-20
The Curious Case of the Public Domain Jaws Poster

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jaws, a surprising fact emerges: due to a quirk of copyright law, the iconic shark painting from the movie poster is in the public domain. Initially rejected for resembling a "vagina with teeth," the artwork underwent revisions before becoming a classic. However, the lack of a copyright notice upon its 1975 publication inadvertently forfeited the image to the public domain, leaving artist Roger Kastel to unsuccessfully fight for copyright recognition years later and missing out on millions in royalties. The original painting's whereabouts remain a mystery, adding another layer to this fascinating tale of copyright and public domain, sparking discussion on artist rights and the commons.

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(ironicsans.ghost.io)
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Surge in Chinese-Made Signal Jammers Prompts DHS Crackdown

2025-06-20
Surge in Chinese-Made Signal Jammers Prompts DHS Crackdown

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a warning about a massive 830% increase in seizures of illegal signal jammers since 2021, primarily originating from China. These devices, illegal in the US and UK, disrupt emergency services and law enforcement communications, facilitating crimes like home invasions and bank robberies. The DHS highlights cases where jammers hampered police responses, and emphasizes the threat to critical infrastructure. While China also bans public use of such jammers, the DHS hopes for cooperation to curb their manufacturing and smuggling.

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(www.theregister.com)
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