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Ukraine's War: The Shadowy Trade in Internet Addresses

2025-06-06

Since the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, nearly one-fifth of Ukraine's internet address space has fallen under Russian control or been sold to internet address brokers. A new study reveals that large chunks of Ukrainian IP address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services nested within major US ISPs. Desperate to stay afloat, Ukrainian ISPs have sold off valuable IPv4 addresses. These addresses have ended up in proxy services globally, many of which are used for cyberattacks against Ukraine and Russia's enemies. Some were even used in DDoS attacks and spear-phishing attempts by Russian state-sponsored hacking groups. AT&T, a major US telecom, has changed its policy to prevent the use of static routes with IPs they don't provide, likely forcing many proxy services to migrate to other providers.

(krebsonsecurity.com)

Tech IPv4 Addresses

Texas' AI Boom Fuels a Gas-Guzzling Energy Crisis

2025-06-06

Texas' AI Boom Fuels a Gas-Guzzling Energy Crisis

Texas is experiencing a rapid expansion of AI data centers, leading to a fierce debate over energy sources. To quickly meet the massive energy demands of AI giants, many developers are building their own natural gas power plants instead of waiting for grid connections. This fuels enormous gas demand, exacerbating air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. While some projects explore renewables, lengthy grid connection wait times make gas the faster option. This trend aligns with Texas' pro-gas policies, but sparks concerns from environmentalists and residents worried about environmental damage and quality of life. Simultaneously, Texas' legislature has enacted policies restricting renewable energy development, fueling further controversy.

(www.texastribune.org)

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Mission: Impossible – A Buster Keaton Homage and Hollywood's Fate

2025-06-06

Mission: Impossible – A Buster Keaton Homage and Hollywood's Fate

This article delves into the Mission: Impossible franchise, specifically Dead Reckoning Part One and Two, and director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise's homage to Buster Keaton's classic The General. It analyzes McQuarrie and Cruise's creative philosophy and how they navigate Hollywood's commercial pressures and audience expectations. The article draws parallels between the Mission: Impossible series and Buster Keaton's career, exploring innovation, risk, and legacy in filmmaking. Ultimately, it reflects on preserving artistic purity and creativity within Hollywood's commercial landscape and filmmakers' reflections on their careers.

(ratsfromrocks.substack.com)

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In Defense of Adverbs: A Counterintuitive Approach to Writing

2025-06-06

In Defense of Adverbs: A Counterintuitive Approach to Writing

This article challenges the common writing advice to avoid adverbs. The author argues that adverbs are a valuable part of language and shouldn't be dismissed outright. The piece dissects the misconceptions surrounding adverb use, highlighting how adverbs can be precise and effective when used intentionally, rather than merely repeating information already conveyed. Using Denis Johnson's work as an example, the author demonstrates how adverbs contribute to unique style and character development. Ultimately, the article emphasizes the importance of practical principles over rigid rules in writing.

(countercraft.substack.com)

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A Comedy of Errors: My Amateur Search Library vs. Elasticsearch

2025-06-06

A Comedy of Errors: My Amateur Search Library vs. Elasticsearch

The author compares their Pandas-based full-text search library, SearchArray, against Elasticsearch using the BEIR benchmark. The results are humbling: SearchArray significantly underperforms Elasticsearch in all aspects. The article delves into the reasons, highlighting optimizations in production-ready search engines like Elasticsearch, such as the WAND algorithm and efficient inverted indices. SearchArray's lack of these optimizations leads to poor performance. The author concludes that SearchArray is suitable for prototyping on smaller datasets, but not for large-scale retrieval systems.

(softwaredoug.com)

Development

Nintendo Switch 2's GameChat: Balancing Privacy and Safety

2025-06-06

Nintendo Switch 2's GameChat: Balancing Privacy and Safety

Nintendo Switch 2's new GameChat voice chat feature balances user privacy with enhanced child protection. GameChat is limited to friends only, requiring phone number verification. For minors, parental consent via the Nintendo Parental Controls app is mandatory, allowing parents to approve friend requests and control video chat access. GameChat temporarily records the last three minutes of audio and video for handling reported violations, but users can withdraw consent at any time. While recordings may be used to investigate violations, Nintendo emphasizes this is to maintain a safe and family-friendly online environment.

(arstechnica.com)

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Blazing Fast In-Memory PostgreSQL Testing with py-pglite: No PostgreSQL Installation Needed

2025-06-06

Blazing Fast In-Memory PostgreSQL Testing with py-pglite: No PostgreSQL Installation Needed

py-pglite is a Python testing library providing seamless integration between PGlite and Python test suites. Harness the power of PostgreSQL in your tests without the overhead of a full PostgreSQL installation. It boasts blazing-fast in-memory PostgreSQL for ultra-quick test runs, effortless setup requiring only Node.js, native support for SQLAlchemy & SQLModel, full test isolation with a fresh database per module, 100% PostgreSQL compatibility via PGlite, pytest plug-and-play fixtures, and customizable configurations (timeout, logging, etc.). Utility functions simplify database cleanup and schema management.

(github.com)

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UK Tech Jobs Soar, but London's AI Dominance Highlights Regional Divide

2025-06-06

UK Tech Jobs Soar, but London's AI Dominance Highlights Regional Divide

Accenture research reveals a 21 percent surge in UK tech vacancies, reaching pre-pandemic highs. AI job postings nearly doubled year-over-year, with London accounting for 80 percent. While the UK saw a 53 percent increase in individuals reporting tech skills (1.69 million), a significant regional disparity exists. London-based companies plan to allocate 20 percent of their tech budgets to AI, compared to just 13 percent in regions like North East England, Scotland, and Wales. This highlights the UK's AI opportunity alongside a concerning digital divide, threatening long-term competitiveness unless regional talent and infrastructure gaps are addressed.

(www.theregister.com)

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Lambduck: A Minimalist Functional Programming Language

2025-06-06

Lambduck is a minimalist functional programming language with a syntax consisting of only a few special forms: `` for lambda abstraction, `` for function application, and numbers 0, 1, etc., as de Bruijn indices. Built-in functions `,` reads a character from stdin and converts it to a Church numeral, and `.` converts a Church numeral to a character and outputs it to stdout. Examples include definitions for true, false, and the Z combinator, and a simple "hello world" program. Its simplicity makes it ideal for exploring functional programming concepts.

(imjakingit.github.io)

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Intel's Aggressive Restructuring: 50% Margin Mandate, 20% Layoffs Imminent

2025-06-06

Intel's Aggressive Restructuring: 50% Margin Mandate, 20% Layoffs Imminent

Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is implementing aggressive measures to turn the company around. To boost profit margins, Intel will no longer approve new projects that cannot achieve at least a 50% gross margin, leading to project cancellations and engineer reassignments. Simultaneously, Intel plans up to 20% layoffs in Q2 and a streamlining of middle management. The goal is to transform Intel into an engineering-focused company and attract and retain top talent. While this approach seemingly contradicts fostering a culture of innovation, Tan appears to have investor backing. Intel's recent gross margin has plummeted to 31.67%, far below the pre-pandemic level of around 60%, making the success of this transformation uncertain.

(www.tomshardware.com)

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Missing Memories: A Blogger with Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) Speaks Out

2025-06-06

Missing Memories: A Blogger with Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) Speaks Out

Blogger Marco Giancotti shares his experience living with Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM). SDAM is a rare memory disorder characterized by an inability to recall specific past events; memories feel like a 'file cabinet without labels'. While his semantic and spatial memory are intact, recalling specific episodes is incredibly difficult, linked to his concurrent aphantasia. He uses personal anecdotes to illustrate how SDAM affects his life and how he compensates using spatial and semantic memory. Although SDAM causes emotional distress, he finds advantages, such as increased focus on the present and enhanced rational thinking.

(aethermug.com)

Misc memory disorder

SCIM: A Lifeline for Enterprise User Management?

2025-06-06

Large enterprises face the challenge of managing numerous SaaS applications and employee access permissions. SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) emerges as a solution, synchronizing user information (add, modify, delete) between Identity Providers (like Okta, Entra) and various software applications via standardized JSON. This simplifies integration, avoiding complex custom development. However, SCIM isn't perfect; PATCH operations are complex, and some Identity Providers (like Microsoft) deviate from the specification, requiring extra handling. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, building SCIM support from scratch is not recommended; opt for off-the-shelf solutions instead.

(tesseral.com)

Development

Machine Learning: Biology's Native Tongue?

2025-06-06

Machine Learning: Biology's Native Tongue?

This article explores the revolutionary role of machine learning in biological research. Traditional mathematical models struggle with the complexity, high dimensionality, and interconnectedness of biological systems. Machine learning, especially deep learning, can learn complex non-linear relationships from data, capturing context-dependent dynamics in biological systems, much like learning a new language. The article uses the example of intracellular signaling mechanisms to illustrate the similarities between machine learning models and how cells process information and looks ahead to emerging fields like predictive biology, arguing that machine learning will become a core tool in bioengineering.

(decodingbiology.substack.com)

AI predictive biology

Multiple Invention: It's Way More Common Than You Think

2025-06-05

Multiple Invention: It's Way More Common Than You Think

A study of 190 major inventions between 1800 and 1970 reveals that multiple invention—where the same invention is independently created by multiple individuals—is surprisingly common. Over half of the inventions examined involved multiple attempts, and nearly 40% had multiple successful or near-successful versions. This suggests that many inventions weren't unique strokes of genius, but rather stemmed from a confluence of readily available technologies, materials, and capabilities, combined with a shared focus on significant problems. This challenges the 'Great Man' theory of invention, suggesting that technological progress is more a product of broad historical forces.

(www.construction-physics.com)

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Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf's Access to Claude AI Models Amidst OpenAI Acquisition Rumors

2025-06-05

Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf's Access to Claude AI Models Amidst OpenAI Acquisition Rumors

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan announced that his company has cut Windsurf's direct access to its Claude AI models, largely due to rumors that OpenAI, its biggest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. Kaplan explained that this move prioritizes customers committed to long-term partnerships with Anthropic. While currently computing-constrained, Anthropic is expanding its capacity with Amazon and plans to significantly increase model availability in the coming months. Concurrently, Anthropic is focusing on developing its own agent-based coding products like Claude Code instead of AI chatbots, believing agent-based AI holds more long-term potential.

(techcrunch.com)

AI

StringFlux: Streamline Your String Transformations

2025-06-05

StringFlux is a powerful online string transformation tool allowing users to convert strings between various formats like JSON, YAML, and Base64. Its unique chaining feature, similar to Unix/Linux pipes, enables efficient complex transformations—like clearly viewing stack traces from JSON-formatted log messages. While powerful for advanced use, StringFlux maintains a simple, intuitive interface for common tasks such as JSON formatting and Base64 encoding. Smart operation recommendations, search, and categorized operations ensure a smooth experience even with numerous transformations available. StringFlux aims to save developers time and keep them focused.

(stringflux.io)

Development string transformation

Claude Composer: A CLI Wrapper for Enhanced Claude Code Automation

2025-06-05

Claude Composer: A CLI Wrapper for Enhanced Claude Code Automation

Claude Composer is a command-line interface (CLI) wrapper designed to enhance Claude Code's user experience and automation capabilities. It automates permission dialogs, provides system notifications, and allows for custom rulesets and toolsets to fine-tune Claude Code's behavior. With flexible configuration, users can precisely control the level of automation, ranging from maximum security to maximum automation, supporting both project-specific and global configurations.

(github.com)

Development

Containerized Environments for Coding Agents: Multi-Agent Collaboration, Simplified

2025-06-05

Containerized Environments for Coding Agents: Multi-Agent Collaboration, Simplified

Container-use is an open-source CLI tool providing each coding agent with its own containerized environment. Run multiple agents safely and independently, supporting Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible agents. Each agent gets an isolated git branch and container, with real-time visibility of command history and logs, allowing for direct intervention and control. Standard git workflows are supported, and it's compatible with any agent, model, or infrastructure, avoiding vendor lock-in. While in early development with potential rough edges, it features rapid iteration and responsive feedback.

(github.com)

Development multi-agent

Discord's Balancing Act: Monetization vs. User Experience

2025-06-05

Discord's Balancing Act: Monetization vs. User Experience

Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy acknowledges the ever-present threat of platform 'enshittification.' With an upcoming IPO and the recent departure of co-founder Jason Citron, many users fear Discord's evolution will compromise its unique community feel. Vishnevskiy admits these concerns, stating that avoiding 'enshittification' – balancing profitability and user experience – is a constant internal discussion. Past ventures like a game store and Web3 integrations failed to meet user expectations. Discord now focuses on its Nitro subscription, exploring new revenue models with the Orbs currency system that rewards users. Simultaneously, the company prioritizes app performance and usability, approaching AI cautiously. Future plans involve supporting game developers and maintaining a long-term commitment to user experience and company values. The challenge lies in navigating these competing pressures while staying true to its identity.

(www.engadget.com)

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Reproducing Deep Double Descent: A Beginner's Journey

2025-06-05

Reproducing Deep Double Descent: A Beginner's Journey

A machine learning novice at the Recurse Center embarked on a journey to reproduce the deep double descent phenomenon. Starting from scratch, they trained a ResNet18 model on the CIFAR-10 dataset, exploring the impact of varying model sizes and label noise on model performance. The process involved overcoming challenges such as model architecture adjustments, correct label noise application, and understanding accuracy metrics. Ultimately, they successfully reproduced the deep double descent phenomenon, observing the influence of model size and training epochs on generalization ability, and the significant role of label noise in the double descent effect.

(stpn.bearblog.dev)

AI double descent

Chinlone: Myanmar's Enduring National Game Fights for Survival Amidst Conflict

2025-06-05

Chinlone: Myanmar's Enduring National Game Fights for Survival Amidst Conflict

Chinlone, Myanmar's national sport, a centuries-old tradition blending sport and art, faces an uncertain future. The game, involving intricate footwork and head maneuvers, has seen participation decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 military coup, and subsequent civil unrest. The scarcity of premium rattan, essential for crafting the chinlone balls, further exacerbates the challenges. Despite the hardships, players and artisans persevere, continuing to practice and create the balls, determined to preserve this unique cultural heritage.

(www.aljazeera.com)

Misc Myanmar culture traditional sport chinlone

Tokasaurus: A New LLM Inference Engine for High Throughput

2025-06-05

Tokasaurus: A New LLM Inference Engine for High Throughput

Stanford researchers released Tokasaurus, a novel LLM inference engine optimized for throughput-intensive workloads. For smaller models, Tokasaurus leverages extremely low CPU overhead and dynamic Hydragen grouping to exploit shared prefixes. For larger models, it supports async tensor parallelism for NVLink-equipped GPUs and a fast pipeline parallelism implementation for those without. On throughput benchmarks, Tokasaurus outperforms vLLM and SGLang by up to 3x. This engine is designed for efficient handling of both large and small models, offering significant performance advantages.

(scalingintelligence.stanford.edu)

AI LLM inference engine high throughput

SkyRoof: Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software

2025-06-05

VE3NEA recently released SkyRoof, a Windows program combining satellite tracking and SDR receiver functionalities. Supporting RTL-SDR, Airspy, and SDRplay, it tracks and receives ham radio satellites, offering real-time tracking, pass prediction, a sky map, and an SDR waterfall display. It demodulates SSB/CW/FM, automatically compensates for Doppler shift, and interfaces with hamlib-compatible antenna rotators. Johnson's Techworld on YouTube features a SkyRoof test video.

(www.rtl-sdr.com)

Hardware Amateur Radio Satellite Tracking SDR Receiver

Haskell APL Interpreter: A Challenging Journey

2025-06-05

This project details the creation of an APL interpreter in Haskell. APL's array-based nature and highly concise syntax presented significant challenges. The author iteratively refined the interpreter, starting with a basic parser and evolving to a sophisticated implementation leveraging Haskell's capabilities and refining parsing techniques, from context-free grammars to optimized uses of monads and applicatives. While the final interpreter has minor discrepancies compared to Dyalog APL, it functions effectively. The project highlights Haskell's power in handling complex grammars and higher-order functions, while also revealing the steep learning curve and debugging complexities inherent to the language.

(scharenbroch.dev)

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From Revolvers to Movie Cameras: An Interactive Tech Tree of History

2025-06-05

This article details an ambitious project: creating an interactive historical tech tree visualizing the evolution and interconnectedness of technologies from prehistoric tools to modern innovations. The project unveils unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated technologies, such as the surprisingly close relationship between revolvers and movie cameras, both stemming from the ingenious use of rotating mechanisms and rapid sequential capture. The author elaborates on the project's design philosophy, data collection methods, and challenges, and discusses its significance for understanding the non-linearity of technological development, fostering innovation, and addressing the complexities of modern technology.

(asteriskmag.com)

Tech Technology History Tech Tree

HyperDX: Blazing-Fast Log and Trace Visualization on ClickHouse

2025-06-05

HyperDX: Blazing-Fast Log and Trace Visualization on ClickHouse

HyperDX, a core component of ClickStack, empowers engineers to rapidly diagnose production issues. It provides lightning-fast search and visualization of logs and traces atop any ClickHouse cluster (think Kibana, but for ClickHouse). Offering intuitive full-text and property searching, anomaly trend analysis, alerting, and performance monitoring from HTTP requests to database queries, HyperDX integrates seamlessly with OpenTelemetry and supports numerous languages and platforms. Deployable via Docker or ClickHouse Cloud, HyperDX aims to simplify production telemetry analysis, addressing the cost, usability, and tool-hopping limitations of existing solutions. It's designed to make production observability accessible to all engineers.

(github.com)

Development Log Visualization

Hainan Island Pilots Global Internet Access, Bypassing the Great Firewall

2025-06-05

Hainan Island Pilots Global Internet Access, Bypassing the Great Firewall

China's Hainan province is piloting a program granting select corporate users broad access to the global internet, a rare move given China's strict online censorship. This initiative aims to attract international businesses as Hainan develops into a global free-trade port. Employees of registered Hainan companies can apply for the "Global Connect" mobile service through the Hainan International Data Comprehensive Service Centre, bypassing the Great Firewall to access sites like Google and Wikipedia. Applicants need a 5G plan with a major carrier and must submit company information; approval can take up to five months. Approved users get global internet access at no extra cost. Currently, there are no restrictions on company size or business scope, and the program has generated significant interest.

(www.scmp.com)

Tech global internet access Hainan free trade port

Dino Programming Language: Scripting, Functional, and Object-Oriented Powerhouse

2025-06-05

Dino Programming Language: Scripting, Functional, and Object-Oriented Powerhouse

Dino is a high-performance programming language blending scripting, functional, and object-oriented paradigms. Its history dates back to 1993, initially used at the Russian game company ANIMATEK. This document details the implementation of Dino's 0.98 development version, covering its bytecode compiler, interpreter, JIT compiler, and type inference. Performance comparisons against Python, PyPy, Ruby, and others are presented across architectures like x86-64 and AARCH64. Dino boasts features like multi-precision integers, heterogeneous extensible arrays, associative tables, first-class functions, fibers, exception handling, and pattern matching, with innovative class composition for safe and powerful object orientation.

(github.com)

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!Camera: Redefining Mobile Photography

2025-06-05

!Camera: Redefining Mobile Photography

Say goodbye to boring mobile photography! !Camera is a camera app with a fully 3D interface, dynamic lighting, sounds, and custom haptics that evoke the tactile experience of holding a premium camera. It uses SuperRaw™ photo processing to preserve natural film grain and supports saving RAW files in DNG format. Furthermore, it features professional-level color grading with built-in presets and LUTs (look-up tables) for stunning results without post-editing. Importantly, it prioritizes user privacy, storing all photos locally on your device.

(notbor.ing)

Design photography app 3D camera interface

Chrome Shatters Speedometer 3 Record, Saving Users 58 Million Hours Annually

2025-06-05

Chrome Shatters Speedometer 3 Record, Saving Users 58 Million Hours Annually

Google announced that Chrome has achieved a record-breaking score on the Speedometer 3 benchmark, translating to a potential annual time savings of 58 million hours for users. This improvement stems from a series of low-level optimizations, including improvements to the Blink rendering engine's memory layout, expanded use of Oilpan garbage collection, and faster string hashing. Chrome also saw optimizations in CSS computation and font rendering, resulting in significant performance gains across various tasks. This achievement showcases Chrome's technological leadership and sets a new benchmark for the entire browser industry.

(betanews.com)

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