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Qtap: An eBPF Agent for Capturing Linux Kernel Network Traffic Without App Modifications

2025-05-08

Qtap: An eBPF Agent for Capturing Linux Kernel Network Traffic Without App Modifications

Qtap is an eBPF-based agent that captures network traffic flowing through the Linux kernel without requiring application modifications, proxy installations, or certificate management. It intercepts data before and after encryption by attaching to TLS/SSL functions, passing it to flexible plugins with comprehensive context (process/container/host/user/protocol, etc.). Qtap displays raw, unencrypted data with minimal overhead and zero latency, augmenting existing observability pipelines and enabling uses like security auditing, network debugging, API development, and troubleshooting third-party integrations. Currently in early development, some APIs may change, and documentation might be incomplete, but community contributions and feedback are welcome.

(github.com)

Development

Ciro: AI-Powered Sales Prospecting, 10x Efficiency

2025-05-08

Ciro: AI-Powered Sales Prospecting, 10x Efficiency

Ciro, founded by a team with backgrounds from Meta, Stanford, Google, and Bain & Co., is building AI agents to revolutionize sales prospecting. Their product automates lead scanning, qualification, and enrichment on platforms like LinkedIn, reducing the time sales reps spend on manual searching and qualifying by over 30% – a 10x efficiency boost. Backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, SV Angel, and CRV, Ciro is already cash-flow positive.

(www.ycombinator.com)

AI

The Centuries-Old Papal Election Ritual: A Blend of Tradition and Intrigue

2025-05-08

The Centuries-Old Papal Election Ritual: A Blend of Tradition and Intrigue

The papal election follows a centuries-old tradition. Nine cardinals are randomly selected for specific roles: three scrutineers oversee the voting, three infirmarii collect votes from the sick, and three revisers verify the results. Cardinals cast their ballots in order of seniority. Ballots are meticulously checked and counted, ensuring the number matches the electors. The scrutineers then read each name aloud, sewing the ballots together. Finally, the color of the smoke from the burning ballots signals the world whether a new pope has been elected.

(www.cnn.com)

Misc Papal Election Religious Ritual Historical Tradition

Apple Seeks to Halt App Store Payment Control Transfer

2025-05-08

Apple Seeks to Halt App Store Payment Control Transfer

Apple is seeking to halt a court order forcing it to relinquish control over App Store payments. The company argues the order contains "extraordinary intrusions" that could cause "grave irreparable harm." A judge previously ruled Apple in violation of a 2021 injunction stemming from the Epic Games v. Apple case, ordering Apple to stop collecting up to a 27 percent commission on purchases outside the App Store and cease restricting how developers direct users to external purchases. While Apple has complied, it has appealed and now seeks to regain control of the App Store pending a final decision, arguing that depriving it of control over core App Store features would harm its iOS ecosystem and user trust.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

Coalton Powers Quantum Compiler Breakthrough: Implementing Discrete Compilation

2025-05-08

Quilc, a state-of-the-art quantum compiler written in Common Lisp, faced challenges due to limitations of dynamically typed languages. Researchers leveraged the strictly-typed Coalton language to implement a new feature called discrete compilation. This feature improves the precision and efficiency of quantum computation by discretizing continuous quantum operations. Using the Ross-Selinger algorithm, arbitrary unitary matrices are decomposed into combinations of Clifford+T gates. Coalton's type class system simplified operations across different algebraic rings, making it an ideal tool for implementing this complex algorithm. This work successfully integrated discrete compilation into Quilc, paving the way for practical applications in quantum computing.

(coalton-lang.github.io)

Development

Microservices: Not a Silver Bullet for Startups

2025-05-08

Microservices: Not a Silver Bullet for Startups

This article explores the pitfalls of prematurely adopting microservices in startups. The author argues that premature microservices lead to increased developer cost, deployment complexity, fragile local development environments, duplicated CI/CD pipelines, and increased observability overhead, ultimately slowing down team velocity and hindering product iteration. The author recommends that startups prioritize monolithic architecture, only considering microservices when encountering real scaling bottlenecks. Microservices are only justified in specific scenarios such as workload isolation, divergent scalability needs, or different runtime requirements.

(nexo.sh)

Development monolithic architecture

Swiss e-ID Referendum Headed to Ballot Box After Signature Verification

2025-05-08

Swiss e-ID Referendum Headed to Ballot Box After Signature Verification

Switzerland's e-ID law, aimed at simplifying online government services, will face a referendum after enough valid signatures were collected by opponents. The Federal Chancellery confirmed 55,344 of the 55,683 submitted signatures were valid, triggering a public vote. The referendum, fueled by concerns over data privacy and security, was supported by various groups including the youth wing of the Swiss People's Party and a faction of the Pirate Party. A physical altercation during signature submission highlights the passionate debate surrounding the legislation. The outcome will significantly impact Switzerland's digital identity strategy.

(www.swissinfo.ch)

Tech Swiss referendum

Huawei Unveils First HarmonyOS Laptop

2025-05-08

Huawei Unveils First HarmonyOS Laptop

Following the expiration of its Microsoft Windows license, Huawei has launched its first laptop powered by its self-developed HarmonyOS 5 (HarmonyOS Next). This AI-powered laptop features Huawei's Celia assistant, capable of tasks like creating slides, summarizing meeting minutes, and retrieving information from local documents. It boasts compatibility with office software such as WPS and DingTalk, and will support over 2,000 HarmonyOS mobile apps by year's end, expanding the HarmonyOS ecosystem.

(www.scmp.com)

Tech

QueryHub: AI-Powered Database Interaction Redefined

2025-05-08

QueryHub: AI-Powered Database Interaction Redefined

QueryHub is a groundbreaking AI platform revolutionizing database interaction. Using natural language processing, it lets users query databases with simple English, eliminating the need for complex SQL. It automatically generates optimized SQL queries, understands database schemas, and provides data visualization. QueryHub empowers developers and businesses to analyze data more efficiently and gain meaningful insights, even without specialized knowledge. A free tier allows connecting one database and running up to 100 AI queries, while a pro plan offers more connections and unlimited queries.

(www.queryhub.ai)

Development

Google Bets Big on Advanced Nuclear Energy to Hit 2030 Net-Zero Goals

2025-05-08

Google Bets Big on Advanced Nuclear Energy to Hit 2030 Net-Zero Goals

Google announced a collaboration with South Carolina-based Elementl Power, investing in three advanced nuclear energy projects to address the growing carbon emissions from its expanding data centers. This move supports Google's 2030 net-zero emissions goal and its commitment to 24/7 carbon-free energy. Elementl Power, using next-generation nuclear technology, aims to bring over 10 gigawatts of clean energy online in the US by 2035. The partnership highlights tech giants' proactive approach to decarbonization and the global energy transition.

(www.esgtoday.com)

Tech

Cancer Metabolism Research: A Novel Perspective on Fat and Brown Adipose Tissue

2025-05-08

Cancer Metabolism Research: A Novel Perspective on Fat and Brown Adipose Tissue

Recent breakthroughs in cancer metabolism research have revealed the dependence of tumor cells on glucose and lipid metabolism. Researchers are exploring ways to target metabolic pathways in cancer cells, such as inhibiting hexokinase-2, glucose transporter 1, and fatty acid synthase. Studies also investigate metabolic inhibitors like 6-aminonicotinamide and etomoxir to suppress tumor growth. Furthermore, research focuses on the role of brown adipose tissue in tumor suppression, showing that cold exposure and activation of the PRDM16 pathway can promote brown fat generation, thus inhibiting tumor growth. These studies offer promising avenues for developing novel cancer therapies, particularly targeted therapies based on metabolic regulation.

(www.nature.com)

Tech cancer metabolism brown adipose tissue targeted therapy

AI-Designed Antivenom: A Solution to the Antivenom Shortage?

2025-05-08

AI-Designed Antivenom: A Solution to the Antivenom Shortage?

Scientists have successfully used AI to design proteins that bind to neurotoxic proteins in snake venom, showing efficacy in mice. However, this raises the question: why design new binders when antivenoms already exist? The article delves into the challenges of antivenom production: high costs, shortages, and the extreme heterogeneity of snake venoms. While AI-designed antivenoms offer potential solutions, their success hinges on scalable, low-cost production and overcoming market-based challenges. The article also explores a recent study creating a 'universal' antivenom from a man repeatedly bitten by snakes, highlighting both the promise and the persistent economic hurdles.

(www.owlposting.com)

Tech Medicine

Debunking the Myth: Did Globalization Really Hollow Out the American Middle Class?

2025-05-08

Debunking the Myth: Did Globalization Really Hollow Out the American Middle Class?

This article challenges the popular narrative that globalization and trade deficits led to the decline of American manufacturing and the hollowing out of the middle class. While acknowledging the negative impact of the China shock on some manufacturing workers, the author argues that its effects have been exaggerated. American middle-class income has actually been growing, and the decline in manufacturing's share of GDP is attributed to multiple factors beyond trade deficits. The author calls for a more nuanced perspective on trade and industrial policy, urging readers to avoid being misled by a flawed narrative.

(www.noahpinion.blog)

Tech Globalization Trade Deficits American Manufacturing

Mystery Solved: Apple II MouseCard's VBL-Synced Interrupts

2025-05-08

Mystery Solved: Apple II MouseCard's VBL-Synced Interrupts

This post delves into the synchronization mechanism between the Apple II MouseCard's IRQ interrupts and vertical blanking (VBL). The author initially observed flickering in MAME emulation but smooth rendering on real hardware. Through community interaction and analysis of the MouseCard firmware, the mystery was solved: the MouseCard doesn't directly receive the VBL signal but uses software on a 68705 microprocessor to precisely calculate and trigger interrupts, achieving VBL synchronization. This involves manipulating 6821 PIA registers and configuring the 68705's internal timer, ultimately achieving highly accurate VBL synchronization, consistent with Apple's official documentation.

(www.colino.net)

Development VBL synchronization

Xenon Framework: A Powerful C++ Game Hacking Framework

2025-05-08

Xenon Framework: A Powerful C++ Game Hacking Framework

Xenon is a powerful and flexible C++ framework for creating both internal and external game cheats. Its modular architecture allows easy implementation of features like ESP, Aimbot, and Radar, supporting multiple game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity. Offering both internal (DLL injection) and external (standalone application) cheat options, Xenon simplifies cheat development by abstracting low-level details. A built-in (but still under development) automatic DLL injection system further streamlines the process. Whether targeting Unreal Engine or Unity games, Xenon lets developers focus on game-specific logic.

(github.com)

Game game hacking C++ framework

CoreWCF Streaming RPC Performance Bottleneck: A Stack Overflow Failure Postmortem

2025-05-08

CoreWCF Streaming RPC Performance Bottleneck: A Stack Overflow Failure Postmortem

The author attempted to use CoreWCF for streaming RPC between .NET Framework and .NET 8 to test the throughput of random number transfers. However, after posting a question on Stack Overflow, it was closed without an answer. The issue is that the CoreWCF service continues to consume significant CPU and write to the stream even after the client disconnects. The author suspects a misunderstanding of how WCF streams are supposed to work, suggesting WCF streams may not be suitable for handling streams of unknown length. The article explores the challenges of using WCF streaming for high-throughput RPC and considers alternatives, such as using single message requests or session mode, to improve performance and reliability.

(richardcocks.github.io)

Development

GitHub Actions Security: Best Practices After Two Major Incidents

2025-05-08

GitHub Actions Security: Best Practices After Two Major Incidents

Recent attacks on GitHub Actions, including a supply chain attack and a compromise of the tj-actions, highlight significant security risks. This guide offers practical advice to secure your GitHub Actions workflows. It covers essential terminology, best practices for configuring organization-level settings and repository-level branch protection, secrets management, and safe workflow writing. Key vulnerabilities like Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE) are discussed, along with recommendations for minimizing third-party action usage, controlling permissions, and using tools for static analysis and policy enforcement.

(www.wiz.io)

Development

Artifact: AI-Powered Collaborative IDE for Hardware Engineers Secures $3.5M

2025-05-08

Artifact: AI-Powered Collaborative IDE for Hardware Engineers Secures $3.5M

Artifact is a collaborative IDE for hardware engineers, accelerating every step of the engineering lifecycle: design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, test, and sustainment. The company raised $3.5M to build an integrated, verifiable AI copilot with an intuitive UI reflecting how hardware is actually built. Every artifact is auto-generated and traceable to a single source of truth. Artifact aims to make hardware engineering rigorous, deliberate, and system-aware, working directly with customers solving complex technical problems.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Hardware Hardware Engineering Collaborative IDE

Obama's Super-Secure BlackBerry: A Tale of Tech and Security

2025-05-08

Obama's Super-Secure BlackBerry: A Tale of Tech and Security

Upon taking office in 2009, President Obama faced the challenge of relinquishing his beloved BlackBerry due to security concerns. However, instead of abandoning his device, a collaborative effort between the Secret Service, White House Communications Agency, and NSA led to a solution: a custom-built SecurVoice encryption software package. This allowed Obama to maintain secure communication, albeit with a limited circle of contacts using the same encrypted system. The story highlights the need for secure communication at the highest levels, showcasing a shift from dedicated hardware to software-based security on commercial smartphones. Today, Obama's secure BlackBerrys are on display at the National Cryptologic Museum, a testament to this fascinating chapter in tech and security.

(www.electrospaces.net)

Tech BlackBerry

Lost City Rediscovered: Archaeologists Race to Save Heliopolis

2025-05-08

Lost City Rediscovered: Archaeologists Race to Save Heliopolis

This article highlights the crucial archaeological work underway to save the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis. Once the most sacred site on the Nile, Heliopolis was largely forgotten until archaeologists stepped in to prevent its complete disappearance. The article references several issues of *Digs & Discoveries* magazine showcasing discoveries from different years, emphasizing the ongoing and vital nature of the archaeological efforts.

(archaeology.org)

Misc Egypt Heliopolis

NASA Satellite Accidentally Reveals Real-Time Electronic Warfare in Ukraine

2025-05-08

NASA Satellite Accidentally Reveals Real-Time Electronic Warfare in Ukraine

Nuke's, an amateur enthusiast, discovered unusual high brightness temperatures in the 1.4 GHz band of publicly available soil moisture data from NASA's SMAP satellite, far exceeding natural levels. Analysis suggests these anomalies are likely military electronic warfare (EW) activities, such as jamming, spoofing, or high-power electromagnetic emissions. By visualizing the data, Nuke's created a map of EW hotspots in Ukraine, Crimea, and parts of Russia, closely correlating with Russian EW sites, Ukrainian drone corridors, and frontline staging areas. This discovery highlights how even a climate observation satellite can inadvertently become a tool for monitoring real-time EW in modern warfare.

(radioandnukes.substack.com)

Tech ukraine conflict

Deep Dive into Hygienic Macros in Scheme

2025-05-08

Scheme's macro system employs a 'hygiene' mechanism to prevent variable name clashes during macro expansion. This article delves into the concept of identifiers in Scheme, which encompass not only a symbolic name but also a lexical context and a historical context. The predicates `bound-identifier=?` and `free-identifier=?` compare identifier equivalence; the former focuses on the interchangeability of bound identifiers after macro expansion, while the latter focuses on free identifiers. The article uses multiple examples to illustrate the differences between these two equivalence relations and the role of historical context in the hygienic macro mechanism. Ultimately, it explains how Scheme uses the historical information of identifiers to ensure macro hygiene and prevent variable name conflicts.

(mnieper.github.io)

Development

Apple Rejects Critical Alerts API Access for Medication Reminder App

2025-05-08

Apple Rejects Critical Alerts API Access for Medication Reminder App

Jay Han's iOS medication reminder app, SuperDose, was rejected by Apple for access to the Critical Alerts API. This API allows notifications to bypass silent mode and Do Not Disturb, crucial for users taking life-saving medications. Apple's reasoning was that the app couldn't guarantee compliant usage, but Han argues that user consent addresses abuse, and Apple's own Health app uses the API. Han questions Apple's approval of other general-purpose reminder apps while rejecting his, potentially leading users to miss critical medication reminders, posing a safety risk.

(jhan.bearblog.dev)

Development API Access Apple Review

TypeScript's 'Hyper-Typing': When Type Safety Backfires

2025-05-08

This article explores the phenomenon of 'hyper-typing' in TypeScript, where the pursuit of perfect type safety leads to overly complex type definitions. Using the TanStack Form library as an example, the author argues that while such libraries offer precise type safety, the resulting complexity makes types difficult to understand, error messages hard to debug, and overall development less efficient. The author advocates for a balance between type safety and developer experience, suggesting simpler type definitions or a separate build step for type generation, as seen in the Astro framework, as a more effective approach.

(pscanf.com)

Development

Thunder Compute: Seeking a Top-Tier Systems Engineer for GPU Virtualization

2025-05-08

Thunder Compute: Seeking a Top-Tier Systems Engineer for GPU Virtualization

Thunder Compute, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Systems Engineer to build their VMware for GPUs. Their software eliminates idle GPU cycles through sharing and oversubscription, networking GPUs over IP. This challenging role requires top 0.1% C++ skills, deep understanding of low-level networking and compilers, and experience in latency-sensitive environments. The company is willing to relocate to find the right candidate.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Systems Engineer

Revolutionizing Bacterial Diagnosis: Identifying Pathogens in Minutes with Mass Spectrometry

2025-05-08

Revolutionizing Bacterial Diagnosis: Identifying Pathogens in Minutes with Mass Spectrometry

Traditional bacterial disease diagnosis involves days of tedious pathogen isolation and culturing. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and Imperial College London have developed a groundbreaking method using mass spectrometry to identify bacteria in mere minutes. By detecting bacterial metabolic products instead of the bacteria themselves, the new technique significantly reduces diagnostic time. A database currently containing 232 medically important bacterial species and their metabolites will be expanded to include over 1400 known pathogens. This technology promises to revolutionize personalized medicine, enabling rapid and precise treatment.

(phys.org)

Tech mass spectrometry bacterial infection rapid diagnosis

Intel SGX's Demise: A Tale of Complexity and Market Realities

2025-05-08

Intel SGX's Demise: A Tale of Complexity and Market Realities

Intel has confirmed that its Software Guard Extensions (SGX) will be deprecated in 12th generation processors (Workstation/Desktop/Laptop/embedded platforms), remaining only in high-end Xeon CPUs for servers. Intended to enhance trust in cloud environments, SGX's complex implementation across hardware, microcode, and firmware proved costly and vulnerable. This article details SGX's inherent complexity, risks (key leakage, side-channel attacks), flawed threat model, and overblown market hype. Ultimately, Intel's narrowing SGX's scope to servers acknowledges it's not a silver bullet security solution.

(hardenedvault.net)

Hardware Intel SGX Cloud Security

Mycoria: An Open and Secure Overlay Network

2025-05-08

Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network connecting all participants. Valuing freedom of connectivity, it aims to emulate the early internet's adventurous spirit: everyone is equal with easy connection; everyone is welcome on its open, bureaucracy-free network; no surveillance with end-to-end encryption and private addresses; and no barriers, connecting via the internet or extending Mycoria with your own mesh network. Design goals include simplicity, compatibility with existing infrastructure (like DNS), default security, and default privacy (WIP). Features include automatic end-to-end encryption, modern cryptography, smart and scalable routing, a dashboard, .myco DNS resolution (OS configuration required), simple service discovery, auto-optimization/healing (for internet overlay, WIP), and rotating private addresses (WIP).

(mycoria.org)

Tech decentralized network

Linear Regression and Gradient Descent: From House Pricing to Deep Learning

2025-05-08

Linear Regression and Gradient Descent: From House Pricing to Deep Learning

This article uses house pricing as an example to explain linear regression and gradient descent algorithms in a clear and concise way. Linear regression predicts house prices by finding the best-fitting line, while gradient descent is an iterative algorithm used to find the optimal parameters that minimize the error function. The article compares absolute error and squared error, explaining why squared error is more effective in gradient descent because it ensures the smoothness of the error function, thus avoiding local optima. Finally, the article connects these concepts to deep learning, pointing out that the essence of deep learning is also to minimize error by adjusting parameters.

(briefer.cloud)

AI linear regression

Gmail to Drop Support for 3DES Encryption in SMTP Connections

2025-05-08

Gmail to Drop Support for 3DES Encryption in SMTP Connections

Google announced that it will stop supporting the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for incoming SMTP connections starting May 30, 2025. After this date, email systems using 3DES will be unable to deliver emails to Gmail accounts. This change improves security by mitigating vulnerabilities associated with outdated encryption. All sending systems should be configured to use modern, secure TLS ciphers. See the Gmail Help Center for details.

(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

Tech 3DES Encryption

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