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Gmail Security: Debunking Major Vulnerability Rumors

2025-09-02
Gmail Security: Debunking Major Vulnerability Rumors

Recent claims of a major Gmail security vulnerability are entirely false. Google assures users that Gmail's protections are strong and effective, blocking over 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts. The company emphasizes its ongoing investment in security, constant innovation, and clear communication about risks and protections. Google encourages users to adopt strong password alternatives like Passkeys and follow best practices for identifying and reporting phishing attacks.

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(blog.google)
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The Physics of Sales: From Push to Pull

2025-09-02
The Physics of Sales: From Push to Pull

This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how many founders approach sales: the 'seller-push' mentality. By observing hundreds of sales calls, the author argues that successful sales aren't about convincing customers, but about helping them achieve their goals. The author introduces the 'buyer-pull' theory and lists 11 signals indicating a 'seller-push' approach. Changing this mindset is key to unlocking sales efficiency.

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(howtogrow.substack.com)
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OpenBSD Adds Raspberry Pi 5 Support, but with Known Issues

2025-09-02

A recent OpenBSD update adds support for RAMDISK on the Raspberry Pi 5 Model B. However, there are known issues: booting from PCIe storage HATs doesn't work (due to missing U-Boot support), WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 5 Model B "d0" boards is broken, and the active cooler (fan) doesn't function due to missing pwm/clock drivers (work in progress).

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(marc.info)
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The Demise of 32-bit Support in the Linux Kernel?

2025-09-02

At the Open Source Summit Europe 2025, Arnd Bergmann, the maintainer of architecture support in the Linux kernel, delivered a talk discussing the potential removal of 32-bit system support. While desktop and server systems have long transitioned to 64-bit, a significant number of 32-bit devices remain in embedded systems. Bergmann noted that while the kernel is still adding support for some 32-bit boards, the number of 64-bit boards supported has significantly surpassed 32-bit ones. He argued that removing 32-bit support is a gradual process, requiring consideration of existing hardware and software support and analyzing user numbers to determine when to remove support for specific architectures. The talk also addressed challenges and solutions related to 32-bit support, such as high-memory support, the year-2038 problem, and big-endian support. Ultimately, Bergmann stated that the kernel will retain support for armv7 systems for at least another ten years, while support for other 32-bit architectures will likely fade away sooner.

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(lwn.net)
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Custom Shader in Three.js Simulates Foil Stickers

2025-09-02
Custom Shader in Three.js Simulates Foil Stickers

This post details creating a custom shader in Three.js that realistically simulates foil stickers, complete with angle-dependent iridescence and sparkling metallic flakes. By approximating thin-film interference and using procedural noise, the shader renders a premium holographic effect in real-time within the browser. The author provides a detailed explanation of the vertex and fragment shader code, along with an interactive demo showcasing the results.

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(www.4rknova.com)
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Ripple: A New UI Framework Blending React, Solid, and Svelte

2025-09-02
Ripple: A New UI Framework Blending React, Solid, and Svelte

Ripple is an early-stage TypeScript UI framework that combines the best parts of React, Solid, and Svelte. Built as a JS/TS-first framework, it features a unique .ripple extension and superset language designed to improve developer experience and work well with LLMs. It boasts built-in reactive state management, a component-based architecture, JSX-like syntax, and high performance. While still buggy and in alpha, Ripple's innovative features—like automatically reactive variables and object properties prefixed with $, the `untrack` function for controlling reactivity, reactive arrays, and the `effect` function—make it an intriguing project to watch.

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(github.com)
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Amazon's AI Talent Woes: Frugality and RTO Policies Hamper Recruitment

2025-09-02
Amazon's AI Talent Woes: Frugality and RTO Policies Hamper Recruitment

Amazon is lagging in the fierce AI talent war. Internal documents reveal that its unique pay structure, lagging AI reputation, and rigid return-to-office (RTO) policies are major obstacles. Competitors offer more competitive compensation and flexible work arrangements, making it difficult for Amazon to attract top talent. While Amazon claims its compensation is competitive, its 'egalitarian' pay philosophy and strict salary bands hinder its ability to compete for high-earning AI experts. The mandatory RTO policy further limits its access to talent. Amazon is trying to adjust its recruitment strategy, but whether its ingrained frugal culture and rigid systems can change remains to be seen.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
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VC's AI-Powered Summer Hack: Building a Knowledge Base from Scratch

2025-09-02
VC's AI-Powered Summer Hack: Building a Knowledge Base from Scratch

A venture capitalist spent his summer break building a knowledge base platform using AI tools. Starting with a blank page, he leveraged LLMs, Telegram bots, and various APIs (Supabase, Orq.ai, etc.) to create a system for aggregating information and extracting insights. He even used AI for UI design. While facing challenges with technical debt and AI limitations, he successfully built a functional prototype, gaining valuable experience in the process. The project aimed to improve efficiency, personalization, and collaboration within his firm.

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(kevinkuipers.substack.com)
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WinBoat: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly on Linux

2025-09-02
WinBoat: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly on Linux

WinBoat, currently in beta, lets you run Windows apps on your Linux penguin with seamless integration. Boasting a sleek interface and automated installation, it allows you to run almost any Windows application as native OS-level windows within your Linux environment. Access the full Windows desktop or integrate individual apps into your workflow. File sharing between Windows and Linux is also simplified. While requiring specific system resources (RAM, CPU, storage, KVM, Docker, FreeRDP), WinBoat offers a compelling solution for cross-platform compatibility. Contributions and feedback are welcome!

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(github.com)
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8,500-Year-Old Sunken Village Unearthed: A Silent Warning from Climate Change

2025-09-02
8,500-Year-Old Sunken Village Unearthed: A Silent Warning from Climate Change

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered an 8,500-year-old Stone Age settlement submerged 8 meters below the surface of Aarhus Bay. The discovery, part of a EU-funded project exploring sunken Northern European landscapes, has yielded well-preserved artifacts including animal bones, stone tools, and arrowheads thanks to the oxygen-free environment. The research offers insights into how Stone Age societies adapted to rising sea levels and serves as a valuable historical parallel to today's climate change challenges.

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(apnews.com)
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CauseNet: A Massive Web-Extracted Causality Graph

2025-09-02

Researchers have built CauseNet, a large-scale knowledge base comprising over 11 million causal relations. Extracted from semi-structured and unstructured web sources with an estimated precision of 83%, CauseNet is a causality graph usable for tasks such as causal question answering and reasoning. The project also provides code for loading into Neo4j and training/evaluation datasets for causal concept spotting.

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(causenet.org)
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Android App Developer Verification Mandate: A Library to Warn Users

2025-09-02
Android App Developer Verification Mandate: A Library to Warn Users

A new open-source library, `FreeDroidWarn`, helps Android developers inform users about Google's upcoming developer verification requirement. Starting in 2026/2027, apps on certified Android devices will need developer verification. This library displays a warning dialog upon app launch, allowing developers to inform users without needing to share their personal information. The library is licensed under GPLv3 and is easily integrated.

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(github.com)
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ABC: A Surprisingly Powerful and Easy-to-Learn Programming Language

2025-09-01

ABC is an interactive programming language designed as a user-friendly replacement for BASIC. Born from a task analysis of programming, it's surprisingly easy to learn (an hour or so for experienced programmers) yet powerful enough for experts. It boasts a concise set of five data types, strong typing without declarations, and no limitations besides memory exhaustion. Its environment is equally impressive, eliminating file management hassles and offering a consistent interface with undo functionality. ABC programs are often one-fourth to one-fifth the size of equivalent Pascal or C programs. The ABC Programmer's Handbook offers comprehensive documentation.

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arXivLabs: Building New arXiv Features with Community Collaboration

2025-09-01
arXivLabs: Building New arXiv Features with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a new framework that enables developers and community collaborators to build and share new 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. If you have an idea for a project that will add value to the arXiv community, learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Amazon's Leadership Principles: A Critical Examination

2025-09-01

This article offers a critical look at Amazon's leadership principles, particularly "Customer Obsession," "Ownership," and "Bias for Action." The author argues that Amazon overemphasizes speed and meeting superficial customer demands, neglecting true customer needs and long-term value. Regarding "Customer Obsession," the author criticizes Amazon's over-reliance on customer feedback rather than proactively developing potentially impactful technologies. On "Ownership," the author points to a lack of communication and collaboration within Amazon, with significant information silos between teams. Concerning "Bias for Action," the author believes Amazon overemphasizes speed at the expense of product quality and customer trust, advocating for a "bias for inaction" mechanism at senior engineering levels to ensure high standards before product launches.

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(www.daemonology.net)
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Beyond Text-to-SQL: Building an AI Data Analyst

2025-09-01

This article explores the challenges and solutions in building an AI data analyst. The author argues that simple text-to-SQL is insufficient for real-world user questions, requiring multi-step plans, external tools (like Python), and external context. Their team built a generative BI platform using a semantic layer powered by Malloy, a modeling language that explicitly defines business logic. This, combined with a multi-agent system, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and strategic model selection, achieves high-quality, low-latency data analysis. The platform generates SQL, writes Python for complex calculations, and integrates external data sources. The article stresses context engineering, retrieval system optimization, and model selection, while sharing solutions for common failure modes.

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(www.pedronasc.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-09-01
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to build and share new arXiv features directly on the site. Individuals and organizations involved uphold arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Turso: A 1GB Mystery Solved by an LLN

2025-09-01
Turso: A 1GB Mystery Solved by an LLN

Turso, a Rust rewrite of SQLite, encountered a bizarre issue: databases exceeding 1GB were reported as corrupted by SQLite, despite being perfectly intact. The root cause? SQLite inserts a special page at the 1GB mark, a step missing in Turso. Nikita, a remarkably skilled engineer on the Turso team (suspected to be an LLM or alien!), leveraged his seemingly superhuman knowledge to pinpoint and fix the bug. This highlights the importance of thorough testing and comprehensive documentation, showcasing the potential of LLMs in code understanding and debugging.

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(turso.tech)
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ChatGPT-Assisted Swift App Dev: From Amazing to Crashing

2025-09-01
ChatGPT-Assisted Swift App Dev: From Amazing to Crashing

The author attempted to build a Swift app using ChatGPT-5. Initially, it was impressive, with ChatGPT generating code and modifying the UI based on natural language prompts. However, testing revealed numerous issues: search functionality failed, adding shows to the library didn't work, and ChatGPT's modifications introduced increasing errors and unwanted UI changes. Eventually, the app became unbuildable, leading to a frustrating cycle of troubleshooting that the author couldn't resolve with ChatGPT. This experience highlights that while ChatGPT can assist in development, its reliability and accuracy need improvement, especially for complex projects, requiring significant manual intervention and code review.

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(beard.fm)
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Populist Strongmen: Threat or Remedy to Democracy?

2025-09-01

This paper investigates the relationship between populist attitudes and support for strongman leaders. It argues that populist attitudes are not monolithic, but rather encompass distinct forms: anti-establishment populism and authoritarian populism. While the former favors more direct democracy, the latter leans towards strongman leadership, even at the cost of democratic institutions and economic stability. Analyzing survey data from nine countries, the study finds that in most cases, support for populist leaders stems primarily from authoritarian populist attitudes, not anti-establishment ones. This suggests the appeal of populist strongmen lies not in democratic ideals, but in the allure of authoritarian governance.

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(www.frontiersin.org)
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LLMs Democratize Compiler Creation: From Recipes to Workflows

2025-09-01
LLMs Democratize Compiler Creation: From Recipes to Workflows

This article presents a novel perspective on everyday tasks as compilation processes. Using cooking as an example, the author likens recipes to programs and the cooking process to compilation execution. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) makes creating domain-specific compilers unprecedentedly easy, even for those without programming experience. With LLMs, we can transform everyday tasks – fitness routines, business processes, even music creation – into programmable environments, increasing efficiency and deepening our understanding of everyday systems. This is not only a technological innovation but also a shift in thinking, extending the concept of compilers from code to all aspects of life.

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(gist.github.com)
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20 Rules for Efficient Knowledge Formulation in Learning

2025-09-01
20 Rules for Efficient Knowledge Formulation in Learning

This article by Piotr Wozniak outlines 20 rules for efficient knowledge acquisition, emphasizing the importance of understanding before memorization. It advocates for building a holistic picture before focusing on details, adhering to the minimum information principle, and utilizing imagery, mnemonic techniques, and avoiding sets and enumerations. The article uses numerous examples to illustrate how to transform complex knowledge into easily digestible formats, stressing the avoidance of interference, optimization of wording, personalized learning, leveraging emotional states, providing contextual cues, and the benefits of knowledge redundancy. Finally, it recommends providing sources, date stamping, and prioritization to ensure learning efficiency and long-term knowledge retention.

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(www.supermemo.com)
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Swift 6's Puzzling `@isolated(any)`: What You Need to Know

2025-09-01
Swift 6's Puzzling `@isolated(any)`: What You Need to Know

Swift 6 introduces the `@isolated(any)` attribute, which describes the isolation of asynchronous functions, initially appearing confusing. It always requires an argument, but this argument cannot vary. The article explains its introduction: to solve the problem of lost isolation information during asynchronous function scheduling. `@isolated(any)` provides access to a function's isolation property, enabling more intelligent scheduling, especially when handling `Task` and `TaskGroup`, ensuring the execution order of tasks on the MainActor. While it can mostly be ignored, understanding `@isolated(any)` is crucial for writing efficient and reliable concurrent code when dealing with asynchronous function isolation and scheduling.

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(nshipster.com)
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Waymo's Mysterious Parking Habits: AI Preference or Algorithmic Glitch?

2025-09-01
Waymo's Mysterious Parking Habits: AI Preference or Algorithmic Glitch?

In Los Angeles, Waymo self-driving taxis are frequently parking in specific locations in residential areas, sparking curiosity and concern among residents. Some families have even noticed Waymos repeatedly stopping in front of their homes, sometimes for hours. Waymo explains this as an AI algorithm balancing energy consumption, reducing traffic congestion, and meeting demand, but cannot explain the choice of such specific locations. Experts speculate this may be the result of a machine learning algorithm. While Waymo doesn't confirm, this lack of transparency raises concerns about the explainability of AI decisions and reflects the challenges of autonomous driving technology in real-world applications.

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(www.theverge.com)
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India's E-Waste Crisis: A Tale of Two Recycling Industries

2025-09-01
India's E-Waste Crisis: A Tale of Two Recycling Industries

India's booming electronics sector has fueled a $1.5 billion e-waste recycling industry, but 95% of its workforce consists of informal laborers facing dangerous and toxic conditions for meager pay. The article highlights Khatta, a Delhi dumpsite where a complex informal network operates, controlled by powerful families like the Maliks. While formal companies like Recyclekaro showcase a modern, regulated approach, the informal sector persists due to its profitability and resistance from large tech firms challenging new regulations. The story underscores the stark contrast between the formal and informal e-waste recycling industries in India, highlighting the environmental and social inequalities at play.

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(restofworld.org)
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Encrypted ZFS Backups with zfsbackrest: An Experimental Tool

2025-09-01
Encrypted ZFS Backups with zfsbackrest: An Experimental Tool

zfsbackrest is an experimental tool providing pgbackrest-style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems. It requires the age tool for key generation; encryption is mandatory. It supports full, diff, and incremental backups, and offers cleanup for expired and orphaned backups. Restoring requires your age identity file (private key). zfsbackrest leverages zfs snapshots for backup and restore, without directly modifying zfs datasets.

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(github.com)
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Bear Note-Taking App Changes License to Combat Free-Riding

2025-09-01
Bear Note-Taking App Changes License to Combat Free-Riding

Herman, the developer of the Bear note-taking app, has announced a change in the app's open-source license from MIT to the Elastic License. This decision stems from instances of others forking the project to create competing services, harming the developer's interests. The Elastic License is nearly identical to MIT but adds a stipulation prohibiting the software from being offered as a hosted or managed service. The developer cites the rise of AI-powered coding, making it easier to create competing products, as a reason for this change, prioritizing the protection of their work and the app's long-term sustainability.

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(herman.bearblog.dev)
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Lightweight Node.js NuGet Server: Your Private Package Repo in 10 Seconds

2025-09-01
Lightweight Node.js NuGet Server: Your Private Package Repo in 10 Seconds

This is a lightweight NuGet server built on Node.js, implementing core NuGet v3 API functionalities for package publishing, querying, and downloading. It requires no database, storing package files and nuspecs directly in the filesystem, making setup quick and easy—run it in 10 seconds. A modern browser-based UI is included, supporting multiple package uploads, user account management, API password resets, and more. A Docker image is available. Compatible with dotnet restore and standard NuGet clients, it also allows package publishing via HTTP POST using tools like cURL.

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(github.com)
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