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Hidden Morse Code Discovered in Tubular Bells!

2025-01-23

During the 1973 recording of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at The Manor Studio, a hidden Morse code signal from the Rugby Radio Station, 37 miles away, was inadvertently captured. The station, used for communication within the British Empire, transmitted at a frequency audible to humans. Analysis confirmed the signal, decoding to 'VVV GBR', the callsign of the Rugby station. This discovery unexpectedly connects Tubular Bells, Alan Turing (codebreaker), and a Scottish radio listening station, creating a fascinating historical mystery.

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(madpsy.uk)
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Decoding the Mario Logo: A Surprisingly Deep Dive into Color Schemes

2025-01-23

Blogger Louie Mantia embarked on a fascinating analysis of the color usage in Mario game logos. He discovered patterns in the seemingly random color choices across the franchise's various logo styles. By meticulously examining 40 game logos, he found green to be the most frequently used color, while red dominated the letter 'M'. His analysis culminated in a proposed 'most Mario' color scheme, sparking intriguing correlations with release dates, game genres, and even box art characters.

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Coding Without Bugs: A Viable Approach for Small Teams and Startups

2025-01-23
Coding Without Bugs: A Viable Approach for Small Teams and Startups

A senior engineer shares their experience of pursuing 'bug-free coding' at Telegram and various projects. While seemingly inefficient, they argue that this approach avoids massive maintenance costs and team burnout in the long run. The author uses personal anecdotes and project examples to demonstrate that focusing on code quality and maintainability alongside product velocity leads to efficient development and high-quality products.

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(korshakov.com)
Development Code Quality

Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

2025-01-23
Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

The open-source project video-starter-kit offers a browser-based toolkit for AI-powered video creation. Built with Next.js, Remotion, and fal.ai, it integrates AI models like Minimax, Hunyuan, and LTX, enabling browser-native video processing, multi-clip composition, audio track integration, voiceover support, and extended video duration handling. Developers can leverage ready-to-use UI components and TypeScript support for rapid AI video application development.

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(github.com)
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t4t: A Social Network for Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals

2025-01-23
t4t: A Social Network for Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals

t4t is a social network specifically designed for transgender and gender-non-conforming individuals. It's a free, minimalist, text-based platform. Recent posts reveal a diverse range of experiences, from daily life updates like cooking and car maintenance to more personal and vulnerable moments expressing financial struggles, loneliness, and desires. The platform provides a space for connection and support within the trans community, showcasing both the everyday joys and challenges faced by its members.

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Humanity's Last Exam: A Groundbreaking AI Benchmark

2025-01-23
Humanity's Last Exam: A Groundbreaking AI Benchmark

Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released the results of "Humanity's Last Exam," a new benchmark designed to push the limits of AI knowledge. The exam, featuring over 3,000 expert-level questions across various fields, revealed that even the most advanced AI models (like GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 1.5) correctly answered less than 10% of the questions. This highlights significant gaps in complex reasoning capabilities. The benchmark tackles 'benchmark saturation,' where models excel on existing tests but struggle with novel problems. The dataset will be publicly released to further AI research and development, providing valuable insights into the current state and future direction of AI.

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(scale.com)
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A Medieval Castle Rises: The Guédelon Construction Project

2025-01-23

Guédelon isn't just a replica; it's an ambitious experiment in building a medieval castle using only medieval techniques and materials. Rejecting modern tools, craftsmen use only those available in the era, meticulously following medieval methods from quarrying stone to laying bricks. The project is not only an architectural marvel, but a testament to medieval ingenuity and skill, offering valuable historical insights and practical knowledge.

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(www.guedelon.fr)
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Google Simplifies URL Display in Mobile Search Results

2025-01-23
Google Simplifies URL Display in Mobile Search Results

Google announced a simplification to how URLs are displayed in mobile search results. Previously, mobile search results included website breadcrumbs as part of the URL, but these were often truncated on smaller screens. Now, Google will remove breadcrumbs from mobile search results, displaying only the domain for a cleaner, more user-friendly experience. Desktop search results remain unchanged. This change doesn't require action from developers using breadcrumb structured data; it continues to be supported for desktop search.

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A Song of Ice and Fire Author Co-Authors Physics Paper

2025-01-23
A Song of Ice and Fire Author Co-Authors Physics Paper

George R.R. Martin, author of *A Song of Ice and Fire*, has co-authored a physics paper with a physicist from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The paper models the fictional virus from Martin's *Wild Cards* series, explaining the distribution of superpowers and mutations. While not a perfect representation, the model offers a unique pedagogical exercise, demonstrating how seemingly intractable problems can be transformed into analyzable dynamic systems for physics education.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

2025-01-23
Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

Innocent James, founder of Tanzanian startup Soma Bags, experienced firsthand the struggles of reading after dark due to lack of electricity in rural Tanzania. His solution? Solar-powered backpacks made from recycled cement bags. These innovative backpacks charge a built-in reading light while children walk to and from school, providing 6-8 hours of illumination – a cheaper and cleaner alternative to kerosene lamps. Soma Bags has sold 36,000 backpacks and is supported by the UNDP, demonstrating a sustainable and impactful solution to energy poverty and improving access to education for children in rural Africa.

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(edition.cnn.com)
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AI Mistakes: Unlike Human Errors, Harder to Predict

2025-01-23

Unlike human errors, Large Language Model (LLM) mistakes are random, unclustered, and made with high confidence. This article explores the unique characteristics of LLM errors and proposes two strategies: engineering more human-like LLMs and building new error-correction systems. Current research focuses on techniques like reinforcement learning with human feedback and methods like repeated questioning to improve AI reliability. While some quirks of LLMs mirror human behavior, their frequency and severity far exceed human error rates, demanding cautious use of AI decision-making systems and confining their application to suitable domains.

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(www.schneier.com)
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TMSU: A Tag-Based Virtual Filesystem for Escaping the Hierarchical Filesystem Nightmare

2025-01-23

TMSU is a tool for tagging your files, offering a simple command-line interface for applying tags and a virtual filesystem providing a tag-based view of your files from any program. It doesn't modify your files; instead, it maintains its own database and mounts a tag-based view. You can tag files, query them using logical operators (and, or, not), and mount a virtual filesystem for access from other applications. This VFS allows for tag management by creating and deleting directories.

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(tmsu.org)
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Dhruv Vidyut: Bolt-On E-Conversion Kit for Bikes

2025-01-23

Dhruv Vidyut offers a revolutionary electric conversion kit (DVECK) for bicycles and tricycles. Easily retrofitted, DVECK transforms any bike into an e-bike, providing a comfortable, efficient, and eco-friendly ride on any terrain. The company offers various options and welcomes business inquiries, including bulk purchases, dealership opportunities, and overseas imports.

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(dhruvvidyut.co.in)
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Filesystems: More Perilous Than You Think

2025-01-23

A Deconstruct 2019 talk revealed shocking truths about filesystems: from the inconsistencies and difficulty of correctly using the file API, to serious bugs within filesystems themselves and the high error rates of disks, data corruption is rampant. The speaker delved into the atomicity issues of file writes and the challenges posed by different filesystem modes (e.g., ext3/ext4's data=journal, ordered, writeback). Even experienced programmers struggle to avoid mistakes leading to data loss or corruption. The talk also analyzed errors in popular databases and version control systems and suggested using databases instead of files to improve data reliability.

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(danluu.com)
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Planetary Orbit Spirographs Based on Kepler's Laws

2025-01-23

Inspired by John Carlos Baez's post on the Pentagram of Venus, Red Blob Games created a set of planetary orbit spirographs. Using Kepler's Third Law to convert orbital periods to distances from the sun, the site generates heliocentric planetary orbit images resembling spirographs. Data includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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UK Watchdog Probes Apple and Google's Mobile Empires

2025-01-23
UK Watchdog Probes Apple and Google's Mobile Empires

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched investigations into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems, marking the first use of its new digital market powers. The CMA will examine whether Apple and Google are abusing their dominant market positions, including practices like pre-installing their own apps and imposing unfair app store terms. This move aims to protect consumers and businesses from unfair practices by Big Tech. Both Apple and Google stated they would cooperate with the regulator.

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(apnews.com)
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Ben Pence's Portfolio: A Clean Showcase of Design & Development Skills

2025-01-23

Ben Pence's website is a clean and effective portfolio showcasing his skills as a designer and developer. The minimalist design highlights his work, featuring a range of projects including web design, branding, and interactive experiences. His carefully curated case studies demonstrate expertise in visual design and UX, while readily available contact information allows for easy outreach from potential clients or collaborators. Overall, it's a highly effective and impressive personal portfolio reflecting professionalism and attention to detail.

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(benpence.com)
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Bunster: Compile Shell Scripts to Static Binaries

2025-01-23
Bunster: Compile Shell Scripts to Static Binaries

Bunster is a project that compiles shell scripts into efficient, static binaries, enhancing portability and security. Instead of simply wrapping scripts, it leverages the Go compiler to translate scripts into native machine code, enabling cross-platform execution (currently Unix only). Bunster primarily supports Bash scripts, with plans to support more shells, and add features like a module system, static asset embedding, password and expiration locks. The project is in its early stages but has already implemented many core features and follows SemVer versioning.

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(github.com)
Development Shell Script Static Compilation

libmodulor: An Opinionated TypeScript Library for Business Applications

2025-01-23
libmodulor: An Opinionated TypeScript Library for Business Applications

libmodulor is an opinionated TypeScript library designed to accelerate the creation of high-quality business applications. It employs a layered architecture (UseCase, App, Product, Target), emphasizing type safety and end-to-end testing. Developers are free to use their preferred database, frontend framework, server, and tools; libmodulor provides higher-level primitives to avoid boilerplate code and vendor lock-in. While still under active development, it's already been used in pilot projects.

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(github.com)
Development Business Applications

Shocking Link Found Between ADHD and Shorter Lifespan

2025-01-23
Shocking Link Found Between ADHD and Shorter Lifespan

A new study of over 30,000 UK adults with ADHD reveals a startling connection: a significantly shorter life expectancy and increased risk of mental health issues. Men with ADHD experienced a life expectancy reduction of 4.5 to 9 years, while women saw a decrease of 6.5 to 11 years. Researchers suggest this could be due to inadequate support and treatment, or potentially factors predating birth or early childhood. The findings highlight the urgent need for improved healthcare and interventions for individuals with ADHD to enhance their quality of life and lifespan.

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(edition.cnn.com)
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7 Lessons from Building a Small-Scale AI Application

2025-01-23
7 Lessons from Building a Small-Scale AI Application

This article details seven lessons learned from building a small-scale AI assistant over the past year. The author discovered that scalability issues arose earlier than anticipated. AI programming is stochastic, requiring iterative adjustments to prompts, fine-tuning, preference tuning, and hyperparameters. Data quality is crucial, with significant time investment in building and maintaining a high-quality dataset and processing pipeline. Model evaluation is equally important, as simple validation sets often fail to capture real-world edge cases. Trust and quality are paramount, demanding continuous experimentation and evaluation. The training pipeline itself is the core intellectual property, constantly refined through iteration. Finally, the author cautions against over-reliance on AI libraries due to potential incompleteness or poor ecosystem integration; building directly upon lower-level abstractions is often more reliable.

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(www.thelis.org)
Development AI Development Model Training Data Quality

Pakistan Passes Bill Granting Sweeping Social Media Controls

2025-01-23
Pakistan Passes Bill Granting Sweeping Social Media Controls

Pakistan's parliament passed a controversial bill granting the government extensive control over social media, including imprisonment for spreading disinformation. The bill's swift passage followed a walkout by opposition lawmakers protesting the legislation, raising concerns about further suppression of free speech. Critics argue the act allows authorities to block content deemed "unlawful and offensive," and ban individuals and organizations from social media for posting it. Social media platforms must register with a new regulatory body or face bans. Spreading disinformation becomes a criminal offense, punishable by up to three years in prison and a hefty fine. Journalists' and editors' unions strongly oppose the bill, seeing it as an attempt to stifle media and free speech.

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(apnews.com)
Tech Pakistan

Tokyo Xtreme Racer: A Technical Deep Dive into the UE5 Powered Reboot

2025-01-23
Tokyo Xtreme Racer: A Technical Deep Dive into the UE5 Powered Reboot

After an 18-year hiatus, the Tokyo Xtreme Racer series roars back with a new entry in Steam Early Access. This technical review delves into the game's Unreal Engine 5.4 implementation. Surprisingly, even a GTX 1070 can run the game smoothly at 1080p with high settings. The author provides detailed comparisons of visual quality and performance across different presets, exploring the impact of Lumen lighting technology. Steam Deck performance and future update expectations are also discussed. The game proves surprisingly scalable and visually appealing, even on older hardware.

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(cookieplmonster.github.io)
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Microsoft's Security Scanners Break Single-Use Links: A Shifting Cyber Norm

2025-01-23
Microsoft's Security Scanners Break Single-Use Links: A Shifting Cyber Norm

Bert Hubert reveals that Microsoft and other email security scanners are visiting links in emails and executing JavaScript, including sending POST requests. This violates the long-standing norm that POST requests shouldn't have side effects, breaking single-use login links. The article discusses the impact on web development and calls for greater transparency from large tech companies when changing internet norms.

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(berthub.eu)
Development Single-use links

HiringCafe: A Global Job Search Engine

2025-01-23
HiringCafe: A Global Job Search Engine

HiringCafe is a global job search engine offering remote, hybrid, and onsite job opportunities. Users can filter their search by department, salary, experience, job titles, education, licenses & certifications, security clearance, languages, shifts & schedules, travel requirements, and benefits. The site also allows searching by company industry, stage & funding, size, and founding year, enabling users to find the perfect job match.

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(hiring.cafe)
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Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Higher Irritability

2025-01-23
Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Higher Irritability

A study published in JAMA Network Open found a correlation between frequent social media use and higher levels of irritability among US adults. The research, involving 42,597 participants, revealed that even after accounting for anxiety and depression, frequent use, especially among active posters, was associated with increased irritability scores. A dose-response relationship was observed, with TikTok users exhibiting the largest increase in irritability when posting multiple times daily. Political engagement also correlated with higher irritability levels. The findings suggest a potential feedback loop between social media use and irritability.

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(medicalxpress.com)
Tech irritability

Subaru STARLINK Flaw Lets Hackers Remotely Control Cars, Access PII

2025-01-23
Subaru STARLINK Flaw Lets Hackers Remotely Control Cars, Access PII

Security researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in Subaru's STARLINK connected car service. Attackers, knowing only a victim's last name and zip code, email, or license plate, could remotely start, stop, lock, unlock, and track vehicles. They could also access a year's worth of location history and retrieve sensitive personal information (address, billing details, etc.). The vulnerability allowed complete vehicle control and was patched within 24 hours. This highlights the critical need for enhanced security in connected car systems and robust user data protection.

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(samcurry.net)
Tech car security

Pwn2Own Automotive 2025: 16 Zero-Days Exploited on Day One

2025-01-23
Pwn2Own Automotive 2025: 16 Zero-Days Exploited on Day One

On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, security researchers successfully exploited 16 unique zero-day vulnerabilities, earning a total of $382,750 in prize money. Fuzzware.io took the lead, hacking Autel MaxiCharger and Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3150 EV chargers. The competition highlighted critical vulnerabilities in EV chargers, in-vehicle infotainment systems, and car operating systems, underscoring the importance of cybersecurity in the automotive industry.

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(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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