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AI Copyright Wars: A Nightmare for News Orgs?

2025-08-11
AI Copyright Wars: A Nightmare for News Orgs?

The copyright lawsuits between Getty Images and Stability AI have sparked concerns within the news industry. The author discovered their colleague's photos were used without permission to train an AI model, highlighting the potential exploitation of news organizations' content by AI companies. While some news outlets have licensing deals with AI firms, these deals may undervalue the content, leaving news organizations vulnerable to being 'drained' by AI companies. The author calls for fair compensation for news organizations and copyright holders and urges AI companies to respect intellectual property.

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(jskfellows.stanford.edu)
Tech Copyright Protection

Dropbox Unveils 7th-Gen Server Hardware: A Giant Leap for AI

2025-08-11
Dropbox Unveils 7th-Gen Server Hardware: A Giant Leap for AI

After fourteen years of evolution, Dropbox's infrastructure has grown from a handful of servers to one of the world's largest custom-built storage systems. Their seventh-generation hardware platform (Crush, Dexter, Sonic, and GPU platforms Gumby and Godzilla) boasts dramatically increased storage bandwidth, effectively doubled rack power, and a next-gen storage chassis minimizing vibration and heat. This leap forward enhances efficiency, capability, and scalability, powering AI products like Dropbox Dash. Close collaboration with suppliers and a product-first, co-design approach leveraging emerging technologies (like SMR drives and GPU accelerators) resulted in significant performance and efficiency gains, setting the stage for future growth.

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(dropbox.tech)
Hardware Server Hardware

Raised by Wolves: Ambitious Sci-Fi, Cold Emotion

2025-08-11
Raised by Wolves: Ambitious Sci-Fi, Cold Emotion

HBO Max's "Raised by Wolves" is a wildly ambitious sci-fi series tackling themes of faith and parenting on a biblical scale. Set in a war-torn future, android parents attempt to raise human children on a distant planet, with only one surviving after 12 years. Meanwhile, human parents bond with a child during a long space voyage, only to discover it taken by the android mother upon arrival. The series unfolds with complex plotlines, initially focused on world-building, with a somewhat cold emotional tone. However, later episodes reveal more compelling storytelling. While emotionally distant, its original premise and exploration of faith make it a worthwhile watch for sci-fi fans.

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(www.rogerebert.com)
Tech androids faith

Rust Foundation's 2025 Tech Report: Security, Scalability, and Developer Friendliness

2025-08-11
Rust Foundation's 2025 Tech Report: Security, Scalability, and Developer Friendliness

The Rust Foundation released its 2025 Technology Report, summarizing a year of significant advancements in supporting the Rust programming language and ecosystem. The report highlights the Foundation's focused work on securing the Rust supply chain, improving critical infrastructure, enhancing Rust's readiness for safety-critical use, and fostering interoperability with C++. Key achievements include: the full launch of Trusted Publishing on crates.io; major progress on TUF-based crate signing infrastructure; integration of the Ferrocene Language Specification into the Rust Project; a 75% reduction in CI infrastructure costs; expansion of the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium; and direct engagement with ISO C++ standards bodies. These efforts ensure Rust remains secure, reliable, and ready for the demands of modern software development.

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(rustfoundation.org)
Development Technology Report

Massive Solar + Storage Project Powers Up in California, Boosting LA's Clean Energy Goals

2025-08-11
Massive Solar + Storage Project Powers Up in California, Boosting LA's Clean Energy Goals

Arevon Energy's Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project in Mojave, California, is now fully operational. This massive project boasts 758 MWdc of solar capacity and 300 MW/1200 MWh of battery storage, comprising 1.36 million solar panels and 172 lithium iron phosphate batteries. Eland will power over 266,000 homes annually and provide 7% of Los Angeles's electricity needs, significantly advancing the city's goal of 100% clean energy by 2035. The project created roughly 1,000 jobs and is expected to contribute over $36 million in local government payments over its lifetime.

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(electrek.co)
Tech

Lightsail Nanocraft to Probe Black Hole: A Century-Long Mission

2025-08-11
Lightsail Nanocraft to Probe Black Hole: A Century-Long Mission

A groundbreaking proposal envisions launching a nanocraft, lighter than a paperclip, towards a nearby black hole using a powerful laser beam. This ambitious project, while currently technologically infeasible, aims to probe the fabric of spacetime and test the limits of physics. Scientists predict that within 20-30 years, advancements in technology and the discovery of a suitable nearby black hole could make this century-long mission possible, revolutionizing our understanding of general relativity and the universe's fundamental laws. Just as the detection of gravitational waves and the imaging of black hole shadows once seemed impossible, this audacious plan suggests that even the most far-fetched scientific goals may eventually be within reach.

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(www.sciencedaily.com)
Tech nanocraft laser propulsion

AI-Powered Firefighting: Autonomous Helicopters Take on California Wildfires

2025-08-11
AI-Powered Firefighting: Autonomous Helicopters Take on California Wildfires

California's escalating wildfire crisis is driving innovation in firefighting technology. This article details a system using AI, autonomous helicopters, and satellite technology to detect, locate, and extinguish fires quickly and efficiently, minimizing damage and loss of life. Future advancements include augmented reality helmets, smart fire trucks, and intelligent firefighting suits, but require significant investment and comprehensive reform of infrastructure, budgets, and training. The ambitious goal is to contain 95% of wildfires to 10 square feet or less, a collaborative effort demanding government, corporate, and public engagement.

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(tech.yahoo.com)
Tech Autonomous Helicopters

Python Cracks the 'Phantom Dependency' Nut: PEP 770 and SBOMs Triumph

2025-08-11
Python Cracks the 'Phantom Dependency' Nut: PEP 770 and SBOMs Triumph

Seth Larson, Python Software Foundation's Security Developer-in-Residence, in collaboration with Alpha-Omega, released a white paper detailing the solution to the 'phantom dependency' problem. This solution, leveraging PEP 770 and Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), enhances the measurability of Python packages. This allows automated systems like vulnerability scanners to provide accurate results even in complex dependency graphs common in scientific computing, high-performance computing, and AI. Key projects like NumPy, cryptography, and pip are already evaluating PEP 770 adoption.

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(pyfound.blogspot.com)
Development

Hiroshima: The Untold Stories of the Enola Gay Crew

2025-08-11
Hiroshima: The Untold Stories of the Enola Gay Crew

This article recounts the experiences and reflections of the crew members of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From the navigator to the bombardier, from the radar operators to the flight engineers, each crew member shares their perspective on the event and its aftermath. Their accounts reveal a complex tapestry of justification, regret, and a lasting hope for peace, offering a nuanced look at a pivotal moment in history.

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(www.mentalfloss.com)
Misc Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

Soviet Family Albums: Silent Witnesses to a Shifting Collective Identity

2025-08-11
Soviet Family Albums: Silent Witnesses to a Shifting Collective Identity

In Visible Presence meticulously examines over 50 Soviet family photo albums, revealing photography's crucial role in constructing and sustaining a shared Soviet identity. The authors uncover a surprising prevalence of strangers within these albums, demonstrating that these images transcended personal narratives to reflect broader socio-political shifts and collective memory. Analyzing both photographs and interviews, the book explores themes of silence, oblivion, and the evolving political significance of imagery across different eras. It offers a nuanced understanding of the interplay between societal repression, personal memory, and the enduring power of images, providing a fresh perspective on photographic and social memory studies.

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(www.publicbooks.org)
Misc Soviet photography social memory collective identity

PHP Compile-Time Generics: A Pragmatic Compromise

2025-08-11
PHP Compile-Time Generics: A Pragmatic Compromise

Generics have long been a sought-after feature for PHP, but runtime implementation has proven incredibly difficult. The PHP Foundation team proposes a different approach: compile-time generics limited to interfaces and abstract classes. This offers most of the benefits of generics while avoiding many pitfalls. By performing type checking at compile time, it significantly improves efficiency and reduces errors. While runtime generics remain impossible with this approach, it represents a substantial improvement, warranting serious community consideration.

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(thephp.foundation)
Development Compile-Time

Speed, Anxiety, and the Echoes of 1910 in the 21st Century

2025-08-11
Speed, Anxiety, and the Echoes of 1910 in the 21st Century

This article explores the unsettling parallels between the anxieties of the early 20th century, marked by rapid technological advancements (automobiles, airplanes, bicycles), and the challenges facing our own time. Drawing from Philipp Blom's 'The Vertigo Years,' it recounts the pervasive anxiety and mental strain resulting from the accelerated pace of life, and how artists responded through their work. From the widespread prevalence of neurasthenia to the birth of abstract art, the author argues that modernism wasn't simply a reflection of modernity, but a reaction to it. The piece delves into the contrasting yet complementary theories of Max Weber and Sigmund Freud, offering sociological and psychological perspectives on the roots of this anxiety. It ultimately prompts reflection on the relationship between technological progress and human nature: is technological advancement the ultimate expression of our humanity, or its ultimate threat?

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(www.derekthompson.org)
Tech Modern Art

eBPF Performance Boost: Unveiling the Trampoline Mechanism

2025-08-11

This blog post delves into the eBPF trampoline mechanism, a key performance optimization. With eBPF's increasing use in system monitoring and other areas, efficient program execution is critical. The trampoline avoids the overhead of exception handling in traditional kprobe methods by directly calling eBPF programs. The article details the trampoline's inner workings, covering advanced use cases like handling function entry and exit points, multi-argument passing, and implementation optimizations on ARM64.

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(bootlin.com)
Development trampoline

Bolt: A Blazing-Fast Embeddable Language

2025-08-11
Bolt: A Blazing-Fast Embeddable Language

Bolt is a lightweight, lightning-fast, type-safe embeddable language for real-time applications. It boasts exceptional performance, outpacing other languages in its class; a compact implementation minimizing build size; blazingly quick compilation (over 500kloc/thread/second); ease of embedding (just a few lines of code); a rich type system for catching errors before runtime; and an embed-first design prioritizing inter-language performance and agility. Currently, Bolt builds on x64 and has been tested on MSVC, GCC, and Clang compilers, but is still under active development and not yet stable.

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(github.com)
Development embeddable language real-time applications

A 300-Line Python Compiler: Closure Conversion Explained

2025-08-11
A 300-Line Python Compiler: Closure Conversion Explained

While working through the Ghuloum tutorial, the author re-implemented a compiler originally written in C, achieving a concise 300-line Python version (including tests). This compiler performs closure conversion, handling variable binding, free variable tracking, and code object management. The post details the implementation, covering `lambda` and `let` expressions, function calls, and providing test cases and assembly code examples. The result is a surprisingly compact compiler capable of handling closures and indirect function calls, showcasing elegant solutions to complex problems.

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(bernsteinbear.com)
Development closure conversion

Safe Division in C with Maybe Monad

2025-08-11

This article details the implementation of type and bounds-safe generic containers in C. The author introduces a `Maybe` type, inspired by Haskell, to handle functions that might return no value (e.g., division by zero). A safe division function is created using macros to define `Maybe`, handling zero division and the edge case of dividing the minimum representable integer by -1. GCC assembly code is analyzed to verify the function's safety. The author concludes by noting the limitations of this approach for proving the complete safety of C programs.

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(uecker.codeberg.page)
Development

Faster Than memcpy: A Benchmark of Custom Memory Copying Methods

2025-08-11

While profiling, the author found that `memcpy` was a bottleneck for large binary messages. Several custom memory copy methods were implemented and benchmarked, including variations using REP MOVSB and AVX instructions (aligned, stream aligned, and stream aligned with prefetching). For small to medium sized messages, the unrolled AVX version performed best. For large messages (>1MB), the stream aligned AVX version with prefetching was fastest, but its performance on small messages was abysmal. The conclusion? `std::memcpy` offers a good balance of performance and adaptability; custom methods are unnecessary unless performance is paramount.

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(squadrick.dev)
Development memory copy AVX instructions

Free Guide to Mastering Social Skills: From Basics to Advanced

2025-08-11

This completely free guide to social skills contains three sections with seventeen in-depth lessons. It starts by explaining how to get the most out of the guide and set social goals, helping you overcome fear and the temptation of manipulation. It then teaches you how to interpret comfort and discomfort signals in body language and use your own body language to send positive messages. Furthermore, the guide instructs on how to conduct smooth and comfortable conversations, how to support friends in need, and provides quick tips for rapidly improving social skills.

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(www.improveyoursocialskills.com)
Misc interpersonal communication

EU-Wide Mass Surveillance: Your Privacy is Under Attack

2025-08-11

The EU is planning mass surveillance of all 450 million citizens' communications, including photos, messages, and files, even encrypted ones. This violates fundamental privacy and data protection rights, leading to numerous false positives and putting ordinary people at risk. Weakening end-to-end encryption also makes sensitive data vulnerable to hackers and malicious actors. This sets a dangerous global precedent, enabling authoritarian regimes to justify their own intrusive surveillance and undermining privacy and free speech worldwide.

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(fightchatcontrol.eu)
Tech

Reverse Engineering a Ski Jump: Reaching the Game's Limits

2025-08-10

Driven by childhood nostalgia, a programmer delves into the code of a retro ski-jumping game to conquer its 100-meter barrier. Rejecting tool-assisted approaches, he opts for reverse engineering, deciphering the game's binary and replay file format. By analyzing the game's physics engine, he reconstructs the jump simulation and ultimately uses a meticulously crafted replay file to achieve an astonishing 113.8-meter jump, revealing subtle discrepancies between the game's mechanics and optimal strategies.

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(mrwint.github.io)
Game

Big Tech's Data Centers: Who's Paying the Price?

2025-08-10
Big Tech's Data Centers: Who's Paying the Price?

Soaring electricity bills are prompting states to grapple with the costs of powering Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. While the precise impact is debated, growing evidence suggests that residential and commercial ratepayers are subsidizing these massive energy demands, particularly as the AI boom fuels data center expansion. States are exploring various solutions, from pressuring grid operators to developing specialized rates for data centers, but challenges remain in ensuring fair cost allocation and transparency, especially given the influence of tech giants. The question remains: will states have the political will to make Big Tech pay its fair share, or will ordinary citizens continue to bear the burden?

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(apnews.com)
Tech electricity costs

OpenAI Unleashes gpt-oss: Powerful, Locally-Runnable Open-Weight LLMs

2025-08-10
OpenAI Unleashes gpt-oss: Powerful, Locally-Runnable Open-Weight LLMs

OpenAI this week released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. Surprisingly, thanks to clever optimizations, they can run locally. This article delves into the gpt-oss model architecture, comparing it to models like GPT-2 and Qwen3. It highlights unique architectural choices such as Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), Grouped Query Attention (GQA), and sliding window attention. While benchmarks show gpt-oss performing on par with closed-source models in some areas, its local runnability and open-source nature make it a valuable asset for research and applications.

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(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
AI Open-Weight Local Runnability

The Curious Case of "Try and"

2025-08-10

This paper delves into the origins and properties of the English grammatical construction "try and." Often considered non-standard, "try and" boasts a surprisingly long history, potentially predating "try to." The paper analyzes its syntactic peculiarities, such as its disregard for the Coordinate Structure Constraint, its resistance to reordering or modification by "both," and its dialectal variations in inflection. Finally, it compares "try and" to similar pseudo-coordinate structures like "be sure and" and "go and," highlighting their grammatical and semantic differences.

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(ygdp.yale.edu)
Misc syntactic analysis

Porn Sites Use SVG Files to Spread Malicious Script, Hijacking Facebook Likes

2025-08-10
Porn Sites Use SVG Files to Spread Malicious Script, Hijacking Facebook Likes

Security researchers have discovered multiple pornographic websites built on WordPress that use SVG files to spread malicious JavaScript code. This obfuscated code ultimately downloads a malicious script called Trojan.JS.Likejack, which silently likes specified Facebook posts if the user is logged in. This isn't a new tactic; previous incidents involved SVGs in cross-site scripting attacks and phishing scams. Researchers have identified dozens of affected websites. While Facebook shuts down accounts involved, these offenders consistently return with new profiles.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech

MCP: The Protocol That's Accidentally Building a Universal Plugin Ecosystem

2025-08-10
MCP: The Protocol That's Accidentally Building a Universal Plugin Ecosystem

This article explores the unexpected potential of MCP (Model Context Protocol), arguing it's far more than just an AI enhancer. Drawing a parallel to USB-C's versatility – connecting everything from phones to toasters – the author suggests MCP's potential extends beyond AI, acting as a standardized way to connect diverse data sources and tools. Their app, APM, leverages MCP servers for extensibility, offering features like spell check, task management, and even Warcraft 3-esque AI agent responses. Ultimately, the article posits MCP's emergence as a powerful, unforeseen universal plugin ecosystem.

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(worksonmymachine.ai)
Development

The 5 Stages of SaaS Grief in the Age of AI

2025-08-10
The 5 Stages of SaaS Grief in the Age of AI

This article outlines the five stages of SaaS companies' reactions to the disruptive wave of AI: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Many initially deny AI's threat, then become angry as competitors leverage AI, followed by attempts to add AI features (bargaining), leading to depression, and finally accepting that AI will reshape the industry, shifting to building outcome-oriented, AI-native solutions. The author argues that SaaS companies need to move from focusing on "how can we help humans do this better?" to "why do humans need to do this at all?" to survive and thrive in the AI era.

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(arnon.dk)
Startup

Booting 5000 Erlang VMs on a 192-Core Ampere One Server

2025-08-10
Booting 5000 Erlang VMs on a 192-Core Ampere One Server

Underjord, a consultancy specializing in Elixir and Nerves, successfully ran 5000 Erlang virtual machines on a 192-core Ampere One server. Each VM runs a Linux IoT device using the Nerves framework. This was achieved using a new bootloader, little_loader, streamlining ARM64 QEMU VM booting and leveraging KVM acceleration. Challenges included compilation issues and memory optimization, but these were overcome by adjusting BEAM VM allocators, Erlang release modes, and Linux kernel parameters. Over 5000 VMs were successfully run, opening new possibilities for testing and development of the Nerves framework and potentially integrating into future Nerves tooling.

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(underjord.io)
Development

OS/2: Microsoft's Ambitious Next-Gen OS

2025-08-10

A 1987 Computer Language article detailed Microsoft's then-new OS/2, predicting its potential to dominate Intel 80286/80386 microcomputers for the next decade. Its multitasking, comprehensive API, and hardware extensibility were highlighted as key strengths. OS/2's architecture featured three layers: the kernel and system services, the Windows Presentation Manager (WPM), and the OS/2 LAN Manager. The article focused on the kernel and its system services, covering process management, memory management (including virtual memory), device drivers, file management, and inter-process communication (IPC). OS/2 used preemptive scheduling and time slicing, supported protected and real modes, and offered MS-DOS compatibility. Dynamic linking was a crucial element, enhancing code reuse and future-proofing applications. The article concluded by speculating on OS/2's future enhancements and 80386 support.

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(gitpi.us)
Development

The Hollow Men: A Fragmented Masterpiece and its Musical Roots

2025-08-10
The Hollow Men: A Fragmented Masterpiece and its Musical Roots

T.S. Eliot's iconic poem, "The Hollow Men," wasn't written in one go. This article traces its fragmented publication history across various literary magazines, highlighting its musicality, drawing parallels to Beethoven's late string quartets. The poem's structure and imagery reveal a deep engagement with music, reflecting Eliot's own love for ragtime and vaudeville. The poem's ambiguous ending, a fragmented attempt at the Lord's Prayer, continues to fuel critical debate, with interpretations ranging from religious conversion to a persistent sense of emptiness. Its lasting impact resonates across art forms, inspiring paintings, installations, and even influencing pop music lyrics.

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(prufrock.substack.com)
Misc T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men Modern Poetry
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