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First, I want to tell you how exactly I got to this point and why I started researching different options for handling asynchronous I/O on Linux… Last year, my students and I built a reverse proxy server called...
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2 min read Here’s a little touch of The Twilight Zone, coming from an amazing report in Wired. It’s about Dialog, a secret cabal of elites led by Peter Thiel, who has as many crazy ideas as he has dollar bills and who...
I noticed that I seem to, subconsciously, gravitate towards books published on or before 2022, and somewhat discount books published after, especially from authors I haven’t heard of. A part of me tells me I shouldn’t...
This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model...
Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches,...
TLDR - here is the PoC This write-up details a novel iPhone BootROM vulnerability discovered and exploited by our team. It covers the underlying bug, the associated exploitation techniques, and the post-exploitation...
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Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private...
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For generations, scientists have viewed the inability to regrow lost body parts as one of the fundamental limitations of humans and other mammals. While creatures such as salamanders can regenerate entire limbs, humans...
Last week, a MetaFilter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig’s decade-long project to make a “dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all...
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE ®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology...
News Midlands News Politics Ministers have said details about action alongside the social media ban, including regarding VPN use, will come in July. New VPN rules are set to be issued by the Labour Party government as...
2026-06-19 4 min read Everyone's writing code with AI agents today. But the moment an agent needs to deploy something â and needs to sign up and create an account â it slams face-first into a wall built for humans:...
Back in 2022 and 2023 there were two big branches of machine learning happening at Meta 1. The LLM work that led to Llama was a clean, smooth stack of repeated Transformer modules; the recommendation systems graphs...
Over the past month or so I had the chance to visit two fantastic museums: the Large Scale Systems Museum (near Pittsburgh) and the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures (Kansas City). These museums showcase the twin...
There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. They exist in the real world. You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen. A digital photograph can’t capture them, and your...
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A Montana police officer spotted the giant banana rolling through Billings on Wednesday afternoon and did what countless law enforcement officers have done before him. He turned around and pulled it over. For Steve...
If I can herd my f@$s long enough, I'm going to use a 3-day weekend to do a plaster skim coat and a final coat on a new dry bar. I got quotes anywhere from $3,500 to $5,000 to do what my normal contractor—booked for...
Hyundai's move to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million is not just cleanup from an old deal. It gives Hyundai full control of one of the few humanoid robotics companies with real...
You’ve heard about Mythos, Anthropic’s headline-making AI, powerful enough to be restricted to a handful of trusted US-based organizations, and then abruptly pulled from customers after a US government directive...
anytime you're paying people to churn out boilerplate instead of letting the computer do it for you, you've significantly misunderstood what computers are actually good for. — @matt ( link ) "always using the default...
Johnny Hooker: Sometime after 2:00, a guy’s gonna call on that phone there and give you the name of a horse. Imagine yourself, perhaps a typically-well-paid, tech-savvy professional, on the job hunt. You’ve been looking...
In yay-v12, I did mention it might have been the biggest update in the last five years. It was the biggest update to yay's core, architecture and code. But this v13 release might be the biggest change in your experience...
I SSH into a fresh dev VM and run claude to start a session in there. The CLI prints a login URL with http://localhost:54213/callback buried in the query string, tries to open a browser on the remote box, and starts...
About Trellis Trellis builds and deploys AI agents that help patients access life-saving therapies. Our platform automates the complex administrative workflows that stand between patients and treatment, including...
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OpenBSD's sppp(4) subsystem handles synchronous PPP links, the backbone of PPPoE connectivity. When a peer connects, the PPP handshake can require PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) credentials before the link...
They fixed it without ever responding to me. I had to call FIFA, MediaKind, HBS, CISA, and the FBI at 3am Tokyo time just to get someone to listen. This is that story. It Started With a Football Agent Registration So...
March 28, 2026 Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen Finally, The Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen is here, more than 35 years after the original game was released in December 1990. The book is available in...
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