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Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

A TechCrunch article examines the legal complexities surrounding whether training AI models on copyrighted books without authors' knowledge or consent is lawful. The piece highlights the tension betwe...

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Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

Kaspersky Securelist researchers discovered the first Android malware specifically targeting automotive head unit firmware in June 2026. The malware, distributed through a legitimate app called TWCore...

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Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Slovakia's National Security Bureau (NBU) has issued a security alert warning against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras, which contain a backdoor granting shell and network access via S...

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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

The article explores the technique of JIT compiling code in an astonishingly fast 5 microseconds, demonstrating advanced optimizations in just-in-time compilation. It likely covers techniques for ultr...

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tmp.0ut volume 5

tmp.out Volume 5 is released, featuring in-depth articles on x86-64 ELF internals, metamorphic virus writing, polyglot ELF files, Linux kernel executable loading, and side-channel syscall hook detecti...

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Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

Uber faces an €825 million fine from the Dutch Data Protection Authority for using automated systems to suspend drivers, marking the second-largest GDPR penalty ever issued. The case highlights growin...

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TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

Waymo is developing a custom chip tailored to its autonomous vehicle platform, aiming to improve processing efficiency and reduce dependency on off-the-shelf hardware like NVIDIA chips. The move under...

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Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

The article critiques Sal Khan's Khanmigo AI tutoring platform, acknowledging it was a "non-event" with most students barely using it. Punya Mishra argues the deeper issue is philosophical: Khan built...

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An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs

The canvas patch has been merged into upstream GNU Emacs, arriving in the Emacs 32 release cycle after approximately 8 months of development. This feature enables users to update and manipulate images...

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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

The article examines how Vodafone's Egyptian branch was compelled by authorities to send pro-regime propaganda messages to users during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, raising questions about corporate ...

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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

An article by Casey Reeves argues that modern TUI frameworks like Ink, Bubble Tea, and tcell create hostile accessibility experiences for blind users, despite the misconception that terminal apps are ...

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Declarative WebGPU with S-expressions

Hugo Daniel presents pngine, a declarative WebGPU format and runtime built around S-expressions that mirrors the WebGPU spec structure. It allows cross-platform WebGPU development (browsers, Rust wgpu...

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Optimizing memory usage in a markdown parser

The author reduced the Markdown AST node size from 232 bytes to just 16 bytes by consolidating fields, using compact type representation, and switching to an arena allocator. The optimization involved...

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The immortal 1984 Macintosh (restoration diary)

A restoration of a 1984 Apple Macintosh 128K for display and daily use, addressing the original's limitations of only 128KB RAM and no expansion options. The chosen unit was originally upgraded in 198...

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Volcanoes that made history

The 1883 Krakatau eruption was the first volcanic disaster documented in near real-time through Victorian-era telecommunications, laying the foundations for modern volcanology. The explosion killed ov...

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Quoting Drew Breunig

Drew Breunig reflects on how the release of Fable changed his team's approach to AI-assisted coding, making investment in coding harnesses and context strategies worthwhile again. However, due to Fabl...

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Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

Research from Osaka Metropolitan University found that coconut oil-derived biofuel blended with standard jet fuel achieves thermal efficiency comparable to pure kerosene in small jet engine tests. Hig...

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The End of an Athlon

An obituary-style article reflecting on the legacy and eventual demise of AMD's Athlon processor line, which was once a fierce competitor to Intel's Pentium lineup. The piece traces the history of Ath...

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MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

MartyPC is an open-source, cross-platform emulator for early PCs written in Rust. The project aims to provide an accurate emulation experience for vintage computing, leveraging Rust's performance and ...

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How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed

The author shares a personal experience of investigating a persistent Netty ByteBuf memory leak warning in their Java service, which ultimately led to Microsoft shipping a fix. The article serves as a...

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Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?

A developer explores cache coherence issues on a Terasic DE0-Nano-SOC board featuring dual ARM Cortex-A9 cores. The blog post walks through hardware setup, the MMU, memory types, and the underlying pr...

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Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming

The author discusses a blog post arguing that AI agents should take over on-call operations as first responders, only escalating to humans when genuinely novel problems arise. Drawing on Ashby's Law, ...

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How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

Lalit Maganti shares his approach to identifying high-impact problems as a staff engineer by passively absorbing day-to-day frustrations from colleagues rather than deliberately 'thinking strategicall...

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How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

This 1998 essay explores why complex systems like transportation and healthcare are inherently hazardous despite extensive safety defenses. It argues that catastrophic failures require the convergence...