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An exclusive translated excerpt from Céline Curiol’s La Dynamique de l’œuf follows Léna Nistier, a painter-woman drawn into a Renaissance fresco project. In a Breton château garden, she encounters a special chicken and revisits childhood dreams as she reads Diderot on eggs, tracing epigenetic emergence and the meaning of individuality through figures like von Uexküll and Margulis. Interwoven are meditations on gender, miracles of nature, and reproduction, blending art, science, and self-discovery.
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Amazon quietly moved a 56-acre Gilroy, California data center forward by citing 45-year-old zoning rules, effectively bypassing a public-comment period. The project began reviewing in 2020, but residents say the process skipped engagement; Rosa Rodriguez was told the comment window had lapsed in 2024. The Wall Street Journal notes the site still required notices and public input. Gilroy Mayor Greg Bozzo points to potential benefits like tax revenue, jobs, and grants, while Amazon says it has engaged residents and is addressing water concerns with a wastewater-recovery system and planned pipeline.
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Terry Godier launched Dark Hours, a sky-watching website utility. After a developer flagged similarities to open‑source DarkHours.app, he planned to differentiate and rename. About an hour later, he realized the Claude-generated web app closely mirrored DarkHours.app, even reproducing a bug. He redirected the domain to the open-source project and dropped plans for an iOS app. He credits DarkHours.app, will use its actual version, and apologizes for relying on AI to create the project. He accepts responsibility and says he won’t use Claude for such app work again.
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SubmitQueue is a high-performance speculative merge queue for large monorepos that keeps trunk green by speculatively rebasing and validating multiple changes in parallel against predicted HEAD. If validations pass, changes land automatically; if they fail, the offending change is isolated and the rest retried, without human intervention. It targets fast-moving teams with concurrent changes. The repo provides Go code under platform/ and related services, Docker-based quick start (make build, make test, make local-submitqueue-start), documentation, and is Apache-2.0 licensed; actively developed with contributions welcome.
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AI wearables—rings, pins, and glasses—could quietly record conversations, prompting countermeasures. Deveillance’s Spectre I aims to prevent or mask recordings, while major devices push advances in speech-denoising. In response, researchers and hackers have devised tactics to defeat such tech: junk data streams, babble tapes, decoy queries, and real-time anti-speech jammers like MicFrozen. The arms race isn’t limited to audio: future AI could lip-read through glass or reconstruct speech from vibrations. The cat-and-mouse dynamic pits powerful corporations against individuals, with defenses lagging behind ever-smarter surveillance tech.
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Latent Reasoning is packaged as a self-contained model (nvFP4, ~79 GiB per GPU) with a 35.7M latent head and a DSpark/VLLM-based runtime. All weights ship in one repo; no adapters. Requires Blackwell-class hardware (sm120+; ~192 GiB VRAM) and the ds4-reasoning addon plus vllm-ds4 for serving. To run, enable thinking via chat_template_kwargs thinking or x-ds4-thinking header. BBH results around high 0.9s (aggregate ~0.94; later ~0.88 after adjustment); dyck_languages ~0.26. Strength in multi-step latent reasoning; weaknesses in mechanical/syntax tasks. Future work: broader benchmarks and interpretability.
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Roughly four years after purchase, a reMarkable 2 can be revived by fixing time, updating firmware, and re-enabling SSH over Wi‑Fi. The author SSHs in (USB or LAN), uses timedatectl to correct the clock, then updates first to 3.11.2.5 and later to the latest release. SSH over Wi‑Fi is disabled from 3.22 onward, so re-enable with rm-ssh-over-wlan or a marker file. If cloud sync remains broken, enable the device’s web interface (WebInterfaceEnabled=true) to upload/download PDFs via HTTP, after backing up the config.
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Canvas can be advantageous for performance-critical web apps when the UI is a spatial workspace requiring zoom, pan, and many visual elements. The article defines Canvas as a low-level renderer offering speed, control, consistency, and portability, but notes it adds complexity and forfeits DOM features like accessibility. Use Canvas for apps with absolutely positioned elements, complex render order, zoom/pan, virtualisation, or a strong internal model. It describes Hivekit’s pattern: a central renderer coordinating layered renderers, a separate interaction canvas, device-pixel scaling, domain-to-pixel mapping, and hit-testing. Conclude: choose Canvas when the interface behaves like a scene rather than a document.
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PortSwigger's CSS:the bomb inside your inbox exposes how webmail CSS sanitizers can be bypassed to exfiltrate tokens, hijack UI, and steal passwords. It surveys techniques such as abusing allowed HTML/CSS (label-based UI actions, :before/:after tricks, nested attribute selectors to recover 12‑char tokens in URLs), CSP-evading token exfiltration, image-proxy bypasses, and CSS mutations that mutate sanitized output. It also covers CSS gadgets in Outlook, CSS hotwiring to trigger UI actions, and even real-time keyloggers. Defenses include sandboxed iframes, strict allowlists, blocking image requests, and gadget checks; it concludes with future attack ideas and references.
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Access denied: you’re blocked from halfhill.com by the site’s security system. Blocks can result from suspicious requests (specific words/phrases, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, contact the site owner and include the Request ID: 52134eeb-4b17-45f0-908f-91374cfd28c0.
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Viant, owner of MySpace, hints at a relaunch with no date or product details. The idea has sparked nostalgia among former users who valued raw, unfiltered profiles and a personal space. Experts say a comeback would need a simpler, more user-friendly design and to lean into MySpace’s music identity and 2000s culture, rather than chasing algorithmic feeds. It could succeed as a niche platform—not a direct competitor to Meta, TikTok, or X—and may attract younger generations with retro aesthetics. For now, the revival remains speculative and sentiment-driven.
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SAP froze most travel and hiring to curb AI costs, with exceptions for AI-related work. An internal SAP email obtained by 404 Media says the company is tightening spending as it rolls out a new AI tool that could significantly raise costs. Bloomberg had reported July freezes, and a current employee says bans are still in effect. The piece shows how AI expenses are forcing firms to throttle AI use and cut costs.
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Peter Santenello visits Pierre Part in the Atchafalaya Basin to meet Keith and Tara, a couple living part-time on a small houseboat, embodying a bayou, swamp-to-table lifestyle. The piece traces Cajun roots from Acadia, through Black influences, to today, amid erosion, oil canal building, and hurricanes. It shows how they fish, trap nutria, and work offshore, balancing danger with independence. It also notes the Cajun language’s decline and revival efforts, and argues America’s many cultures remain open and enduring, even to outsiders who listen.
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Magic hexes have line sums that are equal. Normal magic hexes exist only for a few orders; the only normal one is order 3. Abnormal hexes—consecutive numbers not necessarily starting at 1—admit more solutions; the largest known is order 9. The author uses antisymmetry and a zero-sum, potential-field view to shrink the search space. AI tools (GPT-5.6 Sol and Aristotle) yield a constructive proof that abnormal antisymmetric consecutive magic hexes exist for all n>3, starting with bounds (n>800, then 114) and then a deterministic algorithm for all n>3. A Python package and examples are provided; reflections on AI-assisted math.
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Kevin Kelly's Protopia argues for a plausible, desirable future defined by small, compounding improvements rather than utopian perfection or dystopian catastrophe. A protopian world advances by about 1–2% annually, expanding options while generating new problems—each invention solves something yet creates new challenges. Progress is gradual, long-term, and measurable, and the 'pro' in protopia signals ongoing process (progress, proceed, prototype). The future is not arrival but direction; we must imagine and steer it, monitoring benefits and harms, avoiding both stagnation and disarray, leveraging AI and technology incrementally to broaden human possibilities.
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Stylized GGX Shading combines toon-like thresholds with PBR GGX shading to get flat colors or sharp highlights, depending on roughness. It thresholds the lighting (step function) and blends 2D/3D looks used in Zelda: BotW and other games. Uses GGX Cook-Torrance NDF; introduces Stylized NDF with SpecularSize to push energy to high angles while conserving the base shape; an improved version adds GGXMatching to keep original energy at high roughness. Demonstrations with Desmos; final results vary with roughness, metalness, and specular size; notes practical tweaks like reduced SH probes and rim lighting.
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AI makes turning clear specs into runnable code faster, but the hard problem isn’t coding—it’s fitting solutions into an organization. Demo apps gloss over ownership, APIs, security, architecture, and downstream impacts. As implementation gets cheaper, bottlenecks shift up to business objectives, product/solution design, and alignment with existing systems. Code is a medium, not the outcome. Coding being solved only applies to exact spec translation; the broader challenge remains organizational context and decision-making.
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