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Tectonic is a modern, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine (built on XeTeX and TeXLive) that downloads required support files automatically, enabling completely reproducible document compiles. It outputs PDFs without intermediate TeX files by default, supports OpenType fonts and full Unicode, and can be embedded as a library. The project is Rust-based, open source, and usable in GitHub Actions. Tectonic derives from TeX’s WEB2C heritage and is MIT-licensed, with acknowledgments to LaTeX/TeXLive ecosystems and the Dataverse project hosting large bundles.
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Opensource AI Must Win argues that AI should remain open and locally deployable so people can study, build, repair, deploy, audit, teach, preserve, and run intelligence systems without permission. AI is civilizational infrastructure for work, education, science, software, creativity, public services, and national capacity; access must not depend on closed APIs, remote platforms, opaque moderation, model availability, or price gouging by a few companies. Open-source AI should be usable, understandable, reproducible, economically viable, and community-governed, even if dominant labs or platforms shift. It calls for American capacity aligned with global open standards to prevent a cognition subscription economy.
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keyd is a Linux system-wide key remapping daemon that operates at the kernel input level (evdev/uinput). It provides layers, oneshot modifiers, key overloading (tap/hold), per-keyboard configuration, and supports X, Wayland (sway), and virtual terminals. It uses a client-server model controlled by a config file, aiming for fast, simple, consistent remapping without flashing firmware. Installation: clone, make, sudo make install, enable the keyd service. Config examples show capslock/escape handling and app-specific mappings. It notes libinput quirks for trackpads and is MIT-licensed.
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Reddit tightened RSS rate limits, causing 429 errors. The limit appears to be one update per minute, with only the first request in a batch succeeding. Authentication didn't help. A workaround that works for the author is adding user= and feed= parameters to all RSS URLs (including /search/.rss). Reddit also plans to deprecate unauthenticated JSON; developers should use Devvit for structured data. The author relies on RSS for moderation and hopes the user=feed= method remains available.
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ODNI's June 12, 2026 news release presents declassified evidence of U.S. taxpayer-funded biolabs in more than 30 countries (over 120 labs, including Ukraine). It alleges these labs conducted dangerous pathogen research, possibly gain-of-function, with limited oversight and claims information about their existence and funding was hidden. It notes President Trump signed EO 14292 (May 25, 2025) to end federal Gain-of-Function funding. DNI Tulsi Gabbard says officials lied and orders expanded Intelligence Community collection on these facilities overseas, with concerns about ongoing clinical trials and ethics, finance, and security.
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US government export-control directive suspends all access to Claude Fable 5 for all users; Claude models remain available. New sessions will run on the user’s default model or Opus 4.8; existing Fable 5 sessions will error, and requests to Fable 5 on the Claude Platform will fail. Users should update integrations to other Claude models. The directive also blocks Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access for foreign nationals, including Anthropic employees, disrupting workflows.
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Anthropic reports an incident: access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 has been suspended. The update, posted Jun 13, 2026 00:50 UTC, affects claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Subscribers can receive incident updates by email or SMS.
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Edwin and Willa Muir translated Kafka into English for about 30 years, giving Anglophone readers a distinctive, fluent, enigmatic voice from Die Verwandlung (1933) onward. They bridged Kafka’s Czech-German texts with a generation of readers despite poverty, prejudice, and Max Brod’s editing of the originals. Later editions by Malcolm Pasley in the 1980s replaced their versions, sparking debate over 'domestication' versus fidelity. Maïa Hruska’s Kafkaesque surveys ten translators, praising Kafka’s impact but omitting the Muirs, prompting criticism that their memory is being erased. Tonkin argues the Muirs deserve recognition for shaping Kafka’s canonical English presence.
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Anthropic announced that the US government issued an export-control directive suspending all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, including Anthropic employees, requiring an abrupt shutdown for all users. Access to other Anthropic models remains unaffected. The government cited a potential jailbreak; Anthropic says there is no universal jailbreak and defends its defense-in-depth safeguards, including 30-day data retention to study mitigations. They disagree with recalling a commercial model for a narrow, non-universal jailbreak and will share details within 24 hours while seeking to restore access.
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This is a Google/YouTube access-block notice: unusual traffic from the user’s network triggers a CAPTCHA to proceed. The block will expire once traffic subsides; traffic may come from malware, a browser plugin, or automated scripts. If on a shared network, contact the administrator. The message lists the IP, time, and page URL.
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WWDC26 introduces RAW 9, a major upgrade to Core Image RAW processing across iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. Built on a tiled CoreML model and run on-device via the Apple Neural Engine, RAW 9 delivers sharper demosaicing, better denoise and more accurate color. Developers can opt in with CIRAWFilter (check supportedDecoderVersions and set decoderVersion to version9) and customize through 20 editing properties (exposure, luminanceNoiseReductionAmount, sharpnessAmount, contrast, etc). The update supports hundreds of camera models (784 total) and improves quality for ProRAW. Performance tips include caching, MTKView, explicit tiling, and temporary buffers via CIImageProcessor.
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AMD refused a $10,000 bug bounty to researcher Paul LaRosa after he disclosed a remote code execution flaw in AMD’s Windows auto-updater, which downloaded updates via insecure HTTP and enabled man-in-the-middle malware injection. The vulnerability allowed attackers to take control of affected systems. AMD delayed disclosure and fixed the issue only after 124 days—far longer than the 5–14 day best practice. The patch uses encrypted downloads but still relies on CRC32 checksums instead of cryptographic signatures, leaving deeper security weaknesses intact and sparking questions about bug-bounty ethics.
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SkillSpector is a security scanner for AI agent skills that detects vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks before installation. It scans skills from Git repos, URLs, zip files, directories, or single files using 64 vulnerability patterns across 16 categories. The two-stage pipeline uses fast static/behavioral analysis plus optional LLM semantic analysis, with live OSV.dev vulnerability lookups and offline fallback. Outputs include terminal, JSON, Markdown, or SARIF reports with a 0–100 risk score and severity. Install via Python venv. Apache-2.0 license.
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architect-loop is a cross-vendor AI agent loop using Claude Fable 5 as architect and GPT-5.5 Codex as builder; the repo serves as memory. Fable designs work slices, splits into lanes, and sets gates; Codex builders run isolated per-lane work in git worktrees. A scout/research phase maps topics, then 3–6 topic-specific lanes are dispatched with citations. All changes pass architect checks; memory lives in docs/gates and docs/lanes. Use /architect for builds and /architect-research for research. Runs are supervised with timeouts and diffs are reviewed before merging.
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An infinite, procedurally generated landscape where every name becomes a tree; drag to pan and scroll or pinch to zoom.
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Putt.day is a daily mini-golf game with a new hole each day. To play, grab the ball, drag back to power, release to hit; drag to look around and pinch/scroll to zoom. Finish in as few strokes as possible, with water sending you back to your previous position. A new hole appears at midnight Pacific; your first finish counts, and old days are stored in the calendar. Models by Kenney (CC0).
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DepthFirst's autonomous security agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg, validated by Google and Anthropic, with reproducible PoCs and ~$1k cost (vs ~$10k). Eight CVEs (CVE-2026-39210 to CVE-2026-39218) plus several internal DFVULN IDs. A standout bug is a heap buffer overflow in the AV1 RTP depacketizer reachable over the network via a simple RTSP stream, enabling RCE. FFmpeg's massive, long-evolved codebase makes such issues hard to uncover; the system produces concrete, testable exploits rather than speculative warnings.
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EFF warns that H.R. 6028, the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, rushed through the House, would strip Library of Congress supervision from the Copyright Office, transfer key powers to the Register of Copyrights, and make the Register a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate. It would move DMCA 1201 rulemaking authority to the Register, concentrating influence with industry lobbyists and politicizing copyright policymaking. EFF urges the Senate to reject the bill and keep the Copyright Office connected to the Library of Congress to serve the public interest.
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Renault Group leads in electric motors with no rare earths, using Electrically Excited Synchronous Motors (EESM) to avoid magnets. Since 2012, Renault has developed three generations of EESM: 5A (57–100 kW) on Kangoo/Zoe; 5AL (60 kW) on Twingo; 6A/6AM (up to 160 kW) on Megane E-Tech and Alpine A290; 6AK (110 kW) on Renault 5 E-Tech and Renault 4 E-Tech, with Alpine A390 adding a rear twin-motor ~345 kW. The 2027 E7A targets 200 kW, 400 Nm, 30% smaller, and 800V. Cléon builds these motors; strategy reduces dependence on rare earths, notably China.
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