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Bloomberg presents a CAPTCHA-style notice: unusual activity detected from the user’s network, requiring confirmation they’re not a robot to proceed. It instructs enabling JavaScript and cookies, links to Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, and provides a block reference ID. A Bloomberg subscription pitch follows.
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Tommaso Girotto argues that software remains artisanal and bottom-to-top, and proposes an 'IKEA of software'—top-to-bottom, preconfigured, shareable cloud-packages that can be deployed with a single command. He notes his own solar mini-grid platform required heavy work (auth, RBAC, timeseries, ledger) and suggests ready-made templates or marketplaces for deployable, customizable packages. Current options (closed systems, low-code, database wrappers, AI) either lock in users or solve only part of the problem. A top-down approach could speed delivery, standardize foundations, and create passive income for developers.
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CTV News reports that experts warn of a growing parrot crisis in Canada, and eastern Ontario’s largest parrot rescue is launching a pilot project to address it.
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Keifu is a Rust-based terminal UI that visualizes Git commit graphs with per-branch color coding. It presents a Unicode commit graph, a commit list with metadata, and a detail panel with changed-file stats, plus basic Git operations (checkout, create/delete branch, fetch). Designed for narrow terminals and split panes, it prioritizes readability over full Git functionality. Requirements: run inside a Git repo, a Unicode-capable terminal, Git in PATH; install via cargo install keifu or from source. Limitations include loading up to 500 commits and up to 50 changed files.
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Low-level programming is not a fetish but a method to improve software. The author argues that starting with the right frame—the tech stack—determines software quality, as shown by New Reddit’s sluggish React+Redux vs. Old Reddit’s speed. Low-level knowledge expands the pool of innovators and enables better engineering choices, but tools for low-level work are poor. Handmade Hero showed how approachable low-level work can be. The goal is a new high-level tooling built from lower layers, driven by low-level experts.
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Black Forest Labs releases FLUX.2 [klein], the fastest image models to date, unifying text-to-image generation and editing in a compact 4B/9B family. Sub-second inference (<0.5s) on consumer GPUs (~13GB VRAM) with support for T2I, I2I, and multi-reference editing in one model. 4B is Apache 2.0 open; 9B base under FLUX NCL. FP8 and NVFP4 quantizations offer faster inference and lower VRAM. Includes API and open weights for local use and fine-tuning; targets real-time interactive visual intelligence.
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Official documentation for re:Mix, Open Funk’s open-source kitchen mixer. The repo includes technical docs, an assembly guide, a Bill of Materials, and STL/STEP files for 3D-printed and CNC-milled parts. Release is in two phases (body and electronics released 6/12/23; blender head planned for Summer 2025) under CERN-OHL-S-2.0. It is intended for experienced users, not CE-certified, with safety disclaimers and a not-for-sale stance. Credits Open Funk and supporters.
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The article traces a revival of WYSIWYG creativity through AI rather than drag-and-drop editors. It recalls the first WYSIWYG era (GeoCities, Flash, FrontPage) when anyone could make and share expressive sites, with MySpace as a peak of customization. The 'end of WYSIWYG' came with Facebook—clean, uniform profiles—and a web built around platforms that maximize time on site, while real development grew more complex (React, tooling, builds). Now AI tools like Claude Code let people describe a site and have it materialize, lowering barriers again. The focus shifts from how to build to what to make.
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New research from Binghamton University finds renters largely miss energy-efficiency upgrades that could cut bills and improve health. Although 90% of renters pay some energy costs and about 75% pay them in full, landlords control most upgrades and rarely invest, creating a 'split incentive' that leaves renters cold. The study, based on interviews with 59 local government officials, found programs often help homeowners or public housing, not renters, due to design and ownership barriers. Promising approaches include incentive zoning, nonprofit partnerships, and rental-licensing rules tying upgrades to inspections.
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Tony Finch reviews an IETF draft to standardize HTTP RateLimit headers. The draft adds two headers: RateLimit-Policy, describing input parameters for a rate-limit algorithm (policy id, partition key, quota, window, units), and RateLimit, describing which policy applied and the results (policy id, partition key, remaining quota, effective window). Clients should not exceed q requests in w seconds; after responses with RateLimit, follow r in the next t seconds. Finch advocates a linear rate-limiter (variant of GCRA) using a per-client not-before time, clamped to the window, which smooths bursts. The draft can accommodate other algorithms, including exponential; state cleanup is advised.
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Optique 0.10.0 adds a dependency system for CLI completion and validation. Static dependencies with or() constrain derived fields by known option combinations. For runtime-dependent values, dependency(), derive(), and deriveFrom() create derived parsers whose factory uses the dependency values to compute valid options. Async variants support I/O via deriveAsync() and deriveFromAsync(). Repository-aware completion with @optique/git lets completions depend on a repo’s state (e.g., branches) using a three-phase parse: collect, derive, re-parse. Examples cover --repo/--branch, --env/--region/--service, and git branches.
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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news in 2025 describes patching the channel to fetch news from a self-hosted server instead of Nintendo’s. The author patches the News Channel WAD (0000000b.app) with xdelta to redirect to news.wiilink.ca, extracts and patches binaries with wadlib, and uses a Go tool (WiiNewsPR-Patcher) to rewrite the URL. They generate 24 hour binaries from El Nuevo Día, sign them with RSA, and host on AWS S3. An AWS Lambda + EventBridge workflow regenerates hourly files. Credits go to the Wii homebrew community.
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Proposes install.md, a Markdown standard for LLM-executable installation instructions. The file lets an agent autonomously install software by reading structured fields (header, description, OBJECTIVE, DONE WHEN, TODO, prerequisites) and executing steps with user approval. Mintlify auto-generates install.md for docs, detects environments, and hosts a versioned file at your docs URL. It works across languages/frameworks, can be overridden by a custom install.md, and emphasizes transparency and safety by making each action reviewable. The spec is open source and aims to simplify reliable, adaptable installations for AI agents.
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This handbook explains how to obtain deterministic, structured outputs from LLMs (JSON, XML, code, etc.), addressing why probabilistic models fail for programmatic tasks like data extraction and tool calls. It covers constrained and unconstrained methods, optimization for latency and cost, quality improvements, and how to build, deploy, and scale such systems. It’s a living resource from Nanonets-OCR and the docstrange project, offering guidance on usage and the latest breakthroughs.
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Mandiant publicly releases a dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to illustrate the urgency of migrating away from the insecure Net-NTLMv1 protocol. The tables enable recovering Net-NTLMv1 keys in under 12 hours using consumer hardware, highlighting risks of credential theft and DCSync attacks on Active Directory. The article explains dataset access via Google Cloud (gsutil) and checksums, and how attackers would use rainbow tables. It also provides remediation: disable Net-NTLMv1, configure NTLMv2-only, and monitoring guidance (Event ID 4624 with NTLMv1).
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BBC Witness History's episode 'Brain: PC virus' retells Brain, the first personal-computer virus, created in 1986 by Amjad Farooq Alvi and his brother Basit in Lahore. It spread worldwide and became infamous after media coverage when infected machines displayed "Welcome to the dungeon." Eyewitness accounts and archive bring the story to life, including a 2023 interview with Alvi conducted by Gill Kearsley. The series uses short daily episodes to explore pivotal events through the people who witnessed them.
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Anna Shipman explains how engineers can translate proposals for executives by first understanding exec priorities, time constraints, and the need for cross‑company impact. It introduces a “translation layer” that maps technical work to business outcomes, noting that executives think on longer horizons and evaluate impact on cost, risk, customers, and overall strategy. Key tips: know stakeholders, anticipate common questions (cost, options, timing, risks, success metrics), be concise, and tie engineering work to business value. The CTO often serves as or relies on the translation layer to speed decisions, using evidence, pilots, and clear outcomes.
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Urges setting a proper user-agent and complying with the site's robots policy, with linked policy and a Wikimedia ticket.
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Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) file format — a portable VM-launch description from Microsoft that encapsulates guest state, measurements, and signing data for loading on virtualization stacks using AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX. Implemented in Rust (igvm, igvm_defs) with MIT license; README covers contributions via CLA, Code of Conduct, and trademark guidelines. The repo shows 119 stars, 31 forks, 75 commits, 3 releases; latest v0.4.0 (Aug 11, 2025). Languages: Rust ~93%, C ~6%.
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