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Textile is a macOS tool for weaving text into reusable "textiles." It pulls in text from the clipboard or input, runs local commands to generate text, and puts results on the clipboard. You can append, prepend, or replace text to craft exact output. Shortcuts (including multi-step sequences) run textiles quickly. Textiles are stored as plain text files locally for privacy and easy backups. Even if you don’t use all features, it doubles as a fast clipboard manager.
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NMLinux is a free Linux recreation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot, reimplemented in Python 3 with PySide6. It's an independent GUI tool (not a Linux NetworkManager port) that consolidates common network tasks for sysadmins, including dashboards for interfaces, Wi-Fi, DNS, Nmap, SSH, VNC, RDP, traceroutes, firewall viewing, topology maps, and more. Current release v1.2.9 (May 30, 2026) adds VNC/RDP modules, i18n translations, icon bundling, GNOME/KDE compatibility, and distro-specific tweaks. Installation via wheel, Arch AUR, or source; GPL-2.0.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the nation’s first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of deceptive practices and harm to Floridians by releasing and aggressively marketing ChatGPT—including to minors—while concealing risks, ignoring safety warnings, and misleading users about safety. The civil complaint alleges prioritizing speed and profits over safety, leading to harms, data collection from minors without parental oversight, behavioral addiction, cognitive harm, and dangerous errors downplayed by the company. Florida seeks damages and injunctions. A related criminal probe into chat logs linked to the FSU shooter is ongoing.
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A Guardian contributor, a female relative, recounts Kawthar Bashar al-Husayjawi, 15, who was killed by her Iraqi extended family after refusing to marry a cousin linked to drugs and alcohol. Kawthar, forced out of school at 13 into an abusive marriage, fled, then divorced in 2025. Days later the family arranged a new marriage; Kawthar disappeared, was abducted for three days, and then killed with 10 bullets and an axe; male relatives danced in the streets. The piece denounces corruption, state impunity, and legal provisions that allow honour- or child-marriage. It calls for justice and dignity in burial.
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Debug Project develops technology to raise and release male, Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to curb disease-spreading Aedes aegypti. The Wolbachia bacteria prevents mating offspring with wild females, so released males don’t bite or spread disease, and over time bad mosquito populations decline. The approach uses a natural bacterium, no chemicals, toxins, or genetic modification. Working with scientists, communities, and governments, they aim for field tests and public health impact against dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya. Contact: [email protected]; [email protected].
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GrapheneOS released Speech Services version 2; release notes summarize improvements over the previous release and link to the full changelog at the GitHub release page.
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Hackers used Meta’s AI support bot to seize Instagram accounts, including high-profile targets like the Obama White House and the Space Force chief master sergeant, briefly defaced with pro-Iranian imagery. Telegram videos allegedly showed how to trigger a password reset by persuading the AI assistant to link the target to a new email, enabling a one-time code and password change. Meta said the issue was resolved and no backend breach occurred; affected accounts were secured. Caution: AI recovery tools expand attack surfaces; use strong MFA (prefer passkeys) to block such exploits.
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SEC charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 Mamma.com (Copernic) shares in 2004 after learning of a private offering that would lower the stock's value; authorities say he betrayed confidentiality and saved about $750,000. Cuban denies the allegations, calling the case meritless and vows to fight. The SEC alleges he used nonpublic information for an unfair market edge; Cuban counters that case reflects enforcement staff overreach. He is also involved in various ventures and media projects.
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Ian Duncan explains how GHC's -foptimal-applicative-do aims to schedule do-blocks to maximize parallelism with <*>; the optimal scheduling is O(n^3) and was behind a rarely enabled flag due to slow compiles. He casts the block-structure as a tree of Leaf/Seq/Par with cost as rounds, and shows that in a tangled span only the first or last cut needs checking, via an extreme-cut shortcut; using a longest-chain bound further prunes ties, reducing the work from O(n^3) to roughly O(n^2) in practice. The optimization mirrors RNA folding and min-plus DP, but remains a local, compiler-friendly change.
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Evaluates whether to normalize 8-bit RGB values by dividing by 255 or 256 when converting to float for image processing. The standard method (divide by 255) maps 0→0.0 and 255→1.0, aligns with GPUs, and keeps black at 0.0. The alternative (divide by 256 with a 0.5 bias, mid-tread) places values midway between integers, easing dithering but tying processing to 8-bit quantization and misaligning with externally saved images. The author argues against the alternative for images from others unless you control save and load and accept the 8-bit range. Also notes mid-riser vs mid-tread quantizers and cautions about mixing encode/decode.
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Erik Gauger’s map portfolio. Highlights two Hawaiian Islands maps—(1) the full archipelago with minor atolls, drawn in watercolor, Copic, and Adobe Fresco; (2) a detailed eight‑island view. The site also presents many other hand‑painted maps (Tunisia, Malta, Cuba, West Indies, Oregon, Portugal, Ecuador, Morocco, Sicily, Abaco, Baja, Guana Cay, Tikehau, etc.) in watercolor, ink, and marker. Promotes newsletter Notes from the Road (Substack). © 2026 Erik Gauger.
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An anti-alarmism talk on AI risk. It critiques Bostrom-style premises of a rapid, self-improving superintelligence and argues that intelligence is slippery, embodied, and not easily scalable to conquest. Real AI today relies on data and opaque training, not fast self-design, and minds may be hard to align or even to emulate. The speaker lampoons dramatic scenarios (paper-clip maximizers, emu wars, simulation worlds) and warns about AI hype shaping culture, surveillance, and power. The fix is cautious ethics in ML and skeptical thinking, not panic.
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Headlines claim hypersonic intercepts, but glide-vehicle interception remains unproven. Since 2023, most so‑called hypersonic kills were against non-glide threats or other weapons; no maneuvering boost-glide has faced a defended target in combat. Hypersonic means Mach >5; only Avangard, DF-17/DF-ZF, and Dark Eagle meet all criteria. Radar horizon and plasma complicate tracking; sensors help but aren’t decisive. Kill chain needs ~150 seconds; magazines run dry. A layered defense is proposed (directed energy, mid-tier interceptors, top-tier exoatmospheric, glide-phase weapon), but glide-phase interceptor isn’t ready; FTM-43 by 2029. Real-world tests show defense against non-HGVs; the worst threat sits in a silo.
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Anthropic, PBC confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the U.S. SEC for a potential initial public offering of its common stock. The IPO depends on market conditions and other factors; the number of shares and price are not yet determined. The announcement is made under Rule 135 of the Securities Act of 1933 and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy. Any future offers will be made only in compliance with the Securities Act registration requirements.
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Sid's Blog describes a bizarre Instagram takeover: attackers use your username and a nearby VPN to trick Meta's AI into resetting the account and sending a verification code to an attacker-controlled email. It’s a near-zero-auth password reset; 2FA is bypassed, existing sessions revoked, and no human escalation. High-profile accounts (e.g., Obama White House) were affected, and Telegram groups sold takeover services. Meta appears to have patched the flaw, which lingered for weeks. The piece mocks the fragility of the system and the ease of the attack.
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DuckDuckGo is expanding access to its no-AI search by releasing Chrome and Firefox extensions to set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default. The AI-free page avoids AI answers, prompts, and images. AI settings persist for DuckDuckGo browser users after history is cleared. The move follows Google's AI-first revamp; no-AI page traffic surged (up ~30% WoW; May 28 tripled) and mobile installs rose (U.S. iOS up ~70%). Privacy Essentials will gain AI search controls; DuckDuckGo remains AI-enabled via its own bot and paid plan.
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The post argues against disabling runtime asserts in production. Asserts reveal and protect against misbehavior; in Zig, std.debug.assert isn't a macro and may run expressions with side-effects. Zig's build modes (Debug, ReleaseSafe, ReleaseFast, ReleaseSmall) affect whether asserts crash or allow unchecked behavior. Disabling asserts creates 'gaslighting' where wrong assumptions go unchecked in prod, risking security and correctness. The author advocates keeping asserts on and, when performance matters, choosing build modes or optimizing with safe assumptions rather than turning asserts off. Some projects keep asserts on (TigerBeetle); others mix ReleaseFast for dependencies. The takeaway: fix your asserts, don’t disable them.
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