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An open-source C++ UTF-8 decoder was optimized by adding a fast ASCII path. The original version validated after decoding; an ASCII lead-byte could bypass extra checks. Clang substantially benefited: ASCII throughput tripled and mixed text improved ~34%. GCC showed no ASCII improvement and slightly worse mixed performance. Inspection of generated code revealed GCC elided the checks in the ASCII branch, while Clang kept them. The final approach inlined validation into the get_sequence_* routines, preserving clang gains and yielding 15–20% gains on GCC for non-ASCII/mixed text. Takeaway: compiler behavior is tricky; careful inlining can pay off.
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Poland is the EU’s sixth-largest economy in 2025, with GDP €922.9 billion (about 4.9% of the EU) and ranking behind Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. It is the largest economy in Central and Eastern Europe, ahead of Belgium, Sweden, Ireland and Austria. Real GDP grew 3.6% in 2025 thanks to industry, exports, consumption and investment. Yet GDP per capita remains below the EU average (under 85%). The EU total GDP was about €18.8 trillion.
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degdid is a PowerShell tool that removes real GDID state from local Windows stores and blocks the DeviceAdd path to prevent new GDID minting. Aimed at unmanaged Windows 10/11 (lab-validated on 25H2/26200), it provides -Status, -Protect, -Unblock. Protect enforces host/file blocks, clears GDID copies, and maintains the identity gate; Status shows local identity data; Unblock re-allows minting. For privacy hardening/research, not evading law. MIT-licensed; documentation covers architecture, countermeasures, experiments.
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Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzed 351 victims across 334 organizations in a month and found ransomware operators increasingly target mid-level managers rather than CEOs. The average victim is a 46-year-old Gen Xer, mainly in accounting/finance, sales, operations, HR, or marketing, with about half in industrial or IT sectors. Attackers map reporting lines using compromised data to identify who can approve payments or contracts, pursuing “business privilege” over technical privilege. They move laterally through functions to reach data and decision-makers. Ransomware is shifting toward extortion, with rising data theft and public-demand pressure.
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Anthony Lane reviews Kate McLoughlin's Silence: A Literary History (Oxford). He surveys how the book traces silence from Beowulf to COVID, examining political silences, private reticence, and silences surrounding gender and climate, with chapters on Donne, Milton, Hardy, Shakespeare, and others; praises the book’s breadth and clever pairing of examples (e.g., "Farewell" Haydn, two-minute silence, etc.) but notes omissions (e.g., Miranda rights, cinema) and some overelaborate theoretical jargon. He finds it a stimulating "trigger book" that pairs erudition with lively asides and suggests it’s engaging despite its density.
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Time-Travel SQLite Debugger is an open‑source, zero‑dependency PHP 8+ and Vanilla JS web app and CLI daemon that monitors a SQLite database in real time and lets you scrub back to any prior state during local development. Features WAL‑aware backups, automatic snapshotting (watcher.php), visual diff between snapshots and live data, one‑click export, pinning, keyboard navigation, and automatic cleanup to a backup cap. Includes multi‑language UI (EN/Turkish) and an install guide.
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Drawing on Peter Block's idea of adult-to-adult relationships—asking for what you want, accepting a possible No, and negotiating the difference—the author recalls a conflict over AC in a coffee shop yoga space. They keep two ACs off during 6–8:30am sessions; a taped note later forbids turning the AC off. The author overrides it and later persuades the caretaker to terminate the contract with a refund. The piece argues that saying No is a valid option to be expected and negotiated, not feared.
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The article describes using LLMs to learn complex topics by building an interactive, game-like simulation instead of traditional reading. The workflow: in plan mode, the model creates foundational knowledge; it then reviews accuracy; it builds a low-poly animation simulating the topic with usable UX and publishes it (e.g., via GitHub Pages). The author demonstrates this with ChipTycoon to teach chip fabrication, delivering engaging visuals and fewer hallucinations. Improvements suggested include more realistic 3D mapping and adding challenges or puzzles to boost retention.
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Reinventing oneself is framed as a practical path: when experience is the goal, you win regardless of outcome. The author contrasts those who stay safe with those who relentlessly remake their work and life, arguing that genuine creativity comes from treating change as a constant, not a rare exception. Drawing on Miles Davis’s openness to new sounds, the Waste Books of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Cate Hall’s You Can Just Do Things, the piece champions large-scale production with deliberate ‘waste’ as fuel for future insight, plus personal agency and readiness to follow diversions.
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unyolo is a framework to build credential brokers and proxies so agents can perform actions on services like GitHub or Hugging Face without ever holding provider credentials. A broker keeps the provider token; agents request permissions via a local policy file with time-bound grants. The request path includes client auth, classification, policy evaluation, active grants, approvals, provider execution, and audit. Policies are JSON rules; operators approve requests. Multiple brokers exist (gh-broker, hf-broker, sudo-broker), with quickstart and documentation.
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Tests cross-compiling Wails v2.11.0 (Svelte template) on Ubuntu with Go 1.25.5. Cross-compilation is straightforward: linux/amd64, windows/amd64, windows/arm64, windows/386 produce executables and NSIS installers; MacOS (darwin) not supported for cross-compiling. Windows binaries are static; Linux is dynamic. Static linking Linux fails due to Go/CGo/glibc constraints. linux/arm64 cross-compile is broken (ARM64 assembler errors). The post also covers issues with Wails actions and GoReleaser, including missing wailsbindings and App.app path errors, and licensing concerns; progress, but several hurdles remain.
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ProtoLink's ai_courtroom showcases autonomous agents inside a fictional liability tribunal, examining how different roles and incentives influence courtroom dialogue. The C-91 Incident asks whether Aster Vale's robotaxi’s deployment was criminally negligent. The demo features four communication topologies (solo, independent, star, mesh) and deterministic offline runs; it outputs a public transcript, traces, JSON results, and interactive HTML reports. All content is fictional; the goal is to study agent communication, not legal analysis or safety assessment.
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OpenChamber is an open-source agentic development environment for AI coding that sustains long-running goals across sessions and devices. It enables multi-model runs and fusion, changes/diffs walkthroughs, previewing code, issue/PR workflows, and scheduled prompts. It works across desktop, browser, mobile, and VS Code, with a native editor workflow, multi-window projects, and mobile beta. It emphasizes privacy: no data leaves your machine, optional UI password, end-to-end encrypted remote access, and open-source code. Built on the OpenCode SDK; free to use and remotely accessible; install via curl.
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Three Banksy artworks in the UK have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 so far in cleaning and security, with the largest bill exceeding £85,000 for a mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London (paint removal about £50,000; overtime/security ~£35,300). The mural, depicting a judge battering a protester, sits on a listed building and police investigations are ongoing. The spending has reignited debate over vandalism versus public art. Earlier, Westminster Council spent about £60,000 on safety barriers for a Banksy statue near Trafalgar Square.
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FCC proposes a retroactive ban on foreign-made drones that include LiDAR, labeling LiDAR “military-grade.” Building on the December 2025 Covered List, the plan would revoke approvals for models that escaped the initial ban. Public comment due Sept 2, 2026; if adopted, the ban would take effect ~180 days later. It would affect popular models such as DJI Air 3S and Mini 5 Pro, and could extend to drones with thermal imaging, heavy payloads, docking stations, defense articles, or swarms. US-made drones unaffected. DJI calls the label a category error and has sued the FCC.
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