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Mercor, an AI recruiting startup, confirmed a security incident tied to a supply-chain attack on the open-source LiteLLM project, linked to TeamPCP. Lapsus$ claimed responsibility for targeting Mercor, but how data was exfiltrated remains unclear. Mercor says it acted quickly to contain the breach and is conducting third-party forensics while informing customers. LiteLLM’s compromise prompted compliance changes (Delve to Vanta). LiteLLM is widely used; the sample data leaked included Slack data, tickets, and internal conversations. The total affected companies and data exposure remain under investigation.
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Artemis II Live Timeline Tracker provides a full FD01–FD10 view from NASA’s Artemis II Timeline. Mission zero anchors to 6:35 PM ET on April 1, 2026. The page tracks current mission time (T+00:00:00) and FD01, with sections for Launch/ ascent/ early translunar, Lunar swingby and trans-Earth coast, and Entry/ splashdown/ recovery. Credit: RevsUpRayes.
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Part 2 of Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi explains decoding the game's .shp files that store 3D model data. Building on Part 1's .all archive work, the author argues .shp contains 12 vertex attributes (position, normal, two colors, eight texture coordinates) for the GameCube GX pipeline, unlike .obj. They analyze cube0.shp header and section offsets, deduce s16 fixed-point position data (Q0.15) and UVs in Q8.8, and identify a stream of Display Lists (DLs) using GX_DRAW_TRIANGLES with a vertex attribute table. Verification uses Rust/deku; Jasper helps, and a cube is rendered in noclip.website. More shp files await.
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SALOMI is a research repo by OrionsLock on extreme low-bit transformer quantization and inference. It bundles a onebit quantization package, extensive tests, and research materials for experimentation. The work probes whether binary or near-binary weights can approach or exceed ternary baselines, with practical results around 1.2–1.35 bpp using Hessian-guided VQ, mixed precision, or magnitude-recovery. Status: research, not production; some earlier claims tempered. Key reading: RESEARCH.md, HONEST_ASSESSMENT.md, PROJECT_ANALYSIS_SUMMARY.md, REPOSITORY_GUIDE.md. License: Apache-2.0.
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As of 2026, an article tests common email-obfuscation techniques against 318–299 spammers. Plain-text addresses offer little protection, but many front-end tricks block most harvesters: HTML entities (95%), HTML comments (98%), HTML SVG (100%), CSS display:none (100%), JS concatenation/Rot18/Conversion/AES/interaction (100%). For clickable mailto links, entities (100%), URL encoding (96%), HTTP redirects (100%), SVG, and most JS tricks block 100%. Some techniques break usability (symbol substitution, instructions, images, CSS content, RTL text). Best practice: combine multiple techniques and split addresses into segments. Harvesters are often unsophisticated; the methodology uses honeypot data with small but growing samples.
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Subscription bombing is a bot-driven attack that signs up real email addresses with fake names across sites, triggering multiple verification and password-reset emails in a short window. Bytemash observed this on Suga: bots used real addresses and slow, human-looking typing, making activity hard to spot, and started resets for many victims who never used the service. The damage falls on the victims, not the site. Mitigations included firewall rules, Cloudflare Turnstile, and a change to send only one verification email until ownership is proven; social sign-ups are treated differently. Lesson: require verification and CAPTCHA to prevent signup abuse.
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Constitutional Map AI is a global semantic atlas of constitutional law that visualizes constitutional texts in a 3D semantic space. Users load country data on a map, compare semantic clusters, and search by keywords or concepts. Each point is a constitutional article; color marks country or thematic neighborhood. Metrics like Coverage and Entropy show how broadly a constitution spans the space; Global Cluster IDs label thematic groups. Data come from the Constitute Project (CC BY-NC 3.0); code is MIT open source; AI may missegment or miscluster.
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November 2020 article explains Gödel’s 1931 incompleteness: Hilbert sought a complete, consistent foundation for mathematics via Principia Mathematica (PM). Russell and Whitehead built PM with axioms to derive all truths. Gödel showed PM is incomplete: any system capable of encoding basic arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove, and cannot prove its own consistency. The piece explains Gödel numbering by encoding symbols, formulas, and proofs as numbers, using PM-Lisp to illustrate self-reference and meta-mathematical reasoning. It emphasizes limits of formal systems and the impossibility of a single all-encompassing algorithm for mathematics.
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Five observations from the Claude Code leak: 1) the code being 'garbage' didn’t stop Claude Code from being valued, suggesting code quality isn’t the main driver of success. 2) What matters is what the code does and strong observability, with self-healing systems speeding iteration. 3) Product–market fit and reliable deployment trump internals; scale can compensate for weak code. 4) Copyright issues flare around leaks, forks, and derivative works. 5) The leak may not meaningfully affect outcomes; integration of model and harness matters most to users.
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Phoronix reports that Steam on Linux surged in March 2026 to a record 5.33% of Steam's user base, over twice macOS at 2.35% and well above February's 2.23%. The jump coincides with Valve's China language corrections (Simplified Chinese down ~31.9%, English up ~16.8%). Windows fell to 92.33%. About a quarter of Linux gamers run SteamOS, and nearly 70% use AMD CPUs, aided by the Steam Deck's AMD-based APU. Overall, Linux hit an all-time high for Steam market share.
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Fremont area weather: currently 57°F with showers nearby; humidity 80%; wind SW 6 mph; pressure 29.96 in. Nearby towns: Oakland 57 (shower near SSW), Sacramento 55 (cloudy), San Jose 60 (rain shower). Forecast: Tonight steady light rain; low 48°F; chance 60%. Tomorrow sunny; high 66°F; NW winds 10–15 mph. Tomorrow night mostly clear; low ~45°F. Friday sunny; high 76°F; NNE winds 5–10 mph. Sat–Mon mostly sunny with highs about 75–85°F. RetroCast start soon for Fremont.
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Balcony solar, or balkonkraftwerk, are plug‑in micro‑solar kits that let renters mount 1–2 panels on a balcony and feed power into a wall outlet. Inverters with anti‑islanding and monitoring apps make installation quick and cheap. Germany has led a boom (over a million units) with regulatory limits of 600–800W feed‑in and 2000W peak, and batteries can store excess. The idea is spreading to Spain, France, Belgium, and parts of the U.S. It’s not grid‑shaking, but it broadens solar access and opens a new, affordable market niche.
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Argues that unpriced use of shared road space risks “omni-gridlock” as autonomous cars dominate. Traces the Ogallala Aquifer depletion from open access and uses it as a warning about roads as a common-pool resource. Proposes charging per mile with two durability tricks: quid pro quo (new infrastructure in exchange) and grandfathering (protecting existing users). Cites tolls, dynamic pricing, express lanes, and EV-per-mile charges as precedents. Urges acting now to implement durable road pricing for the AV era, potentially via location-based charges, to keep traffic flowing and prevent gridlock.
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Trinity Large Thinking is a capable open-source reasoning model from Arcee AI (released Apr 1, 2026) with a 262,144-token context. It’s offered on OpenRouter with pricing of $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens, and is free for the first five days. OpenRouter routes requests to suitable providers with fallbacks to maximize uptime. The model supports step-by-step reasoning via a reasoning parameter and a reasoning_details array. Documentation covers API usage, SDKs, providers, and sample code for integrating OpenRouter.
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BurgerDisk is now generally available via a small web shop, with USA distribution handled by Joe’s Computer Museum. New, easier-to-assemble variants are the Mini BurgerDisk and the DominoDisk (the latter touted as the smallest Smartport hard-drive, daisy-chainable). Both are open-source and share BurgerDisk firmware. A 'fat fingers' option adds a full-size SD card module, available only with a complete device. To cut costs, the author is securing D-Sub 19 female connectors internationally, aiming to reduce prices by 15–20€; 10% of sales go to Clar-T, a transgender rights group.
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Two quantum-computing announcements adjust timelines: Caltech’s high-rate fault-tolerance codes may lower overhead, enabling practical quantum work in neutral-atom/trapped-ion architectures; Google demonstrated a lower-overhead Shor’s algorithm for breaking 256-bit ECC, publishing via a zero-knowledge proof. Together, crypto risks arrive sooner; Bitcoin signatures could be vulnerable earlier. Estimates hint that about 25,000 physical qubits might suffice (down from millions), possibly shaving years off readiness. The post urges urgent adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography, with debate about how openly results should be published.
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