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Weird Gloop explains a March 2024 Google change that heavily nerfs new-domain indexing, causing independent wikis to appear only for their main page. To cope, they moved Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off Fandom onto subdomains of weirdgloop.org. Subdomains on established domains index far better, so they’re hosting new wikis on controlled subdomains (eg, overwatch.weirdgloop.org) with the plan to eventually move them to root domains using Google’s change-of-address tool. They invite community input on the approach.
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Cloudflare blocks access to medium.com, demanding cookies and warning that a security rule was triggered. The block may result from submitting certain words, a SQL command, or malformed data. To resolve, email the site owner with details of what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (a37beae8b8f167f1) and your IP.
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TradingAgents is an open-source multi-agent framework that uses LLM-powered specialists (Fundamentals, Sentiment, News, Technical; Researchers; Trader; Risk Management; Portfolio Manager) to collaboratively analyze markets and decide trades. It supports diverse data sources and LLM backends (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, MiniMax, Ollama, Azure OpenAI) and can run locally or via Docker. It tracks decisions with a memory log, offers checkpoint resume, and per-ticker caches for reproducibility. It’s designed as a research scaffold rather than financial advice, with extensive configuration and CLI/API usage.
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Mistral announced a €3 billion Series D funding, valuing the company above €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics with Scaleup Europe Fund/EQT and PSG Equity; Advent, BlackRock funds, and Luxembourg joined as new investors; existing backers include a16z, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, etc. The funds will expand frontier research, scale compute for training, broaden international presence (20 countries, 125+ enterprises like Airbus, ASML, HSBC) and advance Mistral’s sovereign, open-weight AI stack—open models, private compute, data staying on premises, and fully controllable production systems. The goal: empower mission-critical AI without vendor lock-in.
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Agents run in cloud sandboxes rather than on local devices. Claude Code runs in a Firecracker microVM with a stripped init (PID 1: process_api); model inference happens server-side via SSE to api.anthropic.com; a 324 MB Bun harness sits inside a read-only disk, while the user’s writable disk (vda) persists. Durable state lives in /memory as a per-user Markdown vault git repo, pushed to S3 as a single bundle. Instinct uses disposable E2B sandboxes (Ubuntu) with a full systemd guest; the brain runs server-side, calling tools via GraphQL to api.instinct.com. Both isolate the operator and separate memory from execution.
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An explainer of GamersNexus's LG TV security critique. The video argues LG WebOS TVs act as eavesdropping devices via ad tech, collecting logs that allegedly surface sensitive data, and that the devices can be remotely controlled to record audio/video even when offline. It highlights network traffic to telemetry endpoints (LG Telemetry, LG Channels Telemetry) and Amagi FAST services, notes encrypted traffic limits visibility, and cites IoT discovery (mDNS/SSDP) and potential ACR fingerprinting. The author finds the concerns plausible but evidence is not conclusive and depends on rooting the TV; more verification is needed, while criticizing LG’s practices.
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New analysis of Tasmanian tiger skulls shows thylacines were not wolf-like predators but marsupials with a large skull and slender snout built for fast, snapping bites to catch small prey (bandicoots, rabbit-sized marsupials). They likely preyed on small animals rather than livestock, which colonial bounty myths attributed to them. The last captive thylacine died in 1936. The study highlights deep differences from dogs/wolves and underscores Australia’s unique biodiversity loss; de-extinction efforts are controversial with Indigenous custodianship considerations.
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Report of tests of different model/harness configurations to produce a self-contained HTML file (single-page Three.js hangar with drones, lights, fog, and cinematic camera). The results table covers model types (GLM, Luna, SOL, Astra, Qwen, OpenCode), harnesses (Max Codex Open/Flash/OMP, OpenCode, DSH/PTC), and metrics: durations, input/output/reasoning tokens, total tokens, cached input, tool calls/errors, and browser-opening status. The aim is to identify the best-performing pairing in goal mode.
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Arm's Mali G2-Ultra NX is the first AI-native Mali GPU, with neural accelerators in shader cores, a new execution engine and third-gen ray tracing to enable desktop-class mobile gaming within power limits. It adds neural graphics: NSS, NFRU, NSSD, boosting quality and frame rates. Neural Dawn cites up to 4x efficiency and 70% less memory traffic; Opacity Micromaps cut DRAM load and raise frame rates in demos. An Arm Neural Graphics Development Kit, Vulkan ML extensions, and engine plugins (Unreal/Unity) push production adoption, with partners like Tencent and Where Winds Meet.
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Australia’s government released draft Digital Duty of Care for consultation, building on its social media age ban. The plan includes 'My Feed, My Way,' giving users a choice about default feeds—opt in to algorithmic, or opt out to see followed creators. People over 16 can easily choose their feed. The rules extend to online games, apps and AI chatbots, shielding under-18s from addictive features and harmful content (eating disorders, misogyny, crime). eSafety can issue removal notices for inappropriate apps or websites, require risk‑mitigation documentation, and enforcement could reach up to $109.2 million. Legislation to Parliament this year after consultation.
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Open-weight frontier LLM GLM 5.3-flash enables easy, continuous local hacking capabilities, threatening cybersecurity as models near human-level exploits. With Glasswing and Daybreak attempting preemptive fixes, the hard part remains deployment across critical systems. The author warns that large-scale, low-cost attacks could be run by individuals with consumer hardware, and current benchmarks show high vulnerability reproduction. Recommendations target governments, regulators, companies, and open-source foundations: fund security engineering, mandate regular pentesting and patching, require human oversight, improve airgapping, strengthen supply-chain and deployment tooling, and prioritize rapid triage and updates rather than banning models. Urgent action is needed.
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Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas says AI will help cure cancer in our lifetimes, but modelling DNA and cells is too complex for today’s computers; as AI models and hardware mature, they will solve it. He warns chip shortages slow AI data-centre growth, though demand remains strong (including OpenAI/Meta). He doubts the UK will build fabs; Arm remains a major UK employer. Experts note data quality matters more than sheer compute in medical AI, potentially shaving years off drug development.
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An empirical study tested 26 prompt conditions—TDD, Lean 4, QuickCheck, SMT/Verus/Alloy, fuzzing, audits, etc.—on Zstd in Rust. Conclusion: agents generally don’t use test techniques well; default (no instructions) often outperforms others. Any gains from fancy techniques are small and usually come with higher cost; TDD underperforms; formal methods largely ineffective; auditing helps in some cases (notably xhigh) but is costly. In short, agents write tests that pass but miss bugs; improvement likely requires guided training or RL-environment tuning for testing.
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An independent artistic/educational project, “We Own the Glass” critiques ad-tech control over TVs via Automated Content Recognition (ACR). It asserts viewers own the glass, not corporations, and invites watching a video about what the TV is actually doing. Unaffiliated with LG/Samsung/Vizio, it uses public-domain artwork from Wikimedia Commons and presents slow, continuous pan-and-zoom visuals to avoid static frames.
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Bedrock 2.0, a minimal Emacs starter-kit, ships for Emacs 31+ and uses ~/.emacs.d/init.el and early-init.el with an extras/ folder for package configs; no base third-party packages. If you can’t upgrade, trim the config. Major changes: lexical-binding t in all files; automatic installation of use-package; embark-auto-prefix-help-mode instead of which-key when embarking; remove wgrep in favor of grep-change-to-grep-edit-mode; improved tree-sitter; enhanced isearch; *Completions auto-update; repeat-mode on by default; theme color fixes; quieter startup. Upgrading is manual: compare commits and cherry-pick. Thanks to the community; no telemetry.
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Colorlight 5A-75B is an inexpensive (roughly $20–$25) Colorlight receiver card featuring a Lattice ECP5 (LFE5U25-F) FPGA, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, 16 Mbit SDRAM and 16 Mbit Flash, with 8 HUB75 outputs and 5V IO. It sits between controller and LED panels for LED displays, offering open-source tooling via Yosys. It’s been reverse-engineered, with schematics available, and can be programmed via a soldered JTAG header using open JTAG chains. It lacks inputs by default, requiring a level shifter replacement for bidirectional IO. Useful for learning/open-source FPGA development; Part 2 covers compiling/uploading Verilog to blink the onboard LED.
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Exploring RSA security, the author shows small keys can be factored. They found 512-bit E-Certify root certificates (SSL/S/MIME) from Netscape 1999, factored with CADO-NFS on a Ryzen 9 5950X (32h and 29h respectively), yielding private keys. They demonstrate issuing certificates with these keys via a custom old TLS server (Go) and a public page (e-certify.fly.dev), plus a GitHub repo with tools. The piece underscores the weakness of 512-bit RSA and historic roots now deprecated, reachable for demonstration but not for real security.
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Jellyfin 12.0 is a major release that finishes the 10.x database rewrite, brings per-library subtitle settings, expanded support for versions across episodes, and a revamped Books and Comics integration (Bookshelf deprecated; OpenLibrary, GoogleBooks, ComicVine providers added). It introduces a redesigned Modern layout as default, performance improvements in the library/database, and broader plugin/SDK changes. Upgrading requires stopping Jellyfin and backing up data; direct upgrade from 10.11.x is supported, but from older versions you must upgrade to 10.10.7 first. A full library scan is required after upgrade; usernames become case-insensitive and may require migration; legacy client support removed; security fixes included.
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