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Veritensor is an open-source Zero-Trust security tool for the AI supply chain. It replaces basic model scanning with deep AST analysis and cryptographic signing to ensure only verified, safe, and compliant models reach production. It supports formats like PyTorch, Pickle, Keras, GGUF, and wheels; decompiles bytecode/ZIPs/Lambda layers; verifies model hashes against Hugging Face; blocks restrictive licenses; integrates with Sigstore Cosign for container signing; CI/CD-ready (GitHub Actions, GitLab, pre-commit); outputs SARIF/SBOM; configurable via veritensor.yaml; Apache-2.0 license.
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xdgctl is a C-based TUI to view and set XDG defaults without xdg-mime. Built with GLib/GIO and termbox2, it lets you browse categories (e.g., browsers, editors), see the current default (marked with *), and set it with Enter. Navigate with arrows; Tab/Right to switch lists; Left to switch back; Esc/Q to quit. Prereqs: glib-2.0, gio-2.0, gio-unix-2.0, clang/gcc. Build: git clone; make; make install. If you add apps in ~/.local/share/applications, run update-desktop-database. Supports querying with xdg-mime and manual defaults; BSD-2-Clause license.
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Sightline is an OSINT search engine that maps real-world infrastructure using OpenStreetMap data. It enables searching, monitoring, and analyzing facilities such as telecommunications towers, power plants, data centers, airports, ports, pipelines, military sites, hospitals, and more. It uses OSM data via Overpass API and Nominatim, with an NLP-based query parser and a Leaflet map frontend. The project emphasizes crowd-sourced data and may contain inaccuracies; it supports structured and natural-language queries (e.g., type:power_plant operator:google region:texas, near: london). Licensed MIT; built with Node.js 18+; hosted on Vercel.
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An in-depth hands-on with Apple Network Server ROM prototypes. The author catalogs ANS ROM families and experiments on a pair of 700s: pre-production 1.1.20 Mac OS ROMs (boot Mac OS and AIX), production 1.1.22 ROMs (block Mac OS but boot AIX/NetBSD/Linux), prototype Mac OS 2.0 ROMs (fully support Mac OS on internal devices), and prototype Windows NT 2.26NT ROMs (enable NT and NT boot in PowerPC). Through Open Firmware, NSDU, and hardware tinkering, he tests various OSes (Mac OS 9, NT, NetWare, Rhapsody/OS X) and tools like Boot Variables. Seeks a working 2.0 ROM and HAL/ARC details.
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accept_language is a lightweight, thread-safe Ruby library for parsing HTTP Accept-Language headers as defined in RFC 7231 and related specs. It provides AcceptLanguage.parse and AcceptLanguage#match to select the best language from a header using q-values, declaration order, and Basic Filtering (BCP 47 tags, prefixes, wildcards, and exclusions). It supports case-insensitive matching, preserves tag case in results, and handles script, region, and variant subtags. Includes Rack and Rails integration examples. MIT-licensed and follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.
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Overview of PostgreSQL indexes, what they are, how they’re stored on disk, and how they speed queries. They map index keys to CTIDs in the heap; Postgres uses a B-tree by default. Benefits: faster lookups when queries match index columns, but not when most rows are returned (15–20%). Costs: disk space, write maintenance, memory use, and planning time. Types: B-tree (default; PK/UNIQUE; multi-column), Hash (equality; small but limited), BRIN (compact; for large sequential data; lossy), GIN, GiST & SP-GiST. Features: partial indexes, covering/index-only scans, and expression indexes. Choose based on data and queries to balance speed, storage, and writes.
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Li‑ion aging stems from cycling, temperature, and aging itself. Consumer devices typically clock 300–500 cycles; EVs target thousands. Extending life comes from smaller depth of discharge, moderate temperatures, and lower peak voltage. Lowering the charge voltage from 4.20V to about 3.92–4.00V can markedly boost life (roughly 300–500 cycles at 4.20V; 600–1,000 at 4.10V; 1,200–2,000 at 4.00V). Every 70 mV drop costs ~10% of capacity. Higher voltages raise capacity but shorten life and can compromise safety. Partial charging/discharging helps; avoid high temperatures and ultra-fast charging. Some EV/satellite systems use 85%/25% DoD windows for longevity; consumer devices rarely.
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Germany faces pressure to repatriate its large gold reserves from U.S. vaults amid concerns about US political unpredictability and shifting transatlantic relations. Germany holds the world’s second-largest gold stock. Some economists and taxpayer advocates push for repatriation to boost strategic independence, while others warn it could raise tensions; the government is reportedly not considering withdrawal. Gold reserves in New York are seen by some as a stabilizing anchor for financial trust amid geopolitical uncertainty, though a split in views persists.
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A forum thread identifies a tablet-like device on Nedry's desk, initially guessed as a Motorola Envoy PDA (released later). A later post clarifies it's a design mockup for Motorola's iRadio (Envoy), created at frogdesign for Spielberg. Three configurations existed; the shown one was chosen. It was a proof-of-concept for the hinge/fold, lacking the external antenna (an internal loop antenna was planned). The two card-slot bays were removed for space.
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AI-driven translation is upending the industry, cutting demand and incomes. Irish translator Timothy McKeon says he lost 70% of EU work and now polishes machine translations. A 2024 survey found over a third of translators lost work and 43% saw income decline due to AI. In the US, Google Translate use correlates with slower translator job growth; Frey estimates 28,000 translator jobs would exist without MT. Some retrain or diversify; others warn of job losses in court, diplomacy and medical contexts. Experts say humans remain essential in work, though literary translation is less affected. Governments urged to help transition.
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AutoShorts automatically extracts viral vertical shorts from gameplay footage using AI scene analysis (OpenAI/Gemini or local) with GPU-accelerated rendering and optional AI voiceovers. It identifies engaging moments (action, funny, highlight), auto-crops, renders, and adds subtitles or AI captions with various styles and templates. Features include multilingual support, voice cloning option, smart cropping, and a robust fallback system. Requires NVIDIA GPU with CUDA, Python, FFmpeg; install via Makefile or Docker; configure via .env and run python run.py.
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Nature Communications reports intrinsically stretchable thin-film transistors using two-dimensional MoS2 flakes. The n-type devices reach mobility up to 12.5 cm2 V−1 s−1 (average ~8) and on/off >10^7, remaining stable under 20% strain and during cyclic stretching. Strain is accommodated by interflake motions with weak van der Waals bonds, enabling stress relaxation in the channel; maintaining a vertical interconnection to the substrate preserves charge transport. This work offers a general route to integrate van der Waals semiconductors into stretchable electronics and addresses the lack of high-performance stretchable n-type materials for CMOS.
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Epicenter.works et al. file complaint with Bundesnetzagentur against Deutsche Telekom for 'Netzbremse'—alleged deliberate throttling via peering that disadvantages services that can't pay, violating net neutrality. The campaign crowdsources testimonies of widespread slowdown (e.g., Cloudflare, GitHub, streaming), especially evenings, with VPN sometimes bypassing. Telekom denies wrongdoing. They urge regulators to intervene and invite the public to join the complaint.
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The piece argues that 'Ralph Wiggum loops'—a simple, seven-file, bash-script-driven loop that uses Claude to implement tasks, with Git for persistence and a markdown IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN—demonstrates how to run autonomous AI agents. It contrasts Ralph with Taskmaster: Ralph is minimal and ideal for learning or solo projects; Taskmaster provides structured tooling, explicit dependencies, 39 tools, Docker sandbox, and an MCP server to coordinate multiple agents and prevent conflicts. The author frames them as stages, not rivals: start with Ralph, graduate to Taskmaster as projects grow. Claude Code now adds dependency tracking, reinforcing the pattern as infrastructure.
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Benchmarking a 2x faster Dart lexer, the author found I/O, not parsing, was the bottleneck. Scanning 104k files caused ~300k syscalls (open/read/close), wasting time on context switches. SSD speed didn’t help. Archiving 104k files into 1,351 tar.gz archives cut I/O from 14.5s to 0.34s, yielding ~2.3x total speedup despite ~4.5s decompression. This explains pub.dev’s tar.gz packaging and shows that many small file syscalls, not disk speed, drive the gap. Potential tweaks include faster decompression (zstd), using SQLite, or tar vs ZIP tradeoffs.
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Vortex is a new open, extensible columnar format designed for late materialization and compute on compressed data, with encodings like FastLanes, ALP, FSST, and WebAssembly. SpiralDB donated Vortex to the Linux Foundation; DuckDB Labs integrated it as a core DuckDB extension. You can install and load it and read_vortex or write in Vortex format. Vortex targets fast analytics, ML preprocessing, and AI training by reducing IO and enabling GPU-backed processing. A TPC-H benchmark on Mac M1 shows Vortex faster than Parquet v2 (≈18%) and v1 (≈35%), with lower variance.
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