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Arizona House Bill 2920 would require age verification for every mobile-device app, including preinstalled ones (browser, weather widget, calculator, messaging, search). Users would be sorted into four age categories, with verifiable parental consent required before minors could download, purchase, or access updated versions. App stores would collect age, parental relationships, and consent data and share it with developers; renewed consent required after "significant changes" to apps or policies. Penalties up to $75,000 per violation. Critics raise First Amendment concerns and chilling effects. The bill awaits committee action; if enacted, could take effect Nov 30, 2026.
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Mnemom provides a trust infrastructure for AI agents.
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Le Minotaure, figure mythologique mi-homme/mi-taureau, est lié à l’archéologie de Crète durant l’âge du bronze. Des taureaux et des motifs labyrinthiques apparaissent dans l’art minoen; le palais de Knossos, fouillé par Arthur Evans, donne une source matérielle à la légende, qui mêle Minos, Pasiphaé et Dédale. Le récit d’Ariane, Thésée et le fil se transmet par la poésie et les œuvres antiques grecques et romaines, évoluant au fil des siècles. L’historiographie montre aussi l’importance des échanges méditerranéens et des débats sur l’origine du labyrinthe.
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Bloomberg blocks access with a CAPTCHA-style notice after detecting unusual activity, asking users to verify they’re not a robot. It urges enabling JavaScript and cookies, reviewing Terms and Cookie Policy, contacting support with a block reference ID, and promotes a Bloomberg.com subscription.
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The Cistercian numeral system, devised by 13th‑century Cistercian monks, is a compact way to write numbers up to 9,999 with a single glyph formed by combining basic elements on a vertical line. It is said to be based on a system introduced by John of Basingstoke and was used to some extent until the early 20th century. The page provides downloads, a video, and links and is part of Omniglot.
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Discussion about FLOSS/fund sponsorship for PocketBase’s UI rewrite. The maintainer initially announced FLOSS/fund would sponsor PocketBase (as part of its second tranche) and fund a stable release, with UI rewrite work underway (Shablon-based frontend and a reusable UI kit). Later, an update stated that regulatory constraints prevented the sponsorship; the funding was withdrawn. Despite this, development would continue toward a stable PocketBase release, with the UI rewrite progress continuing and a new announcement planned when ready. FLOSS/fund and Zerodha were mentioned as continuing programs next year, but funding did not materialize.
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Tailscale announces general availability of Peer Relays, enabling customer-deployed high-throughput relays on any node to keep traffic moving when direct paths fail. Upgrades include higher throughput, smarter relay selection, and traffic spread across multiple UDP sockets, bringing performance closer to a true mesh. Static endpoints for restrictive clouds (via --relay-server-static-endpoints) let relays behind load balancers operate, enabling high-throughput connectivity. Observability is improved via tailscale ping and new metrics (forwarded_packets/bytes) for Prometheus/Grafana. GA on all plans, including Free; supports full mesh in private subnets with end-to-end encryption.
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AI accelerates the rate of new products; yet attention is the scarce resource. While human thought value declines, human eyeballs grow valuable as they’re limited. Creating is easy, reaching an audience is hard; existing products with momentum benefit, new ones struggle. Marketing alone is unlikely to fix it; channels are worsening. The line between success and failure hinges on reach, not quality. The author notes a launch with 14 signups; growth requires either money or existing reach. If we’re near a 'reach singularity', newcomers may be locked out. The author’s project Kith: a paid, invite-only, algorithm-free social network; waitlist.
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Proposal: Zig on Windows should prefer the Native API (ntdll/Nt*/NTSTATUS) over Win32 when feasible, because it bypasses extra layers, offers more performance, power, fewer subsystem dependencies, and better types. Native APIs expose more features (e.g., ReadDirectoryChangesW via NtNotifyChangeDirectoryFileEx). Drawbacks: they are largely undocumented and subject to change; some Win32 functionality has no native equivalent. The Zig standard library will not replace every Win32 API. Practical guidance: copy necessary definitions or use zigwin32; expect occasional ABI-wrappers. Also, concerns about antivirus and Wine compatibility are discussed.
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A 12-channel AM radio broadcast system using Red Pitaya FPGA to transmit emergency alerts in unmanned tunnels. It supports runtime tuning across 500–1700 kHz, AM-modulated audio from pre-recorded messages, and dynamic power scaling. The architecture is MVC with a Rust backend and JavaScript frontend, using a central event bus and a stateless UI. A hardware watchdog kills RF output if the GUI stalls, requiring manual reset to resume. A Python/SCPI bridge talks to the FPGA via /dev/mem, while 16,384-sample BRAM holds audio (alarm and two parts). Formal verification covers the watchdog properties.
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Garment Notation Language (GNL) is a formal descriptive language for garment construction. It treats the body as the coordinate system, models garments as surfaces with boundaries, encodes build order, and is composable. The repo provides a PEG grammar for GNL, a parser producing a typed AST, and a live viewer that renders assembled garments and flat pattern pieces. It includes a Korosteleva Dataset Converter (2D panel geometry → GNL) and four example templates (tee, skirt, pants, dress) with a GNL/JSON comparison toggle. Documentation covers v0.2 (draft) specs.
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Shiro is a single self-contained HTML file that boots a Unix-like shell in the browser. Its IndexedDB filesystem provides a POSIX-like API, with files surviving reloads and all commands implemented in JavaScript. It runs entirely client-side with no server, supports npm, node, and real git-like operations via isomorphic-git, and can snapshot the filesystem as a GIF for restoration by drag-and-drop. The ~420 KB gzipped app is deployable anywhere (GitHub Pages, S3, locally).
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Chrome Stable Update: Windows/Mac get 145.0.7632.75/76; Linux 144.0.7559.75; rollout over coming days/weeks. Contains 1 security fix: CVE-2026-2441 (Use-after-free in CSS); exploit exists in the wild. Full changes listed in the log/security pages; some bug details may be restricted until widespread update. Thanks to researchers; Google notes sanitizer-based detection. To switch channels or report issues, follow release guidance and bug filing resources.
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Martin Fowler reports on Thoughtworks' Future of Software Development Retreat, noting it wasn’t about a new AI manifesto. An 8-theme summary covers rigor, the 'middle loop' of supervisory engineering, risk-tiering, languages and semantics, and the human side. AI accelerates but exposes gaps in traditional practices; LLMs may shift roles toward Expert Generalists, blur silos, and raise token-cost questions. Security and platform thinking matter; evolutionary design with small releases remains valuable. Adam Tornhill’s study finds AI-friendliness rises with code health; TDD is crucial for effective LLM use. Overall, uncertainty persists but direction clearer.
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AXIOM OS is a math-native Linux workstation built from Linux From Scratch that fuses AI with formal mathematics. It rejects garbage collection, virtual machines, and traditional schedulers in favor of a neurosymbolic stack: Alexitha (neurosymbolic brain), Flux (native math shell), and Tenet (game-theoretic scheduler). It features zero-copy memory, a GPU-first kernel, and a rewritten allocator to eliminate GC pauses. The stack includes Qwen 2.5 7B, OpenBLAS, and formal verification engines (Flux/Tenet) with GMP/MPFR/MPC, LAPACK, and Eigen. No telemetry; native hardware optimization; aims for fast boot and deterministic latency.
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Chained assignment (a = b = []) creates a single list object shared by a and b, so a.append(1) mutates b as well. CPython bytecode analysis with dis shows a single BUILD_LIST followed by COPY and two STORE_FAST, meaning both names reference the same list. In contrast, regular assignments (a = []; b = []) produce two BUILD_LIST instructions and two distinct lists. The article explains CPython’s stack-based VM and how to read bytecode with dis, and warns to avoid chained assignment when distinct objects are intended; it cites a PyCon 2018 talk for more context.
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