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403 Forbidden — you don’t have permission to access the resource at bruceediger.com; the Apache/2.4.67 (Debian) server on port 443 refused access.
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Researchers found a client-side authorization flaw in FIFA platforms: registering on the FIFA Agent Platform adds you to FIFA’s Entra tenant, but backend APIs trust the tenant and serve data to NO_ROLES users. This exposed feeds and controls in fdp.fifa.org and cis.fifa.org, including RTMP ingest URLs, stream keys (shared across all camera angles), and the ability to start/stop/schedule streams, edit stats, lineups, and notes. A dev Azure function also exposed spreadsheets. After contacting FIFA, MediaKind, HBS, CISA, and FBI, the issue was fixed, but FIFA gave no acknowledgment. Recommendation: enforce server-side checks and publish a vulnerability disclosure policy.
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An extensive archive entry listing thousands of typography specimens and images from global collections (France, Germany, Austria, UK, US, Spain, Finland, etc.), spanning 1600s–2000s. It catalogs specimen books, typefoundry releases (Caslon, Mozet, Rosart, Deberny & Cie, Fournier, Peignot, Didot, Monotype, etc.), ornaments, borders, fleurons, calligrams, and ex-libris. Recurrent motifs include typotecture, silhouette style, letter-as-shape, and 'A specimen of printing types' series; many entries labeled 'Special Collections — Typography Tuesday' and 'Typographische Mitteilungen'. The text serves as a metadata dump for a typography archive.
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In a Windows-era x86-32 emulator that used a binary translator, a program attempted to allocate 64KB on the stack and initialize it. The compiler unrolled the initialization into 65,536 individual writes (256KB of code), instead of a loop. The emulator team found this absurd and added special handling in the translator to detect this function and replace it with an efficient tight loop, effectively fixing the problem during emulation.
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Biohub and UC Berkeley unveiled a laser phase plate for cryo-EM that uses a high-intensity laser in a Fabry-Perot cavity to shift electron wave phase, boosting image contrast for small proteins (up to ~44%). They developed single-laser and dual-beam cross configurations (xLPP) to reduce ghost images. Demonstrations on aldolase, hemoglobin, apoferritin, and frozen E. coli show markedly clearer structures, including inside cells via cryo-ET. This could enable routine atomic-detail imaging of proteins in native cellular contexts and accelerate data-driven biology.
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Microsoft is turning to Amazon Web Services to handle AI workloads as GitHub faces a crunch in AI capacity.
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The piece traces JEPA models to Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), Hotelling’s 1936 idea of maximizing cross-covariance between two data views under whitening. In JEPA, two views are mapped to z_x and z_y via a shared encoder and predictor, and the objective minimizes ||z_x−z_y||^2. Without whitening this can collapse, so SIGReg enforces isotropic Gaussian embeddings to restore unit variance and independence. The author argues JEPA is not unique to LeCun but a modern extension of CCA/Predictability Maximization, with nonlinearity as an enhancement, and stresses the need for proper citations.
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Cohere unveils North Mini Code, its first developer-focused model. A 30B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 3B active, designed for agentic coding tasks and on-prem/local deployment. Apache 2.0 open-source; downloadable on Hugging Face and Cohere’s Model Vault, usable via OpenCode or Cohere API. Optimized for speed and cost, delivering up to 2.8x higher throughput and ~30% lower inter-token latency vs peers; AI Coding Index around 33.4. Built for sovereign, open developer ecosystems, with community feedback shaping future models.
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LLMs tend to over-implement rather than reuse libraries, so AI-generated code often ends up over-engineered. Reviewing such code is time-consuming and bogged down by debates about unnecessary complexity. Rewriting with AI is now cheap: simplify, reuse libraries, drop unused features. This shifts the workload upstream—invest more in upfront planning and scope, then implement, test, and rewrite to trim complexity. The bottleneck shifts from reviewing to rewriting; flagging/iterating costs drop, while the risk of passing code remains the same.
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Amazon Web Services announced a multibillion-dollar data center campus in Montgomery County, Missouri, creating 400+ full-time jobs plus thousands of construction roles. The campus will power AWS cloud and AI workloads used daily in remote work, streaming, healthcare, and finance, expanding Missouri's AWS footprint beyond 10,000 employees. It has Ameren Missouri agreements to avoid ratepayer impacts and includes a 138 MW carbon-free energy project. The site uses energy- and water-saving features (free-air cooling, rainwater harvesting, on-site recycling) and will use less than 0.1% of the local aquifer. The investment is expected to boost tax revenue and fund community programs.
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Ghost domain problem: a domain pulled by its registry can still look healthy to uptime monitors because recursive resolvers cache the apex NS data, so NXDOMAIN only appears in caches. It affects multiple registries (DE, EU, FR, ICANN gTLDs). Oh Dear explains the mechanism and fixes: run a local Unbound resolver on each checker, enable hardened-referral-path, clamp cached apex NS data (cache-max-ttl) to about one hour, and start DNSSEC in log-only mode. This shortens the ghost window though it won't fix DNS completely. They recommend running DNS monitoring alongside uptime monitoring; 10-day free trial.
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San Francisco weighs a PG&E takeover to curb rising utility costs and outages. After December outages and a class-action suit, the Board reaffirmed plans to cut PG&E ties. Since Prop A (2018), the Public Utilities Commission can issue revenue bonds to buy infrastructure with two-thirds board approval, potentially avoiding a ballot. SF submitted a $3.4B valuation; PG&E says assets are undervalued and removal costs are ignored, and argues a takeover would raise rates. Experts say rates could drop 15-20% within a decade, but benefits are regional.
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KC Sivaramakrishnan outlines an OCaml course for NPTEL where the book is the website and code runs entirely in the browser—no install or server. It uses two tiers: a light OCaml-to-JS cell with Merlin and a in-browser Linux VM for real builds. A single Markdown source generates the pages, slides, and runnable/checked cells; quizzes run in-browser with anonymous results. Nine of twelve modules are live, covering FP, OxCaml, memory safety, testing, and unikernels. An LLM-assisted pedagogy with ongoing review; an in-browser tutor is envisioned. Public repo.
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Steven Marks chronicles reviving Atomic Calendar Revive, a Home Assistant Lovelace calendar card he forked after the original stalled. It syncs Google Calendar, CalDAV, or HA calendars and renders as an agenda or month view, with many options and a visual YAML editor; built with TypeScript and Rollup, distributed via HACS. Six hard-earned lessons emerged: forking is a commitment; preserve backwards compatibility; maintain with a moving platform; automate everything; triage and say no; burnout and sustainability matter. The project: 629 stars, 79 forks, 1,700+ commits, 200+ automated releases. It shows responsible OSS stewardship and invites contributions and sponsorship.
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A personal webpage for Bas Smits with a welcome message and a nod to Commander Keen.
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An idea to hide banned books in cheap Wi‑Fi smart bulbs by turning each bulb into an open access point with a local web server hosting ebooks. The author teardowns ESP32C3 bulbs, experiments with Tasmota, then writes custom firmware using Arduino and later ESP-IDF to run a web server and store books on LittleFS. They modify the ESP32 partition table to allocate ~2MB for books, add OTA safeboot, and build a captive portal for setup. The 4MB flash limits storage and shapes book selection; future tweaks include color control and mesh networking.
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During a job search, the author observes Kubernetes is now universal. Where five years ago teams ranged from bare VMs to serverless, today everyone uses K8s. CTOs prize non-tech benefits: uniform deployments, a shared, deployable knowledge base in YAML, and GitOps-driven traceability for compliance. Helm and managed K8s make adoption easier, shifting the focus from technical novelty to organizational reliability. The author cautions that clusters are hard to debug; start with Kubernetes only when a second engineer is onboard, otherwise a simple VPS can suffice for speed.
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Sweden’s Riksdag approved abolishing permanent residence permits for people in need of protection and for long-term residents, as well as their relatives. The move aims to align Sweden’s asylum rules with EU law, improve integration, and reduce social exclusion by cutting asylum-related immigration. The amendments take effect 12 July 2026 (with transitional provisions); changes to the Reception Act apply from 2 October 2026. Committee report SfU30.
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