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NGI TALER announces Taler Operations AG will be founded in Bochum to operate GNU Taler in the Euro, starting in Germany and expanding to the Euro-zone. After GLS Bank opted not to pursue EMI licensing, Taler Operations AG will apply to BaFin for authorization as an electronic money institution. The company, a German stock corporation in formation and a subsidiary of Taler Systems SA (Luxembourg), will run the Taler exchange in Germany for Euro payments. Investments from at least €50,000 are being sought to fund the license and launch; details at [email protected]. Taler remains free software.
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NetHack’s Gnomish Mines are generated with cellular automata to produce organic caves in the maze of square rooms. Begin with 40% floor cells, then apply four CA passes on a floor/rock grid. Pass 1 (unbuffered) clusters floors: 0–2 neighbor floors → rock; 3–4 unchanged; 5–8 → floor. Pass 2 makes rocks of cells with exactly five floor neighbors. Passes 3 and 4 are buffered erosions: 0–2 → rock; 3–8 unchanged. This smooths corners and removes tiny islands; finally, add extra corridors to connect disjoint areas. The author notes curiosity about Pass 2’s purpose.
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Americans are moving wealth with them. Florida led 2023 inflows and 2019–2023 net wealth gains (net income $137B; 2023 AGI ≈$21B; avg income $122,530). Inflows also to Texas, NC/SC, AZ, and TN; California had the largest outflow ($12B in 2023; $91B total 2019–2023). New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts also saw sizable outflows. The trend favors lower-cost, high-growth Sun Belt states, affecting housing demand, tax revenues, and local economies.
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HackiOS — XNU kernel is a research project by OOSEX GANG that ports Apple's XNU kernel (iOS 16.5) to Android hardware and QEMU using a custom EFI loader and UEFI port with a Linux Wi‑Fi driver. It runs the iOS userland entirely in RAM atop patched kernel and injected libraries; no Apple files are stored in the repos. Supports POCO X5 Pro 5G (redwood) or QEMU, via unlocked bootloader and adb/fastboot; IPSW components are fetched locally for builds. Not a ROM; works include lock screen, Settings, many apps; Sileo/Procursus available. Licensed APSL 2.0; not affiliated with Apple.
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Uberblok is an interactive ZFS museum that presents room-by-room explanations of ZFS design using OpenZFS code excerpts (zfs-2.4.4). Its centerpiece is the uberblock: a pool-wide root with ub_txg and ub_rootbp and a ring of 128 uberblocks across disk labels; on import the valid block with the highest txg is chosen. Rooms cover history, the tree and uberblock, copy-on-write and checksums, transaction groups, vdevs, RAID-Z, snapshots, ARC, metaslabs, ZIL/SLOG, send/receive, and compression, dedup, encryption, plus the engineering room. Credits and licenses: CC BY 4.0, MIT; not affiliated with OpenZFS.
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This Fly.io post chronicles replacing a homemade JuiceFS-based Sprites filesystem with the Sprites Block Device (SBD). The old stack used object storage for data plus a metadata database and a separate checkpoints database, which inevitably drifted out of sync and failed under aggressive dogfooding. SBD presents a bucket as a Linux block device via NBD, formats it with ext4, and keeps metadata in the bucket itself. A daemon handles reads/writes and background uploads; checkpoints are block snapshots tracked in SBD’s catalog. Restore is simple, and SBD is far more reliable, becoming the default. Migration available for sprites created before 10/6.
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An art archive listing over six million works from 3000 BC to 2026, spanning Renaissance to modernism. It gathers iconic paintings, prints and sculptures by major artists such as Hokusai, Vermeer, van Gogh, Munch, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Monet, David, Seurat, Ingres, and many others. Highlights include The Wave off Kanagawa; Girl with a Pearl Earring; The Starry Night; The Scream; Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; The Night Watch; Ophelia; Napoleon Crossing the Alps; The Ambassadors; The Cornfield, among thousands more.
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VMMouse for NT 3.x is a QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver for Windows NT 3.x. Build can be done with Docker (make docker-build). Install by mounting build/vmmouse.iso and running D:\INSTALL.BAT, then reboot; uninstall with D:\UNINSTALL.BAT and reboot. Tested on NT 3.51 SP5 (Intel). Licensed under MIT.
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Live feed of 34 ongoing security incidents (last updated Oct 22, 2026). The feed tracks critical/high flaws across widely used platforms and apps, including GitLab CVE-2026-110264 (RCE), ksmbd Linux kernel RCE, LiteLLM supply-chain compromise, BIND 9 GSS-TSIG replay, Plex Media Server (Plex2Shell) chain, Node.js Brotli RCE, Railway access to env vars, Signal RingRTC, PHP2Shell, and others. Entries show affected products, severities, patch status (live/ patched/ partial), and advisories; users are advised to monitor and patch promptly.
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James Wall Finn (c.1866–1913) was a decorative painter whose work enlivens many Manhattan Gilded Age interiors, from the Rose Main Reading Room to the Morgan Library, the Lyceum Theatre, and the Payne Whitney Mansion (Villa Albertine). Working with leading architects, he aimed to harmonize wall paintings with architecture rather than stand as a fine artist. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, Finn drew on Italian primitives and Pinturicchio, imitating Tiepolo’s blues and Florentine ceilings. Though obscure today, his murals for patrons like Astor and JP Morgan helped define American Renaissance interiors; a 2019 plaque commemorates him.
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Amazon Threat Intelligence identified PHP2Shell exploitation attempts in MadPot telemetry on Oct 17, 2026, four days before public CVE disclosure (CVE-2026-109618/109619). Attacks came from anonymized IPs, suggesting multiple actors; earliest PoCs appeared around Oct 21. It’s unclear if any real systems were compromised. Takeaways: embargo protects defenders only until others discover the bug; coordinated disclosure remains sound, but exploitation can predate advisory. Patch immediately to fixed PHP versions; use detections beyond signatures; review web logs; monitor the listed IOCs and consider temporary mitigations like blocking risky uploads. AWS WAF guidance available.
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Repeated HTTP 403 Forbidden error, indicating access to a resource is denied.
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Gridification is turning a live performance into a machine‑perfect recording by post‑performance temporal correction (quantizing, aligning hits to a grid). The piece contrasts 1975 top‑5 pop with 2025 top‑5, where modern mixes often exhibit precise timing; one track (Shaboozey) breaks the trend. It argues such corrections erase lived time, reducing music to a machinic representation and undermining the knowledge music conveys about human time. The Musical Form Institute promotes Embodied Production and a Certificate of Embodied Production to preserve authentic performances.
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Eigenmoon is a moonlit take on linear algebra.
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Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities were accidentally posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list instead of the private security list. They are not yet patched on mainline, though some patches are in testing or -next. Some CVSS 9.0 flaws include: ZDI-CAN-33549 (SMB Direct remote code execution via integer underflow); ZDI-CAN-33774 (KSMBD race leading to remote code execution); ZDI-CAN-33367 (skb_zerocopy local privilege escalation); ZDI-CAN-34068 (VMware VMWGFX out-of-bounds write causing LPE); ZDI-CAN-34076 (NVMET uninitialized resource causing information disclosure); ZDI-CAN-32005 (search-domain TCP query stack buffer overflow causing LPE). Greg Kroah-Hartman questioned the submissions.
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ns2jb is a software-only, tethered jailbreak for Switch 2 on firmware 23.0.1 (as of Oct 18, 2026) that lets you run arbitrary native code as ordinary or built-in sysmodules, enabling homebrew, modding, save dumping, and peripheral access. The effort splits into two paths: a WebKit-based code execution approach hampered by IPC, XOM, PAC, and CFI barriers, and a practical SmileBASIC route on Switch 1 yielding ARW via a path-normalization overflow to replace ExeFS and load arbitrary main.npdm in ro. This grants code execution with sysmodule permissions, enabling fs access and potential other built-ins. Next steps: port fs exploits to WebKit and explore more built-ins; also tested on Switch 1.
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Repeated HTTP 403 Forbidden error indicating access is denied.
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Minotaur AI Deep Dive introduces an AI that reasons without a language model or GPU, using a three-role framework called ELC—Energy drives a system, Control constrains it, and Logic relates the two. A neural ELC network settles questions; an exact calculator handles arithmetic, and a one-way crossing preserves a verifiable chain of thought and certificates. The system can perform deduction, induction, abduction, diagnosis, and history reasoning, learning either from descriptions or data. In blind tests, it matched a current language model on several tasks, with fully certifiable reasoning, and outperformed traditional approaches when problems lacked explicit models.
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