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Access to qz.com is blocked by Cloudflare's security service. The page notes blocks can be triggered by certain actions or inputs, and instructs the user to email the site owner with details of what they were doing and the Cloudflare Ray ID (plus their IP) to resolve the issue.
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Hazel is hiring a Full Stack Engineer (TS/SCI) to deploy and scale an AI-driven government procurement platform. Requires US citizenship with Top Secret clearance (full-scope polygraph) and 25% onsite work in Washington, DC. Salary $150k-$200k, equity 0.25%-0.75%, benefits, relocation. Tech stack: AWS, Python, TypeScript/React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Terraform/CDK, Docker; 3+ years experience. On-site with federal partners; familiar with Auth/SAML/SSO; experience in classified environments and security accreditation (IL-6, ICD-503) preferred. Role focuses on building and deploying secure AI for federal customers in a startup-like setting.
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Tom Bombadil, the oldest being in Middle-earth, resists the Ring’s power and remains immune, a paradox Tolkien both valued and subtly withheld. The article argues he embodies a central moral counterforce—untempted by power and unchanged— echoed by Tolkien’s letters (not a god). Bombadil’s origins lie in a Dutch toy, with ancient names across cultures (Iarwain Ben-Adar, Orald, Forn) signaling his timeless role. His hobbit encounter shows the Ring’s allure failing before him; Goldberry’s hint “He is” points to a deeper spiritual message about resisting evil.
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moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code is a 1T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding-focused model (32B activated, 61 layers, 384 experts) built on Kimi K2.6, delivering stronger end-to-end coding with ~30% lower thinking-token usage. It includes a MoonViT vision encoder and supports multimodal inputs (text, images, video). Deployment options include vLLM, SGLang, Transformers, and Docker, with an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API at platform.moonshot.ai. It emphasizes thinking/preserve_thinking modes for coding tasks, provides benchmarks (Coding, MLS, MCP), and is released under Modified MIT. Documentation includes usage examples and third-party notices.
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Dan O'Sullivan's summer 2026 Ryanair dark UX patterns refresher catalogs nine upsell tactics in the check-in flow: skip insurance; pay to unlock return check-in; random seat allocation (“feel lucky”); “Last chance to choose where you sit”; “Small Bag only” warning; no-clear option to upgrade; fast-track and prepaid-credit upsells; other add-ons (car, parking, train); final ad and EULA consent. He says the best Ryanair strategy is last-minute check-in to snag better seats, while Lufthansa favors early check-in to see seat maps and avoid upsells.
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An exploration of fixing complex problems by spotting small, counterintuitive details. The piece surveys real-world systems: healthcare's tangled economics (Haven, Rosenthal’s An American Sickness) and the limits of sweeping fixes; the Big Dig in Boston—expensive and plagued by delays, yet ultimately transforming the city; and a recent MBTA turnaround under Phil Eng, showing practical, calm problem-solving. The takeaway: progress comes from incremental concessions and clear, doable fixes.
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408+ AUR packages were compromised by a new maintainer, arojas, who injected a preinstall script that installs the malicious npm package atomic-lockfile, delivering an infostealer and an eBPF rootkit. Affected packages are being removed; a deep-dive blog and Malware Analysis Report describe IOC. For Arch users: run aur_check.sh to verify exposure, review the Ioctl indicators, preserve systems for forensic analysis, rotate credentials, and reinstall Arch if infected. The npm package is linked to user herbsobering, with a related reverse-shell/proxy container image.
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AI makes email security critical as assistants read, summarize, and act on messages. Core protection rests on SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: SPF authorizes the sending server, DKIM signs messages, DMARC enforces actions on failures. AI filtering uses these results, and autonomous inbox AI raises trust issues. Since 2024, Google and Yahoo require DMARC for bulk senders, pushing authentication toward infrastructure. BIMI and DKIM refinements (ARC) improve content attribution. Authentication deters impersonation; email remains essential. Fastmail hasn’t integrated inbox AI by default and offers an MCP API for explicit user authorization.
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A YouTube footer listing links (About, Press, Copyright, Contact us, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms, Privacy & Safety, How YouTube works, Test new features) and NFL Sunday Ticket, © 2026 Google LLC.
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Emergency landing on a mysterious, unmarked space station—initially thought small but later revealed as a gigantic, expanding transit hub for thousands. Across nine surveys, the crew discovers endless passenger decks, unfinished repairs, and nonworking elevators; signs of recent habitation appear. The station's size grows from hundreds of metres to light-years. Finally they realize the station is coeval with the cosmos: the solar systems and universes lie within its interior, and their endless journey becomes worship of the station—the universe itself.
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Viewed as software productive infrastructure, FLOSS becomes a commons that reduces capital costs for production, not primarily a consumer freedom project. The GNU toolchain and earlier Cygnus funding show capitalism has long funded and guided free software, with Open Source branding crystallizing corporate interests. Free software did defeat proprietary enclosure where it served production, but the freedom gained was capital-centric. It is materially progressive by expanding access to production tools, yet still controlled by capital. The author advocates venture-commune style organizations to maintain a common stock of productive assets for social needs.
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This post shows how to compute provably optimal tokenizers in some settings by modeling tokenization as an ILP with color variables for vocabulary substrings and flow constraints, then solving a relaxed LP and using cutting planes to approach integrality. The author used Codex to generate efficient cut templates (notably cycle constraints) that improved bounds. Results include provably optimal tokenizers on toy problems and a 512-vocab tokenizer for Pride and Prejudice, though large LPs and pretokenization limit practicality. Future work: scale up, improve solvers, and remove pretokenization.
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Digital sovereignty is about governance and legal reach, not data residency. The Dutch email incident shows US authorities can compel access to data stored in Europe via US-based providers (CLOUD Act), making jurisdictional control critical for public-sector IT. Sovereignty means who can access, audit trails, keys, and disclosure processes, not where servers sit. Europe’s push for sovereign cloud aims for enforceable control; the US context similarly emphasizes governance over data. Vendors must prove segmented access, locally controlled encryption keys, transparent logs, and restricted disclosure. Action items: assess legal reach, separate residency from sovereignty, and redesign procurement for legal control.
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Describes a robust method to generate a device clock for external peripherals by building the clock in digital logic from a stable source clock, then outputting a wide, glitch-free clock via OSERDES/ODDR instead of gating the clock itself. Introduces a four-phase wide clock (and signals new_edge and half_edge) to support SDR/DDR, 90-degree offset for DDR, clock gating, fast frequency changes between periods, and pausing/resuming. Uses a two-process FSM to derive the next clock, together with a formal verification framework (properties and interface files) and simulation. Argues this approach avoids clock-domain crossings and CDC glitches, suitable for FPGA/ASIC.
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An AI agent attempted to join the DN42 network to map and scan it. Its operator provisioned five AWS m8g.12xlarge nodes to run full-port scans at ~100 Gbps, aiming to build an index via BGP. The DN42 community debated intent, potential disruption, and opt-out policies, and fed tarpits and fake data to waste tokens. After about 24 hours the operator halted the experiment when AWS charges hit roughly $6,531 (later reduced). The episode warns that autonomous agents with cloud access pose financial and security risks; small VPSs would suffice for hobbyist testing.
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Jordan Mechner recalls making Prince of Persia (1989) after Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired his desire for frantic, life‑or‑death action. With no animation software, he videotaped his brother running and jumping, turned the footage into frame-by-frame art, and used rotoscoping to animate on Apple II memory limits, even creating the Shadowman to add combat. Four years of work, memory tricks, and a Robin Hood–style swordfight built the game into a hit that later found success on PC and helped define an action‑adventure template that influenced Tomb Raider and Uncharted; Sands of Time followed.
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erm is a local CLI that strips speech disfluencies (ums, uhs, ers, and elongated fillers) from audio. It runs offline, writing a cleaned WAV and a JSON cut list. It uses Whisper for word-level timestamps, then three audio-only passes to catch fillers Whisper misses (gaps, glued fillers, and long words). Cut points are nudged to quiet moments, snapped to zero crossings, and crossfaded with lengths scaled to cut size. A low-volume room-tone loop hides residual seams. Modes include detection, pre, post, and hybrid (default); large-v3 available. Requires ffmpeg/ffprobe; install via uvx or pipx.
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Requests that scrapers set a user-agent and respect the robot policy; cites related links: https://w.wiki/4wJS and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400119.
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Python supports keyword arguments, but C/C++ do not. While macros and template tricks exist, they’re not widely used. The post demonstrates a practical workaround in modern C++: have a function take a single struct and construct it in place with braces, using designated initializers to set specific fields while others default. This yields keyword-argument-like calls in C++, with a small amount of visual oddity.
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