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Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. found that a pro se plaintiff, Matthew Elliott, secretly hid AI-readable instructions in court filings to sway a case about access to medical records. The invisible prompts, designed to steer the court’s AI-like review, failed to affect the merits; Elliott faced sanctions and was barred from e-filing, though not fined monetarily. Spader called prompt injection a growing risk as courts rely more on AI, urged clearer rules, and warned that pro se litigants often misuse chatbots by crafting arguments that seek only to confirm their position rather than reveal truth.
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doeken.org has converted W3C’s Understanding WCAG 2.2 into EPUB and PDF for offline reading and as an audit-remediation aid. The document explains each success criterion’s intent, beneficiaries, and how to meet it. The unofficial, automatically generated files preserve the content but adapt layout for EPUB/PDF; they are not normative. Source remains the W3C; updates and the exact source commit are printed inside each file. Free downloads: EPUB (3.4 MB) and PDF (7.5 MB). Last updated: Aug 10, 2026.
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During the early 1960s, Egypt under Nasser pursued long-range missiles, turning to former Nazi scientists. German experts like Heinz Krug led production at sites including Factory 333 and two desert locations. In 1962, Krug vanished after a meeting with a man named “Mr. Saleh” and was never seen again, prompting investigations and assassination rumors. Mossad and German authorities pressured and attacked other scientists; bombs and shootings followed. Krug’s fate remains unknown, crippling the program and leaving historians to speculate about his death.
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Silent Shark is a tactical map-based WWII Pacific submarine simulator now on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with a browser demo and upcoming iOS/Android versions. Play centers on solving geometry to track, identify, and intercept ships using hydrophones, bearings, stadimeter rangefinding, and period instruments. Features a full Pacific campaign, six submarine classes, lifeguard missions, upgrades, dynamic seas and thermal layers, radio intelligence, and historical events, plus 32 Steam achievements. It emphasizes chart-driven observation over full 3D immersion.
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ThoughtDAG makes LLM context visible and editable by turning each question-and-answer turn into a node in a mutable context graph. Edges encode what the model will see; you can prune branches, merge evidence, or open detours without overwriting history. Before generation you can inspect the ordered ancestors and token load. The desktop app bundles a local engine and the same app runs as a web demo. The graph remains your provenance: no hidden memory selection, and you control what enters and leaves the prompt.
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UCSD and Oberlin researchers built a coin-sized, Wi‑Fi-enabled device that can be inserted into an exterior-access hatch on a Boeing 737. In under a minute it can spoof signals on the 737’s flight-management bus, alter autopilot commands and takeoff/fuel data, and display false cockpit readings, potentially diverting flights or causing crashes. They call the method “Bus Driver” and built an avionics test bed “Triton.” Boeing says protections mitigate risk, but researchers warn it reveals a practical physical-access threat and urge fixes—epoxy the port, isolate systems, or add cryptographic checks.
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To reduce SSH exposure, the author shuts port 22 and uses fwknop Single Packet Authorization (SPA) to open it only for clients with valid SPA packets. Port knocking alone is insecure; SPA encrypts and signs a UDP packet, and fwknopd temporarily inserts an iptables rule to open port 22 for you for a short window 120s. Keys: separate encryption and HMAC keys stored in Ansible vaults and Bitwarden. Client config uses ~/.fwknoprc and a ProxyCommand in SSH config. Tailscale offers a parallel path. Result: port 22 remains hidden from scans; SSH works only with SPA or Tailscale.
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Sean Byrne recounts being wrongly flagged by U.S. restricted-party screening as Sean Byrne of Cloonmull House, Drumcliffe, Sligo, tied to Mac Aviation's illegal exports to Iran. Apple denied App Store Connect citing a match, despite providing passport and driver's license and evidence that the person doesn't exist—the Entity List entry lacks DOB or identity details and may be linked to a fictitious employee used by Mac Aviation. Other incidents with Nasdaq and DHL SpaceX similarly yielded false positives. The piece argues for better identity matching and earlier screening in recruitment, and questions the integrity of the screening ecosystem.
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Yesterdays of Richmond is a map-based project that crowdsources and georeferences historical images of Richmond, Virginia from multiple archives (The Valentine, Library of Virginia, VCU, RTD, etc.). It features subjects like Jackson Ward, Ebenezer Baptist Church, local landmarks, and notable people, with recent activity and a contribution interface. It operates as an OpenStreetMap US Charter Project.
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An in-depth look at the PC version (based on the 1993 Sega CD/1992 Genesis game) uncovers a hidden cheat system. A bugged About EccoWin dialog unlocks a cheat menu when you dismiss the dialog with Shift+Ctrl held and certain mouse actions; this then allows Shift+Ctrl+Right-click on the main window to access cheats. Stage lets you pick a starting stage (F2 to start); Life and Stage cheats grant unlimited life and air, with meters hidden. An extended cheat menu adds Easy, CD check, and border options. These cheats may enable endings.
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Deltix lets you test mobile apps like real users by running tasks on a Mac, using a local agent that attaches to an iOS simulator. You describe a task in plain English; the agent executes it, captures steps and screenshots, and saves successful flows as Playbooks for deterministic replay. Modes: Task (one-off), Playbook (replay), Experiment (compare two builds). It aims from discovery to regression, with privacy: source and build stay on your Mac. Open beta; sign up free, no credit card; later Android, real devices, CI.
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The Magnetophon, a German hi-fi reel-to-reel tape recorder developed by AEG with I.G. Farben, revolutionized radio after its 1935 Berlin show debut and later improvements like AC bias in the K4 (1938). Used by Nazis for propaganda, it spread postwar when U.S. engineer Jack Mullin recovered a Magnetophon, helping bring tape recording to America. Bing Crosby championed the tech, investing in Ampex, enabling prerecording of shows from 1947. A side consequence: editors began adding laugh tracks by splicing in canned laughter, shaping modern broadcast humor.
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CorgiGirls.com briefly ranked Corgi’s female employees by attractiveness, using scraped LinkedIn photos and a real-time leaderboard. It appears to have been created by Sebastian Mandal, who posted about buying the domain and even tagged Mark Zuckerberg. Corgi says it had no involvement and condemns the site as demeaning; its legal team sent notices, and the site was taken down amid a traffic surge (more than 200,000 unique visitors). The domain now errors. The company emphasizes it will protect employees’ privacy and will not tolerate exploitation.
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Eigendrum is an interactive tool that lets you draw a drumhead shape (or write a formula) and hear the resulting spectrum. It solves the eigenvalue problem for a clamped membrane via finite elements, generating modes as standing waves and frequencies proportional to sqrt(lambda). Striking excites a mix of modes based on hit location; you can hear individual modes by selecting them. Shapes are scaled to equal area, so pitch depends on size and tension, not the outline. MIT-licensed, free to use, client-side only.
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The Financial Times shows a Security Verification page asking users to enable JavaScript and cookies to proceed, with a 403 error and a challenge ID. It includes links to Terms, Privacy, Cookie Policy, and notes FT trademarks and its adherence to the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
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Pete Mertz rails against huge PRs, urging small, digestible changes that are easy to review. He argues code should be understandable from good naming and minimal, meaningful docs, not 50-line comments. While praising AI's help, he warns it adds reviewer burden by reingesting or requiring full diffs, and questions AI-only workflows that bypass human review. He laments that large PRs slow progress, recalling React's lesson, and asks teams to separate AI grok from human review. Bottom line: prefer small, well-named, well-documented PRs with human oversight.
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