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Matheus Alves released Singularity, an open-source Linux rootkit designed as a research testbed. The kernel module uses the Ftrace framework to hook system calls and present an unmodified system, while concealing the rootkit, attacker-controlled processes, network activity, and files. It can add hidden processes via a signal or an environment variable, hides /proc entries and files matching patterns (default 'singularity'), and hides network traffic on port 8081. It avoids kernel patching, blocks unloading, and includes cleanup tools. It's tested on modern 6.x kernels, supports x86/x86_64, and is MIT licensed. Not known in the wild.
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Milk-V Titan is a $329 mini-ITX board powered by UltraRISC UR-DP1000 octa-core 64‑bit RISC-V (up to 2.0 GHz). It supports up to 64GB DDR4 ECC, M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4, and a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot for a GPU/accelerator. Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 ports, a BMC, and debug USB-C. No onboard video; requires a discrete GPU. Power ~14W idle, ~30W under load. 170×170 mm form factor. OS support: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora; mainline Linux expected by Q4 2026. In stock now at $329 on Arace.
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"figma-use" CLI lets AI agents control Figma from the command line with full read/write access. It offers 100+ commands and a render --stdin workflow that takes JSX to create frames, text, components, auto-layout, variants, and styles. Supports reusable components, component sets, variable bindings, and direct property commands. Provides installation guidance, examples, and a ready-made SKILL.md for Claude/Cursor integration. Can run via a proxy or MCP server for compatibility, using a fast multiplayer protocol to accelerate actions. MIT license; npm package @dannote/figma-use.
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During a global techno-biological catastrophe, Toronto’s data-centers stay online as sysadmins keep networks running while the city burns. Felix Tremont, a veteran administrator, endures the loss of his wife Kelly and their infant son, yet helps survivors form a new social order from the remains of the Internet. He’s elected the first Prime Minister of Cyberspace, guiding a distributed governance to preserve infrastructure and rebuild a community with Rosa, Van, and others—finding purpose in rebuilding rather than lamenting the old world.
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Daniel W. Drezner argues Trump’s push to seize Greenland via tariffs is a reckless miscalculation. He contrasts Trump’s aborted Iran strike with European leaders’ push to avoid military action, then describes Trump’s plan to slap 10% tariffs on Denmark and other European NATO nations (rising to 25% unless Greenland is sold), framed as countering China/Russia. Critics say Greenland is unnecessary, undermines trade deals, and harms U.S. credibility; Canada-China talks show Beijing gaining ground. The piece labels the Greenland gambit as illogical, self-defeating, and dangerous.
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Dave Kiss argues against the hype of “vibe coding,” noting that real AI-assisted development now requires disciplined supervision. Engineers plan, define architecture, ask clarifying questions, and validate outputs to ensure scalability and maintenance. He coins “agentic coding”—using AI agents while preserving expertise and judgment. The piece highlights the emotional cost of losing craft, the risk of novices overtrusting AI, and the need to maintain problem-focused thinking even as tools accelerate delivery. Side projects may ride vibes, but production work demands structure and careful oversight.
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Tauformer is a topological Transformer that replaces dot-product attention with a Laplacian-derived taumode scalar per token/head. Attention logits become negative distances between taumode values, biasing toward domain-relevant relations via a persistent domain-memory Laplacian. It keeps Q/K/V, RoPE, and masking but stores KV-cache as (V, lambda_k), cutting per-layer cache by ~50%. A 30M-parameter TauGPT run (6 layers, 6 heads, d_model 384, seq_len 1024) on local JSONL data shows rapid learning: train loss 4.68 (step100), val 4.93; step2000 val loss 2.36; best val_loss 1.9146 at step 4500. Plans adaptive taumode recalibration and scale to larger models; code/data to be released.
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After finishing Bob Thomas’s Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire, the author praises Roy Disney as the steadfast financial counterweight to Walt, highlighting Roy’s selflessness, risk management, and role in supporting CalArts. He argues that today’s creative industries lack Roy-type producers, despite abundance of Walts, blaming democratized tools and fractured audiences though not fully. He notes Meow Wolf’s Vince Kadlubek as a Roy-like figure, and admits he himself needs a Roy to balance creativity with finances.
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Adam Drake argues that simple shell-based streaming pipelines can outperform Hadoop for data tasks often thought Big Data. Using chess PGN data (~3.46GB, ~2M games), he shows how to extract Result lines and count white wins, black wins, and draws with a pipeline: grep, awk, and optional sort/uniq, then parallelize with find/xargs and mawk. Memory use is near-zero; processing time drops from Hadoop’s 26 minutes to about 12 seconds on a single machine (roughly 235x faster). Conclusion: many Big Data tasks benefit from traditional Unix tools and streaming approaches rather than heavy Hadoop setups.
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EU and Mercosur signed a free-trade agreement after 25 years, creating one of the world’s largest free-trade zones. Tariffs between the EU and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) will be cut by over 90%, with many reductions phased in over 10–15 years. In 2024, trade stood at €111 billion. The deal would boost EU exports such as cars, wine and cheese, and Mercosur exports like beef and soy. It faces opposition from some European farmers over competition and deforestation concerns. The accord now needs ratification by the European Parliament and Mercosur member legislatures; Lula da Silva skipped the signing.
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Five practical lessons for serving models with Triton: 1) Choose the right serving layer—Triton suits classical inference; LLMs are often better with vLLM. 2) Protect latency with server-side timeouts to prevent backlog, especially in Python backends. 3) Keep client libraries minimal; avoid hidden retries; handle them at the call site. 4) Leverage Triton’s built-in cache where appropriate; monitor cache hits and queue depth. 5) Prefer ThreadPoolExecutor for client-side parallelism to achieve simple, bounded concurrency. Conclusion: Triton shines for traditional workloads; for LLMs, consider specialized systems.
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The piece claims Elon Musk's hubris has doomed Tesla's prospects. It blames his disdain for traditional door handles on safety risks and regulatory pushback; argues BEV sales fell behind BYD and VW/Renault due to Musk's micromanagement of the Cybertruck and 4680 battery, plus abandoning affordable models. It asserts FSD remains unsafe and unprofitable, failing a robotaxi plan; Waymo wins due to safer, layered autonomy. It notes Tesla's 4680 drift toward LFP and 4680 battery failures, while BYD's blade battery undercuts costs. Finally, it argues Optimus is a PR gimmick; Tesla is effectively a zombie company with a ticking clock.
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Consent-O-Matic is an open-source browser extension from the Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI) at Aarhus University that automatically handles cookie consent banners according to user preferences. After setup, it detects CMP banners, applies chosen consents, and shows a checkmark. It supports 200+ CMPs (e.g., UserCentrics, CookieBot, OneTrust) and is extensible via custom rule lists. Rules are JSON-based, with detectors, methods, DOM selectors, and actions. Installation via official stores; builds and source available; users can contribute or report non-working sites.
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DM-chess is a lightweight, ASCII-based chess game you can play directly via Slack DMs or SMS with no setup, logins, or external apps. Players input moves in algebraic notation (e.g., e2 e4); the board is sent as ASCII art and updates after every move. Features: zero setup, text-only boards, command-based play, and security by design with no data sharing or integrations. Implemented in TypeScript (MIT license).
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Data moats are eroding; the new edge is data activation—transforming proprietary data into formats LLMs can digest to demonstrably boost performance, faster than rivals can replicate insights. In healthcare, AI adoption is accelerating: healthcare queries comprise over 5% of ChatGPT messages, with ~40 million daily users and growing. OpenAI and Anthropic are launching healthcare offerings. Early work shows structured data can improve LLM reasoning: Tables2Traces uses contrastive explanations for fine-tuning; EHR-R1 uses thinking-graph pipelines to derive relations, yielding strong gains on smaller models. Challenges remain—traces can be unfaithful; the right transformation is still unknown.
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GibRAM is an in-memory knowledge graph server for retrieval augmented generation (RAG). It merges a graph store with vector search to keep related information connected in memory, aiding retrieval of related regulations, articles, or text when a query mentions specific subjects. It is in-memory and ephemeral (RAM with TTL), meant for short-lived analysis rather than persistent storage. It stores named entities, relationships, and document chunks alongside embeddings in one structure, enabling graph-aware retrieval via traversal and semantic search. A Python SDK provides a GraphRAG workflow with swappable chunker, extractor, and embedder. Quick start: binary, Docker, or Python usage.
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A comprehensive directory from Iconify listing hundreds of open‑source icon sets, grouped by style and use (UI, Logos, Emoji, Flags/Maps, Thematic, Multicolor, Archive/Unmaintained, etc.). Each item shows the set name, license, and icon count (examples: Material Symbols ~15k; Font Awesome 6 Solid ~1.4k; Feather ~255; BoxIcons ~a few thousand). It demonstrates the breadth and licensing variety of icons available through Iconify.
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ThinkNext Design champions purposeful, empathetic branding-driven design that delivers value visually, physically, and experientially. The article highlights a history of IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad design achievements (1994–2018) led by David Hill, including the AS/400 redesign, security keystick, TrackPoint caps, Netfinity/NetVista, ThinkLight, X300 carbon fiber, Skylight, ThinkPad wordmark with heartbeat LED, X1 Tablet modules, ThinkShutter privacy cover, and other milestone ThinkPad designs that shaped the brand and product experience.
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