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Platform Engineering 2.0 shifts security to the platform, treating AI as a first-class workload with native governance and isolation. It introduces four governance features: central model registry, unified policy enforcement, centralized auditing, and standardized access workflows; and isolation features: dedicated domains, tagged resource pools, zero-trust identities, and cross-layer policies to prevent data leaks and latency issues. The result is an AI-native, composable platform with a neutral trust boundary that reduces AI sprawl and enables scalable, compliant production use of AI agents and LLMs.
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Rootless containers provide stronger host isolation than privileged runtimes. The post explains using Podman with user namespaces (subuid/subgid) and systemd --user to run services without a daemon root. It walks through a PostgreSQL example: run as unprivileged user (librarian), enable lingering, place a user-unit in ~/.config/containers/systemd, map container UID/GID to the host, keep secrets in a 0600 env file, and manage via systemctl --user. It also covers another example (Anubis) with security hardening: ReadOnly root, NoNewPrivileges, and dropping all capabilities. It ends noting networking considerations and promises a future deep dive.
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Spawning up to 1M Tokio tasks for events with 1000 user tokens caused higher peak memory because earlier-event tasks could linger while newer tasks ran. Tokio’s scheduler uses local queues and work stealing, so tasks are polled/completed out of submission order; an event’s tasks can stay alive even as others proceed. Solution: bound concurrent work with a semaphore to cap live events (and thus total live tasks). Throughput stayed fine while memory dropped. Not a Tokio flaw—an application-level fairness/limits issue.
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Let's Seal provides SEAL, an open standard and reference implementation to prove any file is real, unaltered, and sealed. A SEAL artifact cryptographically binds a file’s integrity, a timestamp anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps, and an issuer certificate. Each seal is verifiable against a public, append-only transparency log. It supports multiple formats (PDF, images, XML, email, SBOMs, containers) and can prove domain control for issuer identity. Sealing is offered three free ways: a hosted web app, a REST/CLI/API, or self-hosted. The project is open-source, Apache-2.0, public-benefit.
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Ray tracing highly animated geometry is costly when each mesh deforms and its BVH updates. The paper introduces tetrahedral cages: wrap a low-res cage around the original mesh, partition the mesh into cage pieces, and build static mini-BLASes and rest-pose meshes once. At runtime, animate only the cage and transform rays into rest-pose space to intersect static geometry, yielding a piecewise-linear animation proxy reused across instances. Demonstrated at ~585M animated triangles @60 Hz on RX 9070 XT at 1080p. Best for vegetation, crowds, distant objects; not for topology changes. Future: better cages and a header-only library.
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Rise Reforming converts stranded biogas from wastewater plants, farms, and landfills into chemicals (DME, methanol, DMC) on-site in modular, shipping-container units. The approach provides supply-secure, low-carbon production that avoids fossil-fuel extraction and is scalable with facility-specific modules. It aims for price-competitive outputs versus petrochemical DME and green methanol/DMC. Milestones include proof-of-concept, pilot plant designs, a pilot container at a Chicagoland wastewater plant, joining Y Combinator S26 in 2026, and binding MOUs with biogas producers. They’re seeking collaborators and investors.
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Animation Obsessive spotlights Michiyo Yasuda, Studio Ghibli’s color designer who defined the studio’s signature, nuanced palette. Beginning at Toei Doga, she collaborated with Miyazaki and Takahata, developing color as texture and atmosphere—from the gentle, transparent hues of Totoro to the naturalistic tones of Grave of the Fireflies. She expanded into Nausicaä, Mononoke, and Yamadas, guiding color across cels and later digital painting, sometimes arguing with Miyazaki to balance light and shadow. Her work shaped Ghibli’s sense of reality and depth. The issue also shares newsbits and closing comments from the editors.
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Judge dismissed Google's DMCA 1201 suit against SerpAPI for scraping Google results, though Google may refile on narrower grounds. The court found SearchGuard’s access-control measures do not clearly protect a copyright work, and claims fail where results lack copyrighted content. Google’s broad 1201 theory was not supported. The ruling curbs expanding DMCA 1201 to open web scraping; Google could pursue narrower claims about copyrighted content (e.g., Knowledge Panels). SerpAPI welcomed the decision as defending open web access.
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This post analyzes mapping bytecode offsets to source lines in a VM. A second lines array is memory-heavy (O(n)); improve with run-length encoding (O(r)) but lookup can be O(r) or O(nr). A one-pass traversal with a cursor yields O(n). A better approach stores starting offsets per line (static predecessor), enabling binary search for arbitrary offsets (O(log r)) and a forward cursor for linear traversal (O(n)). Combines both: use binary search for random lookups and cursor for sequential disassembly. JVM and Lua have similar strategies; references to CS224 on predecessor problems.
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Overview of Python Standalone Builds: creates self-contained, portable Python distributions with a full Python installation and standard library, bundling or statically linking dependencies to minimize run-time requirements. Distributions aim to run on targeted architectures and may include build artifacts with metadata for downstream repackaging into custom distributions (e.g., without SQLite or OpenSSL). Related projects include PyOxidizer (downstream repackager) and PyOxy (adds Rust to the interpreter; binaries are single-file executables). The documentation covers running, building, artifacts, runtimes, quirks, and project status.
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Go 1.26’s Green Tea is a non-moving garbage collector that scans memory spans instead of following every pointer. The piece revisits Go’s size-class allocation in 8 KiB spans, and compares Go with C# using small/medium/large object workloads. It shows Green Tea improves cache behavior and overall speed, supported by perf measurements and heap visualizations, though some tests reveal higher L3 MPKI. A key limitation is that non-moving GC cannot reclaim sparse pages, leading to fragmentation after mass frees unless survivors are compacted or moved. Overall, L1/L2 cache gains are real, with fragmentation challenges remain.
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Jensen Huang posted on X defending open access to AI models, joining Google, OpenAI, and Meta in opposing premature restrictions. A letter signed by Nvidia and others argues open models—weights and code accessible and runnable locally—boost safety, innovation, competition, and sovereignty, and should be balanced with closed models. They acknowledge risks (uncontrolled weights, traceability) but contend open weights should not be prohibited. The open-model approach is framed as essential for AI growth and global leadership amid geopolitics over Chinese models and US policy debates.
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FeyNoBg is a state-of-the-art background removal model built on BiRefNet. By deepening the third feature stage (18→24 blocks) it grows to 263M parameters and gains capacity to learn new skills. Trained on a diverse 26.1K-image, 10-dataset mix plus synthetic data, it improves foreground-background separation and boundary matting, delivering S-measures that lead on four of eight benchmarks and stay within 2% of the leader on others (e.g., UHRSD-TE 0.981 vs 0.957; HRSOD-TE 0.983 vs 0.961). The project releases NoBg, a matching open-source library for running/training background removal models with better throughput and memory; both are open source.
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Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s My Eicher fleet-management platform, a security researcher found unauthenticated internal APIs that allowed broad access to user accounts and fleets. Exposed endpoints could reveal 748k customers, 676k vehicles, 76k documents, 2.5 million OTPs, and even permit password updates, enabling account takeover and control of entire fleets in India. The issue was reported to VE Commercial Vehicles in Nov 2025; after no response, the primary vulnerability was fixed by late 2025. Findings were published July 27, 2026. My Eicher provides real-time tracking and geofencing for Indian commercial vehicles.
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Decathlon Germany added Wero to decathlon.de on July 20, making Germany the first market to adopt the European Payments Initiative’s real-time, account-to-account payment. It authenticates in the banking app and never shares card numbers, and Decathlon ties it to its loyalty program to boost retention and reduce card-fee costs. The rollout plans cover about 110 German stores for a seamless online/offline experience, plus a six-week October promo offering a €10 voucher funded by EPI. In-store POS support isn’t expected until 2026–2027, signaling remaining hurdles.
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The site offprint.app returned a 504 Gateway Time-out. Cloudflare reported a gateway timeout error; the page couldn’t load and users were advised to try again in a few minutes.
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AI firms are bulk-buying rare pre-2022 books, shredding the originals after scanning to train models; ISBNdb facilitates anonymous orders up to a million. Pre-2022 texts command a premium for being free of AI-generated text; a federal judge ruled this fair use because no original copies remain. Anthropic reportedly hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.” The piece argues this irreversible destruction risks irreplaceable history, calls the NDAs and “digital preservation” framing alarming, and predicts rapid intensification of such training practices.
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