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During a US-Israel attack on Iran, bombs hit across the country, including Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, where at least 80 children were killed and many others unaccounted for; if confirmed, it would be the deadliest strike of the campaign. Iran’s health ministry called it the "most bitter news." Footage from the site was verified by Factnameh and Reuters. Across Iran, people faced fear and guarded hope for political change as schools closed and civilians stockpiled supplies. The strike followed Trump’s declaration of 'major combat operations' against Iran, amid ongoing protests and repression.
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Cambridge University Library archivist Leontien Talboom fights magnetic decay to preserve data on obsolete floppy disks. Floppies, in many formats, degrade from heat, humidity, and mold, yet some institutions still rely on them for critical updates. Talboom collaborates with retro‑computing enthusiasts to image disks using specialized hardware (Catweasel, Greaseweazle) and recovers material ranging from emails to lectures, including Stephen Hawking’s. As part of the Future Nostalgia project, she published Copy That Floppy!, guiding preservation to prevent a digital dark age.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in power since 1989, was killed in an Israeli airstrike with U.S. support at age 86. The piece notes his ruthless suppression of dissent, consolidation of power with the Revolutionary Guards, and building proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas. He steered Iran's nuclear policy, balancing negotiations (JCPOA) with deep distrust of the U.S. The 2023 Hamas attack and ensuing conflicts precipitated Israeli strikes that crippled Iran's proxies and air defenses, leaving Iran's nuclear program damaged but its ballistic-missile program intact. It remains unclear who will succeed him.
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MinIO is archived and in maintenance mode, but the community can keep it alive. The author forks MinIO to pgsty/minio, restoring the admin console, rebuilding binaries, and restoring CE docs. Commitments: no new features, supply-chain stability, CVE fixes, and production readiness. It highlights AGPL rights to fork, trademark caveats, and AI-assisted maintenance. In short: MinIO as a company project is dead; a community fork can continue open-source development.
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A Vercel security checkpoint prompts the user to enable JavaScript to verify their browser before continuing.
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SmartKNN is a feature-weighted nearest-neighbor algorithm with learned feature importance and adaptive neighbor search. It addresses classic KNN limits with data-driven feature weighting, dimension suppression, automatic preprocessing and normalization, and NaN/Inf handling. Supports regression and classification via a scikit-learn–compatible API, with both brute-force and ANN backends (GPU-accelerated optional). Vectorized NumPy with Numba acceleration. Install via pip install smart-knn; MIT-licensed. Documentation and examples available; v2.x API frozen, actively maintained, benchmarks provided.
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The post explains blocking macOS Tahoe upgrade alerts via a device-management profile that defers major OS updates for 90 days. It highlights the Stop Tahoe Update project and provides steps: clone the repo, make scripts executable, insert two UUIDs into deferral-90days.mobileconfig, optionally set forceDelayedSoftwareUpdates to false to skip minor updates, install the profile with install-profile.sh, then approve it in System Settings. The author even uses a shell alias to reinstall every 90 days. This relies on a macOS 15.7.3 bug; Apple may fix it in the future.
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Cellist Steven Isserlis remembers four decades with György Kurtág as the Hungarian composer turns 100, praising his boundless imagination, ferocious musical listenership, and unique way of teaching. Kurtág uses vivid images—“neighing,” “snake,” “dog biting God’s feet”—to reveal musical meaning, and his lessons transform performance through precise guidance on silence, colour, and phrasing. Isserlis recounts powerful sessions, memories of a final London recital with Márta, and Kurtág’s ongoing vitality, including new works like Circumdederunt. The 100th is marked by concerts in Newcastle, London, and Manchester.
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The article reports that the "Cancel ChatGPT" movement gains traction after OpenAI’s deal with the U.S. Department of War, as Anthropic refused to provide Claude AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, pledged support to the DoD, claiming no use for mass surveillance, though a government official said the tech would be used for all lawful means. The move sparked backlash in user communities and unsubscribe campaigns. Analysts say the AI industry prioritizes money over ethics, highlighting the power of major players; Microsoft remains supportive.
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An essay about finding happiness outside tech. In early 2020 the author, newly out of college, becomes a volunteer head coach for a six-player middle-school basketball team. Despite emptiness in a corporate job, coaching gives purpose—building kids’ skills, confidence, and teamwork. The Covid season end halts the team, but the experience reshapes his view of meaning: he loves mentoring, real-world effort, and steering his own ship. He argues many in tech chase screens and products; identify what truly makes you happy before it’s too late.
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Argues the United States is drifting toward a twenty‑first‑century fascism led by an oligarchic techno‑feudal elite. Neoliberal capitalism has hollowed out democracy, concentrating power in a transnational ‘authoritarian international’ of billionaires, security chiefs, and political fixers who monetize state power and shield one another. Big Tech acts as neo‑feudal estates that extract rent from data, weaponize disinformation, and underpin a global police state. Elite impunity—via legal immunities and executive sign‑offs—enables lawless governance. The regime is building concentration‑camp infrastructure and paramilitary policing to manage surplus populations and dissent.
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Andrew Miller compares two paths to autonomous driving: Waymo’s sensor fusion (lidar, radar, cameras) vs Tesla’s vision-only approach driven by compute and vast data. Tracing from 1990s/2000s sensor fusion as the baseline to Tesla’s 2016 challenge to that orthodoxy, the piece shows how costs, robustness, and data scale favor fusion, though Tesla argues cameras suffice. It highlights Waymo’s safety gains and Tesla’s higher disengagements and crashes, regulatory scrutiny of vision-only FSD, and Tesla’s partial reintroduction of radar. The author suggests the question is no longer sensors versus cameras, but what safety standard we will accept for robotaxi s.
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An introduction to Content-Security-Policy (CSP) for pentesters. CSP acts as a browser bouncer, with directives like script-src and default-src controlling resource sources. Key values include 'self', 'none', 'unsafe-inline', and 'unsafe-eval'. Common flaws: 'unsafe-inline' present, missing base-uri, broad wildcards (https:, data:, *), missing object-src, and subdomain wildcards. Practical testing tips: inspect response headers or meta tags, use curl or DevTools, and leverage CSP Evaluator. The article emphasizes that CSP is complex and misconfigurations are common, offering a quick analysis workflow to spot weaknesses.
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Gary Marcus argues the Anthropic matter was a scam: Altman publicly backed Dario while secretly striking a deal to undermine Amodei, timing tied to donations. He cites The New York Times on Altman working the deal before the Dario endorsement and Trump’s critique. Marcus says the government’s ban on Anthropic was punitive and biased, favoring a similar terms recipient with more contributions. He calls for equal terms for Anthropic, notes Amodei’s disputes and a $1.5B writers’ settlement, and warns the US is sliding from market competition to oligarchic influence.
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Tomoshibi is a browser-based writing app where your words gradually fade from view while they’re saved locally. It features a dark screen with a small flame, no toolbars or menus, and requires no account. The idea is to push you to rewrite instead of obsess over edits: you can fix typos, but old lines fade away. It promises one-line-at-a-time writing, continuous progress, and a Mac app is in development.
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JSTOR shows an access-check page due to unusual traffic, asking the user to complete a reCAPTCHA to proceed. It notes that Javascript is disabled and provides a block reference, IP address, timestamp, and JSTOR support contact information.
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Werner Herzog’s The Future of Truth outlines ecstatic truth as poetry-driven, fabrication-allowed cinema beyond ‘accountant’s truth.’ The Nation review finds the book deflating: it's largely recycled from earlier books and interviews, offers few new arguments, and reads as a contractual, slapdash project compared with his masterful memoir Every Man for Himself and God Against All. The AI chapter is merely a catalog of LLM tricks, missing a deeper reckoning. Ultimately the piece maintains Herzog’s questing spirit, hoping the journey continues rather than ends.
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Ghosts’n Goblins (Makaimura) debuted in 1985 arcades and, via Fujiwara’s design, fused demon-horror with cartoon energy and relentless difficulty. It topped Japan and UK charts in 1986, marking early cross-market appeal. Elite swiftly ported it to Commodore 64 (Chris Butler) and ZX Spectrum (Keith Burkhill, Nigel Alderton; graphics by Karen Trueman), with the Spectrum version adding a narrative intro. The UK’s arcade–computer–console ecosystem and positive reviews helped it become a lasting classic and influence later games.
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