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This piece questions current sun-exposure guidelines, arguing that vitamin D supplements don’t replicate sunlight’s broader benefits and that sun exposure can lower blood pressure through nitric oxide and other mechanisms. It notes melanoma risk is relatively small and that outdoor living is linked to longer life, especially in sun-worshipping populations, while race and skin type affect vitamin D needs. It critiques sunscreen ingredients like oxybenzone and highlights international shifts toward balanced guidance. The author urges a sensible, individualized approach to sun, vitamin D, and outdoor activity.
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Eight Prairieland defendants were sentenced to a combined 450 years, including Daniel Estrada, who got 30 years for transporting a box of antifascist zines he didn’t write. The government tied zine possession to aiding a crime, arguing it showed ideological affiliation. The wife, Maricela Rueda, received 70 years, despite not being accused of the shooting. The piece warns NSPM-7 signals a broader effort to criminalize information and dissent, with potential probes into journalists and viewers, threatening free speech.
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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs from multiple European countries were left unprotected on public web servers, accessible via simple URLs with no authentication or encryption. The data, stored by Nefos/PuffPal for cannabis retailers/clubs, were discoverable for months before being taken offline. No hack occurred; it was a misconfiguration and lax security. Risks include identity theft, fraud, and account takeovers; passports cannot be changed like passwords. This highlights a broader data-stewardship failure akin to Cambridge Analytica, with regulatory action and individual recourse still unclear.
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A 403 Forbidden error from nginx, indicating the requested resource is blocked and access is denied.
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A 403 Forbidden error occurred, referenced by FcYv8LH4/DulfKW69, timestamp Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:57:18 UTC.
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Ornith-1.0 is an open-source family of agentic-coding LLMs (9B Dense to 397B MoE) built on Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5. It achieves state-of-the-art results among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks. Its core innovation is a learnable scaffold that co-evolves with the policy, allowing the model to refine both scaffolds and solutions. Training uses two RL stages—scaffold refinement and solution rollout—with rewards feeding both. Defenses against reward hacking include fixed outer boundaries, a deterministic monitor, and a frozen LLM judge. Async pipeline-RL with token aging boosts stability; 397B tops TB-2.1 at 77.5 and SWE-Bench Verified at 82.4.
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An article on AI in coding via a concrete hyperscript bug. A regression in hyperscript 0.9.91 caused fetch { ... } as JSON to misbind; Claude aided in root-cause analysis after a refactor. AI helped with investigation and test generation but failed to craft a clean, general solution. Several fixes were proposed; the final change narrows the fix to FetchCommand#parse() to apply only to fetch, avoiding impacts on other commands. The piece argues for a human-in-the-loop approach to curb technical debt, while acknowledging AI's memory and testing benefits and concerns about overreliance eroding problem-solving skills.
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The Human-Centered Computing Foundation (HCCF) seeks to reclaim digital selves by building a human-centered Top-Level Domain (.self) and an alternative web architecture. As an approved ICANN Applicant Support Program participant, HCCF has launched a campaign to secure a TLD dedicated to ethical, human-centered technology. Readers are invited to download the .self TLD pamphlet to learn more. HCCF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on infrastructure, standards, and community for a more humane digital world.
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Auditable Commercial License (ACL) v1.0 is a source-available, non-open-source commercial license for the AI era. It allows reading, reviewing, and auditing the source, but forbids redistribution and hosted services. It adds AI-training protection (Section 2.3) with a knowledge qualifier, safe harbor for ordinary AI-tool use, and a flow-through obligation to AI vendors. It automatically converts to Apache 2.0 four years after release, and Continuity Protection speeds the Change Date to 30 days if the vendor goes dark. A license generator and a CC0 template accompany the text; seek counsel.
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Strong push to rely on generic font families rather than named web or system fonts. No font is truly web-safe; fonts can fail to load for security or network reasons. Practical guidance: always include a monospace fallback; optionally include a serif or sans-serif fallback; avoid stacking many installed fonts; limit to one non-web font if used; don’t use system-ui or ui-* for content; prefer user-agent defaults over custom web fonts to improve reliability and performance; monitor font loading issues and fallbacks.
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vLLM's Semantic Router treats routing as collaboration inside the model API. A single model surface (vllm-sr/auto) delegates to bounded micro-agent loops—the looper patterns: Confidence (cost-aware escalation), Ratings (parallel, bounded ensemble), ReMoM (breadth with quorum and synthesis), Fusion (panel disagreement as signal), and Workflows (bounded, role-based plans). Auto recipes select among these patterns based on signals to fit tasks (GPQA-Diamond, LiveCodeBench, Humanity's Last Exam). This turns model serving into an open, programmable primitive where routers own evidence, budgets, topology, and traces, improving quality without client changes.
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Threat Intel report notes a sharp rise in .garden registrations in 2026, driving higher risk scores (average 84 vs 55 in 2025). AliDNS- and Dominet-backed domains drive much of the risk, with alidns + Registrar Spaceship and alidns + Registrar Dominet combinations showing especially high scores (87–94). Even after excluding Cloudflare, risk remains high. Other notable nameservers: Spaceship.net (72) and dnsowl.com (93). The author recommends defenders block the .garden TLD outright and, if needed, block by registrar or nameserver (e.g., AliDNS or Dominet).
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JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that enables DevOps and IT teams to securely access SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, databases, and RemoteApp endpoints via a web browser. The project is GPLv3-licensed (by FIT2CLOUD) and includes components such as a web UI, terminal, and various connectors and proxies for Windows/Linux endpoints. Quickstart docs describe preparing a Linux server and accessing JumpServer at a browser URL. The repository hosts multiple modules and is actively maintained on GitHub with about 30.8k stars and 5.7k forks.
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Lucas Sifoni details Wallace, a 153 mm f/2.84 ultra-wide telescope built for deep-sky views, and his outdoor observing approach. The post blends ambient hiking footage with setup and observing. Details: primary ~153 mm at f/2.84, unintentionally closer to f/2.7 due to a shim misread; corrected with a 4‑element GSO corrector (Ceragioli) tuned for ~79 mm backfocus. Two‑module dovetail, six 6 mm carbon rods, 6‑point primary cell. Corrected over ~66% of the field, yielding >4° true field in a 100° eyepiece. Next: a lighter meniscus blank and a push for ~0.95 Strehl.
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Ornith-1.0 is an open-source, self-improving agentic coding model from DeepReinforce, available in dense 9B and MoE 35B/397B variants, trained on Gemma4 and Qwen 3.5. It uses RL to optimize both scaffolds and solutions, achieving state-of-the-art results among open-source coding models on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE-bench, NL2Repo, and Claw-eval. MIT-licensed, with a 256K context window and an OpenAI-compatible API with tool-calling. It can be served locally via vLLM, Transformers, llama.cpp/Ollama, and supports various agent frameworks.
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An analysis arguing that 'any release of radioactive material is intolerable' overstates risks of low-dose radiation. It uses Chernobyl, Windscale, Fukushima to show large exposures caused limited cancer deaths and that evacuations sometimes did more harm than the doses saved. The Taiwan cobalt-60 case is discussed and shown to suffer from methodological flaws, with hormesis not supported. The piece links the replication crisis and p-hacking to weak low-dose findings. INWORKS provides strongest low-dose evidence of a small cancer increase, but results are fragile. Conclusion: no robust evidence for low-dose harm; high-dose exposure remains dangerous; regulation may hinder nuclear power.
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ACM.org is blocked by Cloudflare’s security, preventing access. The block can result from suspicious input or requests. To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (and your IP).
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An article on managing numerous software concerns—correctness, efficiency, debugging, maintainability, testability, logging, security, extensibility, privacy, dependencies, deployment, observability, persistence, input validation, error handling, internationalization, and accessibility. It traces traditional Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), whose join-point model was brittle. With LLMs, a new AOP approach would have developers write separate concern documents and use an LLM-based weaver to generate the program, yielding static, readable code and better reuse, avoiding old weaving fragility.
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development: a dense model that is slower but higher quality than the 35B A3B variant, recommended for practical tasks. The article guides running it locally with llama.cpp, using 8-bit quantization (Q8_0) and multi-token prediction (MTP), via Hugging Face, plus an OpenCode config example. Benchmarks on a MacBook Max M5 show about 32 tokens/s with MTP and roughly 42 GB RAM; 35B remains faster. The piece highlights offline, private AI and anticipates open-weight GLM 5.2 and future device-friendly models.
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Jörg Seidel says it's absolutely sad to read about Mullva's CEO, as reported by det.social.
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