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Kirkland Roundabouts is a satirical driving game that models the 85th St & I-405 interchange in Kirkland. Designed for keyboard play (desktop) with suboptimal on-screen mobile controls, the goal is to reach the target exit while avoiding collisions; each lane change earns bonus points and crashes end the mission. It is not official driving guidance and not affiliated with the City of Kirkland or WSDOT. Credits include Godot, FFmpeg, Dragon-Studio sounds, and Road Geek fonts; the project is offered as-is with open-source tooling.
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NLnet announced 67 new NGI grants across NGI Zero Commons Fund, NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity to advance an open, privacy-respecting internet. The projects cover open hardware, privacy-preserving payments, and portable, user-friendly hosted services, with aims from digital commons to better internet infrastructure. Highlights include Fleetbase-Taler (GNU Taler payments for logistics), Nocloud (zero-knowledge file hosting), Magic Nix VFS (on-demand software distribution), Bisque browser on Servo, River window protocol, MistServer VoD, PeerTube scalability, and numerous open hardware and software tools (DPU, Einszeit, mikroPhone, Ringdove formats, etc.). Funded via the European NGI program; December 2025/Feb 2026 calls.
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The PDP-11, introduced in 1970, was the most influential minicomputer, catalyzing interactive computing and the UNIX/C ecosystem. It sold over 600,000 units and served diverse roles from process control to telecommunications. Its 16-bit orthogonal ISA, eight registers, UNIBUS, and split instruction/data memory enabled compact, fast code and flexible addressing. It popularized subroutines (JSR/RTS), multiple addressing modes, and memory-efficient branching, with CC flags guiding decisions. The article outlines how assembly programming worked on the PDP-11 and how its design influenced later architectures, languages, and the UNIX lineage, including booting BSD in SimH.
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Version 15 of the Wolfram Language & Mathematica adds a built-in AI Assistant in notebooks, deeper AI integration (Pro/Research), and broad core upgrades. New TimeSeries/EventSeries frameworks; symbolic treatment of categorical data; ModelFit as a unified data-fitting tool; Symbolic Music; expanded Tabular workflows and external-data connections; PlotGrid and other visualization enhancements; gigabyte-scale notebooks with faster Find and new sidebars/themes; SubValuesHoldAll, IncrementalObject, and a robust exceptions framework; Structured Package Format; graph plotting advances; geospatial, orbital, Grassmann/Clifford/Weyl algebras; multivariate zetas/polylogs; improved imports/exports (TOML/YAML, HEIF/AVIF, Markdown); web sockets; Python interop; GPU acceleration; Compute Services GPUs; Foundation Tool for LLMs.
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Advises bug-bounty recon of misconfigured IIS servers. Locate targets with Shodan and Google dorks; confirm IIS via headers; extract internal IPs. Automate with nuclei and resolve HTTPAPI 2.0 404s by identifying the intended host (SSL certs or Host brute-forcing). Use IIS tilde enumeration to reveal shortnames; build focused wordlists from GitHub and BigQuery, then brute-force with crunch/ffuf. Target IIS-specific paths like web.config, trace.axd, elmah.axd, and _vti_bin; exploit path traversal to web.config, cookieless DLL exposure, reverse-proxy tricks, NTFS hacks, file uploads, and HPP to bypass WAFs. Bottom line: IIS presents a large, under-tested attack surface; thorough recon matters.
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cuTile Rust (cutile-rs) is a safe, tile-based DSL for GPU kernels in idiomatic Rust. It extends Rust ownership across the GPU launch boundary: mutable tensors partitioned, immutable tensors shared, and generated launchers preserve ownership during kernel execution. It supports synchronous and asynchronous launches and CUDA graph replay. The #[cutile::module] macro captures a kernel’s AST in the host binary and JIT-compiles it via CUDA Tile IR to a GPU cubin. The project is early-stage research; contribution welcome. Requirements: NVIDIA GPU (sm_80+), CUDA 13.3+, Rust 1.89+; setup with Rust/CUDA/Nix.
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Mechanical TV Lab's Live Nipkow Disk Simulator is a browser-based, physics-accurate recreation of the Nipkow-mechanical TV chain. It runs live from an iOS app in your browser, letting you feed a test face, webcam, or image and adjust disk geometry, motor speed (750 RPM), aperture, slit, lamp type (neon/LED/mercury arc), phosphor, and signal-path parameters to model real-world TV behavior. Includes historical presets (Baird 30, Jenkins 48, CBS Colour, etc.) and options to save PNG/GIF/video. Beta, best on large screens.
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Techdirt argues Keir Starmer’s UK push to regulate teen social media is political theater, not child safety policy. The plan would force platforms to block nude images for under‑18s, impose penalties or criminal liability on bosses, and extend Australia’s under‑16 ban to major sites like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X, plus curfews and limits on infinite scrolling. It says the measures ignore evidence that teen harm on social media is small, risk driving kids offline, and rely on flawed age verification; the policy is hurried and incoherent.
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The page states that access to fdd.org is blocked by Cloudflare's security system after an action triggered the block, possibly due to a specific word, SQL command, or malformed data. To resolve, contact the site owner with details of what you were doing and the Cloudflare Ray ID shown on the page; your IP is visible to the site.
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GrapheneOS has ported to Android 17 and is pushing code to public repos, with an initial official release planned after finalizing a 16-based build and public testing starting soon. The team has tested 17 on Pixel 6a, 7, 7a, 8, 10a, 10 and 10 Pro Fold. Rollouts will follow alpha→beta→stable and be tracked at grapheneos.org/releases; devices may receive 17 at different times. Upgrading to Android 17 is irreversible; alpha testers can opt in but may face issues. A formal alpha/beta period is expected before wide release.
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VoiceDraw lets you speak ideas and watch them become diagrams.
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Databricks launches LTAP (Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing), unifying OLTP, OLAP and streaming on a single lake copy with no ETL, replicas, or pipelines. Powered by Lakebase (serverless Postgres on object storage) and governed by Unity Catalog, it stores data in open formats (Delta/Iceberg). Transactions run on Postgres with ACID; analytics run on the Lakehouse, scale independently, with no data movement. New cross-cloud disaster recovery, Git-style branching, snapshots and autonomous DB ops extend Lakebase. LTAP coming soon as part of Lakebase; Lakebase already serves thousands of customers.
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frood is a self-contained Alpine Linux system inside a single initramfs, running from RAM for speed and reduced wear. The entire system is declaratively defined in a git repo; changes are tested with a qemu oneliner and deployed by swapping boot options for A/B rollbacks. It avoids a separate rootfs and uses a controlled overlay for persistence; the apkovl approach was brittle. Building uses alpine-make-rootfs to create the initramfs, plus a simple setup.sh and a root skeleton. The bootloader is extlinux; services run via OpenRC in BusyBox. Open source, simple, testable.
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Across studies, social sharing buttons are rarely used. GOV.UK tracked 6.8M pageviews over 10 weeks and saw 14,078 share clicks (0.21%, about 1 in 476). The feature lingered in backlog as no user asked for it. Moovweb’s 61M mobile sessions yielded only 0.2% sharing engagement, with ads twelve times more likely to be clicked. Luke Wroblewski’s data averaged ~0.25% across 18M pageviews. People prefer copying/pasting URLs or using browser share; many traffic arrives as 'direct' from pasted links in messages.
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Sortis is a paper-and-pen strategy game on a 256×256 grid where terrain (water, forest, mountain) is generated by XORing two LFSR sequences seeded per game. Mountains reveal ore levels via trailing zeros, and the aim is to raise a workshop to the highest level by managing wood and ore. Buildings (House, Workshop, Extractor, Smelter, Road) and vehicles (Wagon, Boat) are built on cleared land, with production scaling in powers of two. The game emphasizes pen-and-paper procedural generation, automation, and turn-skipping via closed-form calculations; seeds place you on a random starting patch.
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The Sabela Community Gallery curates reactive Haskell notebooks published by the community. Browse or run notebooks in your browser, covering 3D graphics, dataframes, FRP, geometry, and interop with Python and matplotlib. Featured notebooks include: No. 01 What is Constructive Solid Geometry? by Joe Warren; No. 02 A tour of Bluefin by Tom Ellis; No. 03 California Housing: From Exploration to Linear Regression by DataHaskell; No. 04 Functional Reactive Programming in Sabela by DataHaskell; No. 05 Haskell and Python in one notebook by DataHaskell. Sabela is open source and can be run locally from GitHub.
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Apple will issue Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases on the @private.icloud.com domain, making it easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay iCloud mail. Critics say this weakens iCloud privacy by reducing plausible deniability, as services may reject these emails like disposable addresses. iCloud+ users can still create more aliases on @icloud.com before the change lands, with a rate limit of at least 30 per hour.
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Access to timescolonist.com is blocked by Cloudflare's security service. The block was triggered by a request that appeared suspicious (e.g., certain words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (a0cc701fad49eb4b).
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