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An Autopian piece chronicles GM EV1 VIN #212—the only EV1 publicly sold. Leased in 1997, it supposedly avoided being crushed due to legal limbo; Sawyer, the original lessee, contends GM smuggled it out of state during a battery recall. It was found abandoned in a Clark Atlanta University tow yard and auctioned for about $104k (total ~$118k with fees). West Coast collector Billy bought it, and with the EV1 community, is restoring what is largely complete but missing batteries and decommissioned components, aiming to run by November 2026.
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HelixGuard is focused on open-source security research.
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Google Cloud built and tested a 130,000-node GKE cluster in experimental mode to explore AI/ML workloads at extreme scale, doubling the previous limit. The benchmark sustained 1,000 pod/s scheduling and over 1 million storage objects, using Kueue for multi‑job, priority-based scheduling and phased preemption to prioritize high-priority training and inference. Innovations included optimized API server reads, a Spanner-based backend, Cloud Storage FUSE for data access, and plans for workload-aware scheduling (gang scheduling) and multi-cluster training. 130k is not officially supported yet; inquiries are invited.
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A Vercel Security Checkpoint page indicates the site is verifying the user's browser, instructing to enable JavaScript to continue and offering a 'Website owner? Click here to fix' link to resolve the checkpoint.
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Set theory underpins mathematics, but what counts as a foundation remains debated. The piece distinguishes set theory from type theory, noting that before 1980 “type theory” usually meant higher‑order logic rather than dependent types. In 1973, de Bruijn proposed Set Theory with Type Restrictions to motivate AUTOMATH and to avoid the paradoxes of “everything is a set.” Typed set theory makes x∈A meaningful only when types align, supports unions, intersections, powersets, and both function spaces and dependent products, and embeds ZF into HOL. It keeps mathematics closer to intuition and avoids ZF’s excess, while hf provides a finite analogue.
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Scientists tested moss Physcomitrium patens by placing spores outside the ISS for about nine months. After return, over 80% of the moss spores could still germinate, though UV exposure damaged pigments and later growth. The team built a model suggesting moss spores could potentially survive up to ~5,600 days (about 15 years) in space. The protective casing around spores may help shield against UV and dehydration. This resilience suggests moss could help seed future extraterrestrial ecosystems; researchers plan to test more species. Findings published in iScience, Nov. 2025, led by Tomomichi Fujita.
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ALPHA at CERN reports a new cooling method that eightfolds antihydrogen production, yielding over 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in under seven hours by cooling positrons with laser-cooled beryllium ions in a Penning trap to about -266°C and merging them with antiprotons. This follows years of refinement; earlier it took 10 weeks to produce 16,000 atoms. In 2023–24 ALPHA produced over 2 million antihydrogen atoms, and the team plans precision gravity tests on antimatter with ALPHA-g.
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An article about a six-question, one-minute ADHD screener. Scoring 4/6 signals a strong reason to seek a full assessment. It has ~69% sensitivity and 99.5% specificity; with ADHD prevalence around 4–6%, a positive result implies about 87.5% chance of actual ADHD. Treatments are highly effective, especially stimulants; non-stimulants are available. The author recounts using stimulants for focus, then obtaining a formal diagnosis in London. The tool offers a quick signal but is not a definitive diagnosis.
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An engineer lauds McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com) as the best e‑commerce site for technical parts. Its minimal, functional design prioritizes fast, targeted search over marketing fluff: a clear search bar, left-side filters, and concise, quantitative specs guide users from broad categories to an exact part. The site excels with helpful drop-downs and embedded part explanations, enabling quick decisions. CAD files and CAD program extensions speed up workflows. It outperforms Grainger, DigiKey, and Home Depot; Amazon’s filtering is criticized. The author suggests a more prominent homepage search bar.
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An air-gapped cybersecurity AI that runs offline on a 1TB SSD with a local Dolphin Llama 3 8B model, updated via encrypted USB. It enables offensive and defensive security without internet access, powered by a 356k-chunk RAG knowledge base and a 2GB+ repository of exploits, forensics, and IR workflows. It auto-detects tools like Nmap, Volatility, YARA, PCAP, and 20+ more; provides red-team exploit guidance and blue-team remediation. It integrates with Metasploit, Zeek, Bloodhound, Volatility, YARA, etc., and supports context-aware workflows. 85% complete; funding target £15k-£25k; Back Syd Now from £50.
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Federal prosecutors indicted Daniel “Des” Sanchez for allegedly transporting a box of “Antifa materials”—zines and pamphlets—after a July 4 protest at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. The indictment ties his actions to his wife’s alleged misconduct, but the materials are constitutionally protected speech. The piece argues this is prosecutorial overreach aimed at criminalizing possession of political literature, part of a broader pattern since Trump’s “Antifa” designation. It cites related cases (Cop City, Maya Lau, Project Veritas) and warns that punishing possession undermines the First Amendment, chilling reporters, activists, and dissent.
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IPv6 with Hyperoptic: RS not answered; RA bursts every 15–30 minutes, so after DHCPv6 devices may have no default route for up to 30 minutes, slowing IPv6. Workarounds: change WAN MAC to trigger immediate RA after DHCPv6; use macchanger and restart dhcpcd, or manually set the IPv6 default route. Hyperoptic doesn’t issue ia_na; remove ia_na from dhcpcd.conf. OOO packets: MPLS/L2VPN can misclassify if WAN MAC starts with 4 or 6; changing MAC to a non-4/6 value fixes it. Make MAC permanent with a systemd net link file (01-wan.link) setting the desired MAC.
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Git 3.0 will make 'main' the default initial branch for new repositories; 'git init' will use 'main' when not configured. This follows the industry's shift after GitHub changed defaults in 2020. No release date yet; estimates put 3.0 near late 2026. Other planned changes include moving from SHA-1 to SHA-256 as the default hash, a new storage format to improve performance (especially on macOS/Windows), and tighter Rust integration in Git's build.
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Wails is a framework that bundles a Go backend with a web frontend into a single native binary. It lets you reuse any frontend tech, auto-generates TypeScript definitions for Go types, and provides native dialogs, menus, dark mode, and frost/frosted effects. It uses native rendering engines (no embedded browser) and a powerful CLI to scaffold, build, and publish multiplatform apps. Aimed at Go developers seeking a lightweight Electron-like alternative, it offers unified Go–JavaScript eventing, templates, and extensible roadmaps.
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Japan is betting big on Hokkaido as a global semiconductor hub, led by Rapidus, a government-backed consortium with Toyota, SoftBank and Sony. The plan targets a massive fab in Chitose and a wider ecosystem, backed by roughly $12bn in public funds and a broader AI/semiconductors package. Rapidus has produced a 2nm prototype using ASML’s EUV, aiming for mass production by 2027, a step behind leaders like TSMC and Samsung. Challenges include high costs, uncertain yields, a 40,000-engineer shortage, and securing customers, but Tokyo argues a domestic chip supply is a national security priority.
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Doctorow argues Termination of Transfer—allowed after 35 years under the 1976 Copyright Act—lets creators reclaim rights from absentee publishers and studios, a rare win for artists amid expanding copyright and monopsonistic markets. He traces how Big Content profits while creators' earnings shrink, due to market power concentrated among a few buyers. The piece spotlights Gary K. Wolf, who has reobtained Roger Rabbit rights, and contemplates Disney’s likely bargaining to continue film distribution and the Roger Rabbit ride. The essay situates this in chokepoint capitalism (with Giblin) and critiques industry influence over copyright policy.
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Gibberifier inserts invisible zero-width Unicode characters between each character of input text, making the text longer while preserving human readability. It aims to thwart AI plagiarism checks and waste tokens, potentially triggering rate limits. Best used on key parts of prompts (up to about 500 characters). Some AI models react poorly, with reports that ChatGPT ignores gibberified text, Claude crashes on large inputs, Gemini can't process it, Meta AI crashes, Grok and Perplexity become confused. Use cases: anti-plagiarism, obfuscation for LLM scrapers, or for fun. Link to GitHub.
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An introductory children’s book by Dr. Qiujiang Lu, Having Fun with Complex Numbers: A Real-Life Journey for Upper Elementary Students, presenting complex numbers as ‘surface numbers’ and using real-life analogies and motion-friendly visuals to engage 8–12-year-olds. It promotes big-picture thinking, practical math tools, and four core moves (including adding and multiplying) as foundations for future math. Aimed at homeschoolers and teachers, it also highlights Lu’s physics/software background. Publication details: 2025, ISBNs 979-8-9927543-0-8 and 979-8-9927543-3-9; list price $19.95; Amazon order.
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