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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff at an internal town hall that progress on AI agents hasn’t accelerated as expected. Meta has cut about 8,000 jobs (roughly 10% of corporate staff) and moved another 7,000 to AI groups, including Agent Transformation. He said the layoffs weren’t as clean as they should have been and that leaders worried they wouldn’t move fast enough to adapt. The upside of the AI-focused structure hasn’t yet materialized, though improvements are expected in 3–6 months. Meta plans up to $145 billion in AI infrastructure this year.
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Maciej Cegłowski uses Biosphere 2 as a Mars-habitat proxy to argue that closed-environment farming must balance engineering rigor with ecological realism. Biosphere 2 showed that even well-controlled habitats can suffer hunger, pests, fatigue, and social strife, yet they fed a crew of seven and yielded lifelong data. For Mars, two farming philosophies—gnotobiology (minimize species and microbes) and ecological assemblages—offer trade-offs. Realistic Mars farming demands roughly 100 m2 per astronaut, substantial pressurization, and underground habitats rather than surface domes, due to light, heat, and radiation constraints. Soil vs hydroponics remains debated.
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The DMARC np tag (RFC 9989) signals policy for non-existent subdomains, but clashes with DNSSEC's denial-of-existence. DNS providers use compact denial per RFC 9824 (NXNAME), often returning NOERROR with NSEC records instead of NXDOMAIN. This erodes np's effectiveness, since many resolvers don't restore NXDOMAIN or honor CO flag. Adoption is patchy: major providers implement compact denial; many open-source DMARC implementations don't fully support np or RFC 9824. To fix, resolution must adopt NXDOMAIN restoration or consistently publish NXNAME, but no consensus. Domain owners should assume np isn't reliable yet.
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Daniel Stănică tracked 100 now-prominent blogs from 2022 to 2026 and found a dramatic shift: the median blog lost 85% of its organic traffic; 55 collapsed, 12 hit zero; only 21 continued to grow. Survival clustered around irreplaceable, firsthand content (recipes, DIY, travel experiences) and owning an audience; generic, summarizable content in finance, health, fashion largely vanished. AI summaries and Google's updates now diminish top results, so blogs must own audiences and brands, not rely on search. Advice: consolidate, convert to owned channels, productize, or sell; avoid “search-only” monetization.
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An autonomous flying umbrella, designed by John Tse of I Build Stuff, follows and shields the wearer from rain and sun. It hides a quadcopter in a regular umbrella, with four folding propeller arms around the canopy that tuck away for portability and lock for flight. A time-of-flight depth camera tracks the user in 3D, processed by a Raspberry Pi to a flight controller with GPS to hover above the person. Built largely with 3D-printed parts and carbon-fiber nylon, it faced many failures before finally working.
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EU Council reactivates transitional rules for voluntary message scanning by tech providers (Chat Control 1.0) in a fast-track move to prevent fragmentation after Chat Control 2.0 stalled in Parliament. The proposal would let providers use AI and hash matching to detect abuse material or grooming in private chats, with content and traffic data deleted within 12 months unless a concrete suspicion is confirmed. The draft was pushed via written procedure before the summer break to pressure MEPs, a tactic critics call bypassing democratic control and exploiting a loophole.
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Sun-Ways’ solar railway trial in Switzerland shows PV panels on active tracks can generate power (18 kWp from 48 panels; ~16,000 kWh in year one). Robust panels with anti-reflection filters, sensors, and cleaning brushes address safety concerns. If scaled, Switzerland’s 5,317 km network could yield about 1 TWh/year (≈2% of consumption). After the success, Sun-Ways partnered with an Italian firm linked to Rete Ferroviaria Italiana to launch a pilot in Italy; talks are underway with the Netherlands, China, India, South Korea, and Singapore.
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Rayfish offers a private, serverless network with no setup, but it requires JavaScript to function.
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AXPBox, a new es40 fork of the DEC Alpha emulator, adds JIT, S3 graphics from MAME, and ARC support, enabling Windows 2000 on DEC Alpha. OpenVMS also runs faster with JIT. The article notes a graphical login via DECW$STARTUP after booting the graphical system. It is not a setup guide but reports progress: upgrade ARC firmware to Alpha Systems Firmware Update v7.3 (AG-RCFBX-BS), use 86box S3 VGA BIOS (86c764x1.bin), boot into ARC, then install Windows 2000 RC2 build 2128 from archive.org. Install takes around 20 minutes; post-install shows a desktop.
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An interactive essay tracing how fingers, motor memory, and timing shape human–computer interaction. It argues that typing speed and finger coordination grew with typewriters and evolved through buffers, local echoes, and evolving input devices. Modern interfaces often betray our fingers with blocking and latency, despite fast hardware. By surveying historical and contemporary tricks—overlapping actions, debouncing, spring-loading, two‑finger scrolling, and optimistic updates—the piece urges designers to honor motor memory and build interfaces that respond at finger time, not server time.
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Predio ofrece datos del Catastro español en JSON limpio y versionado mediante REST y MCP. Resuelve inmuebles por referencia catastral, coordenadas o dirección, con errores en JSON y data cacheada (serve-stale) si la fuente cae. Datos públicos, pero no siempre fáciles de consumir; servicio no oficial. Acceso por x-api-key; primera llamada en 2 minutos; tier gratuito de 250 créditos/mes y varios packs de precios por uso. Endpoints: /v1/inmueble/{rc}, /v1/inmueble/by-coords, /v1/inmueble/by-address. Cobertura España común (excluye País Vasco/Navarra). ParcelGuard (pre-screening) disponible. OpenAPI y MCP para agentes; precios en pricing.json.
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Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps app for hiking, cycling, and driving, built on OpenStreetMap data. Runs offline with turn-by-turn navigation, elevation profiles, contour lines, hiking/cycling routes, offline search, and Wikipedia articles. Supports CarPlay/Android Auto, dark mode, and bookmarks; Linux desktop beta; available on iOS, Android, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and FDroid. Free, open-source, ad- and tracker-free; funded by donations and sponsors; privacy verified. 6M installs by December 2025.
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Directory and overview of airplane boneyards and storage facilities worldwide. It covers post-WWII US surpluses that created dozens of boneyards, led by Davis-Monthan AFB’s AMARG in Tucson, and later long-term storage and reclamation sites such as Kingman, Walnut Ridge, Pyote, and Victorville. It also lists current airliner storage yards in the American Southwest (SCLA, ROW, MHV, GYR, MZJ, IGM, P08) and global facilities (Teruel; Tarbes/Lourdes; Cotswold; Knock; St Athan; APAS in Alice Springs; Twente). The piece notes access limits and the COVID-19 storage surge, plus a map of sites.
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Phosh 0.56.0 is a major release adding a top-bar load meter and an option to hide base-image apps on immutable distros (e.g., BengalOS, postmarketOS). It brings fixes and improvements across components: enabling syncthing in mobile settings, uninstall notifications, startup and forked-app delays, Bluetooth/settings stability, immediate cutout config, and lock-screen tweaks. Wayland wlroots updates to 0.20.1 (xdg-toplevel-tag-v1). Stevia adds per-app default layouts, key repeats, cursor keys, and locale-aware layouts. Phosh-mobile-settings adds atomic OS updates for immutable distros, improved panels, NexDock support, and OSK locale support, with translations updated.
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KiCad demo at PCBJam.
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Modern C++ performance wisdom has shifted: old tricks like fast inverse square root, hand-unrolled loops, and row-pointer matrices often offer no real edge on current hardware or compilers. Clang/GCC can recognize patterns such as popcount and range pipelines, matching hand-rolled code while boosting readability. Takeaways: trust the compiler and standard library—use <bit> popcount, std::ranges, and standard algorithms; prefer std::expected over exceptions for common errors; replace virtual dispatch with std::variant when feasible; prioritize contiguous layouts and proper forwarding, then profile.
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Introduction to Compilers and Language Design is a free online textbook by Prof. Douglas Thain (Notre Dame) for CSE 40243. It offers a one-semester introduction to compiler construction, guiding the development of a simple compiler translating a C-like language into x86 or ARM assembly, suitable for undergraduates with C programming and basic data structures and computer architecture. The book provides downloadable PDFs, a complete chapter list (0–12 and appendices), and resources including a GitHub repository with examples. Personal/academic use only; commercial distribution prohibited. Access via compilerbook.org; errata to [email protected].
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Two new studies link cannabis use to higher cardiovascular risk. A retrospective analysis of over 4.6 million people found cannabis users under 50 had >6× the risk of heart attack; a meta-analysis of 12 studies (75 million people) showed a 1.5× higher risk of heart attack among current users. Additional risks included ischemic stroke (4×), heart failure (2×), and cardiovascular death/MI/stroke (3×). Limitations include potential confounding and concurrent substance use. Authors caution interpretation and recommend clinicians screen for cannabis use. Findings were presented at ACC.25 and published in JACC Advances.
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