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VAWAA offers mini-apprenticeships with master artists worldwide, available in-person or online, letting travelers learn crafts—from Argentine tango to Japanese calligraphy and street art—through live sessions or from home. Prices and durations vary by artist and locale. The site shares guest stories and blog posts about travel-as-craft, highlights artist profiles, and invites booking, newsletters, and press mentions.
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cargo-geiger is a Rust cargo plugin that reports statistics on unsafe Rust usage in a crate and its dependencies. It aids auditing rather than deciding security. Install via cargo install --locked cargo-geiger (with vendored OpenSSL) or use pre-built binaries. Usage: run from a Cargo.toml directory with cargo geiger. The project provides three libraries (cargo-geiger, cargo-geiger-serde, geiger) and originated from icefoxen/cargo-osha and sfackler/cargo-tree.
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AI buildout is shifting from cash flow to bond financing as Big Tech borrows heavily to fund data centers and Nvidia chips. Nvidia’s $25B bond sale underscores demand for AI debt; Morgan Stanley projects AI‑linked debt issuance near $570B in 2026. Companies like Meta, Alphabet, Oracle, and Amazon are tapping bonds and loans, but risk profiles vary (Oracle Moody’s Baa2; Alphabet/Meta capex pressure). Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish shift tightens financing conditions, widening credit spreads. Two clocks run: industry capacity race and bond costs, with sustainability hinging on demand and rates.
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Progress update on reverse-engineering F-15 Strike Eagle II into C: all code rewritten for the three executables, data moved from assembly, and routines renamed. The project is now open for test pilots. The latest release, v0.9.1, works with the original 451.03 desert storm version; replace the originals in the game folder (back up first) and run f15.exe (no setup screen; MCGA/VGA display, no sound or joystick). It covers all three game parts (briefing, flight, debriefing). Report bugs with steps and screenshots. The project will move toward a porting fork.
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Bloomberg displays a bot-check page after detecting unusual activity, instructing users to enable JavaScript and cookies and to verify they’re not a robot. It directs users to review the Terms of Service and Cookie Policy and to contact support with the block reference ID 48462ee6-6cbd-11f1-8c74-02e554d0c7be. The page also promotes subscribing to Bloomberg.com for global markets news.
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Reverse-engineering T&E SOFT’s New 3D Golf across PC-9801, Mega Drive, and Virtual Boy, the author extracts course data and finds a common format used across these platforms, enabling cross-platform loading of seven courses. They build a Three.js viewer, add terrain modifiers, and port three courses to Mega Drive: T&E Selection (PC-9801 add-on), Eight Lakes/Seven Lakes GC, and Papillon C.C. from Virtual Boy, with Papillon needing a manual camera path. Mega Drive notes: no depth buffer, painter’s algorithm, and authentic physics: wind, water friction. They hope for IP licensing and further platform exploration.
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An experimental project that runs a full Pong game inside the browser tab favicon. Scroll to move the paddle, and the score is shown in the tab title. Includes self-tests and open-source code (GitHub, MIT) written in clean, modern JavaScript.
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Dr. James Ries, a telehealth clinician, runs his entire workflow via a 12-button MMO gaming mouse mapped to TextExpander Snippets. He builds “monster Snippets”—interactive templates with full clinical scenarios and branching options (e.g., sinus infections, psych refills). A click selects relevant fields; the Snippet generates a complete, compliant note with empathetic language. This standardizes care, eliminates omissions, and reduces cognitive load, improving consistency across providers. Ries shares a public Telehealth Starter Pack and advises mapping single-character symbols to Snippet triggers, keeping editing in TextExpander. The key is the Snippets, not the hardware.
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An historical survey of web browsers on PDAs, tracing how early devices moved from dial-up and IR to built-in Wi‑Fi and cellular links. It contrasts i‑mode/WAP browsers with full HTML ones and surveys browsers by OS: EPOC (PsiMail/Web, Opera), Apple Newton (PocketWeb, NetHopper, Newt’s Cape, LunaSuite, Courier), Palm OS (Palmscape, Xiino, Eudora Web, Blazer, NetFront, WebPro, Picsel), Windows Mobile (Pocket Internet Explorer/Mobile, ThunderHawk, Minimo, Opera Mini/Mobile, Skyfire, Iris, Firefox Fennec), Symbian, and Zaurus. It notes the decline of PDAs as smartphones rose, though some modern variants persist for specialized use.
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Britain’s government plans to consult on VPNs as part of its under-16 social-media ban, with concrete options like age-gating VPN use to be outlined in July. Children’s minister Josh MacAlister flagged VPN age checks as a potential tool, while Ofcom and technology secretary Liz Kendall stress weighing privacy, enforcement, and safety. There are no definite plans to ban VPNs yet, but a July update will detail actions alongside the social-media rule.
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Europe's European Social Stack declares a move away from oligarchic platforms toward open, European-owned social infrastructure. It promotes open platforms/protocols—Fediverse (ActivityPub), Atmosphere (AT Protocol), and Private Messaging (Matrix/XMPP)—as complementary stacks enabling decentralization, European content, diverse ownership, and new business models. Core principles include digital autonomy, a European tech stack, democratic governance, and open source. Joint efforts cover Eurobridge, distributed identity (European Digital ID Wallet), content moderation per DSA/DMA, and multi-protocol integration to create a full European social ecosystem. Signatories include 67 organisations and 445 individuals.
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Cloudflare announces Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents to deploy code without human sign-ups. Agents can run wrangler deploy --temporary to create a 60-minute temporary account, receive an API token and a claim URL, and deploy Workers or APIs immediately. The agent can iterate within the 60-minute window; at any time it can claim the account to make it permanent by signing in/up. If not claimed, it expires. This reduces friction for autonomous agent deployments. Wrangler was updated to expose --temporary; Cloudflare is also linking with Stripe and WorkOS to automate account provisioning. Docs note limitations.
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The article compares two VM dispatch methods: a conventional switch and GCC's computed goto. Using a tiny bytecode interpreter, the computed goto version dispatches via a table of label addresses and an indirect goto, reducing per-iteration work. Benchmarks show ~25% speedup over the switch with random opcodes; CPython reports 15–20% faster. The speedup comes from fewer bounds checks in the switch and improved branch prediction with many distinct jumps. It notes other VMs (Ruby 1.9, Lua 5.2, Dalvik) use varying approaches and includes annotated disassembly and references.
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TechCrunch describes a U.S. export-control order forcing Anthropic to restrict Mythos and Fable to the US and nationals abroad, after which the models were pulled from access for a week. The episode tests whether export controls can curb frontier AI and shape lab practices. Mythos, limited to 150 vetted entities, was triggered by alleged ties of a partner and by a suspected jailbreak flagged by Amazon researchers. The piece places this in the Crypto Wars era—PGP in the 1990s and Wassenaar spyware rules—arguing export controls struggle to stop dual-use tech, often imposing compliance burdens rather than halting spread.
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Article argues AI-assisted formal specification needs humans in the loop. It presents PICK, a workflow that augments LLM-generated candidates (regex, LTL, ABAC) with a human-judgment process. Instead of pure synthesis, PICK shows concrete strings where candidates differ and asks users to upvote or downvote, creating an independent witness to user intent—spec elucidation. The resulting commitments reveal implicit prompt gaps and guide correctness, preventing blindly trusting models. Based on closure properties and witness generation, results across domains are promising; tool and paper (ECOOP 2026) and PICK:Regex in VS Code are available.
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Lithuanian startup Mainline and activists launched Drone Radar, an open-source drone-detection network that uses volunteer Android phones as acoustic sensors. Phones near windows continuously listen for Shahed-type drone engine sounds; an embedded algorithm analyzes signatures and, when several devices pick up the same signal, helps locate the drone. The platform includes a public map and a sensor app, with privacy prioritized. The team aims for about 10,000 active users to cover the Baltic states and Poland and may add surveillance cameras and sensor deployments on telecom towers; partners include AI Association, Baltic Institute of Technology, Riflemen's Union.
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Bootimus is a single-binary Go-based PXE/HTTP boot server with embedded iPXE and a built-in proxyDHCP, enabling PXE boot on any LAN without router changes. It auto-detects 50+ distros, supports MAC-based ACLs, LDAP/JWT auth, a REST API, and a web UI. Delivered as a Docker image, a static binary, or a 2 GB Alpine appliance, it requires no runtime deps. It streams kernels via HTTP, offers one-click tools (GParted, Clonezilla, etc.), and allows BYO bootloaders or custom loaders (including Secure Boot options). Fully open source (Apache-2.0), no telemetry.
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