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A PoC shows storing and running DOOM entirely from DNS TXT records. The WAD and engine are base64-encoded, split into ~2,000 TXT records in a DNS zone, then a 250-line PowerShell loader fetches, reassembles, and loads the game in memory via a patched C# port (managed-doom) with no disk I/O. It highlights DNS as a global, distributed storage/delivery channel and discusses risks for malware staging and forensic evasion. Full source is on GitHub.
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Claude’s seven‑minute wait isn’t the bottleneck—the real limit is human context switching. Externalize state and run Claude in parallel, then review and annotate outputs for the next cycle. Workflow: send instructions, switch to another session, get a notification, review diffs, jot corrections, resend. Manual setups (Zed) fail due to notes, notifications, and navigation friction. The jc tool automates this on macOS: orchestrates multiple Claude Code sessions, uses per‑project TODO.md with a WAIT section and numbered Message entries, and lets you cycle through problems; open source (PRs welcome).
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Netflix raised prices across all tiers, up to 12.5%. Ad-supported plan: $9/mo (from $8); Standard: $20/mo (from $18); Premium: $27/mo (from $25). Last hike was January 2025; before that 2023. Netflix says higher prices reflect investments in content and features, including HDR10+, new subtitles, a redesigned TV app, and plans for a revamped mobile app, live TV streaming, and AI-generated ads. 2025 net income was about $11B; CFO says pricing, membership growth, and higher ad revenue are key 2026 drivers. The shelved Warner Bros. Discovery deal isn’t driving the move.
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Sup AI claims to be the most accurate AI, reporting 52.15% accuracy on Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), a 2,500-question benchmark across 100+ subjects. An ensemble of 337 models, with real‑time logprob scoring and disagreement detection, achieves a 7.41-point lead over the next best. No single model dominates: the system combines multiple retrieval methods, cross‑model votes, and adaptive retries to produce verified content only. It features 10 GB file/document handling, eight levels of lossless context compression, and transparent inline citations. Supported models include GPT‑5.4 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, MoonshotAI etc., across 50+ providers, with tiered pricing.
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FireStriker's author argues civic-tech tools are expensive and fragmented, leaving grassroots groups unable to track legislation or mobilize quickly. They illustrate the “notification problem”: volunteers miss windows to weigh in while lobbyists get real-time updates. Frustrated by the Frankenstein toolkit (Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, etc.), they built FireStriker as a free, integrated civic-engagement and legislative-intelligence platform. It includes member management, events, dues, communications, and nationwide legislative tracking, plus topic monitoring, engagement intelligence, and government-meeting data—all connected. Free means zero platform fees; Stripe handles dues. Launching soon; waitlist available for organizers, unions, PACs, and activists.
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The Guardian’s long read argues that the Iran school bombing was not the fault of language models like Claude but of human decisions in a faster kill chain. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was targeted via Maven, Palantir’s system, which fused imagery and sensor data to deliver 1,000 targeting decisions an hour. LLMs came later and weren’t central. The piece links this to a long history—from Vietnam to Iraq—of automation that compresses judgment into dashboards, shrinking human oversight and masking accountability behind AI rhetoric.
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Iran-linked hackers accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, releasing photos and emails from 2011–2022. A source confirmed authenticity. Experts say this exposed Patel’s personal data, not FBI systems. Reuters first reported it; U.S. intelligence warned Tehran could retaliate for recent US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Patel was targeted in 2024 prior to joining the FBI. The same group allegedly hit a major US medical-device maker earlier this month; Pentagon is investigating. The DOJ says the hackers work for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security; authorities seized sites used to disrupt operations, with the group continuing to claim victims.
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Sand Under a Microscope reveals the hidden world of sand grains, each uniquely formed by millions of years of geology and biogenic life. At magnification, grains—from coral and foraminifera to quartz and volcanic fragments—tell stories of local geography and Earth's history. Sand is 0.02–2 mm, ubiquitous on beaches, deserts, and waterways. There are about 8 billion grains per cubic meter and ~5 sextillion grains on Earth. An interactive Google Earth gallery showcases global samples, illustrating a spectrum from biogenic marine debris to geological minerals across locations worldwide.
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Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with mercenary spyware. Four years after its 2022 launch, Apple reports no successful attacks on Lockdown Mode–enabled devices. Lockdown Mode is an opt-in feature that shrinks the attack surface by disabling or restricting features commonly abused by government spyware from groups like NSO Pegasus and Predator. Amnesty International and Citizen Lab have documented spyware infections on non-Lockdown iPhones; in some cases, Lockdown Mode blocked attempts. Google researchers noted attackers would bail out when Lockdown Mode was detected. Apple gives no numbers and remains cautious.
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Claiming decades of U.S. rent-seeking via friction, the piece argues AI—especially open-source Chinese models—will equalize time, disrupt the stack from chips to apps, and end the moat around pricing. It attacks Anthropic’s call to coordinate on distillation as rent-seeking and expects rapid model competition (Z.ai, Qwen, MiniMax, Kimi) that commoditizes the model tier. Open-source, device‑housed models could blur identity and make AI a public utility, undermining the current economy’s value extraction and signaling a potential collapse of rent-seeking-driven growth.
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The Verge asks readers to rank Apple products from the last 50 years by repeatedly choosing the preferred item in randomly paired comparisons. The community ranking is built with a modified ELO algorithm that updates scores after each vote, rewarding beating high-ranked items and dampening major upsets. The process is broken into bite-size pairings, with credits for staff.
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Windows Central reports that Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 changes to fix performance, updates, AI bloat and ads, but did not address the forced Microsoft account requirement at setup. Internally, Microsoft is being pressured to relax or drop this requirement; Scott Hanselman hinted it’s being worked on, but no concrete plan exists yet. The decision is political, not technical, likely requiring committee approval.
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Rising air-conditioning use, spurred by warming and income growth, adds to global warming. The study combines GCAM and MAGICC to assess AC's warming impact across five SSP-RCP futures. By 2050, global AC stock is ~2.3–3.1 billion units; AC electricity use could reach up to about 15% of building energy, with global cooling demand rising 25% by 2050 and 50% by 2100. AC-related GHGs could reach about 113 GtCO2eq (2010–2050), warming ~0.03–0.07°C (0.02–0.11°C range). Non-CO2 from refrigerants may dominate by 2050 (~60%). Income growth reduces cooling inequality but increases emissions; low-carbon power and low-GWP refrigerants are essential.
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eMachines’ “Never Obsolete” campaign offered a $99 upgrade via an internet-service contract, promising to keep buyers’ PCs up to date. In reality, upgrading depended on model and required returning the old machine and paying shipping both ways; upgrades could be just a CPU, or more, with cost tied to the original price, and often wasn’t a true new computer. The promo ended as broadband spread and AOL-related issues faded. eMachines were acquired by Gateway (2004) and Acer (2007), and the brand disappeared in 2013; the machines were cheap, decent for the era, but limited.
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Bluesky is a heavily interactive web app that requires JavaScript (simple HTML isn’t sufficient). The message promotes Bluesky (bsky.social) and atproto.com and includes a post by teropa.bsky.social with a did:plc identifier and a timestamp about Claude’s uptime (2026-03-27T14:28:14.356Z).
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Japanese company Bibilab launches the Neko House Desk, a cat-friendly workspace for remote workers. It includes a right-side two-tier cat space (top tier holds up to 20 kg) with side-access portals, plus a cat lounge under the desk surface near your knees. A “Surprise Cat Hole” lets the cat poke topside and move between areas, while cable slits and a PC-tower spot keep work tidy. It pairs with Bibilab’s Cat Tower Rack. Price: 24,800 yen (~$160).
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Claude Code’s .claude/ is its control center. There are two folders: a project-level .claude/ (versioned with the repo) and a global ~/.claude/ for personal defaults. CLAUDE.md files (at project root, home, or subfolders) guide behavior; Claude merges them. The .claude/ directory contains: settings.json (permissions), commands/ (custom slash commands), rules/ (modular, path-scoped instructions), skills/ (auto-invoked workflows), and agents/ (specialist personas). Personal overrides live as settings.local.json and CLAUDE.local.md. The global folder mirrors these with global instructions, memory, and per-project transcripts.
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