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AI's populist backlash: violence, distrust, and a credibility chasm
Two recent attacks — a Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's home by a self-described 'butlerian jihadist,' and 13 shots fired at an Indianapolis councilman w
Asahi Linux Ships Installer Automation, ALS Support Alongside Linux 7.0
The Asahi Linux project has pushed its first installer update in nearly two years, coinciding with the Linux 7.0 release. The previous manual release process re
Boxing optional structs in Rust cut a 895MB program down to 420MB
A Rust developer deserializing thousands of AWS Smithy JSON shape files into nested structs found the in-memory representation ballooning to 895MB. The cause wa
Building a 84x42 flipdisc wall display with ML-driven interactivity
A maker documents constructing a 3x3 grid of Alfazeta flipdisc panels (84x42 dots total) as interactive office wall art, choosing the 80-year-old electromagneti
Chrome's Prompt API: Gemini Nano Runs Locally in the Browser
Chrome ships a built-in Prompt API that exposes Gemini Nano to web pages and extensions, letting developers send natural language requests without round-trippin
EPFL's Kinematic Intelligence lets robots inherit skills across different hardware
Researchers at EPFL have published a Science Robotics paper describing Kinematic Intelligence, a control framework that lets learned robotic skills transfer bet
Evolution's Bug Tracker: 13 Anatomical Flaws in the Human Body
Biologist Lewis Held catalogs human anatomical quirks that range from harmless oddities to lethal design failures, framing them as evidence of evolution's tinke
Fake CAPTCHA Pages Fuel IRSF Toll Fraud and 120 Keitaro-Driven Crypto Scams
Researchers have linked a sprawling fraud operation that uses fake CAPTCHA challenges to drive International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF), tricking victims into t
Fast16: Lua-powered sabotage framework predates Stuxnet by five years
SentinelLABS has identified fast16, a previously undocumented sabotage framework compiled in 2005 that selectively patches high-precision calculation software i
Forty years after Chernobyl: wildlife thrives, but the science remains contested
Four decades after the 1986 reactor explosion, the 60km exclusion zone around Chernobyl has become an unlikely wildlife refuge. Wolves, bears, lynx, bison, deer
Friendster sold for $30k — buyer plans to revive the dormant social brand
A buyer has acquired the Friendster brand and domain for $30,000 and is publicly outlining plans to bring the dormant social network back in some form. Friendst
GoDaddy hands 27-year-old domain to stranger, ignores 32 support calls
A Lancaster IT firm watched a client's domain of 27 years vanish from a GoDaddy account on a Saturday afternoon despite dual two-factor authentication and the r