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Claude AI helps Bitcoin holder recover $400K wallet locked for 11 years
An X user going by cprkrn regained access to 5 BTC — worth roughly $400,000 — after spending more than a decade locked out of an old wallet whose password they
Faking Additive Blending on the N64 by Detouring Through a 32-bit Buffer
The PlayStation handled effects like explosions and plasma beams convincingly because its GPU supported additive blending with automatic clamping at 255. The Ni
Frontier AI has broken open CTFs, says former top-10 competitor
A veteran CTF player who competed with top-10 international team TheHackersCrew argues the open CTF format is no longer a meaningful measure of human security s
Hand-built FPGA scientific calculator runs on a custom nibble-oriented soft CPU
A developer has released a complete scientific calculator implemented in hardware on an FPGA, built around a custom soft CPU designed in Verilog that operates o
Mitchell Hashimoto: Some companies appear gripped by collective 'AI psychosis'
HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto floated a provocative observation on X: entire organizations seem to be operating in a state of 'AI psychosis,' making d
Orthrus claims 7.8× token throughput on Qwen3 with bit-exact output parity
Orthrus is a dual-architecture inference framework for Qwen3 that bolts parallel diffusion-style decoding onto a standard autoregressive LLM without altering it
P2P Meth: Why Today's Supply Is Purer, More Abundant, and Possibly More Dangerous
After the US and Mexico restricted pseudoephedrine sales in 2006 and 2008, meth producers pivoted to a phenyl-2-propanone (P2P) synthesis route using widely ava
Ploopy Bean brings a standalone QMK trackpoint to any computer
Ploopy is taking preorders for the Bean Pointing Stick, a standalone trackpoint device that revives the IBM-style nub pointer as a peripheral you can plug into
Quasicrystals in the Wild: Meteorites, Lightning, and an Atomic Bomb
Quasicrystals — ordered but non-repeating atomic arrangements, the 3D analog of Penrose tiles — almost never form on their own. Mathematician John Carlos Baez c
Satire: npm Shrugs at Supply Chain Attacks as 'Unpreventable Acts of Nature'
A satirical piece modeled on The Onion's recurring 'No Way To Prevent This' format skewers the npm ecosystem's fatalistic response to recurring supply chain att
Six SQL Patterns for Catching Transaction Fraud Without ML or Graph Databases
A data analyst on a program-integrity team argues that most transaction fraud detection is best handled in plain SQL against the right tables, not with machine
Turso kills its data-corruption bounty after LLM slop drowns maintainers
Turso, the team rewriting SQLite, is ending its year-old $1,000 bounty for bugs that demonstrably cause data corruption. The program paid out to five contributo