What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. - - - Fiddling with value block compression in the marginalia index. Very cursed stuff. A bit simplifi...
This week's developments Coding-assistant session hijacked, worm spreads across ~100 repos. Mandiant reported that an attacker hijacked an AI coding-assistant session and used it to spread the Shai-Hu...
The first fifteen minutes of an AI coding setup usually fail for a boring reason, not a model reason. The wizard says you are ready while your project folder still looks untouched and slightly embarra...
In self-hosted Linux infrastructure, bridging L7 application security with L3/L4 network enforcement traditionally requires stitching together multiple independent daemons. A typical setup involves an...
The first number on an eval dashboard is usually a lie. Not a scam. A folding error. You asked a model for an answer, the path blinked, and your scorer filed the blink under incorrect. I stopped scori...
When a team decides to build a decentralized exchange, the conversation often jumps directly to implementation. Which blockchain should support it? Which smart contract language will be used? How quic...
Ports remain the same. Two forward-facing USB-C 3 ports (up to 10 gigabytes per second), as well as a headphone jack and a power indicator light. On the back, there are three Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI...
iPhones and Macs are like two peas in a pod. Apple’s hardware synergy means you can launch iPhone apps right from the macOS desktop, respond to texts without picking up your iPhone, and even copy text...
Google is ready to take a swing at laptops… again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens. Chromebooks have b...
The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually ...
There are lots of compact desktop computers out there, but none match the Mac Mini’s small size and big power. 2024’s redesign reduced the Mini to 0.82L, a chassis so minimal you can easily mount it b...
There are a few things about using a Googlebook that immediately feel just right. The hardware is polished (since it’s based on current laptops). The OS is familiar (if you’ve ever used a Chromebook)....
In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, ...
Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They’re available for preo...
Vivo’s new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company’s focus is firmly on photography. The X500 Pro Max — a new tier in its lineup — is the first phone to use new sensors an...
Lossless long-term memory for a personal AI — never summarize, keep every line, and put a timestamp on everything. Most long-term memory systems for AI do one of two things: they summarize conversatio...
I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time. Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple Intelligence-related services as per https...
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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, m...
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of d...
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen fede...
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall” We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s surveillance towers....
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall” This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of techn...
Do you use :visited on links? | 1 min read I've always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven't been visited, and it seems that it's the default behaviour across ...
Short answer: For an edtech SaaS event notification after payment settles, choose an email provider for the order receipt and reserve SMS for a narrowly defined alert escalation. This is the least com...
You unzip the take-home at 9:40 p.m. and the README is a dare. Build a small review service. Return JSON. Be production-minded. There is no example of a bad response, no score sheet, and no note about...
NOTE: I work at HAProxy, so I'm probably a bit biased. Still, this is an accurate look at the situation. A fun little deep dive, actually. Regardless, this is my own opinion/research, not official fro...
Deep linking in React Native is one of those topics that sounds simple until you actually try to set it up. Then you run into a wall of questions like: what is a URL scheme? Do I need a different sche...