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A milestone moment for @DorianePin 🖤🩶 Getting behind the wheel of an F1 car for the first time 😤

The Artemis II crew's Earthset and eclipse images are now on images.nasa.gov in full resolution: Earthset: images.nasa.gov/details/art002… Captured with a Nikon D5 and Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 at 400mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 400 Eclipse: images.nasa.gov/details/art002… Captured with a Nikon Z9 and Nikon 35mm f/2D at 2", f/2, ISO 1600

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

I'm uninstalling Docker Desktop for good, and here's what I'm using instead bit.ly/49bs7oH

🤯🍌🤯 Gemini 3.0 can convert a 2D blueprint into a 3D-rendered visualization - at 4K resolution. Just paste your 2D plan and add the prompt (in ALT). Absolutely insane for architects or interior design workflows.

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents. Read more: anthropic.com/news/disruptin…

My coworker got promoted over me. He was worse at coding. Better at politics. I wrote better code. Fixed more bugs. Shipped faster. He talked in meetings. Took credit. Played the game. He got the promotion. I got "keep up the good work". That's when I realized: corporate rewards politics, not performance. Six months later I quit. Started freelancing. Now I make 3x his salary. No politics. No credit-stealing. Just solving problems and getting paid directly. The best developers rarely get promoted. They get used. Companies optimize for compliance and communication. Not competence. If you're technically great but politically terrible, you'll never win at corporations. Leave. Build your own thing. Get paid for your actual value.

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Took me days to work out the reason why the event-handling wasn't working properly in my web app for iOS. Obviously, all I needed to do was add a no-op double-click event handler on the document with an angry comment inside

Huge computer science result: A Tsinghua professor JUST discovered the fastest shortest path algorithm for graphs in 40yrs. This improves on Turing award winner Tarjan’s O(m + nlogn) with Dijkstra’s, something every Computer Science student learns in college.

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Major new QEMU update released. The coolest part? Paravirutalized Apple GPUs. You can now spin up disposable macOS VMs *with* hardware acceleration. macOS guests now expose a thin vGPU (apple-gfx-mmio). very useful for CI, reverse engineering, gfx research, etc

Just heard the sad news that Martyn Brown, a co-founder of @Team17 who brought us franchises such as Alien Breed and Worms has sadly passed away. Far too young. RIP Martyn.

Web Application Exploit Checklist !

Want to learn how to serve requests in microseconds? 🚀 I really like this paper because it identifies a narrow but critical problem in ultra-low-latency systems, proposes a solution, then exhuastively benchmarks it. The key observation of this paper is that efficiently serving requests with ultra-low latencies is hard because the operating system allocates cores at a granularity of several milliseconds. Therefore, even with an ultra-fast networking stack that can serve requests in microseconds, when a new request comes in you still need to wait milliseconds to get CPU time. Prior systems got around that problem through static allocation: they had many cores busy-spin waiting for requests so that if a new request came in, it could be handled immediately. However, that's inefficient, because those cores are doing nothing most of the time. The main idea in Shenango is to have a single busy-spinning thread, the IOKernel, which both makes core allocation decisions and handles network I/O for a number of application runtimes. The applications all run on user threads on top of kernel threads allocated to Shenango. This setup allows Shenango to efficiently allocate cores between the applications, letting them all serve requests with single-digit microsecond latency even as their relative loads change. The IOKernel polls the NIC receive queue directly to find packets to forward to applications and polls application egress queues to forward their packets to the NIC. While doing this, it keeps track of how many packets are queued for processing at each application, allocating cores to applications that have queues (and removing cores from applications that don't). Because all applications run in user threads, these core allocation decisions execute in microseconds. There are also a ton of optimizations under the hood, particularly around ensuring application cache locality. The extensive evaluation section shows incredible performance--serving cache requests for memcached on a single 12-core machine, it could handle 5M requests/second with a median response time of 37 microseconds and a p99.9 of 93 microseconds. Try comparing that to your own stack! 🚀 Main takeaway?  Modern computers can be unbelievably, incredibly fast if we really want them to. We often don't take advantage of this performance because we like having high-level abstractions like OS thread scheduling or an OS network stack, but it's good to know what's possible for when it's really needed.

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> Win11Debloat: Simple powershell script that can remove pre-installed Windows bloatware apps, disable telemetry and declutter the experience by disabling or removing intrusive interface elements, ads and more. -Features •Remove bloatware apps, with the option to select exactly what apps to remove or keep. •Remove all pinned apps from the start menu. NOTE: This applies to all existing and new users. (Windows 11 only) •Disable telemetry, diagnostic data, app-launch tracking & targeted ads. •Disable & remove bing search & cortana in Windows search. •Disable tips, tricks, suggestions and ads in start, settings, notifications, Windows explorer, and on the lockscreen. •Disable Windows Copilot. (Windows 11 only) •Restore the old Windows 10 style context menu. (Windows 11 only) •Show hidden files, folders and drives. •Show file extensions for known file types. •Hide duplicate removable drive entries from the Windows explorer navigation pane, so only the entry under 'This PC' remains. •Align taskbar icons to the left. (Windows 11 only) •Hide or change the search icon/box on the taskbar. (Windows 11 only) •Hide the taskview button from the taskbar. (Windows 11 only) •Disable the widget service & hide icon from the taskbar. •Hide the chat (meet now) icon from the taskbar. •Hide the 3D objects, music or onedrive folder in the Windows explorer sidepanel. (Windows 10 only) •Hide the 'Include in library', 'Give access to' and 'Share' options in the context menu. (Windows 10 only) github.com/Raphire/Win11D…

TL;DR: Don't install @signalapp for macOS, it is not secure. I carried out this small experiment: - I wrote a simple Python script that copies the directory of Signal's local storage to another location (to mimic a malicious script or app) - I ran the script in the Terminal and got a copy of my Signal data on my Mac - I booted a fresh macOS installation in a virtual machine - I transferred the copy of Signal's data to the VM and placed it where Signal expects it: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal - I installed Signal and started it - Signal started and restored my session with all the chat histories 😳 - I exchanged a couple messages with a contact from the VM and it worked 😳 - Then, I started Signal on the Mac - I got three sessions running in unison: Mac, iPhone, and VM 😳 Messages were either delivered to the Mac or to the VM. The iPhone received all messages. All of the three sessions were live and valid. Signal didn't warn me of the existence of the third session [that I cloned]. Moreover, Signal on the iPhone still shows one linked device. This is particularly dangerous because any malicious script can do the same to seize a session. Perhaps this flaw is what makes some users think that Signal has a "backdoor" as it is easy for sophisticated attackers to target a victim who's using the Mac app and see their chats. (The same may be also true for the Windows app) #privacy #security