2025-07-15
Nintendo is trying to keep video game budgets in check (but Mario Kart World is still $80)
Andrew Webster for The Verge: Nintendo wants to keep ‘traditional approach’ to development as costs skyrocketIn response to a question during a recent shareholders meeting about the increased costs of...
2025-07-14
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Musk Calls on Trump to Release Epstein Files
President Donald Trump's loyal MAGA base is in shambles over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files — and his number one enemy is having the last laugh. Last...
How I Made My Next.js Blog Serve Markdown Files for Agent Experience SEO (AX-SEO)
This guide shows you how to serve raw Markdown files in a blog using Next.js middleware and API routes. It will enable you to optimize your blog for **Agent Experience...
It's just a slice
Jay Van Bavel: Are a Few People Ruining the Internet for the Rest of Us?In a paper I recently published with Claire Robertson and Kareena del Rosario, we found extensive...
How Ethereum Opcodes Handle Memory, Calls, and Control Flow
The EVM Simulator statically simulates Ethereum opcodes across four categories—stack, memory, call, and control flow—to track taint propagation. It models how user-controllable inputs affect execution and prioritizes attack-simulating paths for...
Detecting Vulnerabilities, Byte by Byte: The Architecture of AVVERIFIER
AVVERIFIER is a bytecode-level detection system designed to identify address verification vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts. It operates through a three-part architecture—Grapher, Simulator, and Detector—parsing control flow graphs, simulating EVM...
Why Most Smart Contract Analysis Tools Fail at Address Verification
Most existing tools—especially those relying on dynamic analysis, symbolic execution, or conventional taint analysis—fail to efficiently detect address verification vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts due to limitations like poor memory...
A $8.2M Hack and the Blind Spot in Ethereum Smart Contract Verification
A critical flaw in Visor Finance’s smart contract led to an $8.2M loss due to poor address verification. This article breaks down how the exploit worked, why it passed sanity...
Inside Ethereum’s Smart Contract Ecosystem: Security, Tokens, and Whitelist Verification
This article breaks down how Ethereum smart contracts function, with a focus on external accounts, the EVM, ERC-20 tokens, and DApps. It explores DeFi’s explosive growth and the importance of...
A New Tool Uncovers Over $11.2 Billion at Risk in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Address verification flaws in Ethereum smart contracts pose serious risks. AVVERIFIER, a new static analysis tool, detects these vulnerabilities with 94.3% precision and 100% recall. It flagged over 800 contracts...
Application development without programmers
Application development without programmers This book by James Martin published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a...
The Role of Respect: Why we inevitably appeal to authority
Published on July 14, 2025 9:28 PM GMTThere is a large class of true statements which are indistinguishable from nonsense, and this is a problem for rationality. There's also a...
The AI Framework Trap
The current landscape for choosing open-source AI frameworks is nothing short of chaotic. Teams often jump on whatever’s trending: the newest GitHub star, flashy demos, or buzzwords they hope will...
Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover
Artificial intelligence has invariably infiltrated the restaurant world, leading to some outrageous — and at times disgusting — fails. As flagged on Bluesky, a random restaurant in Sikar, the capital...
All Mr Faber Work bonus objectives in GTA Online
How to complete all six missions for Faber in the Money Fronts update.
Making Sense of Consciousness Part 3: The Pulvinar Nucleus
Published on July 14, 2025 9:20 PM GMTGray’s Anatomy, “Hind- and mid-brains; postero-lateral view.” Pulvinar circled in orange.Back in Part 1, I found an interesting candidate for a cross-sensory region...
“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets...
“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
LLM-induced craziness and base rates
Published on July 14, 2025 9:16 PM GMTOne billion people use chatbots on a weekly basis. That’s 1 in every 8 people on Earth.How many people have mental health issues...
Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch
Anthony Lane, in a crackerjack piece for The New Yorker on the writing and work of Elmore Leonard: So, when does Leonard become himself? Is it possible to specify the...
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