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Unpaid ‘Special Factory Employee’
I’m a sucker for anything Cookie Monster, but this one really slaps. ★
Where to find the Skeleton Key in Oblivion so you can stop breaking all your lockpicks
If you're sick of stacking up on lockpicks, go on a quest to get the best pick of them all.
Enabled Testing Methodologies: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Testing and Penetration Testing
VSEC Test aims to integrate all methods of vehicle cybersecurity testing into a single easy-to-use platform.
Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.
Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks
The watermarks, which could identify people leaking screenshots to the press, are in the background of internal communications platform P2.
LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
This Console was the Sh*t! | Nostalgia Nerd
Head to [sponsor] https://squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code nostalgianerd ~ Think of the iconic video game consoles of the 80s,...
What’s Next for Jupiter’s Fiery Moon, Io?
Io’s role in Jupiter’s magnetosphere remains a mystery. NASA’s Juno is already capturing close-up data, while JUICE and Europa Clipper will add remote insights in the 2030s. A dedicated Io...
1,000 Steel Coffins? Russia’s T-80 Tank Has Been Smashed to Pieces in Ukraine War
Key Points: Russia’s T-80 main battle tank has suffered disastrously in the Ukraine war, with estimates suggesting up to 1,000 destroyed by Ukrainian drones, anti-tank missiles, and artillery. -Originally designed...
Google Changes Chrome Extension Policies Following the Honey Link Scandal
Jay Peters, The Verge: Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal’s popular Honey browser extension of being a “scam.” Honey was accused of...
How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
The Migration to Coldware (COLD)
Coldware (COLD) is quickly emerging as the next big thing, with its decentralized Layer 1 blockchain providing a solution to the limitations faced by Solana. As more developers make the...
Users Hate Search Filters—Maybe Let AI Handle It Instead
Instead of traditional forms, we can give users the possibility to use a chat, the next level of communication with services.
New Neural Trick Helps Models Think in Longer Patterns
Researchers introduced PANM, a plug-and-play memory module that mimics symbolic processing using pointers. PANM improves neural networks’ generalization to longer, unseen sequences and boosts performance in symbolic tasks, QA, and...
The Science Behind Stronger, Smarter Materials
This section refines asymptotic calculations in micromorphic models, tackling third-order polynomial complexities to improve wave dispersion accuracy and parameter fitting.
“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was...
“Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was uncovered over a century ago.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
BigCommerce vs. Shopify: Which One is Better?
BigCommerce and Shopify are two of the most popular e-commerce platforms available. Both offer a range of features and tools to help businesses create and manage their online stores. In...
Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail
After being arrested in connection with a years-long, country-spanning string of murders, the alleged leader of the so-called Zizians cult is insisting he hasn't done anything wrong — and that...
"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
Apple Announces Plan to Spend More Than $500 Billion in the U.S. Over the Next Four Years (Which Is Probably Exactly What They’ve Been Planning to Do)
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. The context of...
AWS Regions and Availability Zones: A Useful Guide for Beginners
High Availability in the cloud: why us-east-1 alone is not a strategy (it's a gamble)
Fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions is coming to PC with over 300 characters
Marvel Contest of Champions launched on mobile devices over a decade ago, and is now bringing its giant hero and villain roster to PC.
Quid Pro Cybertruck
Jack Ewing, reporting for The New York Times: The department’s procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles. The...
BC.GAME To Host 'Untamed Arena' During TOKEN2049, Showcasing Web3 Culture And Influencer Appearances
"Untamed Arena" is a side event scheduled for April 29 at Bla Bla Dubai. The gathering is expected to attract over 3,000 attendees. Antonio Brown, NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl...
TechnologyNewsMedia.com - The $100 Guest Post Scam Garbage Fire
TechnologyNewsMedia.com is a classic PBN-style operation. A junk blog bloated with scraped AI content, generic “how-to” tech blurbs, walls of keyword-stuffed gibberish. The owner has tried to game the system...
Add Real-time Temperature Monitoring to the Proxmox VE Dashboard
This guide shows how to add real-time CPU and SSD temperature monitoring to the Proxmox VE dashboard by using lm-sensors, modifying backend Perl code, and updating the frontend JavaScript to...
INE Security Alert: Top 5 Takeaways From RSAC 2025
INE Security is addressing how a comprehensive training platform directly addresses the five most critical security imperatives that dominated this year's conference conversations. AI-driven threats, multi-cloud vulnerabilities, and increasingly sophisticated...
AI Wants to Fix Your Network Before It Breaks—But Can You Trust It?
AI is helping networks and data centers to be more clever, speedy, and efficient. Self-optimizing fabric networks, AI-powered cooling, and predictive maintenance are just some of the ways the industry...
Fixing Garbled Text When Syncing Oracle to Doris with SeaTunnel 2.3.9
When using SeaTunnel 2.3.9 to sync data from Oracle to Doris, you may encounter garbled characters, especially if the Oracle database uses the ASCII character set. But don’t panic—this article...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Dear ChatGPT, Im Alone and Depressed—Can You Help? (4/29/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 29, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Continuous CVE Practice Closes Critical Gap Between Vulnerability Alerts and Effective Defense
INE Security: Real-world practice with the latest CVEs is essential for transforming security teams from reactive to proactive defenders. With over 26,000 new CVEs documented in the past year, security...
Your AI Just Got a Brain (and Maybe a Will): A Friendly Intro to Agentic AI
Agentic AI is the next evolution of AI—tools that don’t just respond, but actually act toward goals. Think: write content, schedule posts, replan when things go wrong. This article breaks...
Man Who Lost $775 Million in Bitcoin Now Wants to Buy the Entire Landfill
James Howells, who lost 8,000 Bitcoins worth $775M in a landfill in 2013, now wants to buy the entire site to recover his fortune. Newport City Council rejected his previous...
This Scroll-Based Header Will Make Your Website Feel 10x Smoother on Mobile
This tutorial shows you how to build a responsive mobile site using Vite. We'll use plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build the interaction.
Two-Way Identification: Evaluating MindEye2 Reconstruction Accuracy
Learn about the two-way identification method used to evaluate the accuracy of MindEye2's visual reconstructions, comparing ground truth and reconstructed images using deep learning embeddings.
Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones
The proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back...
Behind the Blog: Backdoors and the Miracle of Wikipedia
This week, we discuss Apple's iCloud, Wikipedia as a miracle of humankind, and good soup.
Building 3D Virtual Try-On with WebGL: Implementation Guide
Virtual try-on technology is changing how consumers purchase clothing, cosmetics, and accessories. Virtual try-On technology is significantly improving conversion rates and reducing return rates. This article delves into how to...
Spotlighting Tech's Rising Star: Dealita, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Riga, Latvia
The Latvian startup Dealita.ai uses artificial intelligence to automate one of the most time-consuming stages of the investment process – data collection and processing. This AI solution automates the handling...
How I Didn’t Raise $150K in Antler UK — and Whether You Should Try: My Experience
I didn’t raise £120K. I didn’t find a co-founder (then). But the experience gave me the push I needed to start working on imii — and clarity on the kind...
Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack...
Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack it out” is not just for campers and backpackers in Japan. “The Japanese way is the correct way....
Understanding CallData in Blockchain Transaction Execution
This section delves into the significance of callData in blockchain transactions, ensuring data availability for state computation. It discusses the potential risks of front-running, challenges in execution ordering, and various...
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Crypto Exchanges: A Builder’s Perspective
Deciding whether to build a crypto exchange is one of the most complex undertakings in the blockchain space. Centralized exchanges (CEXs) are traditional in structure but technically intensive. decentralized exchanges...
COCOGEN vs DAVINCI: A Human Evaluation of Structured Commonsense Graph Generation
Human evaluation confirms COCOGEN's advantage over DAVINCI in generating more relevant and accurate argument graphs. For EXPLAGRAPHS, COCOGEN consistently produces better semantic relations. In PROSCRIPT, both models have strengths, but...
The Case for Decentralized Cloud and Blockchain in Fintech Infrastructure
Centralized cloud systems struggle with latency, resilience, and compliance—especially in global Fintech. This article shares real-world tuning strategies using decentralized cloud and blockchain, from geo-aware microservices to dual-layered data flows,...
Here we go…
Jay Peters reporting on yesterday's Epic vs Apple trial decision:Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees...
TnT-LLM: Automating Text Taxonomy Generation and Classification With Large Language Models
We begin with a high-level overview of TnT-LLM, our proposed two-phase framework for 1) LLM-powered taxonomy generation and 2) LLM-augmented text classification.
GAN and Tec Monterrey Forge Alliance To Boost LatAm Startup Ecosystem
Despite tensions between the U.S. government and Latin American countries over migration and tariffs, the business ecosystem within the hemisphere remains committed to cross-border investment. The Global Accelerator Network, commonly...
