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CVE-2025-46336 (rack-session): Rack session gets restored after deletion

rubysec.com
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Let's be real about dependencies

alopex.li

I’ve been wanting to do this for a few weeks, ever since I typed apt install...
I’ve been wanting to do this for a few weeks, ever since I typed apt install xorg-dev on my Debian system and it installed literally 30 megabytes of header files. A perennial complaint among various sections of the Rust community is “all these darn programs that use 300 crates to do anything”. These complaints are v...
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Rust Dependencies Scare Me

vincents.dev
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Linear Programming for Fun and Profit

modal.com

If you haven’t noticed, the GPU market is highly volatile. NVIDIA repeatedly spews out new chip...
If you haven’t noticed, the GPU market is highly volatile. NVIDIA repeatedly spews out new chip architectures, doubling FLOPS every few years. Everyone shifts towards the newest cards, causing temporary supply crunches and high prices. But Modal’s customers don’t want to think about these price fluctuations. They wa...
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Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR

theverge.com
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The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust

kleine-koenig.org

Published: Thu 08 May 2025 Updated: Thu 08 May 2025 In Kernel. tags: OpenPGP The Linux...
Published: Thu 08 May 2025 Updated: Thu 08 May 2025 In Kernel. tags: OpenPGP The Linux kernel's development process makes use of PGP. The most relevant part here is that subsystem maintainers are supposed to use signed tags in their pull requests to Linus Torvalds. As the concept of keyservers is considered broken, ...
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Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip

science.org
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A romance scam compound–and how people get tricked into being there

technologyreview.com

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No! Repent! From! Harlan! (1998)

harlanellison.com
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Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

hyvector.com
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Implementing a Struct of Arrays

brevzin.github.io
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How async/await works in Python

tenthousandmeters.com

Published: Tue 24 August 2021 By Victor Skvortsov tags: Python behind the scenes Python CPython Mark...
Published: Tue 24 August 2021 By Victor Skvortsov tags: Python behind the scenes Python CPython Mark functions as async. Call them with await. All of a sudden, your program becomes asynchronous – it can do useful things while it waits for other things, such as I/O operations, to complete. Code written in the async/a...
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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

ieee.org

At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the...
At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most conc...

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Malaya's Timeless Design

linyangchen.com
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How "Night of the Living Dead" Accidentally Became Public Domain

screenrant.com

George Romero's Night of the Living Dead is one of the most popular horror films ever,...
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead is one of the most popular horror films ever, but an unfortunate error accidentally made it public domain. With Night of the Living Dead, Romero created the zombie as we know it today, a walking corpse with little intelligence that craves the flesh of the living. Without Nigh...
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Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro

microsoft.com

We’re pleased to announce that one of the latest additions to the list of official WSL...
We’re pleased to announce that one of the latest additions to the list of official WSL distros is Fedora Linux! The Fedora Project has taken advantage of WSL’s new tar-based architecture to produce WSL images beginning with Fedora 42. Try it out To install it, run wsl –-install FedoraLinux-42and then launch it with ...
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WASM 2.0

w3.org
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Full Control.xyz Freeform Gcode

fullcontrol.xyz
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Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA MIT algorithm (1977)

archive.org
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Losing my Meta account because of release delays

madelinemiller.dev

In the modern world, online accounts are ubiquitous. You’ve likely got so many that you’d have...
In the modern world, online accounts are ubiquitous. You’ve likely got so many that you’d have trouble actually counting them. Almost everything you do requires an account at this point. This wasn’t something I put too much thought into, beyond the mild annoyance of having to sign up to yet another website, until I ...

accessibility retrospective
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Zombieverter: Open source VCU for reusing salvage EV components

openinverter.org

Modern EV conversion projects often look to reuse salvaged parts from wrecked vehicles, such as the...
Modern EV conversion projects often look to reuse salvaged parts from wrecked vehicles, such as the motors, batteries and chargers. The issue is that each of these components and manufacturers, use different methods of control and communication. Developing controllers for these devices is complex, and time consuming...
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Robotics meets the culinary arts

epfl.ch

While the idea of creating robots that can be eaten or food that behaves like robots...
While the idea of creating robots that can be eaten or food that behaves like robots may seem weird, it is a real challenge for the scientific community. As part of the EU-funded RoboFood project, researchers from EPFL and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT- Italian Institute of Technology) have collaborated w...
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Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues.

nytimes.com
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Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware

arstechnica.com

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the...
Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years. Kyle Schutt is a 30...
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