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151. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
152. Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil
When we talk about the possibility of humans living on Mars, one of the biggest challenges is not the rockets or the habitats, but something far more basic:
153. Some models of reality are bolder than others
Some models of reality are bolder than others Digital physics is the body of mathematical and philosophical work treating the universe and the way it works as a giant digital computer. This is often associated with cellular automata, and names like Konrad Zuse, John Von Neumann, Stephen Wolfram, etc. What I find fascinating about this field is that the models it suggests are making very deep metaphysical claims: if they are true, it means that the underlying structure of the world is much different than we think, and radically simpler in a sense. Take the lattice gas automaton for instance. A version of it is an hexagonal cellular automata with very simple collision rules, not more complicated than the famous Rule 30 or 110, for 1D cellular automata. The impressive thing about it is that a simulation running this rule with many particles can be shown to approximate the Navier-Stokes equations, which are the classical complicated mathematics to describe the dynamics of fluids. Following Wolfram, I find it very appealing to consider the idea that the world is not somehow running “hidden mathematics”, somewhere and somehow, to solve some complicated equations in a seemingly magical way, but rather, that things are radically simpler, in that the world is simply implementing a set of trivially simple rules. The world is not concerned with, or made with mathematics, mathematics just emerges, with inherent and irreducible complexity, from extreme simplicity.
154. Checked-size array parameters in C
155. Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
156. We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform, writes Jared Cooney Horvath.
157. Prompt Injection via Poetry
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
158. ChatGPT gladly shoots a YouTuber, overriding safety protocols
The YouTube channel InsideAI tested ChatGPT's limits with a BB gun, and all it took was a straightforward trick to get the AI to pull the trigger.
159. Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
Under a new State Department memo, people who keep online spaces safe are now ineligible for H-1B visas.
160. The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All
161. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
162. OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off.
163. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
164. Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.
165. Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
Home made pasta like your ma' used to make it
166. What I don't like about chains of thoughts
Blog post of Samsja
167. India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app to ensure cyber safety
168. DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
169. I Designed and Printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE
Discover how our pitbull Billie's struggle with Discoid Lupus led to creating SnoutCover - a 3D-printed nose protector that helped her nose fully recover in 5 months.
170. Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
171. This EV might be affordable for the masses but there's no screen inside
172. Interop and MathML Core
a tiny technical blog.
173. A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
174. After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
175. Paged Out
176. Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)
Today I’m going to talk about a recent journey as a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer working on the OpenJDK project. While running tests for a new feature, I realized my Java objects and classes were arbitrarily disappearing! What followed was probably the most interesting debugging and fixing experience of my life (so far), which I wanted to share with the world.
177. Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.
178. XY Problem
179. Mistral 3 family of models released
A family of frontier open-source multimodal models
180. Programming Peaked