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Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector -
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Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
Thanks for giving me a viable business model Amazon!
3423
Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
Yes, there really was a smoking room on the Hindenburg… even though the zeppelin was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen...
3424
Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.
3425
The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)
A new book shows the value of memorable defining moments on customer and employee experiences.
3426
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
3427
AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself.
3428
Grok Build
Now in early beta for all SuperGrok and X Premium Plus subscribers — Grok Build is a new coding agent that runs right from your terminal.
3429
What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?
What extra stuff is needed to properly run a language model? Besides the weights of a language model, what is the gguf metadata that we need to parse and use?
3430
Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
3431
Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
A modular, compile-checked tutorial for learning category-theory ideas through a tiny Rust ML pipeline.
3432
HDD Firmware Hacking
Do you know how a hard drive works? Come find out with me as I dump, reverse engineer, and modify the firmware on various HDDs and SSDs.
3433
RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
3434
Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
We're committing $200 million in grants, Claude credits, and technical support for global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility programs.
3435
A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
But the Institute is facing ongoing challenges in two related areas: funding, and our talent pipeline.
3436
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent e…
3437
The Third Hard Problem
It’s not off-by-one errors.
3438
Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
The York University Computer Museum (YUCoM) is a historical collection and a research center for the history of computing in Canada. Computer museum Canada
3439
Claude for Small Business
We're launching Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses use every day.
3440
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus
While starting my first year at the Colorado School of Mines, I came across a rather interesting fact: the local DNS servers will assign a subdomain to each device that connects to the network. This means that a device called “meow” will be visible as “meow.mines.edu” on any campus wifi, though the network still…
3441
Cisco workforce reductions
Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction. Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction.
3442
A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism
Background: Although people are familiar with loud automobiles, equipped with modified mufflers to increase the volume, it is unclear who is most attracted to these vehicles. Participants and procedure: A sample of 529 (52% men) undergraduate business students were surveyed and were asked if...
3443
3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend
Introduction 3D Gaussian splatting is a technique that answers this question: given a dataset of pictures of a scene, how can I reconstruct it in 3D? This is achieved using a machine learning algorithm that, for many different camera angles, does the following: render the scene, compare it to the picture taken at the…
3444
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
MacBook Neo processor: Apple's A18 Pro, the iPhone 16 Pro chip. Geekbench 6: 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, thermals, and $699.
3445
Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the *Interim .US Domain Template* to the delegated manager for your locality, then point DNS entries at your webhost.
3446
The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.
3447
Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
I host and maintain your WordPress site: one person for your server and your site, who you message on WhatsApp. From €39 per month excl. VAT, cancel monthly.
3448
I moved my digital stack to Europe
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
3449
SecurityBaseline.eu
On May 13, 2026, the website SecurityBaseline.eu was launched. It is a spin-off from the Dutch “Basisbeveiliging”, which has monitored baseline security for over a decade and is part of governmental policy. Three months ago we sent tens of thousands of e-mails to European governments indicating the new site would…
3450
The Emacsification of Software
Everything looks like Emacs now: personal, complicated, idiosyncratic, and shrink-wrapped around exactly what you want it to do. Does shipping software even make sense in the long run?