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Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass
Binarly uncovers CVE-2025-3052: a Secure Boot bypass affecting most UEFI devices, enabling attackers to run unsigned code before OS load.
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How the US built 5k ships in WWII
Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships it produced.
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What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?
Beyond the Prompt: Notes from the Context Frontier
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ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.
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Instagram Addiction
i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done.
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No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – An Army's Role
The United States was born of a desire to leave behind monarchial government and instead live under a republic. Although the structure of the United States was explicitly crafted to have both …
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The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken
Something fundamental has shifted in how power works, and most of our institutions haven't noticed. We're living through what might be called "leverage arbitrage divergence"—a growing gap between...
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Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop
Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainf*ck code results in an infinite loop, akin amost to a DDoS attack:
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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money — George Hill, commercial real estate…
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Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos
A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated, another potential tool in the fight against misinformation.
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Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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How Hyper built a 1M-accurate indoor GPS
To @AndrewHart: “Our app is shit and we know it’s shit”. My life changed forever when a senior exec from one of the world’s largest retailers messaged me on Twitter. This was back in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for...
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Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
Update, 2025-04-16: I wrote a follow-up post after about a month of usage, and you can read that here. Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare. After looking through…
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System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC
System76 built their first workstation-class Arm PC, the Thelio Astra, and it's marketed for streamlined autonomous vehicle development. But I'm not an automotive developer, just someone who enjoys Linux, Arm, and computing. So I was excited to spend a few weeks (which turned into a few months) testing the latest…
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Local First Htmx
Overview Part 2 is now ready There is a common refrain on the internet that things have gotten worse and are continuing to get worse. There is a proliferation of horrible jumpy loading ads on every website, every search engine throws a crappy AI summary in front of your search result, every site/webapp seems to have…
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Implementing a Struct of Arrays
My CppCon 2025 talk, Practical Reflection, is now online, and goes over this example in more detail and more digressions. Check it out!
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"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
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The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025
Updates on the ESA Gaia mission
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Postcard is now open source
Self-host a personal website + newsletter
5182
My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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PgEdge Goes Open Source
pgEdge is now fully open-source under the Postgres license. What that means for distributed PostgreSQL, the Spock extension, and our enterprise customers.
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Scientists create ultra fast memory using light
Novel "photonic latch" technology paves the way for ultra-fast, light-based computing for AI and data centers.
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Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.
5187
Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
A deep dive into ongoing efforts adapting language models for diffusion-based ARC solving.
5188
Threlte 8
The next major release of Threlte
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Vanilla CSS is all you need
Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy show that modern vanilla CSS can power serious apps without Sass, PostCSS, or a build step.
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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering
A great engineer (controls being no exception) has to be part hacker, part master craftsman.