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📰 Daily Content Summary - 2025-07-29
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A retired US special forces officer, Anthony Aguilar, resigned from his work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centers and told the BBC that he witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at crowds of Palestinians. He expressed that he had never witnessed such brutality and unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population. The GHF is backed by the US and Israel.
Copyparty is a file server software that turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser. It supports multiple protocols like HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, and SMB/CIFS. The server only needs Python, with all dependencies being optional. It offers features like file search, media player, zip downloads, and user accounts with per-folder permissions.
The article poses a question about revealing the potential appearance of a local MP's driving license. It does not provide any further context or information beyond this question.
Gamers are protesting against Visa and Mastercard due to the censorship of adult games on platforms like Steam and itch.io. These storefronts claim their decisions were influenced by the risk of losing major payment processor support. Gamers are flooding Visa and Mastercard with emails and calls to disrupt their communication lines and potentially cost them money. Collective Shout, an activist group, initiated the issue by petitioning for the removal of adult games, leading to widespread censorship and impacting even LGBT-themed games. The situation is evolving, with customer service representatives acknowledging the concerns.
Terence Tao discusses the "blue team" and "red team" distinction, drawing parallels between cybersecurity, software engineering, and mathematics. He suggests that AI tools may be more effectively used in a "red team" capacity, critiquing and improving human-generated output rather than directly replacing it. Tao shares his personal experiences using AI for feedback on his own work, finding it a valuable but not always reliable tool. The discussion extends to the logic of verification and refutation, with references to constructive and co-constructive logic.
Debian is addressing the Y2K38 bug by transitioning to 64-bit time for most hardware, starting with Debian 13 "Trixie". This change aims to prevent systems from reverting to 1900 due to the 32-bit integer overflow in Unix timekeeping. The update involves modifying the time_t variable across numerous packages and libraries. While most hardware will receive the update, the i386 port will retain the 32-bit time_t for compatibility. Developers can test their software for compatibility using resources on the Debian wiki.
The FDA has approved lenacapavir (Yeztugo), the first HIV drug offering 100% protection with twice-yearly injections. Gilead Sciences is partnering with the Global Fund to supply the drug to up to two million people in low- and lower-middle-income countries at no profit. License-free generics will be manufactured for use across 120 high-incidence, resource-limited countries. This agreement aims to provide crucial access to the drug and help end the global HIV epidemic.
The article discusses the design and implementation of PyroWave, a custom video codec optimized for low-latency local game streaming. It focuses on minimizing latency by sacrificing traditional codec features like motion prediction and entropy coding. The codec utilizes Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT) and is designed for GPU-based encoding and decoding, achieving very fast performance. The author compares PyroWave's performance and quality against standard codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1 under similar constraints, concluding that it offers a viable DIY streaming solution.
The article discusses the "Sign in with Google" banners and One Tap user experience on websites like Yelp. While browsers like Safari and Firefox display these banners, Chrome avoids them but presents its own One Tap dialog. This dialog is part of Chrome's native UI and can't be blocked by extensions like StopTheMadness Pro. The author highlights that this gives Chrome an advantage over other browsers and provides instructions on how to disable the dialog in Chrome's settings.
In this video, Benn Jordan shares his concerning obsession with birds for a few months. He encourages viewers to follow Sarah and The Mouth and provides links to his social media and streaming channel. The video also showcases custom acoustic panels and mentions an older bat video.
This article is a summer beach read about how Silicon Valley is ruining things with technology. It explores over-hyped technological solutions that are often harmful, using crypto as an example. The author argues that real improvements in financial well-being require democratic solutions, not just tech fads. The series of articles also touches on stablecoins and blockchains, questioning their actual utility and potential dangers.
Ianto Cannon presents various clock graphics rendered using JavaScript as scalable vector graphics. The clocks visualize time using different methods, including binary representation, polygons, blobs with travelling waves, a solar system model, and peaks and waves. The graphics display time in formats such as Unix time and year-month-week-day-hour-minute-second. The author encourages users to freely use and modify the provided source code.
In this article, Shane O'Sullivan shares his experience and insights on designing apps for children, drawing from his work on Kidz Fun Art. He emphasizes the importance of minimizing text, co-locating tools, and making mistakes easy to fix. The article also covers topics such as involving adults at appropriate times, reducing the need for fine motor control, and solving palm rejection issues. He also touches on ethical monetization strategies and the avoidance of social sharing to protect children's privacy.
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Denmark has reintroduced the controversial child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning bill, also known as Chat Control, at the start of its EU Presidency. The bill aims to scan users' chats, including encrypted ones, to halt the spread of CSAM content online. Concerns have been raised by privacy advocates and technologists about the potential undermining of encryption protections. The proposal has faced challenges in gaining majority support, with previous attempts by Poland and Belgium failing to achieve consensus. The Danish Presidency is now trying to find a compromise to gain broader support among member countries, with a potential adoption date as early as October 14, 2025.
This article describes a tool called PicTiler that transforms images into mosaics using smaller tile images. The tool processes images entirely in the browser, ensuring user privacy. Users can upload a main image and choose tile images from their own collection or stock photos. They can also adjust tile size and other settings to fine-tune the mosaic effect and download high-resolution results.
The Tea app, a women-only dating safety platform, has suffered a significant data breach. Initially, an unsecured storage bucket exposed users' drivers' licenses and selfies. A second database containing 1.1 million private messages, including sensitive topics, has been discovered. The leaked data is now circulating on hacking forums, potentially exposing users to social engineering attacks and embarrassment. Tea is working with cybersecurity experts and law enforcement to investigate the incident and has taken the affected system offline.
The article discusses a study by Danish researchers that found a higher than expected proportion of women are genetically men (XY chromosomes) due to disorders of sex development (DSD). These women grow up as females, often unaware of their genetic makeup until puberty when they may experience differences like not menstruating. The study highlights variations in diagnosis age and the physical and mental challenges these individuals face upon discovering their condition. The research aims to improve understanding of diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart disease, which are more prevalent in people with sex chromosome abnormalities.
This article provides six key principles for building effective AI agents. It emphasizes the importance of clear system prompts, efficient context management, and well-designed tools. The author also highlights the need for a robust feedback loop with domain-specific validation and LLM-driven error analysis. The article concludes that frustrating agent behavior often signals underlying system issues rather than model limitations, advocating for a focus on system design and iterative improvement.
The article discusses the intrusive and distracting nature of Windows 11, likening it to malware due to its constant monitoring and unwanted interactions. It suggests the need for an automated Windows detoxifier that is trustworthy, adaptable, and user-friendly. The author proposes an open-source solution, potentially under an existing trusted name, to combat the "auto-malware-ification" of Windows and promote user-centered computing. The goal is to make Windows a place for workflow, productivity and enablement.
A new soft robotic gripper developed at the U of A aims to provide a high-tech solution to the limited availability of farm labor for harvesting delicate blackberries. Inspired by the way a tulip flower opens and closes, the gripper uses three soft, pliable "fingers" with force sensors to pluck berries without damage. Researchers measured the force applied by experienced pickers to determine the optimal force for the robot. While computer vision and positioning technologies still need development, the robotic hand has the potential to be more consistent and even better than human workers at picking blackberries and could be adapted for other soft fruits and tasks.
The article discusses the growing gap between the speed at which some actors can change the world and the speed at which institutions can respond, called "leverage arbitrage divergence." It identifies three types of leverage: labor, capital, and code, each operating at different speeds. Higher-leverage actors are extracting value from systems faster than lower-leverage actors can maintain them, leading to a "modern tragedy of the commons." The author suggests developing "leverage literacy" and redesigning how we measure success to manage this dynamic and avoid civilizational breakdown.
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our solar system, is under intense scrutiny from telescopes on Earth and in space. Observations confirm it has a coma and possibly a tail, and its trajectory is unusually close to the ecliptic. Scientists are analyzing its coma, tail, and origin, with some suggesting it may have originated from the Milky Way's thick disk, potentially making it the oldest comet ever seen. Spacecraft like JUICE and Psyche might observe the comet during its perihelion, when it's hidden from Earth's view, to capture any fragmentation or unusual activity.
Almost 3,900 NASA employees are leaving due to voluntary incentives, raising concerns about a "brain drain." Senior staff with specialized knowledge are among those departing, potentially impacting NASA's missions. A letter of dissent, "The Voyager Declaration," highlights the loss of crucial expertise. The departures are linked to budget cuts and may lead some to the private sector, possibly working on projects like the "Golden Dome" missile defense system. NASA states that safety remains a top priority as they balance the need to become more streamlined.
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Piper is an AI-powered personal assistant that makes phone calls for you. It works by allowing users to click on any phone number on a website, type in their request, and then Piper handles the call, navigating menus and waiting on hold. Piper can handle various calls, including reservations, customer service, and subscription cancellations. It is designed to sound natural and secure, offering a solution to tedious phone tasks.
The article discusses the inaccessibility of video games to non-gamers and suggests four games as good entry points: Baba is You, Stardew Valley, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Balatro. Each game is evaluated based on criteria such as not requiring special hardware, not assuming prior gaming knowledge, being culturally meaningful, and having been personally enjoyed by a non-gamer. The author provides descriptions, reasons why they are fun and good, and context within their respective genres. The author aims to make gaming more accessible and showcase the diverse possibilities within the medium.
Anthropic is introducing new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max, expected to affect less than 5% of subscribers. This change is due to a few users incurring very high costs, such as one user consuming tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. The company aims to support remarkable uses of Claude Code, including continuous 24/7 background operation, while addressing the financial impact of extreme usage cases.
Z.ai has released GLM-4.5-Base, GLM-4.5, and GLM-4.5 Air on Hugging Face under an MIT license. These models are MoE hybrid reasoning models with thinking and non-thinking modes, similar to Qwen 3. GLM-4.5 has 355 billion total parameters with 32 billion active, while GLM-4.5-Air has 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion active. Both models have a 128,000 context length and are trained for tool calling. The author tested the models using the chat.z.ai interface and shares the results of generating an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.
The article discusses ExecuTorch, a PyTorch inference framework for edge devices developed by Meta. It highlights the importance of on-device ML for improving latency, user privacy, and enabling offline functionality. The article showcases how ExecuTorch has been implemented across Meta's family of apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, to enhance features like Cutouts, video call quality, end-to-end encryption, and background music recommendations. The team encourages community contributions to ExecuTorch to further drive innovation in on-device ML.
The article discusses the potential impact of AI on the job market, drawing parallels to the Luddite movement during the Industrial Revolution. It explores the anxieties of the current generation facing job displacement due to AI advancements and questions whether technological progress has a price. The article also examines the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a potential solution to mass technological unemployment, referencing experiments that suggest UBI doesn't necessarily discourage work. Ultimately, the article suggests a shift towards a future where ideas are the most valuable resource, raising questions about the role and well-being of those who may not possess such skills.
This article provides a comprehensive guide on building a scalable face recognition pipeline using CocoIndex. It explains how to extract and embed faces from images, structure the data relationally, and export it into a vector database for real-time querying. The pipeline includes image ingestion, face detection and extraction, computation of face embeddings, and exporting the data to a vector database like Qdrant or Postgres. The article also touches on potential use cases such as photo search, face-based access control, and multimodal search.
Ivan Kuznetsov, a middle-aged product manager, shares his AI-powered vibe-coding setup, which he uses to overcome burnout and rediscover the joy of building. He emphasizes simplicity and understanding the code generated by AI, using a vanilla Rails 8 stack, budget infrastructure, and Cursor IDE with Opus/Sonnet LLMs. He advises focusing on skill development and enjoyment rather than solely on startups. His setup includes Hetzner Cloud, Netdata, Rabata.io, Cloudflare, Kamal, and Resend, with Opus for backend planning and Sonnet for day-to-day coding.
This article discusses the critical need for understanding the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in generating secure code. It introduces an automated approach to identify prompts that lead to code with security vulnerabilities by approximating black-box inversion using few-shot prompting strategies and static analysis. The method was evaluated using CodeGen and ChatGPT, generating over 2,000 vulnerable code samples. The authors also introduce a dataset of non-secure prompts for benchmarking code language models and enabling community contributions to expand vulnerability datasets.
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Pear Protocol has launched its native integration with Hyperliquid, enabling pair trading on the Hyperliquid perpetual orderbook. This launch coincides with a $4.1M strategic funding round led by Castle Island Ventures. The funding will be used to expand Pear’s product suite, launch vaults and APIs on HyperEVM, relaunch their spot token, and accelerate user growth. Pear Protocol aims to provide a DeFi-native pair trading terminal for both retail and institutional users.
Mill City Ventures III, Ltd. has announced a private placement of $450 million to acquire SUI, the native cryptocurrency of the Sui blockchain, to serve as its primary treasury reserve asset. Karatage Opportunities, a London-based hedge fund, led the investment, with participation from the Sui Foundation and other firms. The company intends to use the funds to acquire SUI tokens and fund its short-term lending business. Upon closing, Marius Barnett will become Chairman of the Board, and Stephen Mackintosh will become Chief Investment Officer, with Dana Wagner joining as an independent Board Director.
MapleStory Universe (MSU) is expanding its Infinite IP Playground vision by rolling out new developer infrastructure, enhancement APIs, and integrating another Nexon IP into its ecosystem. The goal is to create an open-ended system where players and builders can co-create experiences. MSU is activating its first gameplay logic API focused on item enhancement and opening doors for builders to create services using that logic. The platform is also rolling out infrastructure upgrades like a Builder Center and permissionless chain, with an ecosystem fund to support early-stage projects.
SatoshiMeme ($SATOSHI) has launched, aiming to reflect on the original principles of Bitcoin and explore new directions in the blockchain space. The project involves the P2P Foundation, where Satoshi Nakamoto first announced Bitcoin. SatoshiMeme emphasizes philosophical reflection and community participation, distinguishing itself from other memecoins by focusing on returning to Bitcoin's fundamentals. It operates on the MicroBitcoin blockchain and seeks to promote community-based economic experiments, questioning Bitcoin's current state through memes and educational content.
This article provides a guide on setting up Laravel with the Admiral admin panel, focusing on authentication using Laravel Sanctum. It walks through the installation of Laravel and Admiral, setting up authentication with Sanctum, creating necessary controllers and services, and configuring routes and database seeding. The goal is to provide a quick and secure admin boilerplate, skipping the tedious setup process. The article includes code snippets and configuration examples to facilitate the integration.
This HackerNoon newsletter summarizes the top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage for July 28, 2025. It includes articles on software rollouts, open-source website creation tools, the debate around adding Bitcoin, ragged tensors in TensorFlow, and the history of money. The newsletter also highlights the benefits of technical writing and encourages readers to explore featured articles and related stories. It delivers top tech stories to your inbox every day at noon.
This article introduces Korbit, an AI platform designed to help development teams ship cleaner code faster. Korbit integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab, providing real-time feedback and enforcing coding standards. It has reviewed over 661,000 pull requests and is trusted by over 22,000 developers. Korbit also partnered with HackerNoon to sponsor the HackerNoon Tech Brief: Data Science Newsletter.
SpookySwap and THENA have integrated Orbs' Perpetual Hub Ultra, bringing 60x leverage perpetual trading to the Sonic and BNB Chain. This integration allows users to trade cryptocurrency contracts without expiration dates, controlling larger positions with smaller capital. Orbs' Perpetual Hub Ultra facilitates seamless integration across blockchain networks, enhancing trading volume and attracting new users. The technology democratizes access to sophisticated financial instruments, potentially shifting derivatives trading from centralized exchanges to decentralized platforms.
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