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April 19

A better Microsoft Account bypass for Windows 11 has been discovered

windowscentral.com

(Image credit: Future) Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a popular command line...
(Image credit: Future) Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a popular command line that allowed users to bypass connecting to the internet and signing into a Microsoft Account during the setup phase on Windows 11.Since 2022, Windows 11 has required both an internet connection and Microsoft Acc...
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April 19

Molecular clock: bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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April 19

Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials

github.com
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April 19

Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory

iop.org
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April 19

Authoritarian attitudes linked to altered brain anatomy, neuroscientists reveal

psypost.org
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April 19

How to Force Your Kids to Do Math?

avocados.ovh

Well… you probably shouldn’t.This is my one rule: if my son ever says he doesn’t want...
Well… you probably shouldn’t.This is my one rule: if my son ever says he doesn’t want to do math, we simply stop. No arguing, no bribing, no pushing. We do something else instead.Why? Because math is not a chore—it’s a way of experiencing the world. Just like tasting new food, enjoying music, or feeling amazed by na...

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April 19

Notes on a claim that a mceliece348864 distinguisher uses only 2^529 operations [pdf]

mceliece.org
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April 19

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues

tomshardware.com

You may not know it, but SSDs will lose data after a period of time if...
You may not know it, but SSDs will lose data after a period of time if they are simply left unplugged, which can be a serious threat to your data if you store backups or precious files on unplugged SSDs. A year-two update on the how long can SSDs store data unpowered video series is another reminder about the import...
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April 19

The Icelandic Voting System

smarimccarthy.is

It’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next...
It’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next Saturday from when this is written. Every time elections are upcoming, somebody inevitably asks me how the voting system here works, probably expecting a simple answer. So, here’s a stab at it. Iceland uses a biproportional ...
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April 19

The Art of Assembly Language

plantation-productions.com
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April 19

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

substack.com

“Move faster and break even more things.” That twist on Silicon Valley’s old mantra echoes through...
“Move faster and break even more things.” That twist on Silicon Valley’s old mantra echoes through recent engineering circles as “vibe coding” enters the chat. Yes, AI-assisted development is transforming how we build software, but it’s not a free pass to abandon rigor, review, or craftsmanship. "Vibe coding" is not...
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April 19

The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death

nautil.us

In the late 1600s, self-made scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek embarked on a project that would make...
In the late 1600s, self-made scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek embarked on a project that would make him question the very nature of life and its limit. And would send ripples of philosophical and scientific quandaries through the generations that persist today. Peering through the hand-ground lenses he crafted, mag...
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April 19

An Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates Satellite Pollution

thisiscolossal.com

In January 2021, Joshua Rozells ventured out into the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, intending to...
In January 2021, Joshua Rozells ventured out into the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, intending to photograph a star trail. But after shooting for more than three hours and reviewing his images, he realized that the light patterns he captured weren’t what he had hoped for. “There were satellite trails visible...
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April 19

Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname

mozilla.org

This bug is publicly visible. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,...
This bug is publicly visible. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/135.0.0.0 Steps to reproduce: SSL.com failed to conduct accurate domain validation control when utilizing the BR 3.2.2.4.14 DCV method (Email to DNS TXT ...
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April 19

The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

wildeboer.net
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April 19

Consistent Hash Ring

selfboot.cn

Consistent Hashing Ring is a special hashing algorithm primarily used for data distribution and load balancing...
Consistent Hashing Ring is a special hashing algorithm primarily used for data distribution and load balancing in distributed systems. It maps the hash value space onto a ring structure, ranging from 0 to 2^32-1. This approach allows us to better handle node addition and removal while minimizing data migration. Basi...

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April 19

Inside ArXiv

wired.com

On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient...
On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient enough. A “good lower-level manager,” according to someone long involved with arXiv, “but his sense of management didn’t scale.” For most of the 2000s, arXiv couldn’t hold on to more than a few developers.There are tw...
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April 19

Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

github.com
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April 19

Microsoft Copilot shows AI increasingly appears like an unwanted party guest

theregister.com

Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the...
Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the thing, and thus turns itself back on like a zombie risen from the dead. A bug report to the corporation's Visual Studio Code, aka VS Code, Copilot repository from crypto developer rektbuildr claims Githu...
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April 19

Cybertruck Rusting? That's Normal

autobuyersguide.com

It’s all over the news: Cybertrucks are rusting and folks are mad. Me? I’m surprised they...
It’s all over the news: Cybertrucks are rusting and folks are mad. Me? I’m surprised they are surprised. If you own a stainless steel fork or knife and a dishwasher, rusty bits on stainless steel should be familiar. But why does it happen? Isn’t stainless steel… well… stainless? Not quite. One of the benefits of co-...
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April 19

Why Drinking Coffee in Iran Has Become So Complicated

adelbordbari.github.io
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April 19

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Design Engineer in San Francisco

ycombinator.com

Open-source secrets manager for developers$140K - $200K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco / Remote (US)Connect directly...
Open-source secrets manager for developers$140K - $200K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco / Remote (US)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›<u>Infisical</u> is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our engineering and product teams in building the open source security infrastr...
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April 19

How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores

alexarmbr.github.io

This post details my recent efforts to write an optimized matrix multiplication kernel in CUDA using...
This post details my recent efforts to write an optimized matrix multiplication kernel in CUDA using tensor cores on a NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. The goal is to compute $D = \alpha * A * B + \beta * C$, as fast as possible. In this equation $D,A,B$ and $C$ are large matrices full of half precision floating point numbers, ...
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April 19

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

bbc.com

Fergus WalshMedical editorWatch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the "miracle"...
Fergus WalshMedical editorWatch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the "miracle" of baby AmyA "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her siste...
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