Amazon Now Openly Discloses You’re Buying a License to View Kindle EBooks
Amazon recently changed the wording on their website when it comes to buying Kindle ebooks. As the screenshot above shows, they now have a disclaimer under the buy now button that says, “By placing your order, you’re purchasing a license to the content and you agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use”. It also […]
US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit
The United States Space Force just offered a rare glimpse of its shadowy X-37B space plane in orbit. The photo, released on Thursday (Feb. 20), was taken by a camera onboard the X-37B while the secretive space plane orbited high above the African continent. One of the plane’s solar panels is visible on the left […]
The $1.5B Bybit Hack
Two weeks ago at the DeFi Security Summit, Trail of Bits’ Josselin Feist (@Montyly) was asked if we’d see a billion-dollar exploit in 2025. His response: “If it happens, it won’t be a smart contract, it’ll be an operational security issue.” Today, that prediction was validated. The Attack On February 21, 2025, cryptocurrency exchange Bybit […]
Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems
Exult releases version 1.10 We seem to be now in a roughly two year rhythm of releases, so here we go:A much needed update of Exult and Exult Studio.Much needed as we fixed a crash when entering combat pretty soon after the 1.8 release and of course people encounter this again and again. But we […]
FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
FFmpeg Assembly Language Lesson One Introduction Welcome to the FFmpeg School of Assembly Language. You have taken the first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. These lessons will give you a grounding in the way assembly language is written in FFmpeg and open your eyes to what’s actually going on […]
Recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
Remember cassettes? If you’re old enough, you might remember dropping one into a player, only to have it screech at you when you pressed “play”. We’ve fixed that problem. But why would we bother? Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from the radio. Some of us made home recordings with […]
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds
Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by the rules, today’s advanced AI models like OpenAI’s o1-preview are less scrupulous. When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess […]
Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website
This is an updated & abridged version of the talk I gave at several conferences throughout 2022/23, including Beyond Tellerrand, CSS Day and FFConf. If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web. A reflection of […]
Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple
Visual Builder See Flowripple in Action Watch how easy it is to build powerful automation workflows using our visual builder. Drag, drop, and connect nodes to create your perfect workflow. Node Types Building Blocks of Your Workflow Each node type serves a specific purpose in your automation workflow. Mix and match them to create powerful, […]
Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
UpdateOn March 1st, all data will be deleted, except:Comments on news and reviews. Usernames won’t be attached to them. Original Annoucement: With the impeding full implementation of the 2023 online safety act, it looks like HEXUS forums will have to close, or at least downgrade to read only. The act will require a vast amount […]