OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower
I am available for hire Hello! With a background in software engineering, embedded programming, hardware design, and robotics, I’m on the lookout for new challenges. If you’re in search of someone with my skills, let’s team up and create something amazing! https://x-tech.online/ Join the Discord server for OpenMower discussion: Warning DISCLAIMER: IF YOU ARE NOT […]
XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
By Binarly REsearch At the end of March last year, the entire cybersecurity community was rocked by the discovery of the infamous XZ Utils backdoor. ‘Jia Tan’, a developer who had spent two years building significant credibility in the project through numerous contributions, inserted a sophisticated backdoor into the xz-utils packages. The discovery sent cybersecurity […]
Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
I really like Ted Chiang’s writing. I think he’s probably the best science fiction short story writer alive, and possibly the best short story writer, period. I’ve read every one of his stories at least twice, and The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate more like seven times. I’ve noticed many of his readers, including some […]
Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes
The world record for longest underwater breath-hold using oxygen is often viewed as much as a conjuring trick as an athletic feat – and at one time the title was indeed held by US magician David Blaine. But now a remarkable new mark has been set by a Croatian already recognised for his more conventional […]
What could have been
No matter what your opinion on AI is, you probably have one already. Positive or negative, AI discourse is hard to avoid. The most dedicated AI evagenlists will tell you that: “AGI is around the corner. Your job? obsolete. You don’t think so? Well, see how much things improved from last year? imagine how it […]
Google Is Watching
Swinging the spotlight, for a moment, from politics to big tech. I upgraded my mother-in-law’s internet service recently. As part of that upgrade, I installed a new wifi access point with better security. That meant changing the network name, which of course meant all the stuff in the house that wanted to be on the […]
Show HN: Xbow raised $117M to build AI hackers, I open-sourced it for free
Open-source AI hackers for your apps ⚡ Use it to hack your apps before the bad guys do ⚡ 🦉 Strix Overview Strix are autonomous AI agents that act just like real hackers – they run your code dynamically, find vulnerabilities, and validate them through actual exploitation. Built for developers and security teams who need […]
A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google’s TPU
A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), reinvented from Google’s TPU V2 and V1. tinytpu.mp4 Table of Contents Architecture Processing Element (PE) Function: Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle Data Flow: Incoming data is multiplied by a stored weight and added to an incoming partial sum to produce an output sum Incoming data also passes […]
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire
US companies have invested between $35 and $40 billion in Generative AI initiatives and, so far, have almost nothing to show for it. According to a report [PDF] from MIT’s NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) initiative, 95 percent of enterprise organizations have gotten zero return from their AI efforts. Only 5 percent of organizations […]
T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree
Carriers claimed selling data didn’t violate law Instead of denying the allegations, the carriers argued that the FCC overstepped its authority. But the appeals court panel decided that the FCC acted properly: Sprint and T-Mobile (collectively, “the Carriers”) now petition for our review. Neither denies what happened. Instead, they argue that the undisputed facts do […]