Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard […]
Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO
03-01-2026 · Updated 03-03-2026 Game-playing neural networks like AlphaZero achieve superhuman performance in board games by augmenting the raw policy with a test-time search harness and distilling the stronger, augmented policy back into the network. Why aren’t similar techniques used in language modelling today? The DeepSeek-R1 authors mention they found limited success with MCTS; Finbarr […]
How Kernel Anti-Cheats Work: A Deep Dive into Modern Game Protection
Modern kernel anti-cheat systems are, without exaggeration, among the most sophisticated pieces of software running on consumer Windows machines. They operate at the highest privilege level available to software, they intercept kernel callbacks that were designed for legitimate security products, they scan memory structures that most programmers never touch in their entire careers, and they […]
SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads
This is a work-in-progress draft document describing lightweight userland cooperative threads for SBCL. The implementation is under active development and details may change. This is a living document — you can view its revision history. You can try it out on the fibers-v2 branch at github.com/atgreen/sbcl. Table of Contents# Introduction Motivation: Why Fibers? Design Goals […]
Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
Brussels, Belgium, 13 March 2026 – Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029. In Manching, near Munich, the company is currently preparing the first two Valkyries it acquired from its US partner Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) […]
The Sound of Contamination: Headphones Contain Ing Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
PRAGUE, 18 February 2026 – A landmark international study across five Central European countries has found hazardous chemicals in every single pair of headphones analysed, from premium models to cheap imports. Authors say the results reveal a systemic failure in consumer safety regulation across the electronics industry. The investigation, conducted as part of the EU-funded ToxFree […]
Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won’t
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Q: Is Ageless Linux a real operating system? It is as real as any operating system that identifies itself via /etc/os-release. The law does not define minimum technical thresholds for what constitutes an operating system. It defines an ”operating system provider” as anyone who ”develops, licenses, or controls the operating system […]
Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
OpenTTD has been available on the Steam Store for the past five years. During that time, we’ve built up an incredible player base, attracting lots of new players to the game. Starting today however, OpenTTD will no longer be directly available as a standalone game on Steam. It can instead be obtained as part of […]
Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording – especially if it’s internal communication or even direct communication. Well, at the […]
Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
A general-purpose compiled language with Korean keywords — written in Rust Han is a statically-typed, compiled programming language where every keyword is written in Korean. It compiles to native binaries through LLVM IR and also ships with a tree-walking interpreter for instant execution. The compiler toolchain is written entirely in Rust. Han was born from […]