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ZuckOff App Sniffs Out Nearby Meta Smart Glasses via Bluetooth
A free iOS and Android app called ZuckOff, built by Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski, alerts users when camera-equipped smart glasses are in the vicinity. It w
ZuckOff turns camera glasses' own Bluetooth chatter into a proximity alarm
Smart glasses like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles broadcast identifiable Bluetooth signals, and ZuckOff, an independent iPhone app, listens for t
3Blue1Brown: As AI Cracks Proofs, Math Must Reward 'Motivated Explanations'
In a guest post on Terry Tao's blog, Grant Sanderson (creator of 3Blue1Brown) argues that proofs have always been a proxy for math's real aim—advancing human un
A Rust veteran ports a JSONPath library to Zig — and rethinks his habits
A developer with seven years of Rust experience rebuilt his JSONPath query library (RFC 9535) in Zig to get an honest feel for the language as a possible C succ
AI Model Reportedly Cracks an Unsolved 1918 German ADFGVX Cipher
A blog post claims that an AI system, referred to as "GPT-6 Astra," decoded one of the roughly 50 famous unsolved ciphers cataloged by Scienceblogs.de — specifi
Beating Chrono Trigger's Dream Devourer With an Integer Overflow
A Chrono Trigger wiki entry, surfaced on Hacker News, documents that the Dream Devourer — a bonus superboss added in the game's later re-releases — can be defea
Blogger claims RSA-896 factored with Claude's help — but shows no method
Stephen A. Weis published a terse post claiming that RSA-896, one of the still-unclaimed numbers from the old RSA Factoring Challenge, was factored on September
Btrfs vs. ZFS vs. bcachefs Under Real Workloads Synthetic Benchmarks Ignore
A hands-on comparison of three modern Linux copy-on-write filesystems — Btrfs, ZFS, and the newer bcachefs — that argues the standard benchmark suites tell an i
Can LLM Agents Play StarCraft? A New Benchmark Says: Barely
Brood War Bench pits AI models against each other in StarCraft: Brood War, played entirely through agents that issue commands rather than direct control. The pr
How Lemmings Squandered Its Early-'90s Franchise Momentum
After DMA Design's Lemmings exploded onto the Amiga in 1991 and was ported to two dozen platforms, it looked poised to join Tetris and SimCity as a mainstream,
Laya: an open, non-generative decision model pitched against TypeSafe's Jev
A developer at Convai Innovations is releasing Laya, an Apache-2.0 family of "System 1" decision models, framed partly as a priority claim against TypeSafe AI's
Michal Zalewski Ships 'The Secret Life of Circuits,' a Modern Electronics Primer
Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) has finished and shipped his latest book, The Secret Life of Circuits, after more than a year of writing, editing, and layout work. Di