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Dav2d: notes on a new video decoding project
The source page for this item is a blog post titled "Dav2d" on jbkempf.com, the personal site of VideoLAN/VLC founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Based on the title al
Identifying a Saudi Desert Fossil with PCA and a Shell Image Dataset
A hobbyist found a shell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Alghat, Saudi Arabia — 500 km from the nearest coast — and set out to identify it without any pal
Identifying a Saudi desert fossil with PCA on a shell shape dataset
A hobbyist found a seashell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Saudi Arabia's Alghat desert, 500 km from the nearest coast. The region's carbonate rocks and
Jef Raskin on the Mac's Origins and the Drift from Human-Centered Design
In this 2013 republished interview, Jef Raskin — Apple employee #31 and founder of the Macintosh project before Steve Jobs pushed him off it in 1981 — pushes ba
Microsoft to remotely cripple perpetually-licensed Office 2019/2021 for Mac in July
On July 13, 2026, a license-validation certificate baked into Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS will expire, forcing affected installs of Word, Excel, PowerPoint
OMB Rule Would Let Any Agency Kill Any Federal Grant at Any Time
The Office of Management and Budget is moving an August executive order into formal rulemaking after courts repeatedly struck down the administration's attempts
PrismML's Bonsai Image 4B Squeezes Diffusion Models to Run on iPhones
PrismML has released Bonsai Image 4B, a pair of heavily quantized diffusion models derived from FLUX.2 Klein 4B that fit within the memory budgets of phones and
Racket 9.2 Tightens Pattern Matching, Updates to Unicode 17.0
Racket 9.2 ships with several breaking correctness fixes alongside the usual polish. The match form now enforces equality between repeated variables in non-line
Researcher Threatens Fresh Windows 0-Day Drop as Microsoft Feud Boils Over
A long-running dispute between an independent vulnerability researcher and Microsoft is heading toward another public exploit release, with the researcher signa
Restartable Sequences: The Lockless Trick Unlocking 40x Speedups on Many-Core CPUs
Linux's restartable sequences (rseq), available since kernel 4.18 in 2018, let threads mutate per-CPU data structures without locks or atomics by cooperating wi
Reverse-Engineering a Botched Lawful TLS Intercept on jabber.ru
A security researcher revisits the 2023 jabber.ru incident, in which a lawful interception operation was exposed because whoever ran it forgot to renew the TLS
Rsync maintainers push back on AI-generated contributions
An issue filed against the rsync project carries a blunt title asking contributors not to submit AI-generated or 'vibe-coded' patches to the venerable file sync