Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

IP, technology & commercial law

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid

Japan's space probe Hayabusa2 has completed a flyby observation of an asteroid as it heads for its next destination in space. The probe delivered a capsule of samples to Earth from another asteroid six years ago.

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

A curated reading list of foundational AI and deep learning papers, hosted in full with plain-language explanations of difficult terms.

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta

A signals-and-noise course left me writing Monte Carlo math on paper and wishing the notation itself would run. Nine years later, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting, NoiseLang became a real Monte Carlo language with a fused multi-core JIT and a WASM backend.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

What is the difference between Chat Control 1.0 and Chat Control 2.0? A clear overview of both EU laws, their timelines, and where things stand today.

Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

The École national d’horlogerie was founded after WW II as a way to help veterans reintegrate into society. Today, it’s about training professional watchmakers for the global market.

Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony?

Carpenter ants amputate the injured legs of fellow ants to minimise the risk of infection. A new study involving a Würzburg researcher shows that this task is primarily carried out by ants switching from indoor to outdoor duties.

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he talks security, LLM coding, and help from Godot

Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool

The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food

Environmental protection agency and independent studies have found food biggest source of chemical exposure

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data

Turn Claude/Codex into geospatial analytics agent. - dekart-xyz/geosql