I have “rm” specifically disallowed, along with “mv” and a few other scary commands. Claude realized that I had to approve the use of such commands, so to get around this, it chose to put them in a shell noscript and execute the shell noscript. Thankfully,…

After dispatching its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, Estonian startup KrattWorks quickly realized the need for continuous innovation due to rapid advances in electronic warfare. Their latest neural-network-driven optical navigation system…

Upgrade your software, not your computer

The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler - neocanable/garlic

I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.

Introduction We recently made available some teaching material that we have used to teach program verification to scientists and engineers at Amazon. It composed of lecture slides and exercises with solution. If you want to learn about Dafny and program verification…

Frieder Nake claimed there should be no “computer art” in 1971, criticising the use of computers to create art for the galleries

Fun with Futex Implementing an optimized lock in Linux requires some Operating System help. You can only get so far by doing everything in user-land. We are going to take a look how one can implement a simple spin lock in C (just like the spin lock in Go…

The Belfer Center’s Eben Harrell and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman for the first time report the details of one of the largest nuclear security operations of the post-Cold War years — a  secret 17-year, $150 million operation to secure plutonium…

Go team plans around error handling support

[UPDATE 8/28] The ability to uninstall the Microsoft Store in EEA is now rolling out to Windows 10 and 11 retail PCs.

Disk usage of the target directory is a commonly cited annoyance with Rust (and Cargo) – in the last year’s Annual Survey, it was the third most pressing issue of Rust users, right after slow compilation1 and subpar debugging experience. Given the “build…

+VIDEO Vertical Aerospace says it has made European aviation history with the first-ever piloted wingborne flight of a winged electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in open airspace.

How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist.

Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison…

Control 3D models using hand gestures and voice commands in real-time. Threejs / mediapipe computer vision - collidingScopes/3d-model-playground

Vision Language Models are Biased: VLMs fail on simple counting tasks when familiar objects are subtly modified