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A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions about the need to solidify further federal IT/OT security…

Study offers user-friendly template for simulating quantum systems on consumer laptops, saving supercomputers for more complex systems.

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This post is a combination of looks at several oddities among my pile of NES and Famicom cartridges. Why, for example, do I have a copy of Gyromite when I do...

A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.

The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is evolving. We’ve moved on from the limited thinking of monitoring radio waves to checking for interstellar pushing lasers or even budding Dyson swarms around stars. To match our increased understanding…

Your own self-hosted infra for lightweight VM sandboxes to safely execute untrusted code. CLI, API, Python SDK. ⭐ Star it if you like it! ⭐ - Katakate/k7

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running …

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said SpaceX is “behind schedule” and thwarting the space agency’s ability to beat China back to the moon.

Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that makes it possible to reset even a complex sequence of motion

At Disco, we help teams escape expensive PaaS pricing while keeping the developer experience they love. This is the story of how Idealist.org, the world's largest nonprofit job board, tackled a common and expensive challenge: the rising cost of staging environments…

A running ledger of history’s end-of-the-world predictions.

Programming language async runtimes are very focused on handling asynchronous, possibly long running tasks, that might yield for a variety of reasons, that...