Tech
- Coding whiz had another talent: inappropriate insults • The Registerwww.theregister.com Coding whiz had another talent: inappropriate insults
Then he stopped being a coding whiz, which is when the trouble started
- Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engineservo.org Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
- Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D hologramsphys.org Smartphone-based microscope rapidly reconstructs 3D holograms
Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of applications, including educational uses and point-of-care diagno...
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/25531
- Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot bodywww.independent.co.uk Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body
Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20057289
- Google insists it's easy to add Rust code to your firmware • The Registerwww.theregister.com Google insists it's easy to add Rust code to your firmware
Not so much when trying to convert coding veterans
- Imperfect Linux-powered DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatiguearstechnica.com Imperfect Linux-powered DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue
DIYer picks a "little insane"-looking setup for less tracking, more control.
Escaping the smart tv doom.
- CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering • The Registerwww.theregister.com CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering
Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software
- Converting devices to USB Type-C
> USB Type C is great! ...unless you have to use dongles anyway.
I liked the style of this video
- ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network • The Registerwww.theregister.com ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network
Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others
- Why Is Your Old Phone Battery Swollen? | iFixit Newswww.ifixit.com Why Is Your Old Phone Battery Swollen? | iFixit News
What causes batteries in old electronics to swell, and what you can do to prevent it.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26470153
- DARPA suggests turning legacy C code automatically into Rust • The Registerwww.theregister.com DARPA suggests turning legacy C code automatically into Rust
Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
- 3D-Printed Ceramic Ink Removes “Forever Chemicals” From Waterwww.technologynetworks.com 3D-Printed Ceramic Ink Removes “Forever Chemicals” From Water
Engineers have invented a new way to remove health-harming "forever chemicals" from water – using 3D printing.
- Self-driving pods to offer mobility autonomy at Vancouver International Airportglobalnews.ca Self-driving pods to offer mobility autonomy at Vancouver International Airport - BC | Globalnews.ca
YVR is partnering with A&K Robotics, which is a company founded by three UBC graduates, to introduce new, self-driving pods to help people with mobility issues.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/1149
- Scientists create ‘MRI’ tool to image atoms million times smaller than hair - Built a single molecule high resolution quantum sensor that can measure electric and magnetic fields in atoms.interestingengineering.com Scientific milestone achieves atomic-scale imaging in a world-first
A single molecule quantum sensor allows researchers to probe atoms from an extremely close distance never achieved before.
- What are Passkeys and how do they work? | Passkeys allow for a simple, yet extremely secure, sign-in experience. Learn more about what they are and how they work in this article.clerk.com What are passkeys and how do they work?
Passkeys allow for a simple, yet extremely secure, sign-in experience. Learn more about what they are and how they work in this article.
A tech service named Clerk put together a nice breakdown of how Passkeys work on a technical level. I've found many other explanations too focused on technical definitions rather than a conceptional overview or so simplistic they were unhelpful for me. This one feels like a nice balance between not enough information and too much.
The article is broken down into the sections below: >- What are passkeys? >- How does public key crypto work? >- A practical use of public-key cryptography >- How are passkeys more secure than a username and password? >- Clerk supports passkeys [this last section is irrelevant to anyone not interested in the service provided by Clerk]
Clerk provides some sort of user management service; I don't know nor care if it's any good.
- The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405Barstechnica.com The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
"Open source AI is the path forward," says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term.
- CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor linked to Linux crashes, too • The Registerwww.theregister.com CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor linked to Linux crashes, too
Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down
- Open-source and privacy focused offline translation in your browser
Hi everyone. I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla.
Site: https://linguister.io
GitHub: https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist
Today, Linguist is launched on ProductHunt. Support the project who really care about privacy: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linguist-translate
Linguist is not just a wrapper over Google Translator like many other extensions. You can use any translation service with Linguist, thanks to custom translators! You may even deploy any machine translation (like LibreTranslate) on your localhost and then add this service to Linguist.
All features are included: text translation, full-page translation, selected text translation, Text-To-Speech, dictionary, history, and even more.
- This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR displaywww.theverge.com This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR display
An intriguing prototype with a lot of rough edges.
Ooooh... car BSOD vibes...
- Remove Polyfill.io code from your website immediately • The Registerwww.theregister.com Remove Polyfill.io code from your website immediately
Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain
- Alibaba Cloud exports Chinese AI models, in translation • The Registerwww.theregister.com Alibaba Cloud exports Chinese AI models, in translation
Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Anthropic releases new modelwww.pocket-lint.com Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5
Anthropic has released the latest version of its AI chatbot. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has outperformed other leading chatbots in some benchmarks.
- Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view | This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robotsnews.mit.edu Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view
A new technique can model an entire 3D scene, including areas hidden from view, from just one camera image. The method, developed by MIT and Meta researchers, relies on image shadows, which provide information about the geometry and location of hidden objects.
- Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ expands hand’s range of motion, carrying capacity | Study showed, 98 percent of participants successfully manipulated objects with the Third Thumb, with only 13 unable to performinterestingengineering.com Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ helps perform challenging tasks single-handedly
Study showed that 98 percent of participants successfully manipulated objects using the Third Thumb within the first minute.
- AMD won Computex by extending AM5 support and launching new AM4 CPUs
...which is why i prefer AM for hardware longevity.
- Post-YouTube: Why Aren't We Embracing IPFS?
With YouTube leveraging its dominance to make the service shittier and shittier, we're forced to consider our future. Yeah we have Peertube, but Peertube is shitty. I consider myself techy and I can't find a peertube instance that's not just one single users' "boring" videos.
So in order to move away from YouTube, we're facing two major issues. No three!
- Service: Even in its state of enshittification, the YouTube app is still a million times better than Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc. Introduce ReVanced into the equation and YouTube has a lock-in.
- Hosting: Hosting video is expensive as hell and that's a major hurdle to toppling Big Tech.
- Audience: People stay where the people are, because that's how they generate money. Peertube sucks because I can't just put in a URL and find random content. Without audience you don't have discoverability, without discoverability, you don't have monetization, without monetization, you only get "boring" videos.
Okay, so the third point is a bigger one and I actually think we need to adopt the Blendle-esque model, until we overthrow capitalism and live our post monetary wealth utopia.
What's this Blendle-esque model you speak of? Blendle was a great app idea that was blocked by corporate greed. The idea was that if you wanted to read an article from a newspaper, rather than pay a subscription, you could just pay 10 pence for the pleasure of reading the article. Win-win? Wrong! Most newspapers wanted a subscription or nothing.
Okay, so how does that work with videos? The idea is that users would put money into a pot. So let's say I have £10 in my pot, at the end of the month, the app would divide that £10 across all the videos I watched in the month and send it to all the videographers. If my pot was £1 the share would be smaller and if it was £100 it would be larger.
Okay, so the service issue. When are they going to finally make Peertube user friendly and discoverable? Wouldn't they be forced to if content creators were attracted? Because it can't just continue to suck right? Anakin? Seriously, search for a video on the Peertube main site and someone in their infinite wisdom thought it would be great to give you a wall of text! Mate!
So now that we got all that out of the way, think of it like salad, this is the real meal now. Let's talk about hosting. Hosting video is expensive and its the barrier to toppling Big Tech. Though middle-size tech should've been trying to do it. If Vimeo added Peertube support, it would be a hegemon, but I digress… Pick the pitchforks back up and re-light the torches! Hosting videos is a huge resource expense. It's why we don't see a crazy number of videos posted to Lemmy, Mastodon and even PixelFed. But what if we could solve that? Not the Fediverse video bit (yes, Peertube, you are a joke to me, kidding!), that's just a byproduct, but what if we could all chip in and distribute the cost? Well, I recently, literally just before I started waffling in your eye. But I present the Interplanetary File System! IPFS for short. Think of it like torrenting, but more user friendly and more seamless. Anyway, I'm thinking this could be the missing piece and it could be the building block that allows video to return to the embrace of the open web? What do you think? Why aren't we leveraging this?
More info on IPFS here: https://ipfs.tech/developers/
For the record, I'm not affiliated with any project, protocol, entity or anything. Peertube didn't kill my puppy and I don't even think my mum even subscribes to my YouTube, so I'm totally looking from the outside in.
- New robotic gripper for automated apple picking developedtechxplore.com New robotic gripper for automated apple picking developed
A robotic gripper developed by Washington State University researchers is able to gently grab the majority of apples out of a tree without damaging the fruit.
A robotic gripper developed by Washington State University researchers is able to gently grab the majority of apples out of a tree without damaging the fruit.
- Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factoryelectrek.co Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory
Tesla claims that it currently has two Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in a factory, which would be a first....
- Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft'www.404media.co Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft'
An extension for a popular Stable Diffusion graphical user interface on Github appears to have been stealing users’ login credentials.
- Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionizewww.404media.co Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize
Microsoft, which subcontracts the quality assurance provider, has a standing labor neutrality agreement with the Communications Workers of America.
> A quality assurance game testing company contracted by Microsoft’s Activision laid off an entire team of workers because they began organizing, according to an unfair labor practice charge filed by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on Monday
- The Hilarious XScreenSaver Privacy Policywww.jwz.org XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy
XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
The developer does this better than I could, just read the page.
- AI bot with 'IQ of 155' to advise real estate agents on ethicswww.crikey.com.au AI bot with 'IQ of 155' to advise real estate agents on ethics
The Real Estate Institute of NSW has appointed a ChatGPT-run bot called Alice Ing to 'analyse huge quantities of data' during board meetings.
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- Craig Hockenberry: "Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet" - Mastodonmastodon.social Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the keynote or State of the Union, but Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet. No personal information is used. You can opt out of the web based training here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/11...
> I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the keynote or State of the Union, but Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet. No personal information is used.
I don't think it's as ethically sound as the author thinks, but it's worth a discussion at least.
- 7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hopearstechnica.com 7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope
The announcement could be good news for those whose data has been inaccessible.
- Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint saysarstechnica.com Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says
EU Facebook users have until June 26 to opt out of AI training.
- Online Privacy and Overfishing
> Internet surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory. Just as certain fish populations in the world’s oceans have fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent (ad infinitum), our expectations of privacy have similarly fallen precipitously. The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth. What seems normal to us in the security community is whatever was commonplace at the beginning of our careers.
