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A developer fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B down to a 360-million-parameter world model that doesn't run shell commands at all — it just predicts how the terminal screen changes after each keypress. Trained on 336,000 synthetic episodes generated inside Docker containers, it convincingly fakes vim, tmux, a Python REPL, and even a playable snake game, and a parallel row-decoding trick cut inference latency from 6.7 seconds down to 0.87. It still hallucinates directory paths and botches REPL math, but it remembered file contents across sessions in 9 of 13 readback tests.
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Bengaluru-based eMudhra announced today that its board voted to voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business after an incident in its TLS infrastructure forced it to revoke affected CAs within 14 hours. The company says TLS was only about one percent of global revenue and blamed rising compliance costs, free competitors, and social-media scrutiny. It'll keep revocation and status services running until issued certs expire, and its eSignature and PKI product lines are unaffected.
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Seattle-based Endurance Energy sailed 300 miles off the Oregon coast and drilled a two-inch-wide, 52-foot-deep well into a vent field 5,000 feet down, tapping 500-degree heat beneath the seafloor. A three-ton generator lowered to the bottom ran net-positive — producing more power than it consumed — for all of 8.7 seconds before a power cable failed. The startup has raised $63 million since launching in early 2025 and calls this its most complete of five undersea deployments.
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NS2JB is the first known software-only tethered jailbreak for the Switch 2, achieving arbitrary native code execution as a system module on firmware 23.0.1. The chain starts with a 32-bit integer overflow in SmileBASIC, pivots through a buffer overflow in the fs sysmodule's path normalization for arbitrary read/write, then abuses the ro sysmodule's kernel permissions to map writeable executable memory. It opens the door to homebrew, modding, save extraction, and hardware reverse engineering.
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A semantic search engine indexing 5.8 million artworks spanning 3000 BC to 2026, pulling from the Met, the National Gallery London, the Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain, MoMA, the Prado, and the Getty. Instead of searching by artist or title, you query by concept — "propaganda poster," "surrealist dreams," "abstract geometric shapes" — and embeddings do the matching. It's a clean demonstration of what embedding search unlocks for collections whose metadata was never built for discovery.
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Pwn dot watch is a live security incident tracker aggregating active CVEs, breaches, and vulnerabilities with severity ratings, patch status, and vendor tags. As of today it shows 35 currently active incidents and 191 logged over the past year, with RSS and JSON feeds plus email alerts for the big ones. The site carries an explicit disclaimer that it's awareness tooling, not security advice — always check the vendor advisory.
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Earstrip is a new ear-clipping triangulator that only tests reflex vertices as ear blockers, counts interior points with branch-free bitwise ops, writes triangle strips instead of individual triangles, and shortcuts convex polygons entirely. On 3.74 million polygons it finishes in 489 milliseconds versus earcut.hpp's 557, and in the browser it runs 1.4 to 2.1 times as fast as earcut.js. Against the original Delaunay triangulator it's a full 6x speedup.
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Jeffrey Anthony defines gridification as treating a human performance as error in need of correction and quantizing it into a machine-perfect version of itself. Comparing Billboard hits from 1975 to 2025, he shows modern recordings have literally zero tempo variance while older ones carry natural human timing drift. His thesis, leaning on Susanne Langer, is that this is an epistemic loss — stripping out evidence of lived, irreversible human decisions from the one art form built to convey coordinated time.
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Crystal 1.22.0 lands with type declarations for constants, aarch64-linux promoted to Tier 1 with prebuilt binaries, and the first official Windows ARM64 builds. Native event loops now work on every target, making libevent optional, and a DWARF parsing overhaul with on-demand section scanning speeds up debugging. Breaking changes include the removal of the long-deprecated Process.fork — 251 changes from 33 contributors.
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A new MIT-licensed device driver bringing seamless host-to-guest mouse integration to Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51 running under QEMU or VMware. It ships as an ISO you mount in the virtual CD drive and install with a batch script. Confirmed working on NT 3.51 Service Pack 5 on Intel — pure retro-computing quality-of-life.
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