Double-headed allocator revisits a practical fix for memory fragmentation
A game-development technique lets two workloads share one reserved memory block while growing from opposite ends, avoiding fragmentation between them.
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Timescale previews PRISM vector index for PostgreSQL
The experimental pg_vectorsearch extension promises faster approximate nearest-neighbour search with lower memory use, but its developers say it is not ready for production.
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Security researcher disputes claim that passkeys create a surveillance trap
Scott Helme argues that consumer passkeys resist phishing and generally disclose no device attestation, while acknowledging that users should watch for future restrictions.
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Swiss government proposes tighter limits on profiling-based advertising to minors
A federal proposal would restrict online advertising built from children's personal profiles as Switzerland considers stronger digital protections for young users.
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Anthropic test sketches AI botnet risk but stops short of real-world replication
Experiments distributed small AI models across Android devices and cloud emulators, while leaving exploitation and several practical barriers outside the test.
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Amazon pricing rules return to focus ahead of US antitrust trial
An independent analysis argues that marketplace fees and Buy Box enforcement can push sellers to keep prices elevated beyond Amazon's own store.
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Sweden rebuilds a place for cash as security concerns test its digital-payment model
The central bank is urging households to keep physical currency while essential retailers face new requirements to accept it.
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Android 17 wide-character bug exposes gap between shipped code and public AOSP sources
A developer traced a Unicode-breaking regression in September Android 17 builds by disassembling the runtime library because the matching source was not yet public.
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Mosh-rs previews Rust rewrite with native Windows client and optional scrollback
The independent pre-alpha project aims to remain compatible with Mosh 1.4 while adding two features long requested by users.
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How attention turned machine translation into the foundation of modern AI
A new technical account traces today's transformer systems to a 2014 solution for handling context in long translated sentences.
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High-speed footage reveals honey bee stinger’s self-powered venom pump
Researchers found that two deformable valves work as opposing pistons, sustaining venom flow after a worker bee leaves its stinger behind.
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Topgolf says VMware exit avoided more than $11.3 million in infrastructure costs
The venue operator moved 12,000 virtual machines to VergeOS as it overhauled servers, gaming systems and software licensing.
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US Treasury imposes more than $1.21 billion in penalties on Bank of America
FinCEN, the OCC and OFAC cited extensive anti-money-laundering and sanctions-control failures at the country’s second-largest bank.
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Apple researchers pool idle Mac GPUs into distributed inference system
The Minions research project coordinates Apple Silicon devices as a virtual GPU cloud for machine-learning inference when centralized capacity is limited.
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Character.AI files for Chapter 11 as Disney sets baseline bid for assets
The chatbot company plans to keep operating during a court-supervised sale, but says its platform could close if no suitable buyer emerges.
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Long-standing Rust type-system flaw can permit memory-unsafe code
Rust developers classified a newly public lifetime-checking bug as high priority, while saying exploitation requires deliberately malicious code.
Read report »Researchers show how AI models can conceal triggered capabilities behind cryptography
A new proof-of-concept embeds encrypted neural networks inside model weights, challenging audits that assume hidden behavior can always be elicited.
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Apple unveils HomeView smart display built around Siri AI and home controls
The seven-inch device combines personalized assistance, FaceTime, media and smart-home functions in tabletop and wall-mounted designs.
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Mozilla launches self-hosted Firefox Enterprise management platform
The offering gives regulated organizations an on-premises console for browser governance, identity-based access and centralized Thunderbird administration.
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Experiment turns EmbeddingGemma 2 into fast on-device speech recognition
A small trained reader decodes audio from Google’s multimodal embedding model, processing an hour in about 13 seconds on an M3 MacBook Air.
Read report »Crest brings Arc-inspired browser ideas to Apple devices
The independent early-access browser combines a sidebar-first interface with Spaces, Split View and iCloud syncing across Mac, iPad and iPhone.
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Citroën reimagines the 2CV as a compact electric concept
The Paris Motor Show design revives the name and visual cues of Citroën's postwar classic, with a showroom version targeted for 2028.
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Open-source project recompiles PlayStation 2 games for the browser
PS2 Web Recomp translates game code ahead of time into WebAssembly and recreates console services with a browser-native runtime.
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Atticus brings hold-to-talk Claude controls to macOS
The open-source Mac assistant combines voice input, local shortcuts and screen-aware actions while using an existing Claude subscription rather than an API key.
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