VR and non-VR gaming

Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.

The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.

Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because it’s wild.
TL;DR: It seems like OpenAI Bots knew about this caching vulnerability, tried to take advantage of it, and at the same time ran some weird web scraping code on RubyDoc.info.
Back in May, socket.dev reported about a “GemStuffer Campaign” where someone (I guess OpenAI) was uploading tons of junk gems to RubyGems.org. For some reason, the gems would scrape UK government websites, then repackage the data as gems, and attempt to upload them to RubyGems.

Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.

Fly to every country as a passenger. Completed flights collect country flags automatically, even while you’re away.

Download dimensional drawings and technical specifications.

you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments, but also behind groups. they can’t tie you to a specific donation just like they can’t tie you to a specific group. the great thing about Signal is the client is designed to already not trust the server. in fact you can show that Signal is perfectly safe without even looking at server code.

An atlas of 3,915 periodic three-body orbits, precomputed to machine precision and animated one period at a time. Explore the map, open any orbit, rank them.

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.

Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

The sportswear giant will be replaced by a tech company on Sept. 21, capping a five-year, nearly 80% stock slide driven by China weakness.

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Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro's move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

A positive vision for the future of mathematics: how our institutions can deepen human understanding as AI transforms mathematical research.

I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the large computer science lab, talking with some fellow underclassmen. We were snidely decrying the lack of technological understanding in the broader population, with the kind of arrogance and hubris that youth and precociousness can uniquely summon. Somewhere in this discussion, a terrible idea was hatched: what if we went next door to the general computer lab, and told the humanities students there that a computer virus was spreading through their machines? Would they believe it?

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A microscope for Tokio and Rust applications

Code sleuth "pdfu" has uncovered iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate private frameworks that show Apple has designed its new Siri architecture to work with third-party AI models at what appears to be a surprisingly deep level. One mechanism called Model Delegation allows Claude to appear as a Siri extension in the same way as the existing built-in ChatGPT extension.

Unraveling European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution. Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 30 millions of new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution

I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny device in my pocket has made reading both easier and more vulnerable to displacement whenever a notification pops up.
A few days ago, I learned for the first time about a recent generation of tiny e-ink readers. Since they’re cheap, it was easy to give into curiosity: I bought an Xteink X3. Not only is it astonishingly tiny, I could immediately install the delightful open-source CrossPoint firmware. I was very quickly able to install a few books. I also appreciated being able to install custom fonts, though I was a little surprised by their indifferent rendering (foreshadowing…).

Tiny386 port to RP2350. Contribute to rh1tech/frank-386 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.