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iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com | 19

developer.apple.com

Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple - Latest News - Apple Developer

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. What you need to do Developers with apps or websites that use Sign in with Apple should ensure that their account systems, email validation logic, and allowlists accept addresses on the new private.icloud.com domain in addition to the existing privaterelay.appleid.com domain.Learn more about Sign in with Apple Communicating using the Private Email Relay Service

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded 63

Xiaomi is the Chinese tech giant. Their phones compete with iPhones. Their new CPU roughly matches Apple cores on single threaded tasks, and is much faster in multithreaded execution. Of course, Apple may soon announce their next processor, so this edge may not last long. And Show more

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Ice Universe
Ice Universe
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Xiaomi’s Xring O3 delivers a massive performance leap, scoring 3,945 in Geekbench single-core and an unprecedented 15,221 in multi-core.

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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID | 44

xusheng.dev

Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images :: Xusheng Li

Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.

How Universities Should Prepare Founders | 19

paulgraham.com

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Moon (2024) | 11

Moon (2024)

ciechanow.ski

Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article about the Moon

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents | 1

HEADLONG on a beige CRT monitor
laude.org

Headlong: a microharness for persistent agents // Laude

Self-guided agents that think continuously

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | 134

lectronz.com

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game | 68

sf.thijs.gg

San Francisco -- The Game

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage | 11

Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. - murerkinn/bookshelf
murerkinn/bookshelf

GitHub - murerkinn/bookshelf: Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. · GitHub

Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. - murerkinn/bookshelf

Where did all the public bathrooms go? | 60

daily.jstor.org

Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? - JSTOR Daily

Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause.

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) | 1

kylezhe.ng

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art | Kyle Zheng

An interactive explaination of how QR codes work and techniques for rendering artistic QR codes

Nostr is an inclusive communication commons | 2

nostr.org

Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

Training AI to Paint with Code | 3

surya.website

Surya Narreddi

I'm a designer and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence | 22

gultsch.de

Daniel Gultsch | Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure. Highways, railways, bridges, and ports require nation-scale efforts. The water supply is usually put into the hands of municipalities. And the desire to own infrastructure goes down to a much smaller level: Owning your home is a dream for many—though such ownership doesn’t necessarily have to be organized on an individual level. Instead, cooperatives or city-owned housing1 can provide similar benefits.

Ox-Alpha Is GLM? | 2

Ox Alpha is GLM
dejan.ai

Ox Alpha is GLM

Prompt injection and gzip-NCD compression analysis reveal that OX Alpha, a mysterious LLM on OpenRouter, is GLM developed by Z.ai.

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | 7

blog.archive.org

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | Internet Archive Blogs

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines | 5

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

I started writing Thoreau BASIC because I wanted a small, old-fashioned BASIC interpreter: line numbers, immediate mode, simple graphics, strings, arrays, the sort of environment where the computer starts with a "Ready" prompt and you can immediately make it do something.

Then I wondered: why should it need an operating system?

So I made it boot directly on x64 machines using UEFI.

The UEFI version uses the Graphics Output Protocol for its framebuffer and gets its keyboard input directly from the firmware. There is no Windows or Linux underneath it. The machine boots into BASIC.

It supports the usual BASIC machinery plus graphics primitives, 32-bit colour, floating point, file operations and other features I've been adding as I encounter programs that need them. There is now also a Windows version, which makes it considerably easier to try.

One of my goals is compatibility with the style and behaviour of old Microsoft BASICs rather than creating a modern language that merely happens to use BASIC syntax.

I'm currently porting my text adventure Pixel Prose to Thoreau BASIC. That's becoming a much better test suite than artificial tests because every missing feature or subtly wrong behaviour eventually gets exposed by an actual program.

The project is deliberately small. The UEFI version greets you with:

"I make myself rich by making my wants few." — Henry David Thoreau

followed, somewhat ironically on a modern PC, by something like:

27,340,685,312 bytes free

I'd be interested in hearing from people who wrote BASIC in the 80s/90s, interpreter/compiler people, and anyone sufficiently strange to still find a Ready prompt inviting. [Gorsefound]

tarjan.itch.io

Thoreau BASIC by Tarjan

The BASIC you started with - now with 27 GB to play in

Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options? 2

Looking for options that might work for a low power touchscreen for a calendar project. [foota]

news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

Looking for options that might work for a low power touchscreen for a calendar project.

What's new in Emacs 31.1 | 5

masteringemacs.org

What's New in Emacs 31.1? - Mastering Emacs

Emacs 31.1 adds a slew of quality-of-life features. It retires its quirky unexec dumper; there are general improvements to tree-sitter, including a much-wanted auto-installer for grammars; and much more.

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store | 2

Contribute to tobi/walgit development by creating an account on GitHub.
tobi/walgit

GitHub - tobi/walgit · GitHub

Contribute to tobi/walgit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model 8

thomsonreuters.com

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3 | 4

A modern GUI library for Ada: CSS styling, XML UI, SDL3 - ovenpasta/adi2
ovenpasta/adi2

GitHub - ovenpasta/adi2: A modern GUI library for Ada: CSS styling, XML UI, SDL3 · GitHub

A modern GUI library for Ada: CSS styling, XML UI, SDL3 - ovenpasta/adi2

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation | 9

Researchers made the discovery while studying the California two-spot octopus.
smithsonianmag.com

Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins

Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures that have expanded nervous systems and can do complex behaviors

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines | 27

| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.
boydkane.com

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff 0

app.dover.com

Dover

One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed | 29

cnn.com

Tang dynasty: Why a corner of China’s internet insists a golden era never existed? | CNN

Something weird has been happening on China’s internet. One small and vocal corner has been claiming the country’s most famous historical dynasty never existed.

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study | 17

Jonathan Sinclair | Benjamin Sant | XuanYi Du | Gareth Shadwell | Stephanie Dillon | Bobbie Butters | Lindsay Bottoms

Effects of peppermint (Mentha x piperita L.) oil on cardiometabolic outcomes in patients with pre- and stage 1 hypertension: A placebo randomized controlled trial | PLOS One

Hypertension represents the predominant risk factor for cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality; with significant healthcare utilization and expenditure. Pharmaceutical management is habitually adopted; although its long-term effectiveness remains ambiguous, and accompanying adverse effects are disquieting. Peppermint, which is rich in menthol and flavonoids, may exert potential benefits relevant to hypertension. This trial aimed to explore the effects of twice-daily peppermint oil supplementation in individuals with pre- and stage 1 hypertension. A 20 day, parallel randomized, placebo-controlled trial was adopted (NCT05561543). 40 individuals with pre- and stage 1 hypertension were randomly assigned to receive 100 μL per day of either peppermint oil or peppermint-flavoured placebo. The primary trial outcome was the between-group difference in systolic blood pressure from baseline to 20 days. Secondary outcome measurements were the between-group differences in anthropometric, haematological, diastolic blood pressure/resting heart rate, psychological wellbeing, and sleep efficacy indices. Statistical analysis was conducted on an intention-to-treat basis using baseline-adjusted linear regression models comparing post intervention values between trial arms with the corresponding baseline value entered as a covariate; adjusted mean differences (b), 95% confidence intervals, and effect sizes (d) were calculated. In relation to the primary outcome, adjusted systolic blood pressure at 20 days was significantly lower (b = −8.48 mmHg, 95% CI = −14.24 to −2.73, d = −0.94) in the peppermint trial arm (baseline = 130.05 mmHg, 20 days = 121.97 mmHg) than in placebo (baseline = 130.93 mmHg, 20 days = 131.05 mmHg). Loss to follow-up (N = 1) and adverse events (N = 1) were low, both occurring in the peppermint arm, and compliance was very high in the peppermint (93.3%) trial arm. Given the substantial health and economic burden associated with hypertension worldwide, these findings suggest that twice-daily peppermint supplementation may represent a simple, low-cost, and well-tolerated strategy to support blood pressure reduction in this population. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05561543

Oceans hit highest temperature on record | 42

The Sun sets over an ocean. The sky is dark red and the silhouette of a ship sailing across the ocean in front of the Sun.
bbc.com

World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows

The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.

Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018) | 8

Kris De Decker | Melle Smets

Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 | 4

proofcraft.systems

Proofcraft News - 2026