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Eminem posted on X that a note from Dolly Parton deeply moved him. He said she didn’t have to write it, praised her as an icon and a superstar, and thanked her for the kind words, noting they never got to meet. “Rest easy Dolly.” The post drew millions of views and responses from fans who were touched.
Farid Zakaria envisions actually queryable executables (SELF): a program stored as a SQLite database, executed via binfmt_misc, so the file contains code, data, and state. His self-httpd demonstrates a single-file webserver whose routes, logs, and assets live in the same DB and are updated transactionally. You can deploy by scp the file, edit live content with SQL, and preserve state across upgrades via INSERT ... SELECT migrations. The concept hinges on SQL-driven self-reference: the program and its data are one file, and tooling like sqldiff and FTS become native.
Maiao is an open-source CLI that implements a Gerrit-style workflow for Git hosting providers by turning each commit into its own PR/MR and stacking them automatically with parent-child dependencies. It supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, Bitbucket Cloud, and Cursor Origin, auto-detecting the provider, and can integrate with GitHub native stacks where available. Features include per-commit reviews, fixups, auto-rebase on PR/MR merge, and automatic stacking across multiple providers. It’s a community fork of adevinta/maiao under MIT.
From the 1970s to the 1980s, the US Forest Service actively regulated lift-ticket prices on public-lands ski areas, approving modest increases and even considering public hearings and disclosures. Deregulation under Carter and later administrations loosened that oversight, accelerating price hikes and, by the 1990s, industry consolidation into Vail/Alterra duopolies. While permits now last 40 years and price oversight wanes, critics argue the Forest Service retains formal authority and public-interest obligations, suggesting renewed regulation or community buyouts could reclaim access and affordability.
fDeploy is a self-hosted Windows deployment tool. Licensed per Server instance with unlimited targets, projects, roles, environments, and users on every tier (including Community). It runs as a Windows service on your hardware; a fDeploy Agent runs on each deployment target; no cloud component. The Server hosts a NuGet feed and OpenAPI REST API, and manages role-based targets, environments, phases, and release snapshots. It supports variable substitution, XDT transforms, IIS configuration, and PowerShell. Security includes encrypted communication and encrypted variables; teams map to AD groups. Pricing ranges from Community free to Professional, Academic, and Enterprise. No multi-tenancy or runbooks.
Texbrain is a free, open‑source LaTeX editor that runs entirely in your browser with live PDF preview and real-time collaboration, including Git integration. It compiles LaTeX locally in WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) pdfTeX without a server, supports local project folders via the File System Access API, and uses isomorphic-git for Git in the browser. Features include CodeMirror 6 editor, multi-file projects, templates, offline caching of packages, and a transparent tech stack (SvelteKit, Tailwind). Limitations: pdfTeX only, no XeTeX/LuaTeX or bibtex, etc.
Python defines six pre-declared constants: True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis (...), and NotImplemented. True/False/None are lexical tokens (keywords) and also builtins; __debug__ is a normal identifier that behaves like a constant: it cannot be assigned to or deleted; its value is True unless Python runs with -O. Accessing __debug__ as an attribute raises AttributeError; deleting __debug__ raises SyntaxError. Ellipsis and NotImplemented are not true constants; they are ordinary builtins that can be shadowed by globals, and rebinds via setattr affect the name but not the literal Ellipsis value.
Android's C2PA is ineffective in practice: root exploits and hardware fault attacks bypass Key Attestation and Play Integrity, letting attackers sign arbitrary data with hardware-backed keys (StrongBox) and forge camera provenance. The author demonstrates software-based forgeries with Keystork and a PoC script, and notes LPEs like CVE-2026-43499 are already in the wild. While Samsung's EL2 mitigations complicate hardware glitches, complete defense would require a major architectural rethink. In short, C2PA camera proofs fail on Android and forgeries will persist.
Python’s str.lower() in the StringPrep/IDNA 2003 path caused a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-17084) because it used the interpreter’s Unicode data, which diverges from the Unicode 3.2.0 case-folding rules required by RFC 3454. The fix adds per-codepoint exceptions so lowercasing behaves as if Unicode 3.2.0 is used for IDNA 2003, restoring spec compliance. For IDNA 2008, use the idna package (not .encode('idna')), and only fall back to encoded form for legacy needs. The post credits contributors and sponsors.
CTGT researchers fingerprint Ox Alpha, a GLM‑5.x-based model on OpenRouter, and find a distinctive censorship profile focused on domestic politics. Using LineageEval, Ox Alpha censors seven topics (including Xi Jinping and domestic incidents) with a bimodal pattern: most sensitive prompts are uncensored or lightly censored, but seven topics drive a large response unit, totalling about 7.39 of 7.42. On Xinjiang/Taiwan it mirrors GPT-OSS-120B; on Xi/domestic legitimacy it resembles V4 Flash. Five of 76 sensitive replies begin in Chinese state voice; three refusals. Fingerprinting also shows a system prompt to hide provenance, supporting GLM-5.x provenance.
Over ~155 days, the author built a live dashboard to track prices at ~600 Costco warehouses during the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Costco lacks a central price feed, so he scraped data via Ajax endpoints with a lat/long grid, storing it in TimescaleDB and serving it with a Next.js app. The sweep logged ~38,101 price moves (≈246/day): 20,535 cuts and 17,566 hikes. Cheapest states: IN, TX, TN, LA, OK; priciest: CA, WA, OR, NV, ID. Conclusion: Costco prices move with the market; he even bought a Tesla.
CarWatch is ThinkOffApp’s offline-first car assistant for a Raspberry Pi 5. It runs a local 35B model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) and acts as a @gle room agent in GroupMind, delivering voice-driven, grounded answers using owner’s-manual RAG on SD. The system works entirely offline, with a live-on-Pi model, phone dashboard, and continuous self-updates; online brains are used only when explicitly requested. It also monitors OBD, dashcam clips, and car state, with three-tier connectivity and NAT traversal for remote reachability.
FDA authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people 2+ with diabetes. It is the first wearable in the U.S. to continuously monitor both ketones and glucose, updating every minute and syncing with a smartphone. Automatic alerts flag rising ketones to help prevent diabetic ketoacidosis. Six clinical studies with over 600 participants demonstrated accuracy across relevant ketone and glucose levels. Developed by Abbott Diabetes Care; approved via De Novo with special controls; part of FDA’s Home as a Health Care Hub Initiative.
Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, using the jxl-rs Rust decoder, previously behind image.jxl.enabled on Nightly (Firefox Labs checkbox). It ships alongside Safari 17.0; Chrome remains behind a flag. Multithreaded decoding patches landed; benchmarks show JXL is competitive with Safari on large images but slower on small ones. HDR tone mapping is strong; animated JXL is supported. Extensive tests and fuzzing accompany the rollout. Some warn lossless JXL decodes ~30× slower than WebP, with ~10% savings, suggesting a lossy-first approach.
pgbot.dev is an open-source Postgres intelligence platform that gives AI-powered explanations and actionable insights about database health and performance. It connects to any PostgreSQL database—directly or via the pgBot Agent for private environments (Docker, Kubernetes, VPCs)—and supports cloud DBs like Supabase, Neon, and RDS. Features: real-time health monitoring, slow-query and regression analysis, table/index analytics, vacuum visibility, and AI root-cause recommendations. It’s read-only by default, with a deterministic MCP toolset for AI agents to inspect data (no writes) and private deployments allowed.
Dolly Parton, the country star, actor and philanthropist, has died aged 80, announced by her nephew on Instagram. A prolific songwriter of Jolene and I Will Always Love You, she earned 25 US country No.1s, 47 Top-10 albums, and pop hits such as 9 to 5. She acted in films and built a business empire around Dollywood and Sandollar. Her Imagination Library has mailed ~25 million books, and she funded literacy and health causes, including backing Moderna vaccine development. A May 2026 Las Vegas residency was cancelled for health reasons; a Broadway musical is planned.
OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a generalized AI inference ASIC designed in-house (with Broadcom) to maximize tokens-per-watt, not just optimize one model. It uses HBM4 with 15.4 TB/s and a scalable 2,048-XPU rack network. A0/B0 silicon shows strong perf/W against Rubin/others, with STP throughput: 700+ tok/s at concurrency 1 on DeepSeek R1 and ~1,400 tok/s/user on Kimi-K2.5/GPT-OSS; tapeout Nov 2025; production ramp 2027. It combines MXFP-like compute, 64-bit scalar cores, Gluon/Triton kernels, and no prefill-decode disaggregation to preserve locality.
Boot a Windows sandbox, install Minecraft Java Edition, and drive the game from an agent via cua-driver’s MCP server inside the sandbox. The guide covers running Minecraft in a Windows VM locally or on Fleet, including software OpenGL via Mesa llvmpipe, signing in with Microsoft accounts through Prism Launcher, and playing under MCP control. A one-time cost is building a containerDisk image (disk.img) with Prism, Java, Mesa, and the game, exportable as an OCI image. Fleet uses a service proxy, requires GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe and client-credentials MCP tokens, and has tips for local vs Fleet setups and troubleshooting.
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