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KFC, Nando's and eight other restaurant groups have ditched the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) and joined the industry-led Sustainable Chicken Forum (SCF) as UK poultry demand soars. The brands, which own or franchise 18 chains (including Popeyes, Wingstop and Wagamama), say SCF will boost welfare while meeting demand and cutting emissions, arguing slower-growing breeds are not the right path because they raise emissions. Animal welfare groups accuse the move of prioritising profit; critics say supply of slower birds is not yet available. KFC accounts for about 4% of UK chicken supply; M&S, Waitrose, Pret and Greggs remain in the BCC.
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A diving instructor and platform engineer discovers a vulnerability in a major diving insurer’s member portal: login used incrementing numeric IDs with a static default password, exposing full personal profiles—including underage users. After responsibly reporting on April 28, 2025, the organization began remediation but replied with NDA-like demands and legal threats to confidentiality. The author notes GDPR risks and uncertain notifications to affected users, and emphasizes that the real issue is the company’s security culture, not the bug. He advocates coordinated vulnerability disclosure, CSIRT involvement, and clear security policies to avoid a chilling effect.
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Wikipedia's English edition deprecates Archive.today after the site was used to direct a DDoS against a blog and found to alter snapshots to insert the target blogger's name. About 695,000 links across ~400,000 pages are affected. Editors recommended removing or replacing Archive.today links, with alternatives such as Internet Archive, Ghostarchive, or Megalodon. The move cites unreliability and possible operator aliases; the FBI is investigating the founder. Internet Archive is separate. Archival tampering undermines verifiability; Wikipedia intends to block or filter Archive.today links.
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An overview of the Arch User Repository (AUR) and PKGBUILD review. PKGBUILDs are bash scripts with metadata (pkgname, pkgver, pkgrel, pkgdesc, arch, url, license, install, source, sha256sums) that drive four build stages: prepare, build, check, package. The post guides how to review for safety: verify sources and patches come from trusted upstreams; ensure build/check/package steps don’t download or require sudo; scrutinize install scripts and pacman hooks. If in doubt, ask in Arch channels or involve maintainers to remove malicious uploads. The AUR needs ongoing improvements.
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Autonomous exploration of Super Mario Bros. uses a mutation-based input generator (bit flips) to create diverse action sequences. It builds a population of input paths, scores by progress (x-position, level completion), and selects paths probabilistically, replaying and mutating them to expand reachable states. The approach maps to a genetic algorithm without crossover; mutation suffices. The system backtracks, splits, and prunes dead ends, maintaining diversity via path cleaning. Implementation loops replay→mutate→evaluate; uses backtracking, triangular mutations, and a move library. They beat all four levels; limitation: fitness measures progress, not correctness.
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Claude Code Security, a new capability in Claude Code, is available in a limited research preview for Enterprise and Team customers, with expedited access for open-source maintainers. It reads and reasons about code to detect complex, novel vulnerabilities beyond rule-based scanners, and suggests patches for human review. Findings undergo multi-stage verification, with severity and confidence scores, and require developer approval before any fix is applied. Built on Claude’s cyberdefense work; Opus 4.6 found 500 vulnerabilities in production open-source code. Aims to reduce backlogs and improve security.
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Federal judge Beth Bloom upheld a $243 million verdict against Tesla for a 2019 Autopilot crash in Key Largo, Florida, rejecting Tesla's bid to overturn. A Miami jury had found Tesla 33% liable, awarding $43M compensatory and $200M punitive damages; Tesla may appeal. The decision comes as Autopilot-related lawsuits surge; California regulators ruled Autopilot marketing misleading and Tesla dropped Autopilot branding, even discontinuing it as a standalone product in the U.S. and Canada. The case highlights growing legal exposure over driver-assistance claims.
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Author argues that developer communities vary: hang-out (Facebook-like) versus answer-focused (Google-like). Startups often aim for Google-type, emphasizing fast, helpful support through well-structured docs, searchable Q&A, public roadmaps, and broad feedback channels. Examples: Facebook-style—The Rands Engineering Slack, Ruby community, Orbit.love Discord; Google-style—StackOverflow, Elasticsearch forum. Key factors shaping type include how self-contained the tech is, presence of events, open source, shared philosophy, tool-use patterns, and size. Design with a clear tilt, provide onboarding and multiple channels for feedback, highlight changes, and foster member connections—expect a long journey.
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- Blue light filters don’t meaningfully improve sleep; controlling total luminance is the bigger lever.
- ipRGCs respond to cyan/blue/green, not pure blue, so filters cut only part of the relevant light.
- Night Shift roughly halves blue/green input but yields only tiny sleep benefits in studies.
- Four practical steps that help:
- Use dark mode to dramatically reduce luminance (often ~90%+).
-Dim the screen several notches at night.
- Increase daytime light exposure (bright lamps or sunlight).
- Consider low-dose melatonin (about 0.3 mg) under medical guidance if needed.
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An annotated catalog of ultra-small to moderately large toy languages and their implementations, focusing on Hindley-Milner/type-inference, algebraic data types, pattern matching, modules, and lightweight runtimes. The list surveys dozens of projects (from MinCaml ~50–100 LOC to HaMLet ~10K LOC, MicroHs, 1ML, mlml, Dhall, Ante, Tao, Austral, AQaml, Borgo, SOSML, Scrapscript, etc.), with notes on what each language proves about type systems, compilers, and interpreters, plus pointers to papers and repos. Emphasizes size-to-feature trade-offs and bootstrapping/self-hosting efforts.
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Eight years after leaving, the author returns to Facebook and finds the News Feed flooded with AI-generated thirst traps and unrelated posts, not from friends. Content ranges from mild NSFW posts to memes; Meta’s AI-suggested questions feature is noted. Some items may be real, but many look AI-generated or bot-like, and it’s hard to tell what others see. An AI image resembling underage girls sickens them, underscoring safety concerns. They stop scrolling, using Facebook only for a school update, signaling the platform’s perceived decline.
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F-Droid warns Google’s Android-lockdown plans persist, urging open Android advocacy. Banners in F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid warn users and encourage contacting local authorities. F-Droid Basic aims for 2.0-alpha3, adding install history, CSV export, mirror chooser, anti-screenshot, UI tweaks, and strings updates. Debian fixes and post-FOSDEM delays are noted. A flood of updates followed: 287 apps updated, 5 removed, 1 added; notable changes include ProtonVPN, Nextcloud, and Dolphin Emulator. The team flags a potential FLOSS path via Play Store flavor and asks for donations.
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Jamie Tanna reflects on oapi-codegen’s participation in GitHub’s Secure Open Source Fund, detailing how dedicated time and resources improved security for a Go OpenAPI code generator previously maintained by one person. Funds enabled expanding maintainers and implementing security practices (security policy, versioning, branch protections, govulncheck, code scanning, Security Scorecard, Advanced Security) while exploring threat modeling and advisory handling. The post highlights the value of a small, trusted maintainer community and notes a tongue-in-cheek claim that inactivity can seem more secure but emphasizes the goal of secure, well-maintained code. Positive lessons and plans to share more follow.
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WIRED investigates the rumor that gay men run Silicon Valley, interviewing 51 sources to map a complex web of power, social networks, and sexuality. The piece finds a recognizable gay influence in tech—networks, events, and mentorship that help careers—yet stops short of proving a single, organized “gay tech mafia.” It catalogs high‑profile figures, sexual dynamics, and the advantages of belonging, while noting data that LGBTQ+ founders receive a minuscule share of venture funding. Ultimately, the article blends truth and rumor, offering a nuanced view of how power and sexuality intersect in Silicon Valley.
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Atomic-Spectra.net has a long-running update log detailing hosting constraints, personal financial hardship, and ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the site. Updates cover performance fixes, partial feature removal due to resource limits, and client-side tools such as an image-alignment viewer; plans for wavelength tables and Grotrian diagrams remain hampered by hosting costs. The author seeks full-time or contract work in web/software development (C++, PHP, JS, SQL, HTML/CSS) and occasionally solicits donations to keep the content freely available, which remains public domain/CC0. The site also notes related projects and community support.
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LLMs don’t lower the barrier to entry; they expose a taste-skill gap. Many apps are quickly thrown up—derivative, poorly crafted, “vibe” projects that rely on hype rather than quality. Taste, judged by audiences and context, remains the real gatekeeper, and even simple ideas can resonate if they connect. LLMs amplify this gatekeeping, not erase it; OpenClaw is cited as an example: technically flawed but stylish enough to win interest. The post argues we’re in an educational period where etiquette matters, and that one should cultivate taste as well as skill rather than depend on LLM hype.
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The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump exceeded his authority by using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping global tariffs without congressional approval. Congress, not the president, has the power to set tariffs. The decision does not affect tariffs under Section 232 (steel, aluminium, lumber, autos), which remain. The ruling represents a rare check on presidential power. The White House awaited Trump’s reaction, while markets edged higher on the news.
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Sam Kriss's Child’s Play argues that AI will accelerate a bifurcation in the economy: a new overclass of highly agentic individuals who act through machines will prosper, while the rest become redundant. Through Roy Lee and his startup Cluely—glitchy software, hype-driven culture, frat-house atmosphere, and constant pr to funding—and other case studies (Eric Zhu, Donald Boat), the piece traces a tech-world obsession with agency over achievement, the irrational exuberance of rationalist circles, and the fragility of AI-enabled ventures. It ends with Cluely’s NY relocation and Roy’s ongoing quest for status and control.
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