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Sony has temporarily suspended orders for CFexpress and SD memory cards for both its authorized dealers and the Sony Store due to a global memory shortage driven by AI data-center expansion. Supply cannot meet demand for memory cards for the foreseeable future, and Sony will announce when orders resume. This follows Western Digital reporting a memory shortage and PS5 price hikes; the shortage is impacting major memory manufacturers.
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BreezePDF is a 100% client-side, browser-based PDF toolkit to edit, sign, merge, and more (30+ tools), with offline work after the first load. Features include editing text, inserting images, signatures, fillable forms, merging/splitting, reordering, password protection, exporting to DOCX or CSV, dark/light mode, and OCR (Desktop). Pro adds a Desktop app, CLI tools, unlimited downloads, and signing/OCR for $12/mo. Free web editing includes 3 downloads/month; unlimited downloads require Desktop Pro. All processing stays on your device—no uploads or tracking.
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A broad, global news digest covering politics, conflict, business, and culture: Chavez-name rebranding amid abuse allegations and DHS funding standoffs; U.S.-Iran talks and Middle East tensions; cyber and naval security stories; stock-market declines and court/energy headlines; Project Hail Mary’s strong box office and Disney’s World of Frozen in Paris; major sports milestones from NCAA Final Four to Formula One; and assorted world, weather, and entertainment notes.
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QuickBEAM is a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM that lets JS run as BEAM processes with OTP supervision, exposing Web APIs backed by native DOM and a built-in TypeScript toolchain. It enables JS to call Elixir/OTP, send messages to BEAM processes, and spawn runtimes or pooled contexts for thousands of concurrent scripts. It provides browser and Node.js APIs (or both), a lexbor-based DOM, and a TS toolchain via OXC; bundles npm packages at startup without Node.js. Configurable per-context limits, TS bundling, and examples for LiveView, SSR, and chat apps. MIT.
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Neovim v0.12.0 release page detailing a Release build with official downloads across platforms: Windows (nvim-win64.zip/.msi), macOS (x86_64 and arm64 tarballs), and Linux (x86_64 and arm64 AppImage and tarballs). Includes install/run instructions, notes on Windows vcruntime140.dll and older glibc compatibility for Linux, plus package-manager options. The page also lists assets and user reactions.
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Rumors of VR’s death after Meta’s Horizon Worlds misfires are overstated. Meta reportedly spent about $20 billion annually on VR, likely shifting to AI; other behemoths (Microsoft, Google, Sony) invested heavily with mixed results. AI dominates the industry for now, but VR’s future isn’t closed. Immersion—the core of VR—derives from deep psychological and cultural roots, echoing dream states and philosophical puzzles from Descartes to Chuang Tzu, and has permeated literature and film. Horizon Worlds struggled with bulky hardware, onboarding, and content gaps; still, VR remains compelling and will realize its potential as technology evolves.
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Pretext is a pure JS/TS library for measuring and laying out multiline text without DOM layout. It computes text height for a given width and line height using its own measurement logic based on the browser font engine. It supports rendering to canvas, SVG, DOM, and server-side later. Core APIs: prepare(text,font,options) and layout(prepared,maxWidth,lineHeight) to get height and lineCount; prepareWithSegments, layoutWithLines, walkLineRanges, layoutNextLine for advanced line-by-line/manual layout. It handles whitespace preservation with whiteSpace option; supports emojis/mixed bidi; designed for virtualization, masonry, and avoiding layout reflow. Installation: npm install @chenglou/pretext.
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Tom's Hardware reports on Amir's Audio Science Review test comparing a $4,000 Kimber Kable RCA to a $7 Amazon Basics RCA. Using an Audio Precision analyzer, both cables showed essentially identical performance across a wide frequency range with negligible distortion and only a tiny jitter difference (the cheaper cable was longer). The takeaway: for RCA cables, a competent $7 cable suffices; premium cables offer no measurable sonic advantage, and perceived differences are often mood or system-dependent.
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Researchers mapped the clitoris’ internal nerves in 3D for the first time, using high‑energy X‑ray scans of two cadavers. They traced five branching nerves reaching the glands, mons pubis, clitoral hood and labia, with fibers continuing to the glans—contrary to prior beliefs. The preprint study expands knowledge of female sexual anatomy and could improve pelvic surgery, reconstruction after female genital mutilation, vulvar cancer, gender reassignment and cosmetic procedures by preserving orgasmic function.
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IBM's System/4 Pi was a family of compact avionics computers (TC, CP, EP) that evolved into Advanced System/4 Pi (AP, SP, CC, ML). It powered Skylab, Spacelab, and numerous aircraft and missiles, with the Space Shuttle using the AP-101B/S family alongside an I/O Processor for redundancy and a backup unit. The line transitioned from magnetic core memory to semiconductor memory, introducing the AP-101F, the Shuttle upgrade AP-101S, the VHSIC-based AP-102 with the V1750, and SP/CC variants (e.g., AWACS, bubble memory). The 4 Pi line ended in 1994 when IBM sold the division; remnants remain in Owego, NY.
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ayaFlow is a high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust designed to run as a sidecarless DaemonSet in Kubernetes, providing kernel visibility into node-wide traffic with minimal overhead. It uses the Aya eBPF framework and attaches an eBPF TC classifier on ingress and egress; a userspace Tokio agent consumes a ring buffer, maintains live state in DashMap, stores history in SQLite, and exposes a REST API and WebSocket stream. Features include monitoring, persistent history, optional deep inspection (DNS SNI and TLS), Prometheus metrics, and an IP allowlist. Prerequisites: Rust nightly, bpf-linker, Linux 5.8+ with BTF. Deployment via DaemonSet.
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Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object, traveling about 38,000 mph and sending data home on 69 KB of memory with a rugged 8-track data recorder. Despite 1970s tech (assembly-language computers, 160 bits/s), it uncovered Io’s volcanism, Titan’s atmosphere, and crossed the heliopause in 2012. A 2025 thruster crisis nearly ended the mission, but engineers revived dead thrusters by diagnosing a heater switch issue; power is dwindling, yet science continues toward ~2036. It carries the Golden Record—a message of Earth to potential future finders.
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Anubis is a JavaScript-based anti-scraping system that protects servers from AI-driven scraping by requiring a Hashcash-like proof-of-work. It aims to deter mass scrapers while using fingerprinting (e.g., font rendering) to skip challenges for legitimate users. The solution is provisional and focuses on detecting headless browsers; it requires modern JavaScript and discourages plugins like JShelter. Users are instructed to enable JavaScript and disable such plugins. The page is protected by Anubis, version 1.24.0, created in Canada.
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Figma’s update lets AI agents write directly in files via the MCP server, extending use_figma with write access. The change seems small but signals a broader shift: design and prototyping moving from a single tool toward AI agents (Claude Code, Codex) that can generate and iterate across a company’s context. Figma Make underperforms; Claude Code/Antigravity become the preferred integration points, turning Figma into a supplier if it can’t own the AI-driven workflow. SaaS must either become the all-in-one context tool or risk commoditization as a plugin to AI agents.
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Feser argues microphysics yields knowledge of unobserved particles through abductive inference and mathematical modeling, not simple induction. Tracing from atomism to the Standard Model, he notes how experimental devices (cloud chambers, accelerators) and mathematical structure justify entities like quarks and bosons, while SUSY and strings remain empirically untestable. Drawing on Hanson and Maritain, he treats particles as analogical, symbolically reconstructed realities whose truth depends on evidence and mathematics. He links this Thomistic diagnostic to natural theology’s via causalitatis, negationis, and eminence, and cautions against beauty-led, untestable physics, while acknowledging limits near prime matter and God.
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Live map of real-time lightning strikes on Blitzortung.org.
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The author notes two glaring data failures: (1) the UK government’s fuel finder CSV contains GPS outliers (stations in oceans) and extreme price ratios, likely from self-submitted data and weak checks; (2) a RAC report on BEVs shows a likely order-of-magnitude error in vehicle counts. The piece warns that such bad data erodes trust, leads to bad decisions, and could feed faulty data into LLMs. It calls for basic data validation, testing, and pride in data quality.
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WeMove Europe’s Say No to Palantir in Europe petition urges governments and the EU to stop new Palantir contracts, review and phase out existing ones, and fund transparent European alternatives. It calls for a EU-wide investigation, contract transparency, and safeguards with democratic oversight before expanding Palantir’s access to public data. The page warns Palantir fuels mass surveillance and conflicts (Gaza, ICE, Iran), and invites people to sign and push for accountability.
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Switzerland says the United States redirected funds intended for its F‑35 programme to cover shortfalls in the Patriot air‑defence system under the US Foreign Military Sales pooling. Public broadcaster SRF and armaments chief Urs Loher said the move reached a low three‑digit million CHF and strained Switzerland’s defence budget, forcing earlier funding for the F‑35. Patriot deliveries, five batteries contracted four years ago, have been delayed as US prioritises Ukraine; delays now at least five years and costs could rise about 50% (roughly CHF 1 billion), bringing total to ~CHF 3 billion. Officials warn ongoing cost pressures complicate procurement.
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