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Ars Technica reports Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), carrying the DARPA-funded Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites payload (RSGS), launched on SpaceX to geosynchronous orbit with three Mission Extension Pods (MEPs). Over about a year it will reach GEO, then the MRV—armed with two 7-DOF robotic arms and interchangeable tools—will inspect, upgrade, relocate, and potentially refuel or repair satellites not designed for servicing. It marks a shift toward on-orbit interventions and private-sector leadership, with initial clients including SES and Optus. Similar Chinese efforts exist; U.S. Space Force and NASA contributed; future may expand to LEO, orbital depots, and logistics.
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uv 0.12.0 introduces a default build layout via uv_init using uv_build, restoring a standard package layout. It tightens packaging by rejecting non-tar.gz source distributions, rejecting wheel entries that could replace the interpreter, and dropping older bzip2 PyPy patches. Hash-checking is enforced with --require-hashes; pre-release handling now uses if-necessary by default (stable first), with options to opt in. pylock.toml and lockfile validations are strengthened. Other changes include script-relative project discovery for uv run, safer venv clearing (requires --force), stricter --project handling, normalized publishing names, and TOML/ulimit stabilizations.
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Apple is ending the iPhone Upgrade Program. Current members can finish paying remaining monthly amounts. For a next iPhone, Apple introduces a new lease option called Apple Upgrade, plus carrier deals, Apple financing, or a one-time purchase. You can lease an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch with low monthly payments and upgrade at the end by returning the current device. Eligibility: US residency, 18+, valid payment method, and Apple ID; devices must be in good condition; carrier eligibility applies for iPhone leases.
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GrapheneOS is an open-source project funded by donations to the GrapheneOS Foundation from individuals and organizations to support developers, hardware, infrastructure and legal costs. Donations can be made via GitHub Sponsors (credit cards), Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin, Wise local transfers, PayPal, and Interac e-Transfer, with specific addresses and instructions for each method. A sponsors page is also available.
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Deflock Casa Grande is a nonpartisan civic campaign urging city leaders to place strict oversight on Flock surveillance. They argue Flock ALPR cameras can become video-enabled, analyzing people, attributes, and creating a searchable movement database, with potential for policy abuse. They cite upgrades: distress-monitoring audio, school cameras linked to the network, and a planned city-wide grid (roughly 100 LPRs, 100 PTZs, 31 gunshot detectors). They document abuse cases elsewhere, demand audits, warrants for sensitive searches, data-sharing limits, and a public vote on mass surveillance. They value safety with accountability.
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Stephen Krings turns a Windows gaming PC with an RTX 5070 into a headless Linux GPU server reachable from a separate Linux workstation. Using WSL2 GPU passthrough, Linux runs CUDA via the GPU, with nvidia-smi working out of the box. SSH into WSL on port 2345, and use Windows portproxy plus firewall rules to reach it; an idempotent PowerShell script rebinds after reboot. Gotchas include WSL idle shutdown, Ubuntu 24.04 SSH socket activation, and BIOS virtualization. The workflow lets CLIP-based image search run on the 5070 from Linux while Windows handles gaming—best of both worlds.
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The 2026-07-28 MCP spec releases a stateless core, enabling MRTR, header-based routing, and cacheable list results to improve reliability, scalability, and routing. It retires sessions and the initialize/Mcp-Session-Id flow, adds server discovery, and supports any server behind a round-robin load balancer. It formalizes an extensions framework with Tasks and EMA, and hardens authorization (RFC 9207 iss, CIMD, DCR deprecation) with a 12-month upgrade window. SDKs for TS, Python, Go, and C# (plus Rust beta) are updated. Major ecosystem adoption underscores production-ready, scalable agent infrastructure. Getting-started resources are provided.
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WOFF 1.0 marked a pivotal W3C milestone in standardizing web fonts. Emerging from 1990s discussions, WOFF 1.0 (2010) was a DRM-free format uniting browser and typography communities, enabling widespread web-font use by 2011. WOFF 2.0 (2014) cut file sizes (up to ~40% smaller), with broad browser support by 2024. By 2025, WOFF2 dominated font requests (~65%), and ~88% of sites used web fonts. The Web Fonts Working Group now pursues Incremental Font Transfer to enable fast, granular loading, including for complex scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
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SBCL news/CHANGES pages summarize the project’s releases. The headline release is 2.6.7 (2026-07-28), adding SB-MANUAL, interactive documentation, ARM64 SIMD support, AVX512, and various fixes and optimizations. Earlier entries cover 2.6.6 and older, detailing platform enhancements (ARM64, Windows, PowerPC, Loongarch, RISC-V), GC/compiler improvements, and many bug fixes across reading, printing, disassembly, and type system. New contrib modules (sb-cover, sb-simd, sb-md5, sb-gmp) and improved build tooling appear throughout. A comprehensive, multi-version changelog.
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Anthropic used Claude Mythos Preview to autonomously find two cryptanalytic advances. First, an improved key-recovery attack on the post-quantum signature HAWK, halving its effective security (from 2^64 to about 2^38 for small keys) via a lattice automorphism; HAWK remains a non-deployed PQC candidate. Second, a faster attack on a reduced-round AES-128 (7 rounds) under a chosen-plaintext model, using a Möbius-Bridge fingerprint and meet-in-the-middle, about 200–800× faster. Neither attack currently affects real systems. The work demonstrates AI-assisted cryptography, with responsible disclosure and CryptanalysisBench for benchmarking.
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Elizabeth Tai argues that writers should treat their own website as the digital home, not Substack. Substack is a distribution tool with limited SEO and control, and platforms can change rules, shut down, or devalue minority voices. To protect long-term visibility, authors should own a domain and use POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, treating platforms as distribution channels while keeping content centralized on a permanent home. She cites John Scalzi's decades-long personal site and the IndieWeb approach, and urges building an enduring web footprint via an own site, RSS, and open archives.
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Flashpaper is a privacy-first tool that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to create self-destructing notes and securely share encrypted files.
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Official EU portal for the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), outlining how it works and its lifecycle statistics. It provides resources for organizers—launch an initiative, online collection, regulatory and data protection policies—plus guidance on national implementation, history, FAQs, and results. It also offers news, newsletters, events, communication materials, ambassadors, podcasts, institutional pages, an educational toolkit for schools, the ECI Forum, and organizer accounts. The site is managed by the Secretariat-General and includes accessibility, contact, and privacy/cookie information.
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The article promotes a worktree-aware setup script (bin/setup) that turns any Git worktree into a safe, development-ready environment while sharing a single Docker stack. Each worktree gets isolated ports, databases, and resource names derived from a worktree identity, allocated through a registry with locking. bin/setup bootstraps the toolchain, runs bin/doctor for prerequisites, ensures Docker services are healthy, generates local config, and creates/migrates per-worktree databases before exiting to run bin/dev. It should be idempotent and concurrency-safe; some cases still need dedicated stacks.
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Xenharmlib 0.4.0 is a major leap: its core supports all regular temperaments and Just Intonation via Prime Limit Tunings and Multi-Generator Tunings, enabling accurate analysis of Byzantium, Renaissance, Indian classical, Indonesian gamelan, Arabic Maqam, and 20th‑century music. It preserves use of existing analytic tools (Prime Form, Normal Form) for multi‑dimensional temperaments. The release revamps documentation and adds features: Just Intonation with Prime Limit Tunings; Custom Regular Temperaments; Full Interval Arithmetic; New harmonic primitives (Sequences, Interval Fans); Interval Class Vectors; Closest Frequency Approximation. Transposition is implemented as regular transposition to avoid scale‑degree inconsistencies.
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Sebastian Raschka reviews Kimi K3, a huge open-weight model (2.8T parameters) derived from Kimi Linear (48B). The key new component is LatentMoE, echoing Nemotron 3 Ultra, used to compress large linear layers. K3 emphasizes inference efficiency by replacing components with efficiency-oriented variants: MoE to LatentMoE, regular attention to multi-head latent attention and Kimi Delta Attention. Attention residuals improve residual paths with attention-based weighting, adding about 4% training cost and 2% inference cost. K3 uses NoPE (no positional embeddings) instead of RoPE and supports native multimodal input.
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XY is an extremely fast, interactive Python charting library for the web, notebooks, and static exports. Charts are declarative or matplotlib-style, and fully customizable with Python, CSS, or Tailwind. The Rust core renders large datasets (density views) while preserving exact rows for interactions; pan/zoom/hover return original data. It can export to HTML, PNG, SVG, or PDF. Install with pip install xy (or uv add xy). It also offers a Reflex adapter to embed XY charts in Reflex apps. Benchmarks show substantial speedups over Matplotlib and Plotly. License: Apache-2.0.
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