Windows 11's market share has reportedly shrunk, with Windows 10 maintaining double the user base and showing continued growth. The operating system faces ongoing criticism for its TPM requirements, slow file explorer performance, and privacy concerns, while recent December updates showed improved installation speed but no significant improvements.
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-december-2024-update-results.html
Elon Musk's DOGE employees have gained unprecedented write access to critical U.S. Treasury payment systems, with 25-year-old former SpaceX employee Marko Elez having direct control over PAM and SPS systems that manage one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Multiple sources confirm the situation is more severe than initially reported, with potential catastrophic implications for national economic security.
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A new C64 demo called 'Nine' was released at Fjälldata 2025, featuring innovative programming techniques and an accompanying music track, with a detailed explanation video in development.
Cloudflare launches a new 'AI Insights' page on Radar providing comprehensive analytics about AI-related trends, including bot traffic patterns, Generative AI service popularity, and robots.txt usage patterns. The platform offers real-time visibility into AI model adoption, bot behavior tracking, and content access controls, with data accessible through API endpoints and a Data Explorer tool.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/expanded-ai-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/
A continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library enabling fine-grained control over geometric detail within meshes through cluster-based decimation. The library generates LOD data by precomputing triangle clusters that can seamlessly combine across different detail levels, offering fast rendering with optimized detail allocation and reduced memory usage through geometry streaming.
An in-depth exploration of 'No-Panic Rust' demonstrates how Rust can potentially replace C for systems programming while maintaining performance and code size characteristics. The technique ensures code never triggers panic handlers, making it suitable for low-level systems programming by avoiding runtime overhead, large binary sizes, and unrecoverable exits. The approach requires careful consideration of the Rust standard library, optimizer behavior, and proper handling of bounds checks.
https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/03/no-panic-rust.html
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OWASP introduces the Non-Human Identity Top 10 for 2025, a comprehensive guide highlighting critical security risks associated with non-human identities in development pipelines. The project combines real-world breach data, surveys, and CVE databases to rank risks using OWASP's methodology, providing essential guidance for application developers.
https://owasp.org/www-project-non-human-identities-top-10/2025/
FBI personnel are facing pressure to disclose their involvement in January 6 investigations through a mandatory questionnaire, leading to widespread internal resistance and refusal to comply. Significant pushback is occurring at multiple levels within the FBI, from field agents to management, against what appears to be politically motivated personnel actions. The situation highlights a critical moment of institutional resistance against potential politicization of law enforcement activities.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--what-s-going-on-at-the-fbi
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Direct listing for freelance opportunities, emphasizing personal connections between freelancers and potential clients while excluding agencies and recruiters, with specific requirements for location and remote work status disclosure.
A service transforming personal videos into physical flipbooks, offering customizable covers and bulk ordering options for events and gifts. The flipbooks measure 10.5cm x 5cm x 1cm, start at $25, and come with worldwide free shipping and a 15-day money-back guarantee.
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A former tech executive warns of an alleged ongoing coup in the United States, where private interests, notably involving Elon Musk and Donald Trump, are reportedly gaining unauthorized control of government systems and removing security officials. The article details specific incidents of alleged unauthorized access to Treasury systems and systematic removal of career civil servants, presenting these as evidence of constitutional democracy being dismantled.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/
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Alibaba's T-HEAD subsidiary has developed the Xuantie C910, a RISC-V core featuring out-of-order execution and vector processing capabilities, aimed at reducing China's dependence on foreign chip designs. While the C910 demonstrates advanced features like vector support and efficient core-to-core latency, its performance is hindered by an unbalanced out-of-order engine and suboptimal memory subsystem design, limiting its practical applications despite ambitious goals.
An engineer shares their journey from WordPress to AWS and finally to NearlyFreeSpeech (NFS) hosting, highlighting the benefits of NFS's prepaid model for managing hosting costs and complexity. The migration of eight applications to NFS demonstrates a shift towards simpler, cost-effective hosting solutions while maintaining functionality.
https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/leaving-aws
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A developer shares their experience with Zig after months of usage, highlighting both strengths and significant concerns about the language's design choices and safety guarantees, particularly comparing it to Rust and questioning its approach to simplicity over memory safety.
https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025
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Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) will become optional in CPython 3.13, enabling free-threading capabilities. A centralized resource tracks compatibility of packages with native code and provides documentation for supporting free-threaded Python, particularly focusing on extension modules using the Python C API.
PanGui is a new UI library focusing on performance and simplicity, aiming to solve software industry problems by reducing tech stack complexity while offering advanced features like layouting and cross-platform compatibility. The library boasts zero dependencies, immediate and retained-mode capabilities, and data-oriented design principles for creating sophisticated user interfaces.
An open-source Cantonese language learning RPG game offers both single-player and multiplayer modes, using traditional Chinese characters and Jyutping romanization. The project aims to provide a comprehensive, free resource for learning Hong Kong Cantonese, with continuous updates and improvements.
An infrastructure migration plan outlines the current setup and future requirements for gitlab.fd.o following Equinix Metal's retirement, detailing the extensive storage needs (56TB+ across various S3 storage) and computing resources required for GitLab operations, runners, and databases. The document proposes moving towards managed services for databases and storage while implementing better AI bot protection through Cloudflare or Fastly.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/issues/2011
An entrepreneur shares his experience importing and distributing electric mini-excavators from China to the US market through his company NESHER, offering affordable alternatives to traditional diesel equipment. The NESHER NX2500, priced at $19,600, provides a 5.5-foot digging depth and 5-6 hours of operation, making it suitable for homesteaders and small businesses who can't afford $60,000+ commercial alternatives.
Mozilla's code signing process has evolved significantly over 20 years, progressing from manual GPG signatures to an automated system handling thousands of daily signatures through their Autograph service. The evolution includes improvements in security, automation, and cross-platform support, moving from Windows-only signing to a sophisticated cloud-based infrastructure with Hardware Security Modules.
https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/