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Painted ladies, typically known for long migrations over land, shocked entomologist Roger Vila Gerard Talavera when he found them in French Guiana, far from their usual range. Research led by Talavera suggests that these butterflies traveled 2,600 miles across the Atlantic from West Africa with the help of favorable winds. Tracking migrating insects is challenging, […]
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LosslessCut is a versatile tool for quick and lossless video/audio editing, perfect for trimming large files from cameras, drones, and more without sacrificing quality. It offers features like smart cutting, rearranging segments, merging files, adding tracks, and more, all powered by the efficient FFmpeg. Surprisingly, it can perform black scene detection, speed up/slow down videos, […]
This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to gain root access to your Sleep Number hub, enabling you to bypass their servers and access the local network. The author shares their motivation, stemming from a previous project that strained Sleep Number’s network with a homebridge plugin. By accessing the UART console through hardware work, they […]
This study reconstructs a comprehensive archive of 2.7 million unique U.S. newswire articles from 1878 to 1977 by utilizing deep learning on raw image scans of local newspapers. The dataset includes georeferenced locations, customized topic tags, named entities, and disambiguated individuals linked to Wikipedia. A neural bi-encoder model de-duplicates reproduced articles, while a text classifier […]
The author shares their expertise on userland rootkits, highlighting a clever Linux rootkit called Symbiote. Despite the sophisticated hiding techniques employed, such as injecting libraries into processes and hiding files and processes, the rootkit is ultimately vulnerable to detection. The use of statically compiled binaries like busybox can mitigate the effectiveness of userland rootkits. The […]
In “A Model of a Mind,” the author explores a conceptual data-flow architecture for digital minds based on the success of AI-based language models. The model aims to explain agency, learning, thinking, and introspection in human-like behavior. The author introduces the concept of an action model, which understands and produces actions similar to language models […]
In this post, we dive into the inefficiency of multiplying polynomials using the traditional high school method, which has a complexity of $O(n^2)$. By connecting polynomials with the Fourier Transform and convolutions, we introduce a faster way to multiply polynomials with $O(nlogn)$ complexity. We explore how convolution in the time domain is equivalent to multiplication […]
“Pipes is a spiritual successor to Yahoo! Pipes, offering a visual programming editor for feeds. You can fetch, manipulate, and combine feeds with ease by connecting blocks in a visual interface. Pipes supports various input formats like RSS, Atom, JSON, and HTML. Share your pipes publicly, set tags for searchability, and create output feeds in […]
Straight from the arcade world, the Neo Geo was an expensive piece of hardware designed to cater to both arcade owners and wealthy households. The system came in two variants: the Multi Video System (MVS) for arcades and the Advanced Entertainment System (AES) for homes. With a dual-processor configuration, the Neo Geo featured a Motorola […]
The popular ‘ip’ open-source project was archived due to a controversial CVE report filed against it, causing developer Fedor Indutny to limit access to the GitHub repository. The issue involved the incorrect identification of private IP addresses in a non-standard format, causing inconsistent results. Indutny disputed the severity of the bug, which was later fixed. […]