🇦🇹 Austria: In Vienna, the police is trialing an automated software to predict crime. Every day, the system outputs hotspots to patrol [Kurier, 3 Dec 🔒, in German]. via Algorithm Watch
Con vocado el 2025 AppleVis Golden Apple Awards para la elección de apps accesibles del año. Participación española de @oriol y su reproductor accesible. Votaciones hasta el 22 de diciembre. Más información: applevis.com/newsletter/applev…
Hello from the team at AppleVis, We are very excited to share that today, we announced the nominees for our 2025 AppleVis Golden Apple Awards; highlighting this year's best of the best in accessible apps.
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the `curl_msprintf()` function in cURL's internal printf implementation. The function writes formatted output to a user-provided buffer without...
The attitude of people feeling like they should be able to report a security bug although their understanding of the topic is lousy is crazy.
The amount of explaining to people you have to do as a first level bug bounty triager is brain numbing. And with a C library you are probably in a good position because you scare the worst bug hunters.
This one is notable in that the function actually exists and would trigger the problem described if used that way. No hallucinated stack dump or non-existent function names.
Details:
Version: 0.2
Size: 11.4 MB
Operating System: Windows
Download: charm.zip
Description
CHARM is a Customizable, Helpful Audio Resource Monitor. It turns your CPU load, RAM activity and disk a
"An Open Letter to All Linux GUI Toolkits: Please Use File Chooser Portal."
Re-inventing the file chooser for each toolkit (rather than for each desktop environment) makes file choosers really inconvenient and hard to enjoy using, in my opinion.
NOt sure what's that all about Apple's "automation” attempts or even the iOS ”shortcuts” app, but it certainly doesn't feel like fun to create anything with them. Donno, perhaps it's a VoiceOver experience, but I equally find that a lot of the system prefs and features are not even properly exposed to take advantage of. Feels like a half-baked product feature to me!
The Montreal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce (CCMM) and Tourism Montreal published 'Maximum Blockage: Taking concrete action to have a visible impact on site management and traffic flow,' criticizing the city's actions to open roads.
At this point, when you show me a trailer for your game that focuses on how lavishly detailed the visuals are all it does is make me wonder how many talented people you forced to give up their nights and weekends to make that happen
Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG a...
LOLOL Doom: The Dark Ages won the accessibility innovation award? WHY? They have no accessibility settings that are innovative. South of Midnight and Assassin's Creed Shadows, which are also not particularly innnovative, still put in more effort than Doom. South of Midnight deserved the award, at least they tried. What a damn joke.
I'm having so much fun with #meshcore in #seattle. Same sense of wonder and excitement I had when I was 12 talking to someone across the world on irc. Only this time they are in Auburn. #mesh #meshuggah #PugetMesh
Wow. Tonight I discovered Pathé discs. This might be the only rare audio format that techmoan hasn't covered! Anyone got a good video or podcast on 'em? #audio#Pathé#history#youtube#peertube
@cordova5029 They're like...flat discs like on a gramophone, but instead of played from the outside, they're played from the inside. And instead of using a disposable needle, they use a shiny steel ball that bounces along the grooves and makes the sound that way. So no needle to replace. And the grooves are cut up and down, rather than side to side. Also, the ball places less wear on the record than a needle would. Unfortunately it didn't catch on outside of Europe. While it was a better system, before electronic amplification, the ball meant it was quieter than systems with a steel needle. So it just lost out because all anyone cared about was volume.
If an URL is in the form of `HOST/p/article-title`, the changes that it links to the nazi bar are high. Sadly a few other platform also use that scheme.
"The last 2/3rd inch XYZ camera I personally owned was this one." where "this one" is a link to Amazon. No other detail.
Several camera rumors websites do that. Not only it's shitty, but it often rots completely as it might just be a search query on the lookup for referral fees.
Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables LLMs to run commands and use tools to enable live, conversational interaction with systems.
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…
Initial notes on GPT-5.2 - I'm excited to see the knowledge cut-off bump up to August 2025, interesting that it's priced at 1.4x over GPT-5.1 simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/11/…
OpenAI reportedly declared a “code red” on the 1st of December in response to increasingly credible competition from the likes of Google’s Gemini 3. It’s less than two weeks later …
It is rumored that "OpenAI hasn't had a successful pre-training run since 2024, initially claimed by semi-analysis and never denied."
It looks like 5 and 5.1 were just different post-trains of some base model that they have had for a while, either 4o, 4.5 or something else entirely that we haven't seen at all. 5.2 seems to be using a newer base model.
Je viens de répondre au questionnaire du gouvernement sur l'IA. J'espère que je ne suis pas seul à répondre en faveur du numérique et IA accessible et du progrès technique. agora.gouv.fr/consultations/ci… #AI #France
Les citoyens aspirent à partager leurs convictions et idées régulièrement, pas seulement à chaque élection : c’est pourquoi Agora propose, pour la première fois, de créer les conditions d’un dialogue démocratique continu entre les citoyens et le Gouv…
ok so Trump says Americans need to just accept a lower standard of living and not buy their kids presents for Christmas and somehow THIS is not the "war on Christmas" we've heard so much about?
I mean it's not like he changed a Starbucks cup or anything I guess
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