Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
2026-02-02 Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external exp
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2026-02-02 Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external exp
Formula 1 2026's first pre-season test gave us a first proper chance to see how this year's liveries look in the flesh. So we asked The Race's Creative Lead, Oliver Card, to cast his expert eye over t
Jenson Button has joined Aston Martin’s Formula 1 team as an ambassador, a role he previously held at Williams.Unlike with Williams, which Button worked with as a special advisor then ambassador from
It’s been known for a while that Formula 1’s 2026 cars are going to be energy-starved, which means harvesting and deploying battery power will be critical to laptime.Initially this seemed to be releva
Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests. Here's what I said: I work in Python which helps a lot because there are a TON of good example
I'm not brave enough to run OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot aka Moltbot) directly on my Mac, so I decided to try running it in a Docker instead container. OpenClaw has Docker support out of the box, described
The streaming giant will broadcast BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG on March 21 at 8 pm Korea Standard Time. Source
How did we get here?Neither major party seems to care about excellence in education — not really, not in a way that translates into serious policy. Democrats have abandoned it for equity theater. Repu
Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests. Here's what I said: I work in Python which helps a lot because there are a TON of good exampl
I’m thrilled to announce msgvault, a new side project I have been building over the last two months with the assistance of many coding agents and some new agentic engineering tools I created (like rob
The best time to go rubbernecking in Hampstead is just as day gives way to dusk, when the denizens of London NW3 obligingly leave their lights on and pine shutters open – all the better for passers-by
I'm not brave enough to run OpenClaw (aka Clawdbot aka Moltbot) directly on my Mac, so I decided to try running it in a Docker instead container. OpenClaw has Docker support out of the box, described
This is the Garbage PC. It is made of garbage. Not too long ago, I recei
OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that connects your messaging apps to local AI coding agents, all running on your own device.
17 commentsBTS is coming to Mexico, but all shows are sold out. Now, the president has asked her South Korean counterpart to intervene for more concert dates.https://www.billboard.com/pro/bts-mexico-p
Kwon Hyuk-woo, left, Song Seong-hwan, center, and Park Chan-dong, bus drivers for Gyeonggi Daewon Express who are in their 20s and 30s, pose at their office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Korea Times
We gotta talk about AI as a programming tool for the arts Chris Ashworth is the creator and CEO of QLab, a macOS software package for “cue-based, multimedia playback” which is designed to automate li
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger to in
For more than two weeks and counting, the country has existed inside a manufactured silence. The public internet, the basic infrastructure of modern life, has been reduced to rumor and fragments. What
The PlayStation 2’s library is easily among the best of any console ever released, and even if you were to narrow down the list of games to the very best, you’d be left with dozens (more like hundred
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Aston Martin finally hit the track at Barcelona late on Thursday afternoon. It was an inauspicious start, as Lance Stroll only managed four-and-a-bit slow laps before grinding to a halt. We don't know
Page 2 The Raw Black Points has a new option called Dehaze. It sets the black points to the minimum values in the image, which often has the effect of reducing haze. Distortion Correction gained a
On a warm night last May, Nikhil Somwanshi sent his roommate a WhatsApp message asking him to tell his family that what was about to happen next was an accident. The message triggered a frantic searc
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Lagos, NigeriaHere’s the story of a remarkable scandal from a few years ago.In the South Pacific, just north of Australia, there is a small, impoverished, and remote country called Papua New Guinea. I
New York's subway and bus operator, MTA, has forever been facing budget crises. In recent years, it has to contend with the work-from-home trend, and rampant fare evasion.The MTA also appears eager to
As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback Ma
If you’re a fan of SimCity, then you’ll appreciate IsoCity, an open source simulation game. The premise is the same. Start with land, build infrastructure, and try to maintain a thriving city. From th
Adrian Newey’s first Aston Martin Formula 1 car finally appeared in testing at Barcelona on Thursday afternoon with just one hour of running remaining.Having arrived in Spain via plane on Wednesday ev
Having just seen the first images of the 2026 Aston Martin, there’s no question it’s an Adrian Newey Formula 1 car! Even without seeing the detail, you can tell it’s extreme, aggressive and all of tho
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Local news organizations can’t be everywhere at once. But even as they slim down, they have column inches and homepages to fill. National wire services can be prohibitively expensive (and less useful
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When Bellingcat, the open-source investigative journalism collective, launched in 2014, it occasionally covered the United States, publishing investigations on topics like the far-right and COVID-19 m
McLaren has revealed images of its 2026 Formula 1 car ahead of its on-track debut at Barcelona this week.McLaren is skipping the first day of the five-day Barcelona ‘shakedown’ in which teams can run
IarlaI wanted this prototype to have the feeling of a cosy mid-century recording studio that's been used to put lots of classic music to tape. The wooden side panels, brass top and warm red LEDs give
Sony Corporation ("Sony") and TCL Electronics Holdings Limited ("TCL") today announced that the two companies have agreed to move forward with discussions and consideration for a strategic partnershi
Isometric drawing is always a fun thing to work on. I say always because I’ve created many isometric frameworks over the past 20+ years. I think I wrote a book chapter or two about it, and published a
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Hello World! I’m back to blogging after a long hiatus of two whole years. People have been kindly asking how’s my life going. Since I haven’t written a blog post for so long, some people may be wonder
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch.
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isometric nyc A few months ago I was standing on the 13th floor balcony of the Google New York 9th St office staring out at Lower Manhattan. I’d been deep in the weeds of a secret project using Nano B
There is a dashboard for pizza places around the Pentagon. The Pentagon Pizza Index (PizzINT) is a real-time dashboard that monitors pizza shop popularity around the Pentagon area in Arlington, Virgi
An answer to a question that I get asked a lotJan 22, 2025 I’m regularly asked questions like: Hey. I just moved to New York. I want to find cool people doing tech/art/games stuff.Where should I go?
And why do I care?Jan 22, 2026 Here are a few lines of summarized tcpdump output for an ssh session where I send a single keystroke: $ ./first_lines_of_pcap.sh single-key.pcap 1 0.000s CLIENT->
SSH has no Host header exe.dev is a new hosting service that, for $20/month, gives you up to 25 VMs "that share 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM". Everything happens over SSH, including creating new VMs. Once conf
College admissions are nonsense.Not because colleges are malicious or because admissions officers are stupid, but because the process itself pretends to have a level of precision and moral seriousness
F1 2026 brings with it a host of engine and chassis rules changes that could in turn prompt the biggest shake-up in decades. We've already detailed the engine changes here, but what are those all-impo
Formula 1 has overhauled its power unit regulations for 2026, after 12 consecutive seasons without change.The key change for 2026 is the increased reliance on electrical power, with the new power unit
Generate images locally with Ollama on macOS. Windows and Linux support coming soon.
For 16 years now, we’ve asked smart people what they think will happen in the coming year in the world of journalism and digital media. And this year’s collection of predictions, published last month,
Buckle up, readers, because we’re about to do a deep dive into an important but difficult-to-grasp concept in the social sciences. It’s called age-period-cohort (APC) effects. Let me start by showing
jordanhubbard/nanolang Plenty of people have mused about what a new programming language specifically designed to be used by LLMs might look like. Jordan Hubbard (co-founder of FreeBSD, with serious
Original Article: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT L
The New York Times has hired eight new journalists for its video department, the news organization announced today. Another 14 video-related roles remain open. The new hires include Robert Libetti (
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Prolific as always, Sebastian Tomczak (aka littlescale) just dropped this gem. What do you need nine times out of ten from an audio editor? Visualize, check levels, trim, gain, fade, reverse, normaliz
Original Article: After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT: NEUT
Believe it or not, A$AP Rocky is a huge fan of radiance fields.Yesterday, when A$AP Rocky released the music video for Helicopter, many viewers focused on the chaos, the motion, and the unmistakable e
this approach provides censorship resistance, surveillance resistance, and infrastructure independence. the network remains functional during internet outages, natural disasters, protests, or in re
Mercedes will be the sole supplier of Formula 1's safety and medical cars this season, The Race can reveal, with Aston Martin stepping back from its involvement.Aston Martin had shared responsibility
Formula 1's brand-new era in 2026 will feature 24 grands prix, from the season-opener in Melbourne in March to the season finale in Abu Dhabi in December, almost nine months later.Below you'll find al
A lot has already been said about the absurdly large corner radius of windows on macOS Tahoe. People are calling the way it looks comical, like a child’s toy, or downright insane. Setting all the ae
At the 2016 Loop summit, Dr. Jason Hockman gave a fascinating talk about the evolving role of breakbeats in electronic music, from their initial usage in hip hop into a second generation appropriation
Sparkle! Slash! PowerUP! This deceptively simple, stupidly fun free browser tool/download generates sound effects in the style of 80s and 90s Japanese animation, all thanks to a clever signal chain. A
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A crypto holder has lost $282 million in bitcoin and litecoin after a scammer impersonating a customer support employee for the Trezor hardware wallet manufacturer successfully convinced them into rev
Ollama is now compatible with the Anthropic Messages API, making it possible to use tools like Claude Code with open models.
My book The Vanishing Church just released on Tuesday (1/13). I have a couple of events that I wanted to make you aware of regarding its release. I am doing an online discussion with the wonderful Ade
For those of you who have joined the subscription list of this newsletter, let me get you up to speed. Tony Jones and I won a Templeton Grant titled Making Meaning in a Post-Religious America. The cen
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A wind farm near the Heidu Mountain Scenic Area in Qinghai Province. Weimin Chu Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added eno
Lewis Hamilton is to switch race engineers this season, with Ferrari announcing on Friday that Riccardo Adami is to move to a new role within its Formula 1 organisation.In a disappointing first Ferrar
[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]This is racial profiling on a grand scale:“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets
There was little warning. Officers tumbled into the newsroom all at once, guns drawn, shouting into the common spaces. In the kitchen, someone was in the middle of drawing an espresso; overflowing co
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What sets TouchDesigner apart from many other software tools is its community. Over the last few years, that community has grown significantly, and you can now find both virtual and in-person meetups
Chinese car giant BYD has reportedly been offering LiDAR sensors in upcoming versions of some of its cheapest cars on the market. According to CNC, the latest to be approved versions of both the Seag
Apple is joining forces with Google to power its artificial intelligence features, including a major Siri upgrade expected later this year. The multiyear partnership will lean on Google's Gemini and c
As of 2025, a stamp for a letter costs $0.78 in the United States. Amazon Prime sells items for less than that... with free shipping! Why send a postcard when you can send actual stuff? I found all it
Back in 2019, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said that 1 billion people tried to buy tickets for BTS’ then tour dates the day they went on sale. Could demand for their long-awaited 2026-2027 outing be
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Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails Classic prompt injection attack: When asked to summarize the user’s recent mail, a prompt injection in an untrusted email manipulated Superhuman AI to submit conte
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. over the past decade, with nearly 80% of acquisitions occurring over a four-ye
North Korean workers were frustrated with the speech national leader Kim Jong Un delivered in Pyongyang on New Year’s Day. The speech was distributed to factories and enterprises nationwide to be stud
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At the end of my post about color palettes I talked about extracting palettes from images. I said there that I’d gone through a few different strategies but wasn’t really satisfied with any of them. A
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