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Older editions of which books were better than the new ones?

mathoverflow.net
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'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import

yahoo.com

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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s)

publicdomainreview.org

Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of...
Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as the muse and mentee of famed Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929). She posed for countless symbolist paintings, appearing alone, alongside Malczewski in double-portraits, among satyrs, and as Medusa. Ho...
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Hack: 6M Records for Sale Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud Affecting 140k+ Tenants

cloudsek.com

On 21 March 2025, CloudSEK’s XVigil discovered a threat actor, "rose87168," selling 6M records exfiltrated from...
On 21 March 2025, CloudSEK’s XVigil discovered a threat actor, "rose87168," selling 6M records exfiltrated from SSO and LDAP of Oracle Cloud. The data includes JKS files, encrypted SSO passwords, key files, and enterprise manager JPS keys. The attacker, active since January 2025, is incentivizing decryption assistan...
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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others

substack.com

Alex Reisner’s shocking new article at The Atlantic on Meta’s unbelievable brazen piracy operations is must...
Alex Reisner’s shocking new article at The Atlantic on Meta’s unbelievable brazen piracy operations is must reading:The book is mostly about a database called Libgen, known to contain pirated material. Meta chose to use it, apparently knowing that it contained pirated material, to train the LLM Llama 3. Thanks to a ...
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Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

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In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed...
In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.” Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, c...

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Optimizing Brainfuck interpreter in the C preprocessor

github.com
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The Vectrex Computer

amigalove.com

If you're a Vectrex fan, be prepared to mourn what never came to be… Since I...
If you're a Vectrex fan, be prepared to mourn what never came to be… Since I have nothing better to do as I get over an annoying head cold, I've been lying in bed today downloading every issue of Electronic Games magazine and converting each one into OCR searchable text. For decades I've had this nagging memory of a...
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A Dyson Swarm Made of Solar Panels Would Make Earth Uninhabitable

universetoday.com
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Magical Instant Bullets

militaryrealism.blog

Unreal Tournament weapons: Part 3 March 20, 2025 12 minutes Welcome back, my new and regular...
Unreal Tournament weapons: Part 3 March 20, 2025 12 minutes Welcome back, my new and regular readers alike. I’m doubling down on Unreal Tournament this week, following on from last week’s discussion of the Flak Cannon. If you need to get up to speed on Unreal Tournament (UT) you should read my previous posts on the ...
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CVE-2025-29927 – Next.js

nextjs.org

Saturday, March 22nd 2025Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). Additionally,...
Saturday, March 22nd 2025Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). Additionally, backported patches are available. We recommend that all self-hosted Next.js deployments using next start and output: 'standalone' should update immediately. Continue reading for more ...
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Making the Arithmometer Count

ox.ac.uk

The arithmometer of Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870) has a firmly established place in the...
The arithmometer of Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870) has a firmly established place in the history of computing. While the lion’s share of recent scholarly attention has been lavished on Charles Babbage’s difference and analytical engines, historians examining calculation in the 19th century have neverthe...

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CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging "world free of fraud" sentenced for fraud

arstechnica.com
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Quitting an Intel x86 Hypervisor

halobates.de
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There's no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger

aeon.co
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Safe Shell String Interpolation

samwing.dev
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Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms

nosferalatu.com

Date Tue 07 February 2023 Tags Programming Given a transform $T$ and a point x, we...
Date Tue 07 February 2023 Tags Programming Given a transform $T$ and a point x, we can find the transformed point with $T * x$. But what if we want to smoothly interpolate $T$ so it moves $x$ along the path from its initial position to its position transformed by $T$? What we want to find is the point \(x\...

programming
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NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor

luj.fr
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Mathematical Methods for Physics [pdf]

imperial.ac.uk
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The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

climate.gov

For much of this winter season, the polar vortex winds at 60°N have been racing around...
For much of this winter season, the polar vortex winds at 60°N have been racing around the stratospheric polar region. During February alone, these west-to-east winds were two times stronger than normal for that time of year. However, the latest forecasts suggest that the polar vortex is about to switch gears with a...
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"Vibe Coding" vs. Reality

cendyne.dev
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Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2

github.com
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'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await

theguardian.com

In grocery stores across the US, egg shelves sitting empty and desolate have become a sign...
In grocery stores across the US, egg shelves sitting empty and desolate have become a sign of the times. A surging bird flu outbreak affected nearly 19 million birds in January alone, wiping out supply and sending prices soaring.Officials forecast a 41% increase in egg prices this year in what some are calling “eggf...
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Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own

npmjs.com

An MCP server that gives Claude Code access to NodeJS at runtime to help you debug:...
An MCP server that gives Claude Code access to NodeJS at runtime to help you debug: mcp-nodejs-debugger. Add to Claude Code: claude mcp add nodejs-debugger npx @hyperdrive-eng/mcp-nodejs-debugger Start Claude Code claude ╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code research pr...

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