Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024) https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/
MGD Blog
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds "AI powered" earbuds, running DOOM, stealing their OpenAI API key and customer data.
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them.
245 euros…
245 euros…
Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-03/3i-atlas-a11pl3z-interstellar-object-in-our-solar-system/105489180
www.abc.net.au
New interstellar 'comet' discovered speeding through our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
YouTube
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.
In this fireside…
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.
In this fireside…
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625
arXiv.org
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I,...
Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more. Stripped of anything else, neural networks...
Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase https://github.com/zserge/pennybase
GitHub
GitHub - zserge/pennybase: Poor man's Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase
Poor man's Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase - zserge/pennybase
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/
Google
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
AI for Scientific Search https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903
arXiv.org
AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex domains...
Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/caching-is-an-abstraction-not-an-optimization/
Buttondown
Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when...
Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/
Colossus
Flounder Mode
Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Copper-Faster-Than-Fiber-Brief.pdf
An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf https://cacm.acm.org/news/an-algorithm-for-a-better-bookshelf/
Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA https://www.controlpaths.com/2025/06/29/parallelizing_sha256-calculation-fpga/
controlpaths.com
Parallelizing SHA256 calculation on FPGA
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article where I developed a hash calculator on an FPGA. Specifically, I implemented an SHA-256 calculator. This module computes the hash of a string (up to 25 bytes) in 68 clock cycles. The design leverages the parallelism of FPGAs…
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-riscv-rva23-support
OMG! Ubuntu
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec.