Soldier’s wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/06/soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-at-roman-legionary-camp/155513
HeritageDaily
Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a soldier's wrist purse at the site of a temporary Roman camp in South Moravia, Czech Republic.
Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21411
arXiv.org
Pangu Pro MoE: Mixture of Grouped Experts for Efficient Sparsity
The surgence of Mixture of Experts (MoE) in Large Language Models promises a small price of execution cost for a much larger model parameter count and learning capacity, because only a small...
A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-neural-brain-implant-provides-near-instantaneous-speech/
Ars Technica
A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech
Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system.
Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere
www.w3.org
Don't say "click here"; not everyone will be clicking - Quality Web Tips
W3C QA - tip to make your links more appealing
They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers https://www.reuters.com/business/they-tried-made-usa-it-was-too-expensive-their-customers-2025-07-02/
Reuters
They tried Made in the USA. It was too expensive for their customers
Small and midsize American manufacturers face a choice between paying steep tariffs on Chinese imports or taking on significantly higher domestic production costs.
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html
NY Times
Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.
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…
Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/hexagon-fuzz-full-system-emulated-fuzzing-of-qualcomm-basebands
www.srlabs.de
Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands
Bruno Produit, Luca Glockow, Rachna Shriwas
Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/microsoft-to-cut-9-000-workers-in-second-wave-of-major-layoffs
Bloomberg.com
Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.
Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp-jobs-report-june-2025.html
CNBC
The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast an increase of 100,000 for the month.
What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/
troof.blog
What I learned gathering thousands of nootropic ratings
Where I analyse the nootropic ratings I gathered through my recommender system.
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it https://www.engadget.com/social-media/iceblock-climbs-to-the-top-of-the-app-store-charts-after-officials-slam-it-004319963.html
Engadget
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.
Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks https://www.token.security/blog/azures-role-roulette-how-over-privileged-roles-and-api-vulnerabilities-expose-enterprise-networks
www.token.security
Azure's Role Roulette: How Over-Privileged Roles and API Vulnerabilities Expose Enterprise Networks
Token Security researchers have discovered several Azure built-in roles that are misconfigured to be over-privileged - they grant more permissions than intended by Azure.In addition, we discovered another vulnerability in the Azure API that allows attackers…
Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-benchmarks-120-141
Phoronix
Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks
For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140…
Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients
news.ki.se
Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated.…
Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect https://glass3d.dev/
glass3d.dev
Glass3D generator
A modern 3d glassmorphism generator