Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/
Archaeology News Online Magazine
Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” 125,000 years ago on German lakeshore
Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.
François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
YouTube
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI
François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at…
François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at…
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
arXiv.org
Mercury: Ultra-Fast Language Models Based on Diffusion
We present Mercury, a new generation of commercial-scale large language models (LLMs) based on diffusion. These models are parameterized via the Transformer architecture and trained to predict...
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
noperator.dev
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2:…
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
Quanta Magazine
New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source | Quanta Magazine
After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.
Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app https://offchess.com
Offchess
OffChess - Offline Chess Puzzles App
Play 100,000+ offline Chess puzzles for free.
Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3
huggingface.co
SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE https://dgl.cx/2025/07/git-clone-submodule-cve-2025-48384
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog
Generalanalysis
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database | General Analysis
In this post, we show how an attacker can exploit Supabase’s MCP integration to leak a developer’s private SQL tables. Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a standard way for LLMs to interact with external tools. While this unlocks new capabilities…
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business https://projectionlab.com/blog/we-reached-1m-arr-with-zero-funding
ProjectionLab
We reached $1M ARR with zero funding - ProjectionLab
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/
aresluna.org
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW
GitHub
GitHub - CyberTimon/RapidRAW: A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.
A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. - CyberTimon/RapidRAW
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/04/04/etymology-of-call/
Arthur O’Dwyer
Phrase origin: Why do we “call” functions?
On StackExchange,
someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind:
Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back.
Calling a function is like calling for…
someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind:
Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back.
Calling a function is like calling for…
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Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
xenharmlib
Welcome to xenharmlib’s documentation!
Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. Ivor Darreg, Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports t...
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/
Ars Technica
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.
Helm local code execution via a malicious chart https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-557j-xg8c-q2mm
GitHub
Chart Dependency Updating With Malicious Chart.yaml Content And Symlink
A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted `Chart.yaml` file along with a specially linked `Chart.lock` file can lead to local code execution when dependencies are updated.
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