Margaret Hamilton obit at the NY Times. Mentions the incident during the Apollo 11 landing when Buzz Aldrin flipped a switch, that caused a CPU overload. The software survived because Hamilton had anticipated and simulated such a scenario and had added logic to prioritize essential tasks over others. Paul Curto, who nominated Hamilton for a NASA Space Act Award, called Hamilton's work "the foundation for ultra-reliable software design." nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituar… archive.ph/kD3F4 4/n
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SafeToNet are in @privateeyenews.bsky.social, with the magazine reporting on Paul Moore's investigation into child safety software. This brief story only scratches the surface of what Paul found - like a 20% false negative rate on identifying and blocking pornographic pictures.
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CULTURE secretary Lisa gov.uk site. Nandy reiterated the government's commitment to introducing "nudity-blocking technology" on children's smartphones, telling the Labour
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conference: "We will be the first in world to introduce legislation to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images." the Information security consultant Paul Moore tested the HMD Fuse, a handset protected by SafeToNet's HarmBlock+ technology the product cited by ministers as evidence that device-level blocking of explicit imagery is achievable (see Eye 1678). Among a lengthy list of problems, Moore found that in 70 percent of cases, blocked images could often be viewed simply by rotating the phone into landscape mode While Moore has stressed that some security flaws he found related to HMD's implementation of the tech rather than Safe ToNet's underlying AI, there may still be a few wrinkles to iron out.
(1/2) Earlier this year, we published independent research showing how Microsoft continues to undermine browser choice through tactics that steer people toward Edge, even after they’ve chosen another browser. More than 100 days ago, we not only published the findings, we actually spoke directly with Microsoft. The answer? They will do more to respect people’s choices only where the law requires it, like in the EU.
Another NERD patent. This one describes how Switch 2 transmits its higher-res motion control data through the lower-res Switch 1 API, and how it handles Bluetooth packet losses. • Switch 2 controller samples motion at ~960Hz, but the Bluetooth link runs at a “legacy” rate of 200Hz (5ms cycle) 1/
Today, in "Explain it to me like I'm five."
TIL about the `Proxy-Status` HTTP header (RFC 9209). TL;DR: it lets proxies report how they handled a request and what went wrong. rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9209/ It's a shame it's not widely adopted. In a world full of reverse proxies and complex distributed systems, this kind of visibility can be crucial. I can think of a couple of use cases for this at work. #proxy #http
Merge JPEG Files Without Generation Loss: What Re-Saving Actually Costs TIL every re-save of a JPEG is a lossy event, so careless stacking makes photos visibly softer. When you need to merge JPEG files into one comparison sheet, route around the recompression instead of crossing your fingers. Zoom in and the difference is real.
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"Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners." — Margaret H. Hamilton, RIP Resilience in software programming, safety as a core priority. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
🚨 After 20 years of service, the R-Forge code-sharing platform will be retired. #rstats Timeline: - Until end of 2026: Normal operations. - Jan 2027: Switch to read-only, but SVN continues to work. - Jan 2028: SVN also read-only. Reason: The underlying FusionForge software is no longer maintained.
CPU affinity drift is invisible until it hurts. This bash script audits Cpus_allowed_list in /proc/[pid]/status against expected masks per process name, flagging valtersit.com/vault/detect-and… #linux #procfs #ValtersIT
just found out u can x out of the minimized window obs and end stream without a warning pop up
Looks like a free, lightweight clone of all software in the adobe suite .. petapixel.com/2026/10/07/s...
