Claude helped uncover the origins of five NIST curve parameters
Anthropic said the seed values for five NIST prime elliptic curves were generated using lrand48, initialized with Unix time.
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Moscow Tests Mobile Charging Station for Electric Vehicles
The Moscow Department of Transport and Rosatom are testing a mobile charging station in parking lot No. 9080 on Triumfalnaya Square. For now, an engineer moves it.
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Working group discusses easing imports of Samsung and SK Hynix equipment
In August and September, a working group of the government’s AI subcommittee discussed easing imports of computing equipment, including the possible return of Samsung and SK Hynix products to the…
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Manager Tests His Company’s Job Filter on His Own Résumé and Is Rejected
A manager said he applied for a job at his company under another name and was rejected six minutes later. A week later, he suggested that the filter may have…
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A Banana Can Become a Computer Interface
Makey Makey GO uses capacitive connections: the device responds to a change in charge when a person touches a conductive object, such as a fruit.
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Apple updates App Store rules
Developers must prevent and remove intimate images of real people created without their consent, including those made with AI. Apple also clarified its rules on hidden app features.
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Opera introduces updated Air browser with a simplified start screen
Opera Air removes widgets and Speed Dial entries, adds an Ambience category of background sounds, five tracks, and breathing exercises lasting three to five minutes.
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ArtCraft: Seven Creative Apps Written in Rust
ArtCraft lists thirteen apps, seven of them creative tools. The project website marks PhotoCraft as an early alpha.
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MaPC Runs Windows Games on Apple Silicon Macs
The MaPC app, now in public beta, brings together Steam, Epic Games and GOG libraries and runs many Windows games on Mac. Compatibility depends on the individual game.
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How Cloudflare Fixed a Caching Bug in Hyperdrive for MySQL
Cloudflare investigated a rare caching bug in Hyperdrive: in some cases, client nodes received a MySQL response in the wrong format.
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KDE: A Documentary About the History of the Free Software Community
The film CultRepo tells the story of KDE, from Matthias Ettrich’s 1996 call to debates over Qt, competition with GNOME, and the release of KDE 4.
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At a presentation in Texas, a Tesla Roadster prototype drove upside down and performed a barrel roll using SpaceX thrusters. Musk says production is expected to begin in 2028.
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