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[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Rareware_Artist @Kev_Bayliss]

This is how we used to make 3D graphics for the NES!

Cobra Triangle, Captain Skyhawk, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Solar Jetman and RC Pro-Am all used this technique!

It took time, but it was worth it!

#gamedev #videogames #art #nes

[吉野@連邦(renpou.com) @yoshinokentarou]

URL
https://t.co/FVUDh9CriR

本日紹介するのはPC-98向けディスク操作ツール「PC98-Bridge」というソフトウェア。

こちらはD88・FDI・HDIなどのディスクイメージをドライブとしてマウントし、エクスプローラーから直接アクセス可能にするもの。
従来のDisk Explorer（EditDisk）などとは異なり、通常のファイル操作に近い感覚で扱えるのが特徴。

またFAT表示、セクタ解析、内蔵HEXビューアなども備え、翻訳・解析・アセット抽出といった用途を強く意識している為に、最近のアップデートで書き込み対応や空イメージ作成も追加された模様。

PC-98エミュを愛用している人は試しに使用しても絶対に損はないし、最近PC98エミュまわりも色々な話題に溢れているので、海外からではあるがこのような動きがあるのは素晴らしいと思う。

なおこれは余談となるが、あの頃の当方は「PC-9801」が高くて買えなかったので、EPSONのPC-9801互換機であったのはココだけの話である。

[kyutai @kyutai_labs]

We're releasing Hibiki-Zero, a new real-time and multilingual speech translation model that can translate 🇫🇷French, 🇪🇸Spanish, 🇵🇹Portuguese and 🇩🇪German to English: accurate, low-latency, high audio quality, with voice transfer. And best of all: open-source.

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Can you read 900 words per minute? Try it.

[Ástgeir @Astgeir]

@lauriewired What about 2026 :D

[Ástgeir @Astgeir]

Been toying around with Spice86, rewriting parts of the core to support PC-98 architecture... Trying to get MEG-DOS running properly... still a long way to go, but making progress! 😅

[Ástgeir @Astgeir]

@IceSolst @endingwithali 🤣

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Here's an example of Google's AI reporting security vulnerabilities in this codec:

https://t.co/z4ld1GFaIx

We take security very seriously but at the same time is it really fair that trillion dollar corporations run AI to find security issues on people's hobby code? Then expect volunteers to fix.

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

FFmpeg has been accepted in the EU funded @yeswehack project for security developers to find vulnerabilities.

No thought has been put into funding the volunteers who actually have to fix the bugs for free.

[Ástgeir @Astgeir]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣 Germany is close to reversing its principled opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private —& Signal—in the EU.

Time is short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how harmful, counterproductive, and self-sabotaging their reversal would be.

[noah @noahsolomon]

“Yo bro u hear the new album that dropped last night?”

“Nah not yet send me the repo”

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Drama unfolding in Brazil right now where it was discovered a popular and trending Lesbian Dating App was vibe coded

Turns out all you need to do is a GET request and you can pull everything

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Gen Z doesn't Understand Filesystems.

It's not their fault.

Apple's early abstraction of mobile data storage has caused...confusion to say the least.

But what does the *real* iOS filesystem look like? As a researcher myself; it's kind of insanely complicated:

[zack @zack_overflow]

A popular NPM package got compromised, attackers updated it to run a post-install script that steals secrets

But the script is a *prompt* run by the user's installation of Claude Code. This avoids it being detected by tools that analyze code for malware

You just got vibepwned

[Ástgeir @Astgeir]

Love the new soulless AI "artist" in my Discovery Weekly
@Spotify 🙉Like this 'Nina Blaze' singer, with its uncanny sound and weird pics, you can tell it's fake right away...

So If you're going to pollute my feed, could you at least label this AI 💩

https://t.co/pTf1ThWPuV

[Chaofan Shou @Fried_rice]

You can easily crawl all DoorDash profiles, and given that almost everyone uses their real name on DoorDash, you can locate and stalk someone easily. For example, my boss loves Sunnyvale's Chipotle.

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

1/ An unnamed source recently compromised a DPRK IT worker device which provided insights into how a small team of five ITWs operated 30+ fake identities with government IDs and purchased Upwork/LinkedIn accounts to obtain developer jobs at projects.