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Toy Story has the right take on tech

A curated newsletter from The Verge discussing various tech topics, iOS betas, and personal gadget updates.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed

The UK government plans to use flawed facial recognition technology for age verification of asylum seekers.

Hardware/Chips Lobste.rs

Reverse Engineering the Qualcomm NPU Compiler

A technical exploration into reverse engineering the compiler used for Qualcomm's Neural Processing Unit (NPU).

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hacker News

Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers

Cirrus is a personal data server for the ATProto network that is designed to run on Cloudflare Workers, enabling easier self-hosting of ATProto nodes.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings

A critical look at the design of smart rings, highlighting the extreme difficulty of repairing them due to their miniature electronics and water-resistant sealing.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM

Linux kernel 7.2 introduces NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for 32-bit ARM architectures, significantly improving checksumming performance for storage subsystems.

AI/ML Lobste.rs

Lighthouse agentic browsing scoring

Discussion regarding the scoring and evaluation of agentic browsing capabilities within the Lighthouse framework.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Looking for Spotify alternatives that work on mobile, Linux, and preferably also web

A user seeks recommendations for self-hosted Spotify alternatives that provide cross-platform support across mobile, Linux, and web interfaces.

Other Hacker News

Visiting the History of Computing and Play

A discussion on Hacker News regarding the history of computing and gaming.

Open Source Phoronix

GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops

GIMP v0.54 from 1996, the last version to use the Motif toolkit, has been packaged as a Flatpak for modern Linux desktops.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Safebucket v0.6.0 - Self-hosted file sharing, now with file preview, bulk download and LDAP

Safebucket v0.6.0 is released, introducing file previews, bulk downloads, and LDAP support for the open-source file-sharing alternative.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Firefly-Pico v1.11 released

Firefly-Pico v1.11 is released, a mobile-optimized companion app for Firefly III expense tracking.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Bazarr-sync 0.7 is here

Bazarr-sync v0.7 is released, providing a CLI tool to simplify syncing subtitles across large media libraries in Bazarr.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Bypass rules in Pangolin question.

A user asks about the security implications of using bypass rules in Pangolin when hosting Vaultwarden.

AI/ML Hacker News

LLMs Are Complicated Now

A Hacker News discussion regarding the increasing complexity of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Software Engineering Phoronix

exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion

The Linux 7.2 kernel introduces IOmap conversion to improve exFAT file-system performance.

Software Engineering Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups

KDE Plasma 6.8 is focusing on improving the configuration process for multi-monitor setups.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

PlikShare v1.2.0 - back from a long break with SSO, quick shares, galleries and an MCP server

PlikShare v1.2.0 introduces SSO, quick shares, galleries, and an MCP server for agent interaction.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Identity Providers Explanation

A user seeks clarification on Identity Providers (IdP) and the privacy implications of using Google as an IdP in a self-hosted setup.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

Which plugins do you use for DokuWiki

A discussion among self-hosters regarding useful plugins and templates for DokuWiki.