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🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Added: Database table event introspection.
Use the new `__showEventsOnTable()` introspection API call on the global `kitten` object to have events on that table logged out to the console.
Full change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/br

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

WTF
"California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup" | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/…

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.

Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/anthropic-leak-claude-code-internal…

Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code's internal source code
Claude Code has seen massive adoption over the last year, and its run-rate revenue had swelled to more than $2.5 billion as of February.

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UKI: unified kernel images for booting Linux from UEFI.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/unified_kernel_image/
saved 2026-02-28

Christian Parker Embraces Cowboys-Eagles Rivalry After Crossing Enemy Lines https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfc-east-rival-release-intriguing-player-ties-cowboys-coaching-staff

Rules of Engagement, adhering to international law, to your own constitution , has real advantages, that have nothing to do with idealism. Trump is throwing that all away and slowly but surely destroying US power and influence.
#usa #iran

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

🥳 New JavaScript Database (JSDB) release
• Fix: Now properly handling array indices on `JSTable.PERSIST` events in the `keypath` property that’s passed to the event handler.
Just noticed that the pretty keypaths of the JavaScript deltas written to the append-only log were ignoring array indices while playing with a new database introspection call I’m adding to the Kitten Interactive Shell (REPL) and fixed it.
I’ll be updating Kitten shortly to use this version of JSDB and I…

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

EAG-PT: Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing for Indoor Scene Reconstruction and Editing
Xijie Yang, Mulin Yu, Changjian Jiang, Kerui Ren, Tao Lu, Jiangmiao Pang, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai, Linning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23065
arXiv:2601.23065v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent reconstruction methods based on radiance field such as NeRF and 3DGS reproduce indoor scenes with high visual fidelity, but break down under scene editing due to baked illumination and the lack of explicit light transport. In contrast, physically based inverse rendering relies on mesh representations and path tracing, which enforce correct light transport but place strong requirements on geometric fidelity, becoming a practical bottleneck for real indoor scenes. In this work, we propose Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing (EAG-PT), aiming for physically based light transport with a unified 2D Gaussian representation. Our design is based on three cores: (1) using 2D Gaussians as a unified scene representation and transport-friendly geometry proxy that avoids reconstructed mesh, (2) explicitly separating emissive and non-emissive components during reconstruction for further scene editing, and (3) decoupling reconstruction from final rendering by using efficient single-bounce optimization and high-quality multi-bounce path tracing after scene editing. Experiments on synthetic and real indoor scenes show that EAG-PT produces more natural and physically consistent renders after editing than radiant scene reconstructions, while preserving finer geometric detail and avoiding mesh-induced artifacts compared to mesh-based inverse path tracing. These results suggest promising directions for future use in interior design, XR content creation, and embodied AI.
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xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…

xAI (@xai) on X
Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet. 1.0 unlocks 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and dramatically better audio. Imagine has generated 1.245 billion videos in the last 30 days alone. Try it now: https://t.co/zGhs9czkC5