Tootfinder

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS to suit your needs.

Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-…

Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch
Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

While testing some new misp-modules, such as the OpenAPI interface, I discovered a strange behavior in Firefox when trying to reach TCP port 6666, which is the default port used by misp-modules.
It seems Firefox blocks access to a predefined list of TCP ports, and this has been in place for quite some time, as you can see in the commit log.
If you want to override the blocked port list, there is an obscure setting called network.security.ports.banned.override.
…

Gemini 3 is here https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-with-new-coding-app-and-record-benchmark-scores/?AIagent.at

Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch
Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

After doing some digging on the CMPTR 25-pin interface, I think I'm gonna change the design of the CMPTR adapter. The IBM Luma pin and HSync pins kinda scream CGA (e.g. IBM 5151) so I'm gonna rip out two of the BNC connectors and run RGB CSync on one side via 2x2 connectors. Beside those will be a DB9 connector running RGB, IBM Luma, H/VSync which makes a lot more sense.
#electronics

A priori error estimates for stable generalized finite element discretization of parabolic interface optimal control problems
Xindan Zhang, Jianping Zhao, Yanren Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12147

A priori error estimates for stable generalized finite element discretization of parabolic interface optimal control problems
In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient across the interface and the control acting on the interface. Consequently, the traditional finite element method fails to achieve optimal convergence rates when using a uniform mesh. To discretize the problem, we use fully discrete approximations based on th…

My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @…
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:

Thunderbird (a community angle) OpenAlt 2025
I am a [community](https://pontoon.mozilla.org/contributors/bogomil/) [contributor](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=359734) and a long-time user of [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/). I want to share with you my vision of what Thunderbird was, is, and will be in the future. Many people are familiar with the interface and the fact that it allows you to manage your email, but this is not why I decided to spend time improving it. I'll cover topics like: - What can any …

TIL Intel has already published a few more FIT spec revisions that I had missed.
https://edc.intel.com/content/www/de/de/design/products-and-solutions/software-and-services/firmware-a…

@… The web interface currently doesn’t load for me in Safari on macOS 26.2. The API seems to work as I can use the Ivory app on my phone just fine.

Before systemd:
Read the wiki and make sure to list the services in the right order so that you can successfully start them all, from networking to a graphical interface to log into.
High chace of messing up.
After:
Enable sddm
Enable network manager
The system will figure out order and dependencies and will parallelize as much as possible automatically.
#systemd

Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.

Revolutionary 65,536-electrode wireless brain-computer interface #BCI

Revolutionary 65,536-Electrode Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
In a groundbreaking development poised to revolutionize the field of neurotechnology, researchers have unveiled a sophisticated brain-computer interface (BCI) that integrates an impressive array of

I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten

Clippy Two
If you want to surf in the glorified past on your modern web browser, then I recommend this browser plugin / app that simulates the Windows 95 interface :P
(Apply on your own responsibility!)
📱 https://clippy.skyfall.dev

I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lin…

Linear() Is Not (That) Linear · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

A class of their own - Sade

Nach Liquid Glass: Apples Interface-Design-Chef wandert zu Meta ab
Mit Alan Dye verliert Apple einen weiteren zentralen Mitarbeiter an Meta. In der vom Liquid-Glass-Design frustrierten Community sorgt das für Anklang.

Thermoelectric effect at the quantum Hall-superconductor interface
Jordan T. McCourt, John Chiles, Chun-Chia Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Tanaguchi, Francois Amet, Gleb Finkelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09798

Thermoelectric effect at the quantum Hall-superconductor interface
The interfaces of quantum Hall insulators with superconductors have emerged as a promising platform to realise interesting physics that may be relevant for topologically protected quantum computing. However, these interfaces can host other effects which obscure the detection of the desired excitations. Here we present measurements of the thermoelectric effect at the quantum Hall-superconductor interface. We explain the heat transport by considering the formation of a hotspot at the interface, w…

PCIe any% speedrun, day 5:
Incoming configuration write TLPs are acknowledged at the data link layer, then converted into APB write transactions which are thrown away by a stubbed-out completer that acknowledges them.
Next step will be to send PCIe completion TLPs so the transaction will complete end to end.

So next year is the 30th anniversary of USB and the 10th anniversary of mass-market adoption of the USB-C connector.
Fun fact, USB4 is based on Thunderbolt and virtualizes USB connections over it, so Thunderbolt kind of won the hardware interface wars in the end. Modern peripheral connection hardware is bonkers.

Optimal $L^2$ error estimation for the unfitted interface finite element method based on the non-symmetric Nitsche's methods
Gang Chen, Chaoran Liu, Yangwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12151

Optimal $L^2$ error estimation for the unfitted interface finite element method based on the non-symmetric Nitsche's methods
This paper establishes optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ for the non-symmetric Nitsche method in an unfitted interface finite element setting. Extending our earlier work, we give a complete analysis for the Poisson interface model and, by formulating a tailored dual problem that restores adjoint consistency, derive the desired bounds.

A model for transport of soluble surfactants in two-phase flows
Suhas S. Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10857 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10857

A model for transport of soluble surfactants in two-phase flows
In this work, we propose a novel transport model for soluble surfactants in two-phase flows. In a two-phase flow, the soluble surfactants can adsorb/desorb from/into the bulk of any of the phases to the interface and can modify the interface properties. This results in sharp gradients in the surfactant concentration on the interface and also between the two phases in the bulk when there is selective adsorption/desorption, presenting a serious challenge for the numerical simulations. To overco…

You can't “overbuild” internet infrastructure. Just like highways, demand always catches up. Except fiber doesn't kill forests.
#fiber #unifi #network

Adam Engst, of TidBITS:
How To Turn Liquid Glass Into A Solid Interface ... because LG is a POS
#Apple fucks up again. #cook is out to completly ruin every good US at Apple

@… wait we didn't have interface until 5.3? How do I not remember that!!! 😱🤯

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115547406653836285
I've been using vivaldi alongside firefox for the last few months, it took a little while to get used to the new interface, but I really like it. I'm probabaly going to complete the switch in the next week..

Talking about #neomutt today. Hopefully, it'll be easier to read than it was to write :)
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_neomutt

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

Co-Authoring the Self: A Human-AI Interface for Interest Reflection in Recommenders
Ruixuan Sun, Junyuan Wang, Sanjali Roy, Joseph A. Konstan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08930 ht…

Co-Authoring the Self: A Human-AI Interface for Interest Reflection in Recommenders
Natural language-based user profiles in recommender systems have been explored for their interpretability and potential to help users scrutinize and refine their interests, thereby improving recommendation quality. Building on this foundation, we introduce a human-AI collaborative profile for a movie recommender system that presents editable personalized interest summaries of a user's movie history. Unlike static profiles, this design invites users to directly inspect, modify, and reflect on th…

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
Emi Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10382

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered by the tidyverse can generally be replicated using other packages, its widespread adoption in both teaching and practice indicates there are factors contributing to its preference, despite some debate over its usage. Thissuggests that particular aspects, such as interface design, may play a signif…

Over the years I have written a lot of code. Most of my stuff is deep down networking or kernel stuff - users rarely see it.
But sometimes I have to do a user interface. I'm not good at it. But it is amazing how much better I am than so many who produce commercial tools and websites.
I usually back my user input fields with a layer that puts input into a canonical form and then validates it.
That step to create a canonical form is important - it catches bad input err…

A quantum-coherent photon--emitter interface in the original telecom band
Marcus Albrechtsen, Severin Kr\"uger, Juan Loredo, Lucio Stefan, Zhe Liu, Yu Meng, Lukas L. Niekamp, Bianca F. Seyschab, Nikolai Spitzer, Richard J. Warburton, Peter Lodahl, Arne Ludwig, Leonardo Midolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09251

A quantum-coherent photon--emitter interface in the original telecom band
Quantum dots stand out as the most advanced and versatile light-matter interface available today. Their ability to deliver high-quality, high-rate, and pure photons has set benchmarks that far surpass other emitters. Yet, a critical frontier has remained elusive: achieving these exceptional capabilities at telecom wavelengths, bridging the gap to fiber-optic infrastructure and scalable silicon photonics. Overcoming this challenge demands high quality quantum materials and devices which, despite…

Validation of collision-free spheres of Stewart-Gough platforms for constant orientations using the Application Programming Interface of a CAD software
Bibekananda Patra, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08408

Validation of collision-free spheres of Stewart-Gough platforms for constant orientations using the Application Programming Interface of a CAD software
This paper presents a method of validation of the size of the largest collision-free sphere (CFS) of a 6-6 Stewart-Gough platform manipulator (SGPM) for a given orientation of its moving platform (MP) using the Application Programming Interface (API) of a CAD software. The position of the MP is updated via the API in an automated manner over a set of samples within a shell enclosing the surface of the CFS. For each pose of the manipulator, each pair of legs is investigated for mutual collisions…

My lord, to be able to write science this well. This is like the opening of an econ or law paper.
From Donald Hoffman's "The Interface Theory of Perception",
https://sites.socsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/interface.pdf

Weak-anti-localization-to-spin-dependent scattering at a proximity-magnetized heavy metal interface
Hisakazu Matsuki, Guang Yang, Jiahui Xu, Vitaly N. Golovach, Yu He, Jiaxu Li, Alberto Hijano, Niladri Banerjee, Iuliia Alekhina, Nadia Stelmashenko, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Jason W. A. Robinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10595

Weak-anti-localization-to-spin-dependent scattering at a proximity-magnetized heavy metal interface
A change in a materials electrical resistance with magnetic field (magnetoresistance) results from quantum interference effects and, or spin-dependent transport, depending on materials properties and dimensionality. In disordered conductors, electron interference leads to weak localization or anti-localization; in contrast, ferromagnetic conductors support spin-dependent scattering, leading to giant magnetoresistance (GMR). By varying the thickness of Au between 4 and 28 nm in a EuS/Au/EuS spin…

Modular interface for efficient optical readout of diamond quantum memory at cryogenic temperatures via single-mode optical fibers
Akira Kamimaki, Yuhei Sekiguchi, Daisuke Ito, Taichi Fujiwara, Toshiharu Makino, Hiromitsu Kato, Hideo Kosaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07032

Modular interface for efficient optical readout of diamond quantum memory at cryogenic temperatures via single-mode optical fibers
Efficient quantum devices across various physical systems have been rapidly developed for entanglement-based quantum repeaters and spin-photon conversion; however, far less attention has been paid to standardizing platforms through quantum memory optical interfaces. We present a modular interface for color centers in diamond that is structurally isolated from device-and temperature-related variation. Despite a more than 100-fold reduction in confocal volume, we achieve highly efficient photon c…

I highly recommend using Avenir Next Condensed as your code editor’s user interface font, and Iosevka as the monospaced editor font itself: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

GitHub - be5invis/Iosevka: Versatile typeface for code, from code.
Versatile typeface for code, from code. Contribute to be5invis/Iosevka development by creating an account on GitHub.

@… I tried KDE at one point after seeing all the comments about how wonderful it is, but I wasn't very happy with it. It's resource intensive, for one thing, and I didn't think it was a better interface than Mint, Mate, or XFCE.

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

(LinkedIn) China's bold push into brain-computer interfaces: From policy to practice https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinas-bold-push-brain-computer-interfaces-from-policy-chan-phd-ewghc/

China’s Bold Push into Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Policy to Practice
How government funding, insurance reform, and clinical breakthroughs are positioning China as a global BCI powerhouse The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) landscape is experiencing a seismic shift, and China is emerging as a formidable force in this transformative technology. Having spent over a decad

from my link log —
Reverse engineering the Miele diagnostic interface.
https://medusalix.github.io/posts/miele-interface/
saved 2025-11-21 https://…

Reverse Engineering the Miele Diagnostic Interface
Severin's personal blog

Global-in-time Discontinuous Solutions for the Two-Phase Model of Compressible Fluids with Density-Dependent Viscosity
Marcel Zodji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11383 https://

Global-in-time Discontinuous Solutions for the Two-Phase Model of Compressible Fluids with Density-Dependent Viscosity
We are concerned with a model describing the motion of two compressible, immiscible fluids with density-dependent viscosity in the whole $\mathbb R^3$. The phases of the flow may have different pressure and viscosity laws and are separated by a sharp interface, across which the (total) density is discontinuous. Our goal is to study the persistence of the regularity of this sharp interface over time. More precisely, the dynamics of the flow are governed by three coupled equations: two hyperbolic…

Psi-Turing Machines: Bounded Introspection for Complexity Barriers and Oracle Separations
Rafig Huseynzade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08577 https://arxiv.o…

Psi-Turing Machines: Bounded Introspection for Complexity Barriers and Oracle Separations
We introduce Psi-Turing Machines (Psi-TM): classical Turing machines equipped with a constant-depth introspection interface $ ι$ and an explicit per-step information budget $ B(d,n)=c\,d\log_2 n $. With the interface frozen, we develop an information-theoretic lower-bound toolkit: Budget counting, $ Ψ$-Fooling, and $ Ψ$-Fano, with worked examples $ L_k $ and $ L_k^{\mathrm{phase}} $. We prove an oracle-relative separation $ P^Ψ \neq NP^Ψ $ and a strict depth hierarchy, reinforced by an Ant…

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

Love the ambiguous acronyms *within a domain*:
- FIT may mean Firmware Interface Table or Flash Image Tool
- FPT may mean Flash Partition Table or Flash Programming Tool
Edit: All of those are terms from the wonderful world of Intel firmware.

Chronologically Consistent Generative AI
Songrun He, Linying Lv, Asaf Manela, Jimmy Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11677

Chronologically Consistent Generative AI
We introduce a family of chronologically consistent, instruction-following large language models to eliminate lookahead bias. Each model is trained only on data available before a clearly defined knowledge-cutoff date, ensuring strict temporal separation from any post-cutoff data. The resulting framework offers (i) a simple, conversational chat interface, (ii) fully open, fixed model weights that guarantee replicability, and (iii) a conservative lower bound on forecast accuracy, isolating the s…

HEAR: An EEG Foundation Model with Heterogeneous Electrode Adaptive Representation
Zhige Chen, Chengxuan Qin, Wenlong You, Rui Liu, Congying Chu, Rui Yang, Kay Chen Tan, Jibin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12515

HEAR: An EEG Foundation Model with Heterogeneous Electrode Adaptive Representation
Electroencephalography (EEG) is an essential technique for neuroscience research and brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. Recently, large-scale EEG foundation models have been developed, exhibiting robust generalization capabilities across diverse tasks and subjects. However, the heterogeneity of EEG devices not only hinders the widespread adoption of these models but also poses significant challenges to their further scaling and development. In this paper, we introduce HEAR, the first …

Wow! Some #FOSDEM rooms don't even bother to send rejection emails :) You need to go to the interface and see the truth :)

Active Rosensweig Patterns
Carlo Rigoni, Max Philipp Holl, Alberto Scacchi, Emil Str{\aa}ka, Fereshteh Sohrabi, Mikko P. Haataja, Maria Sammalkorpi, Jaakko V. I. Timonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09099

Active Rosensweig Patterns
Ferrofluids, colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles, are renowned for pattern formation like few other materials. The Rosensweig instability of a horizontal ferrofluid-air interface in perpendicular magnetic field is especially well known classically, this instability sets the air-ferrofluid interface into an array of spikes that correspond to a new free energy minimum of the system. However, once the pattern is formed, it does not exhibit any notable thermal or non-equilibrium fluctua…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Akasha System:
🎵 Cloud Interface
#AkashaSystem
https://akashasystem.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-interface
https://open.spotify.com/track/5F5J6gBo4zkXSzltDxIhpS

Apple launches the App Store on the web, with dedicated pages for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/03/apple-launches-rich-new-web-interface-for-the-app-store/

Apple launches rich new web interface for the App Store - 9to5Mac
Apple has launched a dramatic new web interface for the App Store. You can now get the full App Store...

This is one of the many reasons I use #Bandcamp and #Qobuz.
I actually own my #music, no corporate algorithm deciding what I “should” like, no invisible hand yanking albums away because some…

Valve erweitert Steam Link VR auf weitere VR-Brillen
Gute Nachrichten für PC-VR-Fans: Steam Link ist jetzt auch für Geräte von HTC und Pico verfügbar, und Meta integriert seinen PC-VR-Store in das Quest-Interface.
http…

😾 Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
#computing

Neues Feature: Gesamte Telefonkontaktgeschichte in iOS 26 zugänglich
Schon jetzt speichert das iPhone ab, wann man mit wem und wie lange gesprochen hat. Mit iOS 26 verbessert sich das Interface jedoch stark.

Hydrodynamic properties in soliton field theory
Qian Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11244

Hydrodynamic properties in soliton field theory
The crucial role of hydrodynamic instabilities in soliton field theory is revealed. We demonstrate that the essential of soliton formation mechanism is the sound mode instability induced by thermodynamic instability. This instability triggers phase separation, where new thermal phases are generated to produce solitons. These solitons can be regarded as a coexistence state composed of a matter phase and a vacuum phase, with an interface proving surface tension to maintain dynamical equilibrium. …

@… I followed a link at snac, it seems that I misunderstood the snac interface.

✍️ New post: Play On
#blogtober #music #play #technology

Play On · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

InsightQL: Advancing Human-Assisted Fuzzing with a Unified Code Database and Parameterized Query Interface
Wentao Gao, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Sang Kil Cha, Tian Qiu, Van-Thuan Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04835

InsightQL: Advancing Human-Assisted Fuzzing with a Unified Code Database and Parameterized Query Interface
Fuzzing is a highly effective automated testing method for uncovering software vulnerabilities. Despite advances in fuzzing techniques, such as coverage-guided greybox fuzzing, many fuzzers struggle with coverage plateaus caused by fuzz blockers, limiting their ability to find deeper vulnerabilities. Human expertise can address these challenges, but analyzing fuzzing results to guide this support remains labor-intensive. To tackle this, we introduce InsightQL, the first human-assisting framewor…

Atomically resolved electron reflectivity at a metal/semiconductor interface
Ding-Ming Huang, Jian-Huan Wang, Jie-Yin Zhang, Yuan Yao, H. Q. Xu, Jian-Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07970

Atomically resolved electron reflectivity at a metal/semiconductor interface
An atomically flat interface is achieved between face-centered cubic Al and diamond lattice Ge via molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Based on the measurements of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we demonstrate an atomically resolved lateral periodic change of the electron reflectivity at the Al/Ge interface. The variation of electron reflectivity is up to 24% in lateral 2 nm. We speculate that the change of reflectivity results from the local electronic states at the Al/Ge interface. This pheno…

Did Apple TV commit user-interface suicide in the last 24 hours?
We are seeing an obsolete login, lost users, and a on-screen menu system with items slopping onto one another.
All within the last 24 hours.
This is via the AppleTV app on a Roku.

WIRED: This startup wants to put its brain-computer interface in the Apple Vision Pro https://www.wired.com/story/this-startup-wants-to-put-its-brain-computer-interface-in-the-apple-vision-pro/ Archived at

This Startup Wants to Put Its Brain-Computer Interface in the Apple Vision Pro
California-based Cognixion is launching a clinical trial to allow paralyzed patients with speech disorders the ability to communicate without an invasive brain implant.

Lowering Barriers to CAD Adoption: A Comparative Study of Augmented Reality-Based CAD (AR-CAD) and a Traditional CAD tool
Muhammad Talha, Abdullah Mohiuddin, Sehrish Javed, Ahmed Jawad Qureshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12146

Lowering Barriers to CAD Adoption: A Comparative Study of Augmented Reality-Based CAD (AR-CAD) and a Traditional CAD tool
The paper presents a comparative user study between an Augmented Reality-based Computer-Aided Design (AR-CAD) system and a traditional computer-based CAD modeling software, SolidWorks. Twenty participants of varying skill levels performed 3D modeling tasks using both systems. The results showed that while the average task completion time is comparable for both groups, novice designers had a higher completion rate in AR-CAD than in the traditional CAD interface, and experienced designers had a s…

»HTML’s Best Kept Secret — The <output> Tag:
Every developer knows <input>. It’s the workhorse of the web.«
— by @…
You never stop learning and you can't know everything about as a WebDev. Nice to see how you can use the HTML interface actiev.
🧑‍💻

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag
Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.

Large Language Model Prompt Datasets: An In-depth Analysis and Insights
Yuanming Zhang, Yan Lin, Arijit Khan, Huaiyu Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09316 https://

Large Language Model Prompt Datasets: An In-depth Analysis and Insights
A prompt is a natural language instruction that defines a specific task for a large language model (LLM) and serves as the primary interface for human-LLM interaction. With the growing deployment of LLMs, diverse prompt datasets are emerging from platforms such as GitHub and social media. These datasets span a wide array of applications and content types, facilitating both broader LLM utilization and improved prompt engineering. In this work, we--for the first time--have compiled an extensive l…

Kleiner Neuanfang: Rabbit R1 erhält mit rabbitOS 2 umfassendes Update
Das AI-Startup Rabbit veröffentlicht rabbitOS 2 für sein R1-Gerät. Das Update bringt eine neue Oberfläche und die Möglichkeit, Apps per Sprache zu erstellen.

Nanoscale surface morphology controls charge storage at stepped Pt-water interfaces
Matthew T. Darby, Muhammad Saleh, Marialore Sulpizi, Clotilde S. Cucinotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12176

Nanoscale surface morphology controls charge storage at stepped Pt-water interfaces
Platinum step edges dominate electrocatalytic activity in fuel cells and electrolysers, yet their atomistic electrochemical behaviour remains poorly understood. Here, we employ \textit{ab initio} molecular dynamics under controlled electrode potentials to model a realistic stepped Pt--water interface incorporating experimentally observed (111)$\times$(111) and (111)$\times$(100) edge motifs. This allows us to resolve, for the first time, the site-specific structure, charge distribution, and ele…

After a fun weekend and way too little sleep for whatever reason (lolsiez), I've already pushed out a bunch more PRs for https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw including docs.
I will probably get initial ME cleaning done and tag a new prerelease today. All…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/intel_fw: Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library
Modern Intel Firmware Tool and Library. Contribute to platform-system-interface/intel_fw development by creating an account on GitHub.

We are pleased to announce the release of CTI-Transmute.org, a new free and open-source service designed to facilitate conversions between MISP and STIX 2.x formats.
The service is available both through a web interface and an API, allowing users to convert CTI data easily. The web UI also gives users the option to share or keep private their conversions for further review or collaboration.
You can view an example conversion here: 🔗

IECZ-III: Hardcore Condensation Lift with Size-Aware Invariants
Marko Lela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09808 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09808

IECZ-III: Hardcore Condensation Lift with Size-Aware Invariants
This paper develops a compact, size-aware blueprint for transferring structure through gadget lifts. Two low-order invariants -- cumulative mod-$q$ Fourier mass up to degree $k$ and noise stability $\mathrm{Stab}_ρ$ -- are treated as a reusable "profile" tied to the gadget's affine interface. Under coordinate permutations ($Δ=1$) the profile is preserved exactly; under bounded fan-in the degree budget relaxes by at most $+Δk$ (i.e., $k \mapsto k + Δk$), with all overheads tracked explicitly…

AgentBuilder: Exploring Scaffolds for Prototyping User Experiences of Interface Agents
Jenny T. Liang, Titus Barik, Jeffrey Nichols, Eldon Schoop, Ruijia Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04452

AgentBuilder: Exploring Scaffolds for Prototyping User Experiences of Interface Agents
Interface agents powered by generative AI models (referred to as "agents") can automate actions based on user commands. An important aspect of developing agents is their user experience (i.e., agent experience). There is a growing need to provide scaffolds for a broader set of individuals beyond AI engineers to prototype agent experiences, since they can contribute valuable perspectives to designing agent experiences. In this work, we explore the affordances agent prototyping systems should off…

Thermal Analysis of 3D GPU-Memory Architectures with Boron Nitride Interposer
Eric Han Wang, Weijia Yan, Ruihong Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11461 https://

Thermal Analysis of 3D GPU-Memory Architectures with Boron Nitride Interposer
As artificial intelligence (AI) chips become more powerful, the thermal management capabilities of conventional silicon (Si) substrates become insufficient for 3D-stacked designs. This work integrates electrically insulative and thermally conductive hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) interposers into AI chips for effective thermal management. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, the effects of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) distributions and thermal interface material configurations on heat dissipation and hots…

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/tinker-general-availability/

Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input
Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: No more waitlist New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking New inference interface that is compatible with the OpenAI API Vision input support with Qwen3-VL General availability The waitlist is over! Everybody can use Tinker now; sign up here to get started. See the Tinker homepage for available models and pricing, and check out the Tinker cookbook for code examples. More reasoning with Kimi K2 Thinking Users can now fine-tune Kimi K2 Thinking on Ti…

A space-time generalized finite difference method for solving the transient Stokes/Parabolic interface problem in the moving system
Yanan Xing, Haibiao Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23702

A space-time generalized finite difference method for solving the transient Stokes/Parabolic interface problem in the moving system
In this paper, a space-time generalized finite difference method (ST-GFDM) is proposed to solve the transient Stokes/Parabolic moving interface problem which is a type of fluid-structure interaction problem. The ST-GFDM considers the time dimension as the third space dimension, and the 2D time-dependent Stokes/Parabolic moving interface problem can be seen as a 3D interface problem where the interface is formed by the initial interface shape and the moving trajectory. The GFDM has an advantage …

A Three-dimensional Edge-Based Interface Tracking (EBIT) Method for Multiphase-flow Simulations
Jieyun Pan, Tian Long, Ruben Scardovelli, St\'ephane Popinet, St\'ephane Zaleski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26361

A Three-dimensional Edge-Based Interface Tracking (EBIT) Method for Multiphase-flow Simulations
The Edge-Based Interface Tracking (EBIT) method is a novel Front-Tracking method where the markers are located on grid edges, and their connectivity is implicitly represented by a color vertex field. This localized representation simplifies the process of topology changes and allows for almost automatic parallelization. In our previous journal articles, we have presented both the kinematic part, includes the algorithms for advection of the interface and color vertex field evolution, and the dyn…

Valley-dependent topological interface states in biased armchair nanoribbons in gapless graphene
Zheng-Han Huang, Jing-Yuan Lai, Yu-Shu G. Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05653 ht…

Valley-dependent topological interface states in biased armchair nanoribbons in gapless graphene
We investigate an electrical bias-controlled, topological kind discontinuity in valley polarization, in a two-segment armchair nanoribbon of gapless graphene, where the discontinuity is created at the interface by applying opposite in-plane, transverse electrical biases to the two segments. In particular, using an efficient tight-binding theoretical formulation, we explicitly obtain energy eigenvalues and probability distributions of discontinuity-induced, interface-confined electron eigenstate…

One does not simply parse IFWI.
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/issues/80

IFWI · Issue #80 · platform-system-interface/intel_fw
Integrated Firmware Image see https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/resources/key-usage-in-integrated-firmware-images.html document and sup...

✍️ New post: Overshoot
#blogtober #climate #climateAction #podcast

Overshoot · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Open WebUI: An Open, Extensible, and Usable Interface for AI Interaction
Jaeryang Baek, Ayana Hussain, Danny Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Lawrence H. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02546

Open WebUI: An Open, Extensible, and Usable Interface for AI Interaction
While LLMs enable a range of AI applications, interacting with multiple models and customizing workflows can be challenging, and existing LLM interfaces offer limited support for collaborative extension or real-world evaluation. In this work, we present an interface toolkit for LLMs designed to be open (open-source and local), extensible (plugin support and users can interact with multiple models), and usable. The extensibility is enabled through a two-pronged plugin architecture and a communit…

Construction of Basis Functions for the Geometry Conforming Immersed Finite Element Method
Slimane Adjerid, Tao Lin, Haroun Meghaichi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12018 https://…

Construction of Basis Functions for the Geometry Conforming Immersed Finite Element Method
The Frenet apparatus is a new framework for constructing high order geometry-conforming immersed finite element functions for interface problems. In this report, we present a procedure for constructing the local IFE bases in some detail as well as a new approach for constructing orthonormal bases using the singular value decomposition of the local generalized Vandermonde matrix. A sample implementation in MATLAB is provided to showcase the simplicity and extensionability of the framework.

Sam Altman's next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain https://www.theverge.com/column/806666/sam-altman-merge-labs-brain-computer-interface-startup-hire (archived at

Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain
Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he’s set to announce soon with co-founder Alex Blania.

Any user interface element in any app should, by law, have to disclose if your data goes anywhere that's not directly in said app, in minimum font size and contrast; perhaps with some standardized icons.
We list ingredients on food and composition on clothing; why don't we do this for data?

BrainForm: a Serious Game for BCI Training and Data Collection
Michele Romani, Devis Zanoni, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Turchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10169 https://

BrainForm: a Serious Game for BCI Training and Data Collection
$\textit{BrainForm}$ is a gamified Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) training system designed for scalable data collection using consumer hardware and a minimal setup. We investigated (1) how users develop BCI control skills across repeated sessions and (2) perceptual and performance effects of two visual stimulation textures. Game Experience Questionnaire (GEQ) scores for Flow}, Positive Affect, Competence and Challenge were strongly positive, indicating sustained engagement. A within-subject stu…

As announced, I have tagged a prerelease yesterday that oofers the basic me_cleaner capabilities.
Today, I have documented some architecture and design considerations:
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/pull/77
Testers welcome. If you ru…

document architecture and design considerations by orangecms · Pull Request #77 · platform-system-interface/intel_fw

✍️ New post: The HTML Output Element
#blogtober #HTML #web #development

The HTML Output Element · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Let's dissect this AI garbage
1. The camera is a "Hitachi MP-EG10", not the "Hitachi MP-Eg1"
2. It's actually not a driver for the camera but for the Hitachi MP-ADI1 ISA interface kit (the camera is from 1997 and predates USB and didn't have an easy way to directly transfer data)
3. It's in a little plastic baggy, not "sealed"
4. It's neither valuable nor for "anyone"
5. It doesn't enhance any experiences

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model #BCI

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A hidden Markov model that uses probabilistic retrospective inference allows for up to one month of unsupervised recalibration in an online cursor-based intracortical brain–machine interface.

Beyond touch-based HMI: Control your machines in natural language by utilizing large language models and OPC UA
Bernd Hofmann, Sven Kreitlein, Joerg Franke, Patrick Bruendl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11300

Beyond touch-based HMI: Control your machines in natural language by utilizing large language models and OPC UA
This paper proposes an agent-based approach toward a more natural interface between humans and machines. Large language models equipped with tools and the communication standard OPC UA are utilized to control machines in natural language. Instead of touch interaction, which is currently the state-of-the-art medium for interaction in operations, the proposed approach enables operators to talk or text with machines. This allows commands such as 'Please decrease the temperature by 20 % in machine …

“Meeting detected!! Let’s start transcribing AI Meeting Notes!!“
No thanks, Notion, I’m just listing to Aesop Rock via my audio interface … 😂 (Fantastic album btw! 👉 https://aesoprock.com/collections/i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too)
[Quits Notion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Exploration of Embodied Space Experience through Umbilical Interaction: A Grounded Theory Approach
Shuai Guo, Dawei Liu, Tiantian Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10258 https://…

Exploration of Embodied Space Experience through Umbilical Interaction: A Grounded Theory Approach
This paper critiques the limits of human-centered design in HCI, proposing a shift toward Interface-Centered Design. Drawing on Hookway's philosophy of interfaces, phenomenology, and embodied interaction, we created Umbilink, an umbilical interaction device simulating a uterine environment with tactile sensors and rhythmic feedback to induce a pre-subjectivized state of sensory reduction. Participants' experiences were captured through semi-structured interviews and analyzed with grounded theor…

So to quote post in a reply, you click reply and then you click, under same post, yes in the timeline, the repost button and then quote and it inserts it into the reply post form you have already open?
What???
For the love of science Mastodon, hire proper user interface designers

Chord Colourizer: A Near Real-Time System for Visualizing Musical Key
Paul Haimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10173 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10173

Chord Colourizer: A Near Real-Time System for Visualizing Musical Key
This paper introduces Chord Colourizer, a near real-time system that detects the musical key of an audio signal and visually represents it through a novel graphical user interface (GUI). The system assigns colours to musical notes based on Isaac Newton's original colour wheel, preserving historical links between pitch and hue, and also integrates an Arduino-controlled LED display using 3D-printed star-shaped diffusers to offer a physical ambient media representation. The method employs Constant…

Still can't believe that Apple, a true pioneer of online Music Stores and Jukebox software and user interface design shipped this.
This is an actual screenshot of Apple Music on the Mac.
It's an empty box. The volume controls need an extra click. It doesn't show me elapsed and remaining time.
This is stuff that my CD player in the 80s did better.

SusBench: An Online Benchmark for Evaluating Dark Pattern Susceptibility of Computer-Use Agents
Longjie Guo, Chenjie Yuan, Mingyuan Zhong, Robert Wolfe, Ruican Zhong, Yue Xu, Bingbing Wen, Hua Shen, Lucy Lu Wang, Alexis Hiniker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11035

SusBench: An Online Benchmark for Evaluating Dark Pattern Susceptibility of Computer-Use Agents
As LLM-based computer-use agents (CUAs) begin to autonomously interact with real-world interfaces, understanding their vulnerability to manipulative interface designs becomes increasingly critical. We introduce SusBench, an online benchmark for evaluating the susceptibility of CUAs to UI dark patterns, designs that aim to manipulate or deceive users into taking unintentional actions. Drawing nine common dark pattern types from existing taxonomies, we developed a method for constructing believab…

A Multimodal GUI Architecture for Interfacing with LLM-Based Conversational Assistants
Hans G. W. van Dam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06223 https://arxiv.or…

A Multimodal GUI Architecture for Interfacing with LLM-Based Conversational Assistants
Advances in large language models (LLMs) and real-time speech recognition now make it possible to issue any graphical user interface (GUI) action through natural language and receive the corresponding system response directly through the GUI. Most production applications were never designed with speech in mind. This article provides a concrete architecture that enables GUIs to interface with LLM-based speech-enabled assistants. The architecture makes an application's navigation graph and sema…

MLLM as a UI Judge: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs for Predicting Human Perception of User Interfaces
Reuben A. Luera, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Samyadeep Basu, Sungchul Kim, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Ruiyi Zhang, Jihyung Kil, Nedim Lipka, Seunghyun Yoon, Jiuxiang Gu, Zichao Wang, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Branislav Kveton
https://

MLLM as a UI Judge: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs for Predicting Human Perception of User Interfaces
In an ideal design pipeline, user interface (UI) design is intertwined with user research to validate decisions, yet studies are often resource-constrained during early exploration. Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer a promising opportunity to act as early evaluators, helping designers narrow options before formal testing. Unlike prior work that emphasizes user behavior in narrow domains such as e-commerce with metrics like clicks or conversions, we focus on subje…

Face2Feel: Emotion-Aware Adaptive User Interface
Ismail Alihan Hadimlioglu, Siddharth Linga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.004…

Face2Feel: Emotion-Aware Adaptive User Interface
This paper presents Face2Feel, a novel user interface (UI) model that dynamically adapts to user emotions and preferences captured through computer vision. This adaptive UI framework addresses the limitations of traditional static interfaces by integrating digital image processing, face recognition, and emotion detection techniques. Face2Feel analyzes user expressions utilizing a webcam or pre-installed camera as the primary data source to personalize the UI in real-time. Although dynamically c…

Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection
Jiugeng Sun, Rita Sevastjanova, Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Mennatallah El-Assady
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26210

Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection
Dialects suffer from the scarcity of computational textual resources as they exist predominantly in spoken rather than written form and exhibit remarkable geographical diversity. Collecting dialect data and subsequently integrating it into current language technologies present significant obstacles. Gamification has been proven to facilitate remote data collection processes with great ease and on a substantially wider scale. This paper introduces Dia-Lingle, a gamified interface aimed to improv…