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Code golfing a tiny graphics demo using maths and a pinch of insanity.
https://blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-golfing-a-tiny-demo-using-maths-and-a-pinch-of-insanity.html
saved 2025-09-29

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

Public records show AWS is aggressively promoting AI surveillance tech to law enforcement agencies, partnering with companies such as Flock Safety and ZeroEyes (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance
Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

A post from the archive 📫:
Using Visual Studio to search objects in a memory dump
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/using-visual-studio-to-search-objects-in-a-memory-dump

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

«if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire»
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject | Whatever
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

Edit 2: Yes you can! Using the DeDRM plugin (https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools). I'll be forever grateful to people who make these tools 🙏
There's a few steps required (let me know if you want to do it yourself and have questions) but I just tried it, using some instructions from Reddit and it worke…

GitHub - noDRM/DeDRM_tools: DeDRM tools for ebooks
DeDRM tools for ebooks. Contribute to noDRM/DeDRM_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

A look at a growing number of medical startups that are using robots and AI to fertilize embryos through IVF, helping bring at least 20 babies to term (Washington Post)

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.
One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

How Maduro Is Responding to Trump’s Pressure on Venezuela’s Economy
President Nicolás Maduro’s opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government. He is using cryptocurrency to hold on.