VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.16140: VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models
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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.
Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
Update at Jun 22, 2026: the following 2 PRs are merged today, it could avoid 85% logs(feedback from my codex), so let me close this issue. Thanks @jif-oai for the fix. #29432 #29457 Following is the original issue Issue Codex is continuo...
British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277
window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]
Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance
Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon
Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components
Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
For the first time, investors and market participants can access a single, real-time source of prices and trading activity across the UK bond market, following the launch of its bond consolidated tape, operated by ETS Connect UK.
Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components
Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components. - dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)
Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...
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Google Hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
WebKit with patches. Contribute to oven-sh/WebKit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Until June 19, the Federal Palace in Bern will once again be bustling with activity. Numerous important issues are on the agenda for the summer session of the National Council and Council of States.
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, completing its full ownership of the robotics
Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use
Fossil fuels are about 40% of maritime tonnage but roughly half of freight energy, which changes the shipping fuel transition.
Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
The new JVM Weekly is here... and Ragnarok seems to come, as we finally have Valhalla in the JDK. However, situation is a bit... nuanced.
Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Lore is designed for unprecedented scalability of both data and teams. It’s optimized for projects that combine code with large binary assets.
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
https://archive.ph/MlU1U
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
GrapheneOS discussion forum
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
(This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)
AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
AMD engineer shuts down discussions on the issue
Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space.
UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
UHF X11 is a native X11 server for Apple Vision Pro. Run classic Unix and workstation software in spatial windows on visionOS.
Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost
Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost after all—it may simply be switched off. Using a two-stage treatment, researchers redirected the body’s normal healing response away from scar formation and toward regrowth, successfully restoring bone, joints, ligaments, and tendons after amputation in animal studies.
AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks
The Arch User Repository (AUR) has been subjected to a sustained attack recently. The attacker, [...]
How Alberta Eradicated Rats
Rats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on.
RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests, but QUERY requests can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial state changes.
HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero
Study reveals positive news, but experts say deaths and cases may rise again as fewer teenagers get vaccinated
The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI
When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers.
How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
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Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Yesterday, June 15, 2026, a small and unimportant announcement appeared in Apple developer news: New domain for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email. Long story short: now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the @private.icloud.com subdomain. This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail. This is certainly a big hit for iCloud privacy, since some plausible deniability together with Apple’s b
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.
How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
We cut browser sessions from $0.06 to $0.02 per hour while making browsers start and scale faster.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912, https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912
macOS Container Machines
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - container/docs/container-machine.md at main · apple/container