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An anti-DDoS firm, Huge Networks, was compromised and used to launch massive DDoS attacks against Brazilian ISPs via a botnet built from hijacked routers and DNS amplifiers.
A step-by-step guide to speed-train bacteria for plastic degradation by using directed evolution on whole gene clusters, from pathway design to high-throughput selection.
Learn how scientists track Arctic sea-ice and why 2026 set a record low winter maximum extent, with steps to understand the process and implications.
Learn how close-in planets act as gravitational bouncers, ejecting outer worlds to create rogue planets 19 times more common than those beyond the snow line.
A step-by-step guide to decontaminate car interiors from methamphetamine residue. Includes protective gear, cleaning protocols for hard/soft surfaces, HVAC cleaning, testing, and tips on why ventilation alone is insufficient.
A 10-step guide to sustaining a deceased celebrity's brand, from auditing equity and securing archives to licensing, fan engagement, and legal protection. Includes prerequisites, detailed steps, and pro tips for long-term success.
Step-by-step guide to using stable nanoparticle probes and single-molecule imaging to visualize real-time receptor interactions on living cancer cells, revealing dynamic binding that reshapes drug screening.
Q&A on Linux 7.1-rc2 prepatch: high patch count, AI tooling pattern from 7.0, testing guidance, and implications for kernel development.
Major Linux distributions released security patches for kernel, browsers, OpenSSH, sudo, libraries, virtualization, and email servers. Critical updates from AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Oracle, Red Hat, Slackware, and SUSE.
A DIY three-axis camera slider built from 3D printer parts, using an ESP32 for wireless control. Overcomes motor and weight challenges with gear ratios and code tweaks.
Discover how a 6th-gen iPod Nano powers three monitors using clever adapters, and the hilarious limitations of this retro build.
Explore the rise and fall of pioneering Q&A site Ask Jeeves and Apple's Vision Pro, two tech products ahead of their time that struggled with timing and pricing.
ReactOS merges boot and live CD into a single installer and adds a PnP ATA storage stack with NT6+ compatibility, improving ease of use and hardware support.
Explore Lippmann plates: how they capture true spectra via structural color, their working principle, limitations, and link to holograms.
Learn how to build a low-cost time domain reflectometer (TDR) using a USB audio device for automotive wiring diagnostics, achieving 1 cm resolution via phase shift measurement.
TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app that hacks infrared electronic shelf labels (ESLs) for repurposing, like custom images or live dashboards, while respecting ethical use.
Kuaishou's SRPO matches DeepSeek-R1-Zero performance with 90% fewer training steps, solving cross-domain conflicts and reward saturation in RL for LLMs.
DeepSeek releases open-source theorem prover DeepSeek-Prover-V2 with 88.9% MiniF2F score and 49 PutnamBench solves, using recursive proof search and RL.
DeepSeek-V3 paper reveals hardware-aware co-design as key to low-cost AI training, challenging brute-force scaling norms.
Stanford, Princeton, and Adobe researchers solve long-term memory in video world models using State-Space Models with block-wise scanning, enabling AI agents to remember events over 500+ frames efficiently.