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GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused mobile operating system, has released a new version with improved security features, including hardware-backed cryptography and enhanced application sandboxing. The update aims to provide users with a more secure and privacy-preserving smartphone experience.

Google's Nano Banana Pro is a new edge AI device that offers powerful computing capabilities in a compact, energy-efficient design. The article highlights the device's potential applications in various industries, such as robotics, smart homes, and intelligent sensors.

This article explains how to run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1, a popular virtualization platform, using the Proxmox container management system. It provides step-by-step instructions for configuring Proxmox to support Docker containers and managing them within the Proxmox environment.

Google has announced a new Quick Share feature for Android, providing users with a seamless way to share files and content between Android devices. The feature aims to offer a similar experience to Apple's AirDrop, allowing for easy and efficient cross-device file transfers.

Blue Origin has announced upgrades to its New Glenn rocket, including new subcooled propellant components and improved engines, which are expected to enhance the rocket's performance and capabilities.

RavynOS is an open-source, lightweight, and customizable Linux distribution designed for older hardware and embedded systems. It aims to provide a modern and efficient computing experience while maintaining a low resource footprint.

GitHut is a website that provides visualizations and statistics related to the GitHub platform, including trends in programming languages, popular repositories, and user activity.

The article discusses a security vulnerability in Okta's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 protocol in NextJS applications, which could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by the author, leading to a fix by Okta.

The Zork text adventure game has been made open-source by Microsoft, allowing developers to use the game's assets and code for new projects. This move comes as part of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company that previously owned the rights to Zork.

The article discusses the concept of read-only characters in programming languages, exploring their advantages and challenges. It examines how read-only characters can improve code maintainability and security by preventing unintended modifications.

Hello world, this is Abhay from Poly (https://poly.app). We’re building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with something more intelligent and searchable. Think of it like Dropbox + NotebookLM + Perplexity for terabytes of your files. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0.

Poly can search your content in natural language, across a broad range of file types and down to the page, paragraph, pixel, or point in time. We also provide an integrated agent that can take actions on your files such as creating, editing, summarizing, and researching. Any action that you can take, the agent can also take, from renaming, moving, tagging, annotating, and organizing files for you. The agent can also read URLs, youtube links, and can search the web and even download files for you.

Here are some public drives that you can poke around in (note: it doesn’t work in Safari yet—sorry! we’re working on it.)

Every issue of the Whole Earth Catalogue: https://poly.app/shared/whole-earth-catalogues

Archive of old Playstation Manuals: https://poly.app/shared/playstation-manuals-archive

Mini archive of Orson Welles interviews and commercial spots: https://poly.app/shared/orson-welles-archive

Archive of Salvador Dali’s paintings for Alice in Wonderland: https://poly.app/shared/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland

To try it out, navigate to one of these public folders and use the agent or search to find things. The demo video above can give you an idea of how the UI roughly works. Select files by clicking on them. Quick view by pressing space. Open the details for any file by pressing cmd + i. You can search from the top middle bar (or press cmd + K), and all searches will use semantic similarity and search within the files. Or use the agent from the bottom right tools menu (or press cmd + ?) and you can ask about the files, have the agent search for you, summarize things, etc.

We decided to build this after launching an early image-gen company back in March 2022, and realizing how painful it was for users to store, manage, and search their libraries, especially in a world of generative media. Despite our service having over 150,000 users at that point, we realized that our true calling was fixing the file browser to make it intelligent, so we shut our service down in 2023 and pivoted to this.

We think Poly will be a great fit for anyone that wants to do useful things with their files, such as summarizing research papers, finding the right media or asset, creating a shareable portfolio, searching for a particular form or document, and producing reports and overviews. Of course, it’s a great way to organize your genAI assets as well. Or just use it to organize notes, links, inspo, etc.

Under the hood, Poly is built on our advanced search model, Polyembed-v1 that natively supports multimodal search across text, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, video, PDFs, and more. We allow you to search by phrase, file similarity, color, face, and several other kinds of features. The agent is particularly skilled at using the search, so you can type in something like “find me the last lease agreement I signed” and it can go look for it by searching, reading the first few files, searching again if nothing matches, etc. But the quality of our embed model means it almost always finds the file in the first search.

It works identically across web and desktop, except on desktop it syncs your cloud files to a folder (just like google drive). On the web we use clever caching to enable offline support and file conflict recovery. We’ve taken great pains to make our system faster than your existing file browser, even if you’re using it from a web browser.

File storage plans are currently at: 100GB free tier, paid tier is 2TB at $10/m, and 1c per GB per month on top of the 2TB. We also have rate limits for agent use that vary at different tiers.

We’re excited to expand with many features over the following months, including “virtual files” (store your google docs in Poly), sync from other hosting providers, mobile apps, an MCP ecosystem for the agent, access to web search and deep research modes, offline search, local file support (on desktop), third-party sources (WebDAV, NAS), and a whole lot more.

Our waitlist is now open and we’ll be letting folks in starting today! Sign up at https://poly.app.

We’d also love to hear your thoughts (and concerns) about what we’re building, as we’re early in this journey so your feedback can very much shape the future of our company!

The article discusses the development of an auto-completion system for programming code using machine learning techniques. It highlights the challenges in creating such a system and the potential benefits it can offer to programmers in terms of improving productivity and reducing coding errors.

MoboMaps is a web-based platform that allows users to create and share interactive maps, visualize data, and collaborate on mapping projects. The platform offers a range of features, including geospatial analysis, data integration, and real-time updates, to help users effectively communicate spatial information.

As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.

The article explores the role of actors in storytelling, discussing how they bring characters to life through their performance, interpretation, and emotional delivery, ultimately shaping the audience's experience and understanding of the narrative.

Kagi introduces its AI assistant, designed to provide personalized recommendations and insights by understanding users' unique preferences and context. The article highlights the assistant's capabilities in areas such as research, writing, and task planning.

GeoaCron is an interactive world history atlas that allows users to explore events, empires, and civilizations throughout time on a dynamic global map. It provides a comprehensive visual representation of historical developments, enabling users to gain a deeper understanding of the past.

Astral OS, a newly launched operating system, has announced support for running Minecraft on its platform. This integration aims to provide a seamless and optimized Minecraft experience for users of the Astral OS ecosystem.

This article explores the potential future state of the world in 2025, examining developments in technology, society, and politics. It discusses advancements in artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and global cooperation, while also highlighting potential challenges such as inequality, climate change, and geopolitical tensions.

The article discusses the use of Passenger Name Records (PNRs) by government agencies, highlighting how this data can be used to track individuals' travel and movements. It explores the privacy concerns and debates around the collection and use of PNR data for security and law enforcement purposes.

I polished a Markov chain generator and trained it on an article by Uri Alon and al (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7963340/).

It generates text that seems to me at least on par with tiny LLMs, such as demonstrated by NanoGPT. Here is an example:

  jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$
  ./SLM10b_train UriAlon.txt 3
  
  Training model with order 3...
  
  Skip-gram detection: DISABLED (order < 5)
  
  Pruning is disabled
  
  Calculating model size for JSON export...
  
  Will export 29832 model entries
  
  Exporting vocabulary (1727 entries)...
  
  Vocabulary export complete.
  
  Exporting model entries...
  
    Processed 12000 contexts, written 28765 entries (96.4%)...
  
  JSON export complete: 29832 entries written to model.json
  
  Model trained and saved to model.json
  
  Vocabulary size: 1727
  
  jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$ ./SLM9_gen model.json

Chronodivide is a website that explores the concept of time and its various interpretations across different cultures and belief systems. It delves into the philosophical, scientific, and metaphysical perspectives on the nature of time and its impact on human experience.

Mozilla has announced that it will no longer support the OneRep security tool, which was designed to help users manage their online reputation. The article discusses the reasons behind this decision and the potential impact on users.

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