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I Stored a Website in a Favicon

πŸš€ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: A while ago I wrote about storing two bytes inside my mouse's DPI register. It wasn't useful. It wasn't practical. But it did something unfortunate to my brain. Once you've successfully hidden data somewhere it doesn't belong, you start looking at everything as potential storage. A monitor is storage. A keyboard is storage. A BIOS splash screen is (maybe) storage. A favicon is storage. And yes, here we are. Every website has a favicon. It's that little icon in your browser tab. Usually you upload…
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‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the delicious final season of The Bear | Bear

‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the delicious final season of The Bear | Bear

πŸ”₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: The Bear,Ebon Moss-Bachrach,Television,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: eBon Moss-Bachrach is currently starring in the popular Broadway production of Dog Day Afternoon, but after he takes his bow, there's only one thing audiences want to talk about. β€œEvery time I leave the stage door, there are a few hundred people screaming β€˜My cousin!’” he laughs.That's his catchphrase as eccentric Professor Richie Jeremiah Jeremiah in The Bear, of course. And now the culinary comedy-drama is back on the menu. One of the most influential TV shows of…
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‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

πŸš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time.The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren't the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their operations.The new measurements were made by Pulsar-0, the first satellite of the novel Pulsar navigation constellation developed by California-based Xona Space Systems.…
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Review for Inexperience – This ‘No Contact’ Romance Is Incredibly Poignant | stage

Review for Inexperience – This ‘No Contact’ Romance Is Incredibly Poignant | stage

πŸ”₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Pitlochry Festival theatre,Comedy,Comedy βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a clever conceit that lies behind Douglas Maxwell's sexy romantic comedy. He imagines the possibility of continuing a sexually charged relationship without physical contact. This improbable idea is brought to life on stage, and it reaches two levels.Two students meet at a twenty-first birthday party in 1995, one in law and the other in media studies, and agree to maintain the exciting anticipation of their first meeting by never touching each other. If they did, the relationship would end.We…
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Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Programmers will write more efficient algorithms if their employers tell them to trade time-to-market for hardware cost. Previously, it was trade hardware cost for time-to-market."Programmers" don't make this decision, the product owner does.Some programmers will write more efficient code. At my $dayjob (one of the big tech companies) we're already planning a major goal next year of optimizing server code to reduce RAM requirements, and this is directly in response to the crunch.In practice I expect most optimizations will come from "stop doing stupid stuff"…
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‘I Hope You Hear Us Through the Clouds’: The thundering, rousing dance track that pays tribute to Sinead O’Connor | Dance

‘I Hope You Hear Us Through the Clouds’: The thundering, rousing dance track that pays tribute to Sinead O’Connor | Dance

πŸš€ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Dance,SinΓ©ad O'Connor,Stage,Culture,Music βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: SOnya Tayeh remembers watching β€œSaturday Night Live” in October 1992, at her home in Detroit, when a young woman with a shaved head behind a microphone tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II, saying, β€œFight the real enemy.”"It felt like the whole world stopped," recalls Tye, who is still amazed by Sinead O'Connor's protest against abuse in the Catholic Church, and the defiance in "those eyes that seep into your soul and burn... It was like I could feel…
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Find complex vulnerabilities hidden in your source code

Find complex vulnerabilities hidden in your source code

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: Aikido Code Audit fills the gap between SAST and pentesting by reasoning through your static codebases to surface multi-step, intent-dependent vulnerabilities before they ship.Β Last week Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a public version of their Mythos-class model, which was able to discover and chain zero-day exploits. Fable 5 ships with guardrails that block cybersecurity queries and fall back to a more limited model, so the public version doesn't run those attacks for you. At least that was the idea. But it appears 1 or…
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St Kilda Pier wins pinnacle of Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply urban’ design | Build

St Kilda Pier wins pinnacle of Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply urban’ design | Build

✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Architecture,Australia news,Art and design,Culture,Design,Housing,Melbourne,Victoria βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: A redesigned St Kilda Pier has added more accolades to its thriving trophy cabinet, scooping some of the best gongs in the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Awards.The $53 million Victorian Government project by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, along with Site Office Landscape Architecture and AW Maritime, was awarded the Victorian Architecture Medal on Friday, the award given to the most outstanding project of the year.It also won the Dimitty Reed Melbourne Award and the Joseph Reed Urban…
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XLibre XServer 25.2 Changes Β· X11Libre/xserver Wiki Β· GitHub

XLibre XServer 25.2 Changes Β· X11Libre/xserver Wiki Β· GitHub

πŸš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: We released the stable version of our 25.2 series as 25.2.0 on Jun 21, 2026. For the announcement, please see the discussion thread. glamor / glamor_egl: Decoupled DRI3 from gbm, Nvidia Support The internal architecture of glamor_egl was significantly refactored: xf86-specific code was split out, DRI3 was decoupled from gbm, and a dumb gbm backend was added. This enables support for proprietary Nvidia drivers v470+ for EGL initialization, GL context creation, GLX, and DRI3 β€” with faster and simpler DRI3 paths and improved Nvidia detection…
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Bologna’s specialized festival for forgotten films embodies the streaming generation | film

Bologna’s specialized festival for forgotten films embodies the streaming generation | film

πŸ”₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Italy,Europe,World news,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Bologna will be transformed into an open-air cinema museum on Saturday, as a nine-day festival dedicated to restored and rediscovered neglected films - some dating back more than a century - kicks off in the northern Italian city.Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, Il Cinema Ritrovato has evolved from its niche origins into an influential international gathering captivating a new generation of cinephiles.Last year's edition, which included a revival of Charlie Chaplin's 1925 film "The Gold Rush," attracted a record 140,000…
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