Valve is about to win the console generation
Published on 2025-11-12, 1602 words, 6 minutes to read Valve does nothing and still wins Today was a big day for gamers as Valve just introduced three products: the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and the Steam Frame. When you add this alongside the Steam Deck, I think it’s safe to say that Valve is […]
Marble: A Multimodal World Model
Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI, demanding powerful world models to realize its full potential. World models should reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds; and allow both humans and agents to interact with them. Spatially intelligent world models will transform a wide variety of industries over the coming years. Two months ago we […]
Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
Verification Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature –no-quarantine is used to forcibly bypass Gatekeeper, which is a built-in macOS security mechanism. This is used to run unsigned/unnotarized applications. macOS Tahoe is the final release to support Intel systems, and last year Apple updated macOS runtime protection to make it harder to override Gatekeeper. […]
OmniAI (YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
Engineering at OmniWe’re building the AI-powered infrastructure layer for small business lending. Helping banks and fintechs automate the messy work of collecting documents, filling out financial models, and doing public research on millions of SMBs across the country. There are 34 million small businesses in the U.S., and every one of them needs capital. We’re […]
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FEX-emu – run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
FEX allows you to run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices, similar to qemu-user and box64. It offers broad compatibility with both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, and it can be used alongside Wine/Proton to play Windows games. It supports forwarding API calls to host system libraries like OpenGL or Vulkan to reduce emulation overhead. An […]
Blasting Yeast with UV Light
Experiments teach you where to be suspicious of papers. Thank you to David Jordan at Living Physics for the support. All mistakes are solely mine. So, I tested 280nm UV light on baker’s yeast. This was a ‘minimal trust’ investigation into wet lab experiments, to learn the subtleties of UV susceptibility data that I wouldn’t […]
Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New
Maestro Technology Sells Used Drives as New (2025-04-30) At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service. However, from time to time, it is expedient to purchase parts from Amazon – something we do with care and suspicion. On, or about, April 22 of […]
Async and Finaliser Deadlocks
Two days ago I was listening to the Oxide podcast on futurelocks, a very complicated bug involving async code in Rust. I must admit that I struggled to understand what was going on, partly because of the subject matter, and partly because podcasts are my backdrop to household chores. At some point towards the end, […]
Control LLM Spend and Access with any-LLM-gateway
Gain visibility and control over your LLM usage. any-llm-gateway adds budgeting, analytics, and access management to any-llm, giving teams reliable oversight for every provider. Track Usage, Set Limits, and Deploy Confidently Across Any LLM Provider Managing LLM costs and access at scale is hard. Give users unrestricted access and you risk runaway costs. Lock it […]