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Submission + - New Operating System Uses Hardware-Based Memory Protection Model (frute.net)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: FRUTE asks what an operating system looks like when the CPU, language runtime, garbage collector, compiler, and authority model are designed together instead of bolted together after the fact.

Conventional systems make language runtimes recover structure from untyped words, make security policy chase ambient names, and make garbage collectors infer which machine values are pointers. FRUTE moves those facts into the architecture: values are tagged, authority is explicit, and Scheme is treated as a first-class systems language.

Most CPUs treat memory as undifferentiated bits, then ask every compiler, runtime, kernel, and debugger to remember what those bits mean. FRUTE values carry architectural tags, so the machine can distinguish pointers, fixnums, characters, capabilities, bitmaps, and runtime objects directly.

Comment Re:DALL-E? (Score 2) 33

by Z00L00K (#66392500) Attached to: Getty Images Files For US Bankruptcy, Advances Restructuring Plan

I agree, DALL-E variants went offline a few months ago. Now it's GPT, Muse, Grok and Flux that have taken over.

Not that DALL-E was bad, it was pretty nice in its own way, but couldn't really compete with quality stock images.

That said - many AI generated images still have flaws, and are often just useful for illustrative purposes and memes. Many pulp-level sensationalist magazines are probably using them now to make it look like Prince Harry and Marilyn Monroe had an affair.

Submission + - Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of trees (futurism.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cutting of some 1,300 acres of forest. The tech giant was given a week to draft a report explaining its actions, which soon became a flashpoint for Europe’s growing outrage over the data center boom.

As the anger grew, reporters descended on the scene — and what they found is a clear-cut example of the AI revolution’s impact on the environment.

New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation. After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to tracts of mud and stumps, fauna which once called the woods home has been forced to vacate.

Comment Re: Bose (Score 1) 41

by Z00L00K (#66389698) Attached to: Bose Is Buying Skullcandy

Today I'd say that you'd probably need to put up some $50k USD. Original price was $16k USD, but they are a collectors item. Their successor HE-1 are in the same price range.

I have listened to them and the worst thing is that they actually sound so good that they'd be worth the price. But I'm not a headphone user so if I had them they'd be a dust collector.

Submission + - How we're Strengthening PHP Security

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

“Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that, under the right conditions, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on servers running PHP.”

CVE-2026-109618 / GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w: RCE via OOM corruption (out-of-memory): If a request reached PHP's memory_limit at exactly the wrong moment, PHP could leave partially initialized internal data behind and later treat it as valid, corrupting memory.

CVE-2026-109619 / GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp: RCE via stale global state: A fatal error at the wrong point could leave internal state pointing to memory that belonged to a previous request ..

Submission + - Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.

Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.

But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.

In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.

Submission + - Which Major Websites and Advertisers Wrongly Equate Privacy as Ad-Blocking? 1

Submitted by BrendaEM
BrendaEM writes: We see it each day. You navigate to a website, and you are greeted with an overlay that states that you have an advertisement blocker or plugin installed, but you don't have one—it's just that their advertising wants to track you or individualize your advertisement experience. Perhaps it would be beneficial to set the record straight.

Which websites and advertising companies have you noticed that wrongly confabulate privacy as ad-blocking?

Submission + - Bringing USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt to Windows 98 to 7 (yeokhengmeng.com)

Submitted by yeokm1
yeokm1 writes: Vintage OSes like Windows 98 are not something you would associate with working on modern machines. Modern machines use xHCI USB controllers which no have drivers for legacy OSes like Windows 98.

In the past couple of months, I addressed this issue on the side with AI's help. So now, we even got USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt on vintage OSes.

Submission + - 25 Years Later, a Palm OS Developer Opens His Development Archive (github.com)

Submitted by ardiri
ardiri writes: Palm OS developer Aaron Ardiri (slashdot.org/~ardiri) has released approximately 1 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years. The collection includes historical SDKs, developer conference presentations, technical documentation, programming examples, limited source code, and development utilities. ROM images, commercial applications, and simulator binaries have deliberately been excluded.

Ardiri previously published the source code for his Palm OS and VTOS projects, including work exploring the capabilities of early handheld devices. This latest release expands those preservation efforts beyond his own software, making a broader collection of development resources available to the retrocomputing community. The archive is available at https://github.com/ardiri/dev-... and is intended for historical preservation, education, and research, particularly as enthusiasts continue working to maintain, emulate, and revive the platform (available at https://www.ardiri.com./

Ardiri has also written an auto-biography and shas started explored the engineering principles behind these systems in his books, including Inside the Machine, which examines computer architecture from fundamental logic through modern computing systems. At a time when much of the early mobile development ecosystem has disappeared into defunct websites and aging backups, this collection offers another opportunity to preserve the tools and knowledge that helped define an important era of personal computing.

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