General
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant cross-applies across Creative Cloud to orchestrate workflows and offer context-aware controls. The move signals a shift toward multi-app automation that could speed production for professionals while lowering barriers for less-experienced users, with questions remaining about pricing, memory features, and customization.
FSF defends the purpose of the AGPLv3, warns against adding non-compliant restrictions to GNU licenses, and analyzes OnlyOffice's license terms. It emphasizes that modifications mu…
Ars Technica reports on TotalRecall Reloaded, a tool that can exfiltrate data from Windows 11 Recall after authentication via Windows Hello, highlighting a privacy risk even after …
Google has released a Windows desktop search app and a Gemini Mac app, bringing web and local search, context-aware features, and AI capabilities to the desktop. The Windows app su…
Ars Technica reports that Boston Dynamics' Spot robot can read gauges and thermometers using Google's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, enabling embodied reasoning in industrial inspections.…
AI Research
Nature's study reveals subliminal learning in distillation of language models: a teacher model can imprint its behavioural traits on a student even when the data used for training is semantically unrelated. The authors provide a theoretical proof and broad experiments (numbers, code, CoT) across multiple model families and cross-model setups, and discuss implications for AI safety, model provenance, and future safety evaluations.
Hardware
HyperJIS is a Karabiner-Elements configuration that repurposes extra keys on Apple Japanese keyboards to create a US-compatible layout with a Hyper key, Vim navigation, window tiling, and accent support for Italian, French, Spanish, and German. The post explains why the JIS layout provides more keys, details the modifier cascade, describes Vim-style navigation, and outlines a modular accent system with language extensions; it also covers installation and licensing (GPL-3.0).
Backup & Recovery
A discussion about medium-term cold storage options for small data sets (~1 GB) and the tradeoffs between offline media (optical) and online archival storage (S3/Backblaze Glacier/Backups). Participants share experiences with safes, safety deposit boxes, Syncthing, and cloud backups, offering practical cost estimates and risk considerations for preserving data 5–20 years into the future.