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I wanted to be able to ask an LLM to “create a word cloud on [topic]” — LLMs are great at research, less great at layout.

So I built a purpose-built layout engine. It runs in the browser, and I’ve also wrapped it in a small Go/Fiber server using @napi-rs/canvas to expose it as an MCP server and REST API — so any LLM tool can call it directly.

Instructions are at https://word-cloud.net/ai.html

Feedback welcome at https://github.com/pilotso11/word-cloud-net/

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4

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Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/scaling-pedagogical-pretraining-10-billion-tokens

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I built a browser-based tool for detecting objects in satellite imagery using vision-language models (VLMs). You draw a polygon on the map and enter a text prompt such as "swimming pools", "oil tanks", or "buses". The system scans the selected area tile-by-tile and returns detections projected back onto the map as GeoJSON.

Pipeline: select area and zoom level, split the region into mercantile tiles, run each tile with the prompt through a VLM, convert predicted bounding boxes to geographic coordinates (WGS84), and render the results back on the map.

It works reasonably well for distinct structures in a zero-shot setting. occluded objects are still better handled by specialized detectors like YOLO models.

There is a public demo and no login required. I am mainly interested in feedback on detection quality, performance tradeoffs between VLMs and specialized detectors, and potential real-world use cases.

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Article URL: https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/

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Article URL: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

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Article URL: https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/DijkstrasCrisis_LeidenDRAFT.pdf

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Article URL: https://underjord.io/shipping-grayscale-photos-at-small-scale.html

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Article URL: https://kudelskisecurity.com/research/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories

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Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• One click on this fake Google Meet update can give attackers control of your PC
• Beware of fake OpenClaw installers, even if Bing points you to GitHub
• Fake CleanMyMac site installs SHub Stealer and backdoors crypto wallets
• Windows File Shredder: When deleting a file isn’t enough
• Supreme Court to decide whether geofence warrants are constitutional
• Does the UK really want to ban VPNs? And can it be done?
• Attackers abuse OAuth’s built-in redirects to launch phishing and malware attacks
• High-severity Qualcomm bug hits Android devices in targeted attacks
• Pentagon ditches Anthropic AI over “security risk” and OpenAI takes over
• Chrome flaw let extensions hijack Gemini’s camera, mic, and file access
• Samsung TVs stop spying on viewers in Texas. Here’s how to disable ACR anywhere
• A fake FileZilla site hosts a malicious download
• Purchase order attachment isn’t a PDF. It’s phishing for your password

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Article URL: https://github.com/bedardbrandon928/National-Unity-and-Prosperity-Act-NUPA

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Article URL: https://github.com/stillsilent22-spec/Aether-

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Building a TikZ library for ML researchers — styles, macros, and layout. Tools to make figures like these without starting from scratch each time. Does anyone actually need this? Would love to hear if figure-making is a pain point for you.

https://x.com/gvsh_maths/status/2030896386594783342?s=20

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Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-backup-to-add-file-level-restore-for-faster-recovery/

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sentinel is an open-source CLI + GitHub Action that scans MCP server configurations, live endpoints, and Docker containers for security misconfigurations. It runs 26 detection rules across 3 modules CFG (static config analysis), PRB (live probe), CTR (container inspection) — and outputs in terminal, JSON, SARIF, or HTML. It grew out of our work building Helixar, an AI-native endpoint and API security platform. We kept finding the same MCP misconfigs (no auth, wildcard CORS, plaintext secrets) and wanted a lightweight, composable scanner that CI pipelines could actually use.

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Article URL: https://xcancel.com/TechLayoffLover/status/2030798534102941789

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/vape-battery-powered-car-boasts-18-mile-range-35mph-top-speed-usb-c-charging-port-500-vape-batteries-power-early-2000s-reva-g-wiz

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Article URL: https://github.com/Kunaixfox/digipet

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Hi HN,

We built OrvexPay, a crypto payment gateway that allows businesses to accept 50+ cryptocurrencies.

Features: • Hosted checkout • Payment links • Webhook API • Simple integration

Would love feedback from developers.

https://orvexpay.com

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc3

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