Promoting a simple unbloated web!
Nowadays, hardware resources of our personal devices are essentially oversized to manage bloated websites. If we incite web designers to return to a lighter web, small devices such as old PC, old smartphones, retro-machines and small boards could be usable.
This is the goal of the smolweb concept.
But what is a bloated website? Two aspects are critical: the size of the code and linked resources downloaded by the browser, and the computing effort to do the layouting by transforming it into absolutely positioned boxes with text and images. Reducing both can make a website “smol”
This site attempts to define what a smolweb is and to give some guidelines for use. It is certainly not the only solution to get unbloated websites, but it will help authors, designers and webmasters who want to build “smolwebsites”. Do not read these recommendations as a bible, this is only what I think to be a good way to build respectful websites for authors, readers, internet bandwidth and hardware.
Scammers have been spotted abusing AI site builder Lovable to mimic trusted brands, steal credentials, drain crypto wallets, and spread malware.
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home. For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.
"This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.
We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise."
Note that this is three attempts to match current quantum computing records, not a single attempt utilizing all three tools.
(The IACR is a legit cryptology organization. Been around for years and years.)
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
(h/t @cstross )
so, #sysadmin sorts: chill your quantum computing worries
Traduction réalisée par Nicolas Haeringer de « The rise of end times fascism », un article de Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor paru dans The Guardian le 13 avril 2025.
