Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use "100% domestically made" components (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Base64 is not encryption: what it is, when to use it, and the Unicode gotcha

Every few months I see Base64 described as "encoding for security." It isn't. Here's what it actually does. What Base64 is Base64 turns arbitrary bytes into text made only of safe characters ( A–Z…

• Base64 is data encoding, not encryption
• Used in data URIs, JWTs, and JSON APIs
• Increases data size by ~33%

1h ago ·dev.to

Progress Report: Linux 7.3 - Asahi Linux

• Linux 7.3 released, with macaudio and AVD drivers upstreamed
• M4 Pro, Max, and M5 devices gain initial Devicetrees
• M3 series machines achieve generally available support with DCP

1h ago ·asahilinux.org

Boundary change, not version bump

The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, and the change sitting under the version number is that stream<T> , future<T> , and async are now first-class constructs in the WebAssembly Component…

• WASI 0.3.0 ratified with major changes to WebAssembly Component Model
• Stream T, future T, and async now first-class constructs across components
• WASI 0.3 introduces completion-based behavior closer to Linux iouring

1h ago ·dev.to

Why Naive Text Extraction Destroys RAG on Multi-Column PDFs (and How to Fix Reading Order)

When an AI retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline hallucinates on a question sourced from a scientific paper or financial report, the debugging process almost invariably looks at the wrong…

• Naive extraction breaks reading order in multi-column PDFs
• Multi-column braiding problem causes semantic mix of topics
• Tiered approach fixes reading order using geometric and vision models

1h ago ·dev.to