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Global Encryption Day: Encryption's Critical Role in Safeguarding Human Rights
Today is the third annual Global Encryption Day, a day to highlight why encryption is critical for a safe, private internet.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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Beginners guide to building a hardware hacking lab
VSS Hardware Hacking Wiki and Blog Entries
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Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos
Each and every week, Uber’s 4,500 stateless microservices are deployed more than 100,000 times by 4,000 engineers and many autonomous systems. These services are developed, deployed, and operated by hundreds of individual teams working independently across the globe. The services vary in size, shape, and…
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Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates
System76’s COSMIC desktop environment gets a new lock screen, login screen, tiling applet, and important UI additions.
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Adtech surveillance and government surveillance are often the same
In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the targeted advertising industry, fueled by personal information harvested from our cell phone applications, has run roughshod over our privacy. Worse, the boundaries between corporate surveillance and government...
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We Built a Streaming SQL Engine
A streaming SQL engine keeps queries’ results up to date without ever having to recalculate them, even as the underlying data changes. To explain this, imagine a simple query, such as SELECT count(*) FROM humans
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Common-knowledge effect: A bias in team decision making
Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.
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Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer"
Using DISTINCT to fix duplicate rows from a SQL join is a common antipattern. It generates all the duplicates first, then sorts them away - hurting performance. Learn how to rewrite these queries using EXISTS for cleaner, faster SQL Server results.
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Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
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How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.
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Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach
KQBD Vip - trực tiếp kết quả bóng đá hôm nay cập nhật trực tuyến theo Nano giây, kết quả đêm qua & rạng sáng nay từ 2.000+ giải đấu toàn thế giới.
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Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms
Hello, Several FFFs ago we have shown you what a Space platform can look like (FFF-373), today we would like to explain how they work in a bit more detail.
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A Brief Introduction to Military Pillboxes
Explore some of the anti-invasion defences built across England during the First and Second World Wars.
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What's new in C# 12: overview
It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...
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Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
PLANO, Texas (Oct. 19, 2023) – Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMNA) today announced it has reached an agreement with Tesla, Inc. to adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) on its battery electric vehicles (BEVs) beginning in 2025. In […]
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Ozone hole goes large again
Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an ‘ozone depleting area,’ reached a size of 26 million sq km on 16 September 2023. This is roughly three times the size of Brazil.
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ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles.
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Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope
In an unusual trial, Stanford Medicine researchers found that a patient’s belief that they had received ketamine, even if they didn’t, could improve their depression.
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DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
We developed a safety mitigation stack to ready DALL·E 3 for wider release and are sharing updates on our provenance research.
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Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
`rip` resolves and installs packages from PyPI from pure Rust
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Mojo is now available on Mac
We released Mojo local download for Linux systems on September 7th, and in just over a month we’ve seen tens of thousands of downloads and amazing community projects such as llama.🔥and Infermo. We deeply value your feedback, as Mojicians, and we appreciate every single PR, feature request, and bug report.
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Consortium launched to build the largest open LLM
The University of Turku and one of Europe’s largest private AI labs Silo AI, with its large language model (LLM) arm SiloGen, are today announcing a large-scale initiative on open and trustworthy L
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Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately...
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Zero ASIC is out of stealth
Democratizing silicon
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Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
New research has identified links between gut bacteria, inflammation and brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization
Bringing Game-Style State Synchronization to the Web
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Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
We’re open-sourcing Fuyu-8B - a small version of the multimodal model that powers our product.
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Standardizing next-generation narrow precision data formats for AI
Realizing the full potential of next-generation deep learning requires highly efficient AI infrastructure. For a computing platform to be scalable and cost efficient, optimizing every layer of the AI stack, from algorithms to hardware, is essential. Advances in narrow-precision AI data formats and associated optimized…
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USB-C head-to-head comparison
CT scans of four USB-C cables from $4 to $129 reveal nine-layer PCBs, length-matched signal traces, and floating pins.