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Moments in Chromecast's history
Take a look back at Chromecast’s history over the past 11 years — and learn about the future of streaming TV with Google.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust
A summary of a Codethink sponsored project which implements a cryptographically secure bootloader, written in Rust, for RISC-V.
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Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'
CU Boulder Classics scholars identify previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides.
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Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
You may have heard about instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The issue has been gaining more attention as time goes on. I am posting to share what we've experienced here at Puget Systems, and what we're doing about it.
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Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)
I became fascinated with guilds when I moved to Germany. Being an avid reader of all medieval history I could get my hands on, I was well aware of the Hansa (slang for Hanseatic) League’s ris…
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Make your electronics tamper-evident
If the police ever have physical access to an electronic device like a laptop, even for five minutes , they can install hardware keyloggers, create images of the storage media, or otherwise trivially compromise it at the hardware, firmware, or software level. One way to minimize this risk is to make devices…
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TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips
Google has been a leader on AI development for more than a decade by also being a leader in chip development for more than a decade.
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Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood
By sheer accident, UBC researchers created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light and trademarked it as Nxylon.
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R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks.
This document contains the R 5 N DHT technical specification. R 5 N is a secure distributed hash table (DHT) routing algorithm and data structure for decentralized applications. It features an open peer-to-peer overlay routing mechanism which supports ad-hoc permissionless participation and support for topologies in…
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The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO
The Redox official website
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Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
We've forgotten what community really means.
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Why CSV is still king
Build AI-powered data tables
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Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.
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Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Key findings Proofpoint has observed an increase in malware delivery via TryCloudflare Tunnel abuse. The activity is financially motivated and delivers exclusively remote
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GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models – bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
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Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering aesthetics reminiscent of Midjourney. To play around…
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Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction.
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How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
Over the years, Google's treatment of JavaScript has changed, leaving us with misconceptions of how it's indexed. Here, we debunk the myths.
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This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more
Servo’s unique parallel layout engine just got even better.
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Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
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Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
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Making Machines Move
Gather round the fire to hear the tale of how we built migration for stateful apps on a global public cloud without building a SAN.
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.