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Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,677 posts.
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Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)
Uber AI Labs introduces a method for making neural networks that process images faster and more accurately by leveraging JPEG representations.
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Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
Today we're expanding Bard to new languages and countries, and launching new features to help you get creative and boost your productivity.
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Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave
The ad hoc group “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow data communications on multiple bands within the HF 2 – 25 MHz range with up to 20 KW, including in bands immediately adjacent to spectrum allocated to the Amateur Radio Service.
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GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
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OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023
This post is part of a two-part series, of which this is the first. In this post, we go a bit into the infrastructure that runs OpenTTD, from BaNaNaS to our main website. The second post will explain a bit about the migration we just did to get to this infrastructure.
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The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy
Pulling back the curtain on the evolution of ebooks offers some clarity to how the shift to digital left ownership behind in the analog world.
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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
More than just a yearly release, Supernova is a modernized overhaul of Thunderbird, but still feels comfortable and familiar.
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Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 brings a bit of Rust in the kernel
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 to the Canary Channel. We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. Starting with to
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MuseScore 4.1 is now available
We are delighted to announce our first major update to MuseScore 4 since it launched last year. This update includes a significant upgrade to our playback…
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Tokenized Tokens
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
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NotebookLM: An AI Notebook
We’re rolling out NotebookLM, an experimental offering from Google Labs to summarize information, complex ideas and brainstorm new connections.
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20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding
We’re excited to announce the release of our pg_embedding extension for Postgres and LangChain! The new pg_embedding extension brings 20x the speed for 99% accuracy to graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search to your Postgres databases. While the pgvector extension with IVFFlat indexing has been a popular…
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Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins
Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes.
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Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
Update 13th July: The DMCA notice was rescinded with no further comment. Our landing page appears to be listed in Google's search results again.
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Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
This post introduces the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric and explains how it works, how to measure it, and offers suggestions on how to improve it.
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HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?
Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries. We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first developed the Neon driver to help developers…
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
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ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets
How moving from Vnode-based replication to tablets helps dynamically distribute data across the cluster, ultimately increasing ScyllaDB’s elasticity.
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Claude 2
Claude 2 brings improved performance, a 100K token context window, and 2x better harmlessness, available via API and the claude.ai beta.
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We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
TigerBeetle is a distributed financial transactions database, designed for mission critical safety. How do you test something so critical? Well, we could tell you (and we will), but why not show you?
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SUSE is forking RHEL
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
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Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox
Users can now block poorly behaving third-party DLLs in Firefox to improve stability and performance.
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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…