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The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,678 posts.
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Haiku's (Kernel) Condition Variables API: Design and Implementation
A few months after my contract with Haiku, Inc. began, I rewrote the implementation of the Haiku kernel’s condition variables (as opposed to our userspace condition variables, which are from POSIX.) As this new implementation has run in Haiku …
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Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which a...
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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QEMU 8.0
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.
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Keep the monolith, but split the workloads
Everybody loves a monolith, but you can hit issues as you scale. Learn how splitting workloads can improve your monolithic architecture's performance and scalability, and understand the trade-offs between monolithic systems and microservices.
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Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?
The Earth Species Project is using large language models to develop tools to decipher animal communication.
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Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation
The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)—a scalable, low-latency garbage collector providing sub-millisecond max pause times—continues to evolve. This session will review the design goals behind ZGC and provide a look into the impact of the upcoming support for multiple generations. It will also present general guidance on…
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First space images captured by balloon-borne telescope
Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that has begun capturing images of the universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to the edge of space by a helium-filled NASA scientific balloon the size of a…
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Libreboot 20230423
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230423 released!
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Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
Cloudflare Zaraz now can also help you with gathering and managing consent. With this new tool, you can easily collect user’s consent preferences on your website, using a consent modal, and apply your consent policy on third-party tools you load via Cloudflare Zaraz
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WTF is a KDF?
Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
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Modern Transactional Stack
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Artificial intelligence, like machine learning before it, is making big money off what I call the “sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ scam.” The scam works as follows. Build a sy…
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Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM
13 vulnerabilities in GarminOS and the MonkeyC VM, 9 with CVEs, that let Connect IQ apps escape the VM and bypass permissions on 100+ Garmin watches.
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Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
Pet parrots in a new study led by Northeastern researchers loved using iPads to call fellow birds to chat while forging lasting friendships.
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Explosions are great, actually
The history of spaceflight is the story of weirdos, explosions, and stacked odds.
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Will boiling water ruin green tea?
A common myth regarding green tea is that it shouldn't be prepared with boiling water.
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GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
Demonstrating that GitHub Copilot trains on non-permissive licenses and cannot filter suggestions properly, while Codeium avoids legal risk.
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The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without the government looking over their shoulder. So it’s dismaying to see a group of U.S. Senators...
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The weird world of Windows file paths
File system paths on Windows are stranger than you might think. On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it’s a path. Not so on Windows, which serves up a bewildering variety of schemes for composing a path.
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Manipulative Consent Requests
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Bard coding update with Colab exporting
Bard can now help with programming and software development tasks, across more than 20 programming languages.
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Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
Announcing a new, more secure way to publish to PyPI
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu. […]