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Beyond automatic differentiation
Posted by Matthew Streeter, Software Engineer, Google Research Derivatives play a central role in optimization and machine learning. By locally app...
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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Temporal quality degradation in AI models
A recent study from MIT, Harvard, The University of Monterrey, and other top institutions showed an experiment where 91% of their ML models degrade over time . This study is one of the first of its kind, where researchers focus on studying machine learning models' behavior after deployment and how their performance…
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Layout 2013 and Layout 2020
Overview of the effort to rewrite Servo’s layout engine, and our proposal for layout in Servo going forward.
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Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots
Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement lear...
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Elixir and Rust is a good mix
Make your Elixir projects even faster using Rust!
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Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
Discover how Tailscale achieved over 10Gb/s throughput on Linux using advanced UDP segmentation and checksum optimizations. Explore benchmarks, results, and the innovations powering wireguard go's latest performance leap.
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Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault
UW oceanographers discovered warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport. They named the unique underwater spring
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Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support
Supacharging Supabase Auth with Sign in with Apple on iOS, Single-Sign-On support with SAML 2.0, and PKCE for server-side rendering and mobile auth.
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Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp
WhatsApp has launched a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. The feature requires no additional actions or steps from users an…
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Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers. Originally launched in preview last year, CodeWhisperer keeps developers in the zone and productive, helping them write code quickly and securely…
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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the projects that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality.
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Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025
Apple today announced a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries.
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We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
In August 2022, Dan Walsh (one of the authors of this article) moved out of his role as container runtimes architect at Red Hat to architect for the Red Hat ...
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What you give up by moving into engineering management
Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you're leaving behind.
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Using io_uring for network I/O
Discover io_uring, an async I/O API for Linux that can potentially benefit networking, and learn how to integrate it into your applications and I/O libraries.
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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FerretDB: open-source MongoDB alternative
After many months of development, FerretDB is now production-ready. We are excited to announce the general availability of FerretDB v1.0.
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Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM
Introducing Dolly, the first open-source, commercially viable instruction-tuned LLM, enabling accessible and cost-effective AI solutions.
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Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files
Storage V3 with lots of new features including resumable uploads, more image transformationsm a Next.js image loader and more.
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OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware
Experience macOS just like before
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Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
Denver legislators have just passed the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill. Today’s landslide 44-16 vote in the House follows successful votes in the Senate last month.
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Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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Almost all of the world’s mammal biomass is humans and livestock
Humans and livestock make up 95% of the world’s mammal biomass; wild mammals are just 5%.