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SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation will receive the 2023 EFF Awards for their vital work in helping to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all...
Researchers in the lab of Brent Fultz have discovered why so-called Invar alloys keep a steady size and shape over a broad range of temperatures—unlike most materials.
AlpacaEval an LLM-based automatic evaluation that is fast, cheap, and reliable. It is based on the AlpacaFarm evaluation set, which tests the ability of models to follow general user instructions. These responses are then compared to reference responses (Davinci003 for AlpacaEval, GPT-4 Preview for AlpacaEval 2.0) by…
The ink helps heart muscle cells align so that they can contract in coordination
Usually, SQLite allows at most one writer to proceed concurrently. The BEGIN CONCURRENT enhancement allows multiple writers to process write transactions simultanously if the database is in "wal" or "wal2" mode, although the system still serializes COMMIT commands.
Let’s highlight the new features and products we announced today from the stage of WeAreDevelopers.
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
Monarch Mixer: Revisiting BERT, Without Attention or MLPs
While eSIM adoption in the mobile market has been arriving for some time, Apple’s move to make
Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like KOSA? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to...
This post is an update to the proposal for officially support SQLite in WordPress. The initial implementation was included in the Performance Lab plugin and then released as a stand-alone plugin. T…
Experts warn that ISPs would use black-box AI to comply Like our piece on Canada's Cyber-Security Bill earlier this year, this item was flagged in my work for the Internet Society, Canada Chapter, but this post does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ISCC. It concerns a legal opinion…
Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are...
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
I have a super power. I want to share it in this blog post so that you, my dear reader, also have it!
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,00
How to run Llama 2 on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone.
Virtual space platform to help remote teams collaborate.
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being...
There are many different kinds of connectors, all serve the same purpose but in different ways. This article discusses connectors and their typical applications.
An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.
These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.
