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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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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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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…
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Introduction to vector similarity search (2022)
Learn what vector search is and the metrics pertinent to decide the distance (or similarity) between objects.
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New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
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Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
Oracle underscores its commitment to helping keep Linux open and free for the global Linux community.
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Firecracker is not the best choice for all kinds of workloads.
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Thunderbird 115
Supernova features a single dynamic toolbar, presenting frequently used and contextual options based on the tab or Space that is currently active. Take full control by customizing the toolbar and window layout to perfectly fit your workflow.
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Wayland on OpenBSD
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Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 166 contributors, 522 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.11 release on crates…
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PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.
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The Development of the C Language (1993)
C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979, when portability of the Unix system was being demonstrated. In the middle of this second period, the first…
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Machine Unlearning Challenge
Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide arr...
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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons
Flickr Badges (poolie from Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) We are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Flickr Foundation to extend the great work already done via the Flickr2Co…
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Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
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Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
We’re kicking off a public discussion across the web and AI communities to develop new machine-readable means to provide web publisher choice and control.
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How the new Threads app is made
Emerge Tools analysis of the Threads app
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Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing
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The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Companies spend thousands of dollars to buy fake reviews and get bad ones removed.
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Git and Jupyter Notebooks Guide
We show you best practices, workflows, and tools to solve all Jupyter Notebooks <--> Git challenges.
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TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services
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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows users to seamlessly purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky.
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Customers don't want chat bots
I came across an intriguing comment recently by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and public face of ChatGPT. Altman has been in the news quite a bit during his global PR tour, including an appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing last Tuesday, during which he asked for Congressional regulation of AI.
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More green spaces linked to slower biological aging
More green spaces were associated with slower biological aging, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. People who lived near more green spaces were biologically 2.5 years younger, on average, than those who live near less greenness.