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Wikipedia switches to CC BY-SA 4.0 license
The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the update to our license to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, one of the main changes of our recent Terms of Use update, which brings the…
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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022)
MMAP Databases = 💩
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Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
Today we’ve got a very fun project to talk about: The FUE5 project, explained in this article by Hurricane. It’s Factorio, but 3D! Dreams do come true sometimes. It’s not quite a game, but more of a stunning re-imagining of its visuals. There’s lots of technical details on how this was achieved, so let’s jump in. What…
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Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
Less-experienced contact center agents become more productive with assistance from generative artificial intelligence, a new study finds.
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A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married
As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, a significant increase from 20% in 2010.
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Kaboom.js 3000
JavaScript game programming library that helps you make games fast and fun
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The Liberty Phone
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
In this case study, we are excited to share an insider's perspective and look under the hood of how a Massive.com customer built an automated retail trading bot that is capable of monitoring the entire stock market in real-time.
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Hurl 4.0.0
Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl , that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:
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CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
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AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates?Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL…
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Atom feed format was born 20 years ago
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format. It all began on June 16, 2003,
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Publishing free software video games
A comprehensive guide to publishing your video game as free software
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How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
In this blogpost, we introduce our latest series of chatbot models, LongChat-7B and LongChat-13B, featuring a new level of extended context length up to 16K tokens.
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Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"
Since its launch, YouTube’s TrueView skippable in-stream ad product has been underpinned with a single, tantalizing promise: you “don’t pay a dime” if viewers skip your ad. But turns out there’s a catch: they’ve made it almost impossible to skip the ads. This is just one of the revelations that Dr. Krzysztof Franaszek…
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English as the new programming language for Apache spark
Discover the English SDK for Apache Spark, making data analytics more accessible with simple English instructions powered by Generative AI.
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A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure
Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
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Keeping Open Source Open
Every user of Rocky Linux is valued and their contributions matter. From software engineers to IT professionals and hobbyists, together, we are all pa...
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Physicists produce neutrino images of Milky Way galaxy
Physics researchers from Drexel University at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory led the production of the unique neutrino-based image of the Milky Way Galaxy using particles of matter instead of the usual electromagnetic energy.
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The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration
We are celebrating 25 years of the KDE Free Qt Foundation.
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JavaScript macros in Bun
Call JavaScript functions at bundle-time and inline results into the AST
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Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?
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Kagi raises $670k
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
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Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
Visa (NYSE: V) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash.
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Microsoft opens MIDI 2.0 repo
The updated MIDI 2.0 specifications have been released, so we're opening the repo to the public.
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We raised a bunch of money
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.