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Sally Ignore Previous Instructions
Little Bobby Tables has a baby sister. Meet Sally Ignore Previous Instructions.
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One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice
In a new study, researchers induced mild, acute sleep deprivation in mice and then examined their behaviors and brain activity. Not only did dopamine release increase during the acute sleep loss period, synaptic plasticity also was enhanced — literally rewiring the brain to maintain the bubbly mood for the next few…
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An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
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Free Speech Is in Trouble
Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy
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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity
Cloudflare's R2 is an undiscovered gem and is redefining the economics of data storage
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Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers
AdSense is updating its revenue share-structure and moving to per-impression payments for publishers.
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Light can make water evaporate without heat
At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to an MIT study.
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Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness
We are at a critical juncture in AI governance. To mitigate current and future harms from AI systems, we need to embrace openness, transparency, and broad access.
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Current thoughts on social media
My view on the state of social media in late 2023
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Earth's blobs are remnants of an ancient planetary collision
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: Two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean.Each blob is twice the size of the moon, and research over the last decade has shown that they are…
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Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
Arm has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, further extending a successful long-term partnership between the two companies.
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How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
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Where do our atoms come from?
Falling down a rabbit hole
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Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
Note : This post stirred up some interesting discussions on HackerNews and Lobste.rs .
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Home Assistant 2023.11
Introducing a brand new to-do entity type and use it locally with Todoist or Google Tasks. Matter 1.2 is here! New conditions for the conditional card to tailor your dashboards, select custom date ...
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EU Digital Identity framework (eIDAS) another kind of chat control?
The proposed EU Digital Identity framework (eIDAS) aims to meddle with the process around internet certificates and will undermine the independence and security assurances of the basis for website security:
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WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser
There are two types of programming languages: garbage-collected programming languages and programming languages that require manual memory management. With to WebAssembly Garbage Collection, garbage-collected languages can be ported to WebAssembly.
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Now you're thinking with relays
Tinkering with relay-based logic just for the fun of it.
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What do we mean by "the foundations of mathematics"?
The phrase “foundations of mathematics” is bandied about frequently these days, but it’s clear that there is widespread confusion about what it means. Some say that a proof assistant must be based on a foundation of mathematics, and therefore that the foundations of mathematics refers to some sort of formal system…
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My rude-ass car
I need to vent about the impolite piece of yet-to-become e-waste on wheels that is my rude-ass car . You've heard versions of this story before, nothing is particularly novel in the shock department, enshittification is everywhere, etcetera... but I need the catharsis.
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A kernel update broke my stylus
In short, after a Linux kernel update (6.5.8-200.fc.x86_64 on Fedora KDE), I can't use the top button of my pen on my tablet. This is really affecting my digital painting workflow!
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The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
The massive false positive rate of general AI detectors had a devastating effect on freelance writer Michael Berben: being falsely accused of cheating, he lost his job.
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The .ing top-level domain
Google Registry launches the .ing top-level domain.
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Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
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Reasons to fight cashless contagion
Total payments uberfication is a virus, and we need to build resistance to it
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A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
Treezor migrated a legacy PHP application from servers to serverless on AWS Lambda. They gained increased scalability, faster response times and fewer production incidents.
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C++23: Removing garbage collection support
If we go through the list of C++23 features, we can stumble upon the notion of garbage collection twice. Once among the language and once among the library features. Both entries refer to the same paper (P2186R2): garbage collection (GC in short) support is getting removed from C++. Just to make it clear, it’s not…
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HubSpot Acquires Clearbit
HubSpot has signed an agreement to acquire Clearbit.