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March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
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Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
Element is one of 14 messaging apps blocked by the Central Indian Government which - we believe from media reports - relates to Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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Bun v0.8
Bun gets debugger support, fetch streaming, and `bun update`. ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, including raw mode on `process.stdin`. SvelteKit now works in Bun. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.
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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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Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But...
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Phoenix 1.7.0
Phoenix 1.7.0 is here! This releases includes major new features, component-based generators, updated conventions, LiveView Streams, and more!
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Making games in Go for absolute beginners
Want to rekindle your passion for coding? Learn how to create video games from scratch using Go and Ebitengine. We break down core concepts like game loops, sprites, and collisions that we've applied in multiple projects. In just one evening, you'll build a simple Asteroids clone and reignite your love for programming.
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
MLC-LLM makes it possible to compile LLMs and deploy them on AMD GPUs using ROCm with competitive performance. More specifically, AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX gives 80% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 and 94% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3090Ti for Llama2-7B/13B. Besides ROCm, our Vulkan support allows us…
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The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
EARN IT Act is aiming at scanning our messages and photos, we are calling of Senators to oppose this surveillance bill!
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He made linear algebra fun
Mathematics Professor Gilbert “Gil” Strang taught his last class to thousands after teaching calculus, analysis, and linear algebra for more than 60 years at MIT and online. He reflects on his life at the Institute and as an instructor with MIT OpenCourseWare.
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Why you should probably be using SQLite
Where you store your application data has enormous impacts on your entire application. There are implications on the entire stack based on what you decide to...
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Database Performance at Scale – A free book
Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.
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The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation
Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privilege boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is…
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Deno Queues
Introducing Deno Queues - zero config, scalable messaging with a guaranteed at-least-once delivery. This new primitive builds on the foundation set by Deno KV, and is available today in the Deno JavaScript runtime and Deno Deploy.
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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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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
How to spot moral meltdowns before it's too late.
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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
Vespa is becoming its own company!
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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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Google OAuth is broken (sort of)
Today I’m publicizing a Google OAuth vulnerability that allows employees at companies to retain indefinite access to applications like Slack and Zoom, after they’re off-boarded and removed from their company’s Google organization. The vulnerability is easy for a non-technical audience to understand and exploit.
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MRSK vs. Fly.io
Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
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OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices
Great news for Android users!
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Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
We are open-sourcing Supabase Edge Runtime allowing you to host your Edge Functions anywhere.
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Bevy 0.12
Thanks to 185 contributors, 567 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.12 release on crates…
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Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way
25 years ago, I sent this email, which ended up changing the course of my life From: Gerald Combs - Unicom Communications <gerald [at] … > To: gtk-list [at] redhat . com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Ethereal 0.2.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:47:01 -0500 (CDT) Ethereal is a network analyzer that lets you capture and interactively…
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Fundamental Math for Game Developers
Let's review the most important math topics used by game devs, reflect about math education, and discuss techniques that can be used to improve the way we learn new math topics.
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We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption
Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the many additions to WebKit that are included in Safari 16.4.
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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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The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…