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Hy4 preview
Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,672 posts.
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from women's reproductive health tracking app Flo without consent.
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We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR
This year Thinkst Canary crossed the line to $11M in ARR. That number is reasonably significant in the startup world, where Lemkin refers to it as “initial scale”. For us; it’s a happy reminder of Canary's spread into the market. $11M ARR certainly isn’t our end goal, but it provides the fuel for us to…
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Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets
Author: Nitay Artenstein Introduction Fully remote exploits that allow for compromise of a target without any user interaction have become something of a myth in recent years. While some are occasionally still found against insecure and unpatched targets such as routers, various IoT devices or old versions of Windows…
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Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
Our AI transforms your ideas into immersive, interactive stories in just a few clicks — built to drive 17x more engagement than static pages.
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Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
Yesterday Forbes broke the news that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains…
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Opus 1.5 released: Opus gets a machine learning upgrade
This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience. That is achieved through machine learning. Although Opus has included machine learning — and even deep learning — before (e.g. for speech/music detection ), this is the first time…
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Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows.
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Hyperdrive is now faster and more reliable. Plus it comes with a daemon.
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Lisa Source Code Release
CHM publicly releases the source code to Apple's Lisa computer, including its system and applications software.
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four major browsers since early 2017.
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‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries
Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralyzed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to walk.
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Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
As many of you will know from personal experience, there is a longstanding issue with VoiceOver on Mac where Safari may become unresponsive with VoiceOver repeatedly announcing the message “Safari not responding.” When this issue occurs, the user's Mac may become unusable for up to several minutes at a time. Sometimes…
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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging…
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Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff because of what it enables: PKI lets you define a system cryptographically. It''s universal and vendor-neutral yet poorly…
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JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
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Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
QUIC is a new networking transport protocol that combines the features of TCP, TLS, and more. HTTP/3 is the latest version of HTTP, the prot...
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
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Big data on the cheapest MacBook
How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.
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An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole
Welcome! In this article, I am going to detail for you what I consider to be the perfect Pi-hole setup instructions for 2023 (yes, I know – as of the writing of this article, it’s still 2022, but we’re close enough).
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Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Updated at 12:52 PM PST to include App Engine pricing information Editors note: Tune in to Google Cloud Platform Live for more informatio...
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MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycle control, state preservation up to 8 hours, no infrastructure to manage.
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Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.
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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
Following the posting of the preprint paper “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” on arXiv in November 2024, concerns were raised about the integrity of the research. MIT conducted an internal, confidential review and concluded that the paper should be withdrawn from public discourse.
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Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
Aging causes changes in gut bacteria in mice, which hampers communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring this connection helped old mice form memories as well as young animals.
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Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions
What I learned after reading 14 studies about flow state