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The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
The future of Coursera's only credible alternative for universities rests in the hands of 2U's creditors.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign…
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A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp
This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into RISC-V machine code. You can run the compiler on the RISC-V core of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (or another RP2350-based board):
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ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the…
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How I think about debt
Japan has 140 businesses that are at least 500 years old.
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
Today we are launching lcl.host , a free devtool for web developers to quickly setup & use HTTPS locally. With lcl.host , you get a secure browser context in development that matches your production environment. Eliminate mixed asset issues, CORS errors, and secure cookie misconfiguration before they cause problems in…
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Arm64 on GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024
Analyze Backblaze's Q1 2024 hard drive stats, including annualized failure rates, average ages of failure, and insights on over 279,000 drives.
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Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available
We are pleased to announce the availability of Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo on the Stability AI Developer Platform API.
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SecureDrop Protocol
This blog post is a part of a series about our research toward the next generation of the SecureDrop whistleblowing …
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Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Blog posts from the lytix team
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About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
On March 7, 2024, tailscale.com was unavailable for approximately 90 minutes due to an expired TLS certificate. We were able to identify and address the issue quickly, and the downtime was mostly limited to our marketing materials and documentation; still, we would like to explain exactly what happened, what the…
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What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine This exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of MAD, from its beginnings in 1952 as a popular humor comic book to its emergence as a beloved magazine that spoke truth to power and attracted generations of devoted readers
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Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time
Ende 2019 begann die zuvor unauffällige Galaxie SDSS1335+0728 plötzlich heller zu leuchten als je zuvor. Um den Ursachen auf den Grund zu gehen, haben Astronom*innen Daten von mehreren weltraumbasierten und bodengebundenen Observatorien, darunter das Very Large Telescope (VLT) der Europäischen Südsternwarte (ESO)…
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Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database
Introducing the search capabilities of ParadeDB.
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LLVM-powered devirtualization
Virtualization is a powerful technique for code obfuscation, and reversing it can be challenging. In this post, we cover the work done during an internship on developing an automated devirtualization tool. We explore a simplified taint-based approach and discuss its limitations. For a more in-depth analysis, the full…
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.
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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have been working together for years to steal travelers’ money.
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First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
World first: Clinicians have implanted an electrical nerve stimulation device into a Crohn’s disease patient to stop post-surgery inflammation recurring.
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Blender 4.3
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Tachiyomi – It's Joever
Tachiyomi has 14 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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LM Studio 0.3 – Discover, download, and run local LLMs
LM Studio 0.3.0 is here! Built-in (naïve) RAG, light theme, internationalization, Structured Outputs API, Serve on the network, and more.
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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What We're Working on in Firefox
We recently shared a number of updates with our community of users, and now we want to share them here: At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best b
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Meta's open AI hardware vision
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware designs with the OCP community. These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rac…
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NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
NHS England has confirmed that it will investigate whether Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform, after the tech giant covertly launched an influencer campaign which targeted Good Law Project.