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ReactOS 0.4.4 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory Model to Predict Stock Prices
Editor’s note: This tutorial illustrates how to get started forecasting time series with LSTM models. Stock market data is a great choice for this because it’s quite regular and widely available to everyone. Please don’t take this as financial advice… Continue reading Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Model…
Elixir and Rust is a good mix
Make your Elixir projects even faster using Rust!
Engineering code quality in Firefox
Here's an insider's look at Firefox's code quality toolchain that's been designed to manage the ongoing development and monthly releases of our desktop browser. This post explores the architecture, challenges, ...
Wikifunctions
The new library of functions will answer questions and enhance knowledge. Everyone, everywhere can access and contribute to it now.
Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures – particularly deepfakes...
135 new currencies at Stripe
Starting today, businesses using Stripe in the US and Europe can accept payments in 139 currencies.
EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
The Microsoft Excel add-in is here!
Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried
Diaspora, the “open Facebook alternative” (NYT story for background if you aren’t familiar), has raised Over $170,000 from over 4600 people in just a few weeks. All for an idea. That’s an impressive start if victory was measured in press coverage, cash, and cool. HereR…
Antitrust lawsuit says Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone, iPad prices
SEATTLE – A new antitrust class-action lawsuit accuses Apple Inc. and Amazon.com of colluding to raise the price of iPhones and iPads, according to Hagens Berman, the law firm representing consumers against two of the world’s largest companies in today’s filing.
AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case
Improved video compression is important for delivering digital video files more quickly and with higher quality, while using less bandwidth and storage. Everything from 4K movie streaming to smartp…
Datadog acquires Quickwit
The unexpected journey of building a multi-petabyte scale search engine
"Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services.
Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e
A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)
(Recently I found the following text in manuscript among old papers of mine. It must have been written in the middle of 1973, but I don't think that in the intervening three years it has lost anything of its significance. Hence I now incorporate it in the EWD-series.)
Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
Nyxgeek here. It's 2026 and I've got two more Azure Entra ID sign-in log bypasses to share with you. Don't get too excited…these bypasses were recently fixed, but I think it's important that people know.
AI produces realistic sounds that fool humans
A video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.
Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites
Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites in our dataset. Here's what we found and what it means.
Inkling 2 Small
Today we are introducing the second generation of Inkling models with the release of Inkling 2 Small.
Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux
Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts…
Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the (lengthy) release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just …
Scaling monorepo maintenance
Today, GitHub can repack even the largest repositories we host in a fraction of the time it used to take. Here's how we did it, and why.