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Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you’ve typed to find the best resu...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,680 posts.
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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency
In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.
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Claude's Character
How character training cultivates traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness in Claude using a variant of Constitutional AI.
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FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind, Information Security Engineers At Google, security is a top priority - not only for our ow...
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Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
The BBC asked us to have a look at some smart locks for a TV show recently. We didn’t have much prep time, but were genuinely shocked by just how easy this one was to compromise. Usually, we spend time looking at Bluetooth/RF, the mobile app, the API and then move on to hardware. This […]
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Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
The self-deleting VOLTA infostealer steals credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets. Then, it uses LLMs to profile victims and rank their most valuable assets.
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Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
Embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, psychologists find
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"
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Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit
An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero On Se...
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Vulnerabilities in Password-Manager Apps
There are different policies for the generation of secure passwords. However, one of the biggest challenges is to memorize all these complex passwords. Password manager applications are a promising way of storing all sensitive passwords cryptographically secure. Accessing these passwords is only possible if the user…
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Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world
An international team including Oxford physicists has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The study provides an experimental connection between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity.
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Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
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Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Announcing The Zig Software Foundation
In the United States, people look at you funny if you tell them you are starting a non-profit.
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Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game
In "Red Dead Redemption 2," a birder finds joy and despair in a realistic portrayal of wildlife in the pre-conservation era.
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FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update
We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the same power consumption baseline in
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Replit now supports every programming language in Nix
At Replit, we want to give our users the most powerful, flexible, and easy-to-get-started coding environment. However, it has been limiting because we only support a fixed set of languages and OS packages, some of which are outdated. Ideally, users should be able to use any language and install any package with…
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Going Fast Slowly
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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Heroku for Java
We're pleased to announce the public beta of Heroku for Java. Java is the fourth official language available on the Cedar stack. Java is, by many measures,
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Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production
How Heap runs 10 million postgreSQL indexes in production.
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JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz
We are deeply saddened to hear the news about Aaron Swartz. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Aaron’s family, friends, and everyone who loved, knew, and admired him. He was a truly gifted person who made important contributions to the development of the internet and the web from which we all benefit.
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What Clojure Spec is and what you can do with it
This is the blog version of a talk I gave on the 2017-12-13 at the Athens Clojure Meetup, which was kindly hosted by Skroutz . The video of the talk is available (the talk was given in Greek, but there are English subtitles). This blog entry is not an exact transcript of the talk, I've added links and more information…