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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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Progress on provable inference for large language models
Sharing progress on a powerful type of cryptographic proof known as a zkSNARK, which is uniquely fit for provable inference.
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
A new type of vaccine that can be stored at warmer temperatures, removing the need for refrigeration, has been developed for mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya in a major advance in vaccine technology. The findings, published in Science Advances today [Wednesday 25 September], reveal exceptionally promising results for…
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Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
This post is a copy of tweets by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn . SHA256 was designed by the NSA. BLAKE (the original) and BLAKE3 were designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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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.
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ZCash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin) technology preview
I’m extremely happy to announce the Zcash project. Zcash (formerly “Zerocash”/“Zerocoin”) is a project to create a new currency for the Internet, inspired by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an amazing and complex…
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Homebrew 2.0.0 released
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.0.0. The most significant changes since 1.9.0 are official support for Linux and Windows 10 (with Windows Subsystem for Linux), brew cleanup running automatically, no more options in Homebrew/homebrew-core, and removal of support for OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and older.
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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More
Sometimes growth hides the fact that a business is on the verge of failure. Here's how.
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If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK
With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.
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PyPy 5.1 released
We have released PyPy 5.1, about a month after PyPy 5.0. This release includes more improvement to warmup time and memory requirements,...
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Figma AI
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
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The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention
YouTube Video
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Ruby delights built into the language
No Gems Needed
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Introducing Preemptible GPUs
In May 2015, Google Cloud introduced Preemptible VM instances to dramatically change how you think about (and pay for) computational resources for high-throughput batch computing, machine learning, scientific and technical workloads. Then last year, we introduced lower pricing for Local SSDs attached to Preemptible…
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I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)
The original research reports on security issues found in ACME TLS-SNI-01 which caused Let's Encypt to sunset it.
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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WebGPU is now available on Android
Support WebGPU on Android, use of DXC for shader compilation, timestamp queries in compute and render passes, default entry points to shader modules, support display-p3 as GPUExternalTexture color space, memory heaps info, and more.
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Gleam v1.9
News post: Gleam v1.9.0 released
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How SQLite scales read concurrency
Understanding how the write-ahead log turns your scaling up to 11.
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.
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Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on low-frequency brain waves known as beta rhythms.
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EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal
San Francisco - Federal law enforcement officers compromised the backbone of the Internet and violated the Fourth Amendment when they demanded private encryption keys from the email provider Lavabit, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues in a brief submitted Thursday afternoon to the US...
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1000 nodes and beyond: updates to Kubernetes performance and scalability
Editor's note: this is the first in a series of in-depth posts on what's new in Kubernetes 1.2 We're proud to announce that with the release of 1.2, Kubernetes now supports 1000-node clusters, with a reduction of 80% in 99th percentile tail latency for most API operations. This means in just six months, we've…