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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
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Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG
Maximum inner product search (MIPS) sits at the core of recommendation systems, search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Given a…
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Splitting atoms in XNU
Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project ZeroTL;DRA locking bug in the XNU virtual memory subsystem all...
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Welcome Kat, Yuri, Patrick, and Elizabeth
I’m delighted to announce a promotion and three additions to the YC team. Kat Manalac has been our director of outreach since 2013. She’s done an incredible job, and we’re making her a partner. In addition to regular partner responsibilities, she’ll continue to be responsible for outreach to prospective founders and…
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Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox for a while. It has proven to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues.
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PeerTube 6.3
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
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Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
CIRA Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program In a few weeks, Firefox will start the by-default rollout of DNS over HTTPS (or DoH for short) to
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Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
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Bringing passkeys to Android and Chrome
developers can enroll in the Google Play Services beta and use Chrome Canary. Both features will be generally available on stable channels
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Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
Does explicitly acknowledging bias make us less likely to make biased decisions? A new study examining how people justify decisions based on biased data finds that this is not necessarily the case.
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AI may be making us think and write more alike
Large language models may be standardizing human expression and subtly influencing how we think, says study led by USC Dornsife researcher
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Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Sam is a cofounder of PocketSuite (YC W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific service when they need it, while giving service professionals (“pros”)…
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The Brief Origins of May Day
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins here in this country…
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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
Somehow xor became the most popular version.
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Updating our inactive account policies
Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.
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Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
When I was 16 I was visited by a man who said he had come from the future. He had traveled twenty years back to 1999 to sit down with me and have a chat. We talked for an hour...
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Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Google Search is only 18% Search
Google Search is only 18% Search - Monday, 03 September 2012 - Alex's blog
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Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors…
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New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers. Many of us now...
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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
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High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
Epirus announced today the results of an August 26 demonstration of the company’s Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system that delivers weaponized…