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The Secret Behind Qualcomm's Margins? Patents
How Qualcomm mixes licensing and its product business to produce industry-beating profit margins, showcasing the importance of a patent licensing business
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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GNU Octave 8.1
GNU Octave version 8.1.0 has been released and is now available for download. An official Windows binary installer is available. For mac...
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Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
Discover how Tailscale achieved over 10Gb/s throughput on Linux using advanced UDP segmentation and checksum optimizations. Explore benchmarks, results, and the innovations powering wireguard go's latest performance leap.
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Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM
13 vulnerabilities in GarminOS and the MonkeyC VM, 9 with CVEs, that let Connect IQ apps escape the VM and bypass permissions on 100+ Garmin watches.
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Git and Jupyter Notebooks Guide
We show you best practices, workflows, and tools to solve all Jupyter Notebooks <--> Git challenges.
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Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998
Find out where it all began. Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
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Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction
Learn how to train LLM for accurate answers with VectorSQL which allows you to execute finely-grained vector searches to target and retrieve the required information
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Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
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Elixir at Ramp
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team
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Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
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Persimmon-8B
We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests
Patents are supposed to be an incentive to invent. Too often, they end up being a way to try to claim “ownership” of what should be basic building blocks of human activity, culture, and knowledge. This is especially true of software patents, an area EFF has been speaking out about for more than 20...
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The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
Comparison of replication options of time-series databases.
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We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
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Caltech to launch space solar power technology demo into orbit
The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to Earth.
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Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
Rates of new-onset type 2 diabetes climbed 62%—and type 1 diabetes increased 17%—among US youth after the COVID-19 pandemic began, especially in Black and Hispanic children, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open .
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Official Warning: Zero3K
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
The filling of underground heat caverns in Mustikkamaa with water has been completed this week, and the use of the heat caverns for heating homes in Helsinki is a step closer.
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Was there a U.S. nuclear weapons accident at a Dutch air base?
A photo in a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student briefing from 2022 shows four people inspecting what appears to be a damaged B61 nuclear bomb.
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MuseScore 4.1 is now available
We are delighted to announce our first major update to MuseScore 4 since it launched last year. This update includes a significant upgrade to our playback…
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KeePassXC Audit Report
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of container technology, Podman’s latest version, v4.6.0, includes a feature that promises to be a game-changer for system administrators: Podmansh…
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Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla
Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla! Today, August 26, marks the 25th anniversary of Bugzilla! The first two paragraphs lifted from our Bugzilla h...
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DuckDB 0.9
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many changes to discuss them each in…
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever…
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SQLite 3.43
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .