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Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,707 posts.
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization
We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?
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Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful
“ Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ” – Edsger Dijkstra
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Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
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Arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU must reject China investment
On 6 January 2021, 53 people were arrested in Hong Kong under the National Security Law, including the organisers and candidates in last July’s democratic primaries where over 600,000 Hong Kongers voted for pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming Legislative Council elections. On the morning of 6
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C++ says “We have try... finally at home”
The destructor serves as the "finally".
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Clang and FSF's strategy
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
A 2026 Airline Water Study released today by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity reveals that the quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline, and many airlines…
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Face retouching settings should be off by default
To provide more control and transparency for selfie filters, we created a guide for respecting personal choices around face retouching.
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Rust without the async (hard) part
A comparison between async Rust's and lunatic's approach to massive concurrency.
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JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference
Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers.
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.NET Standard 2.1
Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we’ve shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It’s time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations […]
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New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA
Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have demonstrated that mutations in so-called ‘junk’ DNA can cause autism. The study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics, is the first to…
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Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant
Micropayment-powered stories
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Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
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Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of its CAD software
When is the output of a copyright-protected software program itself protected by copyright? This is a case of first impression for any court of appeals which is pending at the Ninth Circuit. The case is Design Data Corporation v. Unigate Enterprise, Inc., 14-16701. On 17 October, 2016, counsels for both parties…
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Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
Managing millions in Meta ad spend, yet treated like we don't exist. An inside look at how Meta's AI-driven changes are disrupting agencies and advertiser performance.
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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because...
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Wayland on Wine: A First Update
Proposed on the upstream mailing list as a new RFC (Request for Comment), this update contains more details and instructions for building and running the Wayland driver.
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What’s New in Docker 1.13?
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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Nvidia adds liquid-cooled GPUs
A liquid-cooled NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU is the first in a line of GPUs for mainstream servers responding to customer demand for high-performance, green data centers.
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Final Steps
An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who...