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The Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your internet history
Protection of your Internet history is up in the air thanks to new, pending legislation. A new bill coming before Senate aims to completely dismantle the
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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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We are being sued for refusing to take down a website
In May, 2014 we were contacted by Andy Lehrer who requested that we takedown the website causepimps.ca because he claimed the page http://causepimps.ca/andy-lehrer/top.html contained defamatory material (queue Streisand-effect in 3-2-1...go!) We reviewed the website to see if there were any material violations of our…
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Qt Creator 18 Released
Qt Creator 18 highlights development containers to ease kit configuration, a convenient Overview tab, and various UX improvements.
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DDR4 SDRAM – Initialization, Training and Calibration
A detailed tutorial on DDR4 SDRAM Initialization, Training and Calibration. Exploring topics such as Read/Write Training, ZQ Calibration, Vref Training, Read Centering, Write Centering, Write Leveling and Periodic Calibration.
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A National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners…
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Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Mobile App Launch Checklist
Explore Branch guides, reports, case studies, webinars, podcasts, and practical resources for deep linking, attribution, mobile measurement, and app growth.
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How to program independent games (Johnathan Blow of Braid fame)
How to program independent games
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Canada's Quiet Weakening of Communications Encryption
This article outlines some of the federal government of Canada’s successful and unsuccessful attempts to weaken encryption standards.
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Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date
Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way survey to date.
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FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences
Transformers have grown deeper and wider, but training them on long sequences remains difficult. The attention layer at their heart is the compute and memory bottleneck: doubling the sequence length would quadruple the runtime and memory requirements.
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
The scientific community has galvanised in response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, building on decades of basic research characterising this virus family. Labs at the forefront of the outbreak response shared genomes of the virus in open access databases, which enabled researchers to rapidly develop tests for this…
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Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
Renewable power generation in the first half of 2023, with a share of 57.7 percent of the net electricity generation for public power supply, was significantly higher than in 2022.
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From macOS to Arch Linux
First impressions
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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.
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The Future of Kubernetes
Kubernetes is ubiquitous in container orchestration, and its popularity has yet to weaken. This does, however, not mean that evolution in the container orchestration space is at a stand-still.
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Browsers eating RAM
This got a lot more attention than it deserves. As I'm pointing out below, it's likely the case that the system tool I used for measuring memory footprint isn't giving the full picture. It's also not a very indicative test in terms of every day use. However, I do think the reason this resonated with so many people is…
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We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
A long day of debugging led to a better solution: Signed URLs.