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0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. Developed by the commerci…
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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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Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
Research beyond the obvious
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Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
Besök Ostindiefararen Götheborg i Göteborg och upptäck världens största oceanfärdiga träskepp. Boka biljetter och utforska historien bakom detta unika fartyg.
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Claude 2.1
Claude 2.1 brings a 200K token context window, a 2x reduction in hallucination rates, beta tool use, and system prompts.
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What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
What AirGradient learned while making a plastic injection mold in China, from DFM and tooling quotes to samples, revisions, and production risk.
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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s…
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New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for...
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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WebKit Supports Nested CSS
Back in December, we wrote an article detailing three different options for CSS Nesting.
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
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AI Canon
A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.
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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
The company, which ranks among the top corporate philanthropists in the U.S., will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where it can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities.
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Greifswald nuclear fusion experiment has surpassed an important target.
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Hermes: An open-source document management system
Learn about Hermes, an open source document management system created by HashiCorp to help streamline writing and document processes.
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Godot 4.1
Four months after the release of Godot 4.0, we are excited to bring you Godot 4.1 — an update with a focus on stability, performance, and polish.
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New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
More than just a yearly release, Supernova is a modernized overhaul of Thunderbird, but still feels comfortable and familiar.
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Twitterrific has been discontinued
Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]
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Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
U.S. adults who routinely say hello to their neighbors have higher wellbeing than those who greet fewer or no neighbors.
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Nim 2.0
The Nim team is proud and happy to announce Nim version 2.0.
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Pandoc 3.0
A universal document converter
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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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The underground world of credit card network exploitation
SaaS companies face rising card testing attacks, with similar card parameters hinting at a possible bank leak. Stripe's Radar and custom rul
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From deep to long learning?
For the last two years , a line of work in our lab has been to increase sequence length. We thought longer sequences would enable a new era of machine learning foundation models: they could learn from longer contexts, multiple media sources, complex demonstrations, and more. All data ready and waiting to be learned…
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How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.