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Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
“$ROKU filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9 billion of cash, $487mn is stuck at $SIVB (mostly UNINSURED)” is published by Vikash Ruhil.
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Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
Learn how the new DDoS attack technique Rapid Reset works, and how to mitigate it
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EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
Yesterday, TechFreedom sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee raising concerns about the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023 (EARN IT Act). As it did when introduced in each of the past two sessions of Congress, the EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and…
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Thoughts on Svelte
Assorted thoughts about Svelte after a month of use.
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Creation happens in silence
It’s Saturday, and I’m enjoying the last sunlight for the day in my studio. The house is silent now; my family is taking a nap downstairs. And I’m here, writing, in silence. There’s a thought that kept coming in the last few weeks. As painful as it is, any creation happens in isolation without any signals or external…
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Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34
MySQL needs little introduction. Over the last 28 years it has become one of the most widely deployed SQL databases. MySQL is primarily used for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, but is also deployed as a part of OLAP and queuing systems.
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The fun factor of the video game Uplink
A blog where an obscure indie dev dumps his thoughts sometimes.
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How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore our family’s impending 5,000 mile road trip around the USA
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Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
Using GZIP compression and the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm, we explore an innovative approach to classifying the MNIST dataset with about 78% accuracy
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Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
Together releases the RedPajama-INCITE 3B and 7B model family, including base, instruction-tuned, and chat versions, with the 3B model running on an RTX 2070.
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How transportation technologies shaped empires
For thousands of years, a hidden rule limited the size of empires, unbeknownst to their rulers.
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Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
In this article, you will learn what stands behind the label immutable when it comes to Linux systems
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Introduction to Datalog
A rule-based data query language that thinks differently
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X
The Leteyski family — Ruslan & Tihomira. Links, profiles and more.
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We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
GENEVA (29 August 2023) – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling - a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows.
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Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets
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River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres
Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transactional guarantees.
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I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually
To better understand how transformers work, I hand-assigned all the weights to predict a simple sequence.
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March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
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Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
Element is one of 14 messaging apps blocked by the Central Indian Government which - we believe from media reports - relates to Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
A look at the messy reality of iOS vulnerabilities: which bugs get patched, which quietly linger, and the challenges of tracking real device risk over time.
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EU Commissioner as double agent of foreign interference
Research published yesterday by several European media outlets has revealed that an international campaign in support of the EU's proposed child sexual abuse regulation has been largely orchestrated and financed by a network of organisations with links to the tech industry and security services. The