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A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging
Research shows the biological aging process can be slowed by strong social connections and support.
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Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver
Breaking up-to-date Windows 11 BitLocker encryption -- on-device but software-only
1203
Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
1204
Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
1205
Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
Introducing our first Frontier Models!
1206
Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB
A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.
1207
Introducing the Llama Startup Program
We’re excited to announce the Llama Startup Program, a new initiative to empower early stage startups to innovate and build generative AI applications with Llama.
1208
JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but v...
1209
The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
The year was 2010. “Ke$ha's Tik Tok” was topping the Billboard charts. Steve Jobs has just introduced a goofy new oversized iPhone called an “iPad”.
1210
Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
Explore data with Python & SQL, work together with your team, and share insights that lead to action — all in one place with Deepnote.
1211
Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
Measuring the next level of intelligence with ARC-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
1212
Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
1213
When someone says they hate your product
How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study
1214
Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool
Democratizing silicon
1215
Building AI agents to query your databases
In the world of AI agents, the ability to understand and analyze structured data is a game-changer. While large language models excel at understanding natural...
1216
Creating your own federated microblog
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
1217
Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.24x faster across KernelBench v0.1 problems, and 1.87x faster across KernelBench v0 problems.
1218
Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
1219
Starcloud
The NVIDIA Inception startup projects that space-based data centers will offer 10x lower energy costs and reduce the need for energy consumption on Earth.
1220
I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.
1221
Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water
Combining solar power production with agriculture can significantly boost crop yields, conserve water and generate low-carbon electricity for areas particularly vulnerable to climate change, a new study has shown.
1222
Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
The Mend research team uncovered a fake VS-code extension—truffelvscode—typosquatting the popular truffle for VS-code extension. Read the post for more details.
1223
Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication
Starting in mid-January 2025, Volexity identified several social-engineering and spear-phishing campaigns by Russian threat actors aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. These attack campaigns were highly targeted and carried out in a variety of ways. The majority of these attacks originated via…
1224
How the economics of multitenancy work
CI is chaotic, bursty, spiky, and short-lived. That chaos is a nightmare unless you’re built for it. Blacksmith’s serverless CI cloud thrives on unpredictability: more customers = more noise = smoother utilization = lower costs for everyone. Multitenancy isn’t just efficient — it’s profitable. And yes, the margins are…
1225
Orpheus-3B – Emotive TTS by Canopy Labs
Canopy Labs is developing digital humans that are indistinguishable from real ones.
1226
Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies
Most of the Firefox User Interface (UI), including the address bar and the tab strip, are implemented using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript plus some additional custom components like XUL. One of the advantages of using web technologies for the front end is that it allows rendering the frontend…
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How X-Plane Works
X-Plane works by reading in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figuring out how that aircraft will fly. […]
1229
How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs
Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other, how LLMs run on real hardware, and how to parallelize your…
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Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science
President Joe Biden has announced that Ingrid Daubechies , James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics , will receive the National Medal of Science in 2025. She is being honored for her pioneering work on signal processing.