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Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
While the AI race is raging, we’ve been building an alternative. One that’s helpful, private, and optional — and designed for you, not for profit.
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GitHub no longer uses Toasts
How to ensure updates and messages are communicated in an inclusive way.
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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
Inflammation may not be a universal human experience, but a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles.
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A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.
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A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.
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ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning…
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The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets
🕵️ 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging waste were tracked through take-back schemes across England over 12 months.
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America's reputation drops across the world
The proportion saying the United States will have a positive influence on world affairs has fallen in 26 out of 29 countries over the last six months. America’s reputation has fallen most markedly in Canada. For the first time in our decade-long survey series, China is placed ahead of the US when it comes to playing a…
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An update to our pricing
Our pricing model is getting much simpler!
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Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations
Researchers at Nordita at Stockholm University have analyzed flashes of light on astronomical plates from the early 1950s and found statistical connections between the times of these flashes, nuclear weapons tests and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The results are presented in two studies published…
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Data evolution with set-theoretic types
We explore how set-theoretic types could address how many statically typed languages do not allow libraries to evolve their public data definitions in a backwards compatible manner. The proposed solution aims to be automatically verified by the compiler and type safe.
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Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass
Binarly uncovers CVE-2025-3052: a Secure Boot bypass affecting most UEFI devices, enabling attackers to run unsigned code before OS load.
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ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.
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No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos
A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated, another potential tool in the fight against misinformation.
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Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025
Updates on the ESA Gaia mission
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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PgEdge Goes Open Source
pgEdge is now fully open-source under the Postgres license. What that means for distributed PostgreSQL, the Spock extension, and our enterprise customers.
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Scientists create ultra fast memory using light
Novel "photonic latch" technology paves the way for ultra-fast, light-based computing for AI and data centers.
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Threlte 8
The next major release of Threlte
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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering
A great engineer (controls being no exception) has to be part hacker, part master craftsman.
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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information
Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.
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It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)
Throughout the history of Free and Open Source software (FOSS), copyright assignment has simultaneously been controversial and accepted as the norm in our FOSS communities. This paradox, I believe, stems entirely from some key misunderstandings that perpetuate. This issue requires urgent discussion, as two of the most…
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Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking
Nike’s Project Amplify is the world’s first powered footwear system for running and walking, designed to help everyday athletes go a little bit faster and farther — all with less effort.
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Creating an all-weather driver
Life doesn't freeze when winter comes—if anything, that's when riders need reliable transportation most, when being exposed to the elements becomes less appealing. Today, the Waymo Driver successfully navigates rain, fog, sandstorms, and freezing temperatures. As we expand to more cities across the U.S. and globally…
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Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.