Stable Diffusion 3, an advanced text-to-image model, enters early preview with improved features and a waitlist for access. The model promotes safe AI with various parameters and safeguards, aiming for responsible innovation and broad accessibility.

Bluesky network introduces federation, allowing users to host their own data and switch providers without losing connections. It aims to make social media a public good, not controlled by a single company, and offers features like composable feeds and account portability.

Google's Gemini AI has been criticized for historical inaccuracies in its image generation, depicting white historical figures as people of color, which may be an overcorrection for AI bias. The company acknowledges the issue and is working to improve the accuracy of its diverse representations.

Phind-70B is unveiled as a fast and performant model, surpassing GPT-4 Turbo in speed and code quality. It offers a superior developer experience, with significant improvements from additional training.

Odysseus' camera captured an image of the 50 km wide Bel'kovich K crater on the Moon, with an expected challenging landing at 1630 CST. The IM-1 mission's lunar lander remains healthy, with precise maneuvers eliminating the need for a third engine firing before the February 21 LOI.

A widespread cellular outage affected many U.S. regions, with over 32,000 incidents reported for AT&T. The outage disrupted emergency calls, including 911, and telecoms have yet to comment.

Intuitive Machines' lander Odysseus successfully touched down on the Moon, marking a historic return for the US and a leap for humanity's lunar exploration. Mission control confirms landing, with further checks ongoing to ascertain the lander's status and mission readiness.

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The author expresses surprise at the large JavaScript file sizes for modern web pages, often exceeding content size, and questions the necessity for such bloat, especially for simple tasks. They highlight examples like Slack's 55 MB and a growing react.dev app, suggesting a trend towards inefficiency.

Paramount Global dismissed around 800 employees despite high profits and stock prices, attributing the layoffs to the company's growth and evolution. The CEO's speech paradoxically praised the staff's contributions, which ironically led to their termination.

The article details the author's process of turning a ThinkPad X1 Carbon into a programmable USB device by activating the xDCI controller, enabling emulation of USB devices and fuzzing without external hardware. They navigated technical complexities involving kernel drivers and BIOS settings to achieve this.

Unfortunately, Rocket Lab does not seem to be named after seed investor/aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket.

Pages CMS offers a user-friendly interface for website management on GitHub, free and open-source. It's a front-end app with limited backend needs, adaptable to various hosting platforms.

LilyPond focuses on creating high-quality sheet music akin to traditional engraving and caters to a wide range of musical notation needs. It's a free tool under the GNU Project, versatile for various engraving tasks.

A parent creates a screen-free, educational game called the xylophone maze to introduce their 3-year-old to coding concepts, using Lego Duplo blocks and a xylophone for instructions. The game, adaptable for various ages, involves a "robot" player following musical notes to navigate a maze.

The article discusses a bug introduced on February 20, 2024, affecting language processing in LLMs due to an error in the token mapping step. A fix was deployed after identifying that inference kernels malfunctioned on specific GPU setups.

QuestDB is a high-performance, open-source time series database. A Java coding challenge to aggregate data from a billion-row file sparked community collaboration and optimization, resulting in significant performance improvements.

Chris and Yuhong introduce Danswer, an open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style system that integrates with workplace tools to provide team-specific knowledge. Danswer is designed to help teams access information efficiently, featuring a custom RAG pipeline, vector and keyword indices, and learning from feedback.

The author shares their experience of quitting YouTube, detailing the challenges and lifestyle changes, including healthier eating and increased exercise. They sought professional help, contrasting therapy with addiction counselling, and emphasize the importance of real-life connections.

The article announces GIMP 2.99.18, the last development version before GIMP 3, with new features and improvements, but warns of its instability and potential bugs. Significant updates include the Space Invasion project for color accuracy and the introduction of non-destructive editing.

Ory Kratos v1.1 is released with new features like phone verification, 2FA via SMS, and support for multiple languages. It also offers passwordless login, session to JWT conversion, and improved account linking and user management.

Japan's Nikkei 225 reaches a record high driven by strong corporate earnings and investor-friendly reforms. A weaker yen and positive foreign investment support the surge, despite domestic economic challenges.

The article discusses the author's interest in "A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP" as it reflects the programming style of the era and offers a clear explanation of the Lisp interactive programming process, which is beneficial for beginners. Despite some content omissions, the book is considered a valuable addition to the author's Lisp library.

Techstars, once a leading accelerator, has been overshadowed by Y Combinator due to strategic missteps and a shift from founder focus to corporate interests, leading to executive exits and program closures like the successful Seattle branch. Insider perspectives reveal these decisions, contrasting with YC's consistent founder-centric approach, resulted in Techstars' decline.

Google's $60 million/year deal with Reddit provides access to real-time data for AI training and search improvement; Reddit positions for IPO with new revenue streams and enhanced search capabilities.

The evolution of the human brain from smaller primate brains remains a mystery, with a new theory suggesting fermentation in diet as a key factor. This hypothesis challenges previous ideas like cooking, highlighting the role of pre-digested food in brain expansion.

Intel reveals new chip technologies and a shift to a foundry business model, offering advanced data-center processors with increased logic density and connectivity. The company's Clearwater Forest CPU exemplifies the potential of these technologies, featuring a multi-chiplet design and 3D-stacked cores.

AI coding tools have grown from skepticism in 2018 to widespread adoption, exemplified by GitHub's Copilot generating $100 million in annual revenue. Supermaven introduces a new neural network with a 300,000-token context window, promising more efficient code completion than competitors.

YouTube reports over 1 billion hours of content watched daily on TVs, with a significant preference for user-generated videos, especially among Gen Z. Creators are experiencing a surge in TV viewership, while TikTok dominates mobile but begins to expand its video length and ventures into spatial reality.

Supernotes focuses on simplicity in note-taking with a single font for better focus, and has developed a new custom typeface, SN Pro, based on community feedback for improved readability and features. SN Pro is a free, open-source font with multiple weights, designed for both personal and commercial use, and Supernotes encourages community contributions for its ongoing development.

The paper presents LongRoPE, a method that extends the context window of LLMs to 2048k tokens with minimal fine-tuning, preserving short context performance. It employs non-uniform positional interpolation, a progressive extension strategy, and readjustment for efficacy.

Scientists at Fermilab have successfully used electron beams to break down PFAS in water, a promising method compared to less effective conventional treatments. This collaboration with 3M could lead to a viable solution for treating contaminated water on a larger scale.

Yale reinstates standardized test requirements for 2025 applicants, citing their strong predictive value for academic performance. The policy change, allowing more test types, follows similar moves by other Ivy League schools and aims to aid diverse admissions.

The article explains Fossil's synchronization process, which relies on exchanging artifact hashes and content via HTTP requests, without central authority, akin to a CRDT system. It details client-server interactions, including optimizations for handling large numbers of artifacts and transferring local state.

JetBrains introduces a Beta version of its new terminal in IDEs from version 2024.1, featuring a block layout and enhanced command completion. Users can toggle between the old and new terminals, with improvements and AI functions planned for future updates.

Long COVID, with symptoms like fatigue and cognitive issues persisting beyond 12 weeks, affects up to 10% of infected patients. Trinity scientists linked brain fog in Long COVID to leaky blood vessels, seen via a novel MRI, potentially revolutionizing treatment.

The WiFi Retromodem replaces the PCB in Hayes Smartmodems and features ZiModem software with simulated audio dialing. It requires a separate 25 pin serial cable and a +5V AC adapter, excluding the original, for connection and operation.

vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. Responsible for its development is the vvvv group.

The U.S. Google Pay app will cease functioning on June 4, 2024; users can manage funds via the app until then and afterward on the website. Peer-to-peer payments and new deals in the app will also be discontinued from this date.

OpenBSD on amd64/aarch64 platforms now crashes programs for unexpected indirect branching to prevent ROP attacks, with the compiler adding safeguard instructions. Faults from missing branch targets are made explicit, aiding in debugging.

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Campaigners are set to converge on Dartmoor to protest England's limited right to roam, advocating for an access system similar to Scotland's. They highlight the absurdity of "access islands" due to private land barriers, contrasting with Scotland's more open right of responsible access.

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Emma Murphy's life was altered by a call revealing potential harm caused by the drug Epilim, which she took during pregnancy. This led to a partnership with Janet Williams, advocating for children harmed by valproate, resulting in a proposed compensation scheme.

BYD's new Qin EV, priced between $15,000 to $29,700, challenges the auto market with its affordability and range options. It aims to surpass the Toyota Corolla in sales by offering a low-cost, reliable electric alternative.

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, is the likely sole buyer of United Launch Alliance (ULA), with the sale expected to be announced soon. ULA's expertise and resources could bolster Blue Origin's position against SpaceX in the launch market.

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California's major population centers emerged due to historical advantages and geographical features; San Francisco became a prime city due to its early settlement and connection to trade routes, while Sacramento's significance arose from its role during the Gold Rush.

The article discusses the formulation of an optimization problem to find the smallest volume ellipsoid enclosing a set of points, with applications in statistics and robust optimization. It explains ellipsoid representation using matrices and transforms the problem into a convex optimization problem.

The article presents Joy, a functional programming language that diverges from traditional function application and instead focuses on function composition through concatenation and quotation. Joy's syntax and semantics form monoids, with programs denoting state-to-state functions that can be composed without explicit variables.

Strada provides seamless connection of business applications with Python's flexibility, bypassing traditional low-code tool limitations. It enables swift automation of tasks like customer onboarding with detailed logging and Slack updates.

Kazakhstan fined Buzachi Neft $780,000 for a severe methane leak from a fire at its oil field, with emissions 480 times above the limit. Despite the fine, the leak's scale was downplayed by the company, contrasting with satellite data confirming the significant environmental impact.

Reddit has enhanced its partnership with Google to make its vast content more accessible and searchable. This collaboration involves programmatic access to Reddit's dynamic content via its Data API, while adhering to existing non-commercial use terms.

GPTFast is a Python package that accelerates inference for Hugging Face models, requiring Python 3.10+ and a CUDA device. It simplifies the use of LLM inference acceleration techniques through a straightforward interface.

AT&T customers across the US experienced a widespread mobile service outage, affecting calls and data, with some unable to reach 911. The company is working on a fix and suggests using Wi-Fi calling in the meantime.

Gibellina Nuova, rebuilt after an earthquake, hosts a vast collection of contemporary art but struggles with depopulation and a reputation as a failed art utopia. Efforts to revive its cultural significance continue, balancing its rich artistic heritage with the need for more tourism infrastructure.

The D Language Foundation aims to develop a compiler library to boost tool creation and language adoption, but progress is slow due to unclear direction and complex code. A plan is set to refactor the codebase, which requires more contributors and offers a chance to learn about compiler development.

Neural networks struggle to perfectly generalize tasks; common objectives fail, but Minimum Description Length (MDL) achieves optimum. arXivLabs fosters collaboration and values openness, community, and privacy.

Polypane Portal enhances web development with features like cross-browser/device testing and element inspection, plus new device support and Chromium version update. It offers synced panes, localhost testing without server deployment, and improved accessibility and debugging tools.

The article describes a Janet scripting system for i3bar and swaybar, provided as a jpm library that requires scripting to utilize, including handling of click events and block messages via a unix domain socket. It details how to send JSON messages to blocks within the system.

Garages have been pivotal in the birth of major companies like Apple and Amazon, symbolizing a space for passion-driven innovation with minimal interference. These origins share common traits of obsession, resourcefulness, and a spirit of experimentation among tight-knit teams.

Recycling entities and legislators in North America are tackling plastic waste in agriculture, with the FAO highlighting its environmental impact. Cleanfarms leads in recycling efforts, although challenges persist, including responsibility for end-of-life plastic management.

The article discusses high-resolution images of Mars Rover Curiosity showing knots in cable bundles, highlighting the use of ancient knot-tying techniques in modern aerospace applications. NASA's standardization of specific knots, like the "Spot Tie," reflects their proven reliability and the conservative nature of aerospace engineering.

HTMX aims to enhance HTML with modern browser interactivity like AJAX without JavaScript, gaining rapid popularity and offering simplicity over frameworks like React. It's lightweight and extends HTML, but React remains superior for complex applications with its advanced features and larger community.

AT&T's network faced major outages, affecting over 32,000 customers, with most issues in major cities; T-Mobile and Verizon also experienced less severe problems. The situation raised safety concerns as it hindered some users from calling 911.

Google's AI tool Gemini is under scrutiny for generating diverse images that may be historically inaccurate, as it overcompensates to avoid racism. The company aims to adjust the bot for better historical context amid criticism of being overly inclusive.

The ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) ensures data integrity by recording brief filesystem activities before full commitment to ZFS pool, affecting operation latency. OpenZFS provides ZIL performance metrics, which require understanding of ZIL internals to interpret.

The article explores various applications of the ternary-filter in Ansible, highlighting its conditional value assignment and chaining with other filters. It also discusses practical examples, including playbook verbosity, idempotence checks, and conditional installations.

The article introduces a new variable 'VITE_APP_CLIENT_PORT' for app port configuration, and outlines changes in team roles, merging admin and editor roles into 'projectAdmin', and adding team and dashboard level roles for improved access control.

The article discusses the initial skepticism around AI in education and Sal Khan's journey from criticizing AI to developing Khanmigo, a personalized AI tutor. Stanford found cheating was not increasing, while Khan Academy integrated AI to improve educational tools and launched the effective and safe Khanmigo.

Cristian Céspedes and other workers suffered wage theft and poor working conditions at Unforgettable Coatings, leading to a union-aided investigation and significant restitution. Despite crackdowns, wage theft persists in the construction industry, with systemic labor abuses especially targeting immigrant workers.

The individual is transitioning to Windows for university due to software requirements and seeks a clean management system similar to nix-darwin's home.nix, without the complexity of dotfiles. They are considering PowerShell scripts, Docker for dependency isolation, and welcome additional suggestions for efficient Windows setup.

The article discusses the elusive nature of humor and the incongruity theory as its secret sauce, highlighting that humor involves an unexpected twist that clashes with the setup. It also explores AI-generated humor, noting that AI and human jokes are rated similarly in funniness.

The article commemorates Henri Sinturel and aims to bridge the gap between the pre-PC 'diplodocus' generation and the modern generation raised on micro-computers, using the APL language. It highlights APL's efficiency in handling arrays and performing operations without loops, contrasting its simplicity with more complex traditional programming.

A data leak from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-SOON reveals its role in state-sponsored cyberespionage, with documents showing government contract work and internal chats. The leak underscores China's use of private firms for espionage, highlighting the competitive cybersecurity industry's involvement in state hacking activities.

The Université libre de Bruxelles hosted a successful FOSDEM event with Linaro's record-breaking eight talks on IT advancements and open-source contributions. The conference covered diverse topics, including Qualcomm support in U-Boot, open-source MIPI camera stacks, and the implications of remote attestation in technology and society.

Kyber is a finalist in the NIST's post-quantum cryptography project, offering three security levels based on the LWE problem's difficulty. It is recommended in hybrid mode with pre-quantum security, with Kyber-768 providing over 128 bits of security.

Xerion, a neural network simulator, requires C and X Windows, runs on multiple platforms, and is freely modifiable and distributable. Developed at the University of Toronto, it's detailed in Prime Time Freeware for AI, with a range of contributors.

AI companies are creating systems that may replace human jobs, causing conflict among those affected now and those at risk in the future. A game-theoretic model suggests unity among stakeholders is key to combating the threat of AI-driven disempowerment.

Google's Gemini 1.5 AI impresses with a large context window, but concerns arise over its image generator's bias and refusal to create certain images, prompting discussions on bias, AI ethics, and the need for transparency in AI systems. The company's response includes pausing the feature to improve accuracy and address the issues raised.

Apple warns against drying wet iPhones with rice, as it may cause damage, suggesting tapping out liquid and air drying instead. They also advise against using heat sources or inserting objects into the phone.

Reports indicate a nationwide outage affecting multiple US carriers, possibly due to a single point of failure, with services gradually restoring. AT&T, owning several smaller carriers, may be central to the issue; customers experienced service disruptions.