The author discusses the prevalence of phishing attacks via SMS, highlighting the importance of vigilance against common red flags like urgency and suspicious URLs. Despite initial skepticism, a legitimate FedEx communication about duty on a 3D printer was initially mistaken for a scam.

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Recent strides in vision, language, and robotics have led to the creation of OK-Robot, a framework that integrates these technologies for robotic pick-and-drop tasks without training, achieving a 58.5% success rate in real-world tests. OK-Robot's performance highlights the importance of fine details in combining Open Knowledge systems with robotics.

Martti Malmi shares his past correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto for a UK trial and reflects on the early development and challenges of Bitcoin, including website creation, coding, and the need for a user-friendly interface.

gemma.cpp is a minimal C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma foundation models, designed for research with easy embedding and modification. It bridges the gap between C++ runtimes and Python ML frameworks, offering a simple, modifiable ~2K LoC core for experimentation.

RAD identified an issue causing crashes in games using Unreal, linked primarily to Intel 13900K and 14900K CPUs due to BIOS settings and high power draw. Workarounds include adjusting BIOS or using Intel XTU to lower CPU power limits and disabling overclocking.

Generative models can synthesize realistic images and learn image intrinsics. The paper introduces INTRINSIC LoRA, a method to predict scene intrinsics without fully retraining the network.

Tom McKay evaded detection at Gizmodo by impersonating Slackbot with a tweaked icon and name, sending bot-like messages undetected for months. Management overlooked the ruse, not spotting the duplicate bot with altered eyebrows.

Meta's paper details the use of AI in improving software testing, highlighting its ability to suggest verified enhancements to code coverage without human intervention. The paper also underscores the efficiency of AI in development, with TestGen-LLM successfully integrating into Meta's workflow and significantly increasing test coverage for Instagram.

The article discusses the development of Searchformer, a Transformer model that outperforms traditional $A^*$ search in solving Sokoban puzzles with greater efficiency. Searchformer is trained to mimic and improve upon $A^*$'s search dynamics, achieving better performance with smaller model size and training dataset.

Smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo are set to be removed due to student privacy concerns over facial recognition software. Students took action to cover machine sensors after discovering the technology.

Destiny Tech100 offers brokerage account access to invest in top private firms like OpenAI and SpaceX. Google's new Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM boasts a 1 million token context window, outperforming other models in handling large prompts without performance degradation.

Language models like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini use Transformer architecture, which slows down with longer sequences. Mamba, a new model, scales linearly, potentially outperforming Transformers in speed and efficiency.

The German government's draft bill aims to legalize cannabis under controlled conditions, including private cultivation and regulated distribution through non-commercial associations, to improve health protection and reduce illegal trade. The CDU/CSU opposes the plan, citing health risks and potential enforcement challenges.

Researchers found that some dogs can learn names of over 100 toys, often without special training. This discovery could help understand the evolution of human language and canine intelligence.

The author reflects on a decade-long practice of daily memory recording and review, which has become more challenging with time but remains enriching. Despite the struggle to maintain the discipline, they persist, valuing the comprehensive perspective it provides on life.

❝ Scuttlebutt can be transformative for society, decentralizing and enabling local community development free of big corp. It is a fast growing decentralized social network. As an alternative to the large corporate social networks it enables autonomy for the users and a free zone from big data harvesting... ❞

The individual encounters a new requirement to provide an email and phone number to obtain their Equifax credit report, a change from the previous identity verification method. Attempts to bypass this by phone failed due to system errors when confirming ZIP code input.

HighInterest.io is a free tool that helps you find the best high-interest savings accounts and maximize your earnings.

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A senior computer science student reflects on the unrealistic experience requirements in job ads years ago and now shares insights after 14 years in programming, emphasizing that writing good code remains challenging and that learning to program has become more accessible. The article also discusses the rarity of good code in large projects and the importance of reading and creating as a programmer.

Capital One's $35 billion bid to buy Discover is driven by a Federal Reserve loophole allowing a bank owning a network to set unregulated prices. The merger faces opposition and scrutiny due to its potential to monopolize the market and exploit merchants with higher fees.

The article promotes a platform that simplifies form creation directly on databases like Postgres, MySQL, or MSSQL with customizable components and styling, and offers tools for app and dashboard assembly with data integration features.

Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA as a "swamp" akin to x86, highlighting its performance issues despite backward compatibility. He suggests open-source tools outperform CUDA, which even Nvidia uses for efficiency.

Loren Pankratz acquired a rare German book detailing early 20th-century American scams aimed at immigrants, which he later published in English. The book offers cautionary advice against cons, reflecting timeless warnings relevant today.

The author experiences continuous false alarms when monitoring an APC Back-UPS BX1600MI on Linux, unlike on Windows. They ultimately return the UPS after confirming the issue persists across multiple units and opt for a different brand.

Research suggests handwriting notes aids learning by activating brain regions tied to movement, vision, and memory, a benefit not replicated by typing. The study emphasizes the importance of teaching children handwriting for better cognitive development.

Shoes simplifies the creation of GUIs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, providing resources for beginners and opportunities for contributors to enhance the platform.

The article criticizes the focus on profit in online content creation and promotes a community-driven approach to sharing genuine content. It introduces a system for reporting self-promotion and adding fresh, authentic sites to a curated list.

Recent research suggests that Myopia may be influenced by environmental factors like indoor activities, leading to the development of Refractify, a software that simulates myopic defocus to potentially slow or prevent Myopia. Refractify is in the pre-clinical phase and requires further research and testing before it can be considered a medical treatment.

The author acquired a mining rig with three RTX 3090s for €1.7k and plans to repurpose it for deep learning, despite inefficiencies with the 1X PCI extenders. They consider upgrading the PCI lines or investing in higher-end CPUs for better GPU communication.

The article explains the functions in the slices package for Go, emphasizing their memory representation and recent improvements for less surprise and memory leaks. It advises using new functions like Delete, which now clear unused elements, preventing memory issues.

A Chinese security firm sold hacking tools and data, aiding China's state-sponsored hacking, targeting foreign governments and monitoring minorities. Leaked documents exposed an eight-year campaign, with experts confirming their authenticity.

JuiceFS Enterprise Edition efficiently manages vast numbers of files with advanced memory optimization techniques, reducing metadata memory usage to 100 bytes per file. The system's all-in-memory metadata engine and Go programming facilitate high performance and scalability in managing billions of files.

The article introduces Tauri 2.0, a framework for creating small, fast desktop and mobile binaries, integrating various frontend and backend technologies. It highlights Tauri's use of Rust for security and efficiency, and its compatibility with web technologies and existing system web views.

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The study found return-to-office (RTO) mandates did not improve firms' financials but decreased employee satisfaction, often linked to firms with powerful male CEOs. RTO is seen as a control tactic rather than a performance booster.

Brave's AI assistant Leo now supports PDF and Google Drive file interactions, enhancing productivity while ensuring privacy. New features include PDF data extraction and text suggestions for Google Docs and Sheets.

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Tacit programming avoids explicit arguments in function definitions, favoring composition and combinators. It's used in languages like APL, but can be seen as obscure.

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The article emphasizes the importance of everyday citizens' input in urban development and highlights the challenges they face, like unsafe walking conditions. It suggests that their experiences are vital for building successful cities.

The article emphasizes the importance of privacy and counters the notion of "privacy nihilism," highlighting EFF's efforts and progress in privacy laws and tools. Despite challenges, it advocates for continued action and optimism in the fight for digital privacy.

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The author shared their experience as a first-time speaker and exhibitor at FOSDEM, focusing on the PineTime smartwatch, and showcased mobile Linux projects while hinting at future developments. Despite feeling nervous and tired, they received positive feedback and enjoyed sightseeing in Brussels.

The studio owner is pausing an $800 million expansion due to AI advancements like Sora, which could replace location shoots and set building. Concerned about industry jobs, he calls for regulation and a united industry response to AI's rapid development.

The article compares two Vim plugins, Slimv and Vlime, which have significantly improved Lisp programming in Vim by offering structured editing and interactive programming features. It also provides a brief history of Lisp and its development environments, highlighting the evolution from Emacs SLIME to Vim's plugins.

Cloud drives provide convenient file access and collaboration but lack comprehensive data protection and face challenges with unlimited storage plans ending. Organizations must strategize for data security and cost-effective solutions, considering backup services like Backblaze for enhanced protection.

A new tool for GitHub identifies commits containing sensitive data that may have been deleted but are still accessible. The tool exposes GitHub's architectural flaw where force-pushed commits are not erased and can be found using the commit hash.

The article discusses the creation of Bitcoin, a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system without a trusted third party, which prevents double-spending using a network-based proof-of-work. Concerns about scalability, bandwidth, and the system's resistance to attack are addressed, emphasizing Bitcoin's potential to reduce spam and operate without central control.

The article outlines the evolution of OnlineOrNot from an MVP to a growing SaaS with steady customer growth, focusing on quality and customer feedback over analytics. The founder experimented with business strategies, like free trials, and infrastructure decisions, like server providers, to improve the service.

Google introduced Gemma, an open large language model (LLM) that integrates easily with Ollama, allowing users to run it on their machines and access it via a REST API. The model is optimized to run efficiently on CPUs, performing about 30% faster than similar models.

The article compares Rust's and C's performance, emphasizing that while Rust could theoretically match or exceed C's speed with enough effort, in practice, C's lack of abstractions and a more primitive standard library make Rust more practical for the author. Rust's advanced features, like abstractions and borrow checking, offer both optimization opportunities and practical programming ...

The article reports on a population of long-tailed macaques in Thailand that began using stone tools to open oysters during food scarcity caused by COVID-19, a behavior potentially at risk of disappearing with the return of tourism.

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The author shares details about creating an affordable, open-source motion capture system for drones, aiming to fill a gap in the market. They also discuss the technical challenges and personal experiences during the project's development.

Resend's database migration error led to a 12-hour outage, affecting all user operations and causing a 5-minute data loss. Restoration efforts were hampered by an incorrect backup selection, but service was eventually restored.

The OS/2 Museum acquired a complete Advanced NetWare 286 2.0a SFT II floppy set and an incomplete NetWare 86 2.0a set, both from 1986, requiring a hardware key to run. The article discusses methods to bypass the hardware key requirement for NetWare 2.0a, either by emulating the key card or patching the software.

The article debates the rationality of different statistical methods in interpreting identical data and criticizes non-Bayesian approaches that might yield inconsistent results. It advocates for Bayesian probability as a coherent, optimal, and uniquely applicable law, contrasting it with the ad-hoc nature of traditional statistics.

Match Group partners with OpenAI, aiming to integrate AI into all aspects of its dating apps, starting with employee tasks. The company envisions AI's influence on user interactions, despite concerns over authenticity and the impact on dating culture.

The article presents three interpretations of matrix products: as visual geometric operations, as lists of dot products, and as sums of outer products, each offering unique insights for different applications. These perspectives aid in understanding matrix interactions in geometry, algebra, and spectral analysis.

In the 1940s, pinball was deemed a societal menace, linked to gambling and crime, leading to its ban in New York and other cities. Decades later, its image rehabilitated as a game of skill, resulting in lifted bans and a resurgence in popularity.

A few Apple Vision Pro headset owners report unexplained hairline cracks on the device, suggesting a possible manufacturing defect. Apple's new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage and iOS updates were also highlighted.

The Markup reports on Near's bankruptcy and potential misuse of sensitive location data, with Congress raising concerns. A court order now restricts sale and mandates a sensitive data program for buyers.

Taylor Swift's concert incites excitement, while "Travis" shares his IT woes of modernizing a shipping company's tech, only to be let go post-project. His detailed documentation becomes pivotal when his old employer needs help, but he chooses deletion over aid.

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The UK Court of Appeal's ruling in THJ v Sheridan clarified the originality requirement for copyright, favoring creative freedom and potentially altering the UK's open culture landscape. The court's decision challenges claims on reproductions of public domain works, impacting museums and galleries' copyright assertions.

The external security audit of curl's HTTP/3 components by Trail of Bits found no major issues, suggesting improved fuzzing and potential areas for enhancement. This third audit shows a decreasing trend in significant problems, highlighting curl's commitment to security.

The article advises that designing systems with Many-To-Many relationships is often more reflective of real-world complexities and suggests starting with at least One-To-Many as they are almost as simple to implement and more scalable. It highlights the challenges of refactoring systems from One-To-One to more complex relationships due to dependencies and potential bugs.

Reconductoring existing power lines with advanced materials can double electricity capacity at less than half the cost of new lines, per UC Berkeley and Gridlab research. The process faces less opposition and permits than new lines, offering a quicker, cost-effective upgrade for the clean energy transition.

Chris Welch expresses dissatisfaction with Spotify's delayed HiFi feature and switches to Apple Music, while noting Spotify may soon offer a pricier "Supremium" tier with high-resolution audio.

A fixed-point combinator in combinatory logic is a higher-order function that returns a fixed point of its argument function. It enables recursion in lambda calculus and functional programming, notably through Curry's paradoxical Y combinator.

Avast, known for its antivirus solutions, sold user data via Jumpshot to numerous companies from 2014 to 2020, despite claims of blocking trackers. Under FTC scrutiny, Avast must pay $16.5 million and adhere to strict privacy measures, though it disputes the allegations.

The Eagle Obsession is a feature-length documentary that investigates the origins of Space: 1999's Eagle and its ongoing global impact.

Astronomers discovered the Radcliffe Wave, a massive gaseous structure in the Milky Way that oscillates like a wave. This finding challenges current understanding of galaxy dynamics and raises questions about its origin and prevalence in the universe.

The Angel, Islington, featured on the Monopoly board, is not an actual street but a historic site evolving from a pub to a bank. Its rich history includes being a coaching inn and a Lyons' Café, with its future as of 2024 yet to be determined.

The author reflects on the aesthetic appeal of vector languages and his passion for them, despite the practical challenges in advocating their use in corporate technology. He also muses on the decline of certain languages, noting that user needs drive language survival, not just the champions' love for them.

MIT researchers have developed a 3D-printable tissue adhesive with superior adhesion and rapid sealing capabilities, which could revolutionize wound care. The adhesive also features a blood-repellent matrix, enhancing its functionality in various surgical and biomedical device applications.

The individual has tried various self-help methods for an ongoing problem without success, leading to distress. They are starting therapy to address the issue and suggest seeking external help when self-efforts fail.

Rob Joyce, NSA's hacker-in-chief, shared insights on cybersecurity, advising on best practices and warning against small vulnerabilities that can be exploited by agencies like the NSA. He emphasized the importance of network privileges management and monitoring to protect against sophisticated hacking techniques.

The article explains that `nil` in Ruby can invoke methods, particularly conversion methods, to create Ruby types like hashes or arrays. It discusses the oddity and potential misuse of converting `nil` to other types, contrasting with safer, explicit conversions.

The Mesa Git repository now supports Zink for OpenGL translation on Vulkan, enhancing compatibility for newer GPUs. NVIDIA RTX 20xx series or newer can use Zink by setting an environment variable after updating Mesa.

Diana Athill chronicled her life in nine memoirs, detailing her privileged childhood and her later years awaiting death with humor. As a renowned editor, she shaped literature behind the scenes and embraced her life's choices and losses candidly in her writing.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics' analysis reveals distracted driving has increased in the US, with phone use while driving up by 20% from 2020 to 2022. Despite efforts to curb the behavior, the US sees higher road fatalities compared to Europe, suggesting phone use while driving as a key factor.

Microsoft Windows 11's ease is combined with Linux's speed and security in a system suitable for low-powered devices. PowerToys integrates Microsoft apps into Windows Ubuntu, offering advanced features like Android support and account integration.

Tech companies are developing non-invasive glucose monitoring tech for wearables, but the FDA warns of inaccuracy and risks of misdiagnosis. Only FDA-certified CGMs, like Dexcom G7, are reliable for glucose tracking, not smartwatches.

The article discusses the collaboration between the author and Charlie Marsh on Python tooling, leading to Astral taking over Rye, a platform for testing Python tooling innovations. Rye aims to improve user experience by integrating faster tools like Astral's uv, potentially changing the Python tooling landscape.

The article presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis showing a significant causal link between economic insecurity and populism, despite heterogeneity and publication bias. It underscores the importance of understanding economic factors in the rise of populism, challenging the cultural narrative.

Tyler Perry halts his studio's $800m expansion due to the AI video generator Sora, fearing job losses in the film industry. Sora's realistic video production from text prompts challenges traditional filmmaking, affecting various industry roles.

John Shakespeare's 1552 fine for a "muckhill" was actually a waste disposal fee, not a punishment, as it was a part of his leather trade. Research by David Fallow reveals that Elizabethan Stratford had sophisticated waste management, challenging old assumptions about its cleanliness.

The University of Waterloo is removing smart vending machines after a student revealed they were secretly collecting facial data. Outcry ensued, leading to an investigation and a university pledge to replace the machines.

The article discusses how incorporating synthetic artworks into training datasets can improve AI's ability to detect art forgeries. It presents a study using van Gogh's paintings and extends the analysis to Modigliani and Raphael, finding that synthetic forgeries enhance detection.

The article discusses the inefficiency of large pull requests (PRs) in software development and advocates for the stacking workflow, which breaks down features into small, manageable PRs for faster, more effective reviews and coding practices. Graphite's analysis suggests smaller PRs facilitate quicker merges and better code quality, while stacking optimizes GitHub workflows by continuously ...

The article discusses a study on Hiroshima glasses, a fallout debris from the 1945 atomic bomb, revealing their formation process and linking it to early solar system materials. Researchers analyzed the glasses' composition to understand the conditions of their creation and broader implications for planetary science.

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The 1BRC aimed to process a large CSV dataset quickly, with varied results depending on the system and methods like using HashMaps per thread. Optimizations and JVM choices affected performance, with top results using GraalVM, highlighting the trade-off between speed and flexibility.

Tumblr CEO Mullenweg engaged with a banned user, sharing private details publicly, after a post threatening staff. The incident highlights challenges in moderating violent imagery, contrasting with another platform's approach and Tumblr's troubled moderation history.