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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a ship strike, leading to a state of emergency and ongoing search-and-rescue operations. Six people remain unaccounted for, two were rescued, and the incident, which occurred when the ship lost power, is not thought to be intentional.

Jack and Finn introduce Aqua Voice, a voice-native document editor that understands natural language commands for easy document creation. Aqua aims to improve dictation experiences, especially for those with disabilities, and is seeking early adopters.

The article details the author's discovery of a Linux kernel bug (CVE-2024-1086) and shares novel techniques for exploiting it with high success rates. It also provides a guide for vulnerability researchers, including proof-of-concept code and fileless execution methods.

The Rust ecosystem addresses tech debt through collateralization, where unmaintained dependencies are merged into active projects, upgrading their status. This strategy, as applied to yaml-rust in insta, transforms perceived junk tech debt into "AAA" rated solutions.

The article highlights various innovative non-AI tech projects, including open-source tools for emergency notes, e-Ink planners, mood mapping apps, and privacy-focused finance apps. It also covers efforts in web service monitoring, chart generation, job application management, and game development.

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Canva Inc. has made its largest acquisition by purchasing the Affinity suite to rival Adobe, with the deal being a significant cash and stock investment. The addition of Affinity's team and software aims to enhance Canva's AI-powered toolset and professional offerings.

The article discusses Sega's transition to 3D gaming with the Sega Saturn, highlighting its dual Hitachi SH-2 CPUs and complex architecture designed for 3D graphics. Despite challenges, the console's unique capabilities allowed for significant advancements in game design and graphics.

The article discusses a transformer-based hybrid multimodal model that tackles various issues in music information retrieval, generating information dependencies that mutually influence each other in generating chords, beats, lyrics, melody, and tabs for any song. It also highlights the use of different network models like U-Net, Pitch-Net, Beat-Net, Chord-Net, and Segment-Net, and their ...

Julian Assange may appeal his extradition to the US if suitable assurances aren't provided by the UK and US, with a focus on first amendment rights and fair trial concerns. The court awaits these assurances by April 16, or will grant Assange leave to appeal.

Moirai is a universal forecasting model that addresses challenges in time series data across domains and frequencies with zero-shot capabilities. It excels in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution settings, outperforming traditional models.

Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting feature, which misreads gene symbols as dates, has led to the renaming of 27 human genes. The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee has revised naming guidelines to prevent data corruption.

Neal Osborne, a diabetic council member, experienced a life-threatening emergency due to a malfunctioned insulin pump and faced a 30-hour ordeal in Ballad Health's ER. Ballad, a monopoly resulting from a state-sanctioned hospital merger, has significantly longer ER wait times, exceeding state criteria and national averages.

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Deej is an open-source mixer allowing control of PC app volumes via sliders, easy to build with Arduino and a Go client. It's customizable, supports various configurations, and doesn't require fancy hardware to assemble.

The study links lower household income to signs of advanced brain aging and poorer cognitive performance, mediated by brain tissue microstructure. Higher income individuals maintain cognitive function despite similar brain changes, highlighting socioeconomic impacts on brain health.

Find books to read based on your mood (e.g., what to read when I'm tired). Suggested books have an average rating of 4.09/5 on Goodreads.

Apple's 1980s Jonathan project, led by engineer Jonathan Fitch, aimed to create a modular, expandable computer with a "backbone" design for diverse user needs. Despite its innovative approach, the project was scrapped due to complexity, competition concerns, and doubts about its market viability.

Echo Chess is the viral daily puzzle game: you become what you eat. Play Classic, Epic, Zen Mode, for free. Transform as you capture in this mobile web chess variant.

The article introduces NonlinearSolve.jl, a high-performance, open-source solver for nonlinear equations in Julia, featuring a unified API and advanced capabilities like GPU support. It outperforms established tools, offering robust solutions for complex models across multiple disciplines.

Columbia University researchers received a $38.95 million contract to develop a living knee replacement using stem cells. The project aims to provide a durable, patient-specific solution for osteoarthritis sufferers.

Scientists are harnessing fungi's natural properties through genetic engineering to create nutritious and environmentally friendly food alternatives. Advances like CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing are being used to enhance flavors, textures, and nutritional value in fungi, offering a promising future for sustainable food production.

The article discusses the potential of binary vector search in reducing memory consumption by up to 30 times while maintaining reasonable accuracy in the field of vector search. It details experiments showing that despite losing some information, binary vectors can still capture essential patterns, and with the use of adaptive retrieval techniques, can achieve up to 95% accuracy, while ...

Theo, a robot operating on Dutch tulip fields, is being used to detect and eliminate diseased bulbs, aiding in the fight against the tulip-breaking virus that weakens plants and bulbs. As part of a larger initiative, 45 such robots are patrolling tulip fields across the Netherlands, replacing human "sickness spotters" and utilizing artificial intelligence to identify diseased flowers, thus ...

The article discusses the benefits of TypeSpec over OpenAPI for API definitions, highlighting its readability, reusability, and smaller code size. TypeSpec offers a user-friendly syntax and the ability to encapsulate API patterns into reusable components.

WhatTheDuck is a web app for SQL queries on CSV files, supporting data joins and temporary storage. It offers development and production modes, with customization via quasar.config.js, and is MIT licensed.

Google now mandates that new Android apps be signed by them for Play Store publication, shifting key control from developers. VLC is being compelled to comply with this policy for app updates.

The article describes the author's experience working as a content moderator for online memorials, where they screened condolence messages, often encountering typos and spam rather than offensive content. The job highlighted the complexities of grief and the oddity of digital condolences, sometimes leading to humorous or nonsensical expressions of sympathy.

Pinnacle is a modern homage to the 1986 game 'The Sentinel', enhancing the original's atmosphere with advanced features while preserving its core gameplay. It's a strategic energy-management game set in a 3D world, where players absorb and transform energy to ascend levels.

The Rust compiler's strict ownership rules complicate the creation of data structures with circular references, such as trees with parent links. Rust programmers use lifetimes, centralized ownership, or raw pointers to manage complex structures like binary search trees.

The article details the author's creation of a custom USB spinner controller to enhance the playability of arcade games like Arkanoid on emulators, which originally required a rotary controller. It includes technical specifications, personal adjustments for gameplay, and a component list for those interested in building their own.

Canva acquires Affinity's creative apps, challenging Adobe's market dominance. Deal's cost undisclosed; aims to draw professionals to Canva's user-friendly platform.

Neorg 8.0.0, a Neovim plugin for organization, introduces breaking changes and requires migration; it's a versatile tool using a single .norg file format. It's still in development, so expect changes, and installation can be complex, involving luarocks.

Myelination is critical for brain function, and loss leads to severe impairments; new research identifies SRF as a key regulator in myelin sheath formation, offering potential treatment paths. The study by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute highlights SRF's role in oligodendrocyte structure, crucial for myelination and possibly reversing age-related and disease-related myelin damage.

The sudo-rs team reduced their project's dependencies from around 135 to just three essential crates to mitigate security risks and simplify maintenance. They replaced unnecessary external libraries with their own code, balancing risk with the benefits of a leaner codebase.

The article discusses a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning, highlighting music generation, and compares symbolic and waveform domains in music modelling. It also explores generative models and their application to music, detailing the state of the art and future discussions.

The article discusses the technical process of editing packets in real-time, primarily within the context of video game data using Golang. It provides a step-by-step guide on manipulating packet data in flight, using VMs and tools such as the gopacket library, and highlights the importance of understanding binary protocols and error handling, emphasizing that this knowledge shouldn't be used ...

Attached: 1 image I asked ChatGPT to write the TypeScript code to print "Hello, world!" as a junior developer.

The Internet Archive faces a legal challenge over its digital lending practices, with a court ruling against its self-scanning service as copyright infringement. The case has garnered significant attention, with various parties filing amicus briefs both supporting and opposing IA's appeal.

The article reflects on the deep-rooted history and cultural significance of the United Methodist Church in South Shields, built in 1905, which has served as a community hub for generations. It highlights the church's role in fostering social connections, moral discussions, and a sense of belonging, while also noting the decline in membership and the shifting religious landscape in England and Wales.

WindSpider introduces a revolutionary self-erecting crane with no weight or height limits for wind turbines, promising lower life cycle costs and suitability for windy conditions. The company partners with Leirvik to build the crane in aluminium, enhancing the efficiency of onshore and offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance.

The article discusses the introduction of a new timekeeping system in OpenTTD 14 that separates animation, economy, and calendar time, allowing for more precise gameplay and the option to play in real-time units. The update also includes the ability to adjust cargo production and addresses compatibility issues with NewGRF industries.

Range partitioning is increasingly favored in scalable distributed systems but lacks implementation resources. It offers flexibility and efficiency over other methods, such as hash partitioning, by allowing easy scaling and data locality.

Telegram's new OTP relay feature for Android users offers a Telegram Premium code but may incur SMS charges and privacy risks. Participation requires accepting potential costs and waiving liability claims against Telegram.

Podman 5.0.0 introduces a major overhaul for Windows and Mac, with a rewritten podman machine command improving VM performance and stability. It also deprecates CNI networking, defaults to Pasta for rootless networking, and introduces various Docker compatibility improvements.

CommodityAI simplifies commodity shipment management by automating processes and documentation to reduce errors and save time. They offer data preprocessing, AI-driven automation, and workflow actions to improve efficiency for traders.

Board-certified physicians find GPT-4V's medical image interpretation lacking in accuracy, risking patient safety. The study highlights the need for caution in clinical applications of AI models like GPT-4V.

The course provides an interactive introduction to discrete mathematics for CS and engineering, covering algorithm design, computability, and systems. It requires knowledge of calculus and is available under a Creative Commons license on MIT OCW.

Global Astronomy Month begins with anticipation for North America's last total solar eclipse until 2044, offering resources for computational astronomers. Stephen Wolfram's livestreams and Wolfram Language provide interactive learning and advanced astronomical computations.

The author reflects on the unexpected practical value of their computer science education, particularly in understanding the theoretical limits of computation, and emphasizes the importance of Turing's work on the Entscheidungsproblem and Universal Turing Machines, which underpin modern computing.

LWN.net offers a free trial to its Linux and free software news service, highlighting the NixCon event which discussed Nix's potential in Docker image building and future changes. The conference also focused on NixOS boot improvements and standardizing service configurations.

The author discusses the concept of "Bayesian cringe," a reluctance among Bayesian statisticians to use prior information, advocating instead for the use of strong priors to improve model realism and prediction. They note a shift towards embracing regularization and informative priors to achieve model stability and complexity.

Astronomers discovered 49 new gas-rich galaxies with the MeerKAT telescope, led by Dr. Glowacki from ICRAR. The unexpected find, during a short observation, highlights MeerKAT's capabilities in detecting star-forming gas.

Nixos-generators allow for generating various target formats from a single NixOS configuration, and support cross-compiling for different architectures. Disk image sizes can be customized, and new formats can be defined within the configuration.

The author shares personal productivity tips, emphasizing the importance of simplicity, writing things down, and using lists to manage tasks and information. They advocate for using familiar tools over complex ones and scheduling time for tasks to stay organized, especially for those with ADHD.

The binary array set (BAS) is a space-efficient data structure for adding elements and testing membership, but it doesn't support element deletion. It uses minimal overhead space and is suitable for applications that don't require element removal, unlike balanced binary search trees that allow for adding, testing, and removing elements but use more space.

HMRC's Basic PAYE Tools for Linux stopped working after an update, despite a history of reliability. Users struggle with the broken software, which is possibly due to its reliance on outdated Python 2.

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Physicists discovered electrons in molybdenum ditelluride and graphene layers behave like fractionally charged particles without an external magnetic field, a phenomenon called fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect. This unexpected behavior suggests new electron properties and potential quantum computing applications, exciting the scientific community.

The article expresses mixed feelings about a TV adaptation of a book series, appreciating the visualization of scientific concepts but criticizing changes to the plot and characters. The author is also concerned that the adaptation's writing style caters too much to adult themes, potentially alienating the original book's audience.

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Andrea Leopardi and Francesco Cesarini discuss the growth of the Erlang ecosystem, highlighting the diverse languages on the BEAM VM and the evolution of features like maps. They also consider the challenges of extending Erlang and the BEAM VM without compromising its soft real-time properties.

The article discusses David Luan's experiences at OpenAI and Google, highlighting Adept's focus on building practical AI agents rather than pursuing academic benchmarks. It also emphasizes the importance of multimodal models for knowledge work and Adept's unique approach to AGI through software tool training.

The article discusses the multifaceted roles of acetate in health and disease, highlighting its benefits for cardiac function and memory, and its involvement in diseases like cancer due to its role in protein acetylation. It also delves into the enzyme ACSS2's significance in recycling acetate and the dual nature of acetate as both beneficial and potentially harmful in certain conditions.

ACM has transitioned Communications of the ACM to a web-first, open access publication, enhancing its speed and multimedia content. This move aims to broaden readership and engagement within the global computing community.

The software company is refining its community program to improve efficiency and impact, discontinuing free licenses for Alpha and Integrity but offering a new package-based model for x86 licenses. Changes are made to ensure sustainability and encourage adaptation to new technologies.

Tech bloggers are preparing for April Cools, where they'll write on non-tech topics; the author delves into the history of regex line anchors, $ and ^, originating from QED editor adaptations.

The Murrieta Police Department stopped using Lego heads to anonymize suspects on social media after Lego's request, adhering to a new California law limiting mugshot sharing. Lawmakers and the public question the practice's appropriateness and seek further compliance with privacy rights.

Ripple Labs Inc. CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking $2 billion in fines over the XRP crypto token, with a public brief expected soon. The article argues that the crypto industry's lack of regulation has led to scams and fraud, rather than innovation, and welcomes the end of the "crypto Wild West", stating that if crypto can't ...

Voters in Atlanta experienced over 10-hour waits in the 2020 election due to a 10% reduction in polling sites, impacting mainly Black, Democratic areas. Researchers are applying topology to systematically analyze polling site distribution and access issues.

A St. Louis family was wrongly targeted by a SWAT team due to tracking stolen AirPods, resulting in a lawsuit for excessive force. The tracking app inaccuracies led to their home being mistakenly raided and left in chaos.

Apache Parquet is praised for its efficient data storage over CSV, but can be exploited to create files that, while small, represent massive amounts of data, potentially causing reader crashes. Using compression and encoding tricks, a 42-kilobyte Parquet file can represent over 622 trillion values, requiring 4 petabytes of memory to fully materialize.

The article discusses a DIY GPU server build for AI training, suggesting Tinybox as a commercial alternative with support. It details the author's choice of hardware, including an ASROCK Rack ROMED8-2T motherboard with an AMD Epyc CPU and Nvidia 4090 GPUs, emphasizing the importance of PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth for performance.

Affinity, known for its accessible creative software, is now part of Canva, aiming to enhance design tools and maintain its commitment to users. This partnership will leverage Canva's resources for faster development and potential integrations, without affecting current Affinity apps or pricing.

The article offers complete digital access to FT journalism across devices, with flexible cancellation and a discount for annual payment. It also promotes the print edition delivery, adding value with expert analysis.

Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs discovered a botnet of 40,000 end-of-life routers and IoT devices used in cybercrimes, grown since 2014 and operated by a cybercriminal proxy service called Faceless. Researchers advise on defense against these compromised devices, highlighting their use in global cybercriminal activities.

The article discusses a technique for localizing global state in Elixir apps to allow tests to run asynchronously without interference, by giving each test its own state copy. It details using the process dictionary and process ancestry to scope data to individual tests, avoiding global references.