Thomas Knoll and his brother John developed an image editing program called "Display" in the late 1980s, which later became Photoshop after being acquired by Adobe. The first version of Photoshop was released in 1990 and consisted of about 128,000 lines of code written primarily in Pascal for the Apple Macintosh.

Apple announced new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, Vocal Shortcuts, and Vehicle Motion Cues, designed to help users with physical disabilities control their devices and experience music. The company also highlighted its commitment to inclusive design and accessibility features coming to visionOS, CarPlay, and other products.

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Datomic is a general-purpose database that uses a unique transaction model, where transactions are executed concurrently and do not return values to the caller, instead producing a new set of operations. The database ensures strong session serializability and provides ACID transactions, but its concurrent intra-transaction semantics can lead to subtle invariant violations if not used carefully.

The author describes their terrible experience with the Broadcom website, which they believe intentionally tries to frustrate and hate its users. The website's poor design, user-hostile features, and broken links make it impossible for the author to download VMware software, leading them to conclude that it's a deliberate attempt by Broadcom to express hatred towards its users.

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A GitHub project called N64Recomp allows for recompiled PC ports of Nintendo 64 games with improved graphics and quality-of-life features, making it possible to play classic games like The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on PC. This tool is a game-changer for preservationists and fans of the Nintendo 64 library, allowing them to play old classics in an ideal state without requiring complete ...

The Department of Justice claims Boeing violated a 2021 agreement by failing to prevent fraud, and has not decided whether to pursue prosecution. The company must respond by June 13, and the DOJ will inform the court by July 7 on how it plans to proceed.

Researchers found 618 proteins linked to 19 types of cancer, including some that could warn people of cancer more than seven years before diagnosis. The study suggests these proteins could be used for early detection and potentially new treatment options, but further research is needed to determine their reliability.

The coq-of-rust tool was used to translate Rust code to Coq, focusing on the core and alloc crates, which are large and complex. The resulting translation is not yet fully compilable due to errors, but it provides a "best effort" translation that can be used as a starting point for further refinement and verification.

The S8 data line locator is a GSM listening and location device disguised as a standard USB cable, which can be used for covert espionage and has several eavesdropping capabilities. The device's firmware was analyzed, revealing hidden commands and potential vulnerabilities, including insecure direct object references with authorization bypass through user-controlled key vulnerabilities ...

A mail filter rewrites URLs in emails to check for bad websites, but someone found that adding "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" at the start of an email bypasses this rule, allowing malware links to be sent. This workaround has been tested and confirmed to work, rendering the filter ineffective against malicious emails.

Quary is a data analysis tool that transforms raw data from external sources into analysis-ready datasets using SQL and combines them into dashboards and reports. It can be installed as a VSCode extension, initialized with sample data, compiled, built, and tested against target databases.

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Oracle has replaced Terraform with OpenTofu in its E-Business Suite Cloud Manager, requiring customers to upgrade by June 30, 2024. The move follows Hashicorp's change to a more restrictive license for Terraform, which triggered the creation of OpenTofu and allows Oracle to use a more permissive IaC tool.

An "-ectomy" involves cutting out something, an "-ostomy" involves creating a hole or outlet, and an "-otomy" means to slice or cut up. The term "lobotomy", which was once performed using an ice pick, is now considered outdated and potentially harmful due to its traumatic nature.

Researchers analyzed ancient Antarctic ice and found that current CO2 increase rates are 10 times faster than any other point in the past 50,000 years, driven by human emissions. The study's findings provide new insights into abrupt climate change periods and suggest that strengthening westerly winds could reduce the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb human-generated carbon dioxide.

Gemini API's context caching feature reduces request costs by caching repeat content with high input token counts. It's a paid feature, billed based on cache token count and suitable for scenarios with repeated references to initial contexts.

The author investigates a slow Elasticsearch indexing job in Mattermost, which takes over 18 hours to complete, and finds that the main culprit is a slow SQL query that orders posts by creation timestamp. By simplifying the query and using row constructor comparisons, the author optimizes the query to run 1000 times faster, reducing execution time from 24 seconds to just 34 milliseconds.

Dragonfly, a multi-lens array, detects faint galaxy structure by reducing scattered light and internal reflections. It uses commercially-available lenses with nano-fabricated coatings and images galaxies through multiple lenses simultaneously to reveal extremely faint structures.

Purchasing Desktop Docs for $49.99 includes a download link for the Mac app, with Windows support pending based on interest. The app does not collect personal data and is non-refundable once downloaded, but customer support is available if needed.

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The Antonine plague, which occurred around 166 AD, was a deadly pandemic that spread across three continents and weakened the Roman Empire's economy and social structures. The plague was likely exacerbated by environmental factors such as droughts and climate change, as well as human factors like poor sanitation and malnutrition, ultimately contributing to the decline of the Roman Empire.

The author discusses how well-meaning programs aimed at changing human behavior often fail or even have unintended negative consequences, citing examples such as an anti-drug program that inadvertently encouraged seventh-graders to smoke more. The author argues that this is due to our tendency to overestimate our ability to change people and underestimate the complexity of human behavior, ...

Google is introducing new theft protection features to strengthen device security against theft, including factory reset upgrade, private space, and enhanced authentication. These features will be rolled out through Google Play services updates later this year to Android 10+ devices, aiming to make it more difficult for thieves to access and sell stolen devices.

The author criticizes Lumina Probiotic, a Bay Area company that sells an unapproved and potentially dangerous genetically modified bacteria to prevent tooth decay, without following proper safety and efficacy testing protocols. The author argues that the product poses health risks due to its unknown effects on the body and potential contamination, and demands that Lumina stop selling it and ...

Tarsier is a perception system for web agents that visually tags interactable elements on a page, providing a mapping between elements and IDs for LLMs to take actions. It also includes an OCR algorithm to convert page screenshots into whitespace-structured strings that LLMs can understand, improving performance by 10-20% on internal benchmarks.

Google launched Project Gameface, an open-source hands-free gaming 'mouse' that uses head movement and facial gestures to control a computer's cursor. The project is now open-sourced for Android developers to build accessible applications, with features like customizable facial expressions and gesture sizes.

The user's old Mac Mini had an SSD failure, which led to a multi-hour data migration process and exposed issues with Debian's smartmontools notification system. The user discovered that the systemd journal can still accept appends even when the root filesystem is read-only, leaving them wondering how this works and where the journal files are stored.

The project applies patches to Arch Linux source packages, aiming to upstream them for RISC-V (riscv64gc) support. The project provides various resources, including patch repositories, binary package repositories, and Docker images, with a contributing guide available.

You're the OS! game developer added a Quicksort power-up that sorts idle processes in decreasing order of starvation, but implementing it required overcoming two challenges: creating a function that performs a single step of the algorithm and gives back control to the main loop, and handling changes to the process list during sorting.

URLhaus is a project from abuse.ch with the goal of sharing malicious URLs that are being used for malware distribution. Download the URLhaus dataset to protect your network from malware URLs. The data set is available in various formats.

Topologists have long sought to characterize mathematical shapes by combining local measurements, but newly discovered paradoxically curved spaces show that this isn't always possible. Mathematicians have found a counterexample to John Milnor's conjecture, which claimed that an average sense of a complete shape's curvature was enough to determine its global topology.

The Soviet Union's watchmaking industry was once renowned for producing high-quality, affordable timepieces that rivaled those from Switzerland, with brands like Raketa, Poljot, and Vostok gaining popularity worldwide. Despite its decline in the 1980s and eventual collapse in 1991, Soviet watches remain sought after by collectors today for their unique history, craftsmanship, and nostalgic value.

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MIT researchers have discovered three ancient stars, dubbed SASS, that formed between 12-13 billion years ago and are part of our cosmic family tree. The team believes these stars once belonged to small primitive galaxies that were absorbed by the Milky Way, and they hope to use them as analogs to study ultrafaint dwarf galaxies thought to be some of the universe's surviving first galaxies.

PaliGemma is a multimodal vision language model developed by Google that can perform various tasks such as object detection, segmentation, and captioning, and can be fine-tuned for specific use cases. The model has shown impressive results in optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding, but may struggle with open-ended or complex problems, requiring custom training to ...

Google Docs flagged author K. Renee's content as "inappropriate" and blocked her from sharing it, despite being for artistic purposes. Similar incidents have occurred in the past, with some users claiming their content was incorrectly flagged and others reporting errors in Google's lockout system.

Repealing parking mandates can lead to a significant increase in new homes, with studies showing that 60-70% of new homes would have been illegal to build without reform. Cities like Buffalo and Seattle have seen benefits from eliminating parking requirements, including increased housing supply and affordability, as well as reduced construction costs.

Silo AI and TurkuNLP have released Viking 7B, a best-in-class open-source multilingual large language model for Nordic languages, English, and programming languages. The model family showcases superior performance in low-resource languages without compromising performance in English, with features including an updated architecture, various model sizes, and training on the EuroHPC supercomputer LUMI.

James Sumners decommissioned a project due to lack of time and maintenance, citing an email that contained abusive language as the final reason. He recommends using Go for LDAP operations and may revive or transfer the project if needed, but only with certain conditions.

UniSuper, an Australian superannuation fund, experienced a major outage due to an unprecedented sequence of events at Google Cloud, resulting in the deletion of their Private Cloud subscription. The incident was attributed to a combination of rare issues and an inadvertent misconfiguration during provisioning, with measures taken by Google Cloud to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

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The different levels of cache in a computer system are designed to optimize performance, power efficiency, and density by handling varying types of accesses and traffic patterns. Each level has its own unique characteristics, such as size, speed, and access granularity, which are tailored to meet the specific needs of the CPU core or cores it serves.

React Router is getting features from Remix and will be released as v7, while Remix users can upgrade to React Router by changing imports. The Remix team will focus on shipping React Router v7 and plans to revive the brand with new ideas for server-centric development.

Peter Bauman, diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease, underwent deep brain stimulation surgery at Mount Sinai and was invited to participate in a research study that involved taking biopsies from his brain. The FDA had previously raised concerns about the biopsies, citing "serious risks" and a "false justification" for obtaining patient consent.

Bicycle Rolling Resistance publishes detailed reviews and articles about mountain bike and road bike tires, which have been tested on our rolling resistance roller

The Lisp Game Jam is a 10-day game jam where participants create small games in their favorite Lisp dialect, with no prizes but a judging period for feedback. The Spring edition starts on May 17th and encourages participants to use Hoot, a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler, which has a game jam template repository and HTML5 canvas support for easy distribution.

The user built a cinema selection website that shows every movie screening in every cinema across Germany, without ads or unnecessary features, to provide a simple and functional experience. The website uses a flat database and DataScript queries to build the content on the fly, making it fast and easy to use.

tar is an extensible and general iteration construct for Common Lisp that aims to be pleasant to use, easy to understand, and fast, with a focus on separating iteration from value accumulation. It allows users to define custom iterators and optimizers, making it a flexible tool for iterating over various data structures.

InboxPurge helps manage Gmail by effortlessly unsubscribing, blocking, and deleting unwanted emails with a single click, keeping your inbox clean and organized. The tool prioritizes privacy, operates within the browser via the Gmail API, and offers a free plan with limited unsubscribes that renews monthly.

AI technology has made significant progress, but it often struggles with accuracy and can "hallucinate" incorrect information. The author argues that while AI has potential, its current limitations in accuracy should not be overlooked or dismissed, and instead, efforts should focus on improving its reliability before widespread adoption.

The book "High-Quality Software Engineering" discusses the importance of software quality, particularly in high-reliability environments such as networking and device-level software, where systems must run for months or years without failure. The book covers various aspects of software engineering, including planning, testing, teamwork, and management to achieve high-quality software development.

Purple Air and AirGradient are two low-cost air quality monitor manufacturers, with Purple Air being the most studied and widely used. The comparison between their outdoor monitors, including the Purple Air Classic and Flex, and AirGradient's Open Air models O-1PPT and O-1PST, highlights similarities in accuracy but differences in features, pricing, and data usage restrictions.

Researchers found that wastewater from Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of the US' lithium demand, which would meet domestic production goals by 2030. The discovery was made possible through compliance data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and could provide a valuable source of lithium while reducing waste treatment costs.

The user found a solution to localize.NET applications using POTools and Loco, which allows for easy extraction of translatable strings from.resx files and re-use in multiple places. They created a nuget package called POStringLocalizer that integrates with IStringLocalizer to provide a convenient way to use the Portable Object file format and gettext universe with.NET code.

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The paper evaluates and compares the design decisions and trade-offs of two popular columnar storage formats, Parquet and ORC, with a focus on their efficiency, compression ratio, decoding speed, and support for machine learning workloads. The authors identify areas for improvement in existing formats and provide insights for developing next-generation column-oriented storage formats that can ...

The author discusses the issue of abandoned open-source projects and how users often expect maintenance and support from maintainers, which may not always be available. The author shares their own approach to maintaining their open-source projects, emphasizing that while they will fix bugs and add features for their own use, they do not guarantee responses to questions or bug fixes for others.

Interview preparation has become more challenging with increased difficulty in questions, requiring solving LeetCode hard problems within 30 minutes. The use of tools like Ultra Code can help pass technical interviews, but may also make it harder to detect cheating.

The author, who moved back to the US from Switzerland, struggles with American parenting culture that emphasizes dependence over independence, whereas Swiss culture promotes self-reliance. She internalized this approach while living in Switzerland and continues to practice it with her daughter, who walks to school alone and has more freedom than many of her peers.

Lisa's email to Senator Ghazala Hashmi was rejected due to an SMTP error code, revealing a decennial mail routing problem caused by redistricting in Virginia. The IT department stopped allowing district numbers in senatorial emails to avoid this issue, illustrating the unexpected intersection of politics and technology.

David Schmidt's PhD work explored denotational semantics as a programming language, treating formal semantics as specifications, interpreters, and compiler inputs. The research also introduced abstract interpretation as programs that can be examined for implementation and used to write circular-style programs.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are not suitable for truly effective brainstorming, as they are trained to follow existing patterns and converge to consensus rather than being innovative. To improve LLMs' creativity, suggestions include curating fine-tune datasets with non-conventional topics, iteratively critiquing responses based on creativity, and changing the training process to seek out ...

Plane, an open-source B2B software, has learned valuable lessons from its self-hosted edition's deployment struggles, including the importance of simplifying for users and avoiding quick fixes. The company has abstracted away complexities through a year-long journey, resulting in a more user-friendly setup process and plans to further improve encryption, back-ups, and scalability in 2024 and beyond.

Japanese people are often busy or engaged in entertainment, but not necessarily introverted; they value rules and structure, which contributes to a safe and organized society.

Solomon Shereshevsky, a Russian journalist, had an extraordinary ability to remember vast amounts of information, but his exceptional memory was not without its drawbacks, as it made everyday life difficult and he struggled to distinguish reality from fantasy. Despite his remarkable abilities, Shereshevsky's life was marked by struggles with mental health and addiction, and he died in 1958 ...

iPhone owners are reporting that deleted photos, some years old, are reappearing after updating to iOS 17.5, despite being supposed to be permanently removed. The issue may not be limited to photos, as one user reported seeing old voicemails return after the update.

The lecture discusses the Anthropic Principle and its application to Bayesian reasoning, using thought experiments such as God's Coin Toss and the Dice Room to illustrate how our existence can affect our perception of probability. The concept of postselection is introduced, which allows for conditioning on events that did not occur, and its implications are explored in the context of ...

Raspberry Pi has introduced an M.2 HAT+ for faster primary storage, which may signal a transition away from microSD cards and towards NVMe drives. The new HAT+ specification allows for more reliable and faster storage options, making it easier to build high-performance SBCs with the Pi 5.

The user considers buying a Vision Pro VR headset for cross-country flights, but thinks it might be overkill and questions its portability. They mention having other portable VR headsets that could serve the same purpose at a lower cost, and express concerns about the device's comfort and practicality.

The authors propose an optimization framework using Gaussian kernels to produce high-quality point distributions with blue noise spectrum, surpassing the current state-of-the-art approach. The algorithm scales smoothly to high dimensions and can be extended to adaptive sampling, achieving unprecedented quality in high-dimensional blue noise sets.

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The article discusses simplifying JOIN code by treating foreign keys as dimension tables, eliminating Cartesian products and making queries more intuitive. It introduces two methods: Interconnection of homo-dimension tables and sub table set-lization, which simplify complex joins and reduce errors.

Google has opened up its smart home platform to developers, allowing them to access over 600 million devices connected to Google Home and build their own smart solutions. The new Home APIs will enable local control of Matter devices, improve latency, and allow developers to create complex apps that integrate with smart home devices from various categories.

A chaotic system must be non-linear, and the Lyapunov exponent measures its sensitivity to initial conditions; if positive, it's chaotic and unstable, while negative values indicate attraction to a fixed point or periodic orbit. The quadratic map is used to generate chaotic attractors by iterating random parameter sets and computing the Lyapunov exponent, with most results being infinite ...

The Western United States faces severe water scarcity, but modern technology can convert abundant sunlight into fresh water, making it possible to restore the Salton Sea and support agriculture, industry, and urban development. A proposed solar-powered desalination plant could provide 5 million acre-feet of fresh water per year at a cost-effective price, creating new economic opportunities ...

Haiku developers fixed various issues, including Tracker file panel favorites, crashes, and appearance preferences. They also worked on audio drivers, Bluetooth stack refactoring, XFS driver updates, and TCP implementation fixes.

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are more susceptible to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to heightened sensitivity to stress and trauma, which can exacerbate core autistic traits. Research suggests that mild stressors can trigger PTSD in those with autism, leading to altered brain circuitry and repetitive behaviors.

Avocados have become a staple food in the US, with consumption tripling since 2001, and are now recommended as one of the first solid foods for babies due to their mild flavor, rich nutrition, and low allergenic potential. The rise of avocados has led to various industries emerging around their cultivation, distribution, and sales, including direct-to-consumer websites and subscription ...

This library inspects LuaJIT's FFI typeinfo to recreate descriptions of C data structures and functions as Lua tables, C declarations, and GraphViz diagrams. It returns a table tree describing the given type with fields like "type" and "subtype", and can also create a diagram of the type structure in the dot language for processing by GraphViz utilities.

The Dream Chaser, a spacecraft built by Sierra Space, is set to make its maiden voyage later this year, carrying food and supplies to the International Space Station as part of NASA's commercial resupply services program. The company plans to use the spacecraft for various missions, including taking people to space, delivering supplies or people around the world at high speeds, and ...

RAL is a colour management system used in Europe, created and administered by the German RAL gGmbH, which provides approved products with holograms to prevent unauthorized versions. The system has undergone several revisions since its inception in 1927, with various collections including RAL Classic, RAL Design, and RAL Effect for different applications such as varnish, powder coating, ...

The article discusses the pros and cons of working at a startup versus a big company, with some arguing that startups offer better opportunities for wealth and career growth. However, it also highlights the challenges and uncertainties associated with working at a startup, including the risk of not making any money or having one's equity grant become worthless.

Volvo's new VNL Class 8 truck, designed for North America, aims to improve fuel efficiency by 10% and reduce costs for truck operators while also focusing on safety features. The design takes into account regional differences, such as speed limits and trailer lengths, and incorporates learnings from the Super Truck program to reduce drag and boost overall fuel efficiency.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite (SDXE) laptop chip features a custom ARM core called Oryon, which has similarities to Apple's Firestorm core in terms of branch misprediction penalty and L1 data cache latency. The Oryon core also has unique characteristics such as its large integer scheduler, vector instruction throughput, and memory scheduler layout, making it distinct from other high-performance cores.

Planners can use a novel methodology to measure the barriers created by restrictive zoning in cities, which can help identify areas where zoning is restricting supply and distorting housing markets. By upzoning and increasing zoned capacity, cities can increase choice, reduce costs, and promote more efficient use of land, but this approach requires planners to give up some control over ...

DoltHub pledges to fix bugs in Dolt within 24 hours or less, which includes releasing a new version, and has achieved this by having someone own the bug queue, prioritizing issues quickly, and having well-defined specifications. The company's fast turnaround time helps build trust with customers and sets it apart from competing products that have been around for decades.

The author argues that Discord is a privacy-invasive platform that collects and shares user data, and recommends using alternative platforms like Mumble, which allows users to self-host their own servers for optimal security, privacy, and decentralization. The author also emphasizes the importance of respecting user privacy and protecting personal information, citing examples of how ...

Apple's success under Tim Cook has been driven by squeezing profits from existing products, but the company needs to find its next big thing as iPhone sales slow and revenue declines. With no major product launches since Steve Jobs' death, Apple is pivoting to AI and trying to shore up its supply chain, but it's unclear if these efforts will be enough to drive long-term growth.

A leaked 311-page document from Dell reveals plans for new XPS laptops, including an Arm-powered variant with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip and OLED display options. The document also hints at Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon chips and Nvidia GPU timing, as well as Microsoft's upcoming Surface devices and Windows on Arm announcements.

Australian doctor Richard Scolyer, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer last year, has been declared cancer-free after receiving a first-of-its-kind treatment he helped develop. The treatment combined immunotherapy and a tailored vaccine to boost his immune system's ability to detect and fight cancer cells.

The author, Nabiha Syed, joins Mozilla Foundation as executive director to protect and celebrate the Internet's potential for connection, creation, and freedom. She aims to ensure technology uplifts human agency and encourages readers to share their ideas with her at [email protected].

The user has joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer, excited to shape AI-powered products and empower innovation. Thousands in Georgia protested a bill seen as a Russian ploy to weaken ties with Europe.

Gary Marcus stands out as a rational advocate for AI, while OpenAI faces issues with GPT-4 and quirky errors. The lack of significant advancements in AI models like GPT-5 may indicate diminishing returns.

Baobabs, known for their unique appearance and long lifespan, have been found to have originated in Madagascar rather than mainland Africa. Scientists sequenced the genomes of all eight baobab species and discovered that they diversified into different species on the island due to geographical factors and competition with other plant life.

The author reflects on the overhyped and wasteful obsession with object-oriented programming (OOP) in the past, noting that it was driven by social pressure, conformity, and grandiose claims. The author warns that this phenomenon is not unique to OOP and can be seen in other trendy techniques or ideas, where experts and influencers promote them without critical evaluation.

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The user prefers native iOS development using Swift and SwiftUI, citing their extensive experience with the language and framework, as well as its ability to deliver polished MVPs quickly. They prioritize simplicity and flexibility in their work-life balance, choosing to focus on a single platform and avoid backends to maintain a low-stress lifestyle.

Penguin Books, launched in 1935, used mass production and distribution techniques to democratize reading and create an engaged public sphere. The iconic penguin mascot was chosen after a brainstorming session, inspired by the London Zoo's Penguin Pond exhibit, and became a powerful brand symbol that people identified with.

Limiting GPUs to about 2/3rd of maximum power draw optimizes Joules consumed per token generated without speed penalty. The author used llama.cpp software and measured power consumption to find the "sweet spot" for their dual 3090 + i7 setup, achieving an efficiency of around 225W per GPU.

Hysata, an Australian green hydrogen electrolyser manufacturer, has raised $111m USD in a Series B funding round led by bp Ventures and Templewater to expand production capacity and develop its technology. The company's high-efficiency electrolysers aim to produce green hydrogen at scale with lower costs than alternative technologies, supporting the decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors.

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A new study reveals that traditional societies around the world used running to hunt big game, with nearly 400 documented cases between the 16th and 21st centuries. The findings suggest that endurance running was more widespread than previously recognized and may have played a role in shaping human evolution, particularly in terms of physical adaptations such as springy feet and slow-twitch ...

AI models, particularly deep networks, are converging in their representations of data across domains and modalities. This convergence may be driving towards a shared statistical model of reality, akin to Plato's concept of an ideal reality.

The paper describes the development of Multics Emacs, a video-oriented text preparation and editing system running on Honeywell's Multics system, which was created in 1979 as an alternative to existing line-oriented editors. The editor uses Lisp programming language and features character-at-a-time interaction, user-accessible extensibility through Lisp, and an internal implementation ...

BreachForums, a popular hacking forum, was seized by authorities and its Telegram channels taken over. The FBI announced it took control of the site's backend data and asked victims to report cybercrime activity on BreachForums.

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The author describes how they solved a problem in Elixir, a functional language, by using the writer monad to separate concerns and avoid global mutable state. The solution involves defining a module with typeclasses for wrapping and threading data structures, which allows for more elegant and flexible code that can be easily refactored.

Google announced numerous updates and features at I/O 2024, including advancements in AI models such as Gemini, Trillium, and Imagen 3, as well as new tools like VideoFX and MusicAI Sandbox. The company also showcased various applications of its AI technology across its products, including Search, Gmail, Google Photos, Android devices, and more.

The author discovered a security issue with GitHub Actions by creating a commit shorthash collision, which caused builds to break globally. The issue was fixed by running garbage collection on the affected repository and updating the config wizard to generate full 40-character commit hashes instead of shorthashes.

The author, a seasoned software developer, explores the implications of using AI-powered coding tools and raises concerns about copyright ownership and protection in an era where code is increasingly generated by machines. The author questions whether any code written with AI assistance can be considered original and protected by copyright, highlighting the potential legal complexities that ...

Apple execs revealed that most Mac customers also own an iPad, which may impact their decision to bring macOS to the iPad. However, making macOS available on iPads could significantly harm Mac sales, as many users would opt for a single device instead of buying both.

Fortran 90 introduced array descriptors to handle arrays with dynamic sizes, which are necessary for assumed-shape and deferred-shape arrays. The array descriptor stores information such as the base address, stride, lower and upper bounds, and data type of each rank in the array.

The tutorial uses Python and OpenCV to perform word segmentation on scanned book pages, converting images to grayscale, applying thresholding, detecting text lines, and extracting individual words. The extracted words are stored in an array with coordinates for easy display or use in projects such as digital libraries or document analysis.

A newly discovered vulnerability in the WiFi standard allows attackers to trick devices into connecting to a different network than intended, potentially exposing users' traffic and data. The vulnerability can be mitigated by updating the WiFi standard, using VPNs with active connections at all times, and implementing improved beacon protection on devices.

The author reflects on their experience as a software engineer who felt lost and ineffective when faced with a rapidly growing project, realizing they were unprepared for the new demands. They learned that success in this role required different skills, such as clear leadership sponsorship, flexibility, and escalation of gaps, and now aims to apply these lessons to future projects.

Google has started downranking deepfake porn websites in search results, but victims are still struggling to report and delist non-consensual intimate imagery. The lack of federal law and Google's limited proactive removals leave victims with a cumbersome process to request delisting, while some advocate for criminalizing deepfakes and promoting a culture shift to end abuse.

The Yamal Railway, located on the Yamal Peninsula, is the world's northernmost railway, stretching 572 km from Ob Bay to Karasayevo. The railway was built by Gazprom as part of its megaproject to develop gas fields on the peninsula and provides year-round transportation for workers, equipment, and materials.

A tech recruiter should be passionate about technology and people, with basic communication and networking remaining the same despite rapid technological evolution. The author shares 15 lessons learned over a decade in tech recruitment, including being unique in outreach, understanding coding expectations, building a personal brand, and treating potential hires with respect.

Autonomous vehicle technology has made significant progress, but widespread implementation may not happen within the next decade due to challenges and setbacks. The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League event showcased autonomous car racing, highlighting the need for robust software that can handle edge cases and complex scenarios before driverless vehicles can be widely adopted.

Sophisticated malware infected kernel.org servers from 2009 to 2011, compromising over 550 user accounts and stealing encrypted password data. The attackers used the compromised servers to send spam and carry out other malicious activities, with some users' plaintext passwords being obtained through password-cracking techniques.

Cadey is setting up a homelab with Kubernetes and Rocky Linux, aiming to run various workloads on his own hardware at home. He has been experimenting with different options, including Ansible and Talos Linux, and has successfully deployed a Reddit/Discord bot to his cluster using Kubernetes manifests.

OpenAI's two-story library, located in a former mayonnaise factory, features Oriental rugs and rows of hardbacks, creating an ambience reminiscent of a Victorian Era reading room. The library reflects OpenAI's focus on language, as its chatbot ChatGPT was trained on vast amounts of human-curated text from sources like encyclopedia articles and books.

MIT researchers have developed wearable robotic limbs, called SuperLimbs, to help astronauts recover from falls on the lunar surface. The system can physically support an astronaut and lift them back on their feet after a fall, potentially extending missions and conserving energy for other tasks.

The author believes that private car ownership will decline in American cities as people opt for mobility subscriptions, such as bike and scooter rentals, carpooling, and autonomous vehicles. With demographic trends like remote work and declining young families also contributing to this shift, the author predicts that owning a car will become less common in urban areas within the next decade.

Two brothers, aged 24 and 28, were arrested for allegedly stealing $25 million by tampering with the Ethereum blockchain in a sophisticated scheme that took only 12 seconds to complete. The brothers, who studied at MIT, used their specialized skills to manipulate pending transactions on the blockchain and alter certain transactions to obtain victims' cryptocurrency.

The project, titled "Renaissance Medicine", compiles a bibliography of printed works on health and healing in English from 1475 to 1700, using extensive searches of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) and other sources. The database includes coded categories for topic, genre, occupation, and location information to help users navigate the corpus of over 10,000 texts.

The author investigates a slow Elasticsearch indexing job in Mattermost, which takes over 18 hours to complete, and finds that the main culprit is a slow SQL query that orders posts by creation timestamp. By simplifying the query and using row constructor comparisons, the author optimizes the query to run 1000 times faster, reducing execution time from 24 seconds to just 34 milliseconds.