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Figma Slides is a presentation tool for designers and teams, offering a simple interface, design features, and collaboration tools. It allows for co-creation, engagement, and impressive slide decks with features like Live Polls, Voting, and embeddable Live Prototypes.

KT Corporation, a South Korean telecom provider, deliberately infected over 600,000 users with malware to stop them from using Webhard's BitTorrent file-sharing service. The malware created strange folders, made files invisible, and disabled the Webhard program, causing problems for users' PCs and potentially violating South Korean laws.

Speed is important for voice AI interfaces. Humans expect fast responses in normal conversation. This demo showcases low-latency LLM interaction, aiming to achieve 500ms voice-to-voice response times. This bot was built using Pipecat, an open source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI.

The Forth Deck mini is a portable, rechargeable computer with a built-in keyboard and display, allowing users to write and debug Forth programs directly on the device. The device uses a My4TH computer board, a 74HC574 IC for I/O expansion, and a LiPo battery, with software support integrated into the My4TH ROM since version 1.0.

The FDA warned Bimbo Bakeries to stop labeling products with allergens when they don't contain them, citing "misbranding" and a lack of truthfulness. The company has until July 8 to address the issue, which affects millions of people with food allergies who rely on accurate labeling for their health and safety.

Scientists have discovered that the brain's waste-removal system, known as the glymphatic system, uses slow electrical waves to push waste products to the surface of the brain during sleep, where they are absorbed into the bloodstream and removed from the body. The system's impairment has been linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's, and understanding how it works could lead to ...

ECAM is a room-temperature 3D metal printing technology that builds complex, dense metal parts rapidly at the atomic level from a water-based feedstock. It offers micron-scale feature resolution, complex internal features, and high-purity materials, aiming to displace traditional manufacturing methods.

R2R is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system providing a comprehensive and SOTA RAG system for developers, with multimodal support, hybrid search, and a dashboard for user-friendly interaction. The system can be set up locally or through the Python SDK, and offers a quickstart guide and documentation for tutorials and integrations.

Figma AI is a collection of features designed to help users work more efficiently and creatively, including visual search, AI-enhanced asset search, and content generation tools. The features are powered by third-party AI models and were not trained on private Figma files or customer data, with admins having control over whether their team's content data is used for training.

Fusion power has been a long-term goal, with research dating back to the 1930s, but progress has been slow and funding has been inconsistent, with many projects being canceled or delayed. However, in recent years, there has been a surge in private sector investment in fusion research, with over 40 companies developing fusion power and raising billions of dollars in funding, with the goal of ...

gRPC, a high-performance RPC framework, has had significant success but also faces challenges such as complexity, lack of standardization, and limited community engagement, which hinder its adoption and usability. Despite these issues, the gRPC community is active and working to address these problems, with new tools and features being developed to improve the framework's accessibility and ...

A federal court has ruled that whistleblowers who face retaliation can receive financial compensation for lost future wages, not just back pay, if their firings cause harm to their earning capacities. The ruling establishes that federal whistleblowers can receive compensatory damages for future lost earnings without needing to prove they had guaranteed jobs lined up.

Git-cliff uses regex-powered parsers and a config file to customize changelogs. It generates changelogs for any Git repository following conventional commits and can be used as a command-line tool or library for Rust, Python, or Node.js projects.

Dorkly is a free, open-source feature flag system that allows developers to implement feature flagging consistently across multiple languages using LaunchDarkly's SDKs. It's a simple, git-based system that can be hosted on a server and integrates with Terraform, AWS, and GitHub, with support for secrets management and fast updates.

The user has created a website, spudguns.org, to serve as a one-stop shop for potato gun designs, math, and ideas, featuring calculators, physics equations, and a manual index of cross-linked websites. The site includes calculators for determining usable volume, muzzle pressure, and trajectory, as well as a DIY guide for making a Supah Valve similar to commercial valves.

Rabbit's security team investigated an alleged data breach and found a hardcoded API key for Sendgrid, providing access to a complete history of emails sent on the r1.rabbit.tech subdomain, containing user information. The key was not revoked, despite the initial claim of no compromise, and sample emails were sent to journalists to demonstrate the retained access.

GNU Readline is a software library that provides a common set of keystrokes for command-line interfaces, allowing users to move around and edit a single line of input, and is used by many programs including Bash, psql, and irb. The library was created in the 1980s by the Free Software Foundation and is now maintained by Chet Ramey, a volunteer, who has been working on it for over a decade.

Phil Hartman, a Canadian-born artist, designed album covers for several West Coast rock bands, including Poco and America, before becoming a comedian and actor, known for his roles on Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons. Hartman's graphic design career spanned over a decade, during which he designed over 40 album covers, including Poco's Legend, which is considered one of his personal achievements.

Scientists have discovered a vast number of unknown fungal species, dubbed "dark fungi," through environmental DNA sequencing, which can detect genetic material without seeing the organisms themselves. These dark fungi are thought to play crucial roles in ecosystems, breaking down organic matter and recycling nutrients, and their discovery has the potential to reveal new insights into the ...

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Corcel is a PHP library that allows you to connect to a WordPress database and query data using Eloquent ORM, allowing you to use WordPress as a backend for other PHP applications. The library provides various features such as querying posts, pages, categories, and users, as well as handling custom post types, shortcodes, and menus.

The Apple Mac SE ROM contains four hidden images of the people who created the Mac, including Bill Atkinson, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak, which were discovered by a team who dumped and analyzed the ROM. The images were stored in a compressed format and were only accessible by jumping to a specific address in the ROM, and the team used a combination of reverse engineering and hacking to ...

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Cloudflare has removed polyfill.io from its recommended services due to reports of malicious code injection, and has released an automatic JavaScript URL rewriting service to replace polyfill.io links with a secure mirror. Website owners are advised to remove polyfill.io from their projects and replace it with a secure alternative, such as Cloudflare's mirror, to mitigate the risk of supply ...

Stack Solver is a logistics app that optimizes pallet loading by calculating the most efficient box arrangement for maximum space and stability. The app features a user-friendly interface, report generation, and sharing capabilities, and can be installed by running the setup.exe file.

The author, a science fiction writer, praises WordStar as his preferred word processing software due to its intuitive interface, customizable features, and ability to adapt to his writing style. He argues that WordStar's long-hand-page metaphor, which allows for easy editing and revising, is more effective for creative writing than the typewriter-metaphor used by other word processors.

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Google is discontinuing continuous scroll on desktop search results, replacing it with a pagination bar, to improve search result loading speed and user satisfaction. The change will first affect desktop search, with mobile search to follow, and may impact website clicks and Search Console data.

Khanmigo, an AI tutor and teaching assistant, was piloted to help students with math struggles, with improvements made to its math evaluation and problem-solving capabilities. The team is committed to making Khanmigo better, with ongoing testing and evaluation of new large language models and math tutoring examples to ensure accurate and effective math interactions.

Xenon is a rare and expensive gas that induces a euphoric state, often used in luxury clinics and by athletes seeking a competitive edge. It's safe and effective, but its high cost and potential risks of asphyxiation make it inaccessible to most people.

The US Supreme Court struck down a federal anti-corruption law that made it a crime for state and local officials to take gifts valued at over $5,000 from donors who had previously received government benefits. The court ruled that the law was too broad and could criminalize legitimate gifts, rather than just bribery, and left it to state and local governments to regulate gratuities to officials.

Polyfill.io, a domain offering JavaScript code, has been compromised by a Chinese organization and is now serving malware to over 100,000 websites, warning security firms to remove the code immediately. The affected websites, including those of JSTOR, Intuit, and World Economic Forum, may redirect visitors to malicious sites, and Google has started blocking Google Ads for impacted websites.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been attacking a "junk fee" in the mortgage industry, which is the high cost of credit reporting and scoring imposed by FICO and the three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. The fee has increased by 400% since 2022, and mortgage bankers are furious, but Chopra's proposal to impose price caps and ...

Bolivia's President Luis Arce installed new army commander Jose Wilson Sanchez after a coup attempt by troops led by his predecessor. Sanchez ordered the military to retreat, and the troops appeared to be obeying.

SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet system is opaque, with little engagement with the research community, and official pronouncements lacking detail. To understand Starlink, one must sift through voluminous FCC filings, which are often amended, objected to, and subject to modification requests.

Anthropic's AI models, Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet, are now available in the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud, offering potential applications in government agencies. The company is adapting its service agreements and usage policy to meet government needs, ensuring responsible AI use while maintaining its commitment to public interest and AI safety.

The user suggests injecting artificial latency into websites to reduce the addictive impact of the internet, making it feel like a "beneficial dilution" of the web. They share their own methods for achieving this, including using browser extensions and proxy tools, and describe their own efforts to "mutilate" their internet experience by blocking ads and reducing their use of certain websites.

The study found that individuals with high-risk hypertension who reported engaging in vigorous physical activity (VPA) at least once a week had a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and probable dementia compared to those who reported less frequent VPA. The results suggest that VPA may be a cost-effective and low-risk intervention to delay cognitive decline in individuals with ...

Podman Desktop 1.11 introduces experimental light mode, Rosetta support for Apple Silicon, and improved UI, including enhanced Kubernetes functionality and container listing page. The update also fixes several issues and thanks contributors for their help in making Podman Desktop better.

The Banach-Tarski theorem is a paradoxical result that shows it's impossible to define a measure that satisfies certain natural and obvious requirements. This theorem has deep implications, revealing the limitations of measurement and the importance of the Axiom of Choice in mathematics.

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop the US Deorbit Vehicle to safely deorbit the International Space Station in 2030, ensuring a responsible transition in low Earth orbit. The single-award contract has a total potential value of $843 million, with NASA taking ownership of the spacecraft after development and operating it throughout its mission.

EPFL researchers have developed a method using soundwaves to direct floating objects around an obstacle course, promising for biomedical applications like noninvasive targeted drug delivery. The method, called wave momentum shaping, uses soundwaves to gently push objects around, unaffected by their environment or physical properties, and has been successfully tested in dynamic environments.

The rare book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" by Edgar Allan Poe, known as the Black Tulip, is one of the most valuable and sought-after books in American literature, with only 12 copies surviving since its publication in 1827. The book's rarity and historical significance have made it a coveted treasure among book collectors and scholars, with its upcoming auction at Sotheby's expected to ...

The Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle is closing and auctioning off its entire inventory, including vintage computing systems, after 12 years of operation. The auction, featuring 150 items from Paul G. Allen's collection, will likely see the unique interactive exhibits find new homes, but marks the end of the only major vintage computing museum in Washington State.

Find AI is an AI-powered research search engine for finding companies and people in various industries

Flame graphs are a visual representation of a process' execution, created by sampling the running process and displaying the execution stacks, allowing developers to quickly identify performance hotspots and optimize code. By using flame graphs, developers can spot poor performance hotspots even at a glance, making it easier to optimize code and improve application performance.

The user, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience, is interested in transitioning to ML engineering without focusing on building models, but rather on managing and deploying them. They are advised to focus on infrastructure, take professional certifications, and learn ML algorithms conceptually, and are provided with resources and job recommendations to get started.

The color blue is rare in nature due to the absence of a true blue pigment, but some organisms have evolved to appear blue through unique structures or genetic mutations. Examples of blue flora and fauna include the electric blue tarantula, blue lobsters, blue-eyed cicadas, and blue carpenter bees, which have adapted to display this color through various mechanisms.

Carmel, Indiana, Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, are US cities that have successfully implemented effective governance models, investing in infrastructure, services, and community development. These success stories demonstrate that competent leadership, strategic investment, and collaboration can deliver tangible results, but the current system often rewards bad governance, making ...

The commodification of personal data is a widespread issue, with companies collecting and selling user information without consent, leading to a sense of futility and "digital resignation". The author argues that policy should prioritize individual privacy rights over the need for surveillance-based advertising, just as Canada has banned the sale of organs to protect vulnerable individuals.

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bluetuith is a TUI-based bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with bluetooth adapters and devices. It aims to be a replacement to most bluetooth managers, like blueman.

Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a chatbot, in the 1960s to study human-machine conversation, not as a chatbot itself. ELIZA's accidental escape and misinterpretation led to its fame and loss to history for over 50 years.

The C++ Standard Library has inconsistent use of the "explicit" keyword, and a new policy (P3116) aims to standardize its usage. The policy outlines rules for explicitness based on constructor arity, with exceptions for specific types and use cases.

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The study found that individuals who experienced loneliness in adolescence and had an increasing sense of loneliness over time were more likely to hold conspiracist worldviews in midlife. The results suggest that loneliness may be a driving factor in the development of conspiracist beliefs, and that addressing loneliness may be a key strategy for reducing the spread of conspiracy theories.

Mozilla.ai, a Mozilla Foundation initiative, aimed to understand generative AI trends by speaking with 35 organizations and summarizing 18,481 words of notes. However, they used language models to summarize the notes, which may have introduced biases and inaccuracies, rather than addressing their own biases and using more rigorous methods.

The user's team built Rubbrband, a web-based image generation platform that's easy to use and accessible without a GPU, addressing issues with ComfyUI's hardware requirements and clunky interface. Rubbrband offers customizability, unlimited storage, and a Playground page, with plans to create an API for users to create their own nodes.

The document describes a threat model for pervasive surveillance, which involves an attacker with capabilities to collect and analyze large amounts of Internet traffic, including encrypted communications, to infer information about individuals. The attacker can use various techniques, including passive observation, active modification, and collaboration with intermediaries, to compromise ...

The Banach-Tarski paradox states that a ball in three-dimensional space can be divided into five pieces, which can then be reassembled into two identical copies of the original ball, using only rotations and translations. This result is surprising because it contradicts our intuitive understanding of volume and shape, and it has important implications for our understanding of measure theory ...

Denmark's government has agreed to introduce a carbon emissions tax on agriculture, starting in 2030, to help the country meet its climate goals. The tax will apply to livestock emissions, with farmers paying 672 krone ($96) per cow annually, with the revenue used to support the agricultural industry's green transition.

The user tested Raspberry Pi Connect's remote shell feature, which allows terminal access without exposing the Pi to the internet, and found it stable and useful for limited-bandwidth connections. They compared it to other remote access solutions, noting that it's not as powerful as some alternatives, but a convenient option for Raspberry Pi users without a VPN.

Wild boars in the Bohemian Forest National Park in the Czech Republic have been found to contain toxic PFAS at levels nearly five times higher than the EU's allowed limit for human consumption. The study suggests that atmospheric deposition may be a factor in the high levels of PFAS found in the boars, but further investigation is needed to determine the exact cause of the contamination.

Terraform Labs, the company behind the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna tokens, will pay $4.5 billion to creditors and authorities before winding up its operations. The company's founders, including Do Kwon, have been found guilty of securities fraud and will personally pay millions in penalties and disgorgement.

Rye's context is a dictionary of words and values, used as scope for Rye words, and can be created or used with functions like context, do, and do\in. Contexts can be used to isolate code, provide a framework for other programmers, or create a distributed computing platform, and can be navigated like directories on a hard drive.

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Recent reports by Bloomberg and The Washington Post claim artificial intelligence is having a disastrous impact on the power grid, but a closer look at the numbers suggests AI's energy usage is not as alarming as claimed. In reality, AI's energy usage is a small fraction of the overall energy consumption of data centers, which are already a significant user of power.

A streamlined interview process with one technical and one non-technical interview is more effective and efficient, as it encourages interviewers to ask the right questions and reduces the likelihood of bias. Drawing out the interview process can actually select for more desperate candidates and reinforce existing biases, making a shorter process a better approach for attracting top talent.

Indonesian singer Kai Mata's social media presence is threatened by a proposed law that would restrict content portraying LGBTQIA behavior, with fines and license cancellation for violators. The bill has been criticized for its vague and restrictive conditions, which could limit freedom of expression and silence dissenters, particularly in the LGBTQIA community.

NYC's strict new regulations on short-term rentals have led to a 80% decline in Airbnb listings, but the city's housing affordability crisis remains unchanged, with hotel room prices rising instead. The city's goal of reducing housing pressure has not been achieved, and the hotel industry has seen a surge in revenue, with occupancy rates and average room prices reaching record highs.

Close, a company that handles a large volume of calls, experienced slow query performance in their Dialer service, which manages the lifecycle of each call. After investigating, they discovered that the issue was caused by PostgreSQL's query planner not considering an index due to inaccurate statistics, and they resolved the problem by increasing the statistics target and partitioning their ...

Germany's electricity mix is cleaner than ever, with renewable energy accounting for 58.8% of the electrical load, replacing nuclear power, and fossil fuels declining due to high prices and CO2 costs. Despite increased imports, Germany's generation capacity was sufficient, with imports driven by low electricity prices from renewable power plants in the Alps and Scandinavia, making coal-fired ...

The Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle, founded by Paul Allen, is auctioning off some of its artifacts, including Allen's personal DECsystem-10, which is the first computer he and Bill Gates used. The auction raises concerns about the fate of donated items and the potential profit made by Allen's estate, which could be seen as profiting from items donated in good faith.

WinPopup.exe is a Windows 98 program that allows sending messages to specific computers or workgroups on a local area network. To use it, start WinPopup, select the recipient, type the message, and click OK, with the recipient needing to have WinPopup running to receive the message.

Denmark will introduce a tax on livestock farmers for greenhouse gas emissions from 2030, aiming to reduce emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030. The tax will start at 120 kroner ($17.3) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and increase to 300 kroner by 2035, with the goal of becoming climate neutral in 2045.

Polyfill.io, a CDN service, has been serving malware to over 110,000 websites after its open-source maintainer sold the service to a Chinese company, Funnull, which has been injecting malware on mobile devices. The service has been warned to stop using the service immediately, and alternatives are available, as the polyfill.js library was created to ensure web applications were compatible ...

The user is a cofounder of a VC-backed startup that has pivoted twice, with $7m in the bank and 15 team members, but no revenue and a struggling product. They're considering whether to stay or leave, feeling obligated to the team and worried about the future, and seeking mental models to help make a decision.

JavaScript has multiple ways to represent unknown values, including null, undefined, and falsy values, which can lead to confusion and defects in code. To limit exposure to these defects, it's recommended to use explicit comparisons, defensively treat undefined as null, avoid distinguishing null and undefined, distrust convention, and avoid clever tricks.

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The US Mac market share grew 22.4% in Q1, driven by the launch of new MacBook Air models, while the overall US PC market grew 5%. The growth is expected to continue due to the end-of-life for Windows 10 and the adoption of AI-capable PCs, with Apple's share of the US PC market reaching 14.2%.

The traditional unemployment insurance (UI) system in the US excludes people who quit their jobs from receiving benefits, but some economists are now arguing that extending UI to cover quits could actually be good for the economy by encouraging people to leave low-wage jobs and find better ones.

The book presents classical mechanics from a unique perspective, focusing on understanding motion rather than deriving equations of motion, and uses functional mathematical notation and computation to explore the behavior of systems. The approach requires precise and explicit notation, which is achieved through the use of a functional notation and computational methods, allowing for a clear ...

Assange was not simply wanted for questioning, but was formally accused of crimes and arrested in his absence. He was prosecuted for encouraging others to obtain classified information illegally, which is a crime, and not just for receiving leaked material, and his actions were not considered journalism by many.

The White Mountain Apache tribe has faced centuries of Christian missionary efforts to assimilate them into European-American culture, with many churches teaching that traditional Apache ceremonies are satanic and evil, leading to expulsions and trauma for Apache children and families. Despite this, some Apache individuals and families continue to practice their traditional culture and ...

The user is working on a project called ScreenPipe, which uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to process text and images from a screen recording and integrate it with a CRM system. The project involves using Rust and WASM to create a server-side application that takes streamed data from ScreenPipe, uses an LLM to analyze the data, and sends the results to a Salesforce API.

Portcullises were used in castles to trap enemies and attack them from the barbican, with soldiers dropping hot oil and archers shooting missiles. Castles could have multiple portcullises, used strategically to stop and deal with enemies, such as luring them into a trap and then dropping multiple portcullises to trap them.

A new blend of variant apatite and covellite exhibits superconducting properties, with two phases triggered by the individual components at near-room and low temperatures. The blend shows diamagnetism, zero-resistance effect, and a critical current, indicating its potential for practical applications.

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

Google has stopped actively developing Material Web Components, reassigned its engineers, and entered maintenance mode, but the library is not deprecated. The change is due to a new focus on supporting Google's internal Wiz framework, which will eventually merge with Angular to offer a high-performance framework.

The authors propose a novel approach to enhance the fracture toughness of cementitious materials by engineering intentional defects using laser processing and combining them with a hyperelastic interlayer material. The resulting nacre-like composites exhibit a significant increase in fracture toughness, up to 17.1-fold, while maintaining flexural strength.

Researchers at the University of Reading used AI to generate exam answers and found that fake students' results were half a grade boundary higher on average than real students', with 94% of AI-generated essays undetectable by markers. The study's findings suggest that AI could be used to cheat undetected, and educators worldwide should be aware of the potential impact on the integrity of ...

The US Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiffs, including Louisiana and Missouri's attorneys general, did not present enough evidence to prove that the government's communication with social media companies resulted in "direct censorship injuries". The court's decision allows government agencies to communicate with social media companies without fear of being sued, potentially leading to ...

Demand for raw materials to make electric vehicles is expected to triple by 2050, with lithium-ion batteries accounting for over half of total resources needed. Researchers suggest implementing "circular economy strategies" to reduce resource demand, such as extending vehicle lifetimes, promoting car-sharing, and improving fuel efficiency.

Google DeepMind's AlphaFold2 algorithm has solved the protein folding problem, accurately predicting the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of biology. The algorithm's success has raised questions about the future of protein science, with some structural biologists fearing their jobs may become obsolete and others seeing ...

The White Mountain Apache tribe has faced centuries of Christian missionary efforts to assimilate them into European-American culture, with many churches teaching that traditional Apache ceremonies are satanic and evil, leading to expulsions and trauma for Apache children and families. Despite this, some Apache individuals and families continue to practice their traditional culture and ...

Nabda offers a platform for creating and managing courses, exams, and student engagement with advanced tools and features. It provides schools with detailed analytics and insights to track student performance and progress, enhancing teaching capabilities and school management.

The Dokos shipwreck, discovered in 1975, is the oldest known shipwreck, dating back to the second Proto-Helladic period, and provides valuable insights into ancient maritime trade and cultural exchange. The excavation of the wreck site revealed a treasure trove of artifacts, including clay vases and ceramic items, offering a glimpse into the daily lives and trading practices of ancient seafarers.

Apple's ported console games, such as Assassin's Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4, have failed to generate significant revenue on iPhone, with under 3,000 people paying $49.99 to play Assassin's Creed Mirage since its launch. The games' low revenue is attributed to their high price point and the fact that players can already play similar games on PC and console for the same price.

Download the zip file from the latest release, unzip it and choose the dist folder in Chrome developer mode.