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Devzat is a custom SSH server that connects to a chat instead of a shell prompt, allowing users to access it from any device with an SSH app. The server can be self-hosted and integrated with Slack, Discord, and Twitter, and has a plugin API for custom integrations.

As a computer science student, you've discovered Prolog and logic programming and want to expand your knowledge to specialize in this area, particularly in agent communication systems and ontologies. You're interested in exploring Prolog's potential as a powerful language and its applications in these fields.

Mistral NeMo is a 12B AI model with a large context window, state-of-the-art reasoning and coding accuracy, and easy integration with existing systems. It is designed for global, multilingual applications and features a new tokenizer, Tekken, which compresses natural language text and source code more efficiently than previous models.

The US Postal Service (USPS) stopped sharing customers' information with tech and advertising companies after a TechCrunch investigation found they were collecting data through hidden tracking pixels on their website. The collected data included postal addresses of logged-in USPS Informed Delivery customers, and was shared with companies like Meta, LinkedIn, and Snap.

Bell Labs, a research and development organization, was a key factor in the development of many groundbreaking technologies, including the transistor, solar PV cell, and fiber optics, due to its unique combination of resources, culture, and historical circumstances. However, the organization's success was contingent on a large-scale, vertically integrated telephone monopoly, and its ability ...

Researchers have developed a method to detect deepfakes by analyzing the reflections in a person's eyeballs, which are consistent for real people but incorrect for fake ones. The method uses techniques typically used in astronomy to quantify the reflections and check for consistency between left and right eyeball reflections, providing a new way to detect fake images.

You were terminated from Amazon's KDP after an AI-powered review system mistakenly flagged your book for plagiarism, despite your protests and evidence to the contrary. Your appeals were denied by multiple robots, with each response citing vague reasons about creating a negative customer experience, until a human executive finally upheld the termination.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chair of Apple, gave a talk at the International Design Conference in Aspen in 1983, predicting that computers would become a ubiquitous part of daily life and emphasizing the importance of good design in making them accessible and user-friendly. He argued that the industry had a chance to make computers beautiful and functional, and that Apple was committed to ...

The author describes a technique called "bisecting program locations" that uses binary search to identify the specific lines of code responsible for a bug in a program. This technique has been used in various compilers and runtime systems, including the Go compiler, to debug complex issues and identify the root cause of failures.

OpenAI announces GPT-4o mini, a cost-efficient small model that scores 82% on MMLU and outperforms GPT-41 on chat preferences, priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens. GPT-4o mini supports text and vision in the API, with plans to add support for text, image, video, and audio inputs and outputs, and is designed to make intelligence more affordable ...

Cloudflare is experiencing a connection issue with the origin web server, preventing the web page from loading. To help troubleshoot, users can submit error logs from their web server, including the Ray ID, to Cloudflare's support team.

Discover a variety of dark pattern examples, sorted by category, to better understand deceptive design practices.

The author argues that premature abstraction can hinder maintainability and suggests embracing simplicity by starting with procedural programming and avoiding unnecessary abstractions, instead focusing on pure functions and data flows. By minimizing moving parts and pushing statefulness to the outer shell, developers can create simpler and more maintainable systems that are better suited to ...

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Ham Radio Village awarded a grant to take a one-day Tech class on the road to reach out to hacker, STEM/STEAM, and maker communities, educating them about amateur radio and streamlining the license process. The first event, HOPE XV, was successful, with 25 hackers passing the test and getting their licenses, and the program is expected to continue with future events.

Transcribro is a private speech recognition keyboard for Android that uses OpenAI Whisper models and Silero VAD for voice activity detection. It's available on Accrescent and GitHub, and users are encouraged to verify its authenticity and donate to the lead developer to support their work.

Vector-based RAG performs poorly for real-world applications like codebase chats, and using a "language map" of the codebase, retrieved from a wiki, improves answer quality and accuracy. This approach overcomes limitations of traditional keyword and vector-based methods, allowing for strong performance across codebases of all sizes.

ESA's Gaia spacecraft, mapping stars in the Milky Way, faced challenges from hyper-velocity space dust and a solar storm, causing damage to its protective cover and a CCD sensor failure. Despite these issues, engineers worked together to modify Gaia's software, reducing false detections and returning the spacecraft to routine operations, producing high-quality data.

Researchers used house sparrows to monitor lead exposure in children in two Australian towns, finding that the birds' blood lead levels accurately predicted the levels in nearby kids. The study suggests that using sparrows as a monitoring tool could be a cheaper and more practical way to identify areas where children may be at risk of lead poisoning.

The ability to use names is not unique to humans, as many animals, including dolphins, parrots, whales, bats, and elephants, use namelike calls to identify individuals. This ability to learn and use names is linked to social behavior and may have evolved to facilitate cooperation and intimacy among group members.

A Gallup poll finds that Americans' confidence in higher education has declined, with 33% having "little or no confidence" due to concerns over political agendas, expensive tuition, and lack of relevant skills. The trend holds across demographics, with many citing ethical concerns about the value of a college education in today's society.

Large language models have limitations such as hallucinations, lack of confidence estimates, and lack of citations, which hinder their adoption in commercial products. To address these limitations, possible pathways include bootstrapping consistent LLMs by excluding contradicting training data, curating high-quality text corpora, and training models with different world views.

Palmer Luckey, a billionaire entrepreneur, founded Anduril, an artificial intelligence weapons company that sells autonomous weapons to about 10 countries worldwide, including the US and Ukraine. Anduril's AI drones can be programmed to search for targets and fly into them without human guidance, raising ethical concerns about who is responsible if something goes wrong.

Research suggests that the positive association between money and happiness continues far up the economic ladder, with wealthy individuals being substantially and statistically significantly happier than those earning over $500,000 per year. The results show that the difference in happiness between the richest and poorest people is substantial, with the wealthy groups reporting life ...

Sci-fi films and TV shows often depict dystopian futures, reflecting societal concerns about economic inequality, human suffering, and authoritarianism. Despite this pessimistic tone, the stories often feature protagonists who overcome challenges and create a better world, serving as a commentary on current social issues and a warning about potential future threats.

The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway in upstate New York, is celebrating its 200th anniversary and experiencing a renaissance as a paddler's paradise, with a state-funded recreational program offering free excursions and activities for residents and visitors. The canal's calm waters and straightforward route make it suitable for paddlers of all levels, and its rich history and cultural ...

OpenAI has launched a new, cheaper AI model called GPT-4o mini, which is 60% cheaper than its previous model while offering higher performance. The move is part of OpenAI's effort to make AI more accessible and competitive in the market, as other companies like Meta and Google also develop and offer their own AI models.

Charles Petrie, a former UN assistant secretary general, reflects on his journey into Myanmar's Karenni region, where he observed a new form of participatory governance emerging among young activists and local communities, and argues that the international community should engage with these structures to support a more inclusive and sustainable future for the country.

Forewarn, a data broker app, provides real estate agents with detailed information on prospective clients, including criminal records, financial history, and property records, for a monthly fee. The app's rapid adoption has raised concerns among fair housing advocates and data privacy experts, who worry that it could facilitate discrimination and profiling of minority groups.

Microsoft researchers developed SpreadsheetLLM, a framework to analyze spreadsheet content using large language models, and SheetCompressor, a tool to compress data and reduce token usage by 96%. The technology could enable practical applications for large datasets and potentially transform spreadsheet data management and analysis tasks, but has limitations and potential risks, such as errors ...

Magnetic materials can be metals or nonmetals, and their magnetism depends on the type of magnetism, such as ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, or diamagnetism. Examples of magnetic metals include iron, nickel, cobalt, and steel, while some nonmetals like graphite and organic compounds can also exhibit magnetic properties.

SSH is a universal external access protocol for a university due to its widespread device compatibility, but it has a large attack surface. The university cannot block SSH, but can consider using VPNs like WireGuard as an alternative, which has a smaller attack surface and is more secure.

The 1973 GMC Motorhome had an optional system called Thermasan that allowed it to dispose of black water by dumping it through the hot exhaust, sanitizing and eliminating odors. However, the system didn't catch on due to timing issues, including the oil embargo, EPA regulations, and concerns about emissions and unpleasant odors.

The Apache Software Foundation is retiring its feather logo and replacing it with a new logo that embodies the "community over code" ethos, due to concerns about Indigenous themes and language. The new logo will be unveiled at Community Over Code NA in October 2024, and the brand update will not affect Apache software or licenses, but will require compliance with new logo guidelines for users ...

llm2sh is a command-line utility that translates natural language requests into shell commands using Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Claude, and Groq. The tool provides a convenient way to interact with the system using natural language, but users must review and understand generated commands before executing them.

Proton Mail introduces Proton Scribe, an open-source AI-powered writing assistant for business users, allowing them to compose, proofread, and shorten emails with a focus on privacy. The feature is available for business plan users at $2.99/month, with a 14-day free trial, and will be rolled out to non-business plan users in the future.

The authors argue that intuition plays a powerful role in shaping our understanding of consciousness, leading to disagreement and controversy among researchers, and that a social evolutionary framework can help explain the evolution of consciousness. They propose that subjective awareness may have evolved to facilitate social adaptive functions, such as broadcasting ideas and feelings, rather ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted to lower price caps on prison phone calls, cutting the cost of a 15-minute call in half and setting price caps on intrastate calls for the first time. The new rules are expected to impact 83% of incarcerated people and save families at least $500 million annually, with the changes set to take effect in January 2025 for larger prisons and April 2025 ...

Katherine Martinko, author of "Childhood Unplugged", has been raising her three children without smartphones, social media, or TV, and believes it's her responsibility to provide them with a childhood full of adventures and in-person social interactions. She advocates for digital minimalism, citing concerns about screen time getting in the way of real life and promoting creative play, ...

NASA is canceling its VIPER mission to the moon, a $800 million project to search for water ice, due to delays and rising costs. The agency will instead send a nonfunctional "mass simulator" to the moon's south pole, citing budget constraints and the need to prioritize other missions.

NASA has cancelled the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission due to budget woes and rising costs, citing the need to prioritize other launches. The agency is now seeking partners to use the already-assembled rover or its components for future lunar missions, with NASA having sunk $450 million into building VIPER.

The website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks and has blocked the user's action. The user can email the site owner to report the block and include details of what they were doing when the page came up.

Bob Newhart, a legendary comedian and actor, has died at 94 after a series of short illnesses. He is best known for his iconic TV shows "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart," as well as his comedy albums and numerous film appearances.

The Gros Michel banana, once the dominant variety in the US, was replaced by the Cavendish due to unsustainable agricultural practices and the threat of Panama disease, leading to a loss of flavor and texture in modern bananas. The author argues that it's time to move away from monocropping and towards a more diverse and sustainable banana industry, with small-scale farms growing multiple ...

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The AI-powered image enhancement tool amplifies images up to 10 times and 12K, improving clarity and quality, ideal for photographers, designers, and social media users. The tool processes images using AI, enhancing and expanding them to high-resolution quality, perfect for printing, design, and social media sharing.

You're a 30-something man stuck in a comfortable but unfulfilling 9-5 tech job, trying to build a business on the side, but struggling to find motivation and feeling trapped. You've made recent changes, including quitting a previous job and moving to a new country, but still feel unhappy and uncertain about your future.

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The open source movement has evolved, with commercial stakeholders recognizing its economic benefits, but some startups struggled to monetize their open source products. New movements, such as "Fair Source" and "Post-Open", aim to change the commercial dynamic of source-available software, but may contradict the philosophy of open source.

A default constructor is a constructor that takes no arguments and initializes the object's members with default values, and whether or not to have one depends on the design and technical aspects of the class, as it can affect the use of standard library types and the creation of objects with meaningless default values. The article discusses three options to handle classes without default ...

Japanese honey bees have evolved a new defensive behavior called "wing-slapping" to repel ants, which involves slapping ants with their wings, and this behavior is more effective against certain ant species. The study found that wing-slapping is a low-energy, generic defense against ant incursion, and its effectiveness may vary depending on the ant species and the threat of direct predation.

SSH is a secure protocol that allows for authentication, encryption, and multiplexing, with features like key pinning, compression, and port forwarding. It can be used for various purposes, including chat, file transfer, and even building a VPN or serving static files, making it a versatile and powerful protocol.

The user has been using the Claude 3.5 Sonnet app for Android and finds it easy to navigate, but lacks ambitious features like artefacts, voice mode, and integration with other apps. Despite this, the user rates the app 4 stars, praising its clean interface and AI capabilities, but is disappointed by the lack of certain features and the reason given for not roleplaying a character.

The author reflects on their struggle to make friends as an adult, feeling like they've lost touch with their old friends and unable to form new connections, despite trying various methods such as joining a parent-and-me swim class and using a friend-making app. Ultimately, the author comes to realize that making friends requires a lot of effort, discomfort, and bravery, and they decide to ...

The Python community is discussing how to handle Apple's rejection of apps that contain the string "itms-services" due to its use in the App Store's review process, with some arguing that Python should remove support for this string from its standard library and others suggesting workarounds such as obfuscation or configuration options. The debate highlights the tension between accommodating ...

A new study found that vaccinated individuals in the US had a lower risk of developing long Covid compared to unvaccinated individuals. However, the study also found that vaccination did not eliminate all risk, and new cases of long Covid may continue to occur.

Meta has suspended its AI assistant in Brazil due to a ban by the National Data Protection Authority, while Apple announced its immersive video content lineup for Vision Pro. Other tech news includes OpenAI's new AI model, GPT-4o mini, and various funding rounds and partnerships in the industry.

Ford Motor will invest $3 billion to expand production of its Super Duty trucks at a Canadian plant, adding 100,000 units annually, and initially securing 1,800 Canadian jobs. The move comes as the company shifts focus from electric vehicles to commercial trucks, which have been more profitable, and delays its previously planned all-electric vehicle hub at the same plant.

Apple's Steve Jobs' perfectionism led to the troubled Apple III computer, which had design flaws and overheating issues. To fix the problem, Apple recommended customers lift and drop the computer to set the circuits back in place, a solution that has been compared to other unusual Apple troubleshooting methods.

RCL is a configuration language that extends JSON with a simple functional language, featuring a type system that is gradual, based on a lattice, and allows for multiple types to describe the same value. The type system is designed to be easy to reason about, with a focus on forward-only and mostly bottom-up type inference, and a generalized subtype check that inserts runtime checks when necessary.

The SKI combinator calculus is a simple Turing-complete language that can be used to encode all operations in lambda calculus, and is important in the mathematical theory of algorithms. It can be used to implement Boolean logic, recursion, and other computational concepts, and has been used in various programming languages and systems, including the Nock programming language.

Figma's Make Designs feature, which generates UI designs based on design systems and prompts, was temporarily rolled back due to an issue with its underlying design system, which resulted in similar designs to existing apps. The company is working to improve the feature's quality assurance process and plans to re-enable it once the issue is resolved, with the goal of using AI to uplevel ...

The Los Angeles Police Department is warning residents of a series of burglaries in Wilshire-area neighborhoods, where thieves use wifi-jamming technology to disable surveillance cameras and alarms. Authorities are advising residents to take precautions such as securing electrical circuit boxes, being cautious with social media posts, and installing additional security measures to prevent ...

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NASA's yearlong Mars simulation project, CHAPEA, concluded with crew member Kelly Haston emerging from the habitat after 378 days. The crew, including Haston, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones, and Anca Selariu, simulated daily life on Mars, growing food, conducting experiments, and bonding as a team, but Haston struggled with being away from her family and partner.

Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging will install 400 kW DC fast chargers at 100 Starbucks stores on the US West Coast, supporting the company's goal to go electric and making charging easy for all EV brands. The chargers will be available for all EVs and are part of a larger plan to expand the DC fast charging network to nearly half of US states over the next 12-18 months.

The time series package landscape has exploded in recent years, with many tech firms releasing their own packages, including Facebook/Meta's Prophet, Uber's Silverkite, and Amazon's GluonTS. These packages offer a range of methods, including classic and machine learning-based approaches, and are designed to handle high-frequency data and provide interpretable forecasts.

Lancium and Crusoe Energy Systems announced a multibillion-dollar deal to build a 200-megawatt data center in Abilene, Texas, designed to meet the unique needs of AI companies. The facility, expected to be one of the largest AI data center campuses in the world, will draw primarily from renewable energy sources and is part of a larger 1.2-gigawatt build-out.

Kaspersky is giving US customers six months of free security updates as a parting gift before being banned from the US market due to national security concerns. The company will offer free access to Kaspersky Standard, Plus, Password Manager, Safe Kids, and VPN Secure Connection, but it's unclear how it will ensure the security of these products after updates are cut off in September.

The author debunks the idea that MSYS2 is a suitable solution for beginners on Windows, citing its complexity, usability issues, and random problems that require manual intervention. Instead, the author recommends their own set of PowerShell scripts that install programming languages and tools in a straightforward and user-friendly manner, without requiring Linux knowledge or VMs.

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world

CNC is an open-source framework that uses Terraform to deploy applications with precision, allowing developers to define infrastructure and deploy artifacts across various environments. It provides a toolbox for managing environments, rapid deployment, and robust configuration options, empowering developers to build and manage infrastructure with attention to detail and creativity.

Scientists at the University of Texas developed "smart soil" that absorbs water vapor at night and releases it to plants during the day, improving crop growth and reducing water usage by 40%. The soil, containing a hydrogel and calcium chloride, showed a 138% boost in stem length and could help address global water scarcity and food security issues.

Fake AWS packages downloaded hundreds of times from NPM contained backdoored code that compromised developers' computers. The packages, disguised as legitimate JavaScript libraries, used steganography to conceal malicious code, highlighting the growing sophistication of attacks targeting open source repositories.

Meta will withhold its new multimodal AI model from European Union customers due to regulatory uncertainty, citing a lack of clarity from EU authorities. The move highlights a growing conflict between US tech giants and European regulators, with Meta arguing that training on European data is necessary to ensure its products are culturally relevant.

Meta will withhold its new multimodal AI model from European Union customers due to regulatory uncertainty, citing a lack of clarity from EU authorities. The move highlights a growing conflict between US tech giants and European regulators, with Meta arguing that training on European data is necessary to ensure its products are culturally relevant.

The Semmelweis effect refers to the tendency for people to reject new evidence that contradicts established beliefs, as seen in the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, who pioneered hand washing to prevent infections in hospitals but was met with resistance from the medical establishment. To overcome resistance to new ideas, innovators must communicate their work effectively, be open to feedback and ...