Wesk and the user collaborated on creating a tiny Wii console, dubbed "Kawaii", which is smaller than the GameCube Nano and utilizes the Omega trim. The project has evolved over time, incorporating undervolting, Thundervolt, and a dock with USB-C power input, and will be fully open-source once complete.

The book explores the concept of copying in design, highlighting how it has been a fundamental part of the creative process throughout history, from the Eames' design of the LCW chair to the development of software and art. The author argues that copying is not only a necessary step in the design process, but also a valuable way to learn, innovate, and create new works, and that the stigma ...

The Jellyfin community has a large budget and does not need donations at this time, so they encourage contributors to donate to the authors of their preferred clients instead. The community provides a list of official clients, and users are encouraged to support the developers of their favorite clients, especially those working on the WebOS version.

eBPF, a secure kernel execution environment, is immune to crashes and can prevent kernel driver errors, making it a safer alternative to traditional kernel programming. Microsoft's eBPF support for Windows is expected to become production-ready, allowing Windows security software to be ported to eBPF and reducing the risk of global outages like the recent one.

Jiff is a Rust datetime library that provides high-level primitives for easy use and reasonable performance. It supports automatic time zone integration, DST-aware arithmetic, and formatting, with a focus on making it hard to misuse.

Researchers discovered a hormone called Maternal Brain Hormone (CCN3) that increases bone density and strength in mice, which could help treat osteoporosis and bone fractures in humans. The hormone, found in the brains of lactating female mice, was able to more than double bone mass in some cases and could potentially be used to treat various bone conditions, including osteoporosis and bone fractures.

Timeshift is a Linux application that takes incremental snapshots of the file system to protect system files and settings, excluding user files. It supports BTRFS and RSYNC modes, with features like automatic snapshots, boot snapshots, and offline restore, and is designed for desktop users who keep their systems on for hours daily.

The author wrote a book on entropy, a concept often misunderstood, and chose to focus on a specific puzzle: why hydrogen gas has an entropy corresponding to 23 unknown bits of information per molecule. The book explains various entropy-related concepts, such as Shannon entropy, Gibbs entropy, and the Boltzmann distribution, with a focus on classical systems and avoiding quantum mechanics.

Intel is addressing instability issues in 13th/14th Gen desktop processors caused by elevated operating voltage due to a microcode algorithm. A microcode patch is being delivered to partners in mid-August to fix the issue, and customers experiencing problems are encouraged to contact Intel Customer Support for assistance.

The author argues that parsing is a more effective and safer approach than validation in Haskell programming, as it allows for the type system to enforce the correctness of the input data and prevents shotgun parsing. The author provides examples and guidelines on how to implement parsing in Haskell, including using sum types, abstract datatypes, and encapsulation to ensure that the data is ...

The Federation of American Scientists applauds the US for declassifying its nuclear warhead stockpile numbers, calling on other nuclear-armed states to follow suit. The disclosure shows the US has 3,748 warheads in its military stockpile as of September 2023, with only 40 warheads off FAS' estimate.

Netflix Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator that manages large-scale workflows, including data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines, with features such as retry policies, step runtime interface, and signal triggering. The Maestro source code is now open to the public, allowing users to try it, use it within their organization, and ...

Audapolis aims to simplify media editing for spoken-word content, supporting video, audio, and mixed editing. Users can download the software for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and provide feedback to help improve the product.

A US court ruled that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing Ryanair's website without permission, and the airline hopes this ruling will end unauthorized screen scraping and overcharging. Ryanair's CEO plans to appeal the decision, while the airline hopes it will force consumer agencies to outlaw illegal screen scraping and overcharging.

Eza is a modern replacement for the Unix and Linux command-line program ls, offering more features and better defaults, including color-coded file types and metadata. It has various options, including timestamp formatting and sorting fields, and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with installation instructions and contribution guidelines provided.

ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding standard that was initially standardized in 1963 and is still widely used today, with its design choices being both beautiful and elegant. The standard includes control codes, printing characters, and a pattern-based layout that makes it easy for humans to read and for computers to process, with many historical artefacts and design decisions that have ...

The user discusses challenges with RAG, including chunk context and retrieval, and proposes a solution using chunk headers and dynamic segment construction. They demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach using a Nike 10-K document and a query, showing improved chunk relevance and retrieval.

BillaBear offers a powerful tax system, automated workflows, and customization options for managing subscriptions and billing processes. With its deep integration with Stripe and self-hosting capabilities, users can have complete control over their billing and subscription management.

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a complex technology used for exchanging security-related messages in XML, often used for single sign-on (SSO) in software applications, but its flexibility and complexity can make it difficult to implement and maintain. The author of the text provides a simplified explanation of SAML, highlighting its use cases and the challenges of implementing ...

The author discusses how the culture and habits of elites are often studied, while the culture of the poor and working-class is often overlooked, and how this lack of attention can lead to misunderstandings about the causes of social problems. The author argues that the decline of family stability is a major factor in many social ills, and that the educated class's prioritization of ...

The unconditional cash transfers increased recipients' use of medical care, particularly dental and specialist care, and allowed them to spend on basic needs, financial support to others, and unique needs. The cash also had a positive impact on recipients' employment, education, and entrepreneurial interests, with effects varying across participants, and increased their ability to move ...

Dell's attempt to force employees to work in the office three days a week has failed, with half of employees choosing to stay home instead of risking not being promoted. The trend is clear: people prefer working from home and companies that don't offer flexible work arrangements risk losing high-performing employees and struggling to fill critical positions.

SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

The study found that 5-day sleep restriction with or without caffeine intake led to opposite grey matter (GM) responses in different brain regions, with GM increasing in some regions without caffeine and decreasing in others with caffeine. The availability of subcortical adenosine A1 receptors was associated with the GM responses, with higher availability predicting a larger GM reduction in ...

Ubicloud, a managed cloud service, has built several managed PostgreSQL solutions and has observed significant differences between running PostgreSQL for oneself and managing it for others. The company has identified key differences in provisioning, backup/restore, HA, and security, and has shared its approach to building a managed Postgres service, highlighting the importance of security ...

Rosemary Fowler, a 98-year-old physicist, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol for her 1948 discovery of the kaon particle, which contributed to a revolution in particle physics. Fowler left her PhD program to marry and have three children, but her discovery has continued to shape the field, predicting particles like the Higgs boson.

Scientists have discovered that metal nodules on the seafloor can produce oxygen in the dark, a process that could support life on the ocean floor and potentially on other planets. However, this discovery raises concerns about the environmental impact of proposed deep-sea mining ventures, which could disrupt the newly discovered process and harm marine life.

Rrweb provides a lightweight and pixel-perfect way to replay user interactions on a site, allowing for easy debugging and understanding of user behavior. This feature enables remote replay of problems and sharing of interactions with others in real-time.

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor software caused crashes on Linux machines, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, in addition to widespread outages on Windows-powered computers. The issue was reported to impact over 6,800 flights and normal service was not restored immediately, with the British Medical Association warning of a backlog caused by the outage.

To become an ICANN-accredited registrar, apply with a completed ICANN application form, submit supporting documents, and sign agreements with ICANN and a registrar data escrow agent. After completing the process, you can begin offering services to the public once you pass testing and become operational with registries.

The bash one-liners cover a wide range of topics, including system administration, networking, security, and troubleshooting, with examples of commands for tasks such as file management, process management, and network testing. The one-liners also include examples of using various tools and utilities, such as `ssh`, `curl`, `nc`, `nmap`, and `iperf`, to perform tasks such as remote access, ...

Initially, you must wait 0.10 seconds after the gun before moving; any faster is a false start. The fastest top speed ever achieved by a human was Bolt’s 12.42 meters/second (27.8 mph). Mostly Mute Monday tells a science story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.

Maestro is a workflow orchestrator that manages thousands of users and schedules hundreds of thousands of workflows daily, ensuring strict SLOs. It is highly scalable, extensible, and offers enhanced usability, licensed under Apache License 2.0.

Researchers have developed a framework to understand emergence, a phenomenon where complex systems exhibit large-scale patterns and organization from interactions between component parts. The framework, which uses computational mechanics, identifies criteria for determining when a system is emergent and proposes a hierarchical structure of "strongly lumpable causal states" to explain how ...

You built an appliance to protect internal web apps with multi-layered security, requiring user/pass+yubikey authentication, and are considering selling it but face challenges with legacy domain controllers and small budgets. You're concerned about the product's viability, as it may not integrate with legacy systems and may require too much support for small clients.

Microsoft, once a Windows-centric company, now supports Linux on its Azure cloud platform, with over 60% of Azure Marketplace offerings and VM cores running on Linux. The company has developed its own Linux kernel, Azure Linux, and works with third-party distributions to ensure seamless operation, with a focus on automation and testing through its LISA framework.

Frank Ramsey, a brilliant mathematician and philosopher, died at 26 in 1930, leaving behind a legacy of influential work in economics, mathematics, and philosophy, including the concept of Ramsey pricing and Ramsey theory. Despite his untimely death, Ramsey's ideas continued to shape fields such as economics, mathematics, and philosophy, and his legacy was rediscovered and celebrated in the ...

The article discusses various patterns for fetching data in frontend applications, including Asynchronous State Handler, Fallback Markup, Code Splitting, Prefetching, and Parallel Data Fetching, and provides examples of how to implement these patterns using React. By decoupling data fetching from UI rendering and using parallel requests, developers can improve the performance and ...

Paul Coldren, a mid-career IT and infrastructure generalist with an interest in clean energy and electrical grids, is looking for new work opportunities in the Denver area and would like to connect with local infrastructure enthusiasts. He has a background in computer science, over a decade of experience in high tech, and has worked on various projects including software applications, ...

A single mistake in a company, CrowdStrike, caused a global collapse of crucial systems, highlighting the fragility of modern social systems designed for optimization over resilience. To prevent future disasters, societies must prioritize redundancy, diversity, and regulation to ensure fail-safes and backups, rather than relying on a single point of failure.

TinkerBird is a Chrome-native vector database that uses HNSW indexes for fast vector retrieval and IndexedDB for storage, designed to improve accuracy and minimize computational costs for large language models. The VectorStore class provides functionality for managing a vector index, including building, loading, saving, and querying vectors, with options for caching and IndexedDB storage.

The Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administration team detected unusual data during the 2024 Hugo Awards voting, revealing a large number of fraudulent votes cast by fake accounts, which were disqualified, affecting the outcome of one category. The team has concluded that at least 377 votes were cast fraudulently, but the winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards have been assured that they won fair and square ...

Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to improve online privacy while preserving the ad-supported internet, with early testing indicating potential success. The company proposes introducing a user-choice experience in Chrome, allowing people to make informed decisions about their online tracking, and will continue to develop privacy-preserving alternatives.

30afd6d Improve multithreading 7ebaff3 Fix ctype.h and wctype.h d316712 Fix regression with last commit e7be5a5 Upgrade to latest superconfigure 29ce25c Start writing formal specification for APE

The author, a poker player, reflects on the role of luck in competitive activities and how it can be challenging to separate skill from luck, even with a significant edge. The author shares their own experiences and strategies for increasing volume and mitigating the risk of losing, including playing online and staking, and discusses how these principles can be applied to other domains such ...

The article discusses the growing bearishness towards AI, citing a lack of impact on productivity and macroeconomic data, and the "supply paradox of AI" where easily trainable AI models produce economically valuable data. The author also raises concerns about the potential existential risks of creating a new intelligent species, even if AI does not become power-seeking, citing the risk of AIs ...

Cookies are small text files stored on a user's device by a website, used to track user activity, store user preferences, and enhance the browsing experience, while tokens are self-contained, compact JSON objects used for information exchange between services, often used for authentication and authorization. The main differences between cookies and tokens are their purpose, storage, and ...

postmarketOS has updated its homepage, team page, and approval process, and has made various improvements to pmbootstrap, kconfigcheck, and initramfs. The project has also added new features, such as sensor support, GNOME extensions, and eSIM management, and has announced upcoming events and plans to pay contributors for upstreaming work.

You're looking for companies that are actively anti-ageist or don't care about age, preferably old finance companies in Europe or the US, to help older job seekers avoid ageist companies. You think it's hard to compile a list as companies may claim to be age-friendly but actually be ageist, and anecdotal evidence from insiders is a better way to identify truly age-accepting companies.

Researchers discovered an intermediate-mass black hole near the supermassive black hole SgrA* at the galaxy's center, which causes surrounding stars to move in an orderly pattern. The black hole's presence is supported by X-rays, ionized gas, and high star density, suggesting it plays a key role in the growth of SgrA*.

The value of a startup lies not in the idea but in the ability to execute and build on it, and ideas are not unique or valuable on their own. To attract a technical co-founder, one must build a compelling case for success and demonstrate their own ability to ship the idea, making it an attractive opportunity for others to join.

The author criticizes the JavaScript ecosystem, particularly React, for its complexity, inefficiency, and poor performance, citing examples of bloated code, unnecessary dependencies, and slow rendering. The author argues that developers should prioritize simplicity, avoid over-complexity, and consider alternative frameworks like SvelteKit or Blazor to achieve better performance and user experience.

The blockchain trilemma, introduced by Vitalik Buterin, states that achieving decentralization, scalability, and security simultaneously is unattainable. A formula representing the trilemma is established and validated, revealing a strong correlation with decentralization indices and two distinct strategies to enhance trilemma properties.

A CrowdStrike antivirus software update caused a global outage on Windows PCs, affecting airlines, retailers, banks, and more, while Macs were not impacted due to Apple's kernel extension deprecation. Microsoft blames the European Commission for not allowing kernel access, but experts argue that CrowdStrike's lack of testing and Microsoft's kernel level extensions are the real issues.

The user migrated historical research work to Obsidian and shared details on how they use it for writing and research. They have been writing notes in plain text for 10 years, with their process evolving over time.

The CIA conducted a covert operation in 1959 to spy on a Soviet lunar exhibit, disassembling and photographing the "Lunik 2" spacecraft to gain intelligence on Soviet technology. The operation, known as "The Kidnapping of the Lunik," was declassified and publicly posted in 1995, revealing the CIA's successful mission to gather information on Soviet space hardware.

In the early 1950s, Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey, two gay men, collaborated on experiments with Artificial Intelligence, including writing the world's first computer-generated love letters, which were signed by MUC, the Manchester University Computer. Their work, which included programming a computer to write love letters, was a benchmark of intelligence and a way for them to express ...

Dondurma, a unique Turkish ice cream, is renowned for its thick, dense, and stretchy texture, and is traditionally made with milk, salep, and beet sugar. Despite the devastating earthquakes in Turkey, Maraş dondurma producers have maintained and increased production, with the province exporting $3 million worth of dondurma in 2023.

People pay for Vercel despite its high costs because it provides convenience and abstraction, allowing developers to focus on coding rather than infrastructure setup. However, this convenience comes at a premium, and some argue that learning to manage infrastructure on AWS or other platforms can be more cost-effective and efficient in the long run.

A 2009 deal with the European Commission requires Microsoft to give security software vendors the same access to Windows as Microsoft gets, potentially compromising security. This agreement, intended to promote a level playing field, has led to issues like the recent CrowdStrike incident, while Apple and Google are not bound by similar restrictions.

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Sam Altman's basic-income study found that low-income participants who received $1,000 a month for three years increased their spending on basic needs, worked less, and remained engaged in the workforce. The study's results suggest that a basic income can provide greater agency and flexibility, but also highlight the limitations of cash alone in addressing deeper social and economic issues.

Netflix added 8 million customers in the last quarter, reaching 277.7 million subscribers worldwide. The company's quarterly profit rose 44% from 2023 and is up sevenfold from 2019, but still accounts for only 8% of US TV viewership.

Delta Air Lines canceled over 3,000 flights due to a computer update problem, more than any other airline, while most other US airlines had only 1% of their flights canceled. The airline's crew tracking software was affected, causing disruptions and delays, and the company is offering refunds, rebooking, and customer service assistance to affected passengers.

A recent development in quantum gravity predicts the existence of a Planck-mass quasi-stable object that could be a component of dark matter. The prediction is based on a scenario in black hole physics and was submitted to arXiv by Carlo Rovelli.

Open Data Capture is a web-based platform for continuous clinical data collection, centered on instruments like forms and interactive tasks. It can be deployed using Docker and Docker Compose, and contributions are welcome to improve the platform.

Prolonged sitting can increase the risk of serious health conditions like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes due to vascular dysfunction, particularly in the legs. Simple changes to daily routines, such as standing up, fidgeting, or taking short walks, can help break the habit of sedentary behavior and reduce the risk of these health conditions.

Orch is a Rust library for building language model powered applications and agents, allowing for usage in various contexts. The library provides examples of usage, including executing text queries, generating embeddings, and handling structured responses.

A wealthy woman in Manhattan is hesitant to buy a bidet toilet seat for her husband, citing concerns about guests seeing it, highlighting the stigma surrounding bidets in North America. Despite their benefits for personal hygiene and the environment, bidet toilet seats remain unpopular in the US, with manufacturers struggling to overcome cultural and historical associations with bidets.

Scientists have discovered that severe autism can be reversed and symptoms reduced to an indistinguishable level through a bespoke two-year programme of interventions. Two non-identical twin girls with autism underwent dramatic improvements, with one girl's symptoms reduced to an almost undetectable level, and the other girl's symptoms significantly reduced, but not to the same extent.

The Graviton 4 processor, developed by Amazon and Arm, features a Neoverse V2 core with 96 cores and 1536 GB of DDR5 memory, offering a competent dual-socket configuration with good cache coherency operations and acceptable latency. While it has some advantages, such as its large L1 instruction cache and low latency branch target caches, it is ultimately outperformed by AMD's Zen 4 and ...

The speaker discusses the similarities and differences between five programming languages: Bliss, Pascal, Algol 68, BCPL, and C. He argues that C's success was due to its ability to connect with and facilitate what people needed to do, and its implementation on the Unix System.

Kafka UI, a popular open-source web application for managing Apache Kafka clusters, has three remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that were fixed in version 0.7.2. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the Kafka UI server, and were exploited by sending a malicious Groovy script or deserializing untrusted data through JMX or Kafka Connect.

The author explores the concept of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and its evolution, highlighting the differences between the original Smalltalk approach and modern implementations. The author discusses the importance of encapsulating "messages" in classes, promoting methods to objects, and using actions as classes, while also touching on the limitations of OOP and the need for a more ...

Heat pipes are a type of heat transfer device that use phase transition to transfer heat between two solid interfaces, and are commonly used in various applications such as electronics cooling, spacecraft thermal control, and HVAC systems. Heat pipes have been used in a wide range of applications, including cooking, refrigeration, and power generation, and have been shown to be effective in ...

A software engineer, Carl Riis, created a DIY Linux-based "smart TV" using an old Lenovo laptop with a broken keyboard and a Samsung smart TV, to avoid ads and tracking on traditional smart TVs. The setup uses Debian Linux, Sway desktop environment, and customized Firefox browser to provide a TV-like experience, and Riis shares his project on GitHub and YouTube.

Apple TV+ is seeking to reduce costs and become more sustainable, with Senior VP Eddy Cue seeking help from Hollywood studio chiefs to monitor budgets. The streaming service has invested heavily in original content, but with limited returns, and is now aiming for a more disciplined approach to spending.

The author argues that visual programming should be used to supplement code, not replace it, and that developers should focus on visualizing state transitions, memory layouts, and network requests rather than trying to replace code syntax. The author proposes that diagrams should be a separate tool that lives next to code, allowing developers to switch between the two as needed, and that this ...

A zero-day vulnerability in Telegram for Android, dubbed "EvilVideo", allowed attackers to send malicious APK payloads disguised as video files, which could be executed on a victim's device with multiple clicks and specific settings. Telegram patched the vulnerability in version 10.14.5, and users are advised to perform a filesystem scan to remove any payloads from their device if they ...

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LLM vendors prioritize making models appear human-like to customers, rather than focusing on accuracy, and engage in deception to achieve this. Internet trolls, who expose the models' limitations, are actually helping to reveal the truth about LLMs' capabilities and limitations.

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Websites don't have to be so cookie cutter. Make a website that feels uniquely you in under five minutes.

Children are increasingly exposed to enhanced and artificial content, making it crucial for educators to teach media literacy to help students distinguish between real and fake images. A quiz is designed to enhance media literacy in the classroom, challenging students to observe, analyze, and judge images critically to separate reality from AI-generated visuals.

Mitochondrial Eve is the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of all living humans, defined as the woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line through their mothers and the mothers of those mothers. The age of Mitochondrial Eve is estimated to be around 160,000 years ago, with some studies suggesting a range of 99-148,000 years ago, and is considered to be a robust ...

JEKTA and ZeroAvia partnered to develop a fuel-cell powertrain for the PHA-ZE 100 electric amphibious passenger aircraft, increasing range to 500-600 km and payload capacity. The partnership offers operators a choice between electric battery power and hydrogen fuel cells, suitable for different mission requirements and locations.

Triathlon training, including swimming, biking, and running, has been shown to improve cognitive function, memory, and reaction time, with swimming and cycling also reducing stress and improving mood. Regular exercise, especially in outdoor environments, can even stimulate the growth of new brain cells and increase resilience to stress, making it a valuable activity for overall brain health.

Conditional breakpoints are slow due to the overhead of stopping and resuming the process, as well as evaluating the condition. To improve performance, debuggers can inject code to check the condition directly in the process code, using techniques like in-process agents or dynamic instrumentation.

Intel has identified the root cause of the crashing issues affecting its CPUs as an erroneous microcode algorithm, which causes the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, and will issue a microcode update to address the issue by mid-August. The update will not repair impacted processors, but will prevent issues on unaffected processors, and Intel will continue to replace impacted processors ...

The author argues that the poptimist movement in music criticism has devolved into a toxic and oppressive force that stifles genuine criticism and creativity, and that the obsession with status hierarchies and identity politics has created a culture of defensiveness and aggression. The author concludes that the emperor has no clothes, and that the poptimist narrative has been out of date for ...

Microsoft blames EU rules for a faulty security update that caused a global IT outage, citing a 2009 agreement that prevented it from making security changes to block the update. The update, from CrowdStrike, affected 8.5 million Windows devices, causing widespread disruptions to travel and healthcare services.

Sofle is a 6x4+5 keys column-staggered split keyboard with encoder support, based on Lily58, Corne, and Helix keyboards, with two versions released by Josef Adamcik and Dane Evans. The keyboard has undergone changes and is available in various forms, including Sofle RGB and Sofle Choc, with documentation licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

A simulation of an old 7-segment display using CSS Grid

The user's input describes a GPU-only work-graphs system that uses 37 nodes to augment an existing scene in real-time, generating various geometry types, including ivy, market layout, and ground clutter. The system utilizes GPU work graphs, ray tracing, and mesh shaders to procedurally generate geometry, and employs concepts such as coalesced instancing, BVH markers, and growth bias to ...

The user stepped down from the GNOME Foundation board in May 2024, citing a shocking decision process. They reflect on their accomplishments, including integrating GUADEC and regional events, and promoting the GNOME Development Initiative, while expressing hope for a healthier environment in the future.

Netflix uses Metaflow, an open-source machine learning infrastructure framework, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage various ML systems. Metaflow provides a robust foundational layer with integrations to Netflix's company-wide data, compute, and orchestration platform, as well as various paths to deploy applications to production smoothly.

AMD's Zen 5 microarchitecture, designed by Mike Clark, powers the Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 processors, delivering double-digit increases in instructions per clock (IPC) improvement. Clark discussed the challenges of designing Zen 5 for both 4nm and 3nm process nodes, as well as the company's approach to compact cores, thread placement, and AVX-512 acceleration.

The Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administration team detected fraudulent votes in the 2024 Hugo Awards, disqualifying 377 votes out of 3,813, and concluded that the winners were fair and square. The team will publish the full voting results, nominating statistics, and voting statistics after the ceremony, but will not share the raw data due to confidentiality and data protection regulations.

Gitmoji is an emoji guide for your commit messages. Aims to be a standarization cheatshee /t for using emojis on GitHub's commit messages.

Web engines like WebKit and Chromium accelerated HTML parsing using SIMD instructions, which can process multiple bytes at once, to jump to the next target character as fast as possible. A C++ structure, neon_match64, was built to solve this problem using vectorized classification, loading non-overlapping blocks of 64 bytes and identifying target characters using a 64-bit register.

The European Union has notified Meta that its "pay or consent" model for Facebook and Instagram may violate consumer protection laws, giving the company until September 1st, 2024, to propose changes. The EU claims the model is misleading and confusing, and Meta may face fines for breaching unfair commercial practices and contract terms directives.

Microsoft blames a 2009 EU agreement for a global IT outage that affected 8.5 million Windows devices, citing the need to allow multiple security providers to install software at the kernel level. The agreement, aimed at avoiding a competition investigation, prevented Microsoft from blocking a faulty security update from CrowdStrike that caused the outage.

Two friends, Ender and the author, collaborated on a book about their software engineering experiences, sharing their lessons learned and offering guidance to others who may be struggling. After a year of writing and editing, they published the book, hoping it will serve as a mentor to those who feel lost or unsure in their journey.

A multistate listeria outbreak linked to deli meat has killed two people and hospitalized 28, with 16 of 18 interviewed cases reporting eating meats sliced at a deli before getting sick. The CDC is investigating, but no recalls have been issued, and people at high risk are advised to avoid eating deli meat unless it's been heated to 165°F.

Intel is addressing instability issues in 13th/14th Gen desktop processors caused by elevated operating voltage due to a microcode algorithm. A microcode patch is being delivered to partners in mid-August to fix the issue, and customers experiencing problems are encouraged to contact Intel Customer Support for assistance.

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has released its Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2024, which highlights the growing threats posed by cybercrime in the EU, including ransomware attacks, child sexual exploitation, and online fraud. The report notes that the criminal landscape remains diverse, with both lone actors and criminal networks ...

Tenstorrent, an AI hardware startup, is launching a new development kit strategy with the Wormhole chip, offering PCIe cards and systems for developers to scale out performance. The company is also introducing two developer workstations, the TT-LoudBox and TT-QuietBox, which are designed to provide a quieter and more powerful experience for AI development.

A landmark study by OpenResearch, a moonshots lab linked to OpenAI, has found that a universal basic income (UBI) can improve people's lives by providing financial flexibility and allowing them to spend more on basic needs, medical care, and helping others. The study, which gave away $45 million to 3,000 participants in Texas and Illinois, is the most comprehensive UBI trial to date and has ...