AnandTech, a 27-year-old tech journalism website, is shutting down due to the decline of written tech journalism and the rise of sensationalist reporting. The website's editor-in-chief, Ryan Smith, thanked the site's readers, editors, and industry partners for their support over the years and encouraged other tech journalists to remain true to their craft and provide high-quality reporting.

Crows, including the hooded crow, can create mental templates to memorize and reproduce objects, a skill previously thought unique to humans. This ability may be widespread among corvids and could have evolved in their ancestors, allowing them to create tools and learn from each other.

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The vagus nerve is a crucial link between the brain and body, regulating various bodily functions, emotions, and responses, including fear, pleasure, and heart rate. Stimulating the vagus nerve can have wide-ranging benefits, including treating neurological and psychological disorders, but some claims of its therapeutic potential are unfounded.

A Franklin County judge granted a temporary restraining order against cybersecurity expert Connor Goodwolf, who revealed sensitive information stolen during a cyberattack on Columbus, Ohio, and is now ordered to stop accessing and disseminating the data. The city is seeking at least $25,000 in damages, claiming Goodwolf's actions have caused "irreparable harm" and "widespread concern" in the region.

The article introduces the concept of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) and provides a step-by-step guide on how to write and modify basic ZKPs from scratch, including setting up the programming environment, performing a trusted setup, creating and verifying proofs, and implementing a digital signature scheme using hash functions and commitments. The article also explores the potential ...

In 1969, the entire world watched as three men explored the unknown. Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control.

New research from the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging finds that long COVID patients share cognitive impairments with Alzheimer's disease, suggesting a potential commonality in brain disorders. The study highlights the importance of regular brain function check-ups, particularly through EEG, and advocates for early detection and intervention to prevent or slow cognitive decline.

Algora TV is a livestreaming service for developers, requiring setup of external services and configuration of a .env file. The service uses a graph of components, including Fly, RTMP, Tigris, and encoders like OBS, to deliver video and audio content to viewers.

The Brazilian supreme court has ordered the suspension of X, a social media platform, after it failed to appoint a legal representative in the country, and imposed a daily fine of R$50,000 on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN. The dispute began in April when the court ordered the suspension of dozens of accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation, and has ...

The author discusses the history and evolution of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python, including its introduction in Python 1.5 and its limitations, and explains how the upcoming Python 3.13 release will introduce an optional GIL and per-interpreter GIL. The author also shares their personal experience with the GIL, including a memory corruption issue they encountered while testing ...

The author argues that the dominance of large cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, is leading to a balkanized internet, where users are isolated within their own cloud-based communities and are unaware of the external internet. The author also discusses their own efforts to mitigate abuse and data theft by blocking traffic from AWS and promoting the use of open-source materials and ...

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Ronald Fisher's "Lady Tasting Tea" experiment tested a woman's ability to distinguish between tea and milk poured first, using a randomized design and Fisher's exact test to determine the probability of her correct identifications. The experiment demonstrated the concept of a null hypothesis, which is never proved but can be disproved, and showed that the lady's ability to identify all 8 cups ...

C-EDIT is a Linux text editor inspired by MSDOS EDIT, rewritten to work with Termux and featuring a double screen buffer and file dialog with scroll capabilities. The editor uses a simple linked list in memory for display control and has separate modules for handling output, display, and file selection.

Underjord is a tiny team offering Elixir consulting and contract work, and they recently joined the Nerves core team to help people integrate hardware and software. Nerves is a way to co-mingle hardware and massively concurrent reliable software, and it's easy to get started with a Raspberry Pi and some Elixir knowledge.

The user believes that the interview process should showcase the company's best qualities, especially for valuable candidates with competing offers. They suggest having a standard set of questions to ask every interviewer at every stage to collect valuable data on how well the company and role might fit.

The author reconsiders the Rust-for-Linux project, acknowledging the burnout and challenges faced by developers, and proposes an alternative path: building a Linux-compatible kernel from scratch in Rust. This approach would allow for quicker progress and avoid LKML politics, leveraging Rust's strengths and attracting a larger talent pool.

The user argues that people often mistake Rust's syntax for its semantics, and that simplifying the language's semantics could improve its syntax. The user proposes simplifying Rust's semantics by removing features like generic functions, direct memory access, and error handling, and instead using a garbage collector and opaque data types.

GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990 due to drug development failure.

The National Library replaced its 2007 bit-repository with a contemporary digital preservation system, DPS, to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility of its digital collection. The re-archiving process involved analyzing and repackaging historical data, generating new MP4 files, and correcting errors, resulting in 2.1 million new MP4 files and 143 TB of new playback files on nb.no.

StatiCrypt is a tool that encrypts HTML files using AES-256 and WebCrypto, allowing users to safely upload and share password-protected content without a backend. The tool can be used to encrypt files online or through the command line, and offers features such as password prompts, decryption in-browser, and the ability to share links with auto-decryption.

The Boar's Head meat facility in Virginia had 69 violations, including mold, water leaks, and dirty equipment, which created perfect conditions for Listeria monocytogenes to contaminate meat. The facility was shut down after the outbreak strain of Listeria was found in unopened containers of liverwurst, and the company is conducting an investigation to determine how the contamination occurred.

The author visited Powell's bookstore and discovered a new book, "Pick Your Own Path on The Oregon Trail", a pipe-and-tab gamebook that is a rare format, uncommonly used since the 1970s. The book is a simple gamebook with two main branches, where players make choices that can lead to victory or death, with a focus on realistic portrayals of good and bad decisions.

The Bresenham's algorithm is a method for drawing a circle on a pixel grid by iteratively moving in the direction of the circle's center, adjusting the direction based on the distance from the center, and avoiding the need to calculate the full polynomial distance function. The algorithm is an optimization of the naive approach, which involves calculating the distance from the center of the ...

In Japan, nearly 4,000 people who died alone at home were not discovered for over a month, with 30% of 102,965 autopsied individuals found dead at home. The majority were elderly, with 40% found within a day and 3,936 not discovered until over 30 days after death.

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A practical TMTO-based attack is introduced against 2G mobile networks' GSM (A5/3) and GPRS (GEA-3) technologies, allowing a passive attacker to decrypt calls with a high probability. The attack is demonstrated with off-the-shelf devices in real-life networks, with a success probability of 0.43 for a 2-hour call in 14 minutes.

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Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will provide free internet service in Brazil through Starlink until a judicial dispute over account blocking is resolved. The dispute, which affects Starlink's finances, has impacted the company's operations in remote areas, with Rondônia being the most affected state.

0x0.st is a URL shortening service that allows users to upload files and set expiration dates, with a maximum file size of 512 MiB. The service has terms of service and a privacy policy, and users can report abuse or request deletion by contacting the operator via IRC or email.

The MIT License grants permission to use, modify, and distribute software without restriction, with the condition that the copyright notice and permission notice are included. The software is provided "as is" without warranty, and the authors and copyright holders are not liable for any claims, damages, or liability.

The author, a software architect, felt trapped in a role that was sucking the joy out of his life, leading to depression and weight gain. He wrote a scary email to his bosses, admitting his weaknesses and limitations, and asking to be relieved of non-technical responsibilities to focus on what he loves.

The microbiome field has been plagued by challenges in characterizing the microbiome, establishing causality between the microbiome and disease, and developing effective therapeutic approaches, with most clinical applications failing to pan out except for C. Diff infections. Despite the complexity and controversy surrounding the field, researchers continue to push forward, exploring new ...

The open source community keeps old technologies alive by maintaining and developing software, hardware, and online platforms, allowing users to continue using and learning from them. This preservation of computing history not only provides a nostalgic experience but also helps developers learn about computer science, understand the limitations of computers, and appreciate the simplicity and ...

Japan, once a thriving economy, has struggled with a sluggish economy and an aging population, with a deep resistance to change and a stubborn attachment to the past. Despite its unique culture and traditions, Japan's hostility to immigration and refusal to adapt to changing times may lead to its decline, with lessons for the rest of the world.

Rubi is a symbolic integration system that uses a decision tree of over 6700 rules to find optimal antiderivatives of mathematical expressions, making it a great tool for learning and doing mathematics. Rubi outperforms other symbolic integrators, including Maple and Mathematica, on a test-suite of integration problems, with detailed test results available online.

The application uses Python's threading module and keyboard library to run concurrently with the main Flask app, blocking distractions and managing windows. It features a custom GUI with Flask, Tailwind CSS integration, and pygetwindow for a responsive and customizable interface.

The calendar queue is a new priority queue implementation that is designed to efficiently handle large numbers of events with varying priorities, and it has been shown to outperform other implementations in terms of hold time. The calendar queue is simple, robust, and works well for a variety of priority increment distributions, making it a suitable choice for applications that require ...

PyPy 7.3.17 release includes a new RISC-V JIT backend, improved REPL, and better JIT optimizations for integer operations, with special thanks to contributors and donors. The release also adds features to the PyPy3.10 REPL, improves integer optimization, and drops support for PyPy3.9 due to conda-forge's sunset of PyPy support.

Mouse is a small, stack-oriented language designed for microcomputers, featuring arrays, functions, and recursion. It allows for local and global variables, macros, and conditional blocks, and can be downloaded from the Walnut Creek CD.

UC Berkeley has a new policy for alumni where if your Berkeley account has over 5GB stored in it, on Sept 17, they will just delete your whole account. Can you pay for more storage? No.

A 60-year-old Wells Fargo employee, Denise Prudhomme, was found dead at her desk in Tempe, Arizona, four days after clocking in for work, with police investigating the cause of death. The incident has raised concerns about the lack of checks on employees and the bank's transparency in the matter, with some employees feeling frustrated and uneasy about the situation.

scpptool is a command-line tool that enforces a memory and data race safe subset of C++ by analyzing the specified C++ file(s) and reporting places where it cannot verify safety. The tool supports lifetime annotations, which are used to specify the lifespan of objects and ensure that objects are initialized, casts are safe, and parts of objects are not accessed before they are initialized ...

The author reconsiders the Rust-for-Linux project, acknowledging the burnout and challenges faced by developers, and proposes an alternative path: building a Linux-compatible kernel from scratch in Rust. This approach would allow for quicker progress and avoid LKML politics, leveraging Rust's strengths and attracting a larger talent pool.

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A study found that 28% of papers using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images misidentified the specific instrument used, raising concerns about research integrity. The study suggests that many of these mistakes may be due to paper mills or researchers reusing figures without proper documentation, rather than genuine errors.

The author created a demo to test the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognize number patterns, and found that while they can recognize some patterns, their explanations are often nonsensical and their reasoning abilities are limited. The author also discusses the limitations of the demo and the potential for future improvements, including the possibility of training a model ...

The user's organization has transitioned from using multiple Unix variants to primarily running Ubuntu Linux, with some remaining OpenBSD and OmniOS usage. The user values the benefits of having exposure to different Unixes, citing the gain of a wider perspective and more ideas and approaches in their mental toolkit.

The Windows App will be generally available this fall, offering a unified client for securely connecting to Windows on any device or app, with features like customizable home screens and advanced security. The app will undergo an in-place update on Windows, iOS, and macOS, while Android users will get a public preview, ensuring a consistent experience across all platforms.

The study found that the Dendra armour, a 3500-year-old bronze suit discovered in Greece, was compatible with use in combat, as demonstrated by a series of experiments and numerical simulations. The findings support the notion that the Mycenaeans, an ancient Greek civilization, had advanced armor technology that allowed them to engage in prolonged battles, as described in Homer's Iliad.

The author reflects on their journey as a software engineer, highlighting 33 books that have influenced their career, from introductory texts to advanced topics like programming languages, software design, and system architecture. The books on the list represent a mix of classic and modern texts, with some being personal favorites and others being recommended for their relevance to the field.

A simple VRChat shader avatar addon that dims bright areas of the screen. It does not prevent strobing, though the Blackout option can help a lot in some circumstances. Do not expect support; this is a free asset for my own use that I'm sharing freely. You are free to improve it yourself if you want.

The authors investigate the accuracy and determinism of x86 64 performance counters, finding that many events are non-deterministic and suffer from overcount due to hardware interrupts, page faults, and microarchitectural variations. They identify a few events that are deterministic, but these are limited and may not be suitable for all applications, and propose methods for compensating for ...

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Nicholas Petris, a California state senator, introduced a bill in 1967 to ban gas-powered cars by 1975, which sparked a national movement to phase out internal combustion engines, but ultimately failed due to industry opposition. However, the effort led to the adoption of stricter emissions standards and the development of cleaner cars, and today, similar efforts are underway to ban ...

The Pieeg shop offers a low-cost 16-channel EEG cap with nylon material and Ag/AgCl dry electrodes. The kit includes 16 cables and connectors, 2 ear clip electrodes, and is designed for reliable and efficient EEG measurements with low impedance and high signal quality.

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested in France and charged with enabling illegal transactions and distributing child sexual abuse material, leading to a debate about free speech and platform liability. However, some reports suggest that Durov's arrest may be more about his company's unwillingness to assist French law enforcement and its potential ties to state actors, rather ...

Open-source self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Raiway.app, Render or Heroku running on Kubernetes clusters.

An underwater avalanche occurred 60,000 years ago in the East Atlantic, starting as a small seafloor slide and growing over 100 times in size as it tore through a 250-mile-long canyon and traveled 1,000 miles along the seabed. The massive event left behind a trail of destruction, covering the seafloor in over 3 feet of sediment and highlighting the potential geohazard risk to seafloor ...

Apple's lawyers contacted concept creator Antonio De Rosa to alter his design of the "iPhone Air Flip" due to concerns over consumer confusion, despite not wanting him to stop creating concepts. The incident raises questions about Apple's tolerance for leaks and rumors, and whether De Rosa's design is too realistic or close to an actual Apple product.

The resurgence of Marxism in the English-speaking world in the late 20th century, known as "analytical Marxism," ultimately led to a shift towards liberal egalitarianism as many Marxist thinkers, including Gerald Cohen and Jürgen Habermas, found Rawls's work on justice and equality more compelling. The collapse of academic Marxism as a normatively motivated social criticism has been complete, ...

The author and their team, Jimmy Liu, attempted to create a new form of computer interface that would allow multiple people to collaborate in real-time, but ultimately failed to find traction due to the complexity of the concept and the lack of a clear use case. The team experimented with various prototypes, including a multiplayer browser and a chat-based collaboration tool, but ultimately ...

Martin Vargic created a map of the internet, visualizing the World Wide Web's current state with over 7,000 popular websites represented as "countries". The map includes features like color-coded websites, labeled cities and towns, and notable figures, providing a comprehensive and detailed representation of the internet's culture and computer science.

Asyncpal is a Python library that provides a thread pool and process pool for preemptive concurrency and parallelism, allowing for efficient management of tasks and resources. It offers various methods for performing map operations, splitting tasks, and managing futures, as well as providing tools for testing and shutting down pools, making it suitable for both implicit and explicit use.

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria claims the company is gaining against open-source rival PostgreSQL, citing a recent win against PostgreSQL in a project at Fanatics Betting & Gaming. MongoDB's Atlas database service was chosen over PostgreSQL due to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use, according to Ittycheria.

The paper presents a decomposition of the Garbage-First (G1) collector and evaluates its components, including concurrent marking, remembered sets, and barriers, to understand the tradeoffs and relationships between them. The authors implement and evaluate six collectors, including G1, to analyze the impact of each component on pause time, remembered set footprint, and barrier overheads, and ...

The paper proposes a methodology to determine the maximum dependency length of RNNs and studies the effects of architectural changes on traditional RNN, GRU, and LSTM models. The study aims to understand how different RNN architectures affect the maximum dependency lengths of these models.

Amazon S3 is a scalable multi-tenant storage service that provides interfaces to store and retrieve objects with high availability and durability at a relatively low cost, with a design that leverages parallelism and workload decorrelation to manage I/O demand across a large set of hard drives. The service has achieved 11 nines of durability, with a durability model that tracks failures and ...

Marcia Bjornerud, a geologist, writes about her life and career in her new book "Turning to Stone", which combines her personal history with her study of the Earth's history. Through her experiences, Bjornerud explores the relationship between humans and the planet, highlighting the importance of understanding the Earth's history and our place within it.

The Wicker Man rollercoaster at Alton Towers is a machine that automates the shedding of innocence and the acquisition of experience, designed to terrify and initiate riders into a rite of passage. The Ride to Happiness at Plopsaland De Panne is a Mack Rides Xtreme Spinning Coaster that defines a new era of rollercoaster maturity, relying on freedom and transcendence rather than fear to define itself.

The Internet Gradient is a multiplayer live canvas that updates in real-time based on user interaction. The Internet Gradient will continue to update until it reaches the unsigned 32 bit integer limit. Created by Dris Elamri.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, plans to run Tumblr's backend on WordPress, allowing for easier sharing of tools and features between the two platforms. The move is expected to be a technical challenge, but Automattic is confident in its ability to complete the transition, which will allow Tumblr to benefit from WordPress's open-source developments.

Anand Lal Shimpi, a 17-year-old high school student, runs a successful online business, AnandTech, which reviews computer hardware and has over 1.5 million monthly visitors, earning him a gross annual revenue of nearly $1 million. Despite his success, Anand faces challenges, including criticism from some users and attempts to influence his reviews, but he remains committed to his integrity ...

The New York City subway has been a source of inspiration for novelists over the past century, with its unique atmosphere and experiences influencing the works of many famous authors. From the early days of its opening in 1904 to the present, the subway has been a symbol of wonder, despair, and quotidian life, with its riders and stations serving as a backdrop for countless stories.

When EV startups shut down, their cars may lose functionality, such as remote app control and dashboard features, due to lack of dealer networks, spare parts, and server support. This risk keeps the user from taking EV startups seriously until they have a proven track record of multiple product generations.

The author argues that building infrastructure ad hoc is the safest and most efficient strategy, as it balances risks and achieves economies of scale. Ad hoc infrastructure is created when necessary, using regret as motivation, and can be continually improved without changing the application code.

The article discusses a Magic: The Gathering combo that allows players to sort their library in a controlled way using the Omniscience and Petals of Insight cards. The combo requires a complex calculation to determine the exact number of iterations needed to sort the library, which can be declared when casting Petals of Insight.

North Atlantic right whales are declining due to entanglement in fishing gear, boat strikes, and climate change, leading to fishing gear restrictions and closures that have devastated small-scale fishers like Michael "Chops" Cowdrey Jr. Cowdrey and other fishers are testing "ropeless" fishing gear, which is more expensive and slower, but could help reduce whale entanglements and get fishers ...

Reviewable, a code review application, has launched a dark mode feature after modernizing its UI framework and reducing the number of colors used in the app. The app uses a color palette with a logical ordering and leverages modern CSS features like color-mix, --*, and hsl to control the theme and reduce the number of colors used.

Police in Devon and Cornwall detected over 2,000 seat belt offences, including 109 children, using AI cameras on three A-roads between July and August. The authorities are calling for tougher penalties, including penalty points, for seat belt offences, citing the risk of serious injury or death in the event of an accident.

The author and their team, Jimmy Liu, attempted to create a new form of computer interface that would allow multiple people to collaborate in real-time, but ultimately failed to find traction due to the complexity of the concept and the lack of a clear use case. The team experimented with various prototypes, including a multiplayer browser and a chat-based collaboration tool, but ultimately ...