Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is instructing corporate staffers to work out of the office five days a week, a significant shift from the company's previous requirement of at least three days a week. The change is aimed at strengthening the company's culture and ensuring it remains nimble, with Jassy also announcing plans to simplify the corporate structure by reducing the number of managers and ...

Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2 receive FDA approval for sleep apnea detection, prompting users to seek formal diagnosis. Various AI startups, including OpenAI, raise funding and announce new features, such as generative AI models and coding assistants.

macOS Sequoia is available as a free software update, bringing new features like iPhone Mirroring, big updates to Safari, a new Passwords app, and more. Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system, will be introduced in macOS Sequoia, combining generative models with personal context to deliver useful and relevant intelligence while protecting users' privacy and security.

Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with weather forecasting, and has developed a 1.5B parameter model called GFT that predicts global weather up to 14 days ahead. The team aims to scale these models to simulate all infrastructure impacted by weather, including energy, agriculture, logistics, and defense, and is seeking feedback on their hurricane forecasting results.

Gauss, a renowned mathematician, left behind a legacy of mathematical achievements, including a proof that a regular heptadecagon is constructible with a compass and straightedge. He wanted a heptadecagon etched on his headstone, but it was not possible due to the limitations of the tools, and instead, a 17-pointed star was engraved on a monument in his birth city.

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Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark, but has not used it and allows its generic use, causing confusion and disruption. The trademark is abandoned and should be released into the public domain, or a petition for cancellation will be filed with the USPTO.

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Bash lacks a personal touch and customizability, but Dune offers a unique approach with a standalone interpreter and customizable frontend. This allows users to create their own shell with a unique look and feel.

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The command-line shell has added an interactive spreadsheet representation and a Debug Adapter Protocol implementation, with the 'dev' and 'spreadsheet' builtins providing tools for managing software development and debugging. The shell also features a debugger with composable components, including stepping controls and data manipulation tools, and can integrate with other projects for a ...

The speaker argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology that requires careful regulation and control, comparing it to the control over money, and suggests that countries, corporations, and criminals will all seek to exploit AI for their own gain. The speaker calls for international cooperation to establish standards and regulations for AI, including mandatory ...

The author, Burkhard, explains the complexities of the Qt license agreement, highlighting its vague and broad definitions, and argues that many customers are misled into buying expensive Qt Commercial licenses when Qt LGPL would be sufficient. He suggests that customers should carefully read the agreement, negotiate changes, and consider alternatives to avoid costly mistakes.

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Latacora collects and analyzes data about services, using Datomic to store and query data, enabling complex queries and vulnerability detection. The company's approach involves collecting data from various sources, inferring a schema, and storing it in a unified database, allowing for efficient querying and analysis.

Nyx-ψ is a next-generation network implementation designed for resilience and efficiency in lossy and unstable network environments. It delivers reliable data transfer through innovative strategies and error correction mechanisms, outperforming traditional protocols like TCP and UDP in extreme packet loss scenarios.

TouchArcade, a 16-year-old website, is shutting down due to financial struggles, with the team citing the inability to make money through traditional means. The team is seeking new opportunities and invites readers to reach out if they have a need for experienced game industry professionals, and plans to keep the website's content online and accessible.

Sol is a tool to inspect and break down chained shell commands, helping users understand complex one-liners. It shows non-standard aliases, functions, and files, and can explode complex commands for iterative editing.

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The Go 1.23 package unique implements interning, which reuses objects of equal value instead of keeping duplicate equal objects in memory, reducing memory usage. The package can be used with strings, numbers, arrays, pointers, and custom structs, and is particularly useful in scenarios where memory is a precious resource, such as stateful web servers or embedded systems.

The author purchased a Framework 13 laptop and shares their personal experience with the device, highlighting its modular design, repairability, and decent performance, but also mentioning some drawbacks such as a floppy screen, weak USB-A ports, and poor BIOS/firmware updates. Despite these issues, the author appreciates the company's commitment to open-source hardware and community ...

Franzelio is an interactive musical instrument that lets you create music by drawing lines and sharing your creation with the world.

ts-remove-unused is a CLI tool that detects and removes unused exports in TypeScript projects, including variable declarations, function declarations, and more. It can be used with options such as --check, --skip, and --include-d-ts to customize its behavior and skip certain files or exports.

The Semantic Image Search CLI builds an index of images using the CLIP model, which can be updated for new images but is slow for large datasets without GPU support. The index is searched by computing cosine similarities between query strings and stored embeddings, with no database involved and fast computation even for large datasets.

The HTTP QUERY method is a new, safe, and idempotent request method that allows for carrying request content, making it a suitable alternative to GET and POST methods for querying resources. The method is designed to be used for querying resources, and its responses can be cached and reused, with the server creating temporary resources to represent the results of the query operation.

You're researching L4 microkernels, specifically recent devices that run L4 variants like seL4, PikeOS, and OKL4, and are interested in finding devices that use L4 as a hypervisor. You're looking for examples from the last 5-6 years, and are hoping to find devices from industries like medical devices, automotive, and IoT that are less restrictive than defense.

The JSCut CAM package's GCode simulator was modified by Tomas Mudrunka in 2024 to run offline. The simulator was previously available on www.cncwebtools.com but is now defunct, and issues with GL context cleanup may cause old instances to remain stuck.

Big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple have made claims about reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, but a Guardian analysis found that their real emissions from company-owned data centers are likely 662% higher than officially reported. The companies' use of renewable energy certificates and offsets allows them to hide the true costs of their data centers, which are ...

Good programmers can hold a program in their minds, allowing them to manipulate and understand it at will, but this requires avoiding distractions, working in long stretches, and using succinct languages. Large organizations often hinder this process by treating programmers as interchangeable parts, leading to inefficiencies and poor code quality, whereas smaller startups can capitalize on ...

Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, was found to have malicious nodes that were given to users choosing the public node node.moneroworld.com, which is controlled by a trusted community member. The nodes were used to capture Monero RPC logs, and Chainalysis may have abused leftover DNS records to point to their own nodes, potentially compromising user privacy.

Jaqt is a query engine for arrays and objects that uses JavaScript trickery to add syntactic sugar to native Array.map and Array.filter functions, allowing for GraphQL-like querying without leaving JavaScript. It can be used to filter and transform data, as shown in the example code, and contributions are welcome through the GitHub repository.

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reactR is a package that allows using React components in R web and Shiny apps, providing convenience functions for building htmlwidgets and Shiny inputs. It uses the V8 package to transform JSX and ES2015 code with Babel and can be installed from CRAN or via devtools.

The author argues that the generative AI boom is unsustainable and will likely collapse, leading to widespread layoffs and financial losses for companies that have invested heavily in the technology. The author also criticizes the media for perpetuating the hype surrounding AI and failing to hold companies accountable for their unrealistic promises and lack of tangible results.

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The article discusses the controversy surrounding Ozempic, a medication that has been hailed as a miracle cure for obesity and related health issues, but has also been criticized for its high cost and potential cultural implications. The author argues that the medication has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of chronic diseases, but that its availability and accessibility need to ...

Ahmad, founder of Corgea, describes their AI AppSec engineer that helps developers automatically triage and fix insecure code, fine-tuning a model for secure and private deployment in large enterprises. The fine-tuned LLM addresses concerns around data residency, privacy, and security, offering complete data isolation and outperforming larger models in relevant benchmarks.

The US government has fined Rudy's Performance Parts and its owner Aaron Rudolf $10 million for violating the Clean Air Act by making and selling emissions defeat devices. The company pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay $2.4 million in criminal fines, with a separate civil suit resulting in a $7 million consent decree.

Amazon is making changes to strengthen its culture and teams, including reducing bureaucracy and increasing individual contributors to managers, and returning to in-office work to improve collaboration and innovation. The company aims to operate like a startup, with a focus on customer-centricity, ownership, and speed, and is working to simplify its org structure and improve decision-making processes.

Python is now generally available in Excel for Windows users of Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise, allowing seamless integration of Python analytics libraries and advanced data manipulation. The feature includes AI-powered Copilot, syntax highlighting, and code completion, and is designed to make advanced analytics accessible to business analysts and data scientists without requiring ...

Scientists in Spain have engineered a new "Golden Lettuce" with 30 times more nutrients than regular lettuce, specifically increasing beta-carotene levels for better vision, immune function, and cell growth. The team achieved this by moving the antioxidant to different parts of the plant cells, making it more bioaccessible and easier for humans to digest.

The Matrix Foundation has made progress on WhatsApp's Digital Markets Act (DMA) APIs, addressing some concerns, but still faces limitations, including geolocation requirements and EU-only availability. The Foundation is seeking funding from organizations to develop a production-grade Matrix-WhatsApp bridge, as the current constraints make it unviable without sponsorship.

Vapour allows developers to leverage R's existing work while improving syntax and catching errors before runtime. It checks for flagrant problems as code is written, helping developers fix issues before they reach users or unit tests.

Linux desktop operating system market share has reached an all-time high of 4.44%, with a significant jump from 3.12% a year ago. The growth is attributed to Linux's flexibility, openness, and affordability, as well as users turning away from Windows and macOS due to concerns over software-as-a-service and walled gardens.

China's ability to innovate is a topic of ongoing debate, with some arguing that its education system, risk-averse culture, and weak intellectual property protections hinder its ability to produce true innovation, while others believe that China's massive scale, government support, and adaptability to the Chinese market make it a formidable innovator. The country's progress in certain areas, ...

The user discusses the importance of human relationships in software development, particularly between programmers and customers, and argues that direct contact between the two can lead to better results. They also express frustration with condescending comments about autism and urge people with platforms to be responsible and respectful in their words and actions.

X's Core Services team rearchitected the read path for Posts by splitting Tweetypie into separate read and write services, improving scalability, reducing operational complexity, and increasing development efficiency. The new Tweet Entity Service provides granular, field-level access to Post data, and has been scaled to handle tens of millions of operations per second, with plans to migrate ...

The author reflects on Apple's recent "It's Glowtime" keynote event, noting that while it was strong, it lacked the game-changing products that Steve Jobs was known for, and that Tim Cook's Apple prioritizes predictability and consistency over quirkiness and surprise. The author misses the excitement and unpredictability of Jobs' era, but acknowledges that Cook's Apple has achieved consistent ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, which could have been formed by a large asteroid breaking apart due to tidal forces. The ring system could have cast a shadow on Earth, contributing to a global cooling event and influencing the planet's climate, challenging our understanding of Earth's ancient history.

The author discusses the issue of silent error swallowing in programming, specifically in the context of the "Hello World" program, and argues that the responsibility for handling errors lies not with the application programmers, but with the platform developers and users. The author concludes that the issue persists due to inertia and the complexity of the problem, and that it is not ...

Adze is a universal logging library that combines front-end and back-end code, providing a natural logging experience with chainable API and multiple formatting options. It supports TypeScript development, has a global store for centralized log control, and is compatible with the Bunyan CLI for advanced formatting and filtering.

The article discusses the dangers of CLIXML deserialization in PowerShell, which can lead to remote code execution and other security vulnerabilities, and provides recommendations for mitigating these risks, including reviewing and reducing PowerShell modules, and manually mitigating gadgets. The article also explains how CLIXML deserialization works, including the use of gadgets and type ...

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The paper studies the provable security of the Linux DRBG in version 6.4.8, which is a deterministic random bit generator that accumulates entropy from various hardware sources and uses the hash function BLAKE2s and the stream cipher ChaCha20 to generate random bits. The authors prove the security of the Linux DRBG in the seedless robustness model, showing that it is secure up to O(min{2n/2, ...

The concept of extraterrestrial life was debated throughout the 18th century, with many arguing by analogy that since planets resemble the Earth, they must be inhabited. The debates flourished, with proponents using science, religion, and philosophy to support their claims, despite the lack of concrete evidence, and the idea of inhabited planets became a standard tenet of Enlightenment culture.

The majority of start-ups fail, and most founders are not successful, but rather eccentric individuals who create a unique company culture. Founder Mode is characterized by a culture where the whole team is involved in details, everyone does the work, and there is a sense of accountability and equality among team members.

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Intel plans to spin off its foundry business into an independent unit with its own board and potential for outside capital, aiming to turn around the struggling chipmaker. The company will also sell part of its stake in Altera and consider spinning off the foundry business into a separate publicly traded company.

The author argues that starting with a monolith and gradually breaking it down into microservices is a more effective approach than building a microservices system from scratch, as it allows for a simpler and more modular design. The author also notes that building a monolith first can help teams develop the necessary skills and experience before moving to a microservices architecture, and ...

Air-conditioning is becoming a luxury due to climate change, with global temperatures projected to rise 2°C by mid-century. Room-cooling use is expected to nearly triple by 2050, with some components being tested for medical treatments.

The author tried 1DollarScan, a book scanning service, to digitize an old textbook, but found the process to be more costly than expected, with a final cost of $25.2, and the output file being large and having issues with contrast and OCR accuracy. The author then optimized the file themselves using ImageMagick and Acrobat, reducing the file size by 90% and improving the readability and OCR accuracy.

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Robin Reiter sent the Pixel Pump, a set of tools with no plastic packaging, and it's great for making and placing SMD components. The foot pedals allow for easy component placement and typing, making it a handy tool for makers and electronics enthusiasts.

Marimo allows users to create notebooks with inlined package requirements, making it easy to share and run standalone notebooks without shipping requirements.txt files. Marimo's package sandboxing feature uses uv, a fast and standards-compliant package manager, to create isolated virtual environments and track dependencies in real-time.

The author joined Apple Computer in 1979 and worked on the Silentype printer project, writing software to control the thermal printer mechanism and printing the first text message "What Hath Woz Wrought?" The project was delayed due to production issues, but the Silentype eventually sold well as the official printer for the Apple II before being replaced by the ImageWriter dot matrix printer in 1983.

Underjord is a team offering Elixir consulting and contract work, and they developed Nerves, a way to build embedded Linux devices using the BEAM virtual machine. Nerves allows running Elixir, Erlang, or other languages, with features like message passing, hot code updates, and easy access to libraries.

Garnix allows deploying a NixOS server in minutes by defining a system on a flake.nix and pushing changes to a Git repository. The user set up a web analytics server using Plausible, a lightweight and open-source solution, and deployed it as a service with NixOS, using a custom domain and continuous deployment.

Reclaim Protocol generates cryptographic proofs of data exchanged over HTTPS connections, allowing users to verify and share data authenticity. The protocol uses HTTPS proxies, ZK proofs, and regular expressions to ensure information authenticity, making it difficult to create fake data or manipulate requests.

Kamala Harris is endorsed by Scientific American for president due to her support for science, evidence-based policies, and her commitment to addressing climate change, reproductive rights, and public health. In contrast, Donald Trump's record as president has been disastrous, rejecting evidence, promoting conspiracy theories, and ignoring the climate crisis, making Harris the clear choice ...

The Western 12-TET scale can be further subdivided 6 times, resulting in 72-TET, which includes various equal temperaments. Microtones can add emotional depth to music, and a browser-based piano allows composers to try out different microtonal scales from around the world.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison envisions a future where AI-powered surveillance systems monitor citizens through cameras and drones, ensuring everyone behaves and police are supervised. Ellison's prediction raises concerns about privacy and civil liberties, echoing George Orwell's 1984, where AI systems would replace human watchers.

Lyft Media uses Protocol Buffers to build flexible and reliable native ad products, emphasizing the importance of clarity and extensibility in protocol design to avoid ambiguity and breaking changes. The article shares best practices for using Protocol Buffers, including using unknown default enum values, leveraging standard well-known types, setting optional fields intentionally, ...

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Elite engineers achieve success by balancing longevity and diversity in their projects, learning from success and failure, and being both mentored and self-directed. They also prioritize personal growth, investing time in learning and development, and trust their curiosity to guide their future growth.

CATL launched its new Tianxing Bus battery, claiming it has the highest energy density in the bus industry, lasting 15 years and 1.5 million kilometers. The battery will power 80 electric buses and is designed specifically for the bus industry, with 13 companies already waiting for mass production.

Chris Crawford, a computer game designer, created Balance of Power, a geopolitical simulation game that allowed players to take on the role of the US or USSR president, making decisions on diplomacy, military, and economic policies to achieve their goals while avoiding nuclear war. The game was released in 1985 for the Macintosh and later ported to other platforms, becoming a best-seller and ...

Researchers have been exploring various methods to improve the reasoning abilities of large language models, including chain-of-thought prompting, planning in natural language, and self-rewarding language models. These approaches aim to enhance the models' ability to solve math word problems, generate more preferable text, and even master complex games like chess and shogi.

The iPhone 16 and 16 Pro have a new Secure Exclave chip feature, which handles the Secure Indicator Light that turns on when using camera and microphone, making it harder for malware to access sensors without user knowledge. This feature is different from the Secure Enclave used since iPhone 5s and provides a more secure way to indicate when camera and microphones are active.

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Overture Maps has been publishing global, open geospatial datasets every month, including building footprints, addresses, and land use data. The datasets are available in Parquet format and can be used for geospatial analysis, with Overture's building footprint dataset covering over 90% of the world's population, sourced from Google Open Buildings, Microsoft ML Buildings, and OpenStreetMap.

The author, an insomniac, explores the benefits of embracing sleeplessness and the creative potential of the night brain, citing examples from literature and art, and discussing the physiological and psychological changes that occur at night. By leaning into her Night Self, the author finds a sense of freedom and creativity, and learns to appreciate the unique qualities of the night, ...

The command-line shell has added an interactive spreadsheet representation and a Debug Adapter Protocol implementation, with the 'dev' and 'spreadsheet' builtins providing tools for managing software development and debugging. The shell also features a debugger with composable components, including stepping controls and data manipulation tools, and can integrate with other projects for a ...