Pixelmator Team joins Apple, allowing them to reach a wider audience and impact more creative people worldwide. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval with no immediate changes to Pixelmator apps.

People are creating high-quality things and sharing their work freely with all of humanity. Make it Yourself is a digital book featuring over 1000 DIY projects with links to their original project websites.

Notepad++ is a 21-year-old text editor that has remained indispensable due to its simplicity and complex features. It has evolved with its users, offering syntax highlighting, multi-document tabbing, and thousands of plugins for a seamless editing experience.

Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Nov. 8, reflecting the boom in artificial intelligence and the shift in the semiconductor industry. Nvidia's market cap has swelled to $3.3 trillion, making it a major player in the tech industry.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration, with higher regularity associated with a 20%–48% lower risk of all-cause mortality. The study used objective data from accelerometers to establish a relationship between sleep regularity and mortality risk, and found that regular sleep was a significant predictor of lower risk of all-cause mortality.

Monadical.com is hiring a Solutions Evangelist and Senior AI/ML engineer for a consultancy that builds software for various industries, offering flexible working hours and a strong culture emphasis on individual autonomy and impact on company direction.

Becky Carroll was a patient who underwent full-arch implants at ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, but she experienced complications and pain. Experts warn that implants are overused, and some dentists are removing healthy teeth unnecessarily for profit.

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Alyssa Rosenzweig is a contractor at Valve and contributor to Asahi Linux, working on reverse-engineering Apple M1 GPU. She joins the Partially Redacted podcast to discuss hardware reverse engineering and Linux gaming.

To improve sleep, consider implementing sleep hygiene techniques and establishing a consistent sleep schedule. Techniques such as meditation, reading, and avoiding screens before bedtime can also help.

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Causal co-founder and CEO announced the company's acquisition by Lucanet Group. Causal's journey started with a post 5 years ago, scaling to 100s of startup users with its 2.0 release.

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TokenFormer is a scalable Transformer architecture that uses attention for token-parameter interactions, allowing progressive scaling without retraining. It reduces training costs by incrementally adding new parameter pairs, achieving comparable performance to scratch-trained Transformers.

Researchers at Google Project Zero and Google DeepMind used a large language model to discover a previously unknown vulnerability in SQLite, a widely used open source database engine, and reported it to the developers who fixed it the same day. This is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software, and ...

A user's passwords were silently synced to iCloud Keychain when they updated their MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, and the passwords remained in iCloud even after disabling iCloud Keychain. The user found that deleting passwords from the Passwords app and re-enabling then disabling iCloud Keychain allowed them to delete the passwords from iCloud Keychain.

Ink is a React renderer for command-line apps, providing a component-based UI building experience with features like Flexbox layouts and user input handling. It includes various components and hooks for building CLI interfaces, such as Box, Text, and useInput, and supports React Devtools integration.

The author tried rewriting a Customs declaration application in Rust and Svelte, but after a year, they realized users didn't benefit from the new tech and decided to rewrite it in Rails. They learned that making tradeoffs is key in web development and that Rails' strengths outweigh its weaknesses, making it a good choice for building a product.

A vulnerability was identified in AD/LDAP DelAuth cache key generation on October 30, 2024, allowing users to authenticate with a stored cache key and username. This can be exploited under specific conditions, such as high traffic or agent downtime, between July 23rd and October 30th, 2024.

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The US and China have followed similar paths in their economic development, with both countries undergoing rapid growth, urbanization, and industrialization, and both experiencing a shift from a rural to an urban economy. Despite differences in their initial conditions, both countries have created novel institutions and cultures that have led to similar outcomes, including the emergence of a ...

A candidate implemented a tic tac toe game in Python and used a statement to check for a winner by comparing diagonal elements, but it was initially questioned due to potential type mismatch issues. However, it was later confirmed that Python's chained expressions allow for this syntax, making the code technically correct.

Software engineers with various backgrounds and expertise are seeking full-time or part-time opportunities in web development, machine learning, and infrastructure engineering, with some looking for leadership roles or remote work. Many have experience in Python, JavaScript, and React, with some also proficient in C++, Rust, and other programming languages.

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer quickly and cheaply. The device is low-cost, portable, and sensitive, making it ideal for developing countries with limited medical resources.

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Ryan Tomayko presented a UNIX shell programming talk at GoGaRuCo 2010 in San Francisco. The talk covered POSIX shell language and command reference, and a companion piece was planned for a magazine.

A tutorial series is creating a basic CPU rasterization engine in C++ from scratch, without using a GPU. The series is work-in-progress, with 12 parts covering drawing pixels to advanced optimizations, and code available on GitHub.

Apple announced new Mac mini models with M4 and M4 Pro chips, a smaller casing, and improved connectivity. The M4 Pro chip is faster than the M2 Ultra chip in peak multi-core CPU performance.

Gun manufacturers secretly shared sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which used the data to mobilize gun owners to elect pro-gun politicians. The database, which contained 5.5 million names, was used to create psychological profiles of gun owners and tailor political messages to voters based on their personalities.

Ubuntu plans to remove Qt 5 by Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in 2026, with developers hoping to transition to Qt 6. The goal is to avoid a long maintenance period, but concerns have been raised about KDE Plasma and Ubuntu Touch's ability to migrate to Qt 6 in time.

Mathematicians have questioned the infinite monkey theorem, which suggests a monkey typing randomly can produce Shakespeare's works. Even with infinite time, a monkey would almost certainly never replicate Shakespeare's works due to the vast number of possible combinations.

Brownstone Shared Housing has 17 remaining sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco, with 300 applicants. The pods rent for $700 a month and offer basic amenities.

Winlator Android app helps run Windows apps with Wine and Box86/Box64. Users can improve performance and stability by adjusting settings and environment variables.

Microsoft's culture is built around the Growth Mindset concept, which is a poorly-defined and unscientific idea that emphasizes learning and self-improvement. However, it has been used as a tool for propaganda and managerial abuse, with employees being judged on their adherence to the concept and their ability to write essays about their work.

AMD released its first series of fully open 1 billion parameter language models, AMD OLMo, trained on 1.3 trillion tokens. These models demonstrate better performance in general reasoning, instruction-following, and chat capabilities compared to other similar sized fully open-source models.

Ratarmount is a tool that allows for fast random access to files inside a TAR archive without extracting it. It uses FUSE for read access and supports compressed TARs, recursive mounting, and union mounting.

Intel's Broadwell used a 14 nm node with minor architecture changes to lower power consumption and increase IPC by 5%. However, the 14 nm node issues proved too much, and Broadwell couldn't match Haswell's clock speed.

Researchers studied the 22 percent German minimum wage increase, finding positive effects on wages and no negative effects on employment retention and regional employment. The increase also led to a negative effect on working hours, mainly driven by minijobbers.

The user switched to a budget Android smartphone to compare it with an expensive iPhone and understand mobile developments. The Nokia 2, a €99 budget phone, has a nice feel, vivid screen, and fantastic battery life.

Nvidia replaces Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November 8, reflecting their diverging fortunes. Nvidia's stock has rallied 173% this year, while Intel's has declined 53%.

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The author is a Pascal enthusiast who believes the language deserves more attention due to its unique strengths and foundational skills it provides. He aims to showcase Pascal's versatility and power through his YouTube channel, The Silver Coder.

El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has been met with low adoption rates, with 92% of Salvadorans not using it. Despite President Bukele's vision, businesses and citizens remain skeptical due to technical issues and lack of understanding.

The author of the blog post discusses code comparison techniques, specifically PIC hashing and fuzzy hashing, to identify identical code that is moved to a different location, and evaluates their performance using various experiments. The results show that PIC hashing generally provides excellent precision, but fuzzy hashing techniques like LZJD and LEV can perform better in terms of recall, ...

Thoughtworks used the Strangler Fig pattern to incrementally replace individual domains of a large mobile application, allowing for a gradual modernization of the app. The pattern involved embedding a new React Native application inside the existing legacy application, enabling the reuse of production-ready domains and reducing the risk associated with a big bang release.

Google executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, faced employee concerns about cost cuts and potential layoffs at an all-hands meeting. The company is restructuring its workforce to invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure, but employees fear for their jobs.

The NetBIOS interface in C-Kermit has two code paths, ACSNETB.DLL and NETAPI.DLL, which were initially mislabeled in comments. Both interfaces were developed in the late 1980s for OS/2, with ACSNETB.DLL being a thin wrapper around the NETBIOS$ driver and NETAPI.DLL using a private interface to the LAN Manager/LAN Requester redirector.

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VMware Workstation will shift from proprietary to KVM-based virtualization, leveraging upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine. This transition is expected to happen in 2025 or later after necessary KVM changes are upstreamed and adopted by Linux distributions.

A UK study found that a sugary diet in the first two years of life and in the womb may increase the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure later in life. Cutting back on added sugar is recommended, but moderation is key, especially for pregnant and lactating people who often consume more than three times the recommended amount.

The US government is warning software manufacturers about using memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ in critical infrastructure. Companies must create memory safety roadmaps and eliminate default passwords by January 1, 2026, to avoid national security risks.

Lenny Susskind is questioning the effectiveness of string theory, stating it may not describe our world. He is working on a new version of the theory that could work in de Sitter space.

The user created a simple chess clock program in Lua to track time for each player, displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. The program can be customized by editing the initial time in seconds at the top of the code.

Intel's Pentium CPUs had a math glitch in 1993, which was discovered in 1994 and led to a recall of defective CPUs. Intel also faced a similar issue with Raptor Lake CPUs in 2024, where CPUs were damaged due to excessive voltage.

The XTP platform is now open to the public in beta, allowing anyone to create extensible apps with end-user code. It securely runs user code with near-native performance and easy programming model.

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Three men in Japan were arrested for copyright infringement after transcribing movie details without permission and displaying them on a website for profit. The men allegedly conspired to commit copyright infringement, reducing people's desire to pay for official content and causing damage to rights holders.

Researchers discovered a complex of three proteins, Izumo1, Spaca6, and Tmem81, on sperm that is essential for fertilization in vertebrates, and found that this complex interacts with different egg proteins in different species. The complex is thought to play a key role in bridging the membranes of sperm and egg, and its formation is necessary for male fertility in zebrafish and mice.

Companies succeed by eliminating friction and making steps unnecessary, not just easier. The goal is to let customers do less, not more.

The US housing market is struggling due to high prices and mortgage rates, a long-standing housing shortage, and the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation rate hikes. Mortgage rates may ease next year, but it may not solve the underlying problems.

ChatGPT Search outperforms Google in real-time, conversational responses with clear, concise answers and ad-free results. ChatGPT's streamlined experience prioritizes user privacy and provides reliable, thorough information.

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This document specifies the C programming language and its interpretation for portability across various data-processing systems. It outlines the mechanisms for transforming, invoking, and processing C programs and data.

People with ADHD experience multiple thoughts competing for attention, making it hard to concentrate. This can lead to struggles with appointments, relationships, and feelings of inadequacy alongside anxiety and depression.

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