The user set up an e-ink display in their mom's apartment to help her live with permanent anterograde amnesia, and it has worked extremely well for two years. The display shows messages from the user and their siblings, which helps their mom feel connected and reduces her anxiety about their whereabouts.

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O2 has created AI 'Daisy' to waste scammers' time and keep them away from customers. Daisy is a lifelike AI that answers calls in real time, exposing scammers' tactics and helping customers stay vigilant.

The author tested large language models (LLMs) on playing chess, with most models failing to win against a standard chess AI. However, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct consistently won against Stockfish on the lowest difficulty setting.

Thomas Eugene Kurtz co-invented BASIC and the Dartmouth Timesharing System with John Kemeny. He developed the first successful timesharing system and contributed to the development of the BASIC language across multiple generations of computers.

AI has increased the cost of carrying tech debt due to its sensitivity to code complexity. Companies should focus on refactoring legacy code to make it AI-friendly, using modular architecture to maximize generative AI tooling benefits.

The user experienced unexpected high AWS bills due to an Amplify and OpenSearch setup that created multiple OpenSearch domains without deleting the previous ones, resulting in thousands of dollars in charges. The user recommends setting up AWS budgets and cautions against using Amplify with OpenSearch due to its potential for high costs and lack of clear documentation.

The author sold their bootstrapped hardware company, TinyPilot, after four years of operation. They learned several practical lessons from the experience, including the importance of well-defined processes and a team that knows how to execute them.

A study found up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs, particularly in specialized industries and large firms. This practice distorts market signals and causes job fatigue, suggesting policy-makers should be aware of it.

A C# recreation of the Visual Basic 6 IDE and language using Avalonia is a non-commercial toy project. It requires .NET 9.0, though .NET 8.0 is an alternative with modifications.

Europeans collectively spend over 575 million hours annually on cookie banners, resulting in an estimated economic cost of €14.375 billion or 0.10% of the EU's total GDP. The ePrivacy Directive 2002/58 is outdated and causes significant economic and productivity losses, prompting a need for urgent revision to exempt small businesses and streamline regulations.

Gwern Branwen, a pseudonymous researcher and writer, discussed his views on AI, intelligence, and the future of humanity, including the potential for AGI and the importance of writing and recording human experiences to influence the development of AI. He also shared his thoughts on the relationship between human and neural network intelligence, the concept of rabbit holes, and his approach to ...

The user explored the data structure and algorithm of SQLite indexes, specifically the B-Tree structure, and visualized the index structure using libraries like d3-org-tree and PHP's ImageMagick extension. The user created images to demonstrate how the index size grows and how different indexes are structured, including unique indexes with NULL values and indexes with text data.

US government investigates China's cyber espionage targeting US telecoms, compromising customer data and private communications. FBI and CISA assist victims, strengthen cyber defenses, and encourage organizations to report potential breaches.

The letter $\wp$ is called "Weierstrass p" in some communities, but its name is not universally agreed upon.

Red Hat contributes container tools to Cloud Native Computing Foundation to drive cloud-native evolution and provide a vendor-neutral ecosystem. The contributed tools, including Podman and Buildah, will become hosted projects and help meet the needs of developers in a hybrid cloud-centric world.

The author believes AI engineering barriers are crumbling due to simpler tools and standardized workflows, making it accessible to those who can handle basic DevOps tasks. The author proposes an 'AISpec' standard for integrating AI components, allowing users to build production-ready AI apps with existing skills.

The Little Snitch Network Extension consumes excessive memory due to a memory leak in Apple's framework, affecting macOS 15.0 Sequoia users. To resolve, restart the extension via Activity Monitor or report the issue to Apple via Feedback Assistant.

PyPI package maintainers can now publish signed digital attestations to increase trust in supply-chain security. This follows PEP 740 and provides three key advantages over PGP signatures.

The user and their colleague Ema identified security issues in Keycloak, including a vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass two-factor authentication and another that allows unauthorized users to access administrative functionalities. The issues were reported to Keycloak developers, but it took 10 months to fix the first issue and the communication was not clear, leading to concerns ...

Go Safe Web aims to create a secure-by-default Go HTTP server by addressing security issues like XSS, XSRF, CORS, and more. It achieves this through careful API design and explicit opt-outs, allowing for high compatibility with the standard library.

The user has been job hunting since September after being laid off in June, experiencing a tough market with fake jobs and challenging interviews, but managed to reach final rounds for two roles. Despite some red flags and rejections, the user gained valuable experience and is still looking for their next role as a web developer or frontend engineer.

The author has refurbished and updated the original 2001 Dreamcast Linux operating system, adding features such as NFS support, swap-over-NFS, and modern network tools, while preserving the original experience and hardware limitations. The updated system, called Dusted-off Dreamcast Linux, can be run on a Dreamcast console with a keyboard and mouse, and includes games such as PrBoom and ...

Lawyers rely on inefficient manual "version control" processes, such as redlining, to collaborate on contracts, which can take hours and result in errors. Version Story aims to solve this problem by providing a visual, git-like version control system that can handle Microsoft Word documents, making it accessible to non-coders in the legal industry.

GOG announces a new Preservation Program to keep classic games compatible and DRM-free. The program starts with 100 games, including Jagged Alliance and Wing Commander, with ongoing tech support and a "Preserved by GOG" stamp.

Researchers found that masked language models like DeBERTa can perform in-context learning tasks without additional training. This discovery suggests that both causal and masked models can develop in-context learning capabilities, but with different strengths.

The author tested large language models (LLMs) on playing chess, with most models failing to win against a standard chess AI. Only gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct showed significant success, winning every game.

Translations follow the flow of conversation, with speech pattern and accent detection that ensures seamless, natural communication. Voice translations with the same high quality and accuracy that your team expects from DeepL’s advanced AI technology. Built with security at its core—including ISO 27001 certification and secure access management via SSO.

SqueakJS is a JavaScript-based implementation of the Squeak/Smalltalk virtual machine that runs entirely in a web browser, providing a fully backwards-compatible Squeak/Smalltalk system with a virtual file system and support for offline storage. The implementation uses a hybrid garbage collection scheme, a module interface, and a freeze feature to optimize performance and provide a seamless ...

The Onion acquired InfoWars in a bankruptcy auction, planning to shut down the site and rebuild it with internet humor writers. The sale aims to satisfy Jones' estate creditors, including Sandy Hook families awarded $1.5 billion in defamation verdicts.

The article discusses ways to speed up warm build times in Rust development, including using a faster linker, disabling debug information, and statically linking the binary. The author also proposes building an incremental linker, called "wild", to further improve warm build times and is seeking sponsorship to work on this project full-time.

This project is a faster, more lightweight alternative to nlohmann's JSON library, compiling 10x faster and having 10x less code. It also passes all JSONTestSuite test cases and supports efficient serialization of 32-bit floating point numbers.

OpenMP 6.0 is released with improved parallel programming, task execution, and device support. It simplifies task programming, enhances device support, and gives developers more control over memory allocations.

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Three leading AI companies, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, are facing challenges in developing more sophisticated models due to lack of high-quality training data and rising costs. They are exploring alternative approaches, including partnerships and synthetic data, to address these issues and achieve significant advancements in AI capabilities.

WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly-based virtualization engine. It supports persistent data storage, networking, and graphical applications, making it a useful tool for development, education, and legacy application access.

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The File System API provides a private storage endpoint called OPFS for secure contexts, offering fast in-place write access to files. It's accessible via navigator.storage.getDirectory() and allows synchronous file access in web workers.

Starship's hit song "We Built This City" became infamous as the worst song of all time, but its creators are ambivalent about its impact. Despite ridicule, the song remains popular and continues to earn money, with its writers and band members still performing it today.

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Matt Mullenweg accused WP Engine of violating WordPress trademarks, citing a lack of contributions to the open-source project. A legal battle is underway, highlighting the "maker-taker problem" in open-source software.

You dislike async/await's chaining requirement but find it necessary. You prefer Go's concurrency approach without async/await.

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The article discusses the concept of a metric tensor for the data manifold, which can be used to compute distances, angles, and geodesics between data samples, and proposes a new metric tensor derived from the Stein score, a measure of how sensitive the log-density of a distribution is to changes in the data. The proposed metric tensor is shown to be positive definite and can be efficiently ...

Researchers developed a method to compare AI language models with human experts on scientific tasks. A new AI model, PaperQA2, matches or exceeds human performance on literature search, summarization, and contradiction detection tasks.

The author argues that ed is a more powerful and flexible editor than sed for certain tasks, especially when working with multiline input and stateful operations. Ed's features, such as overwriting files and undoing commands, make it a better choice for complex scripting tasks.

Lattice announces Quarry, a modern computing environment for Worlds, achieving 7ms latency and seamless onboarding. Quarry complements MUD and Redstone, enabling ultra-fast applications onchain with infinite horizontal scalability.

Elon Musk's X platform and Silicon Valley tech titans have aligned with Trump, securing a president who will benefit their interests. This union will likely lead to deregulation, weakened antitrust efforts, and a surge in surveillance capitalism.

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making AI models like Llama 3.2 open source to accelerate AI-generated content.

NextTrace was used to trace 172.232.224.19 with a 30 hop max and 52 byte packets. The first hop was 18.141.171.41 in Singapore with Amazon EC2.

Multiple bug fixes and feature updates were made to the application, including closing the peek view, updating workspace card colors, and adding tooltips to doc properties. Several issues with the floating sidebar, doc scrolling, and editor settings were also resolved.

The user is interested in a mini PC with a docking station that can upgrade the GPU, and they think it would be perfect for their needs. They also discuss the possibility of connecting the dock to a different computer via Oculink and/or USB4, and suggest an all-in-one version of the dock with a PCIe slot on the top left side.

The blog explores OpenAI's containerized ChatGPT environment, revealing surprising capabilities that allow users to interact with the model's underlying structure in unexpected ways, including file management and extracting GPT instructions. OpenAI's sandboxed environment is designed to provide a contained space for users to execute code and interact with the model, but breaking out of it is ...

The Onion purchased Alex Jones' Infowars at a court-ordered auction, acquiring its assets and intellectual property. The deal was made possible by Sandy Hook families agreeing to forgo some of the money Jones owes them.

Researchers created CorUSSS, a corpus of 1,785,742 US state statutes to study language use in laws. Two case studies demonstrate the corpus's utility in statutory interpretation, examining word meanings and scooter classification.

François Chollet is leaving Google to co-found a new company, but will remain involved with Keras on GitHub. He's confident in Keras' future direction under new leader Jeff Carpenter.

The American meritocracy, created by James Conant, prioritizes intelligence and academic achievement, but has led to a system that overvalues IQ, creates an American caste system, and damages the psyches of the elite. To reform the meritocracy, we need to redefine ability to include noncognitive skills and create a more capacious definition of merit that values creativity, emotional ...

Cloud providers' UI/UX is poor for basic VM management due to complex regional segregation, instance metadata management issues, and SSH key management problems. These issues make daily operations complicated and require external documentation to track instances and services.

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Amazon introduces Amazon Haul, a shopping experience offering ultra-low priced products under $20 with one to two week delivery. Customers can find affordable fashion, home, and electronics items with free returns and Amazon's A-to-z Guarantee.

Tuffi, a four-year-old Asian elephant, fell 12 meters from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper in 1950. She suffered minor injuries and was later sold to Cirque Alexis Gruss, where she died in 1989.