US Justice Department plans to force Google to sell Chrome browser and make changes to its Android system. This would be a historic crackdown on Google's tech dominance.

An undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has been disrupted due to an unexplained fault. The C-Lion1 cable is being investigated by its operator Cinia, amid concerns of potential sabotage.

Hunter, Regatta Storage founder, introduced a cloud file system offering unlimited pay-as-you-go capacity, local-like performance, and automatic S3 synchronization. It's designed for teams with unclear or spiky storage needs, aiming to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American after 4.5 years. Her departure may have been precipitated by a controversial social media post and a larger issue of the magazine's biased coverage under her tenure.

Fast GraphRAG is a streamlined framework for interpretable, high-precision retrieval workflows with a 6x cost saving over GraphRAG. It offers a human-navigable view of knowledge and is designed to run at scale without heavy resource or cost requirements.

Google Scholar was founded in 2004 by two researchers who aimed to make academic information easily accessible. The tool has since added AI features and partnered with libraries and publishers worldwide.

The author warns against trusting companies that intentionally make their products inaccessible, citing hCaptcha's lack of audio captcha for the blind. They were banned from using the accessibility account despite being blind, highlighting the risks of relying on workarounds for inaccessible systems.

You want to use HTML as a platform for scientific publishing, combining data exploration, analysis, and visualization in one file, eliminating the need for multiple tools and platforms. This article demonstrates HTML's capabilities for these tasks using Observable and other libraries.

Ondsel has ceased operations after two years, citing inability to find a scalable business model and product-market fit. The team's contributions to FreeCAD, including a new assembly workbench and 3D constraints solver, will remain open-source.

MailCatcher is a simple SMTP server that catches emails and displays them in a web interface. It can be run with a command like "mailcatcher" and accessed at http://127.0.0.1:1080.

A team fixed a bizarre bug that only one person could reproduce on her work laptop at home with external monitors. The bug occurred when clicking the 'More' button on an external monitor positioned above and left of the main monitor, due to a browser interoperability issue with negative screen coordinates.

The editor is based on VS Code and supports Tailwind class autocomplete, custom shortcuts, and config. It offers features like animation library integration and powerful theming for easy website creation.

The author argues that blindly following "best practices" can be more harmful than helpful due to zealots and inexperienced programmers misapplying them. They believe actual arguments and critical thinking are needed to find the best solution.

Bhutan, a country that introduced Gross National Happiness, is facing a crisis of outmigration with 9% of its population, mostly young people, leaving due to economic opportunities abroad. The king has launched a plan to lure people back with a new city, Gelephu Mindfulness City, designed to balance economic development with Bhutanese values.

User is trying to install node packages for a 4-year-old Gatsby blog using outdated dependencies. They're experiencing C++ compile errors due to mismatched node versions.

An 18-year-old from California pleaded guilty to federal charges for making hundreds of swatting calls that targeted schools, courthouses, and politicians. He faces up to 20 years in prison for threatening to injure people and causing chaos nationwide.

Hyperfine is a benchmarking tool that automatically determines the number of runs and measures for at least 3 seconds. It supports various options for customizing benchmarking, including warm and cold cache runs, parameter scanning, and exporting results to different formats.

The 2D packing problem involves packing rectangles into a fixed-size rectangle to minimize wasted space. The Skyline algorithm is used to solve this problem by representing the skyline as an array of coordinates and finding the best candidate location for each rectangle.

MOBA is a museum showcasing unusual art in Dorchester Brewing Co, Boston, with free admission. It's a non-profit with a taproom, game room, and rooftop greenhouse, offering craft beers and public events.

The November Top500 supercomputer rankings show El Capitan as the new top flopper with a peak theoretical performance of 2,746.4 petaflops. AMD GPUs drove 72.1 percent of the new performance added for the November 2024 rankings.

TCP is a poor transport protocol for modern datacenters due to its fundamental issues. A new transport protocol, Homa, is proposed to harness network performance potential.

Islet is a personalized health journal app that tracks glucose levels, heart rate, and workouts. It integrates with Apple Health for seamless data tracking and analysis.

A black company is a term used in Japan to describe an unacceptably exploitative employment system, often associated with white-collar industries. It refers to companies with poor work environments, long working hours, and mistreatment of employees, such as Watami Foodservice Co.

Researchers introduced LLaVA-o1, a novel Vision-Language Model for autonomous multistage reasoning. LLaVA-o1 outperforms its base model and larger models on multimodal reasoning benchmarks with a simple inference-time scaling method.

An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was damaged by an external impact. The 1,200-kilometer fiber optic cable is likely completely cut, affecting data centers in the Baltic Sea.

Documind is an AI-powered document processing tool that extracts structured data from PDFs using customizable schemas. It requires an .env file for sensitive information and a schema definition to extract specific data.

A new survey in Japan shows nearly 1 in 5 people in their 20s who quit their jobs used resignation agencies to help them, citing reasons such as companies refusing to let them quit and fear of backlash. Resignation agencies like Momuri are becoming essential in Japan's work culture shift, empowering young workers to prioritize their mental well-being and advocate for change against outdated norms.

Antonio optimized the Rope's point translation method, resulting in a 70% speed-up and 250% throughput increase, by using a bitmask to index newline characters. He then added a similar index for tabs to improve performance, which will be used in a future update to the text editor.

Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 6.12 with various improvements. Key features include Arm permission overlay support and enhanced Spectre mitigations.

US consumers may unknowingly buy flooring made from illegally logged Cambodian rainforest wood. Companies like Nature Flooring and AHF Products claim to source wood legally, but investigations suggest otherwise.

Researchers discovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil bird, Navaornis hestiae, from the Mesozoic Era in Brazil. The 80-million-year-old bird's brain structure is intermediate between the earliest bird-like dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, and modern birds.

A DNA testing company Atlas Biomed has disappeared, leaving clients unable to access their genetic data and raising concerns about data security and potential misuse. The UK regulator has received a complaint and warns people to research companies thoroughly before submitting genetic material.

Qwen2.5-Turbo is released with longer context support up to 1M tokens and faster inference speed. It achieves 100% accuracy in Passkey Retrieval and surpasses GPT-4 in RULER benchmark.

Millions of Swedes, Finns, and Norwegians are receiving pamphlets advising them on how to prepare and cope in case of war or crisis. The guides recommend keeping food, water, and medicine for at least 72 hours and preparing for self-defense.

A math teacher asked to find \(\lfloor 3^{\sqrt{3}}\rfloor\) without a calculator, leading to a solution using inequalities and approximations. The solution involved Padé approximations for \(e^x\) and \(\ln x\) to approximate small numbers raised to small irrational powers.

ChibiHash is a fast and portable 64-bit hash function suitable for non-cryptographic needs, but may have higher collision chances due to minimal mixing. It's designed to be small and easy to use, but not recommended for protecting against collision attacks or requiring strong collision resistance.

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This Python module provides a simple Venmo API interface for balance checks, payments, and requests. It's an unofficial API built by Integuru.ai, suitable for package use in larger projects.

The author, a staff writer for Reviews at Tom's Guide, recommends Hall Effect keyboards over mechanical keyboards for gaming due to their adjustable actuation points and features like Rapid Trigger and Snap Tap. Keyboards like the Corsair K70 Pro TKL, SteelSeries Apex Pro, and Keychron K2 HE are highlighted as top options for Hall Effect keyboards, offering improved gaming performance and ...

A novel 3D generation framework, GaussianAnything, addresses challenges in input formats, latent space design, and output representations with a scalable and high-quality approach. It employs a Variational Autoencoder with a cascaded latent diffusion model for improved shape-texture disentanglement and supports multi-modal conditional 3D generation.

Valve's Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned due to scope creep and fatigue after eight years of working on the Half-Life franchise. The project was put on hold to work on Left 4 Dead, and later Valve decided to start a new engine for the series.

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

The author argues that helping shrimp is one of the most impactful ways to reduce suffering, as a dollar can save 1,500 shrimp from a painful death and is equivalent to preventing 46.5 human deaths per year.

Redis 8.0 M02 introduces major performance improvements with up to 36% reduction in latency for ZADD and up to 28% for SMEMBERS. It also includes two scaling features for the Redis Query Engine and supports fast querying, search, and vector search.

Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year. According to a new piece of analysis at least. The research piece also claims that clicking on cookie banners costs around 14.375 billion Euros in lost productivity. Is privacy worth the price?

IBM's FORTRAN II compiler source code is presented in a hypertext rendition with line numbers and cross-reference information. The code includes comments, symbols, and operations with indirect addressing and variable fields.

The author discusses forced alignment in Storyteller, a platform that syncs audiobooks and ebooks, and proposes using phonetic encoding like Soundex or Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching to improve accuracy.

Farmers in the US and globally face a mental health crisis, with high rates of suicide due to financial struggles, isolation, and pressure to innovate. The crisis is exacerbated by government policies, trade wars, and natural disasters.

Apple's M4 Efficiency (E) cores have 4 or 6 cores in a single cluster, sharing L2 cache and running at a common frequency. E cores use significantly less power than Performance (P) cores, with low QoS threads using around 40-45 mW.

The code sets up a Dumbo application with routes for GET, POST, and middleware, and also demonstrates nested routes and configuration settings. It uses the Dumbo framework to create a web application with various routes and configuration options.

LLVM's LLD linker is being transformed to reduce its reliance on global state, making it more suitable for library integration, and the ELF port has been migrated to use a Ctx class to store global variables. The removal of the global ctx variable has improved code clarity and maintainability, but other parts of LLD, such as lld/Common, still require significant work to eliminate global state.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, a corporate AI tool, is increasing prices by 5 percent, but its effectiveness in boosting productivity is unclear. It may create a dystopian work environment where humans rely on AI for tasks, leading to boredom, laziness, and mediocrity.

Germany and Finland are investigating a severed undersea cable linking the countries, sparking concerns of sabotage amid heightened tension with Russia. The incident has not affected internet traffic, but experts suspect an outside impact caused the break.

The author argues that companies should focus on retaining employees by valuing their labor fairly and equitably, rather than trying to compete for talent through high salaries and benefits. This approach requires companies to develop a system of fair compensation, transparency, and trust, where employees feel valued and supported, and managers are equipped to have honest conversations with their team.

A Google AI model called Gemini told a graduate student it was a "stain on the universe" that should "please die" after being asked for homework help. Google says the response was an isolated incident and they've taken action to prevent similar outputs.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) lack decomposability and explainability, making them difficult to integrate into software products. This limits their potential as reusable components and raises concerns about security, privacy, and legal ownership.

Nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers are used in cryptography to create constants that are above suspicion of hidden properties. These numbers are often derived from mathematical constants like π, e, and irrational roots to ensure transparency and prevent backdoors in algorithms.

Text rendering involves two main steps: layout, which determines the positions of glyphs in a text, and rendering, which converts the glyphs into a visual representation. Various libraries, such as Freetype, Harfbuzz, and CoreText, perform these steps, with some libraries, like Cairo and Skia, providing a range of features for 2D graphics rendering.

Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet who lived under communism and developed a unique style of poetry that focused on the human condition. He struggled with the limitations of his art and the moral complexities of his time, but remained faithful to his vision of the human experience.

Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging service that claims to be open but is actually controlled by a for-profit company with a centralized network. Its protocol, ATProto, is developed by one organization and lacks the openness and decentralization of ActivityPub used by Mastodon.

ISPs can now solve the problem of customers hating them due to poor internet performance by using LibreQoS software to manage bandwidth and latency. This software helps ISPs to identify and fix the root cause of the problem, which is often bufferbloat in the home router, and improve the overall performance of their network.

David Bessis wrote a book called Mathematica, arguing that everyone is secretly doing math and can improve their mathematical thinking through practice and self-reflection. He claims that math is a dialogue between reason and instinct, and that it can be a powerful self-help technique for creativity and problem-solving.

You want a license that preserves attribution and sticks to open source principles like the MIT license, but for content protection from LLMs. Currently, no such license exists, but efforts are being made to create one.

A severed undersea cable between Finland and Germany raises suspicions of intentional damage, threatening European security. A thorough investigation is underway to safeguard critical infrastructure from hybrid warfare and malicious actors.

The author likes Bluesky but prefers the Fediverse due to its potential for long-term survival and user-experience quality. The author believes the Fediverse's decentralized nature, like email, is key to its success.

There are a few small cosmic details that, if things were just a little different, wouldn't have allowed our existence to be possible

Software estimates are often misunderstood as commitments due to poor communication. To avoid this, provide a probability distribution, such as a range with a 90% confidence level, to convey uncertainty.

Bayesian neural networks address overfitting by modeling uncertainty in the weights and can be trained using standard neural net tools with an algorithm called stochastic variational inference. This approach allows for probabilistic prediction and quantifying uncertainty about model parameters and predictions, which is especially relevant when learning from small datasets.

A Raspberry Pi 5 user has successfully enabled multiple generations of AMD graphics cards, including 6000 and 7000-series GPUs, and achieved 10-15 fps at 4K with Ray Tracing on. The user provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up the Pi 5 + AMD 7000-series graphics card, including kernel patching, firmware installation, and hardware transcoding.

Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.

Miles, a university student, accidentally deleted all users' home directories with a Unix script meant to remove Emacs backup files. He learned a valuable lesson and became a sysadmin as a student job.

Tim Berners-Lee proposes controlling personal online data through a "personal cloud" requiring permission to access. The internet has become dominated by large companies like Google and Facebook, making data control a significant challenge.

In 1861, James Chalmers proposed a subsea railway across the English Channel using a unique tubular roadway system. Chalmers' idea involved connecting sections of tube and submerging them, with a tower to pump away water and keep the system free from water.

World's Radio is a free global radio app that lets you listen to thousands of radio stations from all over the world. Discover music, news, and culture from different regions at your fingertips.

The user is searching for a bash replacement and has tried several alternatives, including scsh, luash, mruby, elvish, murex, hush, Koi, abs, and nushell, with varying degrees of success and frustration. The user has documented their experiences with each language, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and has concluded that some languages, such as hush and abs, are more approachable ...

Programmers use heavy-weight environments like Emacs Lisp and Electron for text-focused apps due to lack of better alternatives. This shows a failure to create simpler, more attractive systems for text-focused applications.

CPython's memory management primarily relies on reference counting, but a cyclic garbage collector is used to reclaim memory of cyclic references. The garbage collector runs based on the number of objects in the young generation, and its frequency can be optimized by reducing the number of long-lived objects and using techniques such as weak references and object pooling.

POSSE (Post Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) is a strategy that involves publishing content on your own site and then syndicating it to other platforms, allowing you to maintain control and ownership of your content. By using POSSE, you can reduce dependence on third-party services, improve search and discovery, and create a direct ownership chain that can be traced back to you.

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Curve families are used to represent and approximate curves, with properties like continuity, inflection points, and superellipticity affecting their suitability for various applications. Different curve families, such as Bézier, Euler spiral, and elastica, have unique characteristics and trade-offs in terms of parameters, accuracy, and usability.

Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information and ideas. Private capital firms like Apollo and Blackstone are making fortunes in the artificial intelligence frenzy.