Amazon invests an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion, with AWS becoming Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic will use AWS chips to train its largest AI models, offering AWS customers early access to its fine-tuning feature.

Netlify has reached 5 million developers! Travel through the journey to see how we got here and where you played a role (pun intended) in our story.

A 192-channel phased array microphone was created using a large number of microphones arranged in a linear array with exponential spacing, and an FPGA was used to collect data and send it to a computer via Gigabit Ethernet. The microphone array was calibrated using a speaker playing white noise and gradient descent, and beamforming was implemented using delay-and-sum and 3D near-field and 2D ...

Local tribes in Oregon and California celebrate the return of salmon to the Klamath River after the removal of four hydroelectric dams. Hundreds of salmon have spawned in previously inaccessible tributaries, a hopeful sign for the river's future.

Our platform features a Knowledge Graph built on TiDB Vector and LlamaIndex, with a conversational search page and website crawler for comprehensive coverage. It allows editing and embedding a JavaScript snippet for instant product-related query responses.

Researchers at Princeton and the University of Washington created a camera the size of a grain of salt using meta-optics and AI-powered image processing. This innovation could enable smaller, more invasive medical imaging, consumer hardware, and drones, and even turn surfaces into cameras.

In the year 2101, corporations rule the world and freedom is found by joining a pirate crew and playing basketball to survive. The game is a terminal-based basketball game where you create a crew and search for opponents in the galaxy.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports appending data to existing objects. This allows applications to directly add data to objects in S3 without local storage.

Google achieved a breakthrough in quantum error correction by demonstrating that logical qubits can outperform physical qubits and correct errors faster than they accumulate. This milestone marks a step towards fault-tolerant quantum computing, paving the way for scalable quantum processors.

Earlier this year, our Financial Controller, Jen, realized our Playdate inventory was 2,000 units short. How did that eventually lead us to a Circle K in North Las Vegas, and just how much should you tip for a roofing consultation, anyway? Buckle up, because we are going for a ride—in Magnum P.I.'s cool car. Listen Now

Tailwind CSS v4.0 is a new engine for performance, designed for the modern web with features like native cascade layers and container queries. It offers faster builds, a unified toolchain, and CSS-first configuration, with a new beta documentation available for getting started.

Joseph Brodsky's essay on Dostoevsky explores why his works remain relevant, attributing it to Dostoevsky's middle-class background and financial struggles. Brodsky argues that a precarious financial condition can drive writers to produce great literature with moral imperatives.

Russian APT GruesomeLarch used a new attack technique called Nearest Neighbor Attack to breach Organization A's network by connecting to their enterprise Wi-Fi network from a nearby organization. The attack involved daisy-chaining credentials from multiple organizations to reach the target network.

RGFW is a lightweight, cross-platform window abstraction library written in C99. It supports various graphics backends and event systems, making it a flexible alternative to GLFW.

MaXXdesktop is a re-implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop with a modern software stack for high performance and stability. It offers a unique user experience with a focus on creativity and productivity while minimizing system resources.

Scientists have developed a strong, glassy supramolecular polymer that can prevent marine microplastics by slowly dissolving in salt water into metabolizable compounds. This polymer is stable until electrolytes are added back, making it a promising solution for a sustainable future.

Formal languages are used to describe the structure of data and programming languages, with different types of grammars such as regular, context-free, and context-sensitive used to define the rules of a language. The Chomsky hierarchy categorizes languages into four types, with regular languages being the most restricted and context-free languages being the most commonly used in programming.

Scientists have discovered that RNA can favor making left-handed or right-handed amino acids, deepening the mystery of why life uses left-handed proteins. The finding suggests that life's homochirality might not be determined by chemistry but by later evolutionary pressures.

We discussed how to optimize on a generic manifold M by computing the quantity to minimize, computing a direction v in TpM along which the quantity is locally reduced, moving the parameters using the exponential map Exp_p(v), and repeating until the problem converges. We also explored how continuous symmetry of the tangent bundle makes optimization easier in Euclidean space and how Lie ...

The Dark Internet Forest is a concept that describes the anxiety and paranoia people experience when using social media, where they feel like they're navigating a treacherous landscape of predators and extractive systems. To create a better internet, we need to move beyond the Dark Forest and design networks that prioritize human connection, resilience, and governance, rather than relying on ...

The user reverse engineered Winamp's Maki bytecode and created a JavaScript interpreter to render modern Winamp skins in the browser, but stalled due to scalability issues and lack of time. The project was later revived by another contributor, but the user still struggles to understand how to structure the JavaScript code to make it robust and complete.

A bash shell can execute code unexpectedly due to arithmetic evaluation rules with -eq and -v test. This allows code execution even within double quotes, posing a potential vulnerability in CI systems.

Google may be forced to end its partnership with AI startup Anthropic due to a proposed antitrust case resolution. The US Justice Department wants to bar Google from investing in or collaborating with companies that control online search.

The user found an issue of FaSTer, a Canadian disk magazine for the Atari ST, which was unique for its time and had a custom user interface. The magazine is now available to download and can be run on emulators, offering a glimpse into the early days of digital magazines.

A UCL-led research team created the world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, using electrospinning. The spaghetti is not for eating but has potential uses in medicine and industry, such as wound healing and drug delivery.

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will regulate Apple Pay as if it were a bank due to its widespread use. Apple has chosen to comply ahead of time, making the change globally after the European Union required similar access to its NFC payment chip.

Women between 25 and 34 are more likely to have a bachelor's degree than men in the same age group, with a 10-point gap in some racial groups. The gap has grown since 1995, with women's share increasing by 22 points and men's by 12 points.

Russian hackers used a new technique called "nearest neighbor attack" to breach a target's Wi-Fi network by hacking into a laptop in a neighboring building. This allowed them to stay far away from the target and still access its network, highlighting the need for improved Wi-Fi security.

In the last few years, I’ve given presentations for companies including Alphabet, Amazon, AT&T, Axa, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, L’Oréal, LVMH, Nasdaq, Swiss Re, Warner Media, Verizon and Vodafone. I gave a version of last year’s presentation as a keynote at the Slush conference in Helsinki in December 2023 - you can watch the video here.

User's goal is to translate a biography of their grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma, from Dutch to English using Large Language Model (LLM) based AI tools.

We are releasing a pre-alpha Pidgin 3 experimental version on December 31st, 2024. This release includes source code and a Flatpak, not intended for full-time use.

Researchers propose modernizing SQL parsing using Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) to create extensible parsers that can be dynamically configured at runtime, allowing for new syntax and query languages to be added without recompilation. Experiments show that PEG parsers can be extended at runtime with minimal cost, but may have a performance drawback compared to traditional LALR parsers.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would limit the ability to challenge bad patents, benefiting patent trolls. This bill would block groups like EFF from protecting the public interest, leaving millions indirectly harmed by bad patents without a way to fight back.

Version Vectors track causality in master-master filesystem replication, but fail in highly dynamic systems with "actor explosion". Interval Tree Clocks solve this issue by using a shared interval and a curve to represent node contributions.

A test with 11,000 participants showed that most people have a hard time identifying AI art based on subtle differences in style and quality, with a median score of 60% and a mean of 60.6%. The results suggest that people's negative opinions of AI art may be driven by frustration with the proliferation of low-quality AI art rather than a genuine artistic difference, and that some people may ...

Prince Nico Mbarga, a Nigerian musician, died in 1997 after a car accident. He is best known for his hit song "Sweet Mother," which sold over 13 million copies in Africa.

The Birthday Paradox is a probability puzzle where it's surprisingly likely for two people in a room to share the same birthday, with a 50.7% chance when there are just 23 people. This seems counterintuitive because our brains tend to think linearly, but the number of comparisons actually goes up quadratically as more people are added to the room.

You're looking to increase visibility and users for your browser extension. Consider using social media, influencer marketing, and paid advertising on platforms like Facebook and Google to reach a wider audience.

The author is designing a Public Key Directory for the Fediverse that enables end-to-end encryption while complying with GDPR regulations, specifically addressing the "Right to Erasure" by implementing "crypto-shredding" to securely delete encryption keys. The author proposes using a plaintext commitment scheme based on the Argon2id password KDF, which uses a recent Merkle root to diversify ...

Broadcastarr is a service that broadcasts media content from web pages, handled by AgendaTS tasks. It includes features like indexing, grabbing, and releasing broadcasts, with interactions via Discord.

Millennial and Gen X parents feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of toys their kids have, which is partly due to cheaper toys and easier online shopping. Experts say kids' favorite toys are often simple, open-ended, and imbued with social meaning, and parents can help by setting boundaries and choosing toys that encourage creativity and imagination.

The author explores how concerns about posture became a moral panic in the US, tied to anxieties around class, race, and industrialization. Historian Beth Linker's book "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" examines the commercialization and medicalization of posture, revealing its complex and problematic history.

LWN.net covered the Cosmopolitan Libc project, which allows C programs to run on multiple operating systems and architectures using a polyglot format called APEs. However, controversy arose due to the project's creator, Justine Tunney, having a history of making racist and antisemitic statements, leading to a discussion about the ethics of promoting her work without context.

SAMURAI is an enhanced adaptation of SAM 2 for visual object tracking, incorporating temporal motion cues and a motion-aware memory selection mechanism. It achieves robust, accurate tracking in real-time with zero-shot performance across diverse benchmark datasets.

Dwight Young was a polymath who worked as a carpenter, photographer, and nuclear physicist, contributing to the development of the atomic bomb and breeder reactor. He received a heavy dose of radiation in a 1946 nuclear accident and later became the first non-degreed physicist at Los Alamos.

Sill is a social media tool that aggregates popular links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks. It's an open-source project with a free web client and plans for paid features and self-hosting.

The user proposes a new high-level I/O abstraction for kernel-bypass using a user-level library OS to provide ease-of-use, portability, and flexibility for applications. This abstraction, called Demikernel, aims to replace existing low-level interfaces like DPDK and RDMA, which impose hardware limitations and inefficiencies on applications.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained by playing a guess-the-next-word game with themselves, but researchers debate whether they learn surface statistics or world models. A study on Othello-GPT found that it develops a world model by training probes to predict board states from internal activations.

Chrome removed uBlock Origin due to API changes, now users can use Ublock Lite or switch to Firefox. The move may prioritize ad profitability over security, raising concerns about Chrome's direction.

jQuery UI 1.14.1 is compatible with recent jQuery versions up to 3.7 and supports the latest Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It drops support for old jQuery versions and IE/Edge Legacy browsers.

A Bluesky user created a labeler that adds visible labels to profiles of British public figures showing their expensive private school and current fees. The labeler is opt-in and aims to highlight privilege and overrepresentation in media and politics.

Children in the US, especially under 5, are accidentally shooting people with guns, with Texas having the highest number of incidents. Proper gun storage safety can prevent these accidents, so secure your weapons at home and ask about unsecured firearms when visiting other homes with kids.

Google is merging ChromeOS and Android to address limitations and redefine its position in the Arm-based laptop market. This move comes as Apple dominates the space with its M-series-powered MacBook Air and iPad.

Monocle is a Scala library for accessing and transforming immutable data with a simple API. It's published for Scala 2.13.x and 3.x under the MIT license.

An early-stage startup needs big reference customers to gain credibility but can't get them due to lack of experience. Building trust with customers through shared values, transparency, and flexibility can help overcome this dilemma.

A 2-year-old boy was bitten by a snake in his backyard and received antivenom treatment at two hospitals, with a total bill of $297,461. The high cost of antivenom, $213,278, is largely due to hospital markups and a lack of competition in the market.

Researchers from The Nippon Foundation and the University of Tokyo found a vast field of manganese nodules rich in cobalt and nickel in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery could meet Japan's demand for these metals for decades and potentially make Japan a major resource-rich country.

A close-up picture of WOH G64, a star outside the Milky Way, was taken by ESO's VLTI. The star is 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, surrounded by a dusty cocoon.

Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources, enabling knowledge management and navigation of large corpora. They consist of Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) and provide a means of bridging the gap between knowledge representation and information management.

MIT researchers developed a more efficient algorithm for training AI decision-making systems, called Model-Based Transfer Learning (MBTL), which selects the best tasks for training an AI agent to perform complex tasks with variability. This method maximizes performance while keeping training costs low, achieving a 5-50 times efficiency boost over standard approaches.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton investigates a potential anticompetitive scheme by the World Federation of Advertisers to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms. The investigation aims to hold the federation and its members accountable for any attempt to harm organizations they disagree with.

IBM researchers successfully delivered on the 100×100 challenge by building a quantum computer capable of running accurate calculations with 5,000 two-qubit gates. This achievement enables users to perform real scientific discovery with quantum computers and push forward in the search for quantum advantage.

User has 16GB RAM on MacBook and 32GB M1 Max, now 48GB M4, with multiple apps open, but never ran out of RAM. User also has 16GB RAM on Intel and M3 Mac Pro, with multiple apps and Docker containers, but never ran out of RAM.

Ukraine faces new war realities with Air Raid Sirens and mobile apps like Air Alert providing emergency alerts. Air Alert allows users to choose regions and receive alerts through mobile apps and a Telegram channel.

Thousands of customers, including Kayla Morris, are owed millions after Synapse's collapse, with some receiving as little as $500 of their $280,000 deposits. The crisis highlights the risks of fintechs relying on middlemen like Synapse, leaving customers with little recourse.

Federal officials released four Colorado River management plans to help the seven basin states reach an agreement before 2026. The proposals aim to conserve water and prevent the river from running dry due to drought and climate change.

Niantic's Pokémon Go app collected over 10 million location scans worldwide, using them to train neural networks for improved augmented reality and navigation. The scans can also enhance autonomous systems and provide more accurate walking paths between locations.

Emvolon repurposes automotive engines to create modular chemical plants that convert methane into greener methanol and other chemicals. This approach makes methane conversion economically attractive and can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from hard-to-abate sectors.

Dr Gray explores the human body with Dr Simmons as guide, learning CPR and heart rhythms. Interactive anatomy lets users grab, resize, and dissect organs to see inner structures.