A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
We're destroying software by neglecting complexity, build systems, and backward compatibility. This leads to bloated, fragile systems that hinder learning and joy of coding.
The user wants to integrate their system with VSCode's remote editing over SSH feature, particularly with LLM-generated code, to close the loop between the LLM and execution environment. They aim to run a closed-loop agent-y configuration on a clean-slate Linux instance for secure and efficient LLM development.
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The Deck is a mobile multiplayer offline card game aggregator written in Dart and Flutter, providing a cooperative digital game environment for classic card games. It allows real-time card state sharing among devices, creating an immersive experience.
The author emphasizes the importance of clear handwriting in technical disciplines, providing tips to distinguish between similar-looking letters and symbols. Proper letterforms can help avoid confusion and ensure accurate communication in mathematical expressions.
FlashSpace is a virtual workspace manager for macOS that enhances native Spaces with fast switching and customizable hotkeys. It allows defining workspaces, assigning apps, and switching between displays.
The user wrote a simple Windows kernel driver in Rust using the WDK crates, which provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time, and allows for system programming similar to C/C++. The driver, called "Booster", allows changing the priority of any thread to any value and the user was able to successfully compile, sign, and install the driver on a test machine.
Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization I recently stumbled upon a talk by game development guru Jonathan Blow, about how software abstraction will lead to the end of civilization. Quick summary: Information passed on between generations is diluted. Practise is better than theory for keeping skills alive. If we forget low level ...
The user is experimenting with an AI-powered handwriting and screen interaction system on the reMarkable2, using models like OpenAI and Anthropic to generate responses to user input. They are working on improving the system's usability, adding features like keyboard shortcuts, and developing a prompt library and evaluation system to make it easier to use and maintain.
Fortune's Algorithm generates Voronoi Diagrams in O(nlogn) time by sweeping a line across the plane and processing events at specific points, creating a beachline that represents the frontier of active arcs. The algorithm involves processing site events to add new arcs and circle events to remove arcs and create Voronoi Vertices, with the goal of finding the equidistant edges and vertices ...
Rwandan scientists developed a local yeast for banana wine-makers to improve quality and regulatory compliance. The new yeast can remain dormant for over a year and can be reactivated using low temperatures.
Starlink users in the Falkland Islands are experiencing service terminations due to expired roaming periods, despite a successful petition demanding Starlink's operation be approved. A National Emergency declaration could resolve the issue, allowing Starlink to operate in the Falkland Islands.
In case you’ve not heard of it, Carbon is Google’s experimental open-source “C++-successor language”. As a very rough first approximation, think Objective-C/Swift, Java/Kotlin, C/C++, C++/Carbon. It is also frequently mentioned in the same breath as Herb Sutter’s Cppfront and Sean Baxter’s Circle (and Rust, surprise surprise). Like with any ‘successor language’, the overall goal includes (at ...
I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven't commented much onLINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but for what it is worth, I have a couple of comments now. As most of you know, for me MINIX is a hobby, something that I do in theevening when I get bored writing books and there are no major wars,revolutions, or senate hearings being televised live on CNN. My ...
For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent. But there isn’t any mechanism inherent in large language models ...
The cute_headers library provides low-level functions for 2D collision detection, audio, and sprite rendering, with a focus on high-performance and ease of use. It uses a single-file header implementation approach to simplify integration and reduce build times.
txtar is a simple text archive format compatible with golang.org/x/tools/txtar, allowing for human-readable test data. It can be installed and used in a Chez Scheme environment with the thunderchez library.
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How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to more than a dozen employees who worked on it Former Amazon exec David Limp made Alexa a hit with consumers. But in the age of ChatGPT, Amazon's pioneering intelligent assistant can't keep up.
Researchers found that value-based off-policy RL methods are predictable and scalable, with data and compute requirements lying on a Pareto frontier controlled by the updates-to-data ratio. They developed a method to estimate this frontier and optimize hyperparameters for a given budget, enabling predictable scaling of RL methods.
The Fakespot Deepfake Detector extension analyzes highlighted text to identify human or AI-generated content. It uses multiple models and the APOLLO method for accurate detection, with ongoing improvements for reliability.
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AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
FreeDemandLetter provides professional demand letters for unpaid wages, contractor disputes, and security deposits, helping users recover money owed. The platform's templates and support team guide users through the process, increasing the chances of a successful resolution.
Researchers discovered gold is concentrated with arsenic due to atomic bonds between gold and arsenic in minerals. This discovery can help find new gold sources and improve processing to recover more gold.
Donald Trump announced a $100 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate with tech leaders, aiming to create 100,000 jobs. Critics worry about environmental impact, worker displacement, and the potential for a techno-utopia that could lead to existential risks.
David Turner's design decisions in languages SASL, KRC, and Miranda influenced functional programming. He advocated for lazy evaluation and list comprehensions, popularizing a one-line recursive "sieve" to generate prime numbers.
The 1920 film "The Daughter of Dawn" features a Native American cast and defied federal laws by depicting authentic Native customs, showcasing a rare example of Native American representation in early American cinema. The film's restoration and release in 2012 provided a platform for Native American voices and culture, highlighting the importance of preserving and promoting Indigenous heritage.
A federal judge blocked NIH from imposing a 15% indirect cost rate on grants. A lawsuit was filed by 22 states, arguing the change will cripple lifesaving research and innovation.
An Amiga 1200 setup at GERP, a Swedish demo party, features a 68060 accelerator card, 64 megabytes of RAM, and a network card. The setup is used to manage competition entries, run demos, and display a bigscreen show.
Docker Bake is a build orchestration tool that simplifies complex builds with a declarative approach, offering flexibility, consistency, and performance. It replaces complex build commands with a single command and supports matrix builds, HCL syntax, and custom functions.
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
The Trump administration is imposing its own reality on the public with the help of tech companies that control information flow. This is creating a "cage" where Americans are kept in a state of reactive anger and misinformation.
People can get jobs through online platforms like Who Wants to Be Hired, but effectiveness varies by job and location. Past success does not guarantee future results, making it worth trying despite initial reluctance.
This list highlights European projects prioritizing privacy and sustainability, adhering to unique standards like GDPR and eco-friendly practices. It aims to strengthen the European tech ecosystem while fostering collaboration and inclusivity across borders.
Klippy is a desktop app that turns your screenshots into designs in seconds.
The media and social platforms engineer outrage to keep us engaged and profitable, making us ineffective and powerless in the process. To break free from this cycle, we must pause before reacting, choose our battles, and focus on solutions-based reporting and meaningful action.
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
Jo Catling translates W G Sebald's essays on Austrian literature, exploring themes of marginality, Heimat, and the crisis of bourgeois masculinity. Sebald's essays, written in the 1980s, offer insightful literary criticism that reflects his intellectual and ethical stimulus from the Frankfurt School.
Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users. And though most practitioners may not directly build such hyperscale infrastructure, we believe it is beneficial to learn a bit about it. Historically, many widely used technologies have ...
Doug Fairbairn: All right. This is the July 17, 2015. I'm Doug Fairbairn, along with Uday Kapoor. And we're here to interview Andreas Bechtolsheim, otherwise known as Andy Bechtolsheim, who has had a long and extensive career in Silicon Valley, and we'd like delve into the details of that, but also go back to the very beginning in terms of-- I understand you grew up and you were born and grew ...
Researchers developed a novel approach called BOLT to enable long chain-of-thought in large language models without relying on existing models or human annotations. BOLT involves three stages and achieves impressive performance on various benchmarks evaluating task-solving and reasoning capabilities.
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today. Let me say at once that I have no desire to ...
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
Tobias Rees is the founder of limn, an R&D studio located at the intersection of philosophy, art and technology. He is also a senior fellow of Schmidt Sciences’ AI2050 initiative and a senior visiting fellow at Google. Tobias Rees, founder of an AI studio located at the intersection of philosophy, art and technology, sat down with Noema Editor-in-Chief Nathan Gardels to discuss the ...