Russia state-aligned threat actors are targeting Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services. They use tactics like phishing and QR code abuse to link victim accounts to actor-controlled devices.
Bluesky's system design made tradeoffs for performance and consistency, introducing "Lossy Timelines" to reduce hot shards and improve scalability. This approach reduced P99 duration for post Fanout by over 96% and eliminated hot shards in the Timelines database cluster.
The President issues an order to increase accountability of regulatory agencies to the executive branch and the American people. The order requires agencies to submit proposed and final significant regulatory actions for review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Greg KH wants to use Rust in the kernel to prevent memory safety issues and improve code quality. He believes Rust can help reduce bugs and make the kernel more maintainable.
A recent study shows that walking on a broken ankle two weeks after surgery is safe and can improve healing and quality of life. Early weight-bearing can also reduce complications and mortality rates in patients with hip fractures.
Apple announced iPhone 16e with powerful capabilities at a more affordable price. It features a 48MP Fusion camera, Apple Intelligence, and satellite features for staying connected outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.
Microsoft has developed a breakthrough class of materials called topoconductors, enabling the creation of topological superconductivity and a new state of matter. This innovation marks a pivotal moment in quantum computing, paving the way for a million-qubit quantum computer and solving complex problems in science and society.
Mastra is a TypeScript framework for building AI applications with primitives like workflows, agents, RAG, integrations, and evals. It supports local development and serverless cloud deployment with integrations for LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Yufeng Gao extracted a working UNIX system from DMR tapes s1 and s2, which he considers a "V2 beta" kernel. He created a bootable RF disk image containing files from s1/s2, available for download, but it's picky about the environment and only works with aap's PDP-11/20 emulator.
Researchers found that scented products indoors produce air pollution comparable to car exhaust, posing health risks due to nanosized particles. Heating scented wax melts releases over one million nanoparticles per cubic centimeter, potentially harming respiratory health.
Researchers developed an AI co-scientist system to assist scientists in generating novel research hypotheses and proposals. The AI system uses a coalition of specialized agents to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in high-quality and novel outputs.
Ubicloud adopted Hetzner's AX162 servers but encountered reliability issues, with servers crashing 16 times more often than expected. After months of debugging and hardware updates, Hetzner identified a motherboard defect, which was resolved after replacing the motherboards with a newer version.
The US egg industry is facing a crisis due to bird flu, with prices skyrocketing and many farms affected. Backyard chicken flocks may offer a solution, providing a steady supply of eggs and promoting food system resilience.
The DC-1 is a unique tablet that excels in outdoor use with its sunlight-readable screen and warm amber backlight, promoting a healthier relationship with light and the outdoors. However, it has some limitations, including a grayscale display and rough edges in its software and accessories.
The hiring process is being disrupted by AI, making traditional tech interviews less effective. Companies are adapting by using AI-assisted interviews, requiring in-person coding tests, or changing the nature of interviews to test skills like prompting and refactoring.
Typst 0.13 has improved the day-to-day experience with quality-of-life changes and new features. It introduces semantic paragraphs, a revamped outline, and better image handling.
China's Qihoo 360 and CVERC attributed NSA's APT-C-40 group to a 2022 cyberattack on Northwestern Polytechnical University. The attack used zero-days, legitimate credentials, and various tools to steal data and maintain persistence.
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A query evaluator is implemented to handle basic SELECT statements in a database engine. The evaluator uses a Planner struct to produce an Operator that can be evaluated to produce the query result.
The Department of Government Efficiency listed $16 billion in government contract savings, but a $8 billion contract was actually worth $8 million. The discrepancy was removed from the website, but the $8 billion savings claim remains.
USDA accidentally fired several employees working on the H5N1 avian flu response over the weekend. The agency is working to rectify the situation and continue hiring to ensure food safety and adequate supply.
The Relaxed Radix Balanced (RRB) Tree data structure is used to implement immutable vectors, offering efficient lookups, updates, and appends, while addressing the shortcomings of Persistent Vectors. The RRB Tree uses a size table to track node sizes, allowing for flexible slot sizes and efficient rebalancing during merges, resulting in a low concatenation cost.
Implementing LLaMA 3 from scratch using pure JAX for educational purposes, covering all components of the model. The implementation includes device setup, model weights initialization, tokenization, embedding, ROPE, attention, and training on the Shakespeare dataset using JAX's vmap and JIT features.
The President issues an order to increase accountability of regulatory agencies to the executive branch and the American people. The order requires agencies to submit proposed and final significant regulatory actions for review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
The author discusses how formal methods, specifically nondeterminism, can be applied to simplify reasoning about complex systems by abstracting away implementation details and focusing on worst-case scenarios. Nondeterminism can be categorized into five types, including randomness, concurrency, user input, external forces, and implementation details, and can be used to model and analyze ...
Maintaining large software projects over time is a complex task that requires a deep understanding of the long-term implications of code contributions, which many developers, including experienced ones, often lack. This lack of understanding can lead to problems when accepting code contributions, as the responsibility for maintenance and future issues often defaults to the project ...
Meta is hosting two conferences in 2025: LlamaCon on April 29 for AI developers and Connect on September 17-18 for virtual reality and metaverse enthusiasts.
Malaysia is rapidly growing its data center market, with at least 1.6 gigawatts of data centers expected in Johor province. This growth is driven by tech companies seeking cheap land and power, but experts warn of potential water shortages and "digital colonialism."
Microsoft introduced Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture, which can solve industrial-scale problems in years, not decades. The chip uses a breakthrough material called topoconductor to produce more reliable and scalable qubits.
The user built a JSON parser in Rust as a side project to test their skills in building a parser and learn the Rust programming language. The parser can parse JSON strings into a Rust enum representing the JSON structure and handles errors with readable messages, but its performance is not optimized and can be improved.
SpaceX is visiting the FAA's Air Traffic Control Command Center to help overhaul the system after a deadly air disaster. Hundreds of FAA workers are being laid off, sparking criticism of the Trump administration's mass terminations of federal employees.
Steve Jackson Games partners with Sir Ian Livingstone to revive the classic Fighting Fantasy series in the US after a 20-year hiatus. The first five books will be released in early 2025, combining nonlinear narratives with tabletop RPG mechanics.
The phrase "Molon labe" or "come and take them" originated from ancient Sparta, but its modern popularity is often misinterpreted and exaggerated, reflecting the values and agendas of its users. The Spartans were a complex society with a strong warrior culture, but also a deeply unequal society that relied on slavery, and their history has been distorted and used as a role model by various ...
A primordial black hole passing through the human body causes significant injury or death if its mass is above 1.4 x 10^17 grams. The number density of such black holes is too small to cause observable effects on the human population.
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TRMNL team affirms the Unbrickable Pledge, releasing core web app source code if the company becomes insolvent. This pledge aims to alleviate concerns about growing server costs and e-waste prevention.
This project provides a Postgres development toolchain with 100% syntax compatibility, built on a Server-Client architecture with transport-agnostic design. Its goal is to make Postgres tooling accessible and fill gaps with contributions welcome.
David Matthews released a jazz-funk album called Dune in 1977, inspired by Frank Herbert's novel. The album features a 20-minute suite and covers of Star Wars and David Bowie's Space Oddity.
Communicating effectively: Students should learn to communicate well in all contexts: in writing, when giving presentations, when demonstrating (their own or others’) software, and when conducting discussions with others. Students should also build listening, cooperation, and negotiation skills. Teamwork was tied with oral communication as the most identified knowledge deficiency. One paper ...
Nikola, a former $30 billion electric vehicle company, is going to auction its assets after facing scandals and financial struggles. The company has $47 million in cash to fund its bankruptcy process and plans to sell its assets, including hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks.
The user, an iOS developer, argues that Apple's closed-source approach has hindered its ability to compete in the AI-driven app development landscape, where platforms like React Native and Expo thrive. The user believes that Apple's secretive nature has led to a poor developer experience, making it difficult to build native iOS apps with AI tools like Lovable and A0.
The Augment Vim/Neovim plugin provides inline code completions and multi-turn chat conversations tailored to your codebase. It requires workspace folders to be added to your config file and a sign-in to the Augment service.
The user completed Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" and built a large language model on their underpowered laptop, fine-tuning it locally with decent results. They learned about tokenization, training, and fine-tuning large language models, but also gained insights into their own learning style, preferring paper notes and hands-on debugging over typing ...
go-msquic is a Go wrapper for Microsoft's QUIC library, providing an easy interface to work with QUIC-based protocols. It requires a local MsQuic C library build and CGO to function.
The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, mostly probationary staff and temporary experts, to comply with President Trump's executive order on reducing the federal workforce. The firings are expected to slow down grant reviews and awards, potentially delaying new scientific discoveries.
Yaak 2.0 is released with major updates including directory sync, Git UI, WebSockets, OAuth 2.0, and JWT support. The tool now has a plugin API for custom auth and a snappier ReactJS frontend.
Scientists found evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars in shallow lakes, contradicting climate models that suggested all water was covered in ice. The discovery suggests Mars had a warmer atmosphere and longer liquid water presence, potentially allowing for microbial life to evolve.
Backblaze compared SSD and HDD failure rates, finding that SSDs initially fail less often but the difference is not significant when controlling for age and drive days. The failure rate of HDDs accelerates with age, but it's unclear if SSDs will follow a similar pattern.
Some parents in New Zealand are installing landlines to delay giving their kids smartphones, citing concerns over mental and physical health. They see landlines as a safer alternative for kids to connect with friends.
Scientists studied split-brain patients to understand how the left and right hemispheres of the brain function independently. Research showed that each hemisphere can process information and create its own conscious stream of thought, challenging the idea of a single unified self.
User had a Pi-hole but it caused more issues than joy due to frequent downtime and troubleshooting. They switched to NextDNS, a SaaS ad-blocker, for $20/year, which provides ad-blocking without the hassle.
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NASA probationary employees were spared termination on Tuesday after the White House confirmed they would not be fired. The reprieve does not necessarily mean NASA will avoid future budget or employment cuts.
The user explores the ethics of using Large Language Models (LLMs) and concludes that while they are not inherently immoral, their use raises significant concerns about energy consumption, data privacy, and job displacement. The user argues that LLMs should be used responsibly, with consideration for mitigating their potential harms and ensuring that their benefits are accessible to everyone, ...
Mozilla is evolving its leadership and strategy to address financial growth and mission impact challenges. The organization is introducing new leadership, talent, and initiatives to strengthen Firefox, diversify revenue, and manifest its mission in fresh ways.
Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of routine testing to demonstrate the US nuclear deterrent's safety and effectiveness. The test collected data to evaluate the missile system's performance and reliability, supporting the nation's ongoing commitment to maintaining a credible deterrent.
The user is looking for a database of rewrite rules, particularly application-oriented ones, and is interested in collecting and standardizing them in a common format. They mention various projects and papers that have collections of rules, but note that many of these are not purely declarative and may require synthesis or conversion to a declarative form.
Women and their parents prioritize intelligence over physical attractiveness in ideal partners, but choose more attractive mates when forced to make a trade-off. Parents prioritize long-term stability over physical appearance, while daughters favor physical appeal.
Senior software developer considering moving to Europe for lower cost of living, but salaries are 1/3 lower. May need to get a FAANG job in Europe to secure a work visa and sponsor relocation.
A 1561 broadsheet in Nuremberg described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena, including an aerial battle and falling spheres. The event was likely a natural phenomenon, possibly a sun dog, but some speculate it could be an extraterrestrial event.
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DC's fourth-grade math scores improved significantly, tying for the best improvement in the nation. Nationwide, students' reading scores declined, especially among the weakest students, due to various societal factors.
Life expectancy in Europe is stalling, with England experiencing the biggest slowdown due to poor diet, inactivity, and obesity. Experts urge stronger government policies to tackle obesity and increase physical activity levels to prevent early deaths.
To customize a fresh Windows 11 install, users can disable Microsoft account requirements, remove unwanted apps, and turn off data collection settings, and also tweak settings to minimize annoying upsell notifications and ads. By making these changes, users can create a more streamlined and user-friendly experience on their Windows 11 PC, although ideally, Microsoft would provide more ...
Nikola filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will sell its assets to maximize value. The company struggled with cash burn, leadership changes, and plummeting share value after going public in 2020.
uBlock Origin is a content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency, but its future is uncertain due to Chrome's Manifest V3 update. The update limits the webRequest API, which uBlock Origin relies on, but users can maintain an ad-free experience with alternative options.
Unbank, a US-based Bitcoin ATM network, chose BTCPay Server for its non-custodial and secure software needs. BTCPay Server enabled Unbank to process high volumes of transactions, improve stability, and reduce costs.
Large language models like GPT4 have massive training data, potentially including sensitive information, which raises concerns about data disclosure. AI can also make inferences about individuals based on seemingly minimal information, such as email addresses, potentially revealing age range and other personal details.
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Digital systems discriminate based on inferred behavioural patterns, not physical attributes. This can lead to algorithmic discrimination, restricting users without clear rules or appeal.
In the 1960s, computing used 62,500 punched cards to store 5 megabytes of data, a process taking up to four days. This method was eventually replaced by magnetic tape and hard drives, marking a significant step in computer technology evolution.
Apple announced iPhone 16e with powerful capabilities at a more affordable price. It features a 48MP Fusion camera, Apple Intelligence, and satellite features for staying connected outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.
The PEP proposes making the Windows Python launcher "virtualenv aware" to use the active virtual environment when running commands. This allows users to use the same py command for both system Python and virtual environments.
Silver Lake Management is in talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's programmable chips unit Altera. The deal involves investment in Altera's multi-use chips primarily used in telecommunications networks.
USDA accidentally fired several employees working on the H5N1 avian flu response over the weekend. The agency is working to rectify the situation and continue hiring to ensure food safety and adequate supply.
The author benchmarked an optimized version of the increment() function and found that inlining it made it 5 times slower due to branch prediction issues. Using the Zig toolchain instead of Clang fixed the issue, but the problem was later found to be a regression in Clang 19.