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The US government has threatened to cut funding to Harvard over accusations of antisemitism, but the university refuses to comply with the government's demands to regulate its intellectual conditions. Harvard will continue to defend its independence and First Amendment rights, upholding its commitment to free speech and inquiry.
The user built a simple AI assistant called Stevens using a single SQLite table of memories and cron jobs hosted on Val.town, which sends a daily brief to the user and their wife via Telegram. Stevens can also communicate on-demand and is extensible with new importers, making it a useful personal tool that can be easily copied and extended.
OpenAI has launched three new models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, featuring improved coding, instruction following, and long context capabilities. These models outperform previous versions with significant gains in coding and instruction following.
The book explains how everyday technology works through pictures and diagrams, targeting curious readers who want to understand the inner workings of their tools. It will be a digital book with a pre-order option, offering early access to written chapters and the chance to shape the book's topics.
We're open-sourcing our internal inference engine, DeepSeek-Inference-Engine, to contribute to the open-source ecosystem and foster a synchronized AI ecosystem. We're collaborating with existing projects to overcome challenges and ensure seamless model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.
The FTC is suing Meta over its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram, alleging antitrust law violations. Meta argues the acquisitions helped the company compete with other social media platforms.
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Temu's App Store ranking plummeted after shutting off Google ads due to US tariffs and import restrictions. This may temporarily lower digital advertising costs for other ecommerce advertisers.
Google, Georgia Tech, and the Wild Dolphin Project collaborated on DolphinGemma, an AI model that learns dolphin vocalizations and generates realistic responses. This model can help researchers understand dolphin communication and potentially establish a shared vocabulary for interactive communication.
Intel sold 51% of Altera to Silver Lake for $8.75 billion, making Altera a pure-play FPGA company. Intel will retain 49% ownership and focus on its core business.
Entropy is the only time-irreversible law of physics. if $p=0.5$ such as in the case of our unfair 8-sided dice landing on the number 7, then it takes 1 bit of information, just like a coin - we only care about the probability of the outcome... daniel schneier: we can see this from the lens of statistical mechanics – time has
Andean Medjedovic, a 22-year-old Canadian, is accused of exploiting decentralized finance platforms, netting $64.9 million, and faces five US charges including wire fraud and money laundering. He allegedly used a "Code is Law" philosophy, claiming he was entitled to the funds due to the platform's open-source code.
The user attended the 39th annual Kezurou-kai event in Japan, where competitors use Japanese planes to take the thinnest shavings of wood. They shared their experience and insights on the event, including the challenges of planing ultra-thin shavings and the importance of material quality and moisture content.
This tool helps you explore the SQLite file format internals according to the official specification. It's designed for developers and database enthusiasts who want to understand the internal structure of SQLite database files.
Old Al's idea that time is just another way to move, and that mass warps space-time, was initially met with skepticism but eventually proven true through various experiments and observations. This led to a fundamental shift in understanding the nature of space and time, and Old Al's idea became a cornerstone of modern physics.
The user bought a PowerMac G4 MDD to fix KVM on the Wii U, but ended up replacing the system fan and power supply fans. The repair was challenging and expensive, but the user is now using the PowerMac with a new Noctua fan.
Pillar Security researchers discovered a new supply chain attack called "Rules File Backdoor" that compromises AI-generated code by injecting malicious instructions into configuration files used by Cursor and GitHub Copilot. This attack remains virtually invisible to developers and security teams, allowing malicious code to silently propagate through projects.
Technical limitations and legal concerns prevent P2P live streaming in decent quality. It's possible but requires complex prioritization and deprioritization of packets to handle thousands of users with varying connection speeds.
The new version of the linked list embeds the node with data, known as an intrusive linked list, which performs better and requires fewer allocations. The code uses the @fieldParentPtr builtin to get the instance that contains a field, making it safer and more efficient.
The book focuses on practical C techniques for experienced programmers, emphasizing power and flexibility over strictness. It assumes readers have basic programming knowledge and aims to help them make the most out of C's capabilities.
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Create self-contained snapshots for every bookmark you save. Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability. Browser extensions are required to create bookmarks & snapshots. Install the extension to your browser and enjoy Omnoming.
A community project maintains open-source TombEngine, a non-commercial, non-affiliated version of Tomb Raider, with contributors working for free. The code is released as-is for study purposes, with no liability for its use.
Omat and scat biopsies were collected from people living with obesity during bas (t0) and 2 yr post-surgery (t1) each dot represents an individual biological replicate. adipocytes from hc and hhc mice accumulated lipids in response to insulin but failed to differentiate, unlike controls, according to our previous work65, 66, 70 - 71 m in
The author discusses how Haskell's concurrency features make it suitable for fast and correct code, particularly in real-time systems where microseconds can mean life or death. Haskell's STM (Software Transactional Memory) and async package provide a way to handle concurrency without the need for manual thread management or mutexes, making it easier to write concurrent code.
Podman Quadlets are a lightweight solution for managing containers, using systemd for declarative configuration and automation. They simplify container setup and management, especially with the Podman Quadlet extension in Podman Desktop.
Create local web servers in just a few clicks with an easy-to-use interface. Download for Windows or macOS.
NoProp is a new learning method that uses denoising to learn neural networks without back-propagation, achieving superior accuracy and efficiency. It alters credit assignment within the network, enabling distributed learning and potentially impacting other learning characteristics.
The user ported Infocom's original UNIX z-machine source code to six major operating systems using Cosmopolitan, creating standalone executables that run natively on each system. This project allowed the user to explore the historical side of Infocom while demonstrating the potential of Cosmopolitan's "write once, run anywhere" approach.
Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine that offers features like hybrid search, filtering, and faceted search for a delightful user experience. It provides extensive language support, security management, and customization options for seamless integration into apps and workflows.
AudioX is a unified Diffusion Transformer model for Anything-to-Audio and Music Generation, offering flexible natural language control and seamless processing of various modalities. It matches or outperforms state-of-the-art specialized models in audio and music generation tasks.
Researchers propose a new law of nature where complexity increases over time, potentially explaining the Fermi paradox. They suggest that evolution is a universal principle governing the universe, not just biology.
protobuf-ts-types infers TypeScript types from proto format strings. It maps message names to their corresponding types, enabling type checking and auto-completion.
Fibonacci hashing is a bad way to solve problems with hashes of large numbers. fastrange throws away the lower bits of the input range, making it bad for prime numbers too. if the table has 1024 slots, only the last bit of input has any effect on the output. this makes it worse for power of two numbers, but not for sequential numbers. the problem is that the algorithm has to be fast enough to ...
Fry's Electronics in Burbank was demolished after closing in 2021, with a spaceship and alien relic preserved. The site will be replaced by 800-unit apartment buildings on the corner of Hollywood Way and Vanowen Street.
The user created a home screen widget to check their Nissan LEAF's battery status without spending money. They used a combination of GitHub Actions, Tailscale, and IFTTT to automate the process and display the widget on their iPhone.
Openai is on the hook for over $5 billion for the site in abilene, according to reports. samuel l. clark: if it's running up against a wall, this streak will end. this shift is directly linked to microsoft’s relationship with openai, he says - microsoft got what it needed out of open ai, which it already retains the intellectual property of. the company needs to raise at least
The author used undefined behavior sanitizers in GCC and Clang to detect and fix bugs in the picolibc library. The effort uncovered eight bugs, including issues with qsort, string to float conversion, and arithmetic overflow.
A Next.js web app hosted on Vercel experienced a costly incident due to a spike in LLM bot traffic that scraped thousands of images, resulting in a potential $7,000 bill. The startup mitigated the issue by disabling image optimization for external URLs and researching firewalling options to prevent future bot traffic.
Scientists discovered that IL-17, a protein that fights infection, also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability. The immune system uses cytokines to communicate with the brain, influencing behavior and mood during illness.
Monte Carlo methods can generate random numbers without truly random numbers, using pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) that produce deterministic streams of numbers that look uniformly random. Rejection sampling and inversion sampling are two methods used to sample complex distributions, where rejection sampling filters out samples that aren't in the desired distribution and inversion ...
A Toronto woman received a text message with a transcript of her Lyft ride conversation without her consent. Lyft initially blamed the driver but later said it was a pilot program error, contradicting its statement that the incident was not related to any feature.
A push-based query engine is where producers drive the system, each operator telling its downstream operators about its data, improving cache efficiency and enabling efficient processing of DAG-shaped plans. However, push-based systems have their own challenges, such as scheduling and lifetimes, and may not be suitable for all algorithms, but can be beneficial in certain scenarios like ...
The article highlights three quirky publicly traded companies: a German dairy factory, a Japanese game publisher, and a Swiss mountain cable car company. These companies have unique business models and products, making them stand out in their respective industries.
Researchers found that protein cores have a consistent 55% packing fraction due to jamming of elongated amino acids. This discovery may lead to designing new protein structures and functions by changing folding conditions.
Researchers found that large, downed trees in streams store significant amounts of carbon, with old-growth forests storing four to five times more carbon than mature forests. This carbon storage is growing over time, making it a key natural climate solution.
The US has a trade deficit and capital surplus due to foreign countries saving and investing in US assets, which drives up the dollar and causes the trade deficit. The US government's consumption binge, fueled by borrowing from foreigners, is a major contributor to this issue.
A d&d dungeon master (dm) and players work together to produce narra- tives. dms use llms with calypso to help generate encounter scenes and digest information about monsters. we conducted interviews and ran workshop sessions with seven - d1- 7 below. the results show that the system is able to generate high-fidelity descriptions of encounters that can be presented to other players with only minor edit
The Financial Times offers a free guide to Trump's second term and US politics with impartial coverage. Subscribe for digital access to quality journalism and expert analysis with a 20% discount for paying upfront.
User had trouble finding a suitable SSD1306 OLED driver for ESP-IDF, trying several popular libraries including LVGL, U8G2, and AdafruitGFX. They eventually went back to a deprecated driver, modified it to work with the latest ESP-IDF version, and achieved the desired 40 Hz update speed.
ActorCore is a framework for stateful serverless applications that stores state in memory and automatically saves it. It can be deployed to various platforms and integrated with favorite frameworks and tools.
The first half of AI focused on developing new training methods and models, but the second half will shift focus to defining problems and evaluating real progress. To thrive in this new era, researchers need a timely shift in mindset and skill set, prioritizing evaluation and benchmarking over training.
The author uses audio journaling to document trades in real time, expressing emotions and thoughts spontaneously. This method improves consistency and self-awareness as a trader.
Wiz achieved a historic $32B acquisition by Google in 5 years through a unified cloud security platform, agentless approach, and contextualized solution that landed them Product-Market Fit. Their successful Go-To-Market strategy included clear product messaging, experimentation, field marketing, and a bold, magical brand that set them apart in a hyper competitive space.
The author struggled with loading the dishwasher due to lack of knowledge and understanding of how it works. After researching and consulting experts, they found that the key to loading the dishwasher correctly is to understand its internal mechanics and not overload it.
The author recommends visiting Japan's small towns, which offer a unique and authentic experience, and can be accessed from larger towns and cities on a day trip. These towns, such as Tsuwano, Kitsuki, and Nakafurano, feature beautiful scenery, rustic accommodations, and local cuisine.
The utl::profiler is a single-header solution for localized profiling that measures time taken by code segments and builds a call graph for each thread. It can be used to profile code segments, expressions, and functions, and can be customized with style options and disabled for specific code paths.
The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or being identified as a suspicious crawler. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use archive.org for a better behaved archival crawler.
Researchers found that up to 6.28% of websites support unencrypted HTTP/2, which is not censored in China and Iran. They developed a tool to evaluate website support for unencrypted HTTP/2.
Apple prioritizes user privacy and uses techniques like differential privacy to gain insights into product usage without revealing individual behavior. Apple is developing new techniques to improve features powered by Apple Intelligence while protecting user privacy.
Anticolonialists say the communist party was too dogmatic and authoritarian after they won independence. nguyn c tng: 'how vietnam managed to endure chinese domination is beyond me' he asks: how can the vietnamese construct an intellectual heritage to be proud of? the drv unified the country and renamed it the socialist republic of vietnam - cnn's
Engineers should take a position in technical discussions to prevent weaker team members from making uninformed decisions. Remaining non-committal can be seen as cowardice, but it's understandable due to the fear of being wrong, especially in public.
Daniel saunders: after brain injury, it was faltering language that was my most visible symptom. he says hemispheres have different strengths, but right hippocampus is more alert if needed a bit more than left one. in this way, mr. sears says, his thinking had never been clearer, and his worldview changed radically. this is the story of how
User overpaid $12,000 in taxes due to a TurboTax error and spent 3 years trying to recover it from the IRS. After multiple attempts, a congressional representative's intervention helped the user finally receive their refund, plus interest, in 2025.
The author argues that functional programming principles are best applied at a medium scale rather than micro scale to achieve significant benefits. They encourage programmers to focus on high-level architecture and principles like immutability and type systems.
A GitHub CLI extension called gh-signoff allows local CI on dev laptops for simple test suites. It signs off on PRs when tests pass with gh signoff.
Hertz disclosed a data breach affecting customers in several countries and US states, with stolen data including names, contact info, and payment card information. The breach is attributed to a vendor, Cleo, which was previously targeted by a Russia-linked ransomware gang exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby have dropped from top 20 positions in the Tiobe index due to losing traction and being replaced by other languages. The top 20 languages now cover 83.56% of the market, indicating a preference for proven technology over new ones.
ChaCha20 is a simpler and faster symmetric encryption cipher than AES, using ARX operations to generate a keystream. Its simplicity makes it more secure and easier to implement, with no timing leaks or hardware acceleration needed.
Scientists have developed a novel chemical method to break down rubber waste into valuable precursors for epoxy resins. This process, using C–H amination and aza-Cope rearrangement, offers a sustainable alternative to traditional recycling methods.
Optimizing software performance requires careful consideration of algorithms, data structures, and system choices, rather than relying on human optimism or quick fixes. A balanced approach to optimization involves using simple tricks first, accepting imprecise solutions when necessary, and prioritizing human time and breadth of knowledge over complex solutions.
Gleam v1.10.0 has been published with improved features including type and value reference detection, rename functionality, and unused-code detection. The compiler also performs exhaustiveness analysis and emits warnings for unreachable patterns and redundant cases.
A humorous article describes various job types by how they would hunt elephants in Africa, highlighting their unique approaches and characteristics. The article satirically portrays different professions and their approaches to problem-solving.
This repository showcases a deep learning approach for watermark segmentation using a pre-trained backbone and synthetic data augmentation. It provides a baseline for building complex tools like clear.photo.
go-mcp is a Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence, providing a type-safe interface for server development. It generates code for static tool definitions, but dynamic tool additions are not well-suited for Go and are delegated to other languages.
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ClipCapsule is a Linux clipboard manager built with Go and WailsJS, allowing keyboard shortcuts to manage clipboard entries. It requires elevated privileges or manual access setup to run seamlessly.
Susan Potter donated her body to the Visible Human Project, allowing her anatomy to be studied and photographed in detail. Her body is being used to develop a living cadaver, with the goal of creating a virtual human body that can be used for medical education.
The Meng Xiang vessel is designed to drill through ocean crust into the mantle, enabling scientists to study the Earth's architecture and plate tectonics. It will conduct expeditions to the Pacific or Indian seafloor before 2030, providing samples for research on Earth life and plate tectonics.
Heavy client-side logic requires a trade-off between API churn and complex security models. Moving server-side logic back to the server can simplify security and reduce API churn.
The novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is problematic due to its depiction of pedophilia and abuse, yet its aesthetic language and complexity have made it a compelling read. The novel's exploration of curiosity, kindness, and tenderness serves as a moral exhortation to transcend convention and notice the world around us.
A 79-year-old Alzheimer's patient donated her brain for research, but the program's fate is uncertain due to the Trump administration's funding slowdown. The University of Washington's Alzheimer's research center is among those affected, threatening patient care and medical innovations.
After the pandemic, patients on the left trusted their doctors more than those on the right
Trader Joe's pastel-colored tote bags are flying off shelves, selling for $2.99 in stores but up to $2,000 online. Shoppers are camping out and fighting for the bags, which come in green, blue, purple, and pink.
SocketCluster is a lightweight and efficient pub/sub system with automatic cleanup and scalable deployment. It supports JWT authentication, middleware streams, and async/await loops for easier code readability and maintainability.
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Crosswalk buttons in California cities were hacked to play AI-generated speech mimicking Zuckerberg and Musk. The hack, possibly related to hacktivism, is being investigated by local authorities.
SSH public key authentication has operational and security risks due to key management sprawl and unclear access boundaries. SSH certificate-based authentication offers a more scalable approach with centralized management and observability.
People across the world have consumed a wide variety of fruits for thousands of years, with evidence of ancient fruit cultivation found in New Guinea, the Near East, and Mesoamerica. Studying fruit can give archaeologists glimpses of ancient peoples' ingenuity and daily life.
Scientists discovered that calcium ions influence the formation of homochiral polymers, a crucial trait of life's molecules. This finding suggests that simple polyesters, not just peptides or nucleic acids, could have been life's earliest homochiral molecules.
A typed QASM 3.0 parser in TypeScript is implemented to enable verification and validation software. A formal treatment of OpenQASM 3.0's type system is proposed for further formal verification.
Our flagship model GPT-4.1 is suitable for complex tasks and problem solving across domains. Pricing is based on tokens used and tool calls, with rate limits to ensure fair and reliable access.
These are notes for the course mathematical reasoning & proofs at the university of ottawa. this course should be of interest to students who feel dissatisfied with mathematics - eric schmidt, robert mcgraw-hill, andrew hammond p. s. these notes are not meant to be a complete review of the material, but rather to help students understand
MooseAgent is a framework that automates MOOSE simulation using large-scale language models and multi-agent systems. It simplifies finite element simulation processes and lowers the user barrier for MOOSE.
Founders of planning software company, tract, have learned lessons from their mistakes. a key lesson from the mistakes of the company is to focus on the opportunity, not the problem, says co-founder and founder, daniel taylor - he's tempted by the thought of another startup while the lessons are fresh. "if you're going to be successful, you need to have the courage to take risks," says m
The author believes AI has not replaced human developers, but rather augmented them, and companies are still hiring despite AI adoption. The author offers job-hunting tips, including applying early, building a network, and leveraging online communities to increase chances of success.