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ChatGPT brings instant answers and task help across the web with customizable privacy settings. It interacts with sites for you in agent mode, allowing control over tasks from start to finish.
To build a key-value database, we can store data in a file and use an index to quickly find specific keys, but this requires balancing memory usage and performance. We can achieve this by using a Log-Structured Merge Tree (LSM) data structure, which combines an in-memory list with an on-disk file to create a fast and scalable key-value database.
Researchers tested the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis, finding that continual exposure to junk web text causes lasting cognitive decline in large language models. This decline includes worse reasoning, long-context understanding, and emergent socially undesirable personalities.
Wikipedia traffic is declining due to generative AI and social media changes in how people seek information. The foundation welcomes new knowledge sources but warns of risks if people become less aware of information origins.
A foreign actor, possibly Russian, infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus through Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The breach raises concerns about federal IT/OT security protections and the intersection of IT and operational security across critical defense infrastructure.
Researchers at Kyutai are working on developing neural audio codecs to improve speech LLMs, which currently lack real speech understanding and can't sense emotions or sarcasm. They've created a neural audio codec called Mimi, which uses an adversarial loss and RVQ dropout to improve audio compression and quality, and have trained a language model on Mimi-tokenized data to generate more ...
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NASA may choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon due to SpaceX's delayed Starship development. NASA is considering opening up the contract to other companies, including Blue Origin, to ensure a lunar landing before China.
Two AWS events occurred within a short time frame, with 600 instances spawned before being flagged and a client account compromised through dormant IAM users.
New research shows that introducing peanuts to infants as early as 4 months has prevented about 60,000 children from developing peanut allergies. This practice, recommended since 2015, has led to a 27-40% decline in peanut allergies in children aged 0-3.
People with advanced age-related macular degeneration regained vision thanks to a tiny wireless chip and augmented glasses. The device, called PRIMA, enabled 80% of patients to achieve clinically meaningful visual improvements in a year-long study.
A former Trenchant employee, who built surveillance technologies, was targeted with spyware after receiving an Apple threat notification. He believes the targeting is connected to his departure from Trenchant, where he was accused of leaking internal tools.
The author, a programmer, is concerned that the increasing use of AI tools in software development is eroding the craft and skills of programming, replacing it with a more superficial and less engaging approach. They believe that this shift is a threat to the identity and profession of programmers, and that it is being driven by a desire to increase productivity and efficiency, rather than a ...
Amazon Web Services outage on October 20, 2025, left thousands of users without access to their smart devices, including Eight Sleep's high-tech mattresses. Eight Sleep's system had no offline mode, leaving users without temperature control, sleep tracking, or other features during the outage.
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving expansion is backfiring as HW3 owners realize they won't get promised features. Tesla is facing billions in compensation or retrofits due to misleading customers with self-driving promises.
A running ledger of historyβs end-of-the-world predictions.
Dominion Voting Systems was sold to Liberty Vote, a new company promising to restore faith in American elections. Liberty Vote should make its voting technology open-source to fulfill its commitment to transparency and rebuild voter trust.
The author discusses how AI has created a culture of overwork, where people feel pressured to work long hours due to the constant availability of tools. This has led to burnout and decreased creativity.
WindBorne's balloon likely struck a 737 MAX aircraft on October 16, causing no serious injuries. WindBorne is working with the FAA to investigate and implement safety changes.
Erowid is a non-profit resource with 60 thousand pages of information on psychoactive substances. It covers traditional, spiritual, and responsible use, as well as health effects and research.
User created a Palm OS game called StarGrid, a space strategy game played on a hexagonal grid. The game is open source and available to play on Palm OS devices or through a browser emulator.
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new method to grow diamond coatings on chips, which can spread heat efficiently and reduce temperatures by up to 70Β°C. This breakthrough could revolutionize thermal management in electronics and enable the development of more powerful and efficient chips.
Niagara Falls is a natural wonder with unique geology and hydrology that has led to impressive feats of engineering, including the Welland Canal and hydroelectric power plants. The falls' infrastructure balances competing demands for tourism and power, with diversion and pumped storage helping to preserve the falls while generating electricity.
A US Attorney, Lindsey Halligan, texted a reporter to criticize their tweets about a case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, but refused to specify what was incorrect. The reporter was confused by Halligan's behavior, as she seemed to be trying to correct the reporter's reporting while also refusing to engage in a conversation about the case.
Scientists discovered three mosquitoes in Iceland, marking the country's first confirmed finding of these insects in the wild. The discovery was made in western Iceland and is attributed to a species well adapted to colder climates, possibly arriving via ships or containers.
OpenAI released Sora 2, a video generation model, and a social app called Sora, which generates short videos based on text descriptions. The app's business model is questionable, prioritizing ad revenue over creators' compensation, contradicting OpenAI's previous predictions of AI-driven socioeconomic change.
The search engine has added experimental support for German, French, and Swedish, but the index is extremely small due to limited documents. A new process to verify candidate websites is being used to grow the index.
The author created an app called Fermento to track fermentation processes, especially for long cures and low-acid environments. The app uses HACCP plans to identify potential hazards and monitor critical control points.
You've been hearing about Jujutsu VCS, which claims flexibility over Git, but reading about it made you question its necessity. You're now hesitant to try Jujutsu due to your positive experience with Git through Magit.
The user is frustrated with the complexity of modern tools like Postman and prefers using the command line with cURL for making HTTP requests. cURL is fast, reliable, and doesn't require a GUI or account creation.
Researchers studied a model that successfully multiplies multi-digit numbers and found it uses attention to encode long-range dependencies and represents digits using a Fourier basis. They also found that standard fine-tuning models lack these dependencies and introduced an auxiliary loss to help them learn multi-digit multiplication.
This page is a collection of Scheme libraries and extensions for production use, aiming to replace Perl for daily chores. It includes various tools for parsing, reporting, and GUI development.
Researchers won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize for discovering mammals can breathe through their anus and are adapting this method to treat blocked airways. They tested rectal oxygen delivery in mice, micro-pigs, and humans with promising results.
A Merkle tree is created with a keccak256 hashing algorithm, a memory storage, and a depth of 32, allowing for fast retrieval of Merkle proofs. The tree can be customized with different stores, hash functions, and depths, and its performance can be benchmarked on various hardware configurations.
NASA has reopened lunar lander contract competition due to SpaceX's delays, pushing the deadline to 2029. Elon Musk claims SpaceX will still complete the Moon mission with Starship, despite NASA's concerns and a 2027 landing target now looking unrealistic.
Daniel Naroditsky, a talented chess player and educator, has died unexpectedly. He was a cherished member of the chess community, admired for his insight and passion, and played a pivotal role in popularising chess content online.
While this site doesn't provide GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility - agg. Check agg --help for all available options. You can change font family and size, select color theme, adjust speed and more.
Katakate is a lightweight VM sandbox creator for untrusted code execution at scale, built on Kata, Firecracker, and Kubernetes. It's currently in beta, suitable for edge nodes and sensitive workloads, but requires caution and dedicated hardware for optimal performance.
PASTA/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor, generating code for classic and modern machines. It's fast but not the most efficient, supporting an almost exact clone of Turbo Pascal 3.0 for CP/M.
Text adventures offer a unique gaming experience with high player freedom and immersive storytelling. They are a mature technology, often free and accessible, with a wide range of gameplay styles and mechanics.
Google's internal password manager failed due to a reliability issue, causing a security incident that required a power drill to recover. The incident highlights the importance of considering both reliability and security in system design to prevent unexpected outcomes.
The Linux disk I/O subsystem consists of Application, VFS, Filesystem, Block, Disk scheduler, Block device driver, and Hardware layers. It includes various commands and components such as BLK-Mq, Classic I/O scheduler, and RAID controller or Disk controller.
Scientists who won an IgNobel Prize for breathing through their anus have successfully tested a human trial for enteral ventilation, delivering oxygen through the intestine. The trial showed the procedure is safe and tolerable, paving the way for further research to evaluate its effectiveness in treating respiratory failure.
The article discusses how modern betting products like parlays, zero day options, and perpetuals have become highly engineered lotteries with asymmetric upside, narrative appeal, and rapid feedback loops. These products have exploded in adoption, reaching mainstream people and contributing to significant revenue for sportsbooks and brokerages.
Amazon plans to automate 75% of its operations by 2033, potentially replacing 600,000 US jobs. The company aims to save $12.6 billion from 2025 to 2027 through automation efforts.
SierraDB is a horizontally scalable database built in Rust for event sourcing, addressing specific requirements like append-only storage and gapless sequence numbers. It uses RESP3 for communication, libp2p for networking, and Kameo for fault-tolerant distributed systems, aiming to be a production-ready, open-source event store.
Researchers at Berkeley Sky Computing Lab and collaborators are developing kvcached, a library for elastic KV cache management to enable dynamic GPU sharing. This project aims to reclaim underutilized GPUs by building an efficient and readily deployable GPU "OS" as a library for LLM serving on shared GPUs.
Ferron is a fast web server with automatic TLS management and easy configuration, designed for modern web hosting needs. It simplifies securing websites with HTTPS and outperforms popular web servers like Apache and NGINX.
NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain underground facility became America's command center in 1966 to defend against nuclear attacks. The facility features automated defense systems, computers, and display screens to track space satellites and aircraft.
normalize.css makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. It precisely targets only the styles that need normalizing.
The FT Digital Edition offers quality journalism on any device for a trial period, then $75 per month. Paying a year upfront saves 20% on the annualised price.
High-end laptops are pricey due to top features like GPUs, OLED displays, and premium materials. Mid-range models offer better value for everyday tasks, but prices fluctuate with inventory and promotions.
macOS screensaver plays live video streams from YouTube and HLS. Tested on macOS Tahoe with M2 MacBook, may vary on other versions/hardware.
The Dutch data protection authority warns that AI chatbots are unreliable and biased in offering voting advice, threatening democracy. Chatbots often suggest the same two parties, regardless of user input, and fail to mention other parties with matching positions.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulated the computer industry in the 1980s due to concerns about radio frequency interference (RFI) from home computers, which was partly caused by the popularity of CB radios. The regulations led to the development of better-designed and less noisy electronics, ultimately making the computer industry better and paving the way for modern devices ...
Leo Damrosch's biography "Storyteller" is a moving tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson's life and work. The book explores Stevenson's adventurous spirit, his marriage to Fanny, and his remarkable writing career.
Construction crews are demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to build a $250m ballroom. Critics call the renovation an "utter desecration" and question the use of funds during a government shutdown.
The author's column was commissioned by Zeit Magazin but canceled by the Executive Editor, Johannes Dudziak, after initial review. The author critiques societal complacency, bureaucracy, and the erosion of individual moral judgment.
Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby community, took control of the RubyGems and Bundler repositories from long-time maintainers, citing supply-chain security concerns, but many in the community believe the takeover was driven by funding issues and pressure from major sponsor Shopify. The takeover has raised questions about governance and ownership of the projects, with some ...
LightlyStudio is an open-source tool for unifying data workflows, using Rust for speed, and supporting COCO and ImageNet on Macbooks. It offers a Python interface for indexing, querying, and manipulating datasets.
We rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres to simplify our authorization system. This allows us to run authz checks directly in our database.
Researchers propose a binary reward system to reduce factually incorrect information generated by language models, achieving a 39.3% reduction in hallucination rates. This method improves factuality without degrading performance on other tasks, unlike continuous reward schemes.
PyTorch has gained significant traction in the research community, with 69% of CVPR and 75% of NAACL and ACL papers using PyTorch, while TensorFlow is still dominant in industry. The main reasons for PyTorch's success are its simplicity, great API, and performance, but it still lags behind TensorFlow in production capabilities, such as deployment and serving.
Karpathy justified longer AI timelines due to bottlenecks in coding agents, citing OpenAI's focus on consumer revenue and lack of investment in transformative AI. Anthropic's focus on internal R&D speedup via coding agents is a counterargument, but their safety-conscious approach reduces the chance of an AI 2027 scenario.
Argentina was once one of the richest countries due to its geography, but it has fallen behind. The country has a similar geography to the US, with a large landmass, navigable rivers, and a favorable climate, making it suitable for agriculture and trade.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a personalized AI-powered browser for tasks and web interactions.
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Dive into immersive AI-powered worlds in first person. Your choices shape the story in interactive worlds. Step into different worlds and live countless adventures.
A human error at Network Solutions corrupted the Internet's master list of domain names, causing widespread disruptions to email and websites. The problem was eventually resolved, but not before it highlighted the vulnerability of the global computer network to simple mistakes.
A critical bug, TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518), was found in the async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, allowing RCE through file overwriting attacks. The bug impacts major projects like uv, testcontainers, and wasmCloud, and has been patched in some forks.
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A foreign actor, possibly Russian, infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus through Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The breach raises concerns about federal IT/OT security protections and the intersection of IT and operational security across critical defense infrastructure.
Static Single Assignment (SSA) is a compiler architecture that converts imperative code into a combinatorial circuit, making it easier to analyze and optimize, and is widely used in many optimizing compilers. SSA form is achieved by introducing a new register for each assignment and using phi nodes or block arguments to link registers across basic blocks, allowing for the use of graph ...