Voyager 1 is about to reach 16.1 billion miles away from Earth, taking 24 hours for a radio signal to reach it. It's the most distant human-made object, traveling at 11 miles per second since 1977 and sending data until the 2030s.
HSBC estimates OpenAI needs $207bn by 2030 to continue losing money. The Financial Times offers digital access for $75/month or a discounted yearly plan.
The author is concerned about the over-reliance on AI tools, particularly LLMs, which can lead to a loss of human skills and autonomy. They argue that AI systems are designed to reinforce existing power structures and control people's thoughts and desires.
Scientists discovered a cell with a severely reduced genome that challenges the definition of life. The cell, named Sukunaarchaeum, lacks essential functions and relies on a host cell for survival.
Google updated Android's Quick Share feature to support Apple's AirDrop, allowing users to share files directly between devices. This interoperability is made possible by Apple adopting the Wi-Fi Aware standard, a requirement under the European Union's Digital Markets Act.
Companies use apps to collect data and charge different prices based on individual information. Downloading apps can also lead to binding arbitration clauses that limit your rights in case of disputes.
s&box engine is now open source under MIT license, allowing users to view, modify, and use its code for their own projects. The team has made several improvements, including fixing terrain issues, implementing texture rotation, and rewriting memory allocation code.
User created a website to help travelers find hotels with bathroom doors, after experiencing doorless rooms. The website lists hotels with doors that close and are not made of glass, and allows users to submit doorless hotels for public shaming.
RAM prices have skyrocketed globally due to explosive demand from AI data centers and constrained supply, with major players like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron profiting immensely from the crisis. Industry officials point to a perfect storm of booming demand and supply constraints, but some experts are skeptical and suggest that price-fixing may be occurring, given the history of the memory ...
We will learn statistical process control in Python using pandas, plotnine, and scipy to measure variation and identify benchmarks in product quality over time. This workshop applies statistical process control to a case study of a Japanese Hot Springs bath economy, evaluating temperature, pH, and sulfur levels to ensure quality control and maintain reputation.
The class will use Sutton and Barto's Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction as a supporting reading and allow up to 2 late days for assignments.
Gemini CLI is an open-source AI assistant that brings the power of Google's Gemini model directly into your terminal, allowing you to perform various tasks such as coding, debugging, and content generation through natural language prompts. The tool supports features like custom commands, memory addition and recall, checkpointing, and external integrations with Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive, ...
The user, a 27-year-old developer, shares a story about how they became interested in politics and joined Lee Jun-seok's Reform Party, eventually working on a campaign called "Let's Eat Lunch On Campus" that went viral. The user reflects on the experience, which taught them about the importance of courage, trust, and empowerment in politics, and how it has made them a more honest and critical thinker.
Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon drew inspiration from films like 2001 and Dark Star for Alien's claustrophobic corridors and industrial aesthetic. The design process involved multiple artists, including Ron Cobb and Chris Foss, but ultimately resulted in a ship that was largely different from their original concepts.
Researchers at the University of Naples found that liraglutide reduced migraine days by 11 per month in adults with obesity and chronic migraine. The benefit was linked to pressure modulation, not weight loss, and may offer a new treatment option for people with migraine.
Cloudflare's recent outage was caused by a database/application mismatch due to a query returning unexpected data. The company's root cause analysis missed the real lesson, which is the importance of logical correctness and consistency in database design.
Kagi Hub Belgrade is now open, offering free coworking space for all Kagi members with reservations available from December 15th. The 250-square-meter office space is open to Kagi users and team members for sharing feedback and ideas.
Willie Shane's company left The Boring Company's Music City Loop project due to unpaid bills and safety concerns. The Boring Company's Vice President promised to pay Shane's company and investigate the issues.
Phoronix offers a Cyber Week promotion for Phoronix Premium with discounted rates and benefits. KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive, removing Plasma X11 session support.
Researchers repurpose image diffusion models for object tracking in videos by interpreting self-attention maps as semantic label propagation kernels. They introduce DRIFT, a framework achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on video object segmentation benchmarks.
The EU Council reached an agreement on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, requiring messaging providers to scan chats for CSAM, but making scanning voluntary. The new law imposes obligations on digital companies to assess and mitigate risks, with a new agency overseeing implementation.
Google added cross-platform AirDrop support to Pixel 10 through Quick Share, allowing users to send files to iPhones. This change is due to EU's interoperability requirements under the DMA, which forced Apple to support Wi-Fi Aware standard.
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Company leadership decided to use a vibe coded platform due to financial struggles, despite concerns about its quality and potential legal issues. The author will migrate the company's data to the new platform, but is concerned about its poor quality and potential impact on people's lives.
Scaleway transformed Apple's Mac mini into a cloud server hosted in state-of-the-art datacenters, providing remote access to Apple silicon chips in a secure environment. Scaleway's Mac mini as-a-Service offers a powerful, flexible solution for developers and businesses, with features like automatic management and high-performance network architecture.
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Python's async model is misunderstood due to its difference from JavaScript and C# where await yields to the runtime. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn't yield to the event loop, but awaiting a task does, making tasks the unit of concurrency.
The author analyzed hospital admission data in England to identify typically male and female external causes of injury. The results show that men are more likely to be injured by violence, physical labor, and machines, while women are more likely to be injured by animals, beauty treatments, and mental health issues.
Indie game developers are pushing back against the use of generative AI in game development, citing concerns over ethics, creativity, and personal pride. Some developers are using a "no AI" seal to declare their games were made by humans, while others are embracing the technology as a way to speed up production.
User created a Mac app called Alan to draw borders around active windows, with customizable width and colors. The app can be hidden from the Dock by running a Terminal command.
A new study found that people who stop taking GLP-1 weight-loss medications regain significant weight and lose cardiovascular benefits. Experts suggest these drugs should be considered "weight management" medications that may need to be taken indefinitely.
Indeed's annual study shows a decline in available jobs, with tech jobs plummeting 67% from 2022. Data and analytics jobs are particularly affected, with a 40% drop in job openings and a rising number of applications per job.
Bandwidth Saver serves images from Cloudflare's global network for faster loading and zero egress fees. It offers one-click setup, works with any theme or plugin, and has a fallback to the server if the CDN is unavailable.
The US Justice Department filed a proposed settlement against RealPage Inc to end anticompetitive practices in rental housing markets. The settlement requires RealPage to change its software and cooperate with the US lawsuit against other property management companies.
Three Chinese space enterprises, Shanghai Academy, LandSpace, and Space Pioneer, are preparing for debut flights of partially reusable rockets before the end of the year. LandSpace's Zhuque-3 is a top contender to become China's first reusable rocket, with a targeted launch date possibly on November 29th.
BebboSSH is an SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems with modern ciphers and optimized routines. It provides SSH2 client and server functionality, SCP transfers, and SFTP support for classic Amiga systems.
MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a study using the Iceberg Index, which found that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or $1.2 trillion in wages. The index simulates how AI affects workers across the country, offering a detailed map of disruption down to the zip code.
The writer believes older movies like The Silence of the Lambs and Goodfellas are more gripping due to their focus on character work and storytelling. Modern cinema often prioritizes technology and demographics over lasting impact.
The user successfully ported iOS 6 to an iPod touch 3 by modifying the iBoot and DeviceTree, and creating a custom kernelcache with kexts from iOS 6. They also implemented an iBoot exploit and patched various components to make the port work on the iPod touch 3.
The Slashdot effect occurs when a popular website links to a smaller one, causing a massive increase in traffic that overloads the site. This results in the site slowing down or becoming temporarily unavailable due to insufficient bandwidth or server capacity.
American AI adoption at work has fallen to 11% with sharpest decline at large businesses. AI demand looks weak despite being three years into the generative wave.
Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model for computer use, achieving state-of-the-art performance with 7 billion parameters. It completes tasks efficiently, averaging 16 steps per task, and enables on-device deployment with reduced latency and improved privacy.
GrapheneOS is moving away from OVH due to security concerns in France and is rotating TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys. They are also moving servers to Netcup root servers or colocated servers in Toronto.
British special effects industry was strong due to pioneers like Alexander Korda and Walter Percy 'Pop' Day. They trained a new generation of artists including Les Bowie, Derek Meddings, and Brian Johnson.
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for quantum computing that provides a core component for creating and working with quantum circuits and operators. It includes a transpiler for optimizing circuits and a quantum information toolbox for creating advanced operators.
The author trained a language model to implement a filesystem and achieved 98% accuracy. They then used the model to compress XML filesystem trees, achieving 44.7% better compression than the original format.
The author argues that object-oriented programming does not help with changing data structures for performance reasons and that compilers can't optimize data representation due to system boundaries. The best approach to making invasive changes is to use a language with a good type system, make a breaking change, and directly change data representation to avoid compatibility issues and technical debt.
Caligra is a new computer company focused on creative technical work and innovation. Its goal is to help users shape the future through technical advancements.
An intern in Shanghai won a brand-new RTX 5060 worth 3000 RMB in a raffle, but the company demanded it back, leading to a dispute. The intern refused, resigned, and lawyers sided with him, saying the prize belongs to the winner by random chance.
The user sends a POST request to the Tokensaver API with an email and a message. The API responds with a message and billing information, which is then logged or printed.
Floods in Thailand and neighboring countries have killed at least 131 people and displaced over 2 million. Military ships and helicopters are deployed to support relief efforts, with thousands of people awaiting rescue.
The Mismatch Loss formula is flawed as it does not accurately predict power loss due to mismatch in a transmission line, and the actual loss is mainly due to the line's attenuation and the generator's internal resistance. A tuner can help minimize the loss by adapting the impedance at the input, but its insertion loss is often negligible, and modern transceivers can compensate for some degree ...
Major digital platforms including Amazon, Instagram, and Xbox experienced outages Wednesday evening. The cause of the disruptions is unknown but may be related to a deeper systemic issue in cloud infrastructure.
Css subgrid allows you to extend the parent grid through a <ul>. if you want to create an infinite supercomputer, you can use 'child' to add more rows and columns to the grid based on the content - and the size of the image you're displaying. you don't need to specify the exact number of rows, just the number that will fit your content. this is the most common use
Error handling in systems is a global property, not a local one, and requires considering factors like correlation, architecture, and business logic. The right approach to error handling is to design the system to reject the cause of errors and continue, rather than crashing, unless failures are highly correlated or can be handled at a higher layer.
The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman who may have photographed the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas. She was seen holding a camera and standing near Dealey Plaza, but her identity and the film she took remain unknown.
Two AI leaders, Ilya Sutskever and Yann LeCun, say large language models are hitting their limits. They suggest new research and architectures are needed to move beyond current models.
Genesis Mission is a national initiative to build a powerful scientific platform for discovery, security, and energy innovation. It connects supercomputers, AI systems, and unique datasets to double US research productivity within a decade.