Flock's AI-enabled Condor cameras were exposed to the open internet, allowing anyone to watch livestreams and access video archives. The cameras can zoom in on people's faces and track individuals, raising concerns about privacy and potential abuse.
The US Department of the Interior has paused leases on five offshore wind sites citing a classified report from the Department of Defense. The move targets projects in New York, Virginia, and New England, despite some being nearly complete.
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To avoid career stagnation, carve out time to reflect on your career by reviewing the past year, identifying trends, and setting new objectives. This process can help you prioritize your goals and make intentional decisions about your career path.
The Transformer model uses attention to boost the speed of neural machine translation applications and outperforms the Google Neural Machine Translation model in specific tasks. It consists of an encoding component, a decoding component, and connections between them, with the encoder using self-attention and feed-forward neural networks to process input sequences.
Jimmy Lai, a UK citizen, hid in a fishing boat at 12 to escape China and built a garment empire in Hong Kong. He's now in prison for advocating democracy and free speech, despite having the option to flee to the UK.
GLM-4.7 brings significant improvements in coding, UI quality, tool using, and complex reasoning capabilities. It also introduces new features like Interleaved Thinking, Preserved Thinking, and Turn-level Thinking for more stable and controllable complex tasks.
Enabling TCP_NODELAY is recommended for latency-sensitive distributed systems as it disables Nagle's algorithm, which can cause delays in sending data. The default behavior of Nagle's algorithm may not be suitable for modern systems, and TCP_NODELAY should be the default to improve performance.
The lotusbail npm package is a malicious WhatsApp Web API library that steals credentials, intercepts messages, and installs a persistent backdoor. It uses sophisticated malware with custom RSA encryption and multi-layer obfuscation to evade detection.
NIST's Boulder facility lost power due to wind gusts, causing a backup generator to fail and disrupting their main ensemble clock. The issue was resolved with power restored and backup power bridging the gap, with the clock remaining within 5 microseconds of UTC.
LLMs improve engineering by focusing on guidance and oversight, especially in greenfield projects, and scaling them to larger codebases requires understanding their contributions to engineering. Effective LLM use requires a prompt library, verification, and oversight to ensure quality and consistency in software development.
Researchers at the University of Michigan developed histotripsy, a noninvasive ultrasound treatment that destroys cancerous tumors without heat buildup. HistoSonics, a company founded by Zhen Xu, has commercialized the technology and received FDA approval for liver tumor treatment, with plans to expand to kidney and pancreatic cancer.
Sony introduced the KV-45ED1, a 45-inch Trinitron CRT, in Japan in 1989 and imported 20 units to the US in 1990. The PVM-4300, a 43-inch version, was sold for $40,000 in the US, a significant markup, and weighed 450 pounds.
Debian is transitioning to a git-based source code management system to make source code more accessible and shareable. The transition team needs help with outreach, documentation, and adoption to replace Debian Source Packages with git.
The Garbage Collection Handbook is a comprehensive guide to automatic memory management, covering state-of-the-art techniques and new challenges in garbage collection. It provides expert insight and knowledge for programmers to select and configure garbage collectors effectively.
The Trump administration's funding policies for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation led to a 41% decrease in funding, causing fewer grants to be awarded and less research to be funded in areas such as aging, diabetes, and cancer. The administration's policy shift prioritized fully funding fewer grants upfront, resulting in less money and time for researchers to ...
Ancient structures like Maeshowe tomb and La Roche aux Fées align with the winter solstice Sun, signifying death and rebirth in the annual calendar. Modern artworks like Sun Tunnels, Roden Crater, and Enoura Observatory continue this tradition, reconnecting people with nature's rhythms and celestial events.
The author reflects on their year of using AI tools for coding, noting changes in their profession and the challenges of working with machines that have human tendencies. They express concerns about the need for new social contracts and better tools for sharing code and reviewing AI-generated code.
The European Commission's top science diplomat Signe Ratso criticized the US for damaging its scientific reputation by cutting grants and restricting academic freedom. Europe is expanding its research program Horizon Europe globally, attracting partners like South Korea, New Zealand, and Canada.
To build Android apps with Rust, set environment variables ANDROID_NDK_HOME and ANDROID_HOME, then use cargo ndk to build. iced can be integrated with existing graphics pipelines like winit and wgpu to support Android.
Passkeybot.com is a hosted sign in page that allows adding passkey auth to sites with server-side HTTP handlers, utilizing secure enclaves like Apple's SEP for biometric-authenticated private key signing. The passkey protocol involves signing challenges, attestation, and counter-based security measures, with features like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity assertion and the Digital ...
The Italian Competition Authority fined Apple 98 million euros for abusing its dominant position with the App Tracking Transparency policy. The policy restricts competition by forcing developers to obtain double consent for data collection.
The author publicly announced her divorce on Instagram with a post about her experience, but discovered that Instagram's AI-generated SEO text had been added to her post without her knowledge or consent. This AI-generated text trivialized her pain and erased the trauma she experienced in her divorce.
Vince Zampella, co-founder of Respawn Entertainment and key mind behind Call of Duty, died in a car crash at 55. He led Call of Duty's "golden age" and revitalized Battlefield, leaving a legacy of innovative and successful games.
A heat-seeking satellite captured an image of a major Bitcoin-mining data center in Texas, revealing its thermal footprint and heat leaks into the environment. The image could help regulators understand the facility's impact on the environment and local power networks.
The California Public Utilities Commission voted 4-1 to keep profit margins for Southern California Edison and other utilities at 10.03%, despite consumer groups arguing for a lower rate. The decision will have little impact on customer bills, but consumer groups say it will continue to transfer wealth from customers to companies.
A scammer tricked the writer's mother into giving away their savings in a country plagued by scams. The writer, who built a system to track money flows, is now seeking advice on how to protect vulnerable people like his mother.
World's Backlog is a platform where people share real problems they face, and experts can find and solve them. It helps identify meaningful pain points that often go unnoticed by providing a list of validated market needs.
Cartoon Network and Adult Swim experienced numerous technical difficulties and errors with screenbugs, split-screen credits, and identifications throughout various shows and episodes. These errors included audio glitches, screenbugs disappearing or appearing incorrectly, and incorrect ratings and promos being shown, affecting multiple shows and episodes across different time slots.
The user discovered Supabase databases unprotected due to missing RLS, allowing access to user data, which they believe is a common issue among developers. They suggest Supabase could improve security by displaying a warning when creating public users tables and propose Pocketbase as a more secure alternative.
The author suspects a plan was generated by AI and feels betrayed, realizing that relying on AI for creation increases verification work. Using AI in writing is about etiquette, requiring disclosure of provenance to maintain social contract and authenticity.
Researchers analyzed Universal Transformers and found performance gains come from recurrent inductive bias and nonlinearity, not elaborate designs. They proposed the Universal Reasoning Model, achieving state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI tasks with 53.8% and 16.0% pass rates.
The user identified an issue with CoreML's implicit casting to FP16 when using the NeuralNetwork model format, which led to differing results in model predictions. Switching to the MLProgram model format, which explicitly types intermediate layers, resolved the issue and ensured model predictions remained consistent across platforms.
86Box has been updated with performance improvements, bug fixes, and new hardware for the holidays. The update includes improved floppy drive sounds, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and support for new machines and devices.
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PostNord will stop delivering letters in Denmark on December 30, ending a 400-year-old tradition due to increasing digitalisation. Customers will have to use Dao, a delivery company, to send letters, either in person or by paying extra for home collection.
Session is an open source encrypted messaging app with no phone number or email sign up, using a decentralized network for secure communication. It aims to provide private and secure communication without surveillance or unnecessary exposure.
BMW has patented a screw with a roundel logo head that can't be removed with normal tools, making DIY repairs difficult. The patent aims to prevent unauthorized persons from working on their own cars by requiring specialized tools.
The Trump administration halted the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project and paused four other large-scale offshore wind projects due to national security concerns. The pause is to assess the risk of radar interference from turbine blades and towers.
To live well, we need a strong foundation of health, family, and non-greedy living, and to break free from algorithm-dominated platforms that distract us from real connections and meaningful life. We can achieve this by using open platforms, owning our content, and investing in direct connections with others, such as newsletters and personal blogs.
The author is trying to create a programming language with anti-grouping, where parentheses are used to ungroup operands, not group them. They use a tokeniser to track nesting depth and emit a "friendliness" score for each token.
QB64-PE updates include new features, library updates, and bug fixes. The update adds $USELIBRARY meta-command, IDE editing features, and allows defining another EXE output folder.
To create a henge, find a long, straight east-west street with a clear horizon view. The sun's path lines up perfectly with the street on specific dates each year due to Earth's tilt.
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User wants a career change to help others and interact with people, considering occupational therapy or speech-language pathology. They also enjoy hands-on work like painting buildings, photography, and cooking.
LinkedIn's success is due to its long-term rolodex feature, making it hard for competitors to replicate. A potential competitor should focus on a different business model, such as a collaboration platform, to attract users and eventually become a social network.
Spotify has disabled user accounts involved in scraping metadata and is implementing new safeguards against anti-copyright attacks. A pirate activist group has released 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files, but only metadata has been released so far.
Python's rise was initially tied to its perceived cleanliness compared to Perl, but it needed to establish its own identity. Its dominance now overshadows other languages that may be better, due to its initial advantage over Perl.
User is tired of Hacker News posts dominating the platform, especially AI/LLM optimized content. They value genuine user thoughts over tech buzzwords for clicks.
Colorado River Basin states have until Feb 14 to agree on a new water sharing deal, or the federal government will impose its own plan. States are struggling to reach a consensus due to disagreements over water cuts and conservation efforts.
The author, an indie software vendor, believes it has become harder to make a living due to the rise of LLMs, changing consumer behavior, and increasing competition. The author notes that new promotional channels are scarce and that the shift to web-based software and mobile apps has made it tough for small vendors to succeed.
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The article discusses using operational amplifiers for analog math, including summing, subtracting, multiplying, and integrating. It explains how to implement these operations using op-amp circuits with resistors and capacitors, leveraging their properties to achieve the desired results.
Researchers investigated neuron-level mechanisms behind hallucinations in large language models, finding a small subset of neurons can predict hallucinations with strong generalization. These neurons are linked to over-compliance behaviors and originate from pre-trained base models.
mactop is a terminal-based monitoring tool for Apple Silicon chips displaying real-time metrics. It provides customizable UI and metrics for CPU, GPU, power consumption, temperatures, and more.
tc is a language-agnostic test framework that reads input from stdin and writes expected output to stdout. It allows writing tests once and running them against any language.
A power outage at NIST caused a 4.8 microsecond delay in US official time. The delay was minor for the general public but could have serious consequences for critical infrastructure and high-end users.
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A power outage in San Francisco caused 130,000 customers to lose electricity and stranded Waymo vehicles in the streets. Waymo temporarily suspended its ride-hailing services due to the power outage and is focused on keeping riders safe.
The author reflects on how Clancy Sigal's novel "Going Away" resonated with him as a young left-wing activist, exploring themes of disillusionment and the search for meaning. The author later corresponded with Sigal, who had struggled with writer's block and mental health issues, and they maintained a lifelong friendship.
A YouTube livestream of Matt Farley discussing investments mysteriously appeared on the White House website for eight minutes. The White House is investigating the incident, which raises concerns about digital security.