Meta's smart glasses collect user data, including private videos and conversations, which are then processed by subcontractors in Kenya. The data is shared with Meta's AI systems, raising concerns about user privacy and data protection.
British Columbia will permanently adopt daylight time after March 8, ending clock changes. Residents have 8 months to prepare for the change, set for November 1, 2026.
Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article with AI-fabricated quotes was retracted. Edwards took responsibility for the error, saying he used an AI tool while sick and made a serious journalistic mistake.
The author built a custom voice agent from scratch, achieving a 2x latency improvement over off-the-shelf providers like Vapi, by optimizing model choice, pipelining the agent turn, and carefully managing geography and service placement. The key takeaway is that voice is an orchestration problem, requiring careful coordination of multiple models and services in real-time, and that building a ...
The user created a precision clock kit business and automated parts counting with a laser-cut nut and screw dispenser. The user improved the design with a longer track and a small hopper for weight reasons.
The text discusses limitations in color space and display for the Dragon Ball series, specifically referencing 8-bit displays and the potential for 10-bit HDR if original film negatives were available.
UC Davis Health researchers successfully combined fetal surgery with stem cells to treat spina bifida in a Phase 1 clinical trial, showing great safety and potential for improved outcomes. The trial, funded by a $9 million state grant, aims to enroll 35 patients to evaluate long-term safety and improved movement.
Apple announced the new iPad Air with M4, offering a big jump in performance at the same starting price. The new iPad Air features a faster CPU and GPU, improved AI capabilities, and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.
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Ghost is a CLI wrapper around Claude Code that flips the git workflow: instead of committing code, you commit prompts. Claude generates the artifacts; the commit captures both the intent and the output. Your git history becomes a chain of prompts + their results. Every ghost commit answers: what did I want to happen here? Not what bytes changed. Each commit is reproducible from its prompt — ...
This is one of those funny stories about a bug you want to remember to tell your grandkids before bed (omg, what a terrible grandpa I'm going to be). Anyway, a few days ago our DMS replication started failing. Redshift was rejecting rows. The pipeline was choking. Nothing had changed in the pipeline, how on earth was that happening? The culprit? Moldova. A land between Romania and Ukraine ...
Query-based compilers use incremental computations to optimize compilation by re-computing only affected parts of the code, but its effectiveness is limited by the dependency structure of the source language. Language designers can leverage language semantics to manually cut compilation tasks into coarse-grained chunks, making incremental compilation more efficient and effective.
The Finebeam tube is used with Helmholtz coils to measure electron charge to mass ratio and was used in classroom demonstrations. It was made by the German NEVA factory until 1969.
Motorola announced new consumer and enterprise solutions at Mobile World Congress, including a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation for enhanced security. The company introduced Moto Secure and Moto Analytics to expand its B2B ecosystem with advanced security and operational insights.
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The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet at the Recurse Center that runs community-created games, with a deployment system that makes it easy for anyone to ship a game in minutes. The project involved building custom hardware and software, including a display adapter and input controllers, to create a unique gaming experience for Recursers.
Rohan and Paul, co-founders of OctaPulse, are building a robotics layer for seafood production, starting with automated fish inspection, to address the $350B global industry's lack of data visibility. They're using computer vision and robotics to handle live fish in humid and wet environments, and are seeking feedback from experts in computer vision, edge deployment, and aquaculture.
A Clojure implementation of Roughtime protocol for secure time synchronization was optimized by replacing a complex function call with a single CPU instruction, resulting in a 13x improvement in end-to-end benchmark. The improvement was due to removing a reflective barrier that forced the runtime onto generic and slower paths, allowing the JIT to inline and parallelize the code effectively.
Programmable cryptography is a new generation of cryptographic primitives that enable general-purpose computation inside or on top of cryptographic protocols, allowing for powerful new properties and applications such as universal protocols and cryptomata. This technology has the potential to transform the way we build computing systems, enabling greater privacy, security, and user control of ...
Apple announced iPhone 17e with A19 chip, 48MP Fusion camera, and C1X modem for faster performance and connectivity. iPhone 17e starts at $599 with 256GB storage and is available for pre-order on March 4.
Over the past few weeks I’ve hit multiple AI/API outages — and not just one provider.
The user reverse engineered Apple's Neural Engine, mapping the software stack from CoreML to the IOKit kernel driver and discovering direct access to the ANE without CoreML. They found the ANE is a graph execution engine with 16 cores, supports a queue depth of 127, and has a unique compilation path using MIL and E5 binaries.
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Visual Lambda is a graphical tool for exploring lambda calculus using Bubble Notation, allowing interactive reduction and term manipulation. It includes a puzzle set and a library of predefined expressions for educational purposes.
The author has experienced numerous issues with macOS, including Time Machine failures, Spotlight problems, and Finder issues, which have persisted for years despite multiple OS releases. The author believes Apple has lost focus on user needs and is prioritizing design changes over stability and usability.
Radio Amateurs du Canada regrette la fermeture du service Radio-Météo et craint que les Canadiens ne soient privés d'alertes météorologiques critiques. RAC soutient les efforts de gestion des services d'urgence et encourage un dialogue pour maintenir un cadre national d'alerte robuste et accessible.
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Reflex is a unified platform that simplifies app development, deployment, and management with reusable abstractions and AI-powered tools. It has powered over 1 million applications and is used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies for internal tools and data-driven applications.
Multiple individuals from various locations are seeking work in software development, data engineering, and related fields, with a range of technologies and experience levels. They are looking for full-time, part-time, or contract opportunities in roles such as backend engineer, full-stack developer, data scientist, and more.