Google invests $10 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $30 billion more, to strengthen AI partnership. The investment will support Anthropic's expansion and computing capacity.
A new 10G USB 3.2 adapter from WisdPi offers a compact alternative to bulky Thunderbolt adapters, but its performance depends on the USB port's bandwidth. It reaches full 10 Gbps speed only with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 port, otherwise it's slower.
A questionnaire-based system estimates body measurements with high accuracy, outperforming photo-based methods without requiring a photo. The system uses a physics-aware loss and a small MLP trained on a synthetic dataset to predict 58 Anny body parameters with a mean error of 0.3 cm and 0.3 kg.
Paraloid B-72 is a durable, non-yellowing acrylic resin used as an adhesive for conserving and restoring ceramic and glass objects. It is strong, flexible, and can be mixed with solvents to alter its properties, making it suitable for various applications.
Two photographers captured 304 humpback whales in a single day off South Africa's west coast, the highest number ever recorded. The humpback population is recovering after a global whaling moratorium in 1986, with sightings of super-groups increasing rapidly.
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, a classical framework for text-based user interfaces, has been created with cross-platform and Unicode support, allowing for smooth and efficient development of terminal applications. The new version includes various features such as improved usability, screen size support, and Unicode input and display capabilities, making it a powerful tool for developers.
The user successfully reverse-engineered the firmware update process for their Rodecaster Duo, finding it to be a simple process involving HID commands and a gzipped tarball. They were able to create a custom firmware and enable SSH access, but are unsure why SSH was enabled by default.
The Q-Day Prize submission demonstrates a classical attack on ECDLP using uniform random noise, not a quantum attack. The submission's results are reproducible without any quantum hardware.
ASCII diagramming tools offer limited visual choices for low-key diagramming and entry points to gen AI, combining old and new features. They promote self-constraint, making things easier and harder with AI, and celebrate the power of monospace plain text.
You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.
Archaeologists discovered a papyrus fragment of Homer's The Iliad in a Roman-era mummy in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus necropolis. The excavation also uncovered mummies, wooden coffins, and ancient artifacts, providing insights into burial traditions in Bahnasa during the Greek and Roman eras.
A Ph.D student in Physics/Cosmology at Shahid Beheshti University uses Blender's Geometry Nodes to visualize and compute cosmological data, including Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and galaxy lensing. The student shares techniques and examples of using Geometry Nodes for cosmology, including map transformations, aberration and Doppler boost effects, and spherical harmonic functions.
Diners are a distinctive part of American food culture, often featuring a silvery surface and welcoming entrance. They have been a staple for truck drivers and others working long hours, serving classic breakfast and lunch staples.
The rise of AI in education threatens to confuse language with learning, making it easy to mistake verbal fluency for understanding. To combat this, educators should focus on forming honest minds through genuine encounters with difficulty, intellectual honesty, and responsibility for truth.
Researchers are developing a theory called learning mechanics to describe deep learning properties and statistics. This theory combines ongoing research to provide a mechanics perspective on the learning process.
Firefox 149 includes a new adblock-rust engine, a Rust-based ad and tracker blocking engine, which is disabled by default. To enable it, set privacy.trackingprotection.content.protection.enabled to true and add EasyList and EasyPrivacy filter lists.
A kea named Bruce, missing his upper beak, won every fight and showed low stress by using a unique jousting behaviour. His jousting innovation allowed him to dominate other kea and receive benefits like food priority and allopreening.
Creative people sharing their process can create invested followings and avoid pitching problems. This type of communication is like having a physical business sign, showing "I am here, working."
The writer argues that iPads should be touch-only devices with unique, weird apps, while MacBooks should be for multitasking and keyboard-based work.
Writing is an act of discovery. Sometimes you sit down, intent on making a specific argument, only to find (upon deeper research) that the argument is garbage and doesn’t hold up to scrutiny! Writing has a beautiful tendency to reveal holes in one’s logic, as it did for this essay. Initially, the goal was to make a long argument about how polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, hasn’t changed ...
Email's early history involved a complex system called X.400, which had features like recall and encryption, but was difficult to use and implement. SMTP, a simpler protocol, eventually became the standard for email, outliving X.400 due to its ease of use and rapid iteration.
Lightwhale is a purpose-built OS for Docker containers, offering a minimalistic design, ease of use, and enhanced security through immutability. It provides a friction-free path to productivity and makes it easy to self-host with ease.
The Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) system uses infrared communication to update prices and product information, with a proprietary protocol that encodes data in the time between pulses. The ESL system consists of a management server, base stations, transceivers, and ESLs, with a unique ID barcode on each tag that is used to identify and update the tag's information.
DeepSeek-V4 is live, offering cost-effective 1M context length with rivaling performance to top closed-source models. It features enhanced agentic capabilities, rich world knowledge, and world-class reasoning.
Rotating long-lived keys is crucial to manage the risk of someone guessing a key correctly over time, and ephemeral keys can sidestep this pain. Reducing long-lived keys also allows for more focused security efforts, easier infrastructure hardening, and better maintenance of sensitive infrastructure.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of ENIAC, the first general-purpose digital computer. The computer was built during World War II to speed up ballistics calculations, but its contributions to computing extend well beyond military applications. Two of ENIAC’s key architects—John W. Mauchly, its co-inventor, and Kathleen “Kay” McNulty, one of the six original programmers—married a few years ...
Panic, a game publisher, received bundles of mail from players expressing appreciation for their games. The mail included creative notes, gifts, and even a child's tooth.
Stash is a persistent memory layer for AI agents that learns from conversations and experiences, allowing them to remember users and build knowledge over time. It's designed to work with various AI platforms and models, providing a deeper understanding of users and their needs.
Diatec Co Ltd has ceased operations and closed down its business. The company's products, including the FILCO Majestouch series, are no longer available.
I'm a human writer because I understand the nuances of literary references and can contextualize quotes from notable authors. My writing reflects a deep appreciation for the works of others, demonstrating a human perspective.