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Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article with AI-fabricated quotes was retracted.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 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 user has been using GrapheneOS for 8.4 months and has updated their app list to minimize Google usage and maximize FOSS options. They have also been waiting for GrapheneOS to partner with a hardware manufacturer, which has now happened with Motorola.
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 built a tiny Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico with a Raspberry Pi Pico Micro Mac firmware, which outputs to a 640x480 VGA display and allows USB keyboard and mouse input. The setup has limitations due to the Pico's SRAM, but it can run early Mac OS versions and some applications within the 208 KB of available RAM.
Desktop and laptop use cases demand high single threaded performance across a large variety of workloads. Creating CPU cores to meet those demands is no easy task. AMD and Intel traditionally dominated this high performance segment using high clocked, high throughput cores with large out-of-order engines to absorb latency. Arm traditionally optimized for low power and low area, and not ...
DOS memory management is simple but has several pitfalls, including zero-sized memory blocks and coalescing free memory. DOS 5.0 introduced UMB support and new memory allocation strategies, making memory management less simple but more flexible.
A Singapore Airlines flight experienced severe turbulence over Myanmar, resulting in 104 passengers being treated for injuries and six having skull and brain injuries. The incident highlights the challenges of predicting and preparing for turbulence, which is becoming increasingly common due to climate change.
Ghost is a CLI that commits prompts and AI-generated code, creating a reproducible and context-rich git history. Each commit answers "what did I want to happen" rather than "what bytes changed".
A company's DMS replication failed due to Redshift rejecting rows with a comma in the country name "Moldova, Republic of". The issue was resolved by sanitizing the name at the sync job boundary.
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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.
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.
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.
The author has guilty displeasures, things they dislike but feel they should like due to their self-image, such as opera and math. They're a snob who enjoys high culture but struggles with certain art forms.
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.
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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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.
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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.
Thomas Wouters, a core Python developer, shares his story of how he first discovered Python through LambdaMOO, a text-based online community, and was drawn to its simplicity and ease of use. He reminisces about his early days on the Python-List, meeting other developers like Tim Peters and Fredrik Lundh, and contributing to the language, including implementing augmented assignment and working ...
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.
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 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.
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.
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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 ...