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March 13

The ZeroMQ Process: C4

gitbooks.io
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March 13

DELETE, DELETE, DELETE [pdf]

fcc.gov
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March 13

Released my full transputer OS, K&R C compiler and utilities (1996)

nanochess.org

In my previous article I talked about how I managed to create a self-contained operating system...
In my previous article I talked about how I managed to create a self-contained operating system for transputer. This included the basic operating system, a text editor, a Small-C compiler, and an assembler. The year was 1995, I was age 16, Lemon Tree and Zombie were being played in the radio, ARPANET closed around 1...
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March 13

xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster

github.com
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March 13

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook

engadget.com

Meta has notched an early victory in its attempt to halt a surprise tell-all memoir from...
Meta has notched an early victory in its attempt to halt a surprise tell-all memoir from a former policy executive turned whistleblower. An arbitrator has sided with the social media company, saying that the book’s author should stop selling and publicizing the book, which went on sale earlier this week.The drama st...

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March 13

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket

websiteplanet.com

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to Website Planet about a non-password-protected database that contained...
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to Website Planet about a non-password-protected database that contained over 86,000 records belonging to ESHYFT — a New-Jersey-based HealthTech company that operates in 29 states. It offers a mobile app platform that connects healthcare facilities w...
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March 13

Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries

ieee.org

Solid-state batteries remain several years from auto showrooms. The auto industry is pursuing the batteries, which...
Solid-state batteries remain several years from auto showrooms. The auto industry is pursuing the batteries, which replace liquid electrolytes with a solid ceramic or glass material, because of their potential to carry decisively more energy, charge faster and improve vehicle safety by reducing flammability over oth...

climate change climate tech electric vehicles formula 1 mercedes-benz
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March 13

Carbon recyclers: Sulfur bacteria break down organic substances in seabed

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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March 13

Apple Introduced Its Most Controversial MacBook 10 Years Ago Today

macrumors.com

Apple announced the infamous 12-inch Retina MacBook a decade ago today, an experimental new Mac that...
Apple announced the infamous 12-inch Retina MacBook a decade ago today, an experimental new Mac that was as controversial as it was revolutionary. Apple unveiled the 12-inch MacBook on March 9, 2015, at the "Spring Forward" event in San Francisco, California. The event was primarily focused on the Apple Watch, which...

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March 13

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer

tibinotes.com

I've worked at two startups where hiring a product designer was more of an aspiration. Even...
I've worked at two startups where hiring a product designer was more of an aspiration. Even after deciding we needed one, delays from interviews, notice periods, and onboarding meant at least three months of having to get things over the line, designer or not.me talking to my designerA common shortcut is using pre-b...
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March 12

Chris Moore, illustrator for classic sci-fi books, has died

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart...

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March 12

Parnassus plays

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Title page of The Return from Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony (1606) The Parnassus plays...
Title page of The Return from Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony (1606) The Parnassus plays are three satiric comedies, or full-length academic dramas, each divided into five acts. They date from between 1598 and 1602. They were performed in London by students for an audience of students as part of the Christmas fe...
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March 12

Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]

iacr.org
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March 12

I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]

youtube.com

people & blogs
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March 12

The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]

usenix.org
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March 12

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

eff.org

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero...
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician f...
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March 12

An operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes

nature.com
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March 12

TI Introduces the Smallest MCU

ti.com

News highlights: TI today announced the world's smallest microcontroller (MCU), delivering optimized size and performance for...
News highlights: TI today announced the world's smallest microcontroller (MCU), delivering optimized size and performance for compact applications such as medical wearables and personal electronics.The new MCU is 38% smaller than the industry's current smallest MCU, and enables designers to minimize board space with...
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March 12

Teleo-Reactive Programs

archive.org

A Teleo-Reactive (TR) program is one whose actions are all directed toward achieving goals (the Teleo...
A Teleo-Reactive (TR) program is one whose actions are all directed toward achieving goals (the Teleo part) — in a way appropriate to the current, perceived state of the environment (the Reactive part). The TR approach offers a simple, elegant, and intuitive way of both programming and specifying robust, opportunist...
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March 12

Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation

googleblog.com

In December we first introduced native image output in Gemini 2.0 Flash to trusted testers. Today,...
In December we first introduced native image output in Gemini 2.0 Flash to trusted testers. Today, we're making it available for developer experimentation across all regions currently supported by Google AI Studio. You can test this new capability using an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash (gemini-2.0-flash-e...
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March 12

Zinc, a systems programming language prototype

sr.ht
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March 12

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as Its CEO

reuters.com
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March 12

Switching from Pyenv to Uv

bluesock.org

The 0.4.0 release of uv does everything I currently do with pip, pyenv, pipx, pip-tools, and...
The 0.4.0 release of uv does everything I currently do with pip, pyenv, pipx, pip-tools, and pipdeptree. Because of that, I'm in the process of switching to uv. This blog post covers switching from pyenv to uv. 2024-08-29: Initial writing. 2024-09-12: Minor updates and publishing. 2024-09-20: Rename uv-sync (which i...

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March 12

Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

eggnog.ai
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