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Bookshop.org is launching an eBook store to take on Amazon

theverge.com

Bookshop.org launched in early 2020 and quickly became a lifeline for local bookstores that found themselves...
Bookshop.org launched in early 2020 and quickly became a lifeline for local bookstores that found themselves suddenly in need of a way to sell books online. The Bookshop model is a simple one: when you use the website, you pick a store you’d like to support, and when you buy a book that store gets all the profit. St...
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NSA can track powered-down phones

boingboing.net
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Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic

techcrunch.com

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave desert, making...
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup’s plane notched the historic achievement in its twelfth test flight. It cleared Mach 1 and stayed supersonic for around four...
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Boom: America's answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight

cnn.com

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations,...
Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a major milestone was achieved on Jan...
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LinkedIn LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs

404media.co

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Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?

ycombinator.com
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New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steals data from browsers

bleepingcomputer.com

A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could...
A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. The Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum researchers, who presented another attack dubbed 'iLeakage' in October 2023, presented thei...

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New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs

predictors.fail

We train the M3 CPU's LVP via sandboxed JavaScript code running inside WebKit (Safari's browsing engine)....
We train the M3 CPU's LVP via sandboxed JavaScript code running inside WebKit (Safari's browsing engine). When the mouse cursor is over our demo webpage, our proof-of-concept opens Proton Mail's inbox in a new window, but uses the same process to render the inbox. This brings the inbox content into the address space...
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Limited Run Games violated GPL releasing Tomba game

github.com
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Pinpointing fast radio bursts source puts one in a surprising location

berkeley.edu
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Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: ET Now video) Sam Altman's comments on the prospects of startups hoping to break...
(Image credit: ET Now video) Sam Altman's comments on the prospects of startups hoping to break through in the AI business may have come back to bite him. Several posts on X (and probably other platforms) ridicule the OpenAI boss and co-founder's dismissal of potential competition emanating from the startup scene, p...
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Keycloak, Angular, and the BFF Pattern

brakmic.com
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Using UV as Your Shebang Line

akrabat.com
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Curo (YC F24) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo$60K - $90K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco, CA,...
Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo$60K - $90K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco, CA, USAny (new grads ok)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › As a Marketplace Supply Associate, you’ll wear all kinds of different hats by working directly with me (CEO), Gaia (Virtual...
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Has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture

epoch.ai

DeepSeek has recently released DeepSeek v3, which is currently state-of-the-art in benchmark performance among open-weight models,...
DeepSeek has recently released DeepSeek v3, which is currently state-of-the-art in benchmark performance among open-weight models, alongside a technical report describing in some detail the training of the model. Impressively, they’ve achieved this SOTA performance by only using 2.8 million H800 hours of training ha...
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Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing

omriavrahami.com

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Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

samlearner.com
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XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

youtube.com

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Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-Scale Moe Model

qwenlm.github.io

QWEN CHAT API DEMO DISCORDIt is widely recognized that continuously scaling both data size and model...
QWEN CHAT API DEMO DISCORDIt is widely recognized that continuously scaling both data size and model size can lead to significant improvements in model intelligence. However, the research and industry community has limited experience in effectively scaling extremely large models, whether they are dense or Mixture-of...
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Bitwarden introduces mandatory 2FA for new devices

bitwarden.com

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Hackers Crack Subaru's Connected Services to Access Data, Door Locks and More

jalopnik.com

If you own a modern Subaru, chances are you’ve heard of Starlink — the company’s connected...
If you own a modern Subaru, chances are you’ve heard of Starlink — the company’s connected services suite, which lets you control your car through an app or call roadside assistance to your location. That system, though, has other functionality that you might not know: Storing your car’s location history for the las...

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Fixing my monitor's power button

lkhrs.com

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Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

abc.net.au

Find out if you're one of them.The last line of security for much of your digital...
Find out if you're one of them.The last line of security for much of your digital life probably isn't as secure as you think.Whether it's to unlock your smartphone, access your online banking or get cash out of the ATM, a four-digit PIN is often there to keep your secrets and your money safe.It’s an important little...

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IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star

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