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Tiny Town in Ontario, Canada Selling Properties for $10 a Pop

macleans.ca
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The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with Up to 26 Tops

raspberrypi.com
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A high-profile geneticist is launching Pacific Fusion

wired.com
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The future of software is Nix

determinate.systems

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US satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed

bloomberg.com
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Geico repatriates work from the cloud, continues ambitious infra overhaul

thestack.technology

Updated October 17: Adds GEICO's annual revenue figure, corrects $3.6 billion figure to clarify it was...
Updated October 17: Adds GEICO's annual revenue figure, corrects $3.6 billion figure to clarify it was pre-tax profits. GEICO, a large insurance firm owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is repatriating many workloads from the cloud, The Stack can confirm – as it embarks on a sweeping, ambitious architectur...

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Hacker attack causes log-in problems for Swiss media

bluewin.ch
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Federal investigators probe Tether

wsj.com
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Pygfx

pygfx.org
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19th-century photography technique employed in novel data storage method

ieee.org

Clark Johnson says he has wanted to be a scientist ever since he was 3. At...
Clark Johnson says he has wanted to be a scientist ever since he was 3. At age 8, he got bored with a telegraph-building kit he received as a gift and repurposed it into a telephone. By age 12, he set his sights on studying physics because he wanted to understand how things worked at the most basic level. “I thought...

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SELinux bypasses

klecko.github.io

This post aims at giving an overview of what SELinux is, how it is implemented, and...
This post aims at giving an overview of what SELinux is, how it is implemented, and how to bypass it, from the point of view of Android kernel exploitation.Tests were performed on three devices: a Samsung Galaxy A34, a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and a Xiaomi Redmi Note 12. We will focus mainly on the first two, because the...
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The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (1978) [pdf]

jamesclear.com
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Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids

theregister.com

A Polish radio station has ditched its on-air talent for AI in what its editor-in-chief calls...
A Polish radio station has ditched its on-air talent for AI in what its editor-in-chief calls an experiment on the effect of AI in society, though it looks like a bid to save cash. OFF Radio Krakow, an online and DAB+ subsidiary of the larger Radio Krakow station, announced this week that it was going all-in on AI, ...
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Unsafe Rust Is Harder Than C

chadaustin.me

Some of you already know the contents of this post, especially if you’ve written embedded or...
Some of you already know the contents of this post, especially if you’ve written embedded or unsafe code in Rust. But I didn’t, so I thought it was useful to write down my experience as accurately as I can. Without further ado… Last year, I wrote Photohash, software to help me index my NAS and find duplicate photos ...
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Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar

bbc.co.uk
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Instant (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Build a Modern Firebase

instantdb.com

Hey there! InstantDB (YC S22) is looking to hire our founding engineering team! We think we’re...
Hey there! InstantDB (YC S22) is looking to hire our founding engineering team! We think we’re a rocket-ship that’s going to power applications of the future 🚀We’ve put together a page explaining what is Instant, who we are, who we’re looking for, and what we can accomplish together 💪By the end of this page we hope ...
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Detecting when LLMs are uncertain

thariq.io

This post tries to explain the new reasoning techniques developed by XJDR in a new project...
This post tries to explain the new reasoning techniques developed by XJDR in a new project called Entropix.Entropix attempts to improve reasoning in models through being smarter at sampling during moments of uncertainty.A big caveat, there have been no large scale evals yet for Entropix, so it’s not clear how much t...
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Infinite Git Repos on Cloudflare Workers

gitlip.com

How we built a scalable Git server on Cloudflare Workers using WebAssembly and Durable Objects.We’re building...
How we built a scalable Git server on Cloudflare Workers using WebAssembly and Durable Objects.We’re building Gitlip - the collaborative devtool for the AI era. An all-in-one combination of Git-powered version control, collaborative coding and 1-click deployments. Our goal is to simplify the practical application of...

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Python PGP proposal poses packaging puzzles

lwn.net

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of...
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! By Joe BrockmeierOctober 2...
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Life Before the Invention of AutoCAD: Photos from 1950 to 1980

rarehistoricalphotos.com

General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan. Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software,...
General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan. Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, engineering drawings were made on sheets of large paper using drawing boards. Many types of equipment were required to complete a given drawing, such as drawing board, different grade pencils, erasers T-squa...

architecture
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Astronomers Discover Complex Carbon Molecules in Interstellar Space

sciencealert.com

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing...
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust.This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out how life arose in the Universe. But it's more than ...
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Ensuring Stability and Security: Recent Timeline

wpengine.com

We’re keenly aware of the impact recent events have had on the WordPress community and ecosystem,...
We’re keenly aware of the impact recent events have had on the WordPress community and ecosystem, and we’re deeply grateful to the many partners and customers who have stood by WP Engine and trust us to serve you in the face of unprecedented and unwarranted attacks and attempts to disrupt our platform. WP Engine’s t...
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Making Of: Line Drawing Tutorial (2017)

redblobgames.com
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New species of tardigrade reveals secrets of radiation-resisting powers

nature.com

See a tardigrade ride a worm in the world’s weirdest rodeo — September’s best science images

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