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What happens if the NY Times tech staff strikes on election night?

washingtonpost.com
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Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals

theconversation.com

Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in...
Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies. This wave of fake studies is creating a major headache for the academic world, putting the integrity of global academic research at risk. Paper mil...

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Federal Suit Challenges City's Use of 170+ Cameras for Warrantless Surveillance

ij.org
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Don't use "click here" for link text

dont-click-here.com

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BazelCon 2024 Recap

substack.com

Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. And just like that, Blog System/5 is about...
Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. And just like that, Blog System/5 is about to turn 1 year old as the very first post of this newsletter was the recap of BazelCon 2023. Since then, this newsletter has amassed 1200+ subscribers and I have surpassed 20 years of blogging—so, thank you for your support, ever...
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Probably pay attention to tokenizers

cybernetist.com
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TCP Fast Open? Not so fast (2021)

apnic.net

In this post I will talk about my experience implementing TCP Fast Open (TFO) while working...
In this post I will talk about my experience implementing TCP Fast Open (TFO) while working on PowerDNS Recursor. Why TFO? Normally the DNS protocol works over UDP, and each transaction is a single request followed by a single reply. In theory, UDP packets can be quite large but in practice the limit is much lower, ...
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The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

krebsonsecurity.com

Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home...
Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a dangerous power that should remain only within the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law show...
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Apple May Stop Producing Vision Pro by the End of 2024

macrumors.com

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Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others

hyperknot.com

I’m Zsolt Ero. After reading blog posts all my life, but never writing one, I decided...
I’m Zsolt Ero. After reading blog posts all my life, but never writing one, I decided to start writing my thoughts while building. This is my first blog post.I’m building a new web app and a browser extension. My previous app used server-side sessions with password login, but this time I wanted to support Single Sig...
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Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock

arstechnica.com

One of them, Rhode Island resident Kathleen Odean, told us that she had several recent conversations...
One of them, Rhode Island resident Kathleen Odean, told us that she had several recent conversations with a T-Mobile employee who "seems to have been appointed to contact people who filed complaints with the FCC and/or their state attorney general. During our contacts, her argument kept changing and finally settled ...
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SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS

theregister.com

Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that...
Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that the absence of such tools up to now has had grave consequences for the web. SuperHTML is a language server that talks to compatible code editing apps over the Language Server Protocol (LSP). What that means is that you can plug i...
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Israel’s Secret Stealth Drone

twz.com
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RISC-V in 2024 is slower than you think

benhouston3d.com

By Ben Houston, 2024-10-24After watching the rise of ARM displace Intel from most of my personal...
By Ben Houston, 2024-10-24After watching the rise of ARM displace Intel from most of my personal and server computing, I've been following the RISC-V architecture with intense interest. It's an exciting open-source ISA that has the potential to reshape the CPU landscape, but there's an important caveat: RISC-V is cu...
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The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference

newyorker.com

Voters have a limited number of ways to learn about the illicit attempts of foreign powers...
Voters have a limited number of ways to learn about the illicit attempts of foreign powers to manipulate them. One way is for private companies—Microsoft is currently the most active—to publish research about suspicious social-media content or cybercrimes that appear to be state-sponsored. Brandt described such civi...

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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending

newyorker.com

Horowitz remembers the Merwin transaction as a vital moment in his growth, but Merwin and his...
Horowitz remembers the Merwin transaction as a vital moment in his growth, but Merwin and his wife always believed, without any proof, that Horowitz had cherry-picked his library for his own benefit. A leading appraiser told me that Merwin repeatedly complained that Horowitz had shorted him on the payment for his ar...
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Building a Game with the Real Engine

novalis.org

Some people make games using the Unreal Engine. That’s nice, but I wanted something a little...
Some people make games using the Unreal Engine. That’s nice, but I wanted something a little different. That’s why I’m using the Real Engine. (OK, I’m not really calling it “Real Engine”; Epic please don’t sue me). What’s the Real Engine? Simple: instead of modeling a space in Blender and then texturing it, I’m buil...
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Carbon Sequestration by Recycling Cement, Aggregates, and Concrete

mdpi.com

Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Author to whom correspondence should be addressed....
Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. The authors contributed equally to this work. Materials 2024, 17(20), 5020; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17205020 Submission received: 19 September 2024 / Revised: 11 October 2024 / Accepted: 1...
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Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time~Implementations

arxiv.org
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The Incredible Machine (1968)

youtube.com

science & technology
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Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language

ycombinator.com

Hey HN, we are Chris and Chris from MobileBoost (https://mobileboost.io/). We’re building GPT Driver, an AI-native...
Hey HN, we are Chris and Chris from MobileBoost (https://mobileboost.io/). We’re building GPT Driver, an AI-native approach to create and execute end-to-end (E2E) tests on mobile applications. Our solution allows teams to define tests in natural language and prevents test flakiness by taking a visual approach paired...
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Supporting Task Switching with Reinforcement Learning

acm.org

Attention management systems aim to mitigate the negative effects of multitasking. However, sophisticated real-time attention management...
Attention management systems aim to mitigate the negative effects of multitasking. However, sophisticated real-time attention management is yet to be developed. We present a novel concept for attention management with reinforcement learning that automatically switches tasks. The system was trained with a user model ...
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Explaining color gamuts and color spaces in HDTVs and monitors

wired.com
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I Had $100k in Debt So I Moved into My Car

macleans.ca
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