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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

azadux.blog

The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s...
The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a movie or just working on your laptop....
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Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined

tomshardware.com

AMD and Nvidia's R&D budgets were quite similar ten years ago, but in recent years, Nvidia...
AMD and Nvidia's R&D budgets were quite similar ten years ago, but in recent years, Nvidia has been leaving its GPU rival behind in investment in this critical activity. According to the latest figures, Nvidia's spending on new technologies is about two times higher than that of AMD, according to Tech Fund. But whil...
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Ask HN: AI Wars – control your 2d space shooter with AI

ycombinator.com

I've been trying to get around to building a game that allows players to control their...
I've been trying to get around to building a game that allows players to control their characters using AI scripts. So essentially, you don't control your character, but instead the AI controls your character, you just design the AI.I finally have a prototype up and running, its a 2d space shooter that allows you to...
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Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah

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BEIRUT, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The batteries inside the weaponised pagers that arrived in Lebanon at...
BEIRUT, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The batteries inside the weaponised pagers that arrived in Lebanon at the start of the year, part of an Israeli plot to decimate Hezbollah, had powerfully deceptive features and an Achilles' heel. The agents who built the pagers designed a battery that concealed a small but potent charge o...
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Commission concludes that X should not be designated under the DMA

europa.eu
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The Internet Archive and its 916B saved web pages are back online

arstechnica.com
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Floss/fund: $1M per year for free and open source projects

floss.fund

TLDR; Apply now We are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated fund aimed at...
TLDR; Apply now We are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million. I will use the FOSS acronym in this post hereafter. This has been in the works for some tim...
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Can't trust any VPN these days

orhun.dev

7 minute read Published: 2024-10-16 After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops,...
7 minute read Published: 2024-10-16 After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops, fix my VPN, and learn a bit about how DNS works. On October 9th 2024, Discord was banned in Turkey due to various criminal allegations. This was an ongoing issue and Discord apparently refused to share user data (IP ad...
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Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July

theregister.com

Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold...
Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform. "After over 20 years of partnership with Digital River, Traction Software Ltd has been left feeling as though we’ve been 'rug pulled,'" Lee Midgley, managing director of Traction...
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Mullvad VPN: macOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

mullvad.net

We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our...
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information. The current state In this scenario the macOS firewall does not seem to function correctly and is disregarding fir...
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Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated

yale.edu
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Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

ycombinator.com
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FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers

fidoalliance.org

The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure...
The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by credential providers, will enable users to securely move passkeys and all other credentials across providers. The specifications are the result of commitment and co...
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Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways

bernsteinbear.com

With co-author River Dillon Keefer! Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) is a type system for the lambda calculus (later...
With co-author River Dillon Keefer! Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) is a type system for the lambda calculus (later adapted for Standard ML and the ML-family languages) with parametric polymorphism, aka generic functions. It sits at a sweet spot in PL design: the type system is quite expressive, and there are well known t...
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I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server: A Step-by-Step Guide

geek.sg

Inspired by numerous people migrating their Next.js applications from Vercel to self-hosted VPS on Hetzner due...
Inspired by numerous people migrating their Next.js applications from Vercel to self-hosted VPS on Hetzner due to pricing concerns, I decided to explore self-hosting some of my non-critical applications. Additionally, I wanted to push my technical boundaries by running Llama 3.2 using Ollama and making its API avail...
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Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode

ycombinator.com
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How to Make Psilocybin with Yeast

sciencedirect.com
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Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy

rebootingthearsenal.com
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Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

backpacker.com
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How ham radio endures

zdnet.com

phadventure/Getty ImagesWhen I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, a few neighbors were into...
phadventure/Getty ImagesWhen I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, a few neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating. They were into it because they talked with people thousands of miles away, played with tech, and kne...
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Let Google Decide

cupofsquid.com

My partner and I recently moved states in order to benefit from lower rent and a...
My partner and I recently moved states in order to benefit from lower rent and a more affordable living environment. We found a place on Craigslist for the winter that was not only scam-free, but extremely cute. We visited it in person, met the landlord, and agreed to tenancy until April after the threat of frost. T...
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National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

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Plutocrat Archipelagos

macguffinmagazine.com

Razor wire fences, galvanized spikes and electrified perimeters: the barriers that entomb the ultra-rich in their...
Razor wire fences, galvanized spikes and electrified perimeters: the barriers that entomb the ultra-rich in their walled settlements isolate them from perpetual violence and societal collapse. Text by Jack SelfDrawings by Pit LempensI have had the opportunity to meet a surprisingly large number of ultra-high net wor...
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Rogue Legacy code is now source available

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