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A Photo of the Moon

thisiscolossal.com
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$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

latent.space

Swyx’s note: we’re on a roll catching up with former guests! Apart from our recent guest...
Swyx’s note: we’re on a roll catching up with former guests! Apart from our recent guest spot on Raza Habib’s chat with Hamel Husain (see Raza’s first pod here). We’re delighted to welcome Eugene Cheah (see his first pod on RWKV last year) as a rare guest writer for our newsletter. Eugene has now cofounded Featherle...
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An Update on Gccrs Development

lwn.net
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Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening

substack.com

There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One...
There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was:Buy audiobooks to read much more books, listen at 1.5-2x speedThis led to the following thread (later removed):Aaa: A midwit in makingBbb: Audio books help people consume many more books ...
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Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)

bloomberg.com
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National Public Data files bankruptcy, admits 'millions' affected

theregister.com

The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting "hundreds of...
The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting "hundreds of millions" of people were potentially affected in one of the largest information leaks of the year. In June, the hacking group USDoD put a 277.1 GB file of data online that contained information on about 2...
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WebPKI – Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity (Of TLS Server Certificates)

github.com
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Tiny Table Index: directory of solo and duet tabletop roleplaying games

tinytableindex.com

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The 'Beautiful Confusion' of the First Billion Years Comes into View

quantamagazine.org
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Beast of Gévaudan

wikipedia.org
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First Report on the Pre-Scheme Restoration

prescheme.org
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FEMA spent nearly half its disaster budget in just 8 days

politico.com
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Your showerhead and toothbrush are teeming with viruses

cnn.com

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries,...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study has identified hundreds of viruses that live the...
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Nvidia's planned 12GB RTX 5070 plan is a mistake

overclock3d.net
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AMD Launches EPYC 9005 "Turin" Server Processors Review

phoronix.com

AMD is using their Advancing AI event today to announce 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. With...
AMD is using their Advancing AI event today to announce 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. With up to 192 cores / 384 threads per socket, 17% IPC uplift, AVX-512 with a full 512-bit data path, and the Zen 5 architectural improvements, these new EPYC 9005 processors deliver a significant generational improvement over t...

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Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000

datagirl.xyz

As part of my current series of projects, I've been working on a screenshot tool intended...
As part of my current series of projects, I've been working on a screenshot tool intended for older Windows versions. The goal is to have something similar to ShareX, a tool that lets you take a screenshot and post it online. These days, file sharing is done via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)[1], often using...
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ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model

arxiv.org
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FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem

freewp.com

The wait is over. I’ve solidified my action plan, and it’s time to make waves. I’m...
The wait is over. I’ve solidified my action plan, and it’s time to make waves. I’m thrilled to introduce FreeWP, a new news media powerhouse dedicated to the WordPress community and broader ecosystem. Once formally established, FreeWP will solidify into a worker-owned and operated organization, returning power to th...
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BigSearch Browser Extension

github.com
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

umd.edu
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AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance Review

phoronix.com

Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores,...
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors. The Xeon 6900P series showed they could tango with the AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo processors in a numb...

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Is Population Density the Reason Americans Can't Discuss Politics?

georgesaines.com

A couple of weeks ago, I was at a work dinner with other members of my...
A couple of weeks ago, I was at a work dinner with other members of my team. We were at an amazing restaurant in downtown Austin. The appetizers had come and gone, the drinks had arrived, and conversation had started to open up a bit from the perfunctory discussions of work projects and the weather. As inevitably ha...
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China's Sentinel State

chinamediaproject.org

China Media Project researcher Dalia Parete spoke with Pei about the titular idea behind his latest...
China Media Project researcher Dalia Parete spoke with Pei about the titular idea behind his latest book, The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Pei tells us about what makes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) brand of mass surveillance unique, considering how it anticipates rathe...
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Show HN: I Made an AI Resume Maker That Turns Any Job Link into Tailored Resumes

resumeset.com
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