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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink

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Opinion In 1968's Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to...
Opinion In 1968's Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to test M5, a new computer. A copilot, if you will, for the Starship Enterprise. Designed to more efficiently perform the jobs of the human crew, the M5 indeed did those jobs very well yet with such a terrifying lack of unde...
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Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board

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Ubuntu Summit 2024 The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V...
Ubuntu Summit 2024 The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available. Framework CEO Nirav Patel had one of the bravest tech demos that we've seen at a conference yet – modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage. In the five-minute duration of one o...
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Arizona girl, 10, sold chickens. Chase froze her check and closed the account

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Arizona girl, 10, sells prize chicks for $2,100 — but then Chase froze her check, closed...
Arizona girl, 10, sells prize chicks for $2,100 — but then Chase froze her check, closed the account. Here’s why Some 10-year-olds sell cookies and lemonade to earn a bit of spending cash, but not Kinley Maner. Kinley, from Thatcher, Arizona, is earning money by raising and selling chickens at the local fair. “She r...

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End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)

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I’ve found that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding how text rendering actually ends...
I’ve found that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding how text rendering actually ends up working. In particular, it seems that the design of the system in general often goes unnoticed. First of all, there is a major division between the layout of text and the rendering of text. These two problems are very d...
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An Uncanny Moat

boristhebrave.com

Back in the early days of computer animation, the technology at the time really struggled with...
Back in the early days of computer animation, the technology at the time really struggled with realism. The first cartoons were necessarily abstract, or cartoony. As time progressed, the technology caught up. CGI now can be all but indistinguishable from real life. But there was a brief period, as seen in films like...
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DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

malwarebytes.com

A DNA testing company that promised clients insights into their genetic disposition has suddenly disappeared. The...
A DNA testing company that promised clients insights into their genetic disposition has suddenly disappeared. The BBC reports it tried several methods to reach the company but failed in this effort. London offices are closed, nobody answers the phone, and clients are no longer capable of accessing their online recor...
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Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a software engineer to build OpenAPI tooling

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All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations$130K - $180K / 0.30% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, USAny...
All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations$130K - $180K / 0.30% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, USAny (new grads ok)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Trieve is an all-in-one solution for discovery written in Rust with UI’s in SolidJS. Check it out at github.com/devflowinc...
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Apple Intelligence notification summaries are pretty bad

arstechnica.com

I have been using the Apple Intelligence notification summary feature for a few months now, since...
I have been using the Apple Intelligence notification summary feature for a few months now, since pretty early in Apple’s beta testing process for the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 updates. If you don’t know what that is—and the vast majority of iPhones won’t get Apple Intelligence, which only works on the iPhone 16 serie...
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If You Donate to the FSFE, You Are Funding a Microsoft Front Group Inside Europe

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Brandolini's Law

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Farmers' Suicide in the United States

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Phenomenon in the rural United States Farmers' suicides in the United States Farmers' suicides in the...
Phenomenon in the rural United States Farmers' suicides in the United States Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. ...
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AMD Now Has More Compute on the Top500 Than Nvidia

nextplatform.com

There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the...
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is...
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Ben Affleck's a surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables

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Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad

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Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans...
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans to migrate Chrome OS fully over to Android. Google announced in June 2024 that Chrome OS would start using parts of Android’s tech stack, but we’ve now learned that the merger goes even deeper than previously...
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The shrimp welfare project

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Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.—Proverbs 31:8(I think...
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.—Proverbs 31:8(I think this is one of the most important articles I’ve ever written, so I’d appreciate if you could like and share it! Thanks!)Imagine that you came across 1,500 shrimp about to be painfully killed. They were going to be thrown ont...
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Towards Nyquist Learners

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MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server

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Things you didn't know about Google Scholar

blog.google

1. The team started with just two of us. Back in 2004, access to academic information...
1. The team started with just two of us. Back in 2004, access to academic information was difficult to navigate and often restricted behind paywalls. We wanted to make it possible for researchers to be able to find and read what their peers had written. After nine months of development, our vision came to life as Go...

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The tragedy of trying to run an old node project

abdisalan.com

Updating my website It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The...
Updating my website It’s been a long while since I wrote anything on this site. The framework I used was Gatsby which in 2020 was one of the hot ways of getting a good looking blog up and running quickly. With over 41 dependencies, and god knows how many more sub-dependencies, this thing was a beast. Time to run it ...
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await

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written on Monday, November 18, 2024 It's been a few years since I wrote about my...
written on Monday, November 18, 2024 It's been a few years since I wrote about my challenges with async/await-based systems and how they just seem to not support back pressure well. A few years later, I do not think that this problem has subsided much, but my thinking and understanding have perhaps evolved a bit. I'...
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Unreal 5.5 is a BIG deal

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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

cam.ac.uk

Navaornis is named after William Nava, director of the Museu de Paleontologia de Marília in Brazil’s...
Navaornis is named after William Nava, director of the Museu de Paleontologia de Marília in Brazil’s São Paolo State, who discovered the fossil in 2016 at a site in the neighbouring locality of Presidente Prudente. Tens of millions of years ago, this site was likely a dry area with slow-flowing creeks, which enabled...
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Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

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