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Twitter/X is now broken in FF when anti-browser fingerprinting settings are used

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How Are Microchips Made? – Branch Education [video]

youtube.com

education
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China Home Prices Fall at Faster Pace Despite Revival Efforts

bloomberg.com
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Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming

yahoo.com

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods, left, listens with other oil company executives as then-President Trump spoke...
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods, left, listens with other oil company executives as then-President Trump spoke in the White House in 2020. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)You wouldn't think that Exxon Mobil has to worry much about being harried by a couple of shareholder groups owning a few thousand dollars worth of sha...

darren woods exxon mobil shareholder resolution
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Mozilla Firefox Adds Support for AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video

nvidia.com

Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making...
Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and which showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX PC users. Mozilla Firefox, the popular open-source browser, is the latest partner to incorporate NVIDIA RTX Video, a te...
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Is the move to electric cars running out of power?

bbc.co.uk
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But Why a Penguin?

jstor.org

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. At six pence, or one-fortieth...
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. At six pence, or one-fortieth of a pound each, the first ten Penguin Books were priced to move. And move they did: within six months of the introduction of Penguins to the market in 1935, the paperback company was boasting that three million copies had ...
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How to read C type declarations (2003)

unixwiz.net

This site uses advanced css techniques Even relatively new C programmers have no trouble reading simple...
This site uses advanced css techniques Even relatively new C programmers have no trouble reading simple C declarations such as int foo[5]; // foo is an array of 5 ints char *foo; // foo is a pointer to char double foo(); // foo is a function returning a double but as the declarations get a bit more involved, it's mo...
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Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life

bdtechtalks.com

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that...
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. The Game of Life is a grid-based automaton that is very popular in discussions about science, computation, and artificial intelligence. It is an interesting idea that shows how ve...
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DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside

discoverwildlife.com

The DNA of a big cat in the Panthera genus – probably a leopard – has...
The DNA of a big cat in the Panthera genus – probably a leopard – has been identified from a swab taken from a dead sheep in the Lake District. This is the first time that big cat DNA has been found on a carcass in the UK. The analysis was carried out at a laboratory at the University of Warwick run by Prof...
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Replit cuts staff by 30 amid aggressive AI push in software development

venturebeat.com

Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring...
Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. Replit, a startup that provides a cloud-based platform for softwa...
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Show HN: I built an online state machine editor

protocoldesigner.dev
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Google DeepMind shows off Project Astra watching OpenAI GPT-4o announcement

tomsguide.com
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Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube) [video]

youtube.com

education
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Amber: The Programming Language That Compiles to Bash

amber-lang.com
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Winamp's source code will be available on September 24

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15-Year-Old Ebury Botnet Compromised 400k Linux Servers

securityboulevard.com

The operators behind the Ebury server-side malware botnet have been doing business since at least 2009...
The operators behind the Ebury server-side malware botnet have been doing business since at least 2009 and, according to the threat researchers who have been tracking it for the last decade, are stronger and more active than ever.According to researchers with cybersecurity firm ESET, the malware has compromised at l...
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Chinese EV Giants Hammered by Biden Tariff Are Welcome in Brazil

bloomberg.com
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal

substack.com

This is a mockup of a non-existent LLM-based educational game called Mexico City Apothecary that I...
This is a mockup of a non-existent LLM-based educational game called Mexico City Apothecary that I made for this post. But it could be real!For more than a year now, I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT (and more recently, Claude and Gemini) to create deeply imperfect — but also, I think, fascinatingly weird a...
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Building a Hugo Blog on OpenBSD 7.5 with Relayd, Letsencrypt and HTTPD

tatties.scot

A cheap virtual private server (VPS) such as one from Linode or Vultr Brand new, unconfigured...
A cheap virtual private server (VPS) such as one from Linode or Vultr Brand new, unconfigured OpenBSD installation Your domain’s A records pointing to the IP of your VPS server (@ and www) The following steps will take you all the way to having your very own public blog and with https. I have written this blog for b...
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North Koreans stole American identities and took remote tech jobs at Fortune 500

fortune.com

The Justice Department on Thursday announced the arrests of three people in a complex stolen identity...
The Justice Department on Thursday announced the arrests of three people in a complex stolen identity scheme that officials say generates enormous proceeds for the North Korean government, including for its weapons program. The scheme involves thousands of North Korean information technology workers who prosecutors ...
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How to fix bugs in 24 hours or less

dolthub.com

Here at DoltHub, we made a pledge to fix Dolt correctness bugs in 24 hours or...
Here at DoltHub, we made a pledge to fix Dolt correctness bugs in 24 hours or less. We're proud of this pledge and we work hard to uphold it. But how is this possible? Response times to issues in the software industry vary wildly. It's not uncommon to never get a response, let alone a fix for your issue. Not at Dolt...
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count

quantamagazine.org

Nico Roper/Quanta Magazine Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife...
Nico Roper/Quanta Magazine Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife census. Every time you see an animal, you snap a photo. Your digital camera will track the total number of shots, but you’re only interested in the number of unique animals — all the ones that you haven’t counted alr...
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?

ycombinator.com
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