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Is Chrome the New IE?

magiclasso.co

With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of...
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall? Dominance Over many years commentators have proposed that...

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Why LLMs Within Software Development May Be a Dead End

thenewstack.io
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Contain – CSS Cascading Style Sheets – MDN

mozilla.org

The contain CSS property indicates that an element and its contents are, as much as possible,...
The contain CSS property indicates that an element and its contents are, as much as possible, independent from the rest of the document tree. Containment enables isolating a subsection of the DOM, providing performance benefits by limiting calculations of layout, style, paint, size, or any combination to a DOM subtr...
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Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

theregister.com

Infosec in brief A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats...
Infosec in brief A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats to law enforcement, and now faces years in prison. Alan Filion, now 18, last week pleaded guilty to four counts of making interstate threats to injure another person. Each count could see Filion spend five years in prison. He wil...
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Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes, Powered by GPT-4o-Mini

apple.com

Islet: Your Personalized Glucose & Health JournalTake control of your health with Islet, the ultimate personalized...
Islet: Your Personalized Glucose & Health JournalTake control of your health with Islet, the ultimate personalized health journal app designed to seamlessly track and analyze your glucose levels. Perfect for individuals managing diabetes or anyone passionate about monitoring their well-being, Islet integrates effort...

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Apple Seemingly Discontinuing Lightning to Headphone Jack Adapter

macrumors.com

It appears that Apple is discontinuing the Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter that it released...
It appears that Apple is discontinuing the Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter that it released alongside the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in 2016. The adapter was recently listed as "sold out" on Apple's online store in the U.S. and most other countries, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. The adap...

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The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car

wsj.com
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You could have designed state of the art positional encoding

fleetwood.dev
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Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones

nature.com
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Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

naehrdine.blogspot.com

iOS 18 introduced a new inactivity reboot security feature. What does it protect from and how...
iOS 18 introduced a new inactivity reboot security feature. What does it protect from and how does it work? This blog post covers all the details down to a kernel extension and the Secure Enclave Processor.Did you know that entering your passcode for the first time after your phone starts is something very different...
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A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

nytimes.com
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Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks

scworld.com

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Nov. 13 reported that 97...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Nov. 13 reported that 97 drinking water systems serving about 26.6 million Americans around the country have either “critical or high-risk” cybersecurity vulnerabilities.While attempting to notify the EPA about the cybersecurity vulner...
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The Network Of Time: Choose any two people to see how they connect thorough time

networkoftime.com
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Transactional Object Storage?

mbrt.dev

I was frustrated by the gap between stateless and stateful applications in the cloud. While I...
I was frustrated by the gap between stateless and stateful applications in the cloud. While I could easily spin up a stateless application as a “serverless” function in any major cloud provider and pretty much forget about it, persisting data between requests was a game of pick two among three: cheap, strongly consi...

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Show HN: Store and render ASCII diagrams in Obsidian

github.com
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Apple's mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work

glassalmanac.com

In the world of sleek tech design, Apple’s Magic Mouse stands out for its minimalist aesthetic....
In the world of sleek tech design, Apple’s Magic Mouse stands out for its minimalist aesthetic. But when it comes to practical use, even Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to admit that beauty doesn’t always equal functionality. His recent revelation about his preferred work setup has sparked discussions about the compromises...
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'In cities, trees are treated like street furniture'

elpais.com

Environmental activist and tree expert. That’s how Peter Wohlleben, 60, defines himself today. He no longer...
Environmental activist and tree expert. That’s how Peter Wohlleben, 60, defines himself today. He no longer calls himself a forester, for a simple reason: “I no longer manage forests. I don’t have time,” he explains during a Zoom interview from his home in Hümmel, a small town an hour from the city of Cologne, Germa...

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Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers

theverge.com
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I Ditched Buddhism

slate.com

For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain...
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America. Over the last 15 years, the number of Buddhist centers in the United States has more than doubled, to well over 1,000. As many as 4 million Americans...
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An alternative construction of Shannon entropy

rkp.science

TL;DR: Shannon’s entropy formula is usually justified by showing it satisfies key mathematical criteria, or by...
TL;DR: Shannon’s entropy formula is usually justified by showing it satisfies key mathematical criteria, or by computing how much space is needed to encode a variable. But one can also construct Shannon’s formula starting purely from the simpler notion of entropy as a (logarithm of a) count—of how many different way...
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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

microsoft.com

Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1,...
Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95. Why not go from MS-DOS straight to Windows 95? Here’s another good question. Why does Windows 95 setup use 3 different UI’s. DOS,Win3.x,and Win9x? — Thomas (@tthirtle) July 7, 2024 Windo...
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Creating a QR Code step by step

nayuki.io
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Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal

utoronto.ca
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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia with Long-Range U.S. Missiles

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces...
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