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A Rarely Used Technique Could Double U.S. Grid Capacity

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By Felicity Bradstock - Apr 13, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT Advanced reconductoring involves replacing existing power...
By Felicity Bradstock - Apr 13, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT Advanced reconductoring involves replacing existing power lines with cables made from state-of-the-art materials, significantly increasing the grid's capacity. The technique is faster, cheaper, and less disruptive than building new power lines and doesn't require reg...

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Post Office urged by external lawyers to 'suppress' key document, inquiry hears

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The Post Office was urged by its external law firm to “try and suppress” disclosure of...
The Post Office was urged by its external law firm to “try and suppress” disclosure of a key document for “as long as possible” as branch owner-operators tried to mount legal action against the state-owned postal company, a public inquiry has heard.Rodric Williams, a senior in-house lawyer at the Post Office, giving...
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Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist

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“I’m going to take this as a win for now,” Shupe says, even though she knows...
“I’m going to take this as a win for now,” Shupe says, even though she knows that “in some ways, it’s a compromise.” She maintains that the way she uses ChatGPT more closely resembles a collaboration than an automated output, and that she should be able to copyright the actual text of the book.Matthew Sag, a profess...
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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), prompting some businesses to reevaluate how they manage their cloud infrastructure and financial operations. For those that missed it, the key takeaway is that EKS extended support will cost 6x what standard supp...
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Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds

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If work is a constant flurry of mind-straining challenges, bursts of creativity and delicate negotiations to...
If work is a constant flurry of mind-straining challenges, bursts of creativity and delicate negotiations to keep the troops happy, consider yourself lucky.Researchers have found that the more people use their brains at work, the better they seem to be protected against thinking and memory problems that come with ol...
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Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing

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So recently a very hyped memory corruption security vulnerability was discovered in the OpenSSL punycode parser.Some...
So recently a very hyped memory corruption security vulnerability was discovered in the OpenSSL punycode parser.Some folks including Hanno (https://twitter.com/hanno/status/1587775675397726209) asked why this is still happenning, why no one wrote a fuzzer for the punycode parser and if we as the security community h...
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USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough

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Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

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Ask HN: How are Data Scientist keeping themselves updated?

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How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun

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I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet...
I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet (our wanton carbon emissions notwithstanding). But the ugly truth is that the Earth is doomed. Someday, the Sun will enter a stage that will make life impossible on the Earth’s surface and eventually reduce the planet to nothing more than a ...
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9/11 tragedy pager intercepts

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EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

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Extracting valuables from the San José galleon

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SEAN GLADWELL//Getty ImagesThe Colombia government announced a plan to start recapturing some of the sunken treasure...
SEAN GLADWELL//Getty ImagesThe Colombia government announced a plan to start recapturing some of the sunken treasure from the San José galleon, sunk near Cartagena in 1708.Dubbed the “holy grail” of shipwrecked treasures, even conservative estimates place the worth of the ship’s bounty at billions of dollars. Underw...

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Launch HN: Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics

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Hi HN, I’m Udayan Umapathi, founder of Volta Labs (https://www.voltalabs.com), a genomics applications company that is...
Hi HN, I’m Udayan Umapathi, founder of Volta Labs (https://www.voltalabs.com), a genomics applications company that is using advanced electrowetting technology to solve one of the toughest challenges facing the genomics industry—scalable sample prep. We’ve built a walk-away benchtop sample prep system that comes pre...
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Show HN: Trained Tiny Tales GPT(30M model)from scratch and deployed in $15

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'Revealing images that seemed lost forever:' Research revives 1800s photos

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Techniques developed by researchers from Western University to create images from old, badly tarnished photographs could...
Techniques developed by researchers from Western University to create images from old, badly tarnished photographs could also be used to study other historic artifacts and fossils and prevent corrosion on modern materials. Chemistry professor T.K. Sham Chemistry professor Tson-Kong (T.K.) Sham and his colleagues rec...

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Moldova has the biggest number of vineyards per capita in the world

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Boston Dynamics' new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel

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It’s alive! A day after announcing it was retiring Atlas, its hydraulic robot, Boston Dynamics has...
It’s alive! A day after announcing it was retiring Atlas, its hydraulic robot, Boston Dynamics has introduced a new, all-electric version of its humanoid machine. The next-generation Atlas robot is designed to offer a far greater range of movement than its predecessor. Boston Dynamics wanted the new version to show ...
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AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck

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Less than eight years after introducing the Snowmobile at its Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon...
Less than eight years after introducing the Snowmobile at its Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon has taken the 18-wheeler out of service. Amazon Web Services designed the semi to help customers move large amounts of data to the cloud.A page on the AWS website devoted to products for large-scale data migration ...

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Why Fugaku, Japan's fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

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Keeper (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build a personal accountant for everyone

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The Paradox of x86

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Bodiam Castle and its moat in Sussex in England. That moat looks hard to cross in...
Bodiam Castle and its moat in Sussex in England. That moat looks hard to cross in either direction! By WyrdLight.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7910287The ‘moat’ is a familiar business concept. It’s a barrier that protects you from would-be competitors. Everyone wants their busine...
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Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers

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Ye Olde Bay Area House Party

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[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]When that April with his sunlight fierceThe rainy winter...
[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]When that April with his sunlight fierceThe rainy winter of the coast doth pierceAnd filleth every spirit with such haleAs horniness engenders in the maleThen folk go out in crop tops and in shortsTheir bodies firm from exercise and sportsAnd men gaze at the tall girls and the sh...
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