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O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time

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Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

mathstodon.xyz
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Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

theonion.com

Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of...
Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the...
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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

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A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content...
A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content management system WordPress, which powers about 40 percent of the world’s websites, has accused WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress-built websites, of violating WordPress trademarks. They’re currently embroil...

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On Building Git for Lawyers

substack.com

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years...
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?This is an important question. The legal system is the essential bedrock upon which all else in society is built. The protection of civil rights, peac...
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AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive

gauge.sh

There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting...
There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting easier to write code, and easier to clean up code, wouldn’t it make sense that the typical company can handle a little more debt?The opposite is true - AI has significantly increased the real cost of carrying tech debt. The key...
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Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Watches Its Step [video]

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Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

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Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson

terinstock.com

I’ve been working on a Game Boy game off-and-on for the last few months (hopefully more...
I’ve been working on a Game Boy game off-and-on for the last few months (hopefully more details about this soon!). Up until recently I was building the game with GNU Make, but I was frustrated with configuring Make’s prerequisites for accurate dependency tracking. Often I’d change a file included by my target, but M...

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We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models

helix.ml

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at Hannah Foxwell’s amazing AI for the...
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at Hannah Foxwell’s amazing AI for the Rest of Us conference about something that's been brewing in my mind after years of working in DevOps, MLOps, and now GenAI: the barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast. The tools have gotten good enough that if you can handle an IDE a...
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Japan unveils $65B plan to aid domestic chip industry

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Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World

lattice.xyz

Introducing Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World “But can it run Doom?” is a...
Introducing Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World “But can it run Doom?” is a well-known rallying cry in the computing world, which has spawned efforts to put the open-source first-person-shooter on everything from old Macs, to Pelotons, to tractors. Up until now, blockchains have largely fallen shor...
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PyPI now supports digital attestations

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The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

nbcnews.com

The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the...
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform.Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning...
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Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

nytimes.com

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When...
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.The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health sup...
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Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

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Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes Support (SG)

apple.com

With Eye Tracking, you can control iPhone using just your eyes. An onscreen pointer follows the...
With Eye Tracking, you can control iPhone using just your eyes. An onscreen pointer follows the movement of your eyes, and when you look at an item and hold your gaze steady, or dwell, you perform an action, such as a tap. All data used to set up and control Eye Tracking is processed on device.Eye Tracking uses the ...
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Vanessa Freudenberg's SqueakJS Paper Wins ACM Sigplan Most Notable Paper Award [pdf]

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An Oral History of "We Built This City," the Worst Song of All Time (2016)

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All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an...
All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.Thirty years ago, radio stations and MTV put an insidiously catchy song called “We Built This City” into heavy rotation and kept it there. The hit single gave the members of the band Starship—which emerg...
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A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework

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SQLite Index Visualization

mrsuh.com

After learning about indexes, I understood their basic structure, but I wanted to dig deeper —...
After learning about indexes, I understood their basic structure, but I wanted to dig deeper — to explore the data structure, understand the algorithm, and learn how the index data is stored on disk. The theory and actual implementation can differ, so I decided to explore this topic further. I wanted to see how a da...

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For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im

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Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory

worldsensorium.com

Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire...
Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire Valley, where Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath artist, architect, mathematician, biologist, physicist, and aeronaut, spent his final years. In 1516, he accepted King Francis I’s invitation to settle there and work on a variet...
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