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The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling

slack.com

Quick take: Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming...
Quick take: Executives are all in on AI, with 99% planning AI investment in the coming year. And yet, for the first time since generative AI’s introduction, adoption rates are plateauing and excitement is cooling among the global workforce. Read on to learn the surprising reasons employees are hiding their AI use fr...
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M4 Mac mini's efficiency is incredible

jeffgeerling.com

I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on...
I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency. I expected M4 to be better than M1/M2 (I haven't personally tested M3), and I hoped it would at least match the previous total-system-power effici...
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Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability

rust-lang.org

DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and...
DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and advancing the Rust programming language, released a comprehensive problem statement addressing the challenges and opportunities in C++ and Rust interoperability. This publication marks a significant step t...
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Huawei develops 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Shutterstock) As Huawei is on the U.S. government's Entity List, the company has trouble...
(Image credit: Shutterstock) As Huawei is on the U.S. government's Entity List, the company has trouble obtaining hard drives made by American companies. As a result, the company develops its own storage technologies to replace HDDs. Earlier this year, Huawei introduced its so-called magneto-electric disk (MED) stor...
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Is NAD your best shot at longevity?

ft.com

In the top compartment of my fridge, next to a slightly shrivelled garlic bulb, is a...
In the top compartment of my fridge, next to a slightly shrivelled garlic bulb, is a vial of clear liquid. Should I pluck up the courage to inject myself in the stomach every other day, it will reportedly reverse the ageing of my cells, return my metabolism to that of a 20-year-old, improve brain fog and fill me wit...

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Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days

stretchmytimeoff.com

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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one

arstechnica.com

In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my...
In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my review of the new iMac. This is the third year and fourth generation of the Apple Silicon-era MacBook Pro design, and outwardly, few things have changed about the new M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max laptops. Here are the things that are different. Boosted ...
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Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life

arstechnica.com

Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a...
Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot more interest and have stepped in to save, and upgrade, a potentially useful gadget. Spotify's idea a couple years ago was a car-focused device for those who lacked Apple CarPla...
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Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client

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Nowadays (YC S23) Is Hiring

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Voice acting in Space Quest V

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Pizza Hut's new pizza warmer uses the PS 5's heat to be keep your pizza hot

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Pizza Hut Canada) Pizza Hut has melded the disparate worlds of bready, cheesy foodstuffs...
(Image credit: Pizza Hut Canada) Pizza Hut has melded the disparate worlds of bready, cheesy foodstuffs and console gaming with the new PIZZAWRMR. This innovation is designed to sit atop your Sony PlayStation 5 console and keep your takeaway of choice piping hot while you enjoy your heated gaming session. This isn't...
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Is 'Toxic Fashion' making us sick? A look at the chemicals lurking in our clothe

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TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. Most of us have gotten into...
TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. Most of us have gotten into the habit of checking out the ingredient labels on our foods or skin products. But what about our clothing? If you flip that little tag on the back of your collar, you won't see much information except for maybe where the garment is...
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A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals

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The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have...
The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Kennedy, who works as a neuro-intensive care nurse in San Diego, believes AI could destroy nurses’ intuition, skills, a...
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Cash App migrated 400TB of data to PlanetScale's cloud

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Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse

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Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years

smithsonianmag.com

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns...
Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water river...

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Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house

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Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in...
Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust.Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Ma...

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A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

disruptingjapan.com
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Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram Commands

github.com
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Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps

fermyon.com

component model release spin wasmtime
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Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your Proxmox homelab a breeze

community-scripts.github.io

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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

substack.com

Last week, right after Apple dropped the iOS 18.1 update, my dad and I set out...
Last week, right after Apple dropped the iOS 18.1 update, my dad and I set out to go buy a pair of AirPods Pro 2 for my grandma who is hard of hearing. Fifteen minutes after buying them, I found out that the device was for all intents and purposes useless, because Apple has region locked the Hearing Aids feature to ...
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Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams

letsjelly.com

Small teams with shared email addresses (i.e. hello@ or support@) have been stuck between a rock...
Small teams with shared email addresses (i.e. hello@ or support@) have been stuck between a rock and a hard place for far too long. Sharing a login to an inbox requires a delicate dance to avoid stepping on toes and missing important replies. When that inevitably breaks down, the search for tools leads you through a...
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