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Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots.

This AMD chip with HBM3 is exclusive to Azure.

Bay Area tech's main funders, venture capitalists, saw a bad year of profits in 2023, and the industry faces an "existential" problem with the dearth of IPOs.

The HS2 high-speed rail line was supposed to re-energize the UK. Instead, controversy, astronomical costs and downsizing have left it struggling for support.

The AI algorithm helps researchers visualize ultrafast videos from any viewpoint, allowing for the study of how light propagates from multiple perspectives.  

More than 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris Stokel-Walker

Crypto's libertarian dreams continue to be thwarted by legal realities.

**The Danish Navy has detained the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, which is suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea.**

An Indian's answer from the Heart instead of the Mind

I did not expect this! > [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer …

I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind of faded out of my consciousness, as it was a lot easier to get work doing stuff in R or Matlab or whatever. The guy…

Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports it. Every server in every data center supports it. Why don’t we just flip the switch? The challenge is

Highlights A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we can experiment with some messages to help users understand the value of ...

Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’…

It's reported the US government wants the world's most popular web browser to be sold off to address monopoly concerns.

Something that comes up sometimes in programming languages is the difference between nominal and structural type systems. While I'm definitely not the fir...

Virtual Machine for the Web. Contribute to leaningtech/webvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

The last few weeks have seen a swell of developer interest in atproto. Welcome! The protocol is maturing, and now is a great time for early adopters to jump in and start building. This post lists s...

Strava is altering the deal.

Ruby on Rails founder DHH joins Shopify’s board of directors.

Also: a whole heap of game discovery & platform news, & some bonus radical politics.

How Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response (and how you can too) - Meta used LLMs to root cause incidents with 42% accuracy. Here's how they did it and how you can do it too.

Apple rushes out out major macOS and iOS security updates to cover a pair of vulnerabilities already being exploited in the wild.

Boris Pistorius says ‘no one believes’ two undersea fibre-optic communications cables were cut accidentally

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

Thieves were reportedly able to use a compromised email to reroute the car to a different destination

Welcome to FreeCAD 1.0! The most notable improvements over the 0.21 release series are: the inclusion of the topological naming problem mitigation code, an integrated assembly workbench, a new mat...

Rosetta 2 is remarkably fast when compared to other x86-on-ARM emulators. I’ve spent a little time looking at how it works, out of idle curiosity, and found it to be quite unusual, so I figur…

I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall...

White-collar hiring is in a huge slump. Here's who's getting hit the hardest.

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

In July 1945, The Manhattan Project culminated in a successful nuclear weapons test near Los Alamos, New Mexico. But the United States committed to stop nuclear weapons testing in a 1965 treaty. The Manhattan Project’s progeny, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is constrained to testing its nukes in simulation only. So instead of projecting U.S. strength through a massive explosion, yesterday the N

Repository for an open fork of Riak - maintained in conjunction with the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation - Open Riak

One of the Erlang ecosystem's spiciest nerd snipes are hot code updates. Because it can do it. In ways that almost no other runtime can. I use Elixir which builds on Erlang and has the same capabilities.

Tip: In complex software modernization projects treat estimates as guidelines, not deadlines.

This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data engineering - DataExpert-io/data-engineer-handbook

The other day I saw the launch of Apple Vision Pro, the whole thing was very interesting, but one thing that caught my attention was the finger input. It seems very intuitive, by using the finger pinching as sort of like a cursor or mouse input. I figured I want to try it out, so I took it upon myself to create it.

Analog Paradigm presents a modern open source, educational, low-cost analog computer.

While doing some research into music box mechanisms earlier today (holy cow, you can get a 30-note chromatic paper-roll music box mechanism for $60-ish now? Last time I looked, something like that …

McIntosh has been making high-end amplifiers and other audio equipment since 1949, and one of its devices can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Explore an intriguing CSS bug in Google Search’s pagination, where the 'Next' link in the Chinese version wraps unexpectedly.

The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux..

Introducing X's moonshot for circularity: How can we turn the world’s waste into our most valuable resource?

A transformative change is underway for semiconductor design and EDA. New languages, models, and abstractions will need to be created.

【NHK】殺傷能力を備えた電磁石銃、いわゆる「コイルガン」を所持したとして、29歳の容疑者が銃刀法違反の疑いで逮捕されました。容疑…

Charles Darwin was as fascinated by extravagant ornament in nature as Jane Austen was in culture. Did their explanations agree?

Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted.

In Warsaw today, the Foreign Ministers of the Weimar Triangle from Germany, France and Poland discussed Europe’s security policy challenges with the Foreign Ministers of Italy, Spain and the United…

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In this article, we dive into how PyTorch’s Autograd engine performs automatic differentiation.

A Chess-AI is something every programmer should build at least once and [Sebastian Lague’s](https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague) [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScy18pVR58) was the perfect opportunity for me to do so. Constrained to 1024 tokens I wanted to implement an evaluation function similar to that of Stockfish’s NNUE but heavily simplified. And instead of using a complex feed-forward algorit

Old on the outside but thoroughly modern within, making sleeper PC building easy.

Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones

A Golang package to encrypt your pagination tokens - ssoready/hyrumtoken