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The internet archive appears to have been hacked, with potentially 31 million records soon to end up on HIBP

Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that earned him the nickname "godfather

View pay distributions for software engineers visualized through different geographical regions within the US.

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For some residents of storm-prone Southeastern states, the best indicator of a hurricane's severity can be found at the local Waffle House.

Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that earned him the nickname "godfather

Dell told sales staff to be in the office every day with two working days' notice and to use PTO if they weren't available during work hours.

The Open Source AI Definition first Release Candidate has been published and collaboration continues online. Read what changes have been made, what to do next and how to get involved.

WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not "affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" before registering a new account or logging in.

Because this essay is over 11 000 words long(!) I’ve made a convenience EPUB file for offline reading. (EPUB only! No PDF this time.) You can download it over on the fulfilment service I use, Lemon Squeezy, with the option to pay what you want if you feel the urge to support my writing.

Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a his...

Our next major version of Deno combines the simplicity, security, and performance of Deno 1 with full Node and npm backwards compatibility, and much more.

A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.

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On the multifaceted dishonesty in commercial open source.

👋 Hi everyone, As the evil twin of PEP 758: Allow `except` and `except*` expressions without parentheses, @brettcannon and me present you PEP 760: No more bare excepts. This PEP proposes disallowing bare except: clauses in Python’s exception-handling syntax. Currently, Python allows catching all exceptions with a bare except: clause, which can lead to overly broad exception handling and mask important errors. Thi

In February this year, a jaguar walked onto Wagner Durán’s family ranch, located near Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica, and, in an unusual event, killed a calf. This area has the highest density of jaguars in Costa Rica, so it wasn’t unusual for that reason. What made it stand out was that it was […]

Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German

Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.

MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

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Large neural networks spend most computation on floating point tensor multiplications. In this work, we find that a floating point multiplier can be approximated by one integer adder with high precision. We propose the linear-complexity multiplication L-Mul algorithm that approximates floating point number multiplication with integer addition operations. The new algorithm costs significantly less computation resource

MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go. Contribute to mappu/miqt development by creating an account on GitHub.

A new report uncovers the troubling ties between top VPN services like ExpressVPN and the Israeli security state, raising alarms about how much control Israel’s Unit 8200 has over your online privacy.

Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information. Here are the best niche communities I could find that are alive and well.

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Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world extends far beyond the WordPress. Don't let the drama or ...

Stephen Wolfram takes a computational view of time, defining it abstractly, and the implications from computational irreducibility.

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court’s website.

I restricted the use of dicts in my code to make it easier to follow and maintain. Here's my explanation of the benefits and advice on what you can use instead. Bonus point: what to do with all the legacy code when there's no time to eradicate all the dicts.

A Choice investigation has found most of Australia's popular car brands collect and share "driver data", ranging from braking patterns to video footage and voice recognition information.

We’re proud to announce that Mary Hubbard (@4thhubbard) has resigned as the Head of TikTok Americas, Governance and Experience, and will be starting as the next Executive Director of WordPres…

Intel has a long history of making integrated GPUs, and they’ve recognized how important iGPUs are to thin and light laptops.

It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man....

Justine Tunney recently wrote a blog post titled The Fastest Mutexes where she describes how she implemented mutexes in Cosmopolitan Libc. The post discusses how her implementation uses futexes by …

We never like removing functionality from our apps. We especially don’t like doing it when it’s due to circumstances beyond our control. But, sometimes — rarely? — it can happen, and so, please take note: At some unknown point in the future, Google will revoke Transmit's access to Google Drive. Sometime after that, we’ll be…

DNA analysis company 23andme has been in trouble lately: data was breached in a 2023 hack, and this September the entire board of directors resigned over disagreements with the CEO. That CEO, Anne Wojcicki, had said she was open to third-party takeover proposals; she only reversed that decision this week. The company is not currently for sale, but nothing about this is looking good—and it’s not clear what would happe

ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal.

Look, here's the thing, I don't like mysteries that involve technology. I think I hate them because I know that some other human created the...

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How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the reading load. She explained that she was working on

Highlights of the Julia 1.11 release.

A bug in macOS 15 Sequoia could expose the apps on an employee’s personal iPhone to their corporate IT department, a serious privacy issue.

On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.

It was a stunning revelation: A respected high school custodian had been a concentration camp guard. This excerpt of a new book examines how the disclosure of a dark secret in the early ’80s divided a suburb.

Architecting a modular, scalable framework for seamless third-party data synchronization.

Transformer tends to overallocate attention to irrelevant context. In this work, we introduce Diff Transformer, which amplifies attention to the relevant context while canceling noise. Specifically, the differential attention mechanism calculates attention scores as the difference between two separate softmax attention maps. The subtraction cancels noise, promoting the emergence of sparse attention patterns. Experime

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”