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Tesla driver arrested for homicide after running over motorcyclist on Autopilot

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Spotify is struggling to get Apple to approve its iOS updates in the EU

theverge.com

Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app that should give users in the European...
Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app that should give users in the European Union in-app pricing information for subscriptions made outside of Apple’s payment system — provided the update doesn’t get stonewalled by Apple again.According to TechCrunch, the latest version of the app doesn’t contain a direct ...
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President Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold

npr.org

President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest...
President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban. Kiichiro Sato/AP President Biden on Wednesday signed a law that would ban Chinese-owned TikTok unless it is sold within a year. It is the most serious threat yet to the video-streaming app's futu...
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A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

github.com
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"I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton."

lithub.com

Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers...
Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault. Following an acrimonious separation between the “Duchess” and the “Progenitor” (Simons’ parents), the young boy finds himself living in the Maniga...
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It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon

sciencealert.com

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.A thorough...
Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether the Moon's inner heart is...
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Node 22.0.0 Just Released

github.com

Other Notable Changes [25c79f3331] - esm: drop support for import assertions (Nicolò Ribaudo) #52104 [818c10e86d] -...
Other Notable Changes [25c79f3331] - esm: drop support for import assertions (Nicolò Ribaudo) #52104 [818c10e86d] - lib: improve perf of AbortSignal creation (Raz Luvaton) #52408 [4f68c7c1c9] - watch: mark as stable (Moshe Atlow) #52074 [02b0bc01fe] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update V8 to 12.4.254.14 (Michaël Zasso) #52...
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Former NASA Engineer Says He's Invented a Thruster That Doesn't Require Propell

futurism.com
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'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines

japantimes.co.jp

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My Dinner with [Marc] Andreessen

prospect.org

Recently, I read about venture capitalist Marc Andreessen putting his 12,000-square-foot mansion in Atherton, California, which...
Recently, I read about venture capitalist Marc Andreessen putting his 12,000-square-foot mansion in Atherton, California, which has seven fireplaces, up for sale for $33.75 million. This was done to spend more time, one supposes, at the $177 million home he owns in Paradise Cove, California; or the $34 million one h...

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N. Korean hackers breached 10 defense contractors in South for months

hani.co.kr

(ClipartKorea) South Korean police found evidence pointing to a concerted attack against defense industry companies by...
(ClipartKorea) South Korean police found evidence pointing to a concerted attack against defense industry companies by North Korean hacking organizations including the Lazarus Group in order to obtain defense technology.The police also said the methods of attack had been varied, with numerous hacking organizations m...
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El Salvador's Bitcoin Wallet Suffers Leak of Source Code and VPN Access

coinfeeds.io
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When do we stop finding new music?

statsignificant.com

Say Anything (1989). Credit: 20th Century Studios.I recently tried Spotify's new DJ feature in which an...
Say Anything (1989). Credit: 20th Century Studios.I recently tried Spotify's new DJ feature in which an AI bot curates personalized listening sessions, introducing songs while explaining the intention behind its selections (much like a real-life disc jockey). Every four or five pieces, the bot interjects to set up i...
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Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own

techcrunch.com

All-around, highly generalizable generative AI models were the name of the game once, and they arguably...
All-around, highly generalizable generative AI models were the name of the game once, and they arguably still are. But increasingly, as cloud vendors large and small join the generative AI fray, we’re seeing a new crop of models focused on the deepest-pocketed potential customers: the enterprise. Case in point: Snow...
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John McAfee

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British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021) John David McAfee (/ˈmækəfiː/ MAK-ə-fee;[3][4] 18 September 1945 – 23 June...
British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021) John David McAfee (/ˈmækəfiː/ MAK-ə-fee;[3][4] 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United ...
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US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs

theregister.com
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Qualcomm Is Cheating on Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks

semiaccurate.com

Qualcomm is cheating on the Snapdragon X Plus/Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press. SemiAccurate...
Qualcomm is cheating on the Snapdragon X Plus/Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press. SemiAccurate doesn’t use these words lightly but there is no denying what multiple sources are telling us. Lets start out with some disclaimers, the most obvious being how much we are blurring out a lot of the details. We are...
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Pulumi adds drift detection, time-to-live stacks, and scheduled deployments

pulumi.com

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024Today we announced a new wave of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management capabilities...
Posted on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024Today we announced a new wave of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management capabilities in Pulumi Cloud. These build upon and extend our rich Pulumi Deployments foundation for deployment orchestration and workflow. This is an exciting, customer-driven release, with new features that help w...
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TikTok CEO expects to defeat US ban: 'We aren't going anywhere'

reuters.com
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Attackers spread backdoor via eScan antivirus software update process

avast.io

Avast discovered and analyzed a malware campaign hijacking an eScan antivirus update mechanism to distribute backdoors...
Avast discovered and analyzed a malware campaign hijacking an eScan antivirus update mechanism to distribute backdoors and coinminers Avast disclosed the vulnerability to both eScan antivirus and India CERT. On 2023-07-31, eScan confirmed that the issue was fixed and successfully resolved The campaign was orchestrat...
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How we manage individual user concurrencies with Nginx and Lua

browserless.io
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TypeScript Essentials: Distinguishing Types with Branding

prosopo.io

PART 1: TypeScript Mapped Type MagicAhoy there TypeScript warriors! 👋 Today we're extending our work in...
PART 1: TypeScript Mapped Type MagicAhoy there TypeScript warriors! 👋 Today we're extending our work in the TypeScript mapped types article to provide branding. The previous article discussed how to use TypeScript mapped types in a nominal rather than structural nature.type A = { x: number } type B = { x: number }Th...
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Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring software engineers to protect patient privacy

ashbyhq.com
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Length and thickness of bamboo internodes: a beautiful curve

elegantexperiments.net

Here is a simple experiment about bamboo anatomy. The measurements are not thoroughly done, hence the...
Here is a simple experiment about bamboo anatomy. The measurements are not thoroughly done, hence the results are not yet very robust. However, the first results already show quite an inspiring curve unveiling a beautiful natural pattern! This post tries to follow the scientific format of research sharing, developed...
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