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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing

sciencealert.com

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper...
We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system over 100 acres (40 he...
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PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed

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FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared

fromjason.xyz

For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless corporations that...
For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless corporations that control our every move through a network of proprietary data centers and deep-sea cables. In Iran, forty thousand people downloaded the app when their government blocked internet acc...
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Plato's final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash

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Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after...
Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previous...
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Debugging Tech Journalism

asteriskmag.com

In November, a few days after Sam Altman was fired — and then rehired — as...
In November, a few days after Sam Altman was fired — and then rehired — as CEO of OpenAI, Reuters reported on a letter that may have played a role in Altman’s ouster. Several staffers reportedly wrote to the board of directors warning about “a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten ...
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Laser excitation of Th-229 nucleus

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Questioning the Conventional Wisdom on Liability and Open Source Software

lawfaremedia.org

A key and occasionally fiery thread of the debate around software liability has been the role...
A key and occasionally fiery thread of the debate around software liability has been the role of open source software. Most modern software applications are, under the hood, more than 80 percent open source software: software whose source code is free to inspect, modify, and distribute and that is often maintained b...
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You can't just assume UTF-8

csvbase.com

Humans speak countless different languages. Not only are these languages incompatible, but runtime transpilation is a...
Humans speak countless different languages. Not only are these languages incompatible, but runtime transpilation is a real pain. Sadly, every standardisation initiative has failed. At least there is someone to blame for this state-of-affairs: God. It was him, after-all, who cursed humanity to speak different languag...
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Exploit.education

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Bill Gates never left - Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft

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Show HN: React Bricks, The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing

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The Three Byte Fix

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gpt2-chatbot: A mysterious new model with gpt4 performance

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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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It isn't only Python, Dart and Flutter teams also affected

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FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data

arstechnica.com

The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196 million "for illegally...
The Federal Communications Commission today said it fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon $196 million "for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without consent and without taking reasonable measures to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure." The fines relate to sharing of real-...
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Gradient AI Releases 1M Context Llama 8B

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OpenAI memory available for ChatGPT Plus users

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The EU's plan to regain its competitive edge

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Tesla former VP of engineering liquidated virtually entire stake in the company

fortune.com

Drew Baglino is cashing out. The former senior vice president in charge of powertrain engineering at...
Drew Baglino is cashing out. The former senior vice president in charge of powertrain engineering at Tesla liquidated virtually his entire stake in the company—worth $181 million—days after leaving the company last week. In a regulatory disclosure, Tesla said Baglino has exercised the bulk of his vested stock option...
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We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines

hey.com

Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based...
Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continuous integration setup about 5m30s to verify a code change is ready to ship for HEY. My Intel 14900K-based Linux box can do that in less than half the time (and my M3 Max isn't t...
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China's VIDU Video Generation AI Competes with OpenAI's Sora

medium.com

In a world increasingly dominated by AI technologies, a remarkable breakthrough has emerged from China that...
In a world increasingly dominated by AI technologies, a remarkable breakthrough has emerged from China that is setting new standards in the field of video generation. Shang Shu Technology, in collaboration with Ting University, recently unveiled VIDU — China’s pioneering text-to-AI video model. This innovative tool ...

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FSF to be deposed in SFC vs. Vizio, updates relevant FAQ entry

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FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (2016)

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Data compression is fun! I’ve written a new compression scheme that’s designed to be as fast...
Data compression is fun! I’ve written a new compression scheme that’s designed to be as fast as possible to decompress on a 68K CPU, while still maintaining a decent compression density. I’m calling it FC8, and you can get the generic C implementation and optimized 68K decompressor from the project’s Github reposito...
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