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FreeBSD Status Report: First Quarter 2024

freebsd.org

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WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption

restofworld.org

For nearly 10 years, WhatsApp’s chat messages have been end-to-end encrypted, meaning they can’t be read...
For nearly 10 years, WhatsApp’s chat messages have been end-to-end encrypted, meaning they can’t be read by anyone except the sender and the receiver. Drawing on an open-source encryption system developed by Signal, WhatsApp began the move shortly after it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. For the most part, its enc...

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Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about

xda-developers.com

Rabbit R1 criticized for slow responses and poor battery life, highlighting questionable company decisions and high-risk...
Rabbit R1 criticized for slow responses and poor battery life, highlighting questionable company decisions and high-risk investment. Historical ties to NFTs and metaverse projects raise concerns over Rabbit's transparency and long-term product viability. Recent outage could reflect larger issues with Rabbit's commit...
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Kaspersky accused of helping Russia develop military drone systems

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Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years

theguardian.com

Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to...
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in an attempt to protect human health and the environment.As the world attempts to make a treaty to cut plastic waste at UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, two countries have put forward the fir...
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Ukraine Is Using a Dungeons and Dragons Weapon to Wreak Havoc on Russian Trucks

popularmechanics.com

Videos posted to Russian and Ukrainian social media show that Ukraine has mated the breakout technology...
Videos posted to Russian and Ukrainian social media show that Ukraine has mated the breakout technology of small, low-cost quadcopter drones with a classic weapon of antiquity and the Middle Ages: spiky caltrops designed to be scattered in the path of enemy forces.View full post on XWhile Ukrainians had already been...

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Dick Rutan, who flew nonstop around the world, is dead at 85

independent.co.uk

Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel...
Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the radio to warn the pilot, his older brother Dick Rutan. But Dick never heard the message.Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with...
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Vera Rubin's primary mirror gets its first reflective coating

universetoday.com

First light for the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is quickly approaching and the telescope is reaching...
First light for the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is quickly approaching and the telescope is reaching milestone after milestone. A few weeks ago, the observatory announced that its digital camera, the largest one ever made, is complete. Now the observatory has announced that its unique primary/tertiary mirror has it...
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Winged lions through time and space

upenn.edu

« previous post | We're talking about the griffin / griffon / gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ,...
« previous post | We're talking about the griffin / griffon / gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon), "a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle w...
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Llama-3-70B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k

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Join our custom agent and long context (262k-1M+) waitlist: https://forms.gle/L6TDY7dozx8TuoUv7 Gradient incorporates your data to deploy...
Join our custom agent and long context (262k-1M+) waitlist: https://forms.gle/L6TDY7dozx8TuoUv7 Gradient incorporates your data to deploy autonomous assistants that power critical operations across your business. If you're looking to build custom AI models or agents, email us a message contact@gradient.ai. For more ...
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When a politician sues a blog to unmask its anonymous commenter

slashdot.org

Markos Moulitsas is the poll-watching founder of the political blog Daily Kos. Thursday he wrote that...
Markos Moulitsas is the poll-watching founder of the political blog Daily Kos. Thursday he wrote that in 2021, future third-party presidential candidate RFK Jr. had sued their web site. "Things are not going well for him." Back in 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued Daily Kos to unmask the identity of a community membe...
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Love to see the night sky on Mars? This is what it would be like to stargaze

skyatnightmagazine.com

What would a future visitor to Mars see during a night's stargazing? What do the stars...
What would a future visitor to Mars see during a night's stargazing? What do the stars look like on Mars? What does the Sun look like? Would Mars even be a good place to do amateur astronomy? At first glance the answer to this last question would be a resounding ‘yes’. For a start there are very few cloudy nights on...
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A Debate about Words

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Cathinone and Psilocybin in Cicada Pathogens (2019)

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Art and Memory

lrb.co.uk

‘Madame Camille Redon lisant’ by Odilon RedonAbout fifteen years ago, I bought a painting at auction....
‘Madame Camille Redon lisant’ by Odilon RedonAbout fifteen years ago, I bought a painting at auction. Apart from the usual anxieties, there was an overriding emotional factor. My wife, who had died a year or so earlier, had for many years collected images of women reading: mainly drawings, prints and watercolours, ...

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The business of wallets

bitsaboutmoney.com

One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in...
One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That always felt a bit on the nose for me given Capital One’s traditional market focus, but be that as it may,...
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

themarkup.org

Gentle January Unlock Your Phone Without Using Your Face or Fingerprint Authenticating with a passcode or...
Gentle January Unlock Your Phone Without Using Your Face or Fingerprint Authenticating with a passcode or pattern protects your data legally as well as physicallyJanuary 26, 2024 08:00 ET
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Ask HN: How do you develop and maintain a good note-taking habit?

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New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight brain tumor

medicalxpress.com

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Curse of Dimensionality

wikipedia.org

Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions") The curse of dimensionality refers to various...
Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions") The curse of dimensionality refers to various phenomena that arise when analyzing and organizing data in high-dimensional spaces that do not occur in low-dimensional settings such as the three-dimensional physical space of everyday experience....
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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid

tomshardware.com
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Explosively pumped flux compression generator

wikipedia.org

Non-nuclear device that creates an electromagnetic pulse A cutaway view of a flux compression generator. The...
Non-nuclear device that creates an electromagnetic pulse A cutaway view of a flux compression generator. The aluminum tube is detonated at the end extending out and beyond the copper-wire helix. On the other end a transformer enables the generator to work more efficiently into the electrical load. An explosively pum...
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Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs

gpudeploy.com
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Americans are still worried about inflation

reason.com

Inflation And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did...
Inflation And for good reason: Even at 3.5 percent, inflation is running higher than it did in almost every year for three decades before 2021. From President Joe Biden's point of view, Americans ought to be thrilled with the recent trends in inflation. "Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down," the pres...

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