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IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024 (www.cio.com)
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FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers (www.theverge.com)
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Touch Pianist (touchpianist.com)
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Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time (www.theguardian.com)
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London Street Trees (apps.london.gov.uk)
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California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics (www.latimes.com)
What's new in Emacs 29.1 (www.masteringemacs.org)
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TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S. (grizzlyreports.com)
A BERT for laptops, from scratch (github.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable (arstechnica.com)
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DSPy: Framework for programming with foundation models (github.com)
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The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes (www.vulture.com)
NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild (citizenlab.ca)
John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs (www-formal.stanford.edu)
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Bun 1.0 announcement [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot (blogs.microsoft.com)
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Chicago’s parking meter disaster (www.chicagotribune.com)
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U.K. abandons, for now, legislation that would have banned end-to-end encryption (daringfireball.net)
China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work (stocks.apple.com)
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‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)
Falcon 180B (huggingface.co)
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Norway court rules against Facebook owner Meta in privacy case (www.reuters.com)
Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting (www.theregister.com)
Interoperability can save the open web (spectrum.ieee.org)
Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook (review.firstround.com)
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deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android (play.google.com)
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Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report (www.theguardian.com)
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Czech scientists confirm the existence of the π-hole in molecules (www.avcr.cz)
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ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard (www.zsa.io)
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Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink (www.leeds.ac.uk)
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 (www.markround.com)
A currently maintained fork of SSHFS (github.com)
Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity (news.stanford.edu)
When tech says ‘no’ (www.ben-evans.com)
Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools (github.com)
LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings (simonwillison.net)
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ZFS for Dummies (ikrima.dev)
Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit (sr.ht)
Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily (spectrolite.app)
Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot (twitter.com)
Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on kickstarter (www.tomshardware.com)
The Battle over Books3 (www.wired.com)
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Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough (www.bloomberg.com)
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Dennis Ritchie Home Page (cm.bell-labs.co)
Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow (www.washingtonpost.com)
Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995) (archive.org)
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (vgel.me)
SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further (chipsandcheese.com)
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John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel (www.bbc.com)
Refact LLM: New 1.6B code model reaches 32% HumanEval and is SOTA for the size (refact.ai)
TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens (github.com)
Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 (github.com)
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VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code (vscodium.com)
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Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020) (kowainik.github.io)
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Simple fragrance method boosts cognitive capacity: study (scitechdaily.com)
He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him (www.nytimes.com)
TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes (torrentfreak.com)
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Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B (www.sydney.edu.au)
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Yenish people (en.wikipedia.org)
Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard (danieldk.eu)
Lego 3-axis styrofoam cutter [video] (www.youtube.com)
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HTML Design Principles (2007) (www.w3.org)
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Index of Aesthetics (cari.institute)
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