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Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

polygon.com

Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book...
Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book first resonated with readers during the Vietnam War era, later becoming a staple in high school curricula the world over. When Vonnegut died in 2007 at the age of 84, he was widely recognized as one of th...
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Twitter blog posts from 2019-2024 appear to be missing from Internet Archive

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Bumblebee queens choose to hibernate in pesticide-contaminated soil

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Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fermi paradox

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VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

versatiles.org
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Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models

anthropic.com

Any industry where there are potential harms needs evaluations. Nuclear power stations have continuous radiation monitoring...
Any industry where there are potential harms needs evaluations. Nuclear power stations have continuous radiation monitoring and regular site inspections; new aircraft undergo extensive flight tests to prove their airworthiness.It’s no different for AI systems. New AI models go through a wide range of safety evaluati...
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Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

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1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates

intelligent.com

Generation Z (Gen Z) has a reputation for being challenging to work with and difficult to...
Generation Z (Gen Z) has a reputation for being challenging to work with and difficult to manage. In August, Intelligent.com surveyed 966 business leaders involved in hiring decisions at their company to explore attitudes toward hiring recent Gen Z college graduates. What we found: 75% of companies report that some ...
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Draw a Crocodile Without a Tail

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Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

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Apple's New iPad Mini Highlights the Company's AI Advantage

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Apple's macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position

theverge.com

For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders...
For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders of the screen to snap them into position, splitting the screen up evenly into halves or quarters. Now, with the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users can do the same. You can get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox...
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The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking

bloomberg.com
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Syncthing Android App Discontinued

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World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating

sky.com

The men's World Conker Championships winner has been cleared of cheating after a steel chestnut was...
The men's World Conker Championships winner has been cleared of cheating after a steel chestnut was found in his pocket. David Jakins, 82, known as "King Conker", won the tournament in Southwick, Northamptonshire, last Sunday for the first time after competing since 1977. But his long-awaited victory was marred when...
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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

bleepingcomputer.com

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated...
The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, BleepingComputer has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal re...

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The AI Investment Boom

apricitas.io

Thanks for reading! If you haven’t subscribed, please click the button below:By subscribing you’ll join over...
Thanks for reading! If you haven’t subscribed, please click the button below:By subscribing you’ll join over 45,000 people who read Apricitas!Last month, Microsoft made a high-profile announcement that it is paying to reopen reactor one at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to meet the company’s growing data center...
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The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)

medium.com

This is using Rotated Grid Super Sampling from my article on Sharper Mipmapping, along with 16x...
This is using Rotated Grid Super Sampling from my article on Sharper Mipmapping, along with 16x Anisotropic filtering. This is basically as good as a simple texture based grid can look while still being reasonably performant.And it seems simple enough to write a grid shader. Making grid lines in a shader is one of t...

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Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

sciencedirect.com
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Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS

tonyfinn.com

It's quite a common opinion that git (while a big improvement on what came before) still...
It's quite a common opinion that git (while a big improvement on what came before) still has plenty of rough edges, particularly with regards to the user interface. At the same time, there's also a significant barrier to entry for a new version control system with all the tooling that's built up around git over the ...
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Show HN: Contagious Beliefs–Simulating Political Alignment

nonzerosum.games

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Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25

theguardian.com

More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next...
More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landma...
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Debian Changes OpenSSH Packaging

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This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and...
This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. By Joe BrockmeierSeptember 27, 2024 In the wake of the XZ backdoor, the Debian pr...
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The Mad Files

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