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The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself

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Obsidian is now free for work

obsidian.md

People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is...
People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. If Obsidian benefits your organization, you can still purchase Commercial licenses to support development. Nothing else is changing. No account required,...
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What Do Van Halen and Brown M&M's Have to Do with Safety?

safetydimensions.com.au

There’s a long tradition of musicians and actors adding absurd demands to their performance contracts just...
There’s a long tradition of musicians and actors adding absurd demands to their performance contracts just because they could. Van Halen, the American hair rock band of the ’80s was infamous for this inclusion in their contract, Article 126, œThere will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeitur...
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AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

bbc.co.uk
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HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

theregister.com

HP is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use digital support channels by...
HP is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries. The wait time was added on Tuesday February 18, according to internal communications seen by The Register, and i...
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Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering

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Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

github.com
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Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control

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We're introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control...
We're introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. Helix is a series of firsts:Full-upper-body control: Helix is the first VLA to output high-rate continuous control of...
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X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks with Ad Giant to Increase Spending

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Saronic raises $600M in Series C to mass-produce autonomous warships

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Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship...
Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship factory called “Port Alpha,” it announced yesterday, quadrupling its valuation to $4 billion from its last round. Investor Elad Gil led the round, with General Catalyst joining existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, ...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than ...
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RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports

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It's time to become an ML engineer

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A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec

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Siddhartha

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1922 novel by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German:...
1922 novel by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel...
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What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust

ntietz.com

Monday, February 10, 2025Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the...
Monday, February 10, 2025Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the most recent messages without risking an unbounded amount of memory usage. I turned to the trusty ring buffer for this! I started by writing a very simple one myself in Rust, then I looked and what do you know, of course the stand...
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When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works

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All-optical control of charge-trapping defects in rare-earth doped oxides

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[1] P. Kofstad, “Defects and transport properties of metal oxides,” Oxid. Met., vol. 44, no. 1,...
[1] P. Kofstad, “Defects and transport properties of metal oxides,” Oxid. Met., vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 3–27, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01046721.Search in Google Scholar [2] H. L. Tuller and S. R. Bishop, “Point defects in oxides: tailoring materials through defect engineering,” Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., vol. 41, pp...

charge trapping defects optical storage rare-earth ions yttrium oxide
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Cassette Futurism

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Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der...
Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der späten 1970er bis frühen 1980er Jahre inspiriert ist[1][2]. Besonders auffällig sind die Verwendung von analogen Technologien, physischen Bedienelementen und einer insgesamt funktionalen, oftmals mi...
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Turns out the AI CUDA Engineer achieved 100x speedup by hacking the eval script

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Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway

opsmaru.com

We've started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part...
We've started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part requires having proper infrastructure monitoring for several reasons. While Opsmaru has health monitoring for every cluster managed by the platform, it doesn't give us deep insights into the metrics of the systems. U...
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The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

amazon.com

shopping
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After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem

quantamagazine.org

After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving...
After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving it. They made partial progress — and in the process they learned a great deal about groups, which are abstract objects that describe the various symmetries of a mathematical system. But a full proof seemed out of reach....
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EnigmaEval: A Benchmark of Long Multimodal Reasoning Challenges

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