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Experiment confirms that bird flu in the US is spread by milking procedures

elpais.com

An experiment with cows in a high-security laboratory in the United States offers alarming data on...
An experiment with cows in a high-security laboratory in the United States offers alarming data on the possibility of stopping the global bird flu epidemic, the worst recorded in history.American and German scientists experimentally infected calves and dairy cows in a level 3 security laboratory to determine the tra...

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Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Given the widespread adoption and usage of Large...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Given the widespread adoption and usage of Large Language Models (LLMs), it is crucial to have flexible and interpretable evaluations of their instruction-following ability. Preference judgments between model outputs have become the de facto evaluation stand...
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Witches Around the World

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OpenBSD 7.6 Released

undeadly.org

The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release. The new release contains a number...
The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release. The new release contains a number of significant improvements, including but not limited to: There is initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite [arm64] laptops. Initial support for Suspend-to-Idle has been added on amd64 and i386, enabling suspen...
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FTX Clear to Repay Customers as Firms Seek Slice of $1B

bloomberg.com
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Gohufont

gohu.org

Click on the size you want to see: Introduction Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well...
Click on the size you want to see: Introduction Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols. Here is what it looks like : The small 11 px version is perfect for l...
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The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade

substack.com
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Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes

arstechnica.com

The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service...
The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service providers, have developed a "surveillance system" that has "long undermined privacy and consumer protection," according to a report from the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) published today and s...
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Private equity ruins tech companies

zmh.org
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Show HN: AI-generated images that look like real life

gounfaked.com
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uBlock Origin supports filtering CNAME cloaking sites on Firefox now

github.com
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Study: CA Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Didn't Cut Jobs, Raise Prices Much

berkeley.edu

On April 1, 2024, California implemented its first sectoral wage policy, setting a $20 floor on...
On April 1, 2024, California implemented its first sectoral wage policy, setting a $20 floor on hourly pay for workers in the larger fast food restaurant chains and snack and nonalcoholic beverages chains. A tripartite Fast Food Council will determine future wage increases as well as recommend industry-wide standard...
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What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment

theatlantic.com

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XCP-ng 8.3 is now available

xcp-ng.org

We are excited to introduce XCP-ng 8.3, the final release in the 8.x platform series. This...
We are excited to introduce XCP-ng 8.3, the final release in the 8.x platform series. This marks a significant milestone for our community and sets the stage for exciting developments in the future.To download the netinstall version, along with all signatures and SHASUMs, visit xcp-ng.org and select "Download 8.3 La...

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US judge orders Google to open up app store to competition

reuters.com
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How Dwarf Works: Parsing Just Enough ELF

calabro.io

Sep 25, 2024 This is part of the series on DWARF. Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)...
Sep 25, 2024 This is part of the series on DWARF. Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is a file format for executables, object files, shared libraries, and more that's used on various Unix-like systems. If you've ever downloaded and run a program on Linux, you're using an ELF executable. It's akin to an .exe file o...
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Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1) (2019)

collabora.com

tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux...
tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time. The big picture In order to understand what is a USB...
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EuroBSDcon 2024 some notes after the conference

netbsd.org

October 04, 2024 posted by Leonardo Taccari I have not been at EuroBSDCon for a while,...
October 04, 2024 posted by Leonardo Taccari I have not been at EuroBSDCon for a while, unfortunately! My last EuroBSDCon was EuroBSDcon 2017 in Paris, France (and I have also blogged about it)! I was very excited to come back to EuroBSDCon. Meet again in person with people. Talk in the "hall track"... and, why not!,...
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Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review

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The survival skills of Helena Valero

substack.com

Helena Valero with three of her children, her ex-husband Akawe and her father. From Ettore Biocca’s...
Helena Valero with three of her children, her ex-husband Akawe and her father. From Ettore Biocca’s Yanoama - The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, 1996One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the ...
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Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)

trailofbits.com

Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a...
Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a sandbox. This surprised me. Sandboxing is one of the most effective security-hardening techniques. Why did Microsoft sandbox other high-value attack surfaces such as the JIT code in Microsoft Edge, but leave Windows Defende...
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Is the Attack Helicopter Dead?

hushkit.net

The attack helicopter is costly and complex to operate, yet it is taking a mauling in...
The attack helicopter is costly and complex to operate, yet it is taking a mauling in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s full-scale invasion attempt of Ukraine starting in 2022 has shown both the vulnerability of helicopters and the effectiveness of small, uncrewed aircraft against armour. With this in mind, ...
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Gunter's Space Page

skyrocket.de

What's New? 21.09.2024 24.08.2024 Hyperfield 1A eo sat Kanyini eo sat 24.08.2024 CAKRA 1 tech sat...
What's New? 21.09.2024 24.08.2024 Hyperfield 1A eo sat Kanyini eo sat 24.08.2024 CAKRA 1 tech sat CUAVA 2 tech sat 23.08.2024 EagleEye eo sat EOS 08 eo sat ERNST tech sat SR 0 edu sat ZX 4A comsat 22.08.2024 16.08.2024 11.08.2024 Solar Cell Experiment tech sat 06.08.2024 17.07.2024 11.07.2024 04.07.2024 03.07.2024 3...
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How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters

engelsbergideas.com

In 2014 Dan Geer, a computer security analyst, gave a speech at the RSA Conference, an...
In 2014 Dan Geer, a computer security analyst, gave a speech at the RSA Conference, an annual gathering of cyber-security specialists, titled: ‘We Are All Intelligence Officers Now’. It described the ways in which computers were insinuating themselves into every aspect of life, the resulting haemorrhage of data, and...
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