TBH, I’ve long had a love/hate relationship with the documentation modes (e.g. Info, Help, Man, Shortdoc) provided by Emacs. While I’m grateful for their existence, I’ve never been enamored of...

The formerly secret fuse will let AMD know you were overclocking if things go sideways.

Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …

After years of battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, few Canadians will have the appetite for yet another troubling Internet bill. But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites…

Whose Creators They Failed to Credit

New advertisements by Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, prey on the financial anxieties of Gen Z and other young adults. The ads, which are on heavy rotation on cable television, depict the modern economic system as rigged. In one of the ads, a young woman…

Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.

We introduce FunSearch, a method for searching for “functions” written in computer code, and find new solutions in mathematics and computer science. FunSearch works by pairing a pre-trained LLM, whose goal is to provide creative solutions in the form of computer…

As the web declines, we pause to talk about the death of criticism and what happens when someone rips off your work.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. A WIRED investigation reveals the true scale of the project—and its impact on the local community.

If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it'll be classified as a job

We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?

The new image gives astronomers a near-infrared look at the stellar explosion called Cassiopeia A, located around 11,000 light years away from Earth

Memory constraints in ye olden days meant that text-mode display adapters had room for either upper or lower case, but not both. Why was this universally uppercase and never lowercase?
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Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at

The team successfully harvested energy from air humidity in a predictable and continuous manner, and they say the tech can be applied broadly.

Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards.

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