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One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’…

Virtual Machine for the Web. Contribute to leaningtech/webvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

White-collar hiring is in a huge slump. Here's who's getting hit the hardest.

The last few weeks have seen a swell of developer interest in atproto. Welcome! The protocol is maturing, and now is a great time for early adopters to jump in and start building. This post lists s...

We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons...

How Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response (and how you can too) - Meta used LLMs to root cause incidents with 42% accuracy. Here's how they did it and how you can do it too.

The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

BM25 is a widely used algorithm for full text search. I wanted to understand how it works, so here is my attempt at understanding by re-explaining.

Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor…

Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yi Peng 3 crossed both submarine cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke.

She was shadowed by Danish navy for a while during night and is now in Danish Straits leaving Baltics.

No signs of boarding. AIS-caveats…

An Indian's answer from the Heart instead of the Mind

Recent advances in 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet and BitNet b1.58, present a promising approach to enhancing the efficiency of LLMs in terms of speed and energy consumption....

I did not expect this! [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer of …

MathGPT is an AI math solver and homework helper trusted by 2M plus students who are looking for a math solver and calculator for algebra, geometry, calculus, and statistics from just a photo. If you need a math solver, MathGPT is the AI math problem solver…

My main background is a hedge fund professional, so I deal with finance data all the time and so far the Pandas library has been an indispensable tool in my...

The Danish Navy has detained the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, which is suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea.

ECOSYSTEMKEY FEATURESGET /E/OSNEED HELP /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem /e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications. They form a privacy-enabled internal system for your smartphone.…

I’m really excited that I can finally unveil the new Prusa CORE One! Not just here, with text and a 10-minute video deep dive, but also live at FormNext in Frankfurt. So if you’re visiting, stop by our booth at Hall...

A researcher thinks he knows what has been coming ashore on miles of beaches. Canada’s environmental agency says it is still looking into it.

Welcome to FreeCAD 1.0!
The most notable improvements over the 0.21 release series are:

the inclusion of the topological naming problem mitigation code,
an integrated assembly workbench,
a new mat...