The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees

PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. Contribute to microsoft/pg_durable development by creating an account on GitHub.

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

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Introducing Sakana AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab

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GitHub's Status Page - Auth issue resulting in API impacts, including some Slack and Teams channel subscriptions.

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Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction by Hassan Ait-Kaci - a-yiorgos/wambook

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had a door detach at a remote Pacific airport, leaving engineers searching for answers about the cause.

Jason Koebler, and Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality…

I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly…

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.