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Today’s article was written with Aziz Sunderji, an economic analyst and data whiz who writes at Home Economics. American fatherhood has transformed in the last few generations. Compared to their Boom

When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing reso

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? Vehicle connectivity is a core feature of Rivian vehicles. If you choose to disable all vehicle connectivity, it will prevent data from leaving the

A few weeks ago, Axios, the popular HTTP client for JavaScript, suffered a supply chain attack on NPM. An attacker compromised the lead maintainer’s NPM account through social engineering and publishe

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Radioactive spill in New Mexico, United States The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred in the U.S. state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's tailings disposal pond a

Advertisement Attorney general says Meta issues threat to shut down products in New Mexico Editorial Standards ⓘ New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is responding to a reported threat by Meta to

Hook, Line, & Syncer: Bringing Voice Back Online By querying etcd, we could see that a majority of voice syncers instances were not announcing and were out of the hash ring. While these instances w

183076662 story RightsCon , one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials c

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183076402 story An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kic

Since I published Carrot disclosure: Forgejo two days ago, numerous things happened: Friends of mine were reached out to, to "talk to me from a place of trust", or simply to tell them what an horribl

Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal autho

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM Reverse Engineering SimTower I woke up the other day and asked: could an LLM reverse engineer a modern clone of my favorite childhood video game? So I did it. towe

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A framework for evaluating generative AI in creative work that separates convergence, where evaluators agree on best practices, from divergence, where they legitimately disagree because the question h

When building a durable workflow execution system on Postgres, one of the most common questions we get is “does Postgres scale?” There are plenty of posts from top tech teams asserting that Postgres d

A statement from members of the Toki Pona community. Dedicated inbox: [email protected]. April 27, 2026 In the past few days, those of us who are in prominent roles in the Toki Pona community have

Full-Text Search with DuckDB Published on: 4/29/2026 Overview This is a follow-up to my first post about DuckDB: A Dab of DuckDB. If you’re new to DuckDB, you may want to start there. The basic Du

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the comp

A recent piece of news concerning Google’s work on Android for tablets really drove home a point that’s been evident to many people for a long while. According to Android Authority, Google is about t

tl;dr by forgoing the Kafka protocol, you save a bunch of money. Apache Kafka lists many use cases on its website, but one of the (if not the most) common use case is shipping data to a database or w

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I gave this talk to a group at the American Corner in Almaty in April, 2026, in Almaty Kazakhstan. I was invited to come talk about America, it’s the 250th birthday of America. I’m an American living

Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec 24 Apr, 2026 You know the drill. That passwords.txt is no longer needed. Right click -> Delete. Empty Trash. That's it. Well, not quite. When

Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology t

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kured - Kubernetes Reboot Daemon Introduction Kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots when the need to do so is indicated by the package

Meta’s decided its new proprietary AI LLM, Muse Spark, would be much more profitable than the open-source Llama. What are Llama users to do? Back in 2023, Meta released Llama 2.0 and proclaimed it to

TRiP — TRansformer in Progress A few-files, all-in-one C engine for Transformer AI models: inference, training, tokenizer creation, chat, and vision. Built from scratch over 18 months (from March 20