Special Feature The Series 5 pocket computer from Psion was launched 10 years ago this week. It was a remarkable achievement: entirely new silicon, a new operating system, middleware stack and applica

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What Slack will eventually be able to offer both its own and Salesforce’s users is a unified experience where AI oversees any influx of both structured and unstructured data and parses through it to o

Many of the large language models that power chatbots claim to be open, but restrict access to code and training data. Truly open-source models should allow researchers to replicate and interrogate t

A proposal to regulate AI in EU Our Manifesto for AI companies regulation in Europe We are a group of artists, creatives, publishers and associations from all over Europe united in bringing to the p

Local, first, forever So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention: Specifically, this part: But first, some context. What is l

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I have a 14 year old YouTube channel that was linked to a Google account but it uses a Hotmail Address. I know the password but it keeps asking for 2FA phone number, I made the account years ago so ob

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After 40 years, the punk band NOFX is walking away with a farewell tour that is nothing short of a victory lap. When they were teenagers, the group developed an extreme do-it-yourself ethos. They had

Poking around in a fresh VM in Vagrant, I see bash dash , a POSIX compliant shell linked under sh python3 , 3.11.2 at the time of writing awk , specifically mawk sed , if you count that (I do) perl ,

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When I started programming in the 80s, the situation was simple: data was written to a file on a local disk. If files needed to be exchanged, a floppy disk was simply inserted into another computer an

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(* = probably.) Two years ago, a friend took me out to coffee in Boston and said, “I think we can engineer an organism to terraform Mars.” Terraforming—transforming a planet so it can support life—h

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Here’s one more way to stay on top of your favorite programming projects: have them sync to the same File Explorer you already use to navigate your hard drive in Windows. At Build, Microsoft now says

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In the last week, Houthi forces killed a merchant mariner, sunk a commercial ship and forced a crew to abandon another in flames. The attacks come as the Houthis continue to escalate its eight-month c

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The Indonesian government has admitted its national datacenter was hit by ransomware criminals, disrupting some of the country's services. The datacenter in question, operated by Indonesia's Ministry

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I had memories of my kids stored for 6 years as private yt videos. I uploaded yesterday a video of my son elongating his eyes and mouth with funny face. I think that caused my YouTube account to be sh

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Intro You don't need to be an expert in linear algebra to get started in AI, but you do need to know the basics. This is part 1 of my Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML series, which is my attempt to compr

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