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With great sadness, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces the passing of our founder, Gordon Moore. With his characteristic humility and word economy, Gordon Moore once wrote “my career as an entrepreneur happened quite by accident.” A brilliant scientist, business leader and philanthropist, Gordon co-founded and led two pioneering technology enterprises, Fairchild Semiconductor and…
To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see OpenAI’s announcement. In Just Two and a Half Months… Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. And today—just…
A very compact representation of an image placeholder. Store it inline with your data and show it while the real image is loading for a smoother loading experience. It’s similar to BlurHash but with the following advantages: Encodes more detail in the same space Much faster to encode and decode Also encodes the aspect ratio…
A very compact representation of an image placeholder. Store it inline with your data and show it while the real image is loading for a smoother loading experience. It’s similar to BlurHash but with the following advantages: Encodes more detail in the same space Much faster to encode and decode Also encodes the aspect ratio…
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re only three months into 2023, and it’s already clear what one of the biggest stories of the year is: AI. AI has seized the public’s attention like Netscape did in 1994, and the…
Commits to master since this release Commits since last release To install the stable build: Firefox: Review pending uBO works best on Firefox. Chromium: Submission pending Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nicole Rolls Opera: Submission pending New Readiness status at browser launch uBO’s readiness at…
Dear readers,After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.The site will remain active until April 10, and the editorial team is still working on reviews and looking forward to delivering…
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field. This made me think about how…
Abstract If an attacker can get access to the encrypted vault data stored locally on your device, and you’ve configured a Bitwarden PIN as in the image below, the attacker can brute-force the PIN and gain access to your vault’s master key. Effectively, Bitwarden may just as well store the data in plain text on…
Image source, Getty ImagesBy James GallagherHealth and science correspondentGiving young babies – between four and six months old – tiny tastes of smooth peanut butter could dramatically cut peanut allergies, say scientists. Research shows there is a crucial opportunity during weaning to cut allergy cases by 77%. They say the government’s advice on weaning -…
Shortly after I left Boston University in the spring of 1991 and was working as a rent-a-cop at the Lafayette Place Mall, I called up a new online bulletin board, or BBS, for the first time. I think it was simply called “M.” They requested that users create a unique username, something totally new, that…
A lean, statically typed, compiled, general-purpose, procedural, object-oriented, and garbage collected programming language in the Pascal tradition, with support for generic programming View it on GitHub Code Examples Procedural Programming module Fibonacci proc calc*(n : integer): integer var a, b: integer // comma is optional begin if n > 1 then a := calc(n -…
A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table. Tested Platform SQLite 3.39.2 Rust 1.62.1-aarch64-apple-darwin macOS 12.5 (Monterey) on Apple M1 MAX Getting Started Setup Google Cloud Create a Project Log in to the Google Cloud console. Go to the Manage resources page. On the Select organization drop-down list at the top…
Edge has some very user-hostile defaults, at least for the type of user who doesn’t want extra ads and doesn’t want to send personal data to Microsoft just for funsies. Did you know that out-of-the-box, Edge will transmit the content of your text boxes on web pages to the Microsoft Editor service for the purpose…
Nebula progress report Check out our latest newsletter: Final update. 3 Mar 2023, 4:59:42 UTC · Discuss Citizen Science SETI Project at UCLA. Jean Luc Margot, a SETI Researcher at UCLA has started a Citizen Science project at UCLA. Participants will help identify and classify types of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) seen in the data…
March 16, 2023 by Dan Abramov and Rachel Nabors Today we are thrilled to launch react.dev, the new home for React and its documentation. In this post, we would like to give you a tour of the new site. tl;dr The new React site (react.dev) teaches modern React with function components and Hooks. We’ve included…
We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. For those of you catching up, we recently emailed accounts that are members of Free Team organizations, to let them know that they will lose features unless they move to one of our supported free or…
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, managed to get all his money out of SVB before it went bust. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Say what you like about Peter Thiel – but luck has generally been on the Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s side. He is, after all, a co-founder of PayPal – which…
ZURICH, March 15 (Reuters) – Credit Suisse shares slumped by as much as 30% on Wednesday after its largest shareholder said it could not provide further support, prompting the Swiss bank’s CEO to make new assurances on its financial strength.Saudi National Bank (SNB) (1180.SE), which holds 9.88% of Credit Suisse (CSGN.S), said it would not…
When I first encountered Kubernetes, its networking model seemed sufficiently advanced to look like magic. The problem is: I hate magic, and I hope you do too. In this blog post, I hope to ruin your esoteric expectations about Kubernetes Networking. This is the brief guide to Kubernetes networking I wish I had when I…
Mission The Not By AI badge is created to encourage more humans to produce original content and help users identify human-generated content. The Ultimate goal is make sure humanity continues to advance. An expert estimates that 90 percent of online content could be generated by AI by 2025.1 With the surge in AI-generated content, it…
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order requiring Epic Games, the maker of the Fortnite video game, to pay $245 million to consumers to settle charges that the company used dark patterns to trick players into making unwanted purchases and let children rack up unauthorized charges without any parental involvement. In a complaint announced…
Gunzenhausen – 15. March 2023 The German hosting and cloud provider Hetzner is now offering three new dedicated servers which are particularly impressive due to their excellent price-performance ratio.The new EX101 Dedicated Server from the EX line houses the high-end Intel® i9-13900 processor and displays impressive performance on a wide range of applications thanks to…
Vivaldi’s co-founder doesn’t think that the Android Privacy Sandbox changes anything, either. Smartphones are everywhere, and they give us so much access. We can find information instantly, purchase products online for arrival mere hours later, and communicate over countless messaging services. It’s a double-edged sword, though, and being able to do all of that online…
On March 14, 2023, Instagram announced that it would be ending its work on digital collectibles (NFTs). In a Twitter thread, Stephane Kasriel, Commerce and FinTech Lead at Meta, announced that features supporting NFTs would be disabled across the platform. “We’re looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus. We’re winding down digital…
We believe that AI and education make a great duo, and we’ve leveraged AI to help us deliver highly-personalized language lessons, affordable and accessible English proficiency testing, and more. Our mission to make high-quality education available to everyone in the world is made possible by advanced AI technology. That’s why we’re excited to take advantage…
continue to optimise and get improvements in sound, one thing I have found is that as the loop is optimal the reliance on low latency is reduced, in fact sounds much worse at low values, so can now use a period of 0.5s found that best vs2010 optimisation settings were for speed. playing wav files…
Many years ago I froze my credit with all three credit reporting agencies in the US. This was a fairly straightforward process that differed slightly at each agency, but mostly involved getting a numeric PIN that I then used to request temporary unfreezes from time to time.In February of 2023 I attempted to request an…
What is included in my trial? During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well…
Everyone knew OpenAI would release an API for ChatGPT at some point. The APIs for GPT-3 alone enable the existence of companies such as Jasper and Copy.ai. The real question was the price of the ChatGPT. For context, when GPT-3 went out of beta in 2021, it cost $0.06/1,000 tokens (a few paragraphs of text).…
The open release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model back in August 2022 was a key moment. I wrote how Stable Diffusion is a really big deal at the time. People could now generate images from text on their own hardware! More importantly, developers could mess around with the guts of what was going…
On Monday, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. warned a gathering of bankers in Washington about a $620 billion risk lurking in the US financial system. By Friday, two banks had succumbed to it. Whether US regulators saw the dangers brewing early enough and took enough action before this week’s collapse of Silvergate Capital Corp.…
Many of us have witnessed the breathtaking moon photos taken with the latest zoom lenses, starting with the S20 Ultra. Nevertheless, I’ve always had doubts about their authenticity, as they appear almost too perfect. While these images are not necessarily outright fabrications, neither are they entirely genuine. Let me explain. There have been many threads…
Emergency bridge loan for SVB customers.Brex is offering emergency bridge loans to qualified SVB customers to help minimize the impact of recent events on operational spend.With the recent news around Silicon Valley Bank’s insolvency, many SVB customers are unable to move funds and fulfill their payment obligations such as payroll, invoices, etc.Brex is offering emergency…
LATEST March 10, 3:10 p.m. Rippling relied on Silicon Valley Bank to process its customers’ employee paychecks, but when the bank suddenly collapsed, the human resources startup had to quickly pivot. The firm’s CEO, Parker Conrad, posted an update Friday afternoon, saying that though SVB’s systems indicated that payments were processed, money hadn’t actually gone out…
The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company. One interesting problem we have is that…
Subscribe for more content like this through the mailing list or RSS. Nox is an incredible tool, I use it for all my Python projects, highly recommend it. One of the best features of nox and tools like it is parameterization. Usually this is done for the test suite portion where you want to run…
In the history of mind-blowing tech demos there is one that stands out, and that is Johnny Lee’s Wii Remote hack to create VR displays: That video is from 2007, and yet the technology being shown is so impressive that it feels like it could have been made yesterday. The response to Johnny’s demo was…
Who we areinterviewing.io is your trusted advisor for every stage of your job search. In our lifetime, we’ve hosted close to 100k mock interviews, conducted primarily by senior engineers from FAANG. We have the recordings from these interviews, as well as feedback and outcomes, which lets us perform cool and useful analysis, like the kind…
The U.S. Postal Service’s plans for a nationwide fleet of electric vehicles are getting closer to being realized. The service awarded contracts on Tuesday for 9,250 battery electric vehicles and for more than 14,000 charging stations. The vehicles purchased are Ford E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), which according to USPS are “100 percent electric.” It’s part…
