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The U.S. Passes an Internet Privacy Law for Rich Jet Owners
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Techdirt
The U.S. Finally Passes An Internet Privacy Law… For Rich Jet Owners
The U.S. yet yet to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law — or regulate data brokers. And while there’s a lot of misdirection and pretense to the contrary, the primary reason is (1…
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The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right
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Vox
Why the State Department’s intelligence agency may be the best in DC
INR is “almost always right.” How come nobody has heard of it?
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Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember everything you say
I’m beginning to suspect that one of the most common misconceptions about LLMs such as ChatGPT involves how “training” works. A common complaint I see about these tools is that …
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Canada wants the power to create backdoors in telecom networks for surveillance
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The Globe and Mail
Opinion: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance
Uncompromised encryption is the backbone of cybersecurity. And yet Bill C-26 would allow the federal government to secretly order telcos to undermine that encryption – which would make us more vulnerable to malicious threats
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Qlock – A JavaScript Quine Clock
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Aem1K
Qlock - A JavaScript Quine Clock
Displays the current time in a seven-segment style, embedded within its own JavaScript source code. (321 bytes)
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20 Years of Blogging on my own website
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jeena.net
20 Years of Blogging; On my own website
Reflecting on two decades of blogging evolution
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Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users
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Mashable
Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
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Three.js Shading Language
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GitHub
Three.js Shading Language
JavaScript 3D Library. Contribute to mrdoob/three.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
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Unpopular opinion: you should copy/fork/DIY your dependencies for everything
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X (formerly Twitter)
Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) on X
Unpopular opinion: you should copy/fork/DIY your dependencies for everything but the most complicated or sensitive functionality (GUI, crypto, networking, etc.). Blindly depending on trivial functionality or having a deep dependency tree causes more problems…
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Nalanda: The university that changed the world
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Bbc
Nalanda: The university that changed the world
More than 500 years before Oxford University was founded, India's Nalanda University was home to nine million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world.
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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
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mtlynch.io
I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I've sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
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IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
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If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
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NY Times
If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.
Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.
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Gone 10 years, World’s Biggest Bookstore still grips readers
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Toronto Star
‘Going to the World’s Biggest Bookstore was an event.’ 10 years after closing, it still has a grip on former readers
Having everything available at your browsing fingertips felt like a brick-and-mortar Amazon in Toronto, but with smiling staff whose knowledge elevated the experience.
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Kino: Pro Video Camera
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Lux — iPhone camera apps, camera reviews and more
Introducing Kino - Pro Video for iPhone
Today we're excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, "Show, Don't tell," so let's walk through a few of the tent-pole features in our huge 1.0 release.
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Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
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dashbit.co
Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Apache Arrow, structured LLM, and more - Dashbit Blog
An update on the latest advancements of Elixir, data, and Machine Learning.
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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
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foojay
Indexing all of Wikipedia, on a laptop
foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More.
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Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces
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Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
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A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe
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