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A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.

: Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

Declining strength of US passport, tied with Malaysia’s at 12th, signals ‘shift in global mobility’, says index creator

Zero-trust Opensource Network Management and Observability Platform - carverauto/serviceradar

Microsoft has ended support for Windows 10, and one of the most popular Ubuntu-based Linux distros is celebrating its "biggest launch ever" after a spike in downloads from former Windows 10 users.

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ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes,
some minor performance improvements and minor new features.

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An experiment was run to test if a testosterone administration would influence the political preferences of 136 healthy males. Synthetic testosterone or placebo was administered to participants who identified the strength of their political ...

De-stressing and pushing your tinnitus out of your mind are probably among the best pieces of advice you can get. Tinnitus can jump in and play with your nerves, you need to stop letting it do so and teach your brain to tune it out.

:books: Freely available programming books. Contribute to EbookFoundation/free-programming-books development by creating an account on GitHub.

Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability …

Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code. - willcrichton/flowistry

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport