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Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban: National Security Trumps Free Speech

2025-01-17
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban: National Security Trumps Free Speech

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok unless its Chinese parent company sells it. The ruling prioritizes national security concerns over free speech arguments, citing risks posed by TikTok's ties to China. While President-elect Trump suggested a negotiated solution and the Biden administration indicated it wouldn't enforce the ban immediately, the decision leaves TikTok's future in the US uncertain. The court found the law did not violate petitioners' First Amendment rights.

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(apnews.com)
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macOS 15.2 Update Breaks System Replication: Users Face Data Backup Nightmare

2024-12-14

A critical bug in macOS 15.2 has broken the system replication feature, causing data backups to fail with a 'Resource Busy' error, specifically when attempting to copy Preboot or Recovery partitions. Developer Dave Nanian explains that the problem stems from Apple's own code and currently has no easy fix. Users are forced to rely on third-party backup solutions, utilizing a 'Backup - all files' method with a Smart Update to restore their data after a clean system install. This issue is causing significant user frustration, particularly as the holiday season approaches.

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The Entropy of Large Language Model Output: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

2025-01-13

This post explores the output of large language models (LLMs like ChatGPT) from an information-theoretic perspective. The author calculates the entropy of each output token to measure the model's certainty in predicting the next token. Experiments show lower entropy (higher certainty) at sentence endings or word fragments, and higher entropy (more uncertainty) in descriptive statements. A comparison of token types at low vs. high entropy reveals that low entropy often correlates with factual statements (containing proper nouns), while high entropy correlates with descriptive statements. A Tamil language example is used for further illustration, emphasizing the importance of discerning truth from falsehood.

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(nikkin.dev)
AI Entropy Information Theory

Resurrecting a Perfect Commodore Amiga 1000: A Retrocomputing Odyssey

2025-01-29
Resurrecting a Perfect Commodore Amiga 1000: A Retrocomputing Odyssey

This blog post details the author's journey restoring a Commodore Amiga 1000, the first model of the Amiga series. Purchased from eBay, the machine's resurrection involved identifying its previous owner (Franz Barta), replacing capacitors, troubleshooting (a loose CPU socket was the culprit!), installing a PiStorm and Parceiro expansion board, and finally, restoring it to working order with a Retrobrighting treatment. The author shares experiences running incompatible software using WHDLoad and outlines future upgrades, including RGB2HDMI for high-definition output and RAM expansion.

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(celso.io)
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Controversy Erupts at FOSDEM: Billionaire Jack Dorsey's Keynote Sparks Outrage

2025-01-16

Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO, is slated to give a keynote at FOSDEM, a leading free software conference. This has sparked significant backlash within the FOSS community. Critics point to Dorsey's role in Twitter's decline and his involvement with Block, arguing he doesn't deserve such a prominent platform. The author calls for a boycott and is organizing a sit-in to protest Dorsey's presence and advocate for redirecting funds towards supporting the FOSS community.

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Grayjay App: Follow Creators, Not Platforms

2024-12-20

Grayjay is a multi-platform video player that aggregates content from YouTube, PeerTube, Twitch, and more, eliminating the need to switch between different platforms. Prioritizing user privacy, it stores watch history locally and offers data import/export and auto-backup. Features include a personalized content feed, screen casting, and Harbor integration for connecting with audiences and monetizing content.

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HP 9845C: A Colorful Pioneer of 80s Computer Graphics

2024-12-13

In 1981, the HP 9845C, the top-of-the-line model in the 9845 series, emerged as the first HP computer to support color, stunning the world with its powerful graphics capabilities. Featuring hardware-accelerated vector drawing and polygon fill, and supporting fast matrix operations for 3D model rendering, this machine initially designed for scientific and engineering use quickly became a multipurpose system, even contributing to the graphic scenes in the 1983 film "WarGames." Its demo program was remarkable, boasting over 4000 lines of code and showcasing cutting-edge concepts like 3D shading, ordered dithering, wireframe rendering, interactive light pen control, and color infographics at a high resolution of up to 4913 colors.

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(socks-studio.com)
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PLATO: How a 1960s Educational Computer System Shaped the Future

2024-12-16
PLATO: How a 1960s Educational Computer System Shaped the Future

PLATO, a groundbreaking educational computer system from the 1960s, significantly impacted the development of modern computing. Preceding its time, it pioneered features like forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer games. Its innovative gas plasma display, the TUTOR authoring language, and its advanced networking capabilities for simultaneous users were revolutionary. While PLATO's home market success was limited, its influence on graphic displays, networking, and user interfaces remains undeniable. Its legacy continues through emulators and modern reimaginings, preserving a piece of computing history and its vision for the future of education and interactive technology.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Server-Sent Events (SSE): An Underrated Real-time Data Streaming Solution

2024-12-25
Server-Sent Events (SSE): An Underrated Real-time Data Streaming Solution

This article explores Server-Sent Events (SSE), a simpler and more efficient one-way real-time communication solution compared to WebSockets. SSE leverages standard HTTP protocols, making it easy to implement and deploy, compatible with existing infrastructure, resource-efficient, and featuring automatic reconnection. The article details SSE's workings, advantages, and application scenarios (like real-time news, stock tickers, progress bars, etc.), showing code examples with Flask and JavaScript. Furthermore, it analyzes how LLMs like ChatGPT utilize SSE for streaming responses and points out SSE's limitations, such as unidirectional communication and data format restrictions. In short, SSE provides an elegant solution for many applications requiring unidirectional real-time data streams.

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(igorstechnoclub.com)
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Particles.js: Code Samples and More

2025-01-09

Particles.js is a powerful JavaScript library for creating stunning particle effects. This article provides code samples and additional examples of Particles.js, enabling developers to easily implement various particle animations, from simple falling effects to complex interactive scenes. Whether for web design or game development, Particles.js adds a touch of visual flair to your projects.

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(tiki.li)
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Token Security Raises $20M to Secure the Booming World of Machine Identities

2025-01-27
Token Security Raises $20M to Secure the Booming World of Machine Identities

The rise of cloud computing and AI has led to a surge in machine identities, creating more entry points for hackers. Token Security, a startup tackling this growing security risk, just secured $20 million in Series A funding. Their platform automatically identifies and manages machine identities, helping companies prevent breaches before they occur. Founded by veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, the company counts HPE among its clients and plans to use the funding to expand its AI capabilities and US presence. The funding highlights the increasing importance of securing machine identities, often overlooked in traditional cybersecurity strategies.

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(techcrunch.com)
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WordPress.org Pauses Services for Holiday Break

2024-12-20

To give volunteers a holiday break, WordPress.org is temporarily pausing several free services: new account registrations, new plugin/theme submissions, and new photo directory submissions. Forums and localization remain open. Founder Matt Mullenweg explains that legal battles with WP Engine are consuming significant time and resources, hindering his work on WordPress improvements. He urges support for WordPress.org and suggests using alternative web hosts not involved in the litigation.

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Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

2025-01-01
Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

Sandia National Laboratories is testing a novel cooling system that fully submerges computer servers in a non-conductive liquid coolant. This captures 100% of waste heat, resulting in a 70% reduction in energy consumption and significantly less water usage. The technology promises to revolutionize data center design, addressing the growing power and water demands of high-performance computing. Partnering with Submer Technologies, Sandia is conducting comprehensive tests, with a case study expected this fall.

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Tech immersion cooling data centers high-performance computing

Shapecatcher: Find Unicode Characters by Drawing!

2025-01-18

Shapecatcher is an innovative tool that lets you find Unicode characters by drawing their shape. Currently boasting 11817 glyphs, it's a convenient solution for finding characters whose names you don't know. Simply draw the character, click 'Recognize', and Shapecatcher will find the closest match. While Japanese, Korean, and Chinese characters aren't yet supported (due to font licensing), future updates plan to integrate the high-quality Noto font to address this. The project is still in beta.

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(shapecatcher.com)
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Proxmox Datacenter Manager Alpha Release Announced

2024-12-19
Proxmox Datacenter Manager Alpha Release Announced

Proxmox has released an alpha preview of its Datacenter Manager. This software centralizes management of all nodes and clusters, offering basic features like virtual machine migration without requiring a cluster network. Developed entirely in Rust, from the backend API to the new frontend, it boasts a modern web UI for improved speed and compatibility. This alpha release aims to gather user feedback, test core features, and foster collaboration. While some features are incomplete and bugs are expected, it's already capable of managing thousands of remotes and virtual machines.

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From SvelteKit to Plain HTML: A Website Rewrite

2025-01-15

Frustrated with the complexities of SvelteKit's build system, the author decided to rewrite their personal website using plain HTML and CSS. The process involved using Pandoc to convert Markdown to HTML and Python with uv for a lightweight build pipeline. Despite the small scale of the site, the rewrite resulted in a reduction in size from 356kb to 88kb and simpler, easier-to-understand code. The author notes remaining issues like code duplication and lack of live reloading, intending to address them in future improvements. The project serves as a simple template for building static sites with Markdown blogs.

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(www.vijayp.dev)
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World's First: AI Voice Cloning in Just 3 Seconds!

2025-01-10

AnyVoice unveils a groundbreaking AI technology that creates hyper-realistic voice clones from only 3 seconds of audio. This revolutionary technology dramatically speeds up the voice cloning process, eliminating the need for lengthy recordings. Currently supporting English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the service requires users to record a 3-10 second audio sample in a quiet environment. Commercial use is permitted with a commercial license.

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(anyvoice.net)
AI AI voice cloning speech synthesis

Major Breakthrough in Nuclear Clock Technology Promises Ultraprecise Timekeeping

2024-12-13
Major Breakthrough in Nuclear Clock Technology Promises Ultraprecise Timekeeping

An international research team led by scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, has made a significant advance in developing a novel nuclear clock. Nuclear clocks use energy transitions within an atom's nucleus to measure time, promising greater accuracy and resistance to external disturbances compared to atomic clocks. The team used a specially designed ultraviolet laser to precisely measure the frequency of an energy jump in thorium nuclei and an optical frequency comb to count the cycles. This breakthrough paves the way for more precise navigation, faster internet speeds, and advancements in fundamental physics research, potentially even aiding in the detection of dark matter or verifying the constancy of nature's constants.

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(www.nist.gov)
Tech nuclear clock ultraprecise timekeeping physics

Nokia Design Archive Now Online: A Journey Through Time

2025-01-16
Nokia Design Archive Now Online: A Journey Through Time

The Nokia Design Archive is now live, showcasing its design history through an interactive network timeline. Users can explore a vast collection of design materials using keyword search, topic filters (products, aesthetics, design process, design strategy), and date filters. The archive is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, with clear attribution instructions provided.

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(nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi)
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Concurrent Cycle Collection: Garbage-Collected Smart Pointers in Rust for Scheme

2024-12-13

This article details the implementation of a concurrent cycle collector in Rust for garbage-collected smart pointers (Gc) within a Scheme interpreter. Gc functions similarly to Arc>, supporting interior mutability, cloning, and sending across threads. The article thoroughly explains the implementation of Gc, including thread-safe interior mutability using semaphores and read/write locks, and the implementation details of concurrent cycle collection based on the Bacon and Rajan algorithm. This includes the Trace trait, cycle detection, and mechanisms for handling concurrent modifications.

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Chronotrains Launches Interactive European Train Map

2024-12-28
Chronotrains Launches Interactive European Train Map

Chronotrains has launched an interactive map for planning train journeys across Europe. The map visualizes the area reachable within 8 hours from any European train station. Users can hover to see isochrones, search for stations, or click example cities. Powered by Deutsche Bahn data, the map also facilitates multi-city trip planning and links directly to major train ticket providers, offering a convenient, comfortable, and sustainable way to explore Europe by rail.

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(www.chronotrains.com)
Tech European trains travel map journey planning

How Interruptions Impact Software Engineers: A Research Deep Dive

2025-01-20
How Interruptions Impact Software Engineers: A Research Deep Dive

New research explores how interruptions affect software engineers' productivity and stress. The study found that different types of interruptions (e.g., in-person vs. on-screen notifications) impact coding, code comprehension, and code review differently, with complex tasks being less affected. Interestingly, physiological data (heart rate variability) showed less stress with in-person interruptions, but engineers perceived them as more stressful. Managers should prioritize engineers' perceived stress, minimizing high-priority interruptions and providing focused time for tasks like coding to boost team efficiency.

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(rdel.substack.com)
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@celine/bibhtml v3.0.3: A Web Components-Based Referencing System

2024-12-21
@celine/bibhtml v3.0.3: A Web Components-Based Referencing System

@celine/bibhtml, a Web Components-based referencing system for HTML documents, has released version 3.0.3. It aims to provide a user experience similar to LaTeX/BibTeX referencing, using Citation.js under the hood and gracefully degrading when citations and references are malformed or JavaScript is disabled. Supporting BibTeX, unstructured text, DOI, and Wikidata formats, it offers three custom elements: ``, ``, and ``, simplifying reference management in HTML.

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Development Reference Management

Open-Source 5-Band Equalizer a5eq.lv2 Released

2024-12-18
Open-Source 5-Band Equalizer a5eq.lv2 Released

ashafq has released a5eq.lv2, an open-source 5-band equalizer LV2 plugin. This plugin features a low shelf, three peaking filters, and a high shelf, designed for precise audio sculpting by both amateur and professional audio engineers. It boasts high-precision filter coefficients, stereo processing, and a user-friendly interface. Compatible with any LV2-supporting host software such as Ardour and Audacity, it's easily installed and used via command line. Users can submit issues or contribute code via GitHub.

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(github.com)
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Veryfront Figma Kit: Design Stunning Websites in Minutes

2024-12-14
Veryfront Figma Kit: Design Stunning Websites in Minutes

Veryfront's new Figma Kit allows users to design stunning websites in minutes. Boasting 100+ components, light and dark mode support, and full responsiveness, the kit streamlines the design process. Users simply choose components, build pages, add content, and seamlessly hand off designs to front-end developers. Its intuitive tools and pre-built components save time and boost creativity, earning praise from users who report a transformed design process and increased efficiency.

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(veryfront.com)
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Coder's Million-Dollar Mistake: A Bug with a Dramatic Twist

2024-12-16
Coder's Million-Dollar Mistake: A Bug with a Dramatic Twist

Trey, a programmer working for a 3G telecom startup, wrote an automated payment testing program intended for small test transactions. Three bugs in the code, however, caused the program to credit his test account with $100 every five minutes. A lack of liveness check meant that when one gateway failed, the program continued running for hours, accumulating a substantial sum. The next morning, Trey faced questioning from the security team until his department head explained the situation, but the test account balance was reset to zero.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible?

2024-12-29
Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible?

This article investigates the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to accurately recall biblical scripture. The author devised six tests evaluating different sized LLMs' ability to accurately reproduce verses. Larger models (Llama 405B, GPT 4o, and Claude Sonnet) performed best, accurately recalling verses and even entire chapters. Smaller models (7B parameter range) frequently mixed translations or hallucinated text. Medium-sized models (70B range) generally preserved the meaning but often blended translations or paraphrased slightly. The author concludes that for accurate biblical quotations, larger models are preferable, supplemented by verifying against an actual Bible.

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(benkaiser.dev)
AI Bible Accuracy

Guitaraoke: Automating Chord Generation for Karaoke Videos

2025-01-21
Guitaraoke: Automating Chord Generation for Karaoke Videos

To enhance his monthly Guitaraoke night, Dylan Beattie built a system that automatically displays song chords on karaoke videos. He uses the Vamp plugin to extract chord information from audio, then ImageSharp and FFMpegCore to generate a transparent video overlay with the chords, finally compositing this onto the original video. This involves audio analysis, image processing, and video composition, resulting in real-time chord display for guitarists. Future improvements include automatic beat detection and batch processing.

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(dylanbeattie.net)
Development Audio Processing
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