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Colossal Secures $200M to De-Extinct Woolly Mammoths, Thylacines, and Dodos

2025-01-16
Colossal Secures $200M to De-Extinct Woolly Mammoths, Thylacines, and Dodos

Colossal BioSciences raised $200 million to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine, and dodo. The company uses genetic engineering, AI, and computational biology to achieve its ambitious goals. Significant progress has been made, including assembling complete genomes for several target species. Beyond de-extinction, Colossal is also focused on species preservation and human healthcare. The funding will expand the team, support technology development, and broaden the list of species targeted for de-extinction.

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(venturebeat.com)
Tech genetic engineering de-extinction

Docker Desktop macOS Startup Failure Due to Malware Reports

2025-01-16

Docker Desktop for macOS users recently experienced startup issues where macOS flagged `com.docker.vmnetd` or `com.docker.socket` as malware. Docker identified the root cause as incorrectly signed files in existing installations and released patches. Users are advised to update to the latest version or manually replace the affected files. The issue is resolved, but Docker continues monitoring for any further issues.

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(www.dockerstatus.com)
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Nvidia's Desktop AI Ambitions: Bringing Billion-Parameter Models Home

2025-01-16
Nvidia's Desktop AI Ambitions: Bringing Billion-Parameter Models Home

At CES, Nvidia unveiled 'Project Digits,' a desktop AI supercomputer based on its Grace Blackwell architecture. Priced at around $3,000, it can run 200-billion parameter AI models locally. This is seen as Nvidia's attempt to replicate its gaming success in the desktop AI market. While initially targeting data scientists and AI researchers, its affordable price and ease of use (supporting Windows and Mac) suggest a potential expansion to a broader consumer market. Nvidia's mature GPU ecosystem and hardware partnerships will aid in building a similar AI product line, but the maturity of the software ecosystem will be crucial to its success.

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(www.theangle.com)
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Jacob Dement's Stunning Portfolio: A Full-Stack Developer's Journey

2025-01-16

Jacob Dement's portfolio showcases the talent of a seasoned full-stack engineer. From meticulously designed websites to complex applications, he demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of front-end, back-end, and database technologies. The portfolio is more than just a collection of code; it's a compelling testament to his technical skills and creativity. Multiple project examples highlight his experience in solving real-world problems using diverse tech stacks. His dedication to both technical detail and user experience underscores his professionalism.

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(dement.dev)
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Razer to Refund Customers for Falsely Advertised N95 Masks

2025-01-16
Razer to Refund Customers for Falsely Advertised N95 Masks

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is issuing refunds to over 6,700 customers who purchased Razer's Zephyr mask, which was falsely advertised as meeting N95 standards. Razer, which launched the RGB-lit mask in 2021, never submitted it for certification. The FTC secured a settlement of over $1 million, with refunds now being distributed via check and PayPal. While Razer disputes the FTC's allegations, the refunds are being issued nonetheless.

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(www.gamespot.com)
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Pro-Ukraine Hackers Hit Russia's Biggest State Procurement Platform

2025-01-16
Pro-Ukraine Hackers Hit Russia's Biggest State Procurement Platform

A pro-Ukraine hacking group, Yellow Drift, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Roseltorg, Russia's largest electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement. The group allegedly deleted 550 terabytes of data. While Roseltorg initially attributed the outage to maintenance, they later confirmed the attack, stating data and infrastructure have been restored. The attack impacted major Russian corporations and government agencies, including the Ministry of Defense and Roskomnadzor. This incident highlights the ongoing cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine and the potential disruptive impact of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.

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(therecord.media)
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AI-Designed, 3D-Printed Shoes: Hype or the Future?

2025-01-16
AI-Designed, 3D-Printed Shoes: Hype or the Future?

Syntilay, the world's first AI-designed and 3D-printed shoe, is generating buzz. Designed using Midjourney and Vizcom AI, along with human artistry and 3D modeling, it boasts a unique look. While priced at $150, its customizable, personalized, and eco-friendly concepts attract attention. However, its design process and actual wearability remain controversial, with some questioning the extent of AI involvement and others raising environmental concerns. This shoe may represent a new direction in footwear design, but it also sparks debate on AI's role in fashion.

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(newatlas.com)
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Diamond Comics, Major Distributor, Files for Bankruptcy

2025-01-16
Diamond Comics, Major Distributor, Files for Bankruptcy

Diamond Comics Distributors, a leading distributor of graphic novels, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company, which had exclusive distribution agreements with major publishers like DC and Marvel, cited operational issues and failure to meet delivery deadlines as contributing factors. The bankruptcy announcement follows the recent closure of its flagship fulfillment center. While Diamond plans to sell off assets to stay afloat, the news signals significant challenges within the comics industry.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Apache DataFusion: A Powerful and Extensible Query Engine in Rust

2025-01-16

Apache DataFusion is an extensible query engine written in Rust that uses Apache Arrow as its in-memory format. It offers SQL and DataFrame APIs, boasts excellent performance, and provides built-in support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Avro. DataFusion features a full query planner, a columnar, streaming, multi-threaded, vectorized execution engine, and partitioned data sources. It's highly customizable, allowing additions of data sources, query languages, functions, custom operators, and more. Related subprojects include DataFusion Python (Python bindings), DataFusion Ray (distributed version), and DataFusion Comet (Apache Spark accelerator).

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(datafusion.apache.org)
Development Query Engine

OpenAI Misses Deadline for Photographer Opt-Out System

2025-01-16
OpenAI Misses Deadline for Photographer Opt-Out System

OpenAI has failed to deliver on its promise of a tool allowing photographers to opt out of having their work used in its AI training data by its self-imposed 2025 deadline. The planned Media Manager tool was meant to address copyright concerns and avoid legal disputes. However, its development appears stalled, with a former employee stating it wasn't a priority. This leaves photographers feeling exploited, their work used without permission or compensation. The situation highlights the ongoing challenges of managing copyright in AI training data.

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(petapixel.com)
Tech AI training data

Startup Necromancy: Exploiting Abandoned Google Apps Domains

2025-01-15
Startup Necromancy: Exploiting Abandoned Google Apps Domains

A security researcher discovered a critical vulnerability: improperly shutting down Google Workspace accounts leaves defunct startup domains vulnerable. New owners can reactivate former employees' Google accounts, granting access to third-party services (Slack, ChatGPT, Zoom, etc.) accessed via Google OAuth. Sensitive data, including tax documents and internal communications, becomes exposed. Google initially dismissed it, but after the researcher's Shmoocon presentation, they reevaluated, offering a bounty. This highlights the risk of insufficient account closure procedures and potential weaknesses within OAuth authentication.

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(arstechnica.com)
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GOG Joins Forces for Game Preservation: A European Collaboration

2025-01-15
GOG Joins Forces for Game Preservation: A European Collaboration

GOG, a leading European digital game distribution platform, has joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums, and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP), significantly expanding its game preservation efforts. GOG's Preservation Program, already boasting over 100 revitalized classic games, has been lauded by players and the industry alike. This partnership bridges the private sector with cultural organizations across Europe, uniting to safeguard gaming's rich history.

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(gog.prowly.com)
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Ludum Dare Cancels 2025 Events

2025-01-15

Mike, the founder of Ludum Dare, announced the cancellation of all 2025 events due to a confluence of financial, health, and family issues requiring his immediate attention. He needs to focus on finding work and addressing personal matters. This isn't the end of Ludum Dare, but a temporary hiatus. Mike cites difficult circumstances and apologizes for any inconvenience. Updates will be posted on the official Ludum Dare BlueSky account.

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(ludumdare.com)
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Hindenburg Research Founder Shuts Down Firm After Years of Exposing Fraud

2025-01-15

Nate Anderson, founder of the acclaimed short-selling firm Hindenburg Research, announced the firm's dissolution. In a personal note, Anderson recounts the arduous journey of building Hindenburg, from initial financial struggles and lawsuits to assembling a stellar team that exposed dozens of fraudulent schemes and led to charges against billionaires and oligarchs. He cites no specific reason for the closure beyond a personal desire for balance and a wish to share his team's expertise. Anderson plans to open-source Hindenburg's investigative methods and processes over the next six months, hoping to inspire others to fight financial wrongdoing.

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(hindenburgresearch.com)
Startup hedge fund fraud investigation

Cerebras' 100x Defect Tolerance: Cracking the Wafer-Scale Challenge

2025-01-15
Cerebras' 100x Defect Tolerance: Cracking the Wafer-Scale Challenge

Cerebras has defied conventional wisdom by building a 50x larger chip than its competitors while achieving comparable yields. The secret? A revolutionary approach to defect tolerance. By designing incredibly small AI cores (1% the size of an H100's core) and implementing a sophisticated routing architecture that bypasses defects, Cerebras achieves a remarkable 93% silicon utilization in its Wafer Scale Engine. This groundbreaking technology makes wafer-scale computing not just feasible, but commercially viable, opening new horizons for AI and high-performance computing.

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(cerebras.ai)
Hardware Wafer-scale Integration Fault-Tolerant Computing AI Accelerator

Bluesky's New Photo-Sharing App, Flashes, Launches Soon

2025-01-15
Bluesky's New Photo-Sharing App, Flashes, Launches Soon

Independent developer Sebastian Vogelsang is building Flashes, a new photo-sharing app for the decentralized social network Bluesky. Leveraging the AT Protocol and code from his previous Bluesky client, Skeets, Flashes aims to offer an alternative to Instagram. It supports multi-photo posts and short videos, syncing content to the main Bluesky platform. This provides an alternative for users seeking to escape Meta's ecosystem and those interested in visual content sharing, offering a fresh entry point for new Bluesky users.

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(techcrunch.com)
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dnSpyEx: The Unofficial Revival of a Powerful .NET Debugger and Assembly Editor

2025-01-15
dnSpyEx: The Unofficial Revival of a Powerful .NET Debugger and Assembly Editor

dnSpyEx is an unofficial continuation of the popular dnSpy project, a debugger and .NET assembly editor. It lets you edit and debug .NET and Unity assemblies even without source code. Key features include debugging and editing .NET and Unity assemblies, light and dark themes, and powerful decompilation, hex editing, and debugging capabilities such as breakpoint setting, variable windows, call stacks, and exception handling. dnSpyEx also offers a public API for extensions and scripting, and supports multiple language translations.

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(github.com)
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Sweden Rethinks Tech-Heavy Education, Brings Back Books and Pencils

2025-01-15
Sweden Rethinks Tech-Heavy Education, Brings Back Books and Pencils

Concerns over declining basic skills among Swedish students have prompted a shift in the country's digital education strategy. Years of emphasizing tablets and digital tools in schools have come under scrutiny following a drop in reading scores. In response, the government is increasing investment in physical books and encouraging a return to traditional teaching methods like handwriting practice and quiet reading time. While some experts support this back-to-basics approach, others argue it's an overreaction, emphasizing that technology is just one factor in a complex educational ecosystem.

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(apnews.com)
Tech Sweden

Telegram Takes Down Z-Library and Anna's Archive Channels

2025-01-15

Telegram shut down the popular shadow libraries Z-Library and Anna's Archive's channels due to copyright infringement. Both channels, boasting massive subscriber counts, were careful to avoid posting direct infringing links, yet were still terminated. Telegram hasn't disclosed the specific reason, but speculation points to copyright complaints or an Indian court order. Z-Library has launched a new Telegram channel.

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(torrentfreak.com)
Tech shadow libraries

Elon Musk and Sam Harris's Million-Dollar Bet: A Friendship Broken Over Pandemic Predictions

2025-01-15
Elon Musk and Sam Harris's Million-Dollar Bet: A Friendship Broken Over Pandemic Predictions

This article details the breakdown of the friendship between Sam Harris and Elon Musk. In the early days of the 2020 pandemic, Musk downplayed the severity of COVID-19, leading to a disagreement and ultimately a bet between the two on the number of US cases. Musk lost the bet, and with it, the friendship, highlighting their differing views and Musk's subsequent attacks on Harris via social media.

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(samharris.substack.com)
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UnitedHealth Buried Change Healthcare's Data Breach Notice for Months

2025-01-15
UnitedHealth Buried Change Healthcare's Data Breach Notice for Months

Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth-owned health tech company, suffered a ransomware attack last year exposing the sensitive health data of over 100 million individuals. The company delayed notifying affected individuals for months and, shockingly, used “noindex” code to hide the data breach notice from search engines. This secrecy has drawn criticism and prompted investigations and lawsuits from several states. The incident highlights Change Healthcare's significant security flaws and the lack of transparency and slow response from large healthcare organizations in dealing with data breaches.

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(techcrunch.com)
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400x Faster Static Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

2025-01-15
400x Faster Static Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

This blog post introduces a method to train static embedding models that are 100x to 400x faster on CPU than state-of-the-art embedding models, while maintaining most of the quality. This unlocks exciting use cases like on-device and in-browser execution. Two highly efficient models are presented: sentence-transformers/static-retrieval-mrl-en-v1 for English retrieval and sentence-transformers/static-similarity-mrl-multilingual-v1 for multilingual similarity. These models achieve at least 85% of the performance of counterparts like all-mpnet-base-v2 and multilingual-e5-small, while being significantly faster on CPU.

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(huggingface.co)
AI static embeddings sentence transformers

Google Workspace Integrates AI Across the Board: The Future of AI-Powered Work is Here

2025-01-15
Google Workspace Integrates AI Across the Board: The Future of AI-Powered Work is Here

Google has announced the integration of its best AI capabilities into Workspace Business and Enterprise plans, providing every business with AI tools at no extra cost. This includes AI assistants in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and more, along with the next-generation AI, Gemini, for summarizing, drafting emails, creating documents and videos, and more. Also included is NotebookLM Plus, a revolutionary AI research assistant. This move aims to lower the barrier to AI adoption, helping businesses boost productivity and gain a competitive edge.

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(workspace.google.com)
Tech AI for Work

Code Reviews: A Success Story

2025-01-15
Code Reviews: A Success Story

Engineer X at Google worked on two projects with vastly different code review processes. The first, with minimal review, resulted in a buggy release. The second, with a thorough and rigorous review process, although slower initially, yielded a bug-free release and significant learning for X, positively impacting his career. The article argues that code reviews aren't inherently antagonistic; it's the people involved and how the tool is utilized that matters for improving code quality and mentorship.

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(blogsystem5.substack.com)
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Empirical Health (YC) is Hiring Software Engineering Interns for Summer 2025

2025-01-15
Empirical Health (YC) is Hiring Software Engineering Interns for Summer 2025

Y Combinator-backed startup Empirical Health is seeking Software Engineering interns for Summer 2025. They're building the future of proactive primary care using AI and wearable health sensors. Interns will work on impactful machine learning or full-stack projects, such as creating models to predict hospitalizations or developing new mobile app features. The 12-week internship involves pushing code to production and directly impacting real patients. Strong skills in Typescript/Javascript, React/React Native, and/or Python are required.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Gates-Backed Advanced Nuclear Plant Gets Wyoming Permit

2025-01-15
Gates-Backed Advanced Nuclear Plant Gets Wyoming Permit

TerraPower's Natrium advanced nuclear power plant near Kemmerer, Wyoming, has cleared a major hurdle, receiving a construction permit from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council. This marks the first-ever state permit for a commercial-scale advanced nuclear project in the US. While the nuclear components still await approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the permit allows non-nuclear construction to begin, thanks to Natrium's unique design. The plant, slated to begin generating electricity in 2030, is expected to power around 250,000 homes and create roughly 1,600 jobs. Backed by Bill Gates and the US Department of Energy, the project leverages existing coal plant infrastructure, aiming to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and pave the way for global deployment.

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(wyofile.com)
Tech advanced nuclear reactor sustainable energy

Google's Gemini App Integrates Real-Time AP News Feed

2025-01-15
Google's Gemini App Integrates Real-Time AP News Feed

Google announced that its Gemini app will integrate a real-time news feed from the Associated Press (AP) to enhance the timeliness of search results. This builds on Google's long-standing partnership with AP, leveraging AI to improve products and services. The AP will provide real-time data, helping Gemini users access the latest information. Google also highlighted its collaborations with news organizations worldwide and its commitment to exploring AI's role in journalism, supporting journalists and the news ecosystem.

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(blog.google)
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SavePlays: Your All-in-One Online Video Downloader

2025-01-15
SavePlays: Your All-in-One Online Video Downloader

SavePlays.com is a free online video downloader supporting multiple platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Simply copy and paste the video link onto the SavePlays website, select your desired format and resolution, and download high-quality MP4 videos. It supports various resolutions (SD to 4K), is compatible with major browsers, and offers a simple and convenient download experience.

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(www.saveplays.com)
Misc video downloader HD video

LinkedIn's AI Job Match: Fewer Applications, Better Matches

2025-01-15
LinkedIn's AI Job Match: Fewer Applications, Better Matches

LinkedIn launched a new AI-powered feature called "Job Match" designed to help job seekers find more suitable roles. Going beyond simple keyword matching, it analyzes a candidate's experience to assess their fit for specific positions. LinkedIn aims to reduce unqualified applications, improving efficiency for both job seekers and recruiters. While available to all users, LinkedIn Premium subscribers receive more detailed match information. Despite the intense competition following 2024's tech layoffs, LinkedIn believes this feature can address a significant portion of the job search challenge by increasing transparency.

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(www.engadget.com)
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