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“Facebook is out of touch with game-style software development practices and expectations on art direction and character/avatar development,” says Rafael Brown, CEO of Symbol Zero. “Keep in mind their other internal projects like Quill, that they’ve jettisoned…

Direct an interactive choir of 16 AI-generated 'Freddie Mercury', animated with voice-to-video in celebration of Bohemian Rhapsody's innovative legacy.

A deep dive into an in-the-wild Android exploit Guest Post by Xingyu Jin, Android Security Research This is part one of a two-part guest...

Get your ducks in a row before leaving a job.

This site, like millions of others, has a certificate from Let’s Encrypt. Farewell, Peter Eckersley, PhD, who helped make it all possible.

How is electric car adoption accelerating in the US?

To say Tesla is merely interested in machine learning is an understatement. The electric car maker built an in-house supercomputer named Dojo, optimized for training its machine learning models. Un…

Credit Karma has been fined $3millon by the US consumer watchdog for making misleading claims that people have been or are likely to be approved for credit or loans.

Nature - Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 May 2022

The Kodak Disc camera was was lightweight, foolproof (with auto-exposure and built-in flash), affordable, and used a brand new kind of film cartridge... but it was only sold for six years.

tl;dr - This post was inspired by Carlos Fenollosa’s post (and the resulting discussion on HN). Self hosting email is the easiest it’s ever been – don’t let the email provider oligopoly (Gmail, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) win.
Discussion up until now: Deliverability…

Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It’s not going to be a simple Copy/Paste to run your own mail server. You have been warned.

AI can be terrifying when used in horrible ways.