The nation's 50 largest metro areas have millions of homes that aren't being used. There are under 500,000 unhoused individuals in the entire country.

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Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price.

The Internal Revenue Service says Microsoft owes the U.S. Treasury $28.9 billion in back taxes, plus penalties and interest. That was revealed by the company Wednesday in a securities filing.

Nostalgist.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to run emulators of retro consoles within web browsers.

Atlassian said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million, beefing up its team collaboration tools to tap into resilient demand fueled by the adoption of hybrid work.

“We take gravity for granted,” Pettit said. “Generally, we are unaware of the weight of our hands, or how easily we pour coffee into a cup. We don’t stop to think, ‘Will the coffee rise up and pour out?’ or ‘Can we pour the coffee?’ We just do it. Gravity…

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Can’t Be Fucked

Aussie slang for not wanting to, or not having the energy and motivation to do something.

“Man, i really can’t be fucked changing the channel, let’s just watch Springer.”

- Urban Dictionary

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As a machine learning engineer who has witnessed the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), I find it daunting to comprehend how the ecosystem surrounding LLMs is developing.

On the 11th of October, Dutch parliament organized a hearing on the EU “Chatcontrol” proposal, with a focus on client side scanning. Dutch parliament had earlier passed two motions calling on the Dutch government not to support this proposal, but our government…

Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.