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Money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time.

Europe’s commercial ports are top entry points for cocaine flooding in at record rates. The work of a Dutch hacker, who was hired by drug traffickers to penetrate port IT networks, reveals how this type of smuggling has become easier than ever.

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Billionaire is against the labour movement, and workers believe their country’s traditions are under threat

The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.

The U.S. military says three commercial ships in the Red Sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen, and a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault.

LLMs (Large Language Models) for local use are usually distributed as a set of weights in a multi-gigabyte file. These cannot be directly used on their own, which generally makes them harder to dis…

Have you ever wanted to write your own compiler? ... yes? ... of course you have! I've always wanted to have a go at writing a compiler, and with the recent release of WebAssembly, I had the perfect excuse to have a go.

Large language models require huge amounts of GPU memory. Is it possible to run inference on a single GPU? If so, what is the minimum GPU…

An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust. Contribute to mattwparas/steel development by creating an account on GitHub.

MAIM is a VST audio plugin for MP3 compression distortion, using real mp3 encoders

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This video shows the teardown of the guidance section of a Javelin missile FGM-148.

Nota 2023/12/24: this video is intended to show the technology now obsolete used in the 80s-90s on military devices. Similar technology can be found in avionics for instance.…

A study of associations between stone tool evidence and fossil hominin remains shows that a wide range of species made stone artifacts.

Tired of Windows 11's default options? Check out these mock-ups for an Advanced Windows Settings panel and have your voice heard.

Get unsolicited phone calls or texts? How to find the responsible carrier, report the abuse to them, and shut the spammer down.

An alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it. IBM thinks Watson can help, but it's not guaranteed.