I gave a talk about accessing Large Language Models from the command-line last week as part of the Mastering LLMs: A Conference For Developers & Data Scientists six week long …

Marshall Allen, the musical collective’s sax-playing leader, is celebrating with a deep-spacey video installation during the Venice Biennale.

A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie, re-designed to be manufactured by mere mortals. - dojoe/Twonkie

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fiber from sugarbeet waste—a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature—has been created at the University of ...

TL;DR: how I fixed my RSS feed by installing mailcap so I don't get tormented by mimes

Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack

Hi, For some reason today I’m unable to load any sites protected by cloudflare. I get constant “verify you are human” prompts. I’ve scanned all my devices for malware and found nothing. I don’t use the Internet behind a VPN or anything. I’m just an average…

The punk rock pioneers chose freedom — and chaos — over major labels. Pulling the plug while things are still working is one final act of rebellion.

Type 2 diabetes risk was higher in people exposed to brighter night light, and in
people exposed to light patterns that may disrupt circadian rhythms. Avoidance of
light at night could be a simple and cost-effective recommendation that mitigates
risk of diabetes…

Poking around in a fresh VM in Vagrant, I see
bash dash, a POSIX compliant shell linked under sh python3, 3.11.2 at the time of writing awk, specifically mawk sed, if you count that (I do) perl, specifically Perl 5 There may be others I missed.
Why I’m curious:…

Are we busy and overstimulated because we’re bored, or are we bored because we’re busy and overstimulated?

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the only other planetary body in the solar system that currently hosts active rivers, lakes, and seas. These otherworldly river systems are thought to be filled with liquid ...

Resilient sync for local-first apps by using existing technologies such as file systems

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We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage

But most Microsoft account sign-in workarounds for Windows 11 continue to work.

Nature - Many of the large language models that power chatbots claim to be open, but restrict access to code and training data.

Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz