Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

David Kopec's blog.

Delta has hired prominent attorney David Boies to pursue potential damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a mass outage earlier this month.

Exploring memory-efficient techniques for LLMs

One of the crucial steps in the TLS handshake is for the server to prove its identity to the client. While there is plenty of content explaining the principles of the handshake, there's less informati

Word Slicer is an interactive web-based word game featuring sliders with letters to uncover hidden words using the slicer. Players strategically choose letters to reveal words from a secret list, adding a captivating blend of linguistic exploration and strategic…

Zig’s reflection combined with Zig’s ability to import C header files means Zig can be used for C macro reflection.

A Disney employee downloaded what they thought was a safe add-on for video game BeamNG.drive, but it was anything but.

Recently, GDM released a great paper noscriptd, Scaling Exponents Across Parameterizations and Optimizers, in which they conduct over 10,000 LLM training runs to obtain optimal hyperparameters under different regimes.
After reading it (it was great), I wanted…

A new study links the vulture decline in India to deadly bacteria spread, causing about 500,000 deaths.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to ban nearly all employee non-compete agreements in the United States [see April 25, 2024 Alert]. Almost immediately after the FTC issued its final...

“Sorry, Benedetto, but I need to identify you,” the executive said.

U.S. health regulators have approved a blood test for colon cancer, offering a new way of screening for a leading cause of cancer deaths.

The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.

Canarytokens is a free tool that helps you discover you’ve been breached by having attackers announce themselves.
The tokens allow you to implant traps around your network and notifies you as soon as they are triggered.

A history of the narrative histories of the Internet