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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.

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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.

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The tokens allow you to implant traps around your network and notifies you as soon as they are triggered.

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Dear AI Companies, instead of sneakily scraping OpenStreetMap.org, how about a tiny $10,000 donation? We'll even throw in a shiny new download link to our entire planet's geo data! Who knew it was that easy? Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/…