Research update on ultra-long context models, our partnership with Google Cloud, and new funding.

We present Shufflecake, a new plausible deniability design to hide the existence of encrypted data on a storage medium making it very difficult for an adversary to prove the existence of such data. Shufflecake can be considered a ``spiritual successor'' of…

floating-points-between-zero-and-one I saw this comment on Hacker News the other day: The number of floats between 0 and 1 is the same as the number of floats between 1 and 3No, the number of floats …

Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open source principles and the open source community.

Teens wrote me a secret. I found them.

RunCVM (Run Container VM) is an experimental open-source Docker container runtime, for launching standard container workloads - as well as Systemd, Docker, even OpenWrt - in VMs using 'dock...

Residents must continue to carry their physical cards   HONOLULU – REAL ID-compliant Hawaiʻi driver’s licenses and state identification cards can be added to iPhone and Apple Watch as of August 28, 2024.* Within Hawaiʻi, digital driver’s licenses and state…

Anthropic's educational courses. Contribute to anthropics/courses development by creating an account on GitHub.

Every listed new feature since Java8.

With 3.0 quickly on the horizon, we've decided to fast-track this so we can get more eyeballs sooner:
A close relative to the FNA project is the MoonWorks project, which intends to be more ...

Python training for business analysts and traders. Contribute to jpmorganchase/python-training development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Firewall rules: not as secure as you think This post introduces some tricks for jailbreaking hosts behind “s...

Decisão ocorre após Alexandre de Moraes bloquear contas da Starlink, que fornece internet a diversas regiões do Brasil

Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers, is now a vibrant heritage attraction in Milton Keynes, open daily to visitors.

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One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project

Distraction blocker which monitors your mouse and keyboard. Prevents you from switching tabs and wasting your time. - datavorous/amine

People complain about Rust syntax.
I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust's syntax, they actually object to Rust's semantics.
In this slightly whimsical post, I'll try to disentangle the two.