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Unique killer whale pod may have acquired special skills to hunt whale sharks
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phys.org
Unique killer whale pod may have acquired special skills to hunt whale sharks
Killer whales can feed on marine mammals, turtles, and fish. In the Gulf of California, a pod might have picked up new skills that help them hunt whale sharks—the world's largest fish, growing up to ...
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Researchers Use AI to Turn Sound Recordings into Accurate Street Images
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UT News
Researchers Use AI To Turn Sound Recordings Into Accurate Street Images
AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio
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The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system
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The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care system
The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.
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The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
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Justin Skycak
The Necessity of Grinding Through Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
If you go directly to the most abstract ideas then you’re basically like a kid who reads a book of famous quotes about life and thinks they understand everything about life by way of those quotes.
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China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
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Sandboarding
China Has Successfully Surrounded Its Largest Desert with a Green Barrier
China has just completed a 1,900-mile green belt around the Taklamakan Desert to combat desertification and protect local infrastructure.
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UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care
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ProPublica
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
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Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser
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GitHub
GitHub - qutebrowser/qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. - qutebrowser/qutebrowser
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Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
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Android Authority
Unless my phone can be a PC too, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
I've been using this year's fastest smartphones but I'm yet to find a use case that requires all this extra performance.
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SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain
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GitHub
sqlite/src/os.h at e8346d0a889c89ec8a78e65abc33257a6c6fb81a · sqlite/sqlite
Official Git mirror of the SQLite source tree. Contribute to sqlite/sqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I spent 8 hours testing o1 Pro ($200) vs. Claude Sonnet 3.5 ($20)
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Reddit
From the ChatGPT community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
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Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions
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Unseen Japan
Report: Tokyo University Program Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions - Unseen Japan
The student-led paper for Tokyo University says a graduate program used an HTML trick to prevent mainland Chinese students from applying.
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Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
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GitHub
GitHub - jdx/mise: dev tools, env vars, task runner
dev tools, env vars, task runner. Contribute to jdx/mise development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage
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The Conversation
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
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How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
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Gizmodo
How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?
A hat and sunglasses may not be enough to fool the most sophisticated facial recognition algorithms.
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SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM
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Succinct
Introducing SP1: Our first-generation zkVM.
Succinct Processor 1 (SP1) is a zkVM that that verifies the execution of arbitrary Rust (or any LLVM-compiled language) programs. SP1 targets an order of magnitude performance improvement vs. existing zkVMs, and its alpha release is already up to 30x faster…
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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
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France 24
UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.
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Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability
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blog.yossarian.net
zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability
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21 Algol 60 Compilers in 1962
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Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel
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WSJ
Meet the Small AI Chip Maker Now More Valuable Than Intel
Marvell’s role in helping tech titans create their own data center chips has boosted its revenue—and valuation.
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Grok is now free for all X users
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TechCrunch
Grok is now free for all X users | TechCrunch
The AI chatbot within X, Grok, is now free for all users - but with some limits.
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Codenames App, or my biggest project so far
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BoardGameGeek
Designer Diary: Codenames App, or My Biggest Project So Far...
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