Overview The results are in! Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest! I am floored by all of the creativity and thought put into the entries!! I'd like to list out the entries, what I like about each one, and finally outline…

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt. In my opinion, if this is all the AI startups can muster, they’re losing their touch. wget can do this. You need to up your game…

A look inside FutureHouse, a nonprofit research institute in San Francisco.

At an all-hands meeting last night, Elon Musk stood before Tesla employees and told them to “hang on to their...

Let's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux…

Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock. Think firejail, but lightweight, user-friendly, and baked into the kernel. - Zouuup/landrun

Amazon’s lawsuit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission echoes arguments used by the Trump administration to attack the independence of other federal regulators.

How to manage the complexity of distributed backend architectures - exploring different ways of orchestrating services and ensuring durable execution

FastOpenAPI is a library for generating and integrating OpenAPI schemas using Pydantic v2 and various frameworks (AioHttp, Django, Falcon, Flask, Quart, Sanic, Starlette, Tornado). - mr-fatalyst/fa...

Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective - sail-sg/understand-r1-zero

Tanya O'Carroll says her case opens a "gateway" for others wanting to stop personalised adverts.

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing

Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint. If you love maps and are interested in training your own computer vision model, you’ll enjoy diving into this Blueprint.

Interview with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902–1984), Nobel Prize in Physics 1933, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Topics discussed:
Symmetry as central concept in theoretical physics.
Space and time according to Lorentz. …

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

A blog about monitoring and forecasting the stratospheric polar vortexes and how they do and don’t—mostly don’t!*—affect extreme winter weather and seasonal climate. *Seriously, we’ll probably spend a lot of time explaining how the latest wintry weather blast…

Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.