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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three subpoenas for PyPI user data in March and April 2023, all of which were issued by the United States Department of Justice. Although no context was provided, the subpoenas requested user data related to five PyPI usernames, including names, addresses, connection records, length of service, and type of […]
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The “success to the successful” system dynamics archetype is a prevalent pattern driving behavior in many situations and describes the late stages of twenty-first-century capitalism. In this system, as one entity succeeds, it receives more resources from a finite pool of resources, causing another entity to receive fewer resources. This system plays out in many […]
A team of theoretical physicists has discovered a unique structure in space-time that closely resembles a black hole, but it’s actually a defect in the universe’s fabric. These defects are actually stable solitons, existing without matter or other forces, and are comparable to the cracks found in ice. The team examined these solitons by inspecting […]
The author finds business self-help books boring, but acknowledges that they contain valuable ideas. As such, they have developed a five-step process that uses AI and human-written summaries to efficiently understand the main points of a book. The process involves enlisting the help of a GPT, seeking out human-written summaries, reading the table of contents, […]
Spain has called for an EU ban on end-to-end encrypted services from providers based within the bloc. The information was revealed in a leaked European Council survey about member countries’ views on encryption regulation. The survey shows a majority of the 20 member countries that responded favour some form of scanning of encrypted messages. Some, such as Denmark and […]
The modern workspace is full of distractions, with chat programs, email inboxes, and project management apps constantly throwing notifications our way. Inefficiencies caused by interruptions and multitasking can lead to stress, anxiety, and decreased productivity. To combat this, individuals need to regain control of their attention by implementing cultural and technological solutions to reduce notifications, […]
Io_uring, introduced in kernel 5.1, is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls and receiving the results as they’re generated. It combines asynchronous I/O, system call polybatching, and flexible buffer management, and is the most significant development in the Linux I/O model since Berkeley sockets. uring allows you to specify […]
Psychic is an open source integration platform designed for startups that use LLMs and vector databases. It allows you to extract and transform unstructured data from various SaaS applications into a consistent schema. Instead of building one integration for each data source, you can build one integration that works for all data sources, and manage […]
The MMS project has developed a single multilingual speech recognition model supporting over 1,100 languages, as well as language identification models able to identify over 4,000 languages and text-to-speech models for over 1,100 languages. These tools aim to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language. The project […]
Memory allocation is the process by which programs allocate space to their various tasks. This post details the basics of memory allocation and how to write your own allocator. The article explains how programs request and return memory using the malloc and free functions. Memory is represented as a sequence of bytes, and the simplest […]