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The Internet Archive was hacked, with a pop-up claiming a security breach incorporating a playful message about the site’s vulnerabilities. The breach included leaked information for 31 million email addresses, leading to a slow loading site. Despite taking steps to address the breach, including disabling the JavaScript library and upgrading security, the site faced a […]
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A LibreDrive is a unique mode of operation for optical disc drives (DVD, Blu-ray, UHD) that allows for unrestricted access to the data on the disc without any firmware restrictions. This means a LibreDrive will never refuse to read data or declare itself “revoked”. To access UHD discs, a LibreDrive-compatible drive is necessary. The idea […]
Billionaires are mysterious like black holes, with their wealth hard to pin down. The late Fayez Sarofim, a hidden billionaire who made his fortune through private investments, may have been responsible for a record-high $7 billion estate tax payment in February 2023. Sarofim’s meticulous investment strategy in blue-chip US stocks over six decades likely made […]
A recent relaxation of official rules regarding the use of apostrophes in German has caused controversy among grammar sticklers and sparked existential fears about the influence of English. The traditional German practice does not include apostrophes to indicate possession or the genitive case. However, a new rule issued by the Council for German Orthography allows […]
E.F. Codd’s 1970 paper on the relational data model revolutionized the database industry, laying the groundwork for today’s most widely used business data format. The paper introduced key concepts like data independence and normalization, shaping the way data was stored and accessed. In the 1970s, the rise of relational database products like SQL marked a […]
Gustav Klimt revolutionized modern art with his use of gold leaf in his sinuous and erotic depictions of women in the early 20th century. His iconic masterpiece, “The Kiss”, marked the peak of his celebrated “Golden Phase”. Despite this, the golden-laced works represent just a small portion of his vast repertoire, showcasing his rebellious spirit […]
In this research, it is discovered that a floating point multiplier can be approximated by an integer adder with high precision, resulting in the development of the linear-complexity multiplication L-Mul algorithm. This new algorithm significantly reduces computation resources compared to traditional methods while achieving higher precision. By implementing L-Mul in tensor processing hardware, energy costs […]
The web content introduces Boring Tunnel Manager, a lightweight and fast command line SSH tunnel manager. It supports both local and remote tunnels, SSH config, and ssh-agent. Users can easily list, open, and close tunnels using simple commands. Configuration is done via TOML files, allowing for easy setup of tunnels with various options like name, […]
John Carmack reflects on his email sent in 2007 advocating for inlining code. He discusses the benefits of functional programming in addressing dependency and state mutation issues, highlighting the importance of avoiding unnecessary latency in software development as seen during his time working on the Doom 3 BFG edition release. He stresses the significance of […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 has been awarded to David Baker and Demis Hassabis, along with John Jumper. Baker is recognized for his groundbreaking work in designing new proteins, while Hassabis and Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, that can predict protein structures with incredible accuracy. This achievement opens up endless possibilities in […]