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Attention all adventurers! Join forces with your party and favorite TTRPG system to solve the dark mystery that has enveloped Aldastron on Exlaris. Disappearances, including the Hubble Space Telescope from Earth’s timeline, have sparked a thrilling quest only the boldest adventurers can conquer. Suitable for 4-7 characters of levels 7-10, this NASA TTRPG adventure challenges […]
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At SQLite Cloud, we’re excited to introduce the Interactive SQLite Documentation – a tool that allows users to interact with SQLite queries in real-time, making it easier to experiment and refine SQL skills. This feature provides a sandbox environment within our official documentation, eliminating the need to set up a database or worry about configurations. […]
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating why a Boeing 737 Max 9’s door plug panel blew off in January, but Boeing has still not provided key information on the incident, leading to frustrations from NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy. Boeing has yet to reveal who failed to reattach the door plug properly, and investigators are […]
Elodin is a platform for designing drones, satellites, and aerospace control systems quickly. They offer a demo and sandbox for testing. Their repository includes core libraries for tasks like tensor compilation, ECS framework creation, and protocol development. They provide Python and Rust versions of their libraries, with Rust bindings to XLA’s C++ API. The platform […]
dockerc allows users to compile docker images into standalone portable binaries, eliminating the need for commands like docker run, pip install, or npm i. Simply give users executables to run! Users can install dockerc from the latest release and compile images from Docker Hub or local storage. The output binary can be used like any […]
The article discusses how the author managed to hack the DRM on Bob Dishwasher’s detergent cartridges to refill them at a fraction of the cost of buying new ones. The Bob Dishwasher is a compact countertop dishwasher that uses all-in-one detergent cartridges for ease of use. The article dives into the technology behind the cartridges, […]
In my tech career, I’ve experienced two acquisitions without any inside knowledge. There were signs that something was brewing weeks before the deals were announced. Look out for distracted founders and executives, increased focus on security vulnerabilities, lack of urgency around hiring and retention, and unusual meeting changes. These signs were evident before the acquisitions […]
Reka has trained strong multimodal language models and is sharing insights into developing infrastructure and training large models from scratch. The biggest surprise was the variance in hardware quality across compute providers, turning model training into a hardware lottery. Each cluster had its own challenges and failure modes, requiring unique hot-fixes. Training on GPUs instead […]
Under New Management, created by Matt Frisbie, is an extension for Chrome that detects when your installed extensions have changed owners. It intermittently checks the Chrome Web Store for any changes in developer information and alerts users with a red badge if a change is detected. This is important because extension developers are often approached […]
The FDA announced the approval of the Dexcom Stelo Glucose Biosensor System, the first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor for individuals 18 years and older not on insulin. This device allows users to monitor glucose levels without a health care provider’s involvement, emphasizing health equity for all patients. The system uses a wearable sensor and smartphone […]