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The Senate narrowly avoided a lapse in the key U.S. surveillance law by reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act just before midnight, approving it with bipartisan support. The law, vital for counterterrorism efforts, allows the collection of foreign intelligence information from non-Americans outside the U.S. Despite a push from progressive and conservative […]
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DevOps Engineers play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of millions of important emails through the Resend platform. The job involves improving reliability, security, and performance, as well as enhancing observability and disaster recovery plans. This position requires experience in DevOps engineering or backend engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure, fluency in […]
Efficient powertrains for electric vehicles are crucial for reducing fossil fuel reliance, with the inverter playing a key role in converting battery power into energy for electric motors. Fraunhofer IZM, in collaboration with Porsche and Bosch, is developing a high-output three-phase drive inverter with impressive performance gains compared to traditional silicon-based inverters. By using innovative […]
Coz, a profiler for native code (C/C++/Rust), introduces causal profiling to identify optimization potential by predicting how changes in code will impact throughput or latency. It highlights the “bang for buck” of optimizing specific lines of code in applications, showing the direct relationship between optimization efforts and overall performance improvement. Unlike traditional profilers, Coz establishes […]
In this guide to legibility for non-typographers and UX designers, Niko Kitsakis explains the importance of letter shapes in improving readability. He criticizes Apple’s “San Francisco” typeface for lacking personality and purpose in the context of user interfaces, advocating for alternatives like FF Unit with more distinct glyphs. Kitsakis emphasizes the significance of context in […]
Interactive Viewer created by Alistair Cree, aka ZXGuesser, mimics the teletext concept with three-digit page numbers for navigation (e.g. “Sport Headlines 302”). Use number keys to go to a specific page or “channel up/down” to move through pages. View live Ceefax pages as seen on BBC2 overnight, news stories, and the history behind this re-creation. […]
Mercedes has started selling self-driving cars with hands-free technology in California and Nevada, offering drivers a luxurious autonomous experience. The cars can only be used on approved freeways in these states and require human intervention in certain circumstances. This move puts Mercedes ahead of other automakers like Tesla, which only offer level 2 autonomous technology. […]
The data reveals a shift in server and storage spending towards service providers like hyperscalers and cloud builders, with a predicted increase in their share by 2028. Enterprises, governments, and academic institutions may struggle to keep up as they lose importance in the market. The rise of AI servers running large language models is expected […]
This repository implements bit interleaving in C/C++ using the ISC license. A SWAR implementation is used by default, taking 2 nanoseconds. With -mbmi2 available, the functions morton() and unmorton() take less than one nanosecond. Without compiler optimizations, these functions take 10 nanoseconds, but the cost is constant as the implementation is fully branchless. Additional resources […]
For over 50 years, Deep Space Station 43 in Australia has been crucial in maintaining communication with space probes like the Voyagers and Mars Curiosity rover. DSS-43 is significant as the only remaining antenna capable of communicating with Voyager 2. Its precision and size make it indispensable in capturing faint signals from probes billions of […]