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Sales of expensive pickup trucks from Stellantis NV, Ford Motor Co., and General Motors Co. saw a decline in the first quarter due to high borrowing costs affecting consumer demand. Stellantis reported a 15% drop in Ram pickup sales to 89,417 units, leading to an overall sales decrease of 10%. Similarly, Ford’s F-Series truck sales […]
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David Malcolm from Red Hat’s compiler team has revealed the latest static analysis enhancements in the upcoming GCC 14 compiler release. Among the improvements is a new option to detect infinite loops, better visualizations for buffer overflows, and enhanced support for analyzing C string operations. Malcolm has created text-based diagrams to make buffer overflow warnings […]
Summary: The Israeli military’s AI program, “Lavender,” ignited ethical concerns due to its role in targeting individuals, including non-combatants, for potential airstrikes. Operating with little human oversight, the program’s criteria for targeting were vague, leading to a high risk of civilian casualties. Lavender’s involvement in military operations in Gaza highlighted the ethical dilemmas of using […]
Approximately nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity highlighted a cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters” based in Pakistan, who attempted to rebrand themselves as legitimate but failed at hiding their illegal activities. The group is known for selling tools to trick individuals into giving up sensitive information and engaging in phishing activities under the shared identity of “Saim […]
Sequin is an infrastructure company that streams data from services like Salesforce and Stripe to messaging systems and databases. They initially used LiveView to build their app quickly, but faced limitations compared to a SPA. They found a solution with LiveSvelte, combining the power of LiveView with the frontend capabilities of Svelte. LiveView offers a […]
I work at Red Hat on GCC, focusing on -fanalyzer, a static analysis pass identifying problems at compile-time. GCC14 introduced a warning for infinite loops, enhancing detection abilities. The -Wanalyzer-out-of-bounds warning detects buffer overflows, now visualized for better understanding. Improved tracking of C string operations with new function attributes enhances analysis accuracy. Taint analysis has […]
Most physicists teach partial differential equations poorly, especially when it comes to topics like thermodynamics and analytical mechanics. The way the Legendre transform is traditionally taught in textbooks lacks clarity and elegance. The typical explanation is often muddled, resulting in confusion regarding the connection between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. However, a clear and concise definition […]
Ten years post-Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance, Seabed 2030 embarks on a mission to map and reveal Earth’s mysterious ocean floor. A partnership between GEBCO and Nippon Foundation, the project aims to support UN Sustainable Development Goal 14. Recent discoveries, like massive seamounts near Central and South America, confirm the necessity for these mapping efforts. […]
The BigDL project has transitioned into ipex-llm, a PyTorch library designed for efficient LLM execution on Intel CPUs and GPUs with minimal latency. Integrated with Intel Extension for PyTorch (IPEX), ipex-llm offers seamless collaboration with various technologies like llama.cpp and HuggingFace transformers. Boasting over 50 optimized models, including popular ones like LLaMA2 and Mixtral, ipex-llm […]
Raymond Chen explains how older computers operated without stacks or heaps for dynamic memory allocation. To simulate variable-sized data, fixed-size memory buffers were used, with global variables representing function parameters, return addresses, and local variables. Function calls happened by assigning values to these secret global variables. Recursion was impractical due to overwriting return addresses. Some […]