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Google presents itself as a champion of privacy to the public, but behind closed doors, it actively fights against privacy laws. The company spends millions of dollars on lobbying efforts to prevent elected officials from protecting user data. Google wants to let companies decide what’s best for users, rather than giving individuals control over their […]
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The author created the “Overflow RISC-V assembly board game” to teach their daughter about buffer overflows and the concept of playing with programs. The game involves creating a small shellcode in memory and exploiting a buffer overflow to manipulate the opponent’s return address. Players share the same memory and execute the same program, taking turns […]
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen four institutions to oversee the transformation of the former Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico into an education center. The center, called Arecibo C3, will focus on science education, including biology and computer science, as well as community outreach. The decision to shift away from astronomy research at […]
In southeastern Ukraine, an explosion that destroyed the Russian-controlled Kakhovka Dam led to the exposure of thousands of artifacts in the region. This event provided an opportunity for archaeologists to explore previously unexplored areas and potentially find significant historical finds, including old boats. Although the discovery of a classic early chaika, an iconic Ukrainian historical […]
Crux is an experimental approach to building cross-platform applications that aims to improve testability, code and behavior reuse, safety, security, and overall developer experience. It divides the application into two parts: a Core built in Rust, which handles the business logic, and a Shell built in the platform’s native language (such as Swift, Kotlin, or […]
The project Fill 3D is a simplified version of fill3d.ai that uses Function to generate fills in 3D. To set it up, follow these steps: clone the repository, rename .env.example to .env.local, and go to fill3d.ai/pricing to get your API key (ensure you’re logged in). Paste the API key in .env.local. To start the development […]
This website is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions. It was developed under the editorship of Paul E. Black and contains entries including common functions like Ackermann’s function and problems like traveling salesman and Byzantine generals. Some entries also have links to implementations and additional information. The site […]
SapientML is an AutoML technology that uses existing datasets and human-written pipelines to generate high-quality pipelines for predictive tasks on new datasets. To get started with SapientML, you can install it from PyPI repository or from the source code. Once installed, you can run AutoML by importing the necessary libraries and using the provided code […]
LibrePCB, a user-friendly electronic design automation suite, has released its highly anticipated 1.0.0 version on September 24, 2023. This powerful software allows makers, students, and professionals to effortlessly draw schematics and design printed circuit boards. What sets LibrePCB apart is its commitment to being free and cross-platform, making it accessible to all users. Unlike other […]
JAX is a powerful tool for high-performance machine learning research that allows for automatic differentiation of Python and NumPy code. It supports both reverse-mode and forward-mode differentiation and can handle complex algorithms. One unique feature of JAX is its ability to compile and run NumPy code on accelerators like GPUs and TPUs using XLA. This […]