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In 1983, Ken Thompson gave a Turing award lecture titled “Reflections on Trusting Trust” where he discussed supply chain security. He explained how to modify a C compiler binary to insert a backdoor when compiling the “login” program, leaving no trace in the source code. The lecture was later published in Communications of the ACM. […]
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Berlin-based artificial intelligence company, Jina AI, is excited to announce the launch of its second-generation text embedding model, jina-embeddings-v2. This model supports an impressive 8K context length, putting it on par with OpenAI’s proprietary model in terms of capabilities and performance. Jina-embeddings-v2 outperforms OpenAI’s model in several areas, including classification, reranking, retrieval, and summarization. The […]
Flawless is an execution engine that allows builders to create amazing experiences for users. It enables the creation of complex user interfaces with complex state, without having to model all the state inside a database. Instead, Flawless allows the persistent state to be modeled using code and local variables, raising the bar for expressing complex […]
ArtistAssistApp is a versatile tool designed to help artists of all skill levels enhance their creativity and produce breathtaking artwork. This app caters to both beginners and professionals, as well as different painting mediums like watercolor and oil paint. It supports a variety of painting styles, whether you prefer realistic or loose techniques. Furthermore, ArtistAssistApp […]
Ben Saul-Garner paid around $3.7k to be stranded on a remote island in Indonesia. He spent 10 days there alone, exploring nature and living off coconuts and crab. This experience was organized by Docastaway, a company that specializes in extreme isolation travel. Founded by Alvaro Cerezo, Docastaway offers clients the opportunity to escape the modern […]
GFiber Labs has announced its first project: offering residential 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 by the end of the year. The company, which aims to make multi-gig speeds mainstream and accessible, already has thousands of 5 Gig, 8 Gig, and 20 Gig customers. To achieve this, GFiber Labs will be using Nokia’s 25G PON technology, […]
The author of this web content shares their experience with using Swift, a general-purpose programming language, to create an experimental ActivityPub server. They explain that Swift is not commonly chosen for running projects on Linux, which made it interesting for them. However, they encountered some issues during the development process, including compilation errors and concerns […]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship, Pathfinder 1, has received a special airworthiness certificate, allowing it to begin flight tests at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley, California. The helium-filled airship, designed for humanitarian and cargo transport, will conduct about 25 low-level flights and approximately 50 hours of flight time. Unlike airships of the past, Pathfinder 1 […]
In this web content, the author expresses their excitement about a podcast interview they conducted with Richard Sambrook, discussing media prioritization, editorial decisions, and the future of the BBC. They then dive into the topic of how mobile network data is used by Transport for London (TfL) to gain insights into people’s movements. The author […]
In this web content, the author discusses how a small browser quirk in JavaScript turned into a useful tool for many people over the years. It all started in 1995 when Brendan Eich demonstrated JavaScript to a group of engineers at Netscape. JavaScript URLs, which allowed users to run JavaScript on any web page they […]