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be careful with side effects in your code. It can also lead to bugs and make your code harder to reason about. Because evaluation happens outside of the instantiation phase, ES modules introduce a kind of asynchrony that wasn’t present in CommonJS modules. But this doesn’t mean that every part of the process needs to […]
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Cybersecurity firm Eclypsium has detected a hidden mechanism in the firmware used by Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte in its motherboard components. The feature triggers an updater function that runs on a system creating a risk that it could upload malware on the computer. The mechanism is triggered outside of the operating system, making removal difficult. Eclypsium’s […]
RARBG, one of the largest torrent sites, has announced its shutdown after 15 years of operation. The site was a prominent source of new movie and TV show releases and had millions of monthly visitors from across the world. The shutdown was unexpected and was due to multiple reasons, including the impact of COVID that […]
NVIDIA has unveiled the NVIDIA DGX GH200, a supercomputer designed to tackle the most demanding artificial intelligence workloads. The DGX GH200 pairs the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip with the NVLink Switch System to provide 144 terabytes of memory accessible to the GPU shared memory programming model at high speed over NVLink. The DGX GH200 is […]
A bug that caused queries via serverless platforms that only support WebSockets but not Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to hang has been identified. Developer and writer Mark Dominus documented the process he took to debug the issue. The problem lay with undici, software for supporting WebSockets in Node.js 18. In trying to create a response […]
Zeal offers access to a wide range of docsets, with a total of 209 available. From AngularJS to Yii, and everything in between, these offerings are perfect for programmers looking to dive deep into their chosen programming language. The diverse range of choices covers everything from the popular to the obscure, giving users the ability […]
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed tiny, self-propelled robots, each measuring only 20 micrometres in width, that can transport medication throughout the liquid-filled areas of the human body. Ride of that size is capable of travelling at speeds of up to 3 millimeters per second, and tests on lab mice suggest that microrobots could […]
Doom-teletext generates a teletext stream that contains the rendering of the 1993 first-person shooter game Doom. Teletext is a standard for displaying simple mosaic graphics and text on TVs. Each teletext page consists of 25 rows that can hold 40 characters each, while some characters are not displayable but hold information like text color of […]
Looking to become a React master? Look no further than the useHooks library, which includes a variety of useful hooks for all your needs. From useDebounce to delay function execution, to useGeolocation for geolocation tracking, to useHover for tracking element hovering, these hooks have got you covered. Whether you’re looking to measure component dimensions with […]
Prince Rupert’s drops are made by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail. They have internally very high residual stresses, giving rise to properties such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer or a bullet, while exhibiting explosive disintegration […]