Professor Megan Fritts assigned an easy task for her ethics and technology course, but many students used ChatGPT for their answers. The AI-generated responses did not reflect what individuals expected from the course. Fritts believes offloading thinking onto a machine does not create liberated minds. She expressed concerns that technology addiction is affecting students’ thinking […]

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The FBI warns timeshare owners of a telemarketing scam involving a Mexican drug cartel trying to trick people into selling their property. Mr. & Mrs. Dimitruk lost over $50,000 to this scheme, where an interested buyer in Mexico offered more than the timeshare was worth. The false real estate companies demanded various fees, including administrative […]

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The Security Blog by Google offers the most up-to-date information and perspectives on online security and safety. Stay informed on the latest cyber threats and learn how to protect yourself from potential risks while browsing the Internet. Our blog is a trusted source for valuable tips and best practices to keep your personal information secure. […]

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httpdbg is a handy tool for Python developers for debugging HTTP(S) client requests. Simply replace ‘python’ with ‘pyhttpdbg’ to start, then access http://localhost:4909 on the browser to view the requests. The tool allows for interactive console usage and can trace requests from scripts, tests with pytest, and library modules. Initiate functions/methods responsible for HTTP requests, […]

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Git absorb is a powerful tool inspired by Facebook’s hg absorb, allowing you to effortlessly fold uncommitted changes into the appropriate draft ancestor changesets. It streamlines workflows by eliminating the need for manual commits or history modification rules. By running `git absorb`, the tool identifies safe commits to modify and automates the integration of staged […]

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Five years ago, we announced our AR glasses journey, aiming to merge the digital and physical worlds seamlessly. Today, we reveal Orion, the most advanced AR glasses ever created, focusing on user connection, presence, and empowerment. Orion marks a significant shift in human-oriented computing, offering a large holographic display, contextual AI, and a lightweight comfortable […]

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Coros is a C++23 library for task-based parallelism that uses coroutines and the expected type. It offers ease of use with a simple interface and header-only installation. Key features include optimized performance, error management with std::expected, and support for monadic operations like chaining tasks. The library provides benchmarks for Fibonacci calculation and matrix multiplication to […]

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System Initiative is a revolutionary DevOps automation technology that the author is passionate about. They believe it is bold, powerful, and the future of infrastructure development. The platform uses digital twins of cloud infrastructure to improve feedback loops and simplify automation tasks. It allows for high fidelity modeling and programming of complex automation tasks, with […]

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Wafris, an open-source web application firewall company, has shifted from using Redis to SQLite as the backing datastore for their Rails client. This change was prompted by difficulties encountered by users with Redis deployment, especially under real-world application scenarios. The shift to SQLite demonstrated a significant performance boost, with SQLite being three times faster than […]

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In this post dated September 24, 2024, the author discusses how to schedule workers across a pipeline of queues to minimize total processing time, drawing inspiration from assembly lines and CPUs. They introduce the concept of implicit parallelism via pipelining in software, where stages run independently and are connected by queues. The prototype implementation includes […]

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