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How to Set Upstream Branch in Git?

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Introduction Git is a powerful distributed version control system used by developers to manage source code changes. Branching, which enables the simultaneous development of different versions of a project, is one of its fundamental characteristics. This article will cover the definition of branches, the value of branching, the function of an upstream branch in Git, […] The post How to Set Upstream Branch in Git?

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Lenovo Accelerates Smarter AI for All with New AI Solutions that Save Energy, Speed Deployment and Fast-Track AI Use Cases for Every Industry 

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Lenovo unveiled new comprehensive enterprise AI solutions designed to help any company develop and deploy AI with turnkey services, business-ready vertical solutions and energy efficient innovations designed to accelerate the practical application of AI.

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OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order

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In 2023, broadcaster Canal+ went to court in France with the goal of obtaining an order requiring local ISPs to block over 100 pirate sports streaming sites. The French court complied with the request; ISPs including Orange, SFR, OutreMer Télécom, Free, and Bouygues Télécom, were ordered to implement technical measures to prevent access to Footybite.co, Streamcheck.link, SportBay.sx, TVFutbol.info, and Catchystream.com, among dozens of others.

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How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Photo by Suzy Hazelwood I remember my breakfast as a kid. It was as sugary as it gets, with cereal and milk or a good marmalade toast and a chocolate shake to start my day. I remember the highs and lows of my energy levels throughout the day or how I would look in the mirror and wonder why I grew as a chubby kid instead of thinner and stronger like some friends.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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Redbox Owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Files for Chapter 11

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After months of financial struggles, Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use

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I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js DX was just.

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Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Scam Operation

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You receive a message. Now either you will be victim or not. Your knowledge, attention and moral compass will decide where you will end up.

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Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio

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The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SWI swissinfo.ch’s parent company, will be switching off analogue FM transmitters at the end of December.

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NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others

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As NASA's Perseverance explores Mars' Jezero crater, the rover has encountered a mysterious boulder unlike anything found on the Red Planet before.

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Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering

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Judges rule evidence was "not sufficient" in the trial that took testimony from 27 witnesses.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Widely reported study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed

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A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill -- but not when men do -- is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the original conclusions, published in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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The good, the bad, and the weird (2018)

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Let’s automatically identify weird machines in software. Combating software exploitation has been a cat-and-mouse game ever since the Morris worm in 1988. Attackers use specific exploitation primitives to achieve unintended code execution. Major software vendors introduce exploit mitigation to break those primitives. Back and forth, back and forth.

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Lego made bricks out of meteorite dust and they're on display at select stores

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Lego made some bricks out of meteorite dust and they’re on display at select stores. It’s part of an initiative to test how well moondust would work as a lunar building material.

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Developer experience: What is it and why should you care? (2023)

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Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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For the record: You just ordered me to cause a expensive outage

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And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos

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Semantics and scheduling for machine knitting compilers (2023)

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Abstract Machine knitting is a well-established fabrication technique for complex soft objects, and both companies and researchers have developed tools for generating machine knitting patterns. However, existing representations for machine knitted objects are incomplete (do not cover the complete domain of machine knittable objects) or overly specific (do not account for symmetries and equivalences among knitting instruction sequences).

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CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study

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This blog serves as a case study into how the newly-formed Linux CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) has affected Linux kernel vulnerability management, through the mishandling of a vulnerability we reported this year in the upstream 5.10 LTS kernel.

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'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft

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Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Trilobites killed by volcanic ash reveal features never seen before

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Some of the most perfectly preserved trilobite fossils ever found have revealed details of the extinct arthropod unknown until now.

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Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

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Docmost is an open source collaborative documentation and wiki software. It an open-source alternative to the likes of Confluence and Notions.

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To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun "

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Olivia Stowell reviews Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV.”.

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Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait, 10,000% price spike

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Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, a decade after bankruptcy, will soon begin paying back users roughly $9 billion worth of crypto.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Financial services shun AI over job and regulatory fears

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Industry leaders say concerns over impact of technology are outweighing benefits such as productivity gains and cost cuts

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The Economics of Writing Technical Books

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Yes, you can make money writing books. But never do it for that.

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I'm Terrified of Old People

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I used to be extremely confident in myself. I was barely 20 years old and I would tell people how to sleep, how to make friends, and how to live their lives. I started a nonprofit aiming to literally rebuild the institutions of science from the ground up. I was dismissive of everyone who didn’t impress me in the first 7 minutes of talking to them.

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Python toolkit for quantitative finance

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Python toolkit for quantitative finance. Contribute to goldmansachs/gs-quant development by creating an account on GitHub.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Edelman's Steps Toward a Conscious Artifact (2021)

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In 2006, during a meeting of a working group of scientists in La Jolla, California at The Neurosciences Institute (NSI), Gerald Edelman described a roadmap towards the creation of a Conscious Artifact. As far as I know, this roadmap was not published. However, it did shape my thinking and that of many others in the years since that meeting. This short paper, which is based on my notes taken during the meeting, describes the key steps in this roadmap.

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Picasso Museum in Paris Puts Thousands of His Works in New Online Archive

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The Picasso Museum in Paris has released a digital portal featuring the Spanish painter and sculptor's art

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Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

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Unless you've got a lawyer, that is

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How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Its Way to Victory in the Civil War

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The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.