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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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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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Provide Real Value in your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

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The Soviet-era Mil Mi-6 Hook was a colossal helicopter. It was the largest production rotary-wing craft until its successor, the Mi-26, came into existence.

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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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Hayek, the Accidental Freudian

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The economist was fixated on subconscious knowledge and dreamlike enchantment—even if he denied their part in his relationships.

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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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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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OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats were manipulated

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OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer that allows you to control and monitor all aspects of your printer and print jobs, right from your browser.

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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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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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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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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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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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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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The super effectiveness of Pokémon embeddings using only raw JSON and images

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Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws

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Dynamic languages are safe from memory corruptions bugs, right?

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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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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.