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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), a leading connectivity cloud company, announced powerful new capabilities for Workers AI, the serverless AI platform, and its suite of AI application building blocks, to help developers build faster, more powerful and more performant AI applications. Applications built on Workers AI can now benefit from faster inference, bigger models, improved performance analytics, and more.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

While the deployment of big data analytics in the legal business has matured, the encroaching spectre of artificial intelligence hasn’t gone unnoticed.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Introduction OpenAI’s latest models, like GPT-o1 and GPT-4o, excel in delivering accurate, context-aware responses across diverse fields. A key factor behind the advancements in these Large Language Models (LLMs) is their enhanced utility and the significant reduction in common issues like hallucinations. Techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhance accuracy and reduce hallucinations by allowing models […] The post Top 6 LLMs that Support Function Calling appeared fir

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.

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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics. What I do know is that, when given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Clayton Purdom situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fresh amendments to Italian law were passed by Senators this week and their effects will soon be felt on the IPTV piracy battlefield. Covered in detail in our earlier report , this advanced legal weaponry is incapable of dealing with distant pirate IPTV services. Instead, it mainly targets communications infrastructure, much of it operated by rightsholders’ supposed allies – ISPs – who were given no say in the matter.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Engineers have created a superstrong concrete alternative using simulated Martian or lunar soil, potato starch and salt.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” has become nothing short of a cult classic, with the iconic, tilde-shaped eyebrows of Jack Nicholson wormed into the psyches of multiple generations. The movie has become one of the most renowned and culturally significant adaptations of one of Stephen King’s horror novels, an author with over 40 of his books.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Microtext for the Commodore might have been lost forever if not for the sleuthing of Christian Simpson's Retro Recipes.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Why do many code examples, especially tutorials, use the names "Foo" and "Bar" so often? It is almost a standard.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Today I heard about the sqlite3-rsync command, currently available in a branch in the SQLite code repository. It provides a mechanism for efficiently creating or updating a copy of a SQLite database that is running in WAL mode, either locally or via SSH to another server.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing.

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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Abstract. Agricultural activities are the major anthropogenic source of nitrous oxide (N2O), an important greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

If you’re familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The ABC has found critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ecovacs devices.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The other night I spoke at a quantum computing event and was asked for the hundredth time? the thousandth? whether I agreed that the quantum algorithm called QAOA was poised revolutionize industries by finding better solutions to NP-hard optimization problems.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025 have arrived, bringing new AI features and ditching the lifetime license.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

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Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

What is HPy? HPy provides a new API for extending Python in C. In other words, you use #include instead of #include. What are the advantages of HPy?

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

WordPress Plugin Mirror System Proof Of Concept. Contribute to centminmod/wordpress-plugin-mirror-poc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and justifying exclusion and violence. These dynamics are alarmingly pervasive, spanning from the extreme historical examples of genocides against minorities in Germany and Rwanda to the ongoing violence and rhetoric targeting migrants in the US and Europe.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

I recently completed an either 9 month or 2 month search for a new job, looking for Staff-level engineering positions for the first time in my career. I live.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Directly seeing the values for local variables in your stacktrace is invaluable for debugging — in fact it's one of the main reasons Bugsink is so useful. However: what actually gets captured depends on how you write your code: simple functions with local variables are much easier to debug than complex classes or overly-inlined code.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The Data Visualisation Catalogue, helping you find the right data visualization method for your data

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.