Announcing DBRX: A new standard for efficient open source LLMs
databricks
MARCH 27, 2024
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Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.
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When Your Vision and Hearing Decline with Age
FlowingData
MARCH 21, 2024
If you want to feel like you’re getting old, visit an optometrist and have them tell you that in 6 to 12 months you won’t be able to read things up close and you’ll need bifocals. Here’s when your senses will decline.
TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
DeepMind
MARCH 19, 2024
As part of our multi-year collaboration with Liverpool FC, we develop a full AI system that can advise coaches on corner kicks
Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried returns to Manhattan federal court Thursday for sentencing that could land him in prison for the next half-century. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Hacker News
MARCH 15, 2024
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.
Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton
Hacker News
MARCH 14, 2024
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit
Hacker News
MARCH 31, 2024
A yearlong investigation by The Insider, in collaboration with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel, has uncovered evidence suggesting that unexplained anomalous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of Russian GRU Unit 29155. Members of the Kremlin’s infamous military intelligence sabotage squad have been placed at the scene of suspected attacks on overseas U.S. government personnel and their family members, leading
Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Hacker News
MARCH 31, 2024
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes. The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence
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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?
Indian Investigators Ask Apple to Access Delhi Chief Minister's Phones
Hacker News
MARCH 31, 2024
Senior officials linked to the case said that the Chief Minister, during his questioning, has stated that by accessing his telephone data and chats, the ED would be privy to details of AAP’s “election strategy” and pre-poll alliances.
Mamba Explained
Hacker News
MARCH 30, 2024
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
We are under DDoS attack and we do nothing
Hacker News
MARCH 30, 2024
Modern, native SQL client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, and Redis.
Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins into Human Cells. Here's What Happened
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.
Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success
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.
Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves , essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output —which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been limited by the extraordinary challenges of drilling holes that are deep enough to access the intense heat below the Earth’s surface
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions into Public Housing
Hacker News
MARCH 20, 2024
One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
US landfills emit far more methane than previously known
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency.
New open source GPU is free to all
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
An open-source fully custom GPU has come out of stealth after four years in development. FuryGPU has been a one-man effort from games software developer Dylan Barrie, who says he put together this extremely complex hardware and software project in his spare time. It can run Quake at 60fps.
Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders
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.
Visa and Mastercard agree to $30B settlement that will lower merchant fees
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Two of the world’s largest credit card networks, Visa and Mastercard, as well as the banks that issue cards with them, have agreed to settle a decadeslong antitrust case brought upon by merchants.
Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds. Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it has stored.
Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned.
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
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.
Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
We are proud to announce the first release of our new integrated import wizard! Proxmox VE now provides an integrated VM import wizard re-using the storage plugin system for native integration into the API and web-based user interface. You can use this to import VMware ESXi VMs as a whole, with.
How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to each prompt.
Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works. This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works.
Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the loss of a vibrant community life that cannot be replaced.
Telegram's peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
Hacker News
MARCH 25, 2024
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending one-time SMS passwords to other users attempting to log into the platform, raising concerns about potential privacy risks and the exposure of personal […]
The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
All right, confession time. I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping on the subway dispatcher when my train rumbles to a mysterious halt in a dark tunnel. But even I couldn’t help but hear the buzz surrounding a new handheld, Quansheng’s UV-K5. It caught my attention in part because for over a decade, Baofeng has been the name in Chinese handhelds.
Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
I spent the last week looking for a memory leak in Postgres’s WAL Sender process. I spent a few days getting more acquainted with Valgrind and gcc/clang sanitizers, but ultimately got nowhere useful with them. Finally, I stumbled on the memleak program from the bcc tools collection which led me right to the source. Since I had a bit of trouble figuring this all out for the first time, I wanted to share the process I went through.
The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report
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