Live Science
Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
4 min · · The green energy revolution is getting closer. · Shared by 486, including Howard Getson, Christo Meid, Dr. James Canton, Matteo Furia
GeekWire
AI2 releases demo of question-answering model it claims outperforms GPT-3
4 min · · From the beginning of the digital age, we’ve looked to our computers for answers. Nowhere is this so evident as in the computer science discipline known as question answering, or QA. · Shared by 33, including Allen Institute for AI, Bob E. Hayes, Matt Shaffer
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
13+ min · · Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit w... · Shared by 246, including Rick Klau, Jeff Atwood, Chris {he, they} , Nils Hitze, Christopher Allen, @mainec@fromm.social, Golang News 📰, Benedict Evans, danabramov.bsky.social, Peter Steinberger, Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻, Tactical Tech, Bilal Zuberi, Oliver Raduner, rufuspollock
kalzumeus.com
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
20+ min · · [Editor’s note: At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee bit outside your comfort zone. Nothing… · Shared by 141, including mdy, Joe Lencioni, Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, Toni Juan, Thompson Marzagão, Gergely Orosz, slumos, Alexander Seifert, Karen McGrane, andre hollstein, Brian Lovin, Alain, Mohamed Azazy, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert
Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
4 min · · Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021. And yet, the role of Open Source maintainer has failed to mature from a hobby… · Shared by 98, including @rastrau@mstdn.social, Tactical Tech, Steven Sinofsky, Matthew Green
labs.bishopfox.com
You're Doing IoT RNG
13+ min · · Learn why hardware random number generators (RNG) used by billions of IoT devices to create encryption keys don't always generate random numbers.
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
5 min · · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule. · Shared by 956, including Arin Basu, Chris {he, they} , Oliver Raduner, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jonathan Kogan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Marsha Collier, David Wallace-Wells, Martin Ford, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Gabriele, Gerd Leonhard, Dirk Spannaus, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tactical Tech, Pat Kua, Prof Steve Keen, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Stowe Boyd
The Guardian
What happened when a ‘wildly irrational’ algorithm made crucial healthcare decisions
7 min · · Advocates say having computer programs decide how much help vulnerable people can get is often arbitrary – and in some cases downright cruel · Shared by 163, including Josep M. Ganyet, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Carissa Véliz, Gregg Caruso, Alice Wong 王美華, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nicolas Babin, Aral Balkan, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦
changelog.com
I just hit $100,000/yr on GitHub Sponsors 🎉
7 min · · I am now making more money than I’ve ever made while developing open-source software for a community that I adore. Pinch me, I’m dreaming. Was it luck? there’s certainly been a lot of that. Was it… · Shared by 5
diff.substack.com
Working in Public and the Economics of Free
10 min · · Plus! Delevering, Alternative Lending, Time To Build in Britain, Pinduoduo, Executive Orders, More... · Shared by 7, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
mitelman.engineering
Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
20+ min · · Intro The goal of this tutorial is to describe Python development ecosystem. It can be helpful for someone coming to Python from another programming language. They say that you should stick to… · Shared by 39, including Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
unixsheikh.com
Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
20+ min · · Published on 2020-04-11. Modified on 2020-04-13. Since I wrote my article "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" I have been wanting to write something about the technical reasons to…
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Individual Before Community: Why Creator Tokens Will Precede Community Tokens
8 min · · What purists miss in their devotion to the collective is that all communities start with an individual. Creator tokens will be the first to go mainstream. · Shared by 110, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jonathan Kogan, cdixon.eth
Inverse
Robots are learning to smile and it's making humans cringe
5 min · · Researchers from Columbia University have designed a robot that can smile just like a human, but just how well humans will react to this is yet to be seen. · Shared by 19, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Harold Sinnott, Bob E. Hayes, Terence Mills, Helen Yu
Scientific American
AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived
7 min · · Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics · Shared by 426, including Matthias Lampe, Nicolas Babin, John Nosta, ExApologist, Marcus Borba, AI, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, David Gates, Martin Ford, Startup Overseas, Bob E. Hayes, Michael Fisher, Brian Ahier, Nige Roberts-Willson, Jennifer Ouellette, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI
techrepublic.com
Why Kubernetes is our modern-day COBOL, says a tech expert
3 min · · Commentary: Today's infrastructure becomes tomorrow's legacy, but there are ways to build that avoid pitfalls. · Shared by 13, including David Garner, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer