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Why I Don’t Use Netscape (1999)
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Beacown (Linux WiFi Exploit)
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Microsoft’s DirectStorage 1.1 will soon boost PC game load times with GPU decompression
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing GPU decompression to Windows PC games soon. After launching DirectStorage earlier this year, GPU decompression promises to be the next step in the ongoing effort to improve game load times on PCs. Microsoft says it’s “one of our most highly requested features” from game developers. GPU decompression works by offloading … Read more
A DRAM Failure
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Normalising Layoffs/Firing
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How to Plan?
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Retrowin32, a Win32 emulator
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Instagram expands AI-powered age verification program to India and Brazil
Instagram, facing scrutiny from safety advocates, started testing a program in the U.S. earlier this year to verify users’ age claiming to be 18 or older. It uses techniques including authentication via running video selfies through an artificial intelligence system. The Meta-owned service is now ready to roll out this program to two key overseas … Read more
The Polyhedral Perspective
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Beware of Bun.js
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Linear.app
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Code Review Handbook
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Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia
Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management. The startup, which currently manages more than 8,000 tons of … Read more
Some new venture firms are so niche that, at first glance, it’s easy to laugh off their focus
There are big, overarching top-down trends, and there are little-bitty baby trends that have a way of growing into bigger ones. A big trend right now, for example, centers on certain firms that passed out enormous checks to startup founders in recent years and drove valuations sky high in the process. It turns out this … Read more
Did Mark Zuckerberg’s little dance actually show us real metaverse legs?
Image: Meta During Meta’s Connect conference on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar lifted each leg in the air, then did a jump, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air. It … Read more
On the Proper Use of Post-Its
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Bun v0.2.0
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