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Monday March 18, 2024. 04:34 AM
Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia 'said that Databricks had to keep track of scheduling a million things,' remembers adjunct MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. ' He said that this can't be done with traditional operating system scheduling, and so this was done out of a Postgres...
Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns Infosec in brief Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve...
In 2020 Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs. But now 'America's most radical experiment with drug decriminalization has ended,' writes the Atlantic, 'after more than three years of painful results.' Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has...
Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea Asia in brief India's government has stepped back from its plan to require government approval for AI services before they come online.…
Sunday March 17, 2024. 11:56 PM
A PBS reporter 'digs into a new report covering the plastic industry's tactics to push recycling — and avoid regulation,' according to a new video from PBS News Weekend: A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmentalist group, says newly uncovered...
Mozilla Location Service offered 'a free, open way to offer GPS-style location detection features' for developers on devices without GPS hardware, remembers the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons 'without any of the privacy...
'Dell's strict new RTO mandate excludes fully remote workers from promotion,' reports Business Insider. The site calls it 'one of the most abrupt changes to remote work policies,' noting that Dell 'has had a hybrid working culture in place for more than a decade — long before...
Amazon announced a new AI-powered chatbot last month — still under development — 'to help you figure out what to buy,' writes the Washington Post. Their conclusion? '[T]he chatbot wasn't a disaster. But I also found it mostly useless...' 'The experience encapsulated my...
An anonymous reader shared this report: After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL 'has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,' said OCamlPro founder and GnuCOBOL contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM...
The Street interviewed Chad Anderson, founder/managing partner of the 'space economy' investment firm Space Capital, who calls SpaceX's progress 'unprecedented,' and believes their next launch could carry 'operational' payloads like Starlink satellites. Anderson added that...
A new EFF web page is urging U.S. readers to 'Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban,' arguing the bill will 'do little for its alleged goal of protecting our private information and the collection of our data by foreign governments.' Tell Congress: Instead of giving the...
If you use Google’s apps, it’s worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down what you get and how much it costs.
A Boeing quality manager for more than 30 years 'learned of and exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner,' according to his lawyers, 'and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment.' After retiring in 2017 he'd filed a...
America's National Transportation Safety Board 'is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system,' reports the Associated Press: The NTSB said that preliminary information...
Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Hands On With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and AI PCs you’d be forgiven for thinking you need some kind of special hardware to play with text-and-code-generating ...
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
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After the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, barnacles offer 'a potential breakthrough' in the search for its wreckage, reports WION: These barnacles were discovered clinging to the initial piece of debris conclusively linked to MH370 — a flaperon...
Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more Feature While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and not fall prey to...
Should you go AirPods Pro or AirPods Max? Apple sells several headphones—even Beats—so we break it all down to help you find the best buds for your ears.
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