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CONTENT-VISIBILITY: THE NEW CSS PROPERTY THAT BOOSTS YOUR RENDERING PERFORMANCE

The content-visibility property launching in Chromium 85 may be one of the most impactful new CSS properties for improving page load performance. It enables the user agent to skip an element's rendering work until it is needed. It also allows for faster interactions with on-screen content. Reducing rendering work can in some situations reduce a page's Interaction to Next Paint, a metric that evaluates a page's ability to be reliably responsive to user input.

WE'RE ENTERING UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR MATH

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA widely considered to be the world's greatest living mathematician, recently posted his impressions of OpenAI's o1 model, comparing it to a mediocre but not completely incompetent graduate student. This article contains an edited transcript of an interview with Tao where he describes a kind of AI-enabled 'industrial-scale mathematics' in which AI acts as a lubricant for mathematicians' hypotheses and approaches to unlock new information. This approach keeps humans at its core, embracing both the strengths of people and machines.

THIS TEENAGE HACKER BECAME A LEGEND ATTACKING COMPANIES. THEN HIS RIVALS ATTACKED HIM

Arion Kurtaj is a hacker accused of breaking into Uber and stealing software and videos from Rockstar Games. He was given an indefinite hospital order for his crimes, confined to a secure mental health ward until doctors and UK officials decide he is no longer a danger to the public. His lawyers are seeking an appeal, arguing that evidence fails to prove Kurtaj committed many of the offenses he is accused of or was the central player. This article tells the story of Kurtaj's life. Kurtaj lived a very empty offline life with all sorts of difficulties, challenges, and limitations, but online, he was a bit of a superhero.

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