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The common practice of using "Forgot Password" links as a primary authentication method is inefficient and risky. It relies on disposable passwords and ignores better security practices like password managers and multi-factor authentication. This behavior is not a conscious decision, but rather a learned process that people have adopted over time.
With fundamental technological change, we tend to make predictions about the wrong things rather than getting our predictions wrong. This has been illustrated in the past, such as in 1950s science fiction, which was unable to envision women working, or the RAND study from 1964 which predicted automatic doctors and robots but missed the rise of general-purpose computing and the internet. This pattern continues today, with the focus on predicting the next big thing like VR or autonomous vehicles while overlooking the potential implications of underlying technological shifts.
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Mynewsdesk.com open-sourced its Kubernetes-based platform, which helped it to reduce costs, improve performance, and make its developer experience better.
JSON diff and patch, or jd, is a command-line tool and Go library for comparing and modifying JSON and YAML data using various diff and patch formats, including its own native format, JSON Merge Patch, and a subset of JSON Patch.
Inertia is a tool that allows developers to build single-page applications without needing to create an API by utilizing existing server-side patterns and connecting them to client-side frameworks like React, Vue, and Svelte.
This article presents an overview of how Linux hibernates, focusing on the initial steps leading up to the system freeze. It starts by examining the system files /sys/power/state and /sys/power/disk, which serve as entry points for debugging and controlling hibernation. It then explores the autosleep mechanism, a feature borrowed from Android, which automatically suspends or hibernates the system when it's inactive. Finally, it goes over the steps involved in preparing the system for hibernation, including locking the system, preparing the console, notifying power management components, and synchronizing filesystems to disk.
The AT Protocol is a technology by Bluesky designed for open social networking. It utilizes a decentralized backend architecture that leverages a shared data model called the "user data repository". This allows applications to share data and interact easily.
Google's dominance in the advertising and tech industries is a major threat to innovation and democracy. Its business model, built on controlling both the buyers and sellers of ads, has led to ongoing antitrust trials.
A programmer discovered a bug in his code that failed to correctly identify negative dollar figures due to variations in hyphen characters in Unicode and he fixed it by using Unicode categories to identify any preceding dash.
An open research discussion board built directly on top of ArXiv to discuss papers.
The "preload" attribute in HTML improves website performance by preloading necessary files, such as fonts and data fetched by JavaScript, so the browser downloads them simultaneously.
A detailed conversation with two of VSCode's principal engineers on how it was built.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov says that innovators should not be personally liable for the potential abuse of the tools they create. He says that growing pains on Telegram made it easy for criminals to abuse the platform, but that he aims to significantly improve the platform. French authorities arrested Durov in part due to Telegram's apparent lack of response to requests related to criminal investigations, but Durov says Telegram has official representatives in the EU and that he had personally helped French authorities establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France. Telegram is expected to announce changes to address the abuse of its platform very soon.
OpenAI executives are reportedly considering $2,000 per month subscription prices for the company's upcoming large language models. The company plans to release its next-level artificial intelligence product, Strawberry, in the fall. Strawberry will be able to solve novel math problems, develop market strategies, and perform deep research. OpenAI is also reportedly considering changing its corporate structure to be more simple and attractive to financial backers. It is aiming to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would value it at above $100 billion.
It is now possible for humans to genetically modify entire species by inserting genes into them with brute force. The technology has so far gone unused, even though its deployment could mean the end of diseases like malaria. It could be used for many positive things such as giving raccoons immunity to rabies, editing insects so that they're more vulnerable to safer pesticides, and preventing the spread of deadly diseases. However, its existence presents many issues, such as the possibility of a harmful gene being released into human populations.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is currently seeking regulatory approval for a new drug that looks promising in clinical trials. Suzetrigine could be the first of an entirely new class of pain therapy. It targets specific sodium ion channels found on pain-sensing nerve cells. While the effect of the drug is modest, it demonstrates that the strategy of targeting sodium channels specific to pain-sensing neurons works, leading to hope that the next generation of these compounds could perform much better. Suzetrigine could be approved by early 2025.
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This article presents an informal explanation of the OAuth flow. Skipping over a lot of the nitty-gritty details, it details the problems that OAuth solves by looking at various potential security flaws. Resources for a deeper dive into the topic are available.
LMSYS' Chatbot Arena has become an industry obsession over the past few months. It lets anyone on the web ask questions of two randomly selected, anonymous models and then vote on their preferred answers. Critics say that LMSYS has not been completely transparent about the model capabilities, knowledge, and skills it's assessing on Chatbot Arena. The limited data released by the company makes it challenging to study the limitations of models in depth. While Chatbot Arena is framed as an empirical test, it amounts to a relative rating of models.
Bill Gates has spent billions on funding technologies he thinks will shape the future. He has a new Netflix series that covers these technologies, including AI, climate change, inequality, misinformation, and global health. 'What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates' is set to launch on September 18. This article contains an interview with Gates where he discusses why he is so optimistic about these technologies.
Hackers recently leaked a trove of data from Disney that included financial and strategy information on the entertainment giant's operations. It also included personally identifiable information of some staff and consumers and granular details about revenue generated by Disney products, park pricing offers that the company has modeled, and login credentials for some of Disney's cloud infrastructure. Disney says that it doesn't expect the incident to have a material impact on its operations or financial performance. This article provides an overview of the leaked data.
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Visa plans to launch a dedicated service for account-to-account payments in Europe next year that will allow users to set up direct debits on merchants' e-commerce stores with just a few clicks.
The number of older singles will expand significantly in the coming years, but it is difficult to monetize dating apps.
Larry Ellison, the megabillionaire founder of Oracle, will be the majority shareholder for the company that controls Paramount Global after the deal closes next year.
Beginning with iOS 18.1, third-party developers will be able to enable tap-to-pay transactions in their own apps - opening up NFC access has the potential to turn tap-to-pay into tap-to-everything.
One of the developers of the Rust for Linux project recently resigned from the project, a sign of deeper issues in Linux, both technical and cultural.
In a scenario where AI is useful but humans retain some comparative advantage, we might not like where that comparative advantage lies.
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OpenAI is reportedly considering subscription prices as high as $2,000 per month for the company's upcoming large language models, like Strawberry and Orion.
Google Photos' new AI-powered search feature, "Ask Photos," is rolling out to select users in the U.S., allowing them to search their photos using more complex natural language queries.
Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language model with enhanced visual understanding, video comprehension, and multilingual text-image processing. Qwen2-VL shows superior performance against models like Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's GPT-4o and supports various applications, including real-time video analysis and tech support. The models, available in three sizes (7B, 2B, and soon 72B), are open-source under Apache 2.0 for the smaller variants.
SGLang inference improvements are here in the latest release, with 7x Faster DeepSeek MLA, 1.5x Faster torch.compile, Multi-Image/Video LLaVA-OneVision, and more.
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This paper introduces StyleTokenizer, a method for improving style control in text-to-image generation by aligning style representation with text prompts.
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Open resources for the Fall 2024 Applied ML class at Cornell.
Open-source observability, analytics, evals, and prompt chains for complex LLM apps.
LongLLaVA is a multimodal model designed for handling long-context tasks like video and high-resolution image understanding.
Interesting interview with the CEO of BentoML that talks about how to improve your enterprise tooling, ensuring that you are able to scale, but not over-engineering it at the beginning.
This study investigates various designs for LLM-based embedding models, comparing different pooling and attention strategies.
GPU interconnect bandwidth is one of the primary bottlenecks in training large models today. Broadcom is working to integrate optical transfer directly into GPUs which would alleviate the issue substantially.
YouTube is developing new tools to protect artists and creators from unauthorized use of their likenesses, including AI-generated face and singing voice detection technology, with pilot programs launching early next year.
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