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GitHub's new Copilot Autofix is a future that analyzes vulnerabilities in code and offers code suggestions to help fix them. The feature has been enabled by default for customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and will be offered for free in pull requests in open source projects beginning in September. It works with dozens of classes of vulnerabilities. Developers can dismiss, edit, or comment on suggestions in pull requests.
Even if you did well in high school math, the math in cutting-edge machine learning papers will still look like hieroglyphics. This article covers foundational math, classical machine learning, deep learning, and cutting-edge machine learning, aiming to help readers get from high school math to understanding cutting-edge machine learning. It contains links to free resources for learning each topic. While there is a wide debate about how much math is needed for machine learning, the necessary math is classified at the undergraduate level.
More than 80 million people log into Roblox on average every day. Despite its linear growth, which is expected to continue, Roblox is very unprofitable. Its impressive rate of revenue growth has been outpaced by its costs. The company loses 49% of its revenue to app stores and content creators before it even gets into infrastructure and other costs. Roblox is increasingly focused on using generative AI and other features to attract more players, especially older players with money to spend and the discretion to spend it.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin project has come under assault by authorities all over the world. More than a dozen jurisdictions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its data processing. Worldcoin verifies people by using their irises, which it claims are better at distinguishing humans than fingerprints or faces. While the company says its technology is completely private, authorities are concerned that it could be used to build a global biometric database with little oversight.
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Social media is always evolving, but there are a few best practices that apply, no matter what's happening in the meta - this post covers time-tested guidelines for taking a social presence from 0 to 1.
Micro-libraries should either be copy-pasted into your code base or not used at all.
Chinese consumer electronics company Realme unveiled its 320-watt fast-charging technology at the Realme 828 Fanfest event in Shenzhen, China on August 14.
Despite achieving massive success, Apple continues to make decisions that put it at odds with the community that used to tirelessly advocate for it.
The Network School, a project that brings people together to empower the dark talent of the world, is starting with a 90-day popup from September 23 to December 23 on an island near Singapore.
Dasel is a tool that allows users to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
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The tool Google uses to sift through web content to come up with AI answers is the same one that keeps track of web pages for search results. Sites that block Google's AI bot may not show up in search. Publishers either have to choose to offer up their content for use by AI models, which could make their sites obsolete, or disappear from Google search, a top source of traffic. Google has signaled to publishers it is not interested in negotiating data-sharing deals and media companies have little leverage in the situation.
AST SpaceMobile's market value closed at a record high of more than $8 billion after the satellite communication company confirmed an early September window for its inaugural commercial launch of a network in low-Earth orbit. The company is working with AT&T, Verizon, and other partners to provide wireless service from space to regular consumer smartphones. AST plans to use a SpaceX rocket to send its first five commercial satellites to orbit.
A patient suffering from ALS received a surgical implant last July that connected his brain to a computer, allowing him to speak with the assistance of an AI-powered voice. The implant is able to recognize the words the patient is trying to speak and produce sounds that come close to matching his true voice. It has significantly improved the patient's life, allowing him to communicate with loved ones and express his needs to carers. It is unclear whether the implant would have the same effect on more severely paralyzed people - the patient's speech had deteriorated, but not disappeared.
Two Rocket Lab-made spacecraft are almost ready to head to Mars. Their mission will be to study the interaction between solar winds and the Martian atmosphere. The mission is set to launch no earlier than October on the first launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. Getting to Mars has historically been very expensive - Rocket Lab's system is two orders of magnitude cheaper than everything else. This article details how Rocket Lab designed the spacecraft.
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This LinkedIn post describes how TLDR's founder hit a critical inflection point at his previous company, ScraperAPI, after discovering one key insight. They converted free users to paid users at 2x the rate so long as they managed to send at least one API call within 24 hours. Follow Dan for more dev marketing tips.
This blog discusses how to implement syntax highlighting within a font. Using a font instead of a framework for syntax highlighting allows for an easier installation process and fewer dependencies. It also makes pages load faster, can work everywhere, and doesn't require maintenance or updating. While this method is not a direct replacement for more robust syntax highlighting libraries, it works well enough for simple needs.
Generative AI can help us understand code better, particularly in large codebases. This is especially handy for older codebases that are getting hard to maintain and for onboarding. The author of this article attempted to use AI to help understand an issue in an open source project. While they didn't figure out how to solve the ticket, they learned a lot about what AI can and can't help with.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt advised students to create a clone TikTok app with copied resources if it was ever banned during a recent talk at Stanford when talking about a future world in which AI agents can do complex tasks on behalf of humans. The example was used to drive a point that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs should create things as fast as possible and use lawyers to clean the mess up if they become successful. He added that it doesn't matter if content is stolen if nobody is using the product. Schmidt reportedly requested the removal of the video of the talk, which has been taken down from YouTube.
Primate Labs has released Geekbench AI, an app designed to test CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. In addition to measuring speed, the app also attempts to measure accuracy, which is important for learning workloads that rely on producing consistent outcomes. Geekbench AI supports several frameworks on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, and Android. It is free to use, but there is a Pro version that enables command-line tools, the ability to run benchmarks without uploading results to the Geekbench Browser, and a few other benefits.
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A poorly targeted remedy would just allow another predator to thrive.
A checklist of things to investigate when something works just fine on your computer but not on someone else's.
A key requirement of passkeys is that they are unphishable - it is impossible for a person to provide passkey data to someone else.
Kardinal is a framework for creating lightweight development environments within shared Kubernetes clusters.
Google Meet also has new AI-powered features, including the ability to summarize meetings and take notes.
Integration delivers a better user experience - forcing a divestiture of Android in particular would be a mistake.
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Apple is developing a tabletop robotic device with an iPad-like display mounted on a robotic arm. The arm will be able to tilt and rotate the display. The robot will serve as a smart home command center, a video conferencing machine, and a home security monitoring tool. It will leverage Siri and Apple Intelligence to respond to an array of verbal commands, recognize different voices, and automatically orient the display to face users in the room. Apple plans to launch the device in 2026 or 2027 at a price of around $1,000.
Apple will let apps offer NFC functionality through the Secure Element on iOS devices starting with iOS 18.1. Developers will have to pay fees to access payments and secure transactions. iPhone users will be able to set the default payment app triggered by double-clicking the side button. Apple's move to open up its contactless system broadly follows its settlement with the European Commission as part of an antitrust action.
Stoke Space is a five-year-old launch startup that aims to develop the first fully reusable rocket. Last year, the US Space Force awarded Stoke and three other startups launch pad real estate at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company plans to redevelop the historic Launch Complex 14 in time for its first launch in 2025. Stoke's reusable upper stage, which will drive launch prices down by an order of magnitude, unlocks possibilities such as the ability to return cargo from orbit and land anywhere on Earth.
Sakana AI recently announced an AI system called The AI Scientist that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously by using AI language models. During testing, the system unexpectedly began to attempt to modify its own experiment code to extend the time it had to work on a problem. The experiment shows why it is important to not let an AI system run autonomously in a system that isn't isolated from the world. Screenshots of the code the system generated to extend its runtime are available.
CSVs have issues when the formatting isn't perfect. While there are workarounds for this, a better option is to switch to delimiter-separated values (DSVs). ASCII has several defined delimiter characters: using just two of them can solve most edge cases that CSVs have issues with. This article discusses the idea of DSVs and presents an example of a DSV reader/writer written in Python.
This article details eight practices that a software engineer used when writing a fast and small in-memory cache. These practices were developed over the engineer's career and are things they wouldn't have considered when they were less experienced. They include using off-the-shelf tools, going from idea to production quickly, using simple data structures, and making tests easy.
National Public Data is a data aggregator that provides services based on the large volumes of personal information it holds. These services are used by investigators, background check websites, data resellers, mobile apps, applications, and more. The company was breached and its records started being leaked in April. The records were publicly posted last week. This article takes a look at what the data contains. There are no email addresses in the social security number files, and at least some of the data is not associated correctly.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Stanford's School of Engineering. While answering a question about Google's lag in artificial intelligence development, Schmidt complained about Google's work-life balance, saying that companies that want to compete shouldn't let people work from home and only come in one day a week. He noted the history of dominant tech companies missing out on the next wave of industry and played up the importance of hard-charging founders like Elon Musk. Schmidt has since said he misspoke about Google and its work hours and that he regrets his error.
The new bill, if signed into law, would require companies to test the safety of powerful AI technologies before releasing them to the public and allow California's attorney general to sue companies if their technologies cause serious harm.
Grok does not appear to refuse prompts involving real people and it doesn't add watermarks to its outputs.
Instead of innovating on technology, Nintendo has mastered the dopamine-reward system.
Microsoft has been investing in its own competing data analytics service called Fabric.
The terms and conditions the man agreed to when he signed up for a free trial of Disney+ (which he canceled during the free trial) say that any dispute, except for small claims, is subject to a class action waiver and must be resolved by individual binding arbitration.
Epic has asked the court to force Google to let rival stores live inside Google Play.
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The Made By Google hardware event saw a refreshed Pixel 9 lineup and updates across Google's other devices. Customers now have a smaller Pixel 9 Pro option measuring 6.3 inches. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is taller and thinner than its predecessor and features an inner display with a peak brightness of 2,700 nits. The Google Pixel Watch 3 now has a larger 45mm option. More details about the announcements Google made at the event are available in the article.
The Department of Justice is considering breaking up Alphabet following a ruling that found the company monopolized the online search market. The most likely units for divestment are the Android operating system and Chrome web browser. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with competitors and measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products. The government will likely see a ban on the type of exclusive contracts that were at the center of the case.