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APRIL 15, 2024
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
The two vendors emerged successful from an original pool of five and are expected to carry their drone designs through a prototyping phase that will build and test aircraft.
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across cloud, edge and on-premises data center infrastructure.
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Tesla Profits Drop 55%
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy and “several unforeseen challenges” cut into the automaker’s bottom line. Tesla reported revenue of $21.3 billion in the first quarter, a 9% drop from the first quarter of 2023.
Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
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APRIL 24, 2024
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well.
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TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers
Hacker News
APRIL 23, 2024
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was slated to open a plant in Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. It aimed to bring thousands jobs, but the expansion hasn’t taken off.
Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
Hacker News
APRIL 23, 2024
Google is delaying the end of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — again. In other unsurprising developments, water remains wet. The announcement was made on Tuesday ahead of quarterly reports from Google and the ever-watchful U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), keeping tabs on how this whole situation unfolds. “We recognize that there are ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and developers, and will continue to engage closel
The death of the 60/40 portfolio
Hacker News
APRIL 23, 2024
April 21, 2024 The topic for this issue focuses on portfolio management in an era of less structural disinflation, and more broadly how a portfolio can be improved relative to the basic 60/40 portfolio.
Why Cats Knock Stuff Over (2023)
Hacker News
APRIL 22, 2024
Why do cats like to push stuff over edges and then curiously watch the fallen object? I suggest that they are play-hunting, and are testing the ‘prey’ for liveness & playing-dead, similarly to tossing or poking it with claws.
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
Hacker News
APRIL 22, 2024
After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.
The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece
Hacker News
APRIL 22, 2024
A new restoration of Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle,” starring Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy, showcases the visionary Hollywood director’s lusty yet spiritual artistry.
Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
Heart failure mortality rates are moving in the wrong direction, a new analysis reports, reversing a decline in deaths that means more people in the United States are dying of the condition today than 25 years ago. The concerning conclusion comes as newer medications are raising hopes for better outcomes in the years to come. A research letter published Wednesday in JAMA Cardiology tracked U.S. death certificate data from 1999 through 2021, revealing a steady drop in deaths until 2012, when rate
Intel Meteor Lake's NPU
Hacker News
APRIL 23, 2024
AI is a hot topic and Intel doesn't want to be left out, so their Meteor Lake mobile processor integrates a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Intel internally refers to the NPU as "NPU 3720", though I haven't seen that name used in marketing materials.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says
Hacker News
APRIL 21, 2024
It’s a generally accepted belief that as you age, your resting metabolism slows — especially over age 40. Not true, says an August study published in the journal Science. Fitness expert Dana Santas shares four science-backed ways to boost your metabolism.
Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink
Hacker News
APRIL 21, 2024
A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is “a realistic possibility” for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs. A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is “a realistic possibility” for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs.
Amsterdam roofs that not only grow plants but also capture water for residents
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.
Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
While reading, scrolling and focusing on other objects near our faces increase the risk of developing myopia, a little time outdoors in the sun can help mitigate it.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
‘Expensive’ Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to ‘Pirate’
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
For online media consumers, things have improved significantly over the years. More content is being made available on-demand than ever before. Netflix set the tone a decade ago by offering movies and TV series online as a convenient alternative to piracy. This worked well, so well that more than a dozen other streaming services were launched, all with their own exclusive releases.
"I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton."
Hacker News
APRIL 24, 2024
Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault.
From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38
Hacker News
APRIL 21, 2024
I recently had the pleasure to interview Pedro David Garcia Lopez, a Ruby and Rails developer based in UK, who used to be a Lorry driver. What's interesting is that he decided to become a developer at the age of 38. This post shares his story and I hope you find it as inspiring as I did!
Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology
Hacker News
APRIL 22, 2024
Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab, a Paris, France-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence compression and computer vision technology. According to.
Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
Hacker News
APRIL 20, 2024
Scientists have discovered that a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event is underway, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.
GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
Hacker News
APRIL 20, 2024
A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with a Microsoft repository, making the files appear trustworthy.
JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Specification to 8800 MT/s, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features
Hacker News
APRIL 22, 2024
When JEDEC released its DDR5 specification (JESD79) back in 2020, the standard setting organization defined precise specs for modules with speed bins of up to 6400 MT/s , while leaving the spec open to further expansions with faster memory as technology progressed. Now, a bit more than three-and-a-half years later, and the standards body and its members are gearing up to release a faster generation of DDR5 memory, which is being laid out in the newly updated JESD79-JC5 specification.
Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
Hacker News
APRIL 20, 2024
There's treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it's old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on retro plat.
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals
Hacker News
APRIL 19, 2024
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla.
HelloKitty ransomware rebrands, releases CD Projekt and Cisco data
Hacker News
APRIL 19, 2024
An operator of the HelloKitty ransomware operation announced they changed the name to 'HelloGookie,' releasing passwords for previously leaked CD Projekt source code, Cisco network information, and decryption keys from old attacks. [.
Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
Hacker News
APRIL 19, 2024
Compared to Llama 2, Llama 3 feels much less censored. Meta has substantially lowered false refusal rates. Llama 3 will refuse less than 1/3 of the prompts previously refused by Llama 2.
Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"?
Hacker News
APRIL 20, 2024
Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?
Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options
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