Google unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rival (www.engadget.com)
Ineffective altruism: FTX and the future robot apocalypse (davidgerard.co.uk)
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Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected (www.theverge.com)
Ada: Fast WHATWG-compliant URL parser (github.com)
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Timeseries of earthquakes with M = 5 or greater (2011) (ocean.si.edu)
Google Launches Bard (ChatGPT Competitor) (twitter.com)
Google opens Bard chatbot to test users, plans more AI for search (www.reuters.com)
DevEx Principles: Chef cooking for chefs (kathykorevec.substack.com)
Turkey earthquake is country's worst disaster in 84 years (www.bbc.com)
Are physical and social blind spots the same? (www.npr.org)
OpenAI makes a ChatGPT-like tool called Codex that can write software (www.businessinsider.com)
The Myths of Venture Capital (www.ineteconomics.org)
Google details Bard, its ChatGPT rival (www.axios.com)
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie (www.newyorker.com)
Google Launches ChatGPT Rival (www.bbc.com)
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NEOM's Progress (www.designboom.com)
PyGlove: Efficiently Sharing ML Ideas as Code (arxiv.org)
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The tech leader's guide to 2023 (www.infoworld.com)
Zitron: Tech's Elite Hates Labor (ez.substack.com)
The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response (www.ineteconomics.org)
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Bank of America CEO: We’re preparing for possible US debt default (www.cnn.com)
How AI is de-ageing stars on screen (www.theguardian.com)
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Update to the .NET Language Strategy (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Binance to Suspend US Dollar Bank Transfers (www.coindesk.com)
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Ex-Ubiquiti worker pleads guilty to data theft, extortion, and smear plot (www.bitdefender.com)
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GPT for Second Brains (reasonabledeviations.com)
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Taliban fighters who moved to Kabul are ‘bored’ and fed up with traffic (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM (undeleted.ronsor.com)
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Model Security Plan for Prohibited Technologies PDF(Texas State) (gov.texas.gov)
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Do children's books have a fatphobia problem? (www.yahoo.com)
Home of the future: Climate-friendly, electrified and closer than ever (www.canarymedia.com)
Open-source SQRL: Anti-spam rules language Twitter acquired 2018 (websqrl.vercel.app)
Yes, Crypto Is a Scam (www.stephendiehl.com)
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Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green (unitednuclear.com)
CHERIoT: Rethinking security for low-cost embedded systems (www.microsoft.com)
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FTX sending letters to politicians who received donations to return money (twitter.com)
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Norway’s BankID undermines anti-phishing best practices (www.ctrl.blog)
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Linux Foundation Study Critiques US Influence on OSS (thenewstack.io)
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American universities are hiring based on devotion to diversity (www.economist.com)
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Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs (www.businessinsider.com)
Edward Teach Bot: Study any topic using a Telegram bot (edwardbot.com)
Artists, has AI affected your careers? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Open Source saved me from my Udemy course addiction (jakepage.io)
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Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities (www.quantamagazine.org)
AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes (www.sportskeeda.com)
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going (www.nytimes.com)
JSON Diffing with SQLite (zeroclarkthirty.com)
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AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit (www.vice.com)
Scientists ignored animal clitorises for centuries (theconversation.com)
Crafting container images without Dockerfiles (ochagavia.nl)
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Ending the Covid emergency will complicate student-loan forgiveness (www.scotusblog.com)
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Grief content is haunting my digital life (www.technologyreview.com)
Units of Exchange (www.lesswrong.com)
Native Americans Conducted Large-Scale Copper Mining 6k Years Ago (www.scientificamerican.com)
Notes in the Margin (2022) (culture.org)
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession (stratechery.com)
The Astonishing Transformation of Austin (www.newyorker.com)
Apple is 'most admired company' for 16th straight year (appleinsider.com)
BMW Owner Discovers Car’s Software Update Won’t Install When Parked on Incline (www.thedrive.com)
Watermark Remover (AI Powered) (www.watermarkremover.io)
Tech CEOs Screwed Up (www.businessinsider.com)
The Game Theory of the Balloons (marginalrevolution.com)
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Artificial Inspiration: Can AI Recreate Great Works of Art? (finechariot.com)
South Australia plans largest electrolyzer and H2 power plant (newatlas.com)
Kisspeptin hormone injection could treat low sex drive in women and men (www.eurekalert.org)
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Discovery of new ice may change understanding of water (www.ucl.ac.uk)
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ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base (www.reuters.com)
As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains (www.sciencenews.org)
Understanding the Issues, Their Causes and Solutions in Microservices Systems (arxiv.org)
Microsoft classifies own emails as junk (news.ycombinator.com)
Why life expectancy in the US is falling (www.health.harvard.edu)
DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company (news.ycombinator.com)
How to Launch Command Prompt and Powershell from MS Paint (tzusec.com)
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud API Management (api7.ai)
Big Dumb Object of the Day: Banks Orbital (2018) (www.mcdemarco.net)
WebGL2 fluid simulation in less than 5kb of JavaScript (loicmagne.github.io)
Mastodon should notify users on instances blocking (notes.ghed.in)
The case for shifting taxes onto land (cepr.org)
Static Maps API: Generate maps and use them like images on your website (www.maptiler.com)
Gaziantep castle, constructed by the Romans and rebuilt by Seljuks, collapsed (twitter.com)
Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud (www.racket.news)
A Simple Urine Test Could Detect Brain Tumors (www.technologynetworks.com)
China Moves from Contrite to Confrontational over Balloon (www.bloomberg.com)
Nothing, Forever (AI Seinfeld Show) receives 14 day ban (old.reddit.com)
Photos of all Dutch visa holders kept in police database (www.dutchnews.nl)
24/7 AI Generated Seinfeld suspended for 2 weeks (old.reddit.com)
Polari (en.wikipedia.org)
How I Prefer to Learn Things in Tech (themetacheck.substack.com)
Wallace and Gromit maker warns UK animators may have to move abroad (www.theguardian.com)
Defense industry foundry rebuts TSMC view on US chip reshoring (www.digitimes.com)
A flexible platform for daily routines (conductapp.net)
Is ChatGPT the best AI out there? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets (www.theverge.com)
The Disinformation about the Disinformation (webdevlaw.uk)
A Quick Guide to Mutt (srobb.net)
Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine (www.frontiersin.org)
Zimbabwe’s Gold Coins Sell Above USD$2000 Each for the First Time (www.bloomberg.com)
Dating a couple set me free (www.newstatesman.com)
How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? (alicegg.tech)
China's Origin Quantum Delivers a Commercial 24-Qubit Quantum Computer (www.tomshardware.com)
New easy website builder: returning the good old days of personal websites (poxi.page)
Canada regularly poaches US immigrant tech talent: Mexico could be next (thehill.com)
Officials urge evacuation near the Ohio train derailment, fearing an explosion (www.npr.org)
Hogwarts Legacy does not deserve to be reviewed on its own merits (www.gameshub.com)
Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile? (aviation.stackexchange.com)
You can’t bribe, threaten, or feed people to get them back in the office (www.bostonglobe.com)
Turkey and Syria: 2nd large earthquake strikes as death toll rises to over 1400 (www.theguardian.com)
Tracking the asteroids that fly near Earth (www.reuters.com)
Brexit may end dreams of Scottish and Welsh independence (thomasprosser.substack.com)
AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts into Text (singularityhub.com)
Nokogiri vs. Xsltproc (gromnitsky.blogspot.com)
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL in 2023 (dbconvert.com)
Delete TikTok or risk your data being exposed to 'hostile' threats (news.sky.com)
Second 7.5M Earthquake hits central turkey (earthquake.usgs.gov)
Rick Astley suing imitator for “theft of voice” (boingboing.net)
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Elon Musk says bots with ‘good content’ can use Twitter’s API for free (www.theverge.com)
Pretty Markdown rendering in the Terminal with Glow (3M) (www.youtube.com)
Commuting is a ‘liminal space’ where you can ‘psychologically recover’ from work (fortune.com)
Building in public: ngo shares bank account transactions (only 3% admin costs) (docs.google.com)
Procrastinating linked to health and career problems: things you can do to stop (theconversation.com)
Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (TRSE) (lemonspawn.com)
2023 Turkey–Syria Earthquake (en.wikipedia.org)
Design in Figma, Launch in Webflow (webflow.com)
Jennifer (news.ycombinator.com)
These young female athletes died by suicide, all had head injuries in common (www.cnn.com)
Security.ubuntu.com mirrors under DDoS? (news.ycombinator.com)
Tech lay-offs: Dell to cut workforce (www.bbc.co.uk)
AI could be used for mass destruction (www.theguardian.com)
Intel 4040 RAM Based Assembler (news.ycombinator.com)
Chomolungma (en.wikipedia.org)
What Happened to Art? (twitter.com)
Accessible CSS Tabbing with `scroll-padding` property (flems.io)
The IRS versus the Clumsy Taxpayer (www.forbes.com)
FOSDEM'23 tutorial: How to enclave applications in the cloud using Intel SGXv2 (www.youtube.com)
Why Aren't Movies Sexy Anymore? (time.com)
Quadra 700 dev team Easter egg (bitbang.social)
Babashka News of January 2023 (blog.michielborkent.nl)
Web Design Museum 1991-2006 (www.webdesignmuseum.org)
Synchronize Data Between Memgraph Graph Database and Elasticsearch (memgraph.com)
The Qt Company launches digital advertising solution (2022) (www.qt.io)
Random Emails Gone from Gmail (news.ycombinator.com)
The Hundred-Year Programming Language (codefol.io)
Algebrarules.com: The Most Useful Rules of Basic Algebra (algebrarules.com)
Tired of Software (news.ycombinator.com)
We need to talk about dbt (pedram.substack.com)
Ed25519 and Ed448 will be included in NIST FIPS-186 [pdf] (public-inspection.federalregister.gov)
What time is in Indiana? It's complicated (en.wikipedia.org)
AI helping search for alien life found 8 strange new signals (phys.org)
A Rusty CHERI – The path to hardware capabilities in Rust (fosdem.org)
An Overview of the Current State of AI Dubbing Technology (news.ycombinator.com)
Maxima: A computer algebra system written in Common Lisp (maxima.sourceforge.io)
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Biden has Biden has revived democratic capitalism (www.theguardian.com)
Transparent Column Encryption (TCE) with Postgres (supabase.com)
Two Amateur Discoveries in Early Notation (siderea.dreamwidth.org)
Indie Game Funding is a Nightmare [video] (www.youtube.com)
A Single Person Filed 23,000 Complaints over Dublin Airport Last Year (simpleflying.com)
How to Avoid Getting Hacked and Leak Credentials? (wideangle.co)
The first-ever image of a black hole confirms Einstein's greatest theory (www.inverse.com)
Lisa Source Code: Clascal Evolution (eschatologist.net)
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The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) Soviet Sci-Fi (www.youtube.com)
Writing a TodoMVC App with Vanilla JavaScript in 2022 (frontendmasters.com)
History of Video Games (1940's – 2010's) (list of firsts) (ultimatehistoryvideogames.jimdofree.com)
US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes (www.wesh.com)
Forget regret How to have a happy life – according to the world’s leading expert (www.theguardian.com)
Procrastination and the Priority of Short-Term Mood Regulation (compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Climate change is exposing Africans to increased hardship (africa.climatemobility.org)
A libweston-based compositor for Automotive Grade Linux (2021) (www.collabora.com)
FTX Lobbying and Donations (unusualwhales.com)
Elder Scrolls (indieweb.social)
Are there robots that paint walls? (news.ycombinator.com)
Weakening TLS protection, South Korean style (palant.info)
OpenTTD 13.0 Released (www.openttd.org)
Better than Free – Kevin Kelly (2008) (kk.org)
Did anyone else lose their marbles? (news.ycombinator.com)
The C10K Problem (2014) (www.kegel.com)
Apple couldn't fix it, AT&T couldn't fix it. Descent into iPhone IMEI torment (www.zdnet.com)
India to block over 230 betting and loan apps, many with China ties (techcrunch.com)
TurnItIn AI Writing Detection (www.turnitin.com)
CIAM 101: Authentication, Identity, SSO (docs.logto.io)
Apple may enable realistic 3D video streaming on its Reality Pro (www.nextpit.com)
New Ergonomic Keyboard Naya Create (naya.tech)
FBI attempt to convince suicide on Martin Luther King (en.wikipedia.org)
Handheld GPS Launchers (www.starchase.com)
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Bertrand Russell – Portraits from Memory (and Other Essays) (www.amazon.com)
Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science (github.com)
Curious Undisclosed Skylake Bug (outerproduct.net)
Ulugh Beg Observatory (en.wikipedia.org)
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MycroftAI – Update from the CEO Part 1 (community.mycroft.ai)
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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial (hbr.org)
Tidal Energy to See Major Expansion This Decade (oilprice.com)
Gentoo Is a Project Car (krashanoff.com)
Research showing value of in-person interaction (news.ycombinator.com)