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TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans.

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

A fast tool to read text-based files in a repository or directory, chunk them, and serialize them for LLM consumption. - GitHub - bodo-run/yek: A fast tool to read text-based files in a repository...

The blog introduces CFD Ansys Fluent benchmarks and provides hands-on guide on installing and running four different Fluent models on AMD GPUs using ROCm.

Case Study ⸺ Using novel technology to analyze groundbreaking chain of command research

Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok.

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

Please, just stop.

The tabletop gaming company is a huge success story - but could it get even bigger?

A look at the curious history of Venn diagrams and how they blend logic with geometry

About ninety second-hand bookshops in the UK were reported as closed in 2024. This figure is based on reports to The Book Guide , usually ...

🚨Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse. The community version of Synapse is not designed or intended for use by commercial Matrix hosting providers to serve huge nation-scale deployments. Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will colla...

The Australian Open has implemented a cheeky workaround for international viewers that dodges its own broadcast obligations.

In this blog post, we’ll walk through an implementation of the SGEMM (Single-precision GEneral Matrix Multiply) operation defined as C := alpha*A*B + beta*C. We will review three different kernels, each optimized for specific matrix size problems. Our final implementation is optimized for Ampere arc...

Follow the adventure of archaeologist Nevada Smith in a reimagined classic video game from 1990.

Adds playful pets 🦀🐱🐶 in your VS Code window. Contribute to tonybaloney/vscode-pets development by creating an account on GitHub.

The 2020s were a fun time for Intel’s Atom line, which went from an afterthought to playing a major role across Intel’s high performance client offerings.

Easy and intuitive Kalman Filter tutorial

Suicide is a truly bizarre evolutionary strategy. Why does it exist?

Uses an llm to generate ffmpeg commands. Contribute to jjcm/llmpeg development by creating an account on GitHub.

The island’s private drinking water supplies were polluted by use of firefighting foams containing ‘forever chemicals’

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Experimental API for borrow checking in Julia. Contribute to MilesCranmer/BorrowChecker.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Owners can't drive Elon Musk's 'favorite car' on public roads.

RIT photography professor Ted Kinsman shares how he designed and built a star tracker for NASA astronaut Don Pettit to use on board the ISS.

The Papal Basilica of St. Peter

Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of si...

Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm - Personal blog about game development, programming and making

Breaking up-to-date Windows 11 BitLocker encryption -- on-device but software-only

In August 2024, Raspberry Pi introduced the RP2350 microcontroller. This part iterates over the RP2040 and comes with numerous new features. These include security-related capabilities, such as a Secure Boot implementation. A couple of days after this announcement, during DEFCON 2024, an interesting...

The Biden administration says popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the government and drug manufacturers.

How Ben Hylak turned from ol pro skeptic to fan by overcoming his skill issue.

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