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Killing Anna, a new production by Bellingcat and Keo Films, will be broadcast in the Netherlands, UK and Latvia this month. The psychological thriller follows a Syrian academic who, using the alias Anna, befriends a former Syrian regime official suspected of involvement in the Tadamon massacre.
With the last commit into DwarfStar now you can use DeepSeek v4.1 Flash in a single DGX Spark as well, with SSD streaming. Around 9 t/s generation. It works also dual-spark RDMA at ~22 t/s.
In this week’s People of ACM, Russ Cox, who was the technical lead at the Go programming language for over a decade, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the popular programming environment. Read the full interview here: www.acm.org/articles/peo...
Frontier LLMs are much better and dramatically faster than I am at finding and fixing bugs. If you are not asking them to debug your code and review your bugs, you are doing it wrong. A thread of Claude wins. (No longer at Google, btw.)
Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 2mo agoIt’s very clear by now that if LLMs are not improving your software quality it’s either a revealed preference (yours or your org’s) for more volume vs more quality, or a skill issue. The level of testing and review they are enabling in the Go cryptography standard library is amazing.
A mysterious, never before seen island in Canada made waves after it was photographed adrift on Williston Lake, British Columbia before supposedly vanishing. Video footage of the island shows a thickly forested landmass undulating surreally on the water. But did it really disappear?
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) on X
'According to estimates, it's bigger than the size of a Canadian football field and nearly the size of two NFL fields'
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Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 32 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...
koebiten に新しいゲーム Ring Flight を追加しました。 60 秒でどれだけリングを通れるか、という内容です。 Wasm でも遊べます。 #tinygo_keeb #koebiten github.com/sago35/koebi...
Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale. Meet tailcat. tailcat is an open-source Go package and CLI that lets you use Tailscale’s data plane without the control plane. No accounts, logins, admins, or IPs to manage. Learn more → tailscale.com/blog/tailcat...
I’ve alway’s thought it’s a shame that WebAssembly has the word “web” in it. Gives it a connotation that it’s “only for browsers” or something. Meanwhile, NASA’s over here with a flight-compliant derivative (SpaceWASM) intended for spacecraft!
It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
The dishonorable #Kentucky senator #RandPaul wasting taxpayer money on yet another kangaroo court for #AnthonyFauci today is a new low for the #US. #RandPaul is a disgrace!
Something that keeps me up at night is the amount of miscompiled software running in the wild. There’s a famous story, “the Core 59 problem” from Facebook where seemingly random files were missing in one of their Spark databases.
Yikes! It is shocking that there are no checks to catch these types of errors at inception.
LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 5mo ago30.9% of genetics papers data are kind of trash because of Excel’s aggressive auto-formatting. Until 2023, there was no global option to disable data conversion. For example, the human SEPT family (1-14) of genes is directly related to cell division and cancer research.
They indicted a guy yesterday for posting seashells on a beach arranged in numbers
Read the initial Guardian report of massacre here: www.theguardian.com/world/2022/a...
Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal
After a rookie militiaman secretly watched a video of 41 people being brutally killed, he knew he had to get the horrific images to the outside world
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There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers. This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
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For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi
The hidden power keeping wages low
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.
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@rminnich.bsky.social did this cause any issues for the #plan9 port too?
LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow do you kill a Supercomputer? (Accidentally) using radioactive solder is a good way. IBM’s Blue Gene/L frequently crashed when running simulations at LLNL. Turned out that alpha particles from the lead solder in the board carrier were slamming the L1 cache with bit flips.
“What I clearly see are people, who until now had no sympathy for the regime, siding with the Islamic republic – and thanking the IRGC for being the servant of territorial integrity,” said aninternational official living in Tehran.
‘I will take up arms’: US-Israeli war in Iran prompts surge of nationalism among Iranians
Monday, April 5, 2026, Istanbul
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@tinygo.org I created a few example file servers for PicoW. They use 9P protocol to expose devices as file system hierarchies. The can then be imported into Plan 9, or Linux, macOS/P9P. github.com/9nut/picow_9...
GitHub - 9nut/picow_9p_fs: A collection of TinyGo 9P File Server Examples for the Pi Pico W
A collection of TinyGo 9P File Server Examples for the Pi Pico W - 9nut/picow_9p_fs
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Making a prediction: #Epstein & #Trump were involved in #Russia #MoneyLaundering and not just #ChildSexTraffic . #Putin has #kompromat , but it would probably implicate him too (remember the #panamapapers?) It's the new #MAD doctrine.
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...
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It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
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Its whereabouts aren't publicly known, though it's believed to be in storage. n.pr/3YWyTJY
This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol
Its whereabouts aren't publicly known, though it's believed to be in storage.
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Online sleuths have tried to uncover who placed a winning bet on the Venezuelan leader's arrest to no avail. Still, prediction market watchers say the bet appears suspicious. n.pr/49F6A94
A $400,000 profit on Maduro's capture raises insider trading questions on Polymarket
Online sleuths have tried to uncover who placed a winning bet on the Venezuelan leader's arrest to no avail. Still, prediction market watchers say the bet appears suspicious.
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