Published on: 2025-04-19 10:28:44
In November 2022, I opened issue 99108 on Python’s GitHub repository, arguing that after a recent CVE in its implementation of SHA3, Python should embrace verified code for all of its hash-related infrastructure. As of last week, this issue is now closed, and every single hash and HMAC algorithm exposed by default in Python is now provided by HACL*, the verified cryptographic library. There was no loss of functionality, and the transition was entirely transparent for Python users. Python now ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:02:00
The home page consists of a list of “postcards” taken by the camera. Each postcard allows you to scroll through multiple high-quality photos and a video with sound, which ranges in length from a few seconds to up to two minutes depending on what a bird might be doing. Sometimes the algorithm might also decide to send a video in slow-motion, but that only happened once, when a Steller's jay spent an inordinate amount of time rummaging for a sunflower seed. The AI identification runs along the to
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Loss of Pulse Detection, the smartwatch’s marquee health feature, calls emergency services if the Pixel Watch 3 can’t pick up your heartbeat while wearing it. It was initially announced alongside the Pixel Watch 3 in August last year, and has been available for European users for months. However, because this is a high-stakes feature, it requires regulatory clearance — something Google didn’t get from the Food and Drug Administration until late February. Google says in a fact sheet that it teste
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The internet isn’t rotting your brain. Algorithm-driven doomscrolling is rotting your brain. To be online in 2025 is to be miserable. A lot of that is the current state of the world, to be fair, but some of it is also the way we all engage with stuff online. We’ve all sat down to browse Instagram and looked up to realize two hours have passed that we barely remember. And it seems as if the feed on every social media site is filled with AI slop, advertisements, and weird garbage we don’t want to
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Why it matters: As ByteDance's April 5 deadline to divest TikTok or face a ban approaches, last-minute players have entered negotiations to potentially take over the U.S. operations of the popular social network. The Trump administration, which postponed the ban in January, is reportedly exploring several options to bring some or all of TikTok under American ownership. Sources recently told The New
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I’ve spent about a year working on an autorouter for tscircuit (an open-source electronics CAD kernel written in Typescript). If I could go back a year, these are the 13 things I would tell myself: An intermediate stage of our autorouting routing a keyboard. 1. Know A* like the back of your hand, use it everywhere If I was king for a day, I would rename A* to “Fundamental Algorithm”. It is truly one of the most adaptable and important algorithms for _any kind_ of search. It is simply the best
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In a nutshell: AI startup Perplexity is once again proposing the unlikely scenario that it takes over TikTok's US business operations. If the company were able to pull off this feat, it promises to make some major changes to the app, including rebuilding the algorithm, adding community notes, and open-sourcing the recommendation system. Perplexity first proposed a merger with TikTok's US operations in January. The plan would see the US government hold 50% ownership of the company but have no in
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If you don’t understand how digital tech is changing, you’ll be swallowed by it. From post-quantum algorithms and thermodynamic hardware to open source architectures and apocalypse-proof programming, WIRED journeys to the freaky frontiers of modern computing.
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Earlier this year, with a TikTok ban looming, Perplexity AI threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring to take over the embattled social media company. Now, the maker of the AI search engine is outlining its vision for TikTok if its bid were to win out. In a blog post, the company made a lengthy pitch for "rebuilding TikTok in America," an effort that would see the AI company rebuild the app’s signature algorithm, add Community Notes, and integrate the shortform videos into its search eng
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 13:34:53
For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve — akin to identifying a peak to climb — and then they must develop a strategy to solve it. Classical and quantum researchers compete using different strategies, with a healthy rivalry between the two. Quantum researchers report a fast way to solve a problem — often by scaling a peak that no one thought worth climbing — then classical teams race to see if they can find a better way.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 01:57:20
Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they'll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can perform in ways that are impossible to match with classical computation (one of the more recent examples coming just last year). In most cases to date, however, those claims were quickly followed by some tuning and optimization of classical algorithms that boosted their performance, making them comp
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Over eight years ago I created the Polyomino Tiler (a browser application that attempts to tile arbitrary grids with sets of polyominoes), but I haven't ever written about the algorithm it uses. If any aspects of what follows are confusing, it may help to play with the polyomino tiler a bit to get a better idea for what it's doing. There are a couple aspects of the problem that combine to make it challenging: the set of available polyominos is fully customizable up to the heptominoes; each po
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Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they'll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can perform in ways that are impossible to match with classical computation (one of the more recent examples coming just last year). In most cases to date, however, those claims were quickly followed by some tuning and optimization of classical algorithms that boosted their performance, making them comp
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fotograzia/Getty Images The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so much. A new tool lets you see YouTube without the algorithm, and it feels like an entirely different internet. The tool works on a basic premise: from 2009 to 2012, iPhones had a "Send to YouTube" button built into the Photos app. Unless you changed the file name, the video t
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Stefano Madrigali/Getty Images The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so much. A new tool lets you see YouTube without the algorithm, and it feels like an entirely different internet. The tool works on a basic premise: from 2009 to 2012, iPhones had a "Send to YouTube" button built into the Photos app. Unless you changed the file name, the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 07:27:00
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks. To date, my account balance on his “bank”, the Bank of San Serriffe, is still 0x$2.40 (hexadecimal dollars). 0x$2.00 for two errors, and 0x$0.40 for two “valuable suggestions.” His response to my errors reports was faster than I
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As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks. To date, my account balance on his “bank”, the Bank of San Serriffe, is still 0x$2.40 (hexadecimal dollars). 0x$2.00 for two errors, and 0x$0.40 for two “valuable suggestions.” His response to my errors reports was faster than I
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 17:04:43
Abstract Bitmap compression has been studied extensively in the database area and many efficient compression schemes were proposed, e.g., BBC, WAH, EWAH, and Roaring. Inverted list compression is also a well-studied topic in the information retrieval community and many inverted list compression algorithms were developed as well, e.g., VB, PforDelta, GroupVB, Simple8b, and SIMDPforDelta. We observe that they essentially solve the same problem, i.e., how to store a collection of sorted integers w
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AlgoMIDI 🎹 A musical studio to create music through cellular automata and graph traversal algorithms. Built as a spiritual successor to Cellular Minimata - now instead of simply visualising the automata, each "living" cell triggers a musical note. Tech stack: Vue 3, Vite, TypeScript, Web Audio API (via Tone.js), p5.js, Cytoscape.js. The piano sampler came from this. AlgoMIDI lets you create music through: 🎲 Conway's Game of Life (and other cellular automata rules) 🕸️ Graph traversal algorit
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Just in time for 10 years of Tuta/Tutanota, we are launching the most significant security upgrade of Tuta Mail with TutaCrypt. This groundbreaking post-quantum encryption protocol will secure emails with a hybrid protocol combining state-of-the-art quantum-safe algorithms with traditional algorithms (AES/ECC) making Tuta Mail the world's first email provider that can protect emails from quantum computer attacks. We are excited to announce that with this release we are enabling quantum-safe enc
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Sublinear Time Algorithms Sublinear time is a daunting goal since it allows one to read only a miniscule fraction of the input. There are problems for which deterministic exact sublinear time algorithms are known. However, for most natural problems the algorithm must use randomization and must give an answer which is in some sense approximate. There is a growing body of work aimed at finding sublinear time algorithms for various problems. Recent results have shown that there are classical optim
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