Published on: 2025-04-23 09:32:04
Bluesky is adopting an official verification system after all. In an update , the company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to “authentic and notable” accounts. It will also allow some “trusted organizations" to verify users as well. The change is a notable shift for the upstart platform, which previously resisted the idea of centralized verification. Up to now, the company has relied on a domain-based verification system, which allows users to change their handles to match domains that th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 08:00:00
Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. The social platform, which has experienced rapid growth since it opened to the public in early 2024, formerly relied on an unconventional self-verification system where users could “authenticate” themselves by including custom domains in their web handles. Now it’s adopting a more proactive and traditional verification strategy, with the Bluesky team identifying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 09:56:59
Taking notes with Joplin Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Joplin is an open-source note-taking application designed to handle taking many kinds of notes, whether it is managing code snippets, writing documentation, jotting down lecture notes, or drafting a novel. Joplin has Markdown support, a plugin system for extensibility, and accepts
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 06:22:06
To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining high quality. This enables you to run powerful models like Gemma 3 27B locally on consumer-grade GPUs like the NVIDIA RTX 3090. Last month, we launched Gemma 3, our latest generation of open models. Delivering state-of-the-art performance, Gemma 3 quickly established itself as a leading model capable of running on a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:05:42
What are ocean scientists doing to employ iron fertilization? In the 1990s and early 2000s, a series of experiments tested iron fertilization in the open ocean. These tests consistently found that adding iron led to phytoplankton blooms, However, the extent to which that carbon sank to the depths wasn’t always measured, and the phytoplankton were not able to use all of the iron for growth before the mineral sank. Researchers did document changes in phytoplankton communities, with diatoms becom
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Enter number of people: Visualize Presets: 100K 1 Million 10 Million 100 Million 1 Billion Note: For extremely large numbers, the visualization may become slower to render. Mouse controls: Left-click + drag to rotate, Right-click + drag to pan, Scroll to zoom About This Visualization This visualization helps you grasp large numbers by representing people in stadium-sized units. Each stadium holds 100,000 people. The 3D view allows you to explore the stadiums from any angle, giving a better
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 16:43:41
Marvel Rivals' latest Season 2 feature is targeted at all the fashionistas out there. Costume customization lets players change the color palette of their skin, creating a new in-game look that suits them best. The new palette swap customization isn't free and isn't available on every skin, though more skins will be available to customize as time goes on. Four reskins shipped with the feature's introduction. Unlocking costume customization will cost you the in-game currency equivalent of $6 pe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 21:08:41
It’s been an eventful time for Dungeons & Dragons lately, particularly behind the scenes. But an upcoming update is about to affect all its players, particularly those on the creative side. On April 22, Wizards of the Coast is publishing a 5.2 version of its System Release Document (or SRD)—aka, the game’s base rules to be used by third-party publishers making products built off the TTRPG’s foundation—that will include “foundational content” from its recently released Core Rulebooks. Going forw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 01:40:13
For the past couple years, Apple has put a large emphasis on lock screen customization. But, have you ever wondered: what if I could easily create my own custom wallpaper on my iPhone? This new app has the answer for you. Deco makes personal wallpaper customization accessible and enjoyable for enthusiasts and everyday users, allowing you to express yourself in a big way that you couldn’t before. Feature overview At its core, Deco is one of the easiest ways to create your own wallpaper on-devi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 17:33:38
On Friday, Feb 7, 2025 we had an incident with our Next.js web app hosted on Vercel that could've cost us $7,000 if we didn't notice it in time. We had a spike in LLM bot traffic coming from Amazonbot, Claudebot, Meta and an unknown bot. Together they sent 66.5k requests to our site within a single day. Bots scraped thousands of images that used Vercel's Image Optimization API, which cost us $5 per 1k images. The misconfiguration on our side combined with the aggressive bot traffic created an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 21:30:30
OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of staging press attacks and malicious campaigns on "the social media platform he controls," as well as of making "harassing legal claims" and a "sham bid for OpenAI's assets." In its filing, courtesy of TechCrunch, the ChatGPT-maker said Musk could not tolerate seeing such "success for an enterprise he had abandoned and declared doomed" and had made it his own project to take down the organization. It also said that Musk's efforts h
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The goblet of fire sits in the center of the store. The blue flame will occasionally turn red, as it does in the book and movie when a name is dropped into it. Notice that the floor around the goblet has a maze pattern, in reference to the maze in the Triwizard Tournament. The wands featured on this display are for characters who participated in the Triwizard Tournament.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 07:38:42
Introduction One of the key insights from queuing theory is that the average queue size for an unbounded system tends to increase significantly as utilization approaches 100%. Theoretical models show no bound to this increase and at 100% utilization the resulting average queue size grows toward infinity. This is important because queues themselves consume resources, be it memory or disk space on a computer or factory floor space in a plant. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need queues. Who likes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 21:00:00
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2025 AI Index Report, providing a data-driven analysis of AI’s global development. HAI has been developing a report on AI over the last several years, with its first benchmark coming in 2022. Needless to say, a lot has changed. The 2025 report is loaded with statistics. Among some
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Microsoft announced today that, based on customer feedback, it will indefinitely delay removing driver synchronization in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). "Seeing how many of you are already moving to the available cloud-based driver services, we initially proposed the removal of WSUS driver synchronization. Thanks to your feedback, especially on disconnected device scenarios, we've now revised this plan," said Senior Program Manager Paul Reed. "Based on your valuable feedback, we are po
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 19:50:33
Thanks to the first Wicked movie and its upcoming sequel, there’s some Wizard of Oz fever going around. The original 1939 film celebrated its 85th birthday last year ahead of Wicked, and now it’s getting the spotlight once more thanks to the Las Vegas Sphere. Beginning in August, the venue will provide a “fully immersive experience” for Wizard of Oz that will play on the Sphere’s 160,000-square foot screen. Made in collaboration with Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Magnopus, this new versio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 22:25:19
After 28 years, longtime Dungeons & Dragons designer Chris Perkins revealed he’s exited the company and retired from Wizards of the Coast. Perkins said on Friday he was leaving with a “perfect fairytale ending…I can’t wait to enjoy D&D purely as a fan again, knowing the game is in good hands.” His retirement comes in the wake of the TTRPG’s 50th anniversary and the recent launch of its revised rulebooks, which he said were “doing gangbusters.” Prior to this, he stepped down as D&D’s product lea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 01:16:03
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Sphere Entertainment has announced two new immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue in Las Vegas. An enhanced version of The Wizard of Oz will premiere on the Sphere’s 160,000 square foot screen on August 28th, 2025, while a new film by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) f
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The past two years, Universal chose CinemaCon to debut the first footage from its adaptation of Wicked and now, with the second and final film on the way, it had to happen again. Director Jon M. Chu, producer Marc Platt, and stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were all on hand to debut the first footage from the highly anticipated Wicked: For Good, and while it’s not yet online, here’s what happened. Glass breaks on what appears to be a brand new apartment. Glinda is living in in the Emerald
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 13:15:15
NaNoWriMo, the non-profit organization that grew out of the annual tradition National Novel Writing Month, had a solid 25-year run encouraging writers to speedrun the novel writing process, but it has come to an end. On Monday, the organization announced that it would cease operations due to ongoing financial issues, as well as some very public drama that has played out in recent years. In an email to community members (and shared on Reddit), the organization was pretty thorough in its reasonin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 03:00:34
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Listen, I’ve seen all the movies, and every fiber of my being tells me that less is more when it comes to AI. I mean, the last thing I want is for something embedded through my apartment to go HAL 9000 on me and leave my cats wondering what went wrong. And yet, when Google allowed me to let Gemini browse through my search history to better understand me as a user, I signed right up. Here’s why. Would you feel comfortable giving an AI chatbot your search hist
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 09:08:45
I wrote about the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs five years ago during the early days of this blog. The conquistadors have since remained a fascination of mine, but I haven’t had a chance to go back to them until recently when I read Bernal Diaz’s The Conquest of New Spain and then The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie. My goal was to get a thorough understanding of the two major Spanish New World conquests and how small Western military forces achieved such stunning successes over gargan
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I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “Decomposing a factorial into large factors“. This paper studies the quantity , defined as the largest quantity such that it is possible to factorize into factors , each of which is at least . The first few values of this sequence are OEIS A034258 ). For instance, we have, because on the one hand we can factor but on the other hand it is not possible to factorizeinto nine factors, each of which isor higher. This quantity was introduced by Erdös, who a
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It’s a curious image. The philosopher Plato, dressed in a turban and a sash, sits before a pipe organ and plays sweet tunes. Meanwhile, around him lies a catatonic tribe of lions, tigers, antelopes, leopards, deer, rhinos, cranes, phoenixes and other beasts. What’s going on here? Are these animals sleeping? Are they dead? What is Plato up to? It’s a strange and fascinating scene, so yesterday — not having much else to do under lockdown — I set about finding out more. It is not a scene you will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 16:15:32
A critical severity vulnerability has been discovered in the Next.js open-source web development framework, potentially allowing attackers to bypass authorization checks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-29927, enables attackers to send requests that reach destination paths without going through critical security checks. Next.js is a popular React framework with more than 9 million weekly downloads on npm. It is used for building full-stack web apps and includes middleware components for authenti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 21:20:17
Introduction Authorization is a critical component of every business application. If the authorization system is down, the application is down, so it must run at very high availability. It also needs to evaluate every decision correctly or risk elevation of privilege or information disclosure vulnerabilities. Finally, it has to run at very low latencies, because authorization is in the critical path of every application request. Identity and access management (IAM) has long been considered a “
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 00:23:47
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published specific timelines on migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), dictating that critical organizations should complete migration by 2035. The new guidance aims to provide a structured migration plan with specified milestones for all organizations to follow. It will also serve to highlight the real security risks of falling behind. "Quantum computing is set to revolutionize technology, but it also poses significant risks to current
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 12:40:24
Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast has laid off 30 people who built Sigil, its recently released virtual tabletop experience, Polygon reports. The app allows Dungeons & Dragons players to build virtual, 3D game boards, complete with miniatures and dice, so they can play the classic tabletop roleplaying game remotely. News of the layoffs were first shared on March 18 in a LinkedIn post from Andy Collins, the design lead on Sigil. "Today, approximately 30 talented developers (90 percent of the team) w
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Hasbro’s Sigil 3D virtual tabletop tool—which recently launched in a messy, unfinished state as an early public playtest—is reportedly being shuttered after years of development and being folded into, in some capacity, existing D&D Beyond virtual tabletop system, Maps. Rascal News reports that, in an internal message sent to Wizards of the Coast employees, the studio confirmed that Sigil will “transition to a DDB feature,” and attempt to release currently developed extra content for users at no
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