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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries as easy as writing grammatically correct sentences. This “alphabet of human thought” would leave no r
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Careers at arXiv arXiv is part of Cornell Tech, the graduate campus and research center of Cornell University. All arXiv employees are Cornell University employees. Positions at arXiv are staff positions with benefits (endowed). Visa sponsorship is not available. You must already possess the legal right to work in the US. arXiv is headquartered at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. When hiring, there is a strong preference for candidates who can report to work at t
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In March 2018, Tesla Model X owner Walter Huang died after his vehicle crashed into a concrete highway median at 71 mph — while its Autopilot driver assistance software, a buzzy new feature at the time, was turned on. The entire front of the vehicle was ripped off, sending the SUV spinning. Huan was pronounced dead hours after being taken to the hospital. According to details released years later, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed that the software Huang had been using
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China is cracking down on how automakers advertise driver assistance features, banning terms like “autonomous driving,” “self-driving,” and “smart driving,” Reuters reported, citing a transcript of a meeting between the government and industry representatives. The updated rule will also prohibit automakers from rolling out improvements via software updates to advanced driving assistance systems in vehicles already in the hands of customers. Automakers must now test any upgrades or new features
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LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers' personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company’s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors impacting a viewer, such as personal interests, personality traits, and lifestyle choices. The aim is to show LG webOS users ads that will emotionally impact them. The upcoming advertising approach comes via a multi-year licensing de
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Apple has released new software updates across its product line to fix two security vulnerabilities, which the company said may have been actively used to hack customers running its mobile software, iOS. In security advisories posted on its website, Apple confirmed it fixed the two zero-day vulnerabilities, which “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.” The bugs are considered zero days because they were unknown to Apple as th
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12 Factor Agents - Principles for building reliable LLM applications In the spirit of 12 Factor Apps. The source for this project is public at https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents, and I welcome your feedback and contributions. Let's figure this out together! Hi, I'm Dex. I've been hacking on AI agents for a while. I've tried every agent framework out there, from the plug-and-play crew/langchains to the "minimalist" smolagents of the world to the "production grade" langraph, griptap
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“There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists," he said. “I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding—I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.” If this all sounds very different from poring over lines of code, that’s because Karpathy was talking about a particular style of coding with AI assistance. His words struck a chord among softw
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A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is in danger of breaking down. The federally funded, non-profit research and development organization MITRE warned today that its contract to maintain the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program — which is traditionally funded each year by the Department of Homeland Security — expires on April 16. Tens of thousands of security flaws in
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Apple is taking another crack at iPad multitasking, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. This year's iPadOS 19 release, due to be unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, will apparently include an "overhaul that will make the tablet's software more like macOS." The report is light on details about what's actually changing, aside from a broad "focus on productivity, multitasking, and app window management." But Apple will apparently continue to stop short of
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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries as easy as writing grammatically correct sentences. This “alphabet of human thought” would leave no r
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Hacktical C A practical hacker's guide to the C programming language. In memory of Dennis Ritchie, one of the greatest hackers this world has known. About the book This book assumes basic programming knowledge. We're not going to spend a lot of time and space on explaining basic features, except where they behave differently in important ways compared to other mainstream languages. Instead we're going to focus on practical techniques for making the most out of the power and flexibility C off
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Apple is said to be readying some big improvements for iPadOS that could bring it more in line with macOS. According to Mark Gurman in the Power On newsletter, Apple’s iPadOS 19 will “focus on productivity, multitasking and app window management — with an eye on the device operating more like a Mac.” It won’t quite be macOS for iPad, but Gurman notes that “the changes will likely go far enough” to please those users who are looking to get more out of the tablet’s software. It's expected to arri
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An explainable inference software supporting annotated, real valued, graph based and temporal logic. Links 📃 Paper 📽️ Video 🌐 Website 🏋️♂️ PyReason Gym 🗎 Documentation Table of Contents 1. Introduction PyReason is a graphical inference tool that uses a set of logical rules and facts (initial conditions) to reason over graph structures. To get more details, refer to the paper/video/hello-world-example mentioned above. 2. Documentation All API documentation and code examples can be fou
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority These offers come from Amazon. These software versions are compatible with both Windows and MacOS. They also offer both Federal and State tax filing for your 2024 taxes. Intuit’s TurboTax software is known for its simplicity, affordability, and user-friendliness. It helps you navigate through the complex tax-filing process from the comfort of your home or office, without any human interaction. TurboTax will guide you through the process with a series of simp
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That can't be good. Softwearing Thin Elon Musk has been saying for a decade that Tesla is a software company. But the man who helped make it that way is headed for greener pastures at perhaps the worst possible time. According to insiders who spoke to Bloomberg, longtime Tesla software VP David Lau is departing the company after nearly 13 years. Throughout his tenure at Tesla, Lau not only oversaw the electric vehicle company's "infotainment" systems and over-air updates, but also was one of
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is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Two weeks ago, Garmin announced it was launching a new subscription. Where the Garmin Connect app had previously offered everything from in-depth metrics and training plans for free, the beloved fitness tech company was now adding premium AI summaries, among other features, behind a paywall. In The Verge comments, my social media ment
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Nissan said it will use self-driving software developed by Wayve to beef up its advanced driver assistance system starting in 2027, a landmark deal for the buzzy UK startup that has raised more than $1.3 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank Group, and Uber. Nissan will integrate Wayve’s software as well as sensors, including lidar from an undisclosed supplier, into its ADAS system known as ProPilot. The Japanese automaker said the system will set a “new standard for autonomous driving with
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Editor's take: Modern PC peripherals are jam-packed with features and customization options, so they usually require bloated software tools to express their full potential. Corsair, one of the worst offenders in the bulky software business, is now offering an alternative – at least when it comes to updating a device's firmware. Corsair recently introduced a web-based utility for installing newer firmware versions for PC peripherals. The Firmware Update Utility allows users to "effortlessly" upd
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A short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing productivity and making countless new tasks possible. In the years leading up to its 7 April 1964 launch, however, the 360 was one of the scariest dramas in American business. It took a nearly fanatical commitment at all le
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In the previous newslttr, I wrote about downloading software from radio broadcasts in the 1980s. It sparked some lively conversation on Hacker News which also brought up some other 80s software oddities. One obvious parallel was with software downloads via TV broadcast which is the subject of today's trip down 8k Memory Lane. Join me as once again I lead us back to the 1980s. You'll recall that the 8-bit computer craze was taking the UK by storm. Multiple TV shows were capitalising on the fervo
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April 1, 2025 Volume 23, issue 1 PDF Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security For decades, software reuse was only a lofty goal. Now it's very real. Russ Cox In March 1972, the United States Air Force started a review of a Honeywell Multics system to understand whether it could be used in secure environments. The report was issued in mid-1974 and concluded that Multics, while not secure, was better than its peers and might be a reasonable starting point for a secure system
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The city of Berkeley, California is being sued by RealPage over its ban on algorithms used to determine apartment rental prices. The lawsuit states that Berkeley’s ordinance passed in March represents a “sweeping and unconstitutional ban on lawful speech,” and a violation of the First Amendment’s prohibition on content-based restrictions. RealPage is a controversial company that has been likened to a cartel by some lawmakers across the United States. It is not hard to see why: RealPage essentia
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[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] Don Tarbell: A Life in Personal Computing In August 1968, Stephen Gray, sole proprietor of the Amateur Computer Society (ACS), published a letter in the society newsletter from an enthusiast in Huntsville, Alabama named Don Tarbell. To help other would-be owners of home-built computers, Tarbell offered a mounting board for integrated circuits for sale for $8 from his own hobby-entrepreneur company, Advanced
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Lessons from open source in the Mexican government We're bad at marketing We can admit it, marketing is not our strong suit. Our strength is writing the kind of articles that developers, administrators, and free-software supporters depend on to know what is going on in the Linux world. Please subscribe today to help us keep doing that, and so we don’t have to get good at marketing. The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and downs. While open source seems like a "no
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No, Gumroad Did Not Become Open Source Today Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News: Unfortunately though, this uses a custom license which wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source, and therefore wouldn’t be widely regarded as open source so calling this open source could be misleading to many. W
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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. In 2005, Microsoft’s leaders were starting to get worried. Windows and Office were doing well, but the company’s lead software architect, Ray Ozzie, warned them that an emerging trend threatened Microsoft’s very existence. “A new business model has emerged in the form of advertising-supported services and software,” warned Ozzie in his famous memo. “This model has the potentia
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Microsoft was originally founded on April 4th, 1975, and the tech giant is now celebrating its 50-year anniversary. Microsoft started with a focus on personal computers, building the very software that helped it achieve an early goal of a PC on every desk and in every home. The success of Windows and Office has allowed Microsoft to launch devices like the Xbox and Surface line and transform its business into software and services in the cloud. Now, Microsoft looks ahead to its next 50 years in
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WTF?! Finding a well-paid coding job is a lot harder today than it was a few years ago, thanks in no small part to AI. Securing one that comes with a six-figure salary is even more difficult, but a couple of software engineers believe they have the answer: offering $10,000 to anyone who can get them a software developer role that pays no less than $100,000 per year. From the tech industry trend of streamlining businesses to generative AI reducing the need for programmers, getting a job in the i
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I started using OS X full-time when I was 18 and the Mac was 25. Booting up my first Apple computer, a 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5 Leopard, was like getting behind the wheel of a Porsche for the first time after being raised on pedestrian PCs. Now it’s the iPhone and its software that are 18. In Macintosh terms, the iPhone and iOS are in the iMac G4 “iLamp” running OS X 10.2 Jaguar era — maturing products and platforms that still have room to grow up. For this reason, I am still one to
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