Published on: 2025-06-07 12:47:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Enterprises need to know if the models that power their applications and agents work in real-life scenarios. This type of evaluation can sometimes be complex because it is hard to predict specific scenarios. A revamped version of the RewardBench benchmark looks to give organizations a better idea of a model’s real-life performance. The Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) launc
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Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Sony What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? In the early 2000s, Valve was facing significant challenges in supporting its growing portfolio of online games – particularly Counter-Strike, which had become a massive hit. Keeping players up to date with patches was cumbersome, often requiring them to manually download updates from various servers. This fragmented process led to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 12:37:25
Fun with Futex Implementing an optimized lock in Linux requires some Operating System help. You can only get so far by doing everything in user-land. We are going to take a look how one can implement a simple spin lock in C (just like the spin lock in Go I implemented a while back) and then a slightly more elaborate lock using operating system’s primitives. The idea behind a mutex (mutual exclusion) is straightforward: we want some part of the code to be accessed only by a single thread at a ti
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After a while, Danae Shell got tired of hearing the same story over and over again. “Something bad would happen to someone at work, and the story always ended the same way,” she told TechCrunch. “They just left, because doing anything else was incredibly complex and expensive.” One doesn’t need to look far to notice that for many people, seeking legal recourse feels so daunting and complex that many just don’t try. Even for someone with a cushy tech job, the prospect of going against their com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 12:59:37
As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This is why it’s important to dig deeper and try to detect subtler signals. Being useful means that you are good at getting things done in a specific area, so that people above you can delegate that completely. You are
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LibriVox Community Podcast #157 Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #157 – Clean-Up Month Kick Off. Hosted by Jpercival. Duration: 22:56 With contributions from Jpercival, ShrimpPhish, redrun, sparkleberry17, Rapunzelina, and adrianstephens. 00:00 – Introduction00:22 – LibriVox in May – redrun01:28 – May They All Get Into The Catalogue01:51 – Statistics and Libriversaries02:47 – Archive Diving – 2007 March Madness, 2009 […] LibriVox Community Podcast #156 Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 18:15:33
It may be time to suck it up — and we don't just mean the carbon in the atmosphere. No, we're talking about reckoning with the possibility that our attempts at capturing the greenhouse gas to stave off climate disaster are already hopelessly behind schedule, New Scientist reports, if they're not in vain entirely. To illustrate, here're some simple numbers. The CO2 removal industry expects to hit a milestone of removing one million metric tons of CO2 this year. And companies across the globe ha
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This is the second article in the series Mass Appraisal for the Masses. Here’s a link to the previous article. While we moderns look to computerized geospatial analysis to solve the thornier aspects of land valuation, Georgists writing one hundred years ago, lacking all our modern innovations, claimed that valuing land was no great trouble at all. What was their secret? Research the art of land valuation around the turn of the last century and you will find the “Somers System” of land appraisa
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Gradients are the new intervals At the New England Symposium on Graphics, James Tompkin compared graphics researchers to magpies: they're easily distracted by shiny objects and pretty renderings. While this is true, the analogy also holds from a different angle: when I'm reading graphics papers, I'm constantly looking for ideas to steal bring back to my nest. Researchers at IRIT and Adobe Research recently published a paper that's full of interesting ideas, and I'd like to talk about it. Thi
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A year ago, Redis Inc (formerly Garantia Data) made a controversial move that disrupted the open source ecosystem: it closed the source of Redis. As I wrote at the time, it was a trust-breaking decision that could have shattered the community. But instead of splintering, the community responded with purpose. Out of that disruption came Valkey, a fork that took a shot at keeping the community alive. A Return, A Reversal As part of efforts to rebuild trust with the community, Redis Inc brought
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 20:39:31
The hugely popular first-person shooter game Valorant is getting some long-awaited upgrades as the game approaches its 5-year anniversary. In the latest dev update , the Valorant team announced the long-anticipated replay feature. They’ll function about the same as replays in other online shooters like Counter-Strike 2, allowing players to revisit their previous matches and watch them from the perspective of any player in the game or from a free-roaming camera. Replays will initially launch on P
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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. Riot Games is planning to switch Valorant, its popular first-person tactical hero shooter, over to Unreal Engine 5 in July. The engine upgrade from Unreal Engine 4 is part of a number of new changes coming to the shooter over the coming months, including a replay system in September. Valorant has been running on Unreal Engine 4 since a beta of the game originally released in 2
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For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked thousands of victims, including businesses, schools, and hospitals. “Fuck clinics in the usa this week,” one member wrote in internal Trickbot messages in 2020 about a list of 428 hospitals to target. Orchestrated by an enigmatic leader using the online moniker “Stern,” the group of around 100 cybercriminals stole hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of ro
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The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) claims that Stern, the leader of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is a 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev. "The subject is suspected of having been the founder of the 'Trickbot' group, also known as 'Wizard Spider,'" BKA said last week [English PDF], after another round of seizures and charges part of Operation Endgame, a joint global law enforcement action targeting malware infrastructure and the
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For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked thousands of victims, including businesses, schools, and hospitals. “Fuck clinics in the usa this week,” one member wrote in internal Trickbot messages in 2020 about a list of 428 hospitals to target. Orchestrated by an enigmatic leader using the online moniker “Stern,” the group of around 100 cybercriminals stole hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of ro
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On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically posted by Matthew Flatt The eval function is at the heart of a dynamic language, and it strikes many newcomers as an amazingly powerful tool. At the same time, experienced programmers avoid eval , because unnecessary use creates trouble. It’s not easy to explain why eval should be avoided or when it"s appropriate to use eval , but I’ll take another stab at it here. What is eval ? Consider the following “program” in English pro
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In a recent tweet, Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary, denounced immigrants from ‘alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women’. He claimed that these ‘medieval attitudes’ were responsible for the widespread sexual abuse of white girls in Britain. Interviewed on the Today programme, it became clear that for him ‘medieval’ was synonymous with ‘backward’ – ‘alien’, that is, to progressive, modern Britain. Professor Kathleen Stock, whose expression of her views on gender arous
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ZDNET's key takeaways Valerion's VisionMaster Pro 2 retails for $2,999. This premium-built laser TV projects up to a 300-inch screen. It's still not ideal for brightly lit rooms (like all projectors). $2,999 at Amazon I chose the word "glorious" in the headline for this review because that word sprang to mind when I first laid eyes on the VisionMaster Pro 2 projector from Valerion -- and that was before I even plugged it in. Valerion, a sister company to Awol Vision, is just over a year old,
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have introduced s3, an open-source framework designed to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems more efficiently than current methods. s3 can benefit developers creating real-world large language model (LLM) applications, as it simplifies and reduces the cost of creating retriever models within RAG arch
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TL;DR The hit action-survival game Subnautica is coming to Android and iOS on July 8. Playdigious has ported the full game, including Freedom and Creative modes. It’s available to pre-register now, with a 10% discount off the $9.99 price tag. Subnautica was a huge sleeper hit when it officially landed in 2018, with a unique underwater hook that gave players plenty to explore. Now, the game is officially launching on Android and iOS as a premium game, with no ads or in-app purchases. Playdigi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 08:25:31
More than 40,000 new vulnerabilities (CVEs) were published in 2024 alone. More than 60% of those were labeled “high” or “critical.” Sounds scary, sure, but how many of them actually put your environment at risk? Not nearly as many as you might think. Scoring systems like CVSS flag severity based on technical factors. But they don’t know your network, your controls, or how you’ve hardened key assets. That’s a problem. Because without context, teams spend too much time chasing scary-looking bugs
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In the lead-up to the United Kingdom's famous Glastonbury festival this summer, well-heeled partiers shelled out for fancy "glamping" yurts — those tent-like dwellings with ancient origins in Central Asia that have been appropriated by hippies in recent decades — and the people who took their money are now telling them they're out of luck. As the Times of London reports, customers who booked Glastonbury tickets and exotic accommodations through Yurtel, a purported pioneer in the yurt rental spa
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In brief: Valve has moved forward with its long-teased plan to bring SteamOS to more devices beyond the Steam Deck. The stable build adds support for systems from Lenovo, Asus, and others, offering a more stable Windows alternative for handheld gaming PCs. It also introduces new features and bug fixes. Now available for installation, SteamOS 3.7.8 introduces official support for the Lenovo Legion Go S and improves compatibility with other handheld gaming PCs, including the Asus ROG Ally. The re
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Maria Diaz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET There are plenty of apps and websites available to keep you organized and on task, but for raw data power, nothing beats Microsoft Excel -- and for repetitive tasks, its drop-down lists are a real game-changer. Whether you're juggling a side hustle, keeping tabs on family schedules, or just trying to make sense of a mountain of numbers, drop-down lists are a godsend that speed up typing. They can also cut down on typos and just keep everything looking
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Valve’s SteamOS is here to take the reins for your favorite mobile gaming machines. The company’s latest update enables anybody to load up Valve’s native handheld software onto (almost) any handheld PC, providing a much cleaner, console-like experience for a smaller screen. We’ve already seen how the change in operating system can increase gaming performance on familiar handhelds. At this rate, Valve is in a good position to give every PC—not just handhelds—the Steam Deck treatment. SteamOS ver
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 23:17:00
Marvel Rivals season 2 is approaching its midseason update next week, and we've gotten our first glimpse of some of the changes coming to the game. The Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 update is a much-needed refresh for Rivals, which has struggled with declining Steam player numbers all season (not the full picture, but currently down to about one-third of the average players compared with January) and a player base that's grown increasingly frustrated with one another. What's the cure for all this?
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 04:36:00
ZDNET's key takeaways Valerion's VisionMaster Pro 2 retails for $2,999. This premium-built laser TV projects up to a 300-inch screen. It's still not ideal for brightly lit rooms (like all projectors). $2,999 at Amazon I chose the word "gorgeous" in the headline for this review because that word sprang to mind when I first laid eyes on the VisionMaster Pro 2 projector from Valerion -- and that was before I even plugged it in. Valerion, a sister company to Awol Vision, is just over a year old,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:49:34
ZDNET's key takeaways Valerion's VisionMaster Pro 2 retails for $2,999. This premium-built laser TV projects up to a 300-inch screen. It's still not ideal for brightly lit rooms (like all projectors). $2,999 at Amazon I chose the word "gorgeous" in the headline for this review because that word sprang to mind when I first laid eyes on the VisionMaster Pro 2 projector from Valerion -- and that was before I even plugged it in. Valerion, a sister company to Awol Vision, is just over a year old,
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Valve is releasing version 3.7 of SteamOS to the general public, and among the routine updates and changes is a big one: This is the SteamOS release that finally adds official support for some kinds of PC hardware other than Valve's own Steam Deck. Valve mentions certain specific handhelds as having either "official" or "improved support," including the Asus ROG Ally, the Lenovo Legion Go, and the Lenovo Legion Go S. It also includes directions for configuring the original Legion Go and ROG All
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In Marvel Rivals Season 2.5, team-up abilities are going full camp. Keep your head down, because the sharknado is coming to gobble you up -- and resistance is futile. The Season 2 balance patch was the first one to make wide-reaching changes to the game's iconic team-up abilities, and the midseason patch is about to arrive with a similar shakeup. Gone are the days of the Punisher's infinite ammo and Spider-Man's symbiote one-shot combo. Now, Jeff the Shark can combine his ultimate ability with
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