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In November, a few days after Sam Altman was fired — and then rehired — as CEO of OpenAI, Reuters reported on a letter that may have played a role in Altman’s ouster. Several staffers reportedly wrote
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I. Let me clarify one thing from the start: Christopher Nolan’s Batman: The Dark Knight Rises really is a piece of anti-Occupy propaganda. Nolan, the director, claims the script was written before the
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Graphic by Kelsey Borch We are excited to share Freedom of the Press Foundation’s (FPF) 2023 Impact Report, marking another year of achievements and relentless advocacy for press freedom. For in-depth
Sigma After years of the RF mount remaining “closed,” Sigma and Tamron have both finally broken through and will each release lenses for Canon’s mirrorless mount. Canon has made good on its statement
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It can sometimes be hard navigate a number of directories across your filesystem, say you’re working on a personal project at the same time as a $WORK project. Usually, you’d use something like tmux o
Apr 26, 2024 The End Of The Free Tier About The Author Juan Diego Rodríguez (also known as Monknow) is a front-end developer from Venezuela who loves making beautiful websites with modern technologies
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The practice of referring to people as "technical" and "not technical" has annoyed me for more than a decade but it's been tricky to articulate why. It turns out it's an annoyance fractal: there are s
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Ubuntu Pro Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, is offering a new security take on its popular Ubuntu desktop and server: Ubuntu Pro. This is an expanded security take on the Ubuntu Long-Term Sup
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Canonical’s 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard in performance engineering, enterprise security and developer experience. London, 25 April 2024. Today Canonical announced the release
Job description Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our all-in-one product, developing new
TL;DR: to call a program from C, use fork then execve. There is no way to directly start a new process from a program file; instead, we must fork (clone) the current process, then in child process, we
I recently received an email from Netflix which nearly caused me to add my card details to someone else’s Netflix account. Here I show that this is a new kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an o
WebAssembly basically allows non-frontend languages, such as Rust or Python, to run in a web browser. But web developer and Enhance maintainer Ryan Bethel wondered: Could you reverse that paradigm and
Canadian nature photographer Liron Gertsman captured one of the best total solar eclipse photos PetaPixel has ever seen. Gertsman’s remarkable wildlife photo, The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring, was
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