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Hum from 300-megawatt facility allegedly causing stress, lack of sleep.
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Graph databases reveal patterns and relationships that would otherwise be hidden, allowing financial institutions to detect fraud faster and more efficiently.
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An AI-first notebook, grounded in your own documents, designed to help you gain insights faster.
Our new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click.
Assorted links for Monday, September 30:
A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers' (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer)."
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Azure Boost is a revolutionary accelerator system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware. This offloading frees up CPU resources for virtual machines, resulting in improved performance and a secure foundation for your cloud workloads.
When size and weight don’t matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.
Today is C++ instrumentation day!
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So far, most attention to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software development is on generating code. But we believe there is as much, if not more, value in understanding existing code - particularly long-lived, large, and complex legacy systems.
The term “interrupt” brings to mind a signal that originates in the hardware and which is handled in the kernel; even software interrupts are a kernel concept. But there is, it seems, a use case for enabling user-space processes to send interrupts directly to each other.
At its core, Mehta began, the user-space interrupts (or simply “user interrupts”) feature is a fast way to do event signaling. It delivers signals directly to user space, bypassing the kernel to achieve lower latency.
Assorted links for Wednesday, September 18:
Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers.
OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls “reasoning” and problem-solving capabilities over previous large language models (LLMs). Formally named “OpenAI o1,” the model family will initially launch in two forms, o1-preview and o1-mini, available today for ChatGPT Plus and certain API users.
But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent without damaging it. This agent was tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food dye called FD&C Yellow 5 that is notably used for coloring Doritos.