August 2023 Archive
1951.
Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution (rhinolinux.org)
1952.
Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020) (yakshav.es)
1953.
Navy in Middle-Earth (warfantasy.wordpress.com)
1954.
Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint (twitter.com)
1955.
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (theverge.com)
1956.
Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly (eclecticlight.co)
1957.
FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer (github.com)
1958.
From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud (eclecticlight.co)
1959.
Supreme Court rules against Epic, so Apple can keep its App Store payment rules (theverge.com)
1960.
Show HN: Mu – A Micro App Platform (mu.app)
1961.
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will drop significantly (cnbc.com)
1962.
Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf] (hbs.edu)
1963.
T-Mobile US to Lay Off 5k Employees (wsj.com)
1964.
Texas electricity prices soar 6k% as heat wave is expected to shatter records (desdemonadespair.net)
1965.
English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals (smbc-comics.com)
1966.
Dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50 (news.harvard.edu)
1967.
New book considers the impact of electronic logging devices on drivers (truckersnews.com)
1968.
Grayscale was unreasonably denied its Bitcoin ETF, court rules (twitter.com)
1969.
Hogfish ‘See’ with Their Skin, Even When They’re Dead (nytimes.com)
1970.
How trees guard their seeds with mast seeding (phys.org)
1971.
Salesforce Can’t Use 230, May Be Liable for Customer Backpage's Sex Trafficking (techdirt.com)
1972.
Compile-Time Checked Truth Tables (blog.ploeh.dk)
1973.
The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance (lithub.com)
1974.
Generative AI – A curated list of Generative AI projects and services (github.com)
1975.
The Holocaust Bomb: A question of time (2007) (sgp.fas.org)
1976.
Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail (nytimes.com)
1977.
Zoom CEO reportedly to staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate.. on Zoom (theregister.com)
1978.
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050 (reuters.com)
1979.
EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators (eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu)
1980.
Milk bag (en.wikipedia.org)