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Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, showing that it extends 40,000 light-years out from the center.

Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee in four lectures that Peter Thiel (net…

Porting a 2012 OpenCV paper to YOLOv8 and CoreML on iOS to score rifle shooting targets from a photo - replacing the brass-plug scoring gauge with on-device computer vision.

Build workspace agents in ChatGPT that automate multi-step workflows across Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint and other enterprise tools—with governance and admin controls.

Tracking DMCA takedown notices filed by UK Biobank against GitHub repositories where researchers accidentally published participant health data.

A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents. Contribute to Infisical/agent-vault development by creating an account on GitHub.

Desktop app to manage markdown knowledge bases. Contribute to refactoringhq/tolaria development by creating an account on GitHub.

If a worker's years of service at Microsoft plus their age equals 70 or more, they will be eligible for a voluntary retirement buyout.

Discover TorchTPU, Google’s new engineering stack designed to run PyTorch natively on TPU infrastructure with peak efficiency. Learn how its "Eager First" philosophy and XLA integration simplify model migration while unlocking massive scalability for the…

Why predictable CSS state resolution matters, and how Tasty approaches it with state maps and non-overlapping selectors.

The 11th long-term supported release of Ubuntu delivers deep silicon optimization and state-of-the-art security for enterprise workloads. […]

Survey of fast tanh approximations using Taylor series, Padé approximants, splines, and bitwise manipulation techniques like K-TanH and Schraudolph

"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

The DeepSeek API uses an API format compatible with OpenAI/Anthropic. By modifying the configuration, you can use the OpenAI/Anthropic SDK or softwares compatible with the OpenAI/Anthropic API to access the DeepSeek API.

A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits.

The La Marzocco coffee maker has long been a sought-after classic. But used machines are now even more coveted by cafe owners and collectors.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been part of a select group that had early access. We’ve been testing it across our benchmarks and workflows, and we’re sharing what we’ve observed in practice. Here’s our take on 5.5 and how it performed for our offensive…