The Best Sheets (2023): Linen, Percale, and Budget Bedding
Which material should you buy? Percale or linen? We tested dozens of sheets to find our favorites and break it all down.
Read MoreWhich material should you buy? Percale or linen? We tested dozens of sheets to find our favorites and break it all down.
Read More[Mike Engelhardt] is a name that should be very familiar to the hardcore electronics nerd. [Mike] is the developer responsible for LTSpice, which is quite likely the most widely used spice-compatible simulator in the free software domain. When you move away from digital electronics and the comfort of software with its helpful IDEs and toolchains,
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube’s algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
Read MoreEmily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: Oracle employees reviewing TikTok’s source code sit at desks beneath cameras controlled by TikTok, a requirement that came from the Chinese government — Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor.
Read MoreJoe Wituschek / BGR: X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
Read MoreSecurity Engineer [Guillaume Quéré] spends the day penetration testing systems for their employer and has pointed out and successfully exploited a rather obvious weakness in the BitLocker full volume encryption system, which as the linked article says, allows one to simply sniff the traffic between the discrete TPM chip and CPU via an SPI bus.
Read MoreAna Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Nansen: ~90% of PYUSD is held in issuer Paxos Trust’s wallets, indicating a “lack of demand from crypto users” for PayPal’s stablecoin that launched on August 7 — PayPal’s stablecoin debut raised hopes for broader adoption and an introduction of cryptocurrencies to the masses.
Read MoreBen Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI — It’s not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it’s now competing with some of the world’s most
Read MoreThe Kinect is a depth-sensing camera peripheral originally designed as a accessory for the Xbox gaming console, and it quickly found its way into hobbyist and research projects. After a second version, Microsoft abandoned the idea of using it as a motion sensor for gaming and it was discontinued. The technology did however end up
Read MoreNatasha Singer / New York Times: Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them — Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube’s algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
Read MoreBen Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI — It’s not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it’s now competing with some of the world’s most
Read MoreJoe Wituschek / BGR: X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
Read MoreJoe Wituschek / BGR: X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
Read MoreEmily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: Oracle employees reviewing TikTok’s source code sit at desks beneath cameras controlled by TikTok, a requirement that came from the Chinese government — Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor.
Read MoreJack Schickler / CoinDesk: FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi customer data is compromised after a SIM swap against an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies — A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Cisco Talos: North Korea’s Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
Read MoreEri Sugiura / Financial Times: Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents — Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal …
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Cisco Talos: North Korea’s Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Cisco Talos: North Korea’s Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: E-commerce marketing company Klaviyo files for a US IPO and reports H1 2023 revenue of ~$321M, vs. ~$208M YoY, and $15.2M net income, vs. a $24.6M net loss YoY — – Marketing automation company Klaviyo became the latest tech company to try to join the public markets, after Instacart and Arm
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
Read MoreRust language usage is increasing, but developers who identify as former Rust users cited difficulty as their primary reason for staying away, according to the recently released 2022 State of Rust Survey. More developers are using Rust than ever before, with more than 90% of the respondents to the annual survey identifying as Rust users,
Read MoreForbes: Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta AI’s recently axed protein-folding team to build biological LLMs, raised a $40M seed at a $200M valuation — Former Meta researchers who developed an AI language model for biology have launched a new startup and raised at least $40 million, Forbes has learned.
Read MoreWhen wired networking or data connections can’t be made, for reasons of distance or practicality, various wireless protocols are available to us. Wi-Fi is among the most common, at least as far as networking personal computers is concerned, but other methods such as LoRa or Zigbee are available when data rates are low and distances
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