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Autonomous Boat Plots Lake Beds

Although the types of drones currently dominating headlines tend to be airborne, whether it’s hobbyist quadcopters, autonomous delivery vehicles, or military craft, autonomous vehicles can take nearly any transportation method we can think of. [Clay Builds] has been hard at work on his drone which is actually an autonomous boat, which he uses to map

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NIST Finalizes Trio of Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

“NIST has formally accepted three algorithms for post-quantum cryptography,” writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. “Two more backup algorithms are being worked on. The idea is to have backup algorithms using very different maths, just in case a flaw in the original approach is discovered later.” The Register reports: The National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Ruby on Rails gets better production defaults

Ruby on Rails, the two-decades-old web development framework, features better production defaults and development container configuration in the just-released 7.2  version, according to proponents. Announced on August 10, Ruby on Rails 7.2 offers improved production defaults for building more- efficient applications. Rails proponents cited a few changes. The Ruby language’s JIT compiler, YJIT, is now

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