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Christian Bailey [first][last][at]curatedinnovation.org

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Learning on the Shop Floor

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cyber.netsecops.io 2mo ago

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

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james-iry.blogspot.com 1y ago

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

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www.technologyreview.com 1y ago

AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games

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medium.com 1y ago

Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures

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ericmigi.com 1y ago

How to help us build open source Pebble software

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twitter.com 1y ago

I-XRAY: AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone's Personal Details from Looking at Them

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

A New Way to Fly Hypersonic: Rocket+Ramjet – Andrew Duggleby, Venus Aerospace [video]

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www.technologyreview.com 1y ago

Why AI could eat quantum computing's lunch

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www.newscientist.com 1y ago

The complete guide to cooking oils and how they affect your health

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www.sciencealert.com 1y ago

Scientists Discover 'Deep Brain' Genes Linked to Parkinson's and ADHD

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kk.org 2y ago

Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Evolution of man: how Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

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github.com 2y ago

How to CAD Almost Anything: MIT IAP 2024

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www.wsj.com 2y ago

Outcry Against AI Companies Grows over Who Controls Internet’s Content

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Time Is Zooming By. Four Ways You Can Slow It Down

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www.digitimes.com 3y ago

New 15-inch MacBook Air to hit shelves in 2Q 2023

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs

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www.tomshardware.com 4y ago

MIT Finds Apple M1 Vulnerability, Demos Pacman Attack

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medium.com 5y ago

Consensus and Proof of Stake in the Celo Protocol

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Dan Kaminsky DEFCON 16 talk: Black Ops [video] (2008)

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www.indiegogo.com 5y ago

First Decentralized VPN and Firewall- for Life – Indiegogo

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www.tomshardware.com 5y ago

Microsoft Brings X64 Emulation to Windows 10 on Arm PCs

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A Home Zipline

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www.ft.com 5y ago

Nikola targets critical YouTube accounts in copyright crackdown

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A programming language to heal the planet together: Julia – Alan Edelman TEDxMIT

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neal.fun 6y ago

The Size of Space

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www.popularmechanics.com 6y ago

500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Leonardo Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works

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gizmodo.com 7y ago

iOS bug exploits group Facetime to access iPhone's contacts without password

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www.foxnews.com 8y ago

Stockton, CA set to be first in nation to experiment with Universal Basic Income

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Right, I'm a heavy Obsidian user myself, and love it.

I think the value of this disclosure is more in spreading awareness about plugins, and demonstrating the vector. Where less sophisticated users may think, "Oh, this is just a collection of markdown files. I don't need to be too worried about malicious code."

My friend Andy Eskenazi just taught this class during MIT's Independent Activities Period, and here are all the materials.

"Ever wondered how are objects from our daily lives designed? How can we generate a computer 3D model of a mug, a bottle of Diet Coke, or a Saturn V rocket? What about designing the blades of a jet-engine? A test dummy? How about making an animation of a LEGO house building itself? Or making a realistic render of a bowl of fruit?"

Daft Punk Break Up 5 years ago

I'm so grateful there are people with the courage to stand up and say unpopular things. Weinstein is a human whose outspokenness I've been particularly grateful for.

X1 Search is the single Windows program I wish so badly was available on the Mac. So much that I switched from Mac back to Windows twice in the past because the functionality was so important.

I search for a word or phrase through 1000s of documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and email archive files going back two decades. On my desktop or in a cloud service. X1 displays matches in real time, fast-as-you-type, with all the results easy to grok in one glance in list form, sorted by any field. And on the same screen, X1 renders a preview of the file/email as I click through the list. No need to open the file/email: I can read the whole document right there on the search screen. I can also copy & paste from that document. And all search terms are highlighted.

One @gmail.com account shows no email received from 2:17pm ET Dec 15 to 6:05am ET Dec 16. I normally receive ~4 emails per hour, throughout the day and night. After I realized there might be a fault, I sent myself test messages around 6pm ET on Dec 15 and Gmail bounced them with the error:

550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser x62si100799otb.139 - gsmtp

From the wiki (posted by Eeems): "transparency, if present, is taken into account by the tablet (meaning that the former content remains visible where the PNG is transparent; this is used e.g. by sleeping.png in the 'light sleep' mode)."

A Home Zipline 6 years ago

Anders is a friend. We got to try this in his yard and wanted to build one too. Followed these instructions, and just got a 125 ft one installed. Our three-year-old girl squeals with delight when she zips down it.

Almost all patent applications are published after 18 months, even if they are still unapproved, or indeed will never be approved.

The major exceptions are if the inventor files for nonpublication along with withdrawing the application (usually because they think it won't be patentable) or the US Government classifies it.

If Apple wanted to show some goodwill towards the end users who were caught up in this mess they'd continue to allow them to log in or provide a migration path.

From the original article: Customers will be able to "update to a standard email address and password" and, even after the deadline to do that, "those who did not transition from Sign in with Apple may be able to contact Epic Games to have their accounts recovered manually."

My personal pet peeve is the lack of powerful device search -- in OSX, I could use Spotlight or better yet Alfred to look inside PDFs

X1 Search [0] is lightning-fast, results-as-you-type, and searches inside every file and in all of your email and attachments. Not just what's open in your mail client but also email archive files. I have email archives back to 2000, and the lookup is still instant.

X1 is actually one of the two things that had me switch back to Windows the two times I've gone all in on a switch to Mac. (Ironically back then the motivation was Apple's hardware was much better.)

[0] https://www.x1.com/products/x1-search/

They organize ways for their clients to bundle significant financial contributions to politician's campaigns so that when they "talk", they can point to significant past contributions or promise future contributions. Or threaten contributions to challengers.

Although individual contributions are limited in theory, bundling allows vast contributions in practice. For example, a CEO can persuade senior execs to donate the maximum to a candidate. Or someone can host a fundraiser at their home (or wine cave) and "encourage" many acquaintances to attend. They get credit with the politician for the total raised.

Finally, Political Action Committees can take unlimited contributions from anyone so long as they don't "coordinate" with a politician's campaign. In practice they can of course be very helpful to a candidate's campaign, and lobbyists will use that to influence.

advice unrequested is like a punch

...conveys the meaning of the German words best to me. It's funny how meaning of words in one language doesn't map cleanly to another.