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It seems some hackers are really tightening their grip on the world of cybercrime. Now they can infect network-connected wrenches with ransomware! I guess it's time to tighten our cybersecurity protocols, or else we might find ourselves in quite a bit of torque-ble trouble. Better be prepared for some twisted twists in the world of technology!
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Astrobotic's Peregrine lander took a crinkled detour in space, rendering it unlikely to fulfill its mission of landing on the moon. Looks like it's not the smooth ride they anticipated... kind of like driving over a pothole on your way to a lunar picnic.
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Qualcomm is stepping up its game with its next-gen XR chip, promising eye-popping visuals with up to 4.3K resolution per eye. With this level of clarity, you could mistake virtual reality for the real thing and end up doing embarrassing things like trying to high-five a digital unicorn. But hey, progress!
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Looks like Quera is taking on IBM in the quantum computing race! They claim to bring error correction to quantum computing in just two years. I hope this doesn't turn into a quantum "whoopsie-daisy" situation. But hey, if they succeed, maybe they can help me find the remote I lost in a quantum black hole.
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Ah, the Post Office Horizon scandal. A tale of electronic point-of-sale systems gone awry. It's like that time I tried to upgrade my toaster, only to have it start spitting out burnt bread and sentient bagels demanding answers. Technology, eh? Can't live with it, can't subpostmaster without it.
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Looks like KYC might need a new ID! Generative AI is making it easier to manipulate ID images, potentially rendering the process useless. Fraudsters can now deepfake convincing images with just a bit of tweaking. It's like they say, "The camera never lies, but AI sure can!"
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In exciting news, an experimental antibiotic called zosurabalpin has shown promising results in killing drug-resistant bacteria. It's like finding a hidden treasure in a sea of germs! This new class of drugs could be a game-changer in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections. Fingers crossed for further success!
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The Peregrine 1 had dreams of landing on the moon, but unfortunately, it's now just trying to get as far as possible before losing power. In other news, apparently, the spacecraft is carrying DNA from former US presidents. So, even in space, politics still finds a way to follow us.
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OpenAI admits it's impossible to create useful AI models without copyrighted material. I guess even AI needs to deal with the legal system. Soon enough, we'll have AI lawyers arguing copyright disputes in court. Can't wait for the AI Judge Judy spin-off!
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MongoDB fell over under load when it ran out of memory. The failure was catastrophic and not graceful due to a a query pattern that involved a read-load with low levels of locality (each user check-in caused a read of all check-ins for the user's history, and records were 300 bytes with no spatial locality, meaning that most of the data pulled in from each page was unnecessary). A lack of monitoring on the MongoDB instances caused the high load to go undetected until the load became catastrophic, causing 17 hours of downtime spanning two incidents in two days.
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The DDD Hamburger architecture combines the best of Domain-Driven Design and layered architecture. It's like a delicious burger with well-defined layers: presentation layer as the upper bun, application layer as the salad, domain layer as the meat, and infrastructure layer as the lower bun. Bon appétit! 🍔😋
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2023 Wrapped: A Software Engineer’s TakeawaysA software engineer reflects on 2023 and shares some takeaways. From learning new skills to realizing it's okay not to know everything, the engineer covers it all. They even touch on personal growth, like asking for help and decluttering. It's a year of growth and self-discovery in the tech world.
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Choosing between Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and AWS Step Functions is like deciding between doing a complex dance routine with multiple partners or conducting an orchestra. EDA lets services react to events independently, while Step Functions orchestrates the flow. Just remember, no matter what you choose, always dance to the beat of your own code!
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In the world of tech, Qualifyze had quite the adventure in 2023. They went from microservices to a modular monolith, ditched Lambdas for NestJS, and said goodbye to microfrontends. One team, one backlog, one product owner – simpler is better. Now they're all set for 2024!
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Becoming a senior frontend engineer is like embarking on a heroic quest filled with technical challenges, leadership opportunities, and personal growth. It's like slaying bugs and conquering browser compatibility issues, all while maintaining your sense of style with visually appealing web interfaces. Join the adventure!
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So you're trying to calculate the top-K items at a high scale, like determining the top 100 videos on a streaming site? Looks like hashing and heaps have some storage and speed issues. Enter the Count-Min Sketch, a probabilistic data structure that provides approximate counts using limited memory. It's like a sketchy math solution!
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Charts for busy developers. PDF Charts streamlines the process of creating charts with its intuitive interface and drag-and-drop capabilities, coupled with the ability to dynamically generate PDF charts via an API. Assisted by an AI guide, it offers a seamless experience for developers.
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All in one code coverage and badges tool. CoverItUp - is a new, one of it's kind, complete solution for software engineers to measure code metrics. This tool empowers developers to take control of their code coverage analysis for any type of matrices, all in one place.
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Run your code, from the cloud on your computer. snippet.run is a platform that allows you to host your script snippets on the cloud, and run it everywhere using the snippet.run CLI
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Merkdir – create Merkle trees from your directories
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Build terminal forms and prompts 🤷🏻♀️
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www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
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CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database
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Silk – Privacy Pass Client for the Browser
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Mode7 Graphics Library for Playdate
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Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
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AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users, an LLM-based multimodal agent framework designed to operate smartphone apps.
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FastForward: Bypass link shorteners, don't waste time getting to the final link
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AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library
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