Collaborate Disseminate
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a “de-extinction” of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). “But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the ki… Continue reading Conservations Say ‘De-Extinction’ Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species
Uncover new Windows 11 features: Windows Sandbox 2.0., real-time language translation, Snipping Tool OCR, Snap Assist, and more.
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I’m asking here since it’s about fingerprinting and a specification, but you may tell me whether some other SE is more fit.
In the WebGPU spec: adapter indentifiers they say:
But exposing adapter identifiers also naturally expands the am… Continue reading Does the WebGPU spec allow for easy fingerprinting?
TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup “whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X…”
Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, fa… Continue reading Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere
“Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America…” reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America “began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million… Continue reading The Bees Are Disappearing Again
Despite the best efforts of the RepRap community over the last twenty years, self-replicating 3D printers have remained a stubbornly elusive goal, largely due to the difficulty of printing electronics. …read more Continue reading The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet
“Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels…” the University of Oregon wrote last year. “Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduc… Continue reading Is There a Greener Way to Produce Iron?
“The time has come for me to step away,” ArcoLinux lead Erik Dubois posted last week. (“After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community…”)
‘Learn, have fun, and enjoy’ was our motto for the past eight years … Continue reading ArcoLinux Lead Steps Down After Eight Years
I’ve used Gecko iPhone Toolkit to gain SSH access into my iPhone 3GS.
While there I’m having a look at the file /etc/master.passwd and I find this:
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# User Database
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# This file is the authoritative user database.
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nobody:*:-2:-2::0:0… Continue reading What is the hashed password in the master.passwd file?
Discover magazine reports that a team of researchers have produced evidence that the ancient building blocks for water have been here on earth “since early in the planet’s history, according to a study published in the journal Icarus.”
Pinpointing when… Continue reading Water on Earth May Not Have Originated from an Asteroid Impact, Study Finds