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Canoeing on the Danube

jameswarnersmith.co.uk

How long does it take to canoe the Danube?The average distance per day varies greatly and...
How long does it take to canoe the Danube?The average distance per day varies greatly and obviously depends a lot on how much you stop and what you want to see on route. That said, at least 60kms a day was pretty standard with the exception of the slow water for the 100kms upstream of the Djerdap dams in Serbia. Our...
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

npr.org

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave. The...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave. The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to museums and libraries across the United States. This month, President Trump named Keith E. Sonderling — the deputy se...
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Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados

wsj.com
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SpaceX launches private Fram2 astronauts on first spaceflight over Earth's poles

space.com

SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles.The private Fram2 mission...
SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles.The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (March 31) at 9:46 p.m. EDT (0146 GMT on April 1), sending the Crew Dragon capsule "Resilience" into...
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Sacked Marine Pilot Whose F-35B Flew Without Him After Ejecting Gives His Side

twz.com

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin) The Marines partially blamed Charles “Tre” Del...
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin) The Marines partially blamed Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo for the loss of his F-35B Joint Strike Fighter that flew pilotless for nearly 12 minutes before slamming into the ground following his ejection back in September 2023. Now the 48-year-old retired colonel is givin...
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New funding to build towards AGI

openai.com
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An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

theatlantic.com

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The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor

diurnal.st
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The case against conversational interfaces

julian.digital

01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny...
01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always...
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Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible

sgnt.ai

Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that. I build...
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that. I build NPCs for an online game, and I get asked a lot “How did you get ChatGPT to do that?” The answer is invariably: “I didn’t, and also you shouldn’t”. In most applications, the LLM should be the user-interface only between the user a...
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Harvard University faces $9B federal funding review

thecrimson.com

Updated March 31, 2025, at 5:25 p.m.Three federal agencies announced a review of more than $8...
Updated March 31, 2025, at 5:25 p.m.Three federal agencies announced a review of more than $8 billion in “multi-year grant commitments” to Harvard as part of an ongoing investigation into the University by the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Monday.The review — which was launched by the Department of Ed...
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Cognition explain why we dramatically overestimate the size of minority groups

pnas.org
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Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale

apnews.com

charlie javice elizabeth holmes fraud general news new york city wire
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Netflix's Media Production Suite

netflixtechblog.com

Jesse Korosi, Thijs van de Kamp, Mayra Vega, Laura Futuro, Anton MargolineThe journey from script to...
Jesse Korosi, Thijs van de Kamp, Mayra Vega, Laura Futuro, Anton MargolineThe journey from script to screen is full of challenges in the ever-evolving world of film and television. The industry has always innovated, and over the last decade, it started moving towards cloud-based workflows. However, unlocking cloud i...
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Is BIND9 suitable as a recursive resolver in 2025?

szafka.net
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A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up

captrice.io
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Aim: Supercharged open-source experiment tracker

github.com
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My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded

mtlynch.io

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing...
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobody wants to buy it, so I ran a one-month pre-sale on Kickstarter. I structured the project so that if I didn’t hit $5k in...
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UK's GCHQ Intern Transferred Top Secret Files to His Phone

bbc.com

Ewan GawneBBC News, ManchesterGCHQGCHQ is based in Cheltenham, GloucestershireA former GCHQ intern has admitted risking national...
Ewan GawneBBC News, ManchesterGCHQGCHQ is based in Cheltenham, GloucestershireA former GCHQ intern has admitted risking national security by taking top secret data home with him on his mobile phone.Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act on what would have been the first day of ...
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FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space

apple.com
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KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader

github.com
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Everything Is Ghibli

substack.com

OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed...
OpenAI unleashed its native image generation in ChatGPT on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, every social feed was drowning in Studio Ghibli-style portraits. (Linkedin, check back next week.) What happened—and why—is another signal of where AI, art, and our attention are headed.On March 25, OpenAI livestreamed GPT-4o’s...
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Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour

windowslatest.com

Old/current BSOD in Windows 11 Microsoft is killing off the Blue Screen of Death… and replacing...
Old/current BSOD in Windows 11 Microsoft is killing off the Blue Screen of Death… and replacing it with Black Screen of Death. It’s also dropping the frowning face for some reason, and I am not sure I like it because the updated screen doesn’t have enough information. Let me show how it’s changing in newer builds of...
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