May 2024 Archive
2311.
ChatGPT Edu (openai.com)
2312.
Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band (nytimes.com)
2313.
Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork (github.com)
2314.
AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? (quantamagazine.org)
2315.
The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before deadlines (solvingprocrastination.com)
2316.
Turn Your Android Tablet into an IDE with VSCode and Nix (50-nuances-octets.fr)
2317.
State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems (cbc.ca)
2318.
Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures (economist.com)
2319.
Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue (washingtonpost.com)
2320.
A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11 (2021) (howtogeek.com)
2321.
TikTok is reportedly splitting its source code to create a US-only algorithm (theverge.com)
2322.
Show HN: Chessdream – Generate realistic chess positions with AI (chessdream.ai)
2323.
Motorola's 68000 Series – A History in 10 Computers: 1977-1985 (thechipletter.substack.com)
2324.
The Modern Curse of Overoptimization (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
2325.
Cobalt – Free and Open Source yt-dlp front end with no ads (cobalt.tools)
2326.
Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs (phoronix.com)
2327.
Anthropic Designed Itself to Avoid OpenAI's Mistakes (time.com)
2328.
New mirror that can be flexibly shaped improves X-ray microscopes (phys.org)
2329.
A Clock in the Forest (noemamag.com)
2330.
Doctor DOS Betamax's DOS Website (2024) (chebucto.ns.ca)
2331.
Found: The dial in the brain that controls the immune system (nature.com)
2332.
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
2333.
Yes, People Still Buy Books: How a viral post got some key statistics wrong (slate.com)
2334.
2335.
Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car (dezeen.com)
2336.
Falling in love again with disposable cameras (washingtonpost.com)
2337.
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense" (cbsnews.com)
2338.
Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test (pixelatedplaygrounds.com)
2339.
Small modular reactors: Still too expensive, too slow, and too risky [pdf] (apo.org.au)
2340.
Suno has raised $125M to build a future where anyone can make music (suno.com)