Professor Asifa Majid of the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (UK) has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research

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TL;DR: A visibility timeout is a lease. It tries to keep two consumers from working on the same queue message at the same time, but only for a limited period. If message handling takes longer than…

Twenty years ago, Warwick Folk Festival asked me to create a community choir as part of its education outreach programme. Singing Safari, Warwick 2007 I was reluctant to use the word “choir” because…

In this Monday Pressing Concerns, we’ve got new albums from Fire Man, Lovewell, and The Hobknobs, and a new EP from NAYAN. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can…

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Last week, Aldi ran a sweepstakes called Aldi Blind Box promising to give away mystery boxes of groceries each day for four days at exactly the stroke of noon. It sounded like such a good deal that…

The provisional surrender document signed by Donald Trump appeared to represent a triumph for Iran and indeed for the world; but neither the USA nor Israel has the slightest sense of honour and they…

Lorna Woods , Professor Emerita, University of Essex Photo credit : TodayTesting.com , via Wikimedia Commons This recent CJEU judgment has been flagged in some quarters as upholding the French rules…

OT Cyber Attack Demo on PLC [ Case Study 03 ] : DDoS Attack CaseProject Design Purpose : The objective of this case study is to develop a workshop which utilizing the Railway (Metro) IT/OT System…

TL;DR. Testing a data plane at 100GbE line rate needs real NICs running VPP — which no cloud CI runner has. So an ephemeral GitHub Actions runner joins a private two-machine lab over Tailscale,…

We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.

Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading frequency from square wave pulses sounds trivial until you realize that during…

Anyone who spends their days inside Search Console knows that little nagging feeling: a page sits steadily in third position, yet the clicks are few, a CTR that looks like it belongs at the bottom of…

Three more scavvies to swell the ranks. This time its another trio of unreleased Jes Goodwin sculpts. Once again brilliant figures and really enjoyable to paint with all the layered rags and fun…

Not only is “Bolsonaro Jr’s” proposed sell out of Brazil to the Trump administration abhorrent, it is illegal. By Marcelo Zero The “generous offer” made by candidate Flávio Bolsonaro—officially…

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Many developers are watching AI agents generate bad code, introduce bugs, and erode their skills. I'm having a different experience. The post AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better…

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…

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In 2014, when I was working as a professional developer at a gaming company with around 25 developers, I heard about microservices for the first time at a conference - and was immediately excited. We…

Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by…

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Here we are again at Catcott, reputedly named after Bob Geeza Cat, though that might be wishful thinking on behalf of Bob, because he does have narcissistic tendencies - like most cats. The hot…

  Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using…

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"Ever since I was young, I wanted to transform unstructured marketing data into actionable insights." This was in the farewell email I got last Friday. It was from a colleague who was let go due to…

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Generative AI has made plausible ideas nearly free, and a fashionable argument says this changes everything. It doesn't. Ideas were never scarce—judgement was, and remains so. On Grub Street at…

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AI makes prototyping easy. But production systems require architecture. A classic systems model can help.

In the previous article we took apart the reflect package and found that its magic is mostly the compiler leaving very good notes — type descriptors frozen into read-only data at build time, and a…

I started posting daily on X , including, sometimes, videos. And it turns out X isn’t able to automatically generate captions for the video like other platforms do. They do give the option to upload…

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There’s a question that’s ringing out all over the machine learning world these days: what the hell counts as an “explanation” of a complex system? If you listen for a while to conversations in the…

The main concern I have with allow_missing is duplication. Does it overlap with some existing api, such as the new apply method?

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W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

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