Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009) — and Where does my computer get the time from?

 
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Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

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Where does my computer get the time from?

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HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports
 

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Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search

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Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents

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Krita fund has no corporate support

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Database Performance at Scale – A free book

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US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
 

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September was the most anomalously hot month ever

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LLMs confabulate not hallucinate

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1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023

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Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11

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US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
 

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Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?

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How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)

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F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist

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Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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OpenAI’s justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
 

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