An investigation revealed performance issues in Ubuntu web servers caused by Linux kernel's cgroups v2 implementation, specifically related to inode switching between cgroups after file operations. The problem manifested as elevated system CPU usage and listen overflows, impacting web server performance during the first few minutes after host deployment.
https://dasl.cc/2025/01/01/debugging-our-new-linux-kernel/
#linuxkernel #performance #debugging #systemarchitecture #webservers
A federal appeals court ruled that an Oregon district attorney's unauthorized review and sharing of a woman's private cellphone data violated Fourth Amendment rights but granted him qualified immunity. The case highlights privacy concerns when a prosecutor accessed and shared nude photos found on a woman's phone without warrant or consent, leading to small-town gossip and privacy violations.
#privacyrights #lawenforcement #fourthamendment #legalruling #digitalprivacy
Leading tech executives at a Paris summit emphasized AI's transformative impact on society and the global labor market, with bold predictions about its future influence on human capabilities and productivity. The technology's advancement raises questions about social inequality and its potential to widen existing divides rather than act as an equalizer.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/how-ai-will-divide-the-best-from-the-rest
#artificialintelligence #techleadership #socialimpact #economicinequality #futuretechnology
The Atkinson Hyperlegible™ font family, designed by Braille Institute, offers enhanced readability for low vision individuals through distinctive letter shapes and clear characters. Available in three versions with multiple weights and styles, this award-winning font supports up to 150 languages and is free for both personal and commercial use.
https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
#accessibility #typography #design #branding #technology
ICE is seeking private contractors to monitor and analyze social media for negative sentiment and potential threats against the agency and its officials, including tracking individuals' personal information and using facial recognition technology. The surveillance program, worth $5.5 million under a previous contract, raises concerns about privacy and free speech implications, particularly regarding constitutionally protected criticism of ICE.
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance/
#surveillance #immigration #privacyrights #socialmedia #government
A novel Large Memory Model (LM2) architecture enhances Transformers with an auxiliary memory module, significantly outperforming existing models in multi-hop inference and numerical reasoning tasks. The model demonstrates a 37.1% improvement over RMT and 86.3% over Llama-3.2 on the BABILong benchmark while maintaining strong performance on general tasks.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06049
#aiarchitecture #machinelearning #memorysystems #performanceanalysis #neuralnetworks
A developer shares their experience transitioning from Git and Magit to Jujutsu (jj), highlighting both improvements in version control workflows and limitations compared to Magit's interface. While Jujutsu offers superior conflict handling and simpler workflows than Git's CLI, the author finds themselves missing Magit's powerful GUI capabilities for incremental patch building.
https://blog.alarsyo.net/posts/2025/02/on-jujutsu-and-magit/
#versioncontrol #developertools #magit #jujutsu #workflow
A new benchmark evaluates Vision-Language Models against traditional OCR systems for text recognition in video environments, using a dataset of 1,477 annotated frames from diverse sources. Advanced models like Claude-3, Gemini-1.5, and GPT-4o demonstrate superior performance in many scenarios, though challenges with hallucinations and occluded text persist.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06445
#ocr #vlm #benchmarking #computervision #airesearch
The integration of AI models into developer workflows may be hindering the adoption of newer technologies due to training data cutoffs and built-in system biases. Research across multiple AI platforms reveals a strong preference for established technologies like React, potentially influencing developers' technical choices through both direct recommendations and limited support for newer alternatives.
https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption
#aidevelopment #techadoption #developertools #react #systembias
A detailed exploration of Linux kernel's hung task warnings, explaining how the system identifies processes stuck in uninterruptable states and their potential impact on system performance. Through three practical examples involving XFS filesystem, coredump processes, and RTNL mutex issues, the article demonstrates debugging approaches for various hung task scenarios.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/searching-for-the-cause-of-hung-tasks-in-the-linux-kernel/
#linuxkernel #debugging #systemarchitecture #performance #devops
Digital simulation recreates the evolution of eyes from basic light-detecting cells by subjecting virtual creatures to survival challenges like navigation and food detection. The experiment demonstrates how different eye types and features like lenses emerge naturally in response to environmental pressures.
#evolution #simulation #biology #computerscience #vision
Senator Ted Cruz released a database of over 3,400 NSF grants totaling $2.05 billion, labeling them as 'woke DEI grants' based on keyword mentions of social justice, race, gender, and environmental justice. The controversy includes legitimate research projects like Emily Riehl's mathematical work, raising concerns about academic freedom and potential impacts on researchers' careers.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114000054766059217
#academicpolitics #researchfunding #deiinitiatives #sciencepolicy #academicfreedom
Go 1.24 introduces enhanced WebAssembly capabilities with the go:wasmexport directive and WASI reactor support, enabling better integration between Go functions and Wasm hosts. The update allows developers to export Go functions to WebAssembly and build long-running reactor modules, expanding possibilities for Go-based Wasm applications.
https://go.dev/blog/wasmexport
#webassembly #go #wasi #systemintegration #softwaredevelopment
An exploration of the challenges in determining causal relationships between variables through academic research, highlighting how most observational studies must be discarded due to methodological issues. The analysis reveals that even the most rigorous studies often produce conflicting or ambiguous results, with randomized trials being the most reliable despite their limitations.
https://www.cold-takes.com/does-x-cause-y-an-in-depth-evidence-review/
#researchmethods #causality #statistics #academicstudies #scientificanalysis
A technical founder transformed his open-source scheduling optimization project into Timefold AI, a venture-backed startup specializing in PlanningAI solutions, after his project at Red Hat faced discontinuation. The company secured multiple funding rounds, built a cloud-based SaaS platform for complex scheduling problems, and grew to a team of 30+ specialists, while maintaining its open-source roots.
https://timefold.ai/blog/how-i-built-an-ai-company-to-save-my-open-source-project
#startupjourney #aitechnology #opensource #saasplatform #venturecapital
The New York Stock Exchange announced plans to launch NYSE Texas, a fully electronic equities exchange headquartered in Dallas, by reincorporating NYSE Chicago. Texas, hosting the largest number of NYSE listings with over $3.7 trillion in market value, will provide companies with a listing and trading venue centered within the southwestern U.S. economy.
#stockexchange #financialmarkets #businessexpansion #texaseconomy #nyse
The document appears to be a French user interface guide listing keyboard shortcuts and controls for presentation software, including commands for toggling laser pointer, pen mode, fullscreen mode, and presentation navigation.
#uicontrols #shortcuts #navigation #accessibility #presentation
Zed introduces an AI-powered edit prediction feature using Zeta, their new open-source model derived from Qwen2.5-Coder-7B. The editor now anticipates and suggests edits that can be applied with a tab key, incorporating sophisticated latency optimization and thoughtful integration with existing features.
https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction
#aidevelopment #softwareengineering #performanceoptimization #texteditor #opensource
A vulnerability in doge.gov, Elon Musk's government efficiency tracking website, allows anyone to edit its database and inject content directly onto the live site. The hastily deployed platform, built on Cloudflare Pages, operates outside government servers and lacks basic security measures.
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
#cybersecurity #government #elonmusk #webdevelopment #database