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Research scientist John Flournoy sits down with Ryan and Eira to dive into the recent research around developer experience, including the nuances of measuring productivity, the potential reasons for variability in developer performance, and the impacts of collaboration and competition on developer efficiency. Source link
The hypothesis in Ilyas et. al. is a special case of a more general principle that is well accepted in the distributional robustness literature — models lack robustness to distribution shift because they latch onto superficial correlations in the data. Naturally, the same principle also explains adversarial examples because they arise from a worst-case analysis of distribution […]
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]
from the injustice-league dept Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael […]
These offers are available from Amazon as “limited time deals.” This means the deals should end relatively soon. Streaming Stick HD 2025 The Streaming Stick HD 2025 is for those who don’t need 4K resolutions. If you have a Full HD TV, this one will be more than good enough, as it offers a 1,080p […]
If I had to describe the status of Subnautica 2 in just three words, it would be these: messy, messy, messy. That’s not to say the game itself is in terrible shape — this is actually a pivotal claim in the whole situation — but the relationship between Subnautica series developer Unknown Worlds and its […]
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” The researchers found thousands of instances of validated identity documents—including images of credit cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates—as well […]
Jul 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging public GitHub repositories to host malicious payloads and distribute them via Amadey as part of a campaign observed in April 2025. “The MaaS [malware-as-a-service] operators used fake GitHub accounts to host payloads, tools, and Amadey plug-ins, likely as an attempt to bypass web filtering […]
GitHub Homepage As a junior computer science student, I have encountered various frameworks during my web development learning journey. From traditional Apache to modern Node.js, each framework has its unique advantages and limitations. Recently, I discovered an impressive Rust web framework whose performance made me reconsider the design philosophy of web servers. Performance Bottlenecks in […]
In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 5 17:47 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 33 minutes) On June 5, 2025, between 17:47 UTC and 19:20 UTC, the Actions service was degraded, leading to run start delays and intermittent job failures. During this period, 47.2% of runs had […]
