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Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365

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Outlook (classic) for Windows, the one we’ve all used for many years has been dropped from...
Outlook (classic) for Windows, the one we’ve all used for many years has been dropped from some Microsoft 365 installations even though the replacement Outlook (new) is still a “work in progress”. Here’s how to still get the ‘real’ fully-functioning, classic Outlook. Outlook (new) is premature Outlook (new) is the e...
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Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

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Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique

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Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury

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Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

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In a significant business development, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has decided to cancel his collaboration with...
In a significant business development, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has decided to cancel his collaboration with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The decision comes after a series of tensions between the two magnates, culminating in Slim’s choice to invest in his own infrastructure rather than relying on Starlink’s satellit...
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Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting

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pgRouting is a Postgres extension. It's often used for finding the “shortest path” between two locations,...
pgRouting is a Postgres extension. It's often used for finding the “shortest path” between two locations, however it's a hidden gem in Postgres and can be used for basic graph functionality. pgRouting is typically combined with PostGIS for working with geospatial data, but it can also be useful beyond that as a ligh...

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World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial

wehi.edu.au

An Australian-led international clinical trial will scientifically investigate the efficacy of the approach within a large...
An Australian-led international clinical trial will scientifically investigate the efficacy of the approach within a large cohort of eligible glioblastoma patients and could commence within a year. The study will trial the use of double immunotherapy. In some patients, double immunotherapy will be combined with chem...
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IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp

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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its...
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. Together the companies' capabilities will help clients accelerate innovation, st...

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Bitcoin Reserve Bills Are Failing in Quick Succession in States

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Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative

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In Brief Posted: 10:33 AM PST · February 20, 2025 Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming...
In Brief Posted: 10:33 AM PST · February 20, 2025 Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good. The company on Wednesday confirmed it will end support for Chime, including its Business Calling features, on February 20, 2026. As part of this transition, A...
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USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why

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In November 2022, Dean Karlan was hired to lead the first Office of the Chief Economist...
In November 2022, Dean Karlan was hired to lead the first Office of the Chief Economist of USAID. His role and that of his 30-plus staff was to help design more cost-effective programs and to help the agency produce more evidence to guide future policies. As he puts it: "I came to help choose effective programs to g...
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OpenCloud 1.0

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Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview

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Kastle (YC S24) Is Hiring – AI for Loan Servicing

ycombinator.com

AI agents for mortgage servicing$120K - $180K / 0.60% - 1.50%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with...
AI agents for mortgage servicing$120K - $180K / 0.60% - 1.50%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Kastle is an AI platform transforming mortgage servicing by automating loan processing, payment collections, and dispute resolution. We work with some of Ame...
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Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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by Jan Betley*1, Daniel Tan*2, Niels Warncke*3, Anna Sztyber-Betley4, Xuchan Bao5, Martin Soto6, Nathan Labenz7, Owain...
by Jan Betley*1, Daniel Tan*2, Niels Warncke*3, Anna Sztyber-Betley4, Xuchan Bao5, Martin Soto6, Nathan Labenz7, Owain Evans1,8 * Equal contribution 1 TruthfulAI 2 University College London 3 Center on Long-Term Risk 4 Warsaw University of Technology 5 University of Toronto 6 UK AISI 7 Independent 8 UC Berkeley We p...
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Accessing region-locked iOS features, such as EU app stores

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Instagram Reels flooded with violent videos before Meta says it fixed error

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Meta Platforms said on Thursday it had resolved an error that flooded the personal Reels feeds...
Meta Platforms said on Thursday it had resolved an error that flooded the personal Reels feeds of Instagram users with violent and graphic videos worldwide.It was not immediately clear how many people were affected by the glitch. Meta’s comments followed a wave of complaints on social media about violent and “not sa...
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Theoi Greek Mythology

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What Can Be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation [pdf]

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Show HN: Wireless Video Streaming on POV Bike Display

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GPT-4.5

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OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card [pdf]

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A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories

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This story is an accompaniment to a podcast series released by NPR's Embedded called Alternate Realities....
This story is an accompaniment to a podcast series released by NPR's Embedded called Alternate Realities. You can listen to all three episodes here or wherever you listen to podcasts. About a year ago, my dad bet me $10,000 that he could foretell the future. It all started when he texted me a picture of a list. Writ...
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The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50%

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