Dirk Eddelbuettel: #060: Using bubblewrap for R sandboxing
Welcome to post 60 in the R4 series. bubblewrap is a great tool and very suitable for using with an agent harness. It is a very...
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William Pugh, co-designer of The Stanley Parable, has over 1,600 hours in Dota 2: 'It's not a game made of love. It's a game fuelled by hate and a desire to conquer'
The founder of Crows Crows Crows guides us through the games on his PC.
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Five Nights at Freddy's is coming to Fortnite for Fortnitemares
Epic has confirmed that Five Nights at Freddy's is joining Fortnite for this year's Fortnitemares event. Read more
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Grab this 14-inch compact gaming laptop powerhouse for $1000 off
The gaming laptop pairs Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285H with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Laptop GPU and a 3K 120Hz OLED display, giving buyers a powerful compact...
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Performance engineering from kernel analysis to AI: Adrian Cockcroft’s take
Over its five-year history, P99 CONF has hosted quite a few speakers who’ve offered pointed takedowns of the namesake metric. The post Performance engineering from kernel...
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Custom 24-carat gold mini PC costs around $1.7 million, weighs nearly 29 pounds for up to 50% faster heat transfer
A chrysophile has ordered a special edition mini PC with a pure 24-carat gold passive chassis which will cost around $1.7 million.
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Xbox is reportedly paying a "fraction" of the $400 million Kojima quoted Sony for Physint
A reported $400 million budget for Hideo Kojima's Physint has already been walked back over the weekend, with multiple outlets now saying Xbox is paying nowhere...
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Thieves steal Nvidia-labeled trailers expecting massive AI GPU payday, but score 40,000 pounds of sand instead
The two PlusAI trailers with Nvidia-partner markings were apparently left outside the startup's warehouse, making it a juicy target for criminals looking to make easy money...
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Google Rewrites Critical C Dependencies to Rust Using AI and Differential Fuzzing
Google's security team developed a method to replace legacy C code in the giflib image-processing library with Rust, targeting inherent memory vulnerabilities. They utilised an automated...
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The rise of agentic AI on Kubernetes: unleashing the new infrastructure layer
AI is changing expectations around infrastructure and operations, including Kubernetes management. When models run close to the data they use, The post The rise of agentic...
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Swift 6.4 Brings Subprocess 1.0, Improved Interoperability, Faster Wasm, and More
The latest release of Swift, Swift 6.4, introduces a range of language and tooling improvements, including better performance through expanded support for non-copyable values, up to...
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