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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
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No Observability Tool Is the “Best”
Recently, I made a comment about the idea of there being a “best” monitoring tool: In fact, let’s get this out in the open: There simply isn’t a singular “best” monitoring tool out there any more than there’s one singular “best” programming language, or car model, or pizza style.* There isn’t a single tool which will cover 100% of your needs in every single use case.
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Hacker News
KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
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The Hacker News
18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is "lib-mtop," an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package
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.NET Blog
Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime
NuGet API key durations will be reduced to 30 days starting August 17th. This change will significantly strengthen the integrity of the NuGet supply chain. The post Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime appeared first on .NET Blog.
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Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services
Learn how to use the calling services feature in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to identify which applications are calling your databases and view their performance metrics, so you can pinpoint root causes and contact the right team in minutes rather than hours.
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Meta Engineering
GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model
Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs. This post goes into the details on how we achieved: doubling end-to-end (E2E) training efficiency to 20–25% Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) while scaling training FLOPs 4x in [...] Read More... The post GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model appeared fi
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