Wonder Announces Acquisition of Grubhub
NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2024 — Wonder, a new kind of food hall that is revolutionizing the food industry by creating the super app for mealtime, announced that it is acquiring Grubhub, a leading food ordering and delivery platform with more than 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery partners across the United States. Integrating […]
Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones
Abstract The ionosphere is a layer of weakly ionized plasma bathed in Earth’s geomagnetic field extending about 50–1,500 kilometres above Earth1. The ionospheric total electron content varies in response to Earth’s space environment, interfering with Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) signals, resulting in one of the largest sources of error for position, navigation and timing services2. […]
A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
cycling-typing Last summer I got into cycling. I’ve long been a standing desk-er, and going out for long zone 2 rides and wondering what to think about made me wonder: could I work at a desk while I cycle? I have a stationary bike trainer, so I first tried the obvious thing and just slid […]
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article explains what jungle is, where it comes from, and why its soundtrack was such a perfect match for titles of the PlayStation & Nintendo 64 era. This blog post will be fundamentally different and less technical than the other ones we have […]
Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation
Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations — biological tissue and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9.” At first glance, a living system and a musical masterpiece might appear to have no connection. However, a novel AI method developed by Markus J. Buehler, the McAfee Professor of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental […]
The Beginner’s Guide to Visual Prompt Injections
Learn how to protect against the most common LLM vulnerabilities Download this guide to delve into the most common LLM security risks and ways to mitigate them. In-context learning As users increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to accomplish their daily tasks, their concerns about the potential leakage of private data by these models […]
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
Cascade combines deep codebase understanding, a breadth of advanced tools, and a real-time awareness of your actions into a powerful, seamless, and collaborative flow. It is the most powerful way to code with AI. Full contextual awareness Deep contextual awareness allows you to run Cascade on production codebases and still get relevant suggestions. Your browser […]
An alternative construction of Shannon entropy
TL;DR: Shannon’s entropy formula is usually justified by showing it satisfies key mathematical criteria, or by computing how much space is needed to encode a variable. But one can also construct Shannon’s formula starting purely from the simpler notion of entropy as a (logarithm of a) count—of how many different ways a distribution could have […]
Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English
The Supreme Court will hear an important First Amendment case on Jan. 15, 2025. During their January argument session, which begins on Jan. 13 and continues until Jan. 22, the justices will also consider questions involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal laws prohibiting false statements to influence financial institutions, and claims under the Fourth… […]
Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole
Intro This series of articles describes fault injection attack techniques in order to understand their real potential by testing their limits and applicability with limited hardware (available on the market at an acceptable cost). It explores possible ways of using an attack that, in my opinion, is greatly underestimated. First of all, I want to […]