The most sobering observation in tech is not how much AI is taking on the appearance of the human mind. It's how much the human mind increasingly resembles Windows – not in functionality, although we all know that person, but in the way it crufts up and loses...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro ("solidity-pro") that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below -...

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided solid we call a hexagon, which is indisputably the bestagon. Don’t take it up with us–...

Creative work is on the rise. According to recent projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, creative and multimedia design roles are expected to grow by 12% over the next six years—one of the biggest increases ever for those who hold degrees in fine arts. ...

Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. Torvalds posts a weekly state of the kernel update, and last week’s message opened with his observation that “This rc is huge.” “Even by the ‘new normal’...

ASIA IN BRIEF Japan’s NEC has started tests of parking technology that will start charging once a driver leaves their car. Most car parks record the time a driver enters the facility and start charging, or depleting a free parking period, at that moment. That means...

KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are getting their own LLM-poisoning ads. Were there anything world-shaking events in...

WHO, ME? The past may be a foreign country, but it's one The Register likes to explore each Friday in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your tales of workplace mistakes and great escapes. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Walter," who...

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Ironically, research shows that the people who work the hardest and achieve the most are often the least satisfied. The same growth-oriented tendencies that motivate you to succeed can also produce a restlessness that makes it hard to enjoy the success you’ve worked...

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this oversight with modern insights and technologies, as [Tom Stanton]...

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The vulnerabilities affected software used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies. The post Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by watching “Lunar Bridgehead,” a film about JPL monitoring the Ranger spacecraft as it hit, rather hard, on the lunar...

Article URL: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238050 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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A while ago I started working on Colibrì to see if it was possible to run huge LLMs on a normal computer. The project grew far beyond what I expected, thanks in large part to the HackerNews community.That led me to a new question:What if we stopped thinking about one...

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix has already been booked for 2027 due to record demand. Their industry sources...

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