Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs
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Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs
It's not news that many tech companies are encouraging or even requiring use of LLM coding tools like Claude Code.Chris Dzombak
From Project Gutenberg:
Evangelinewith Notes and Plan of Study
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimatesAnne Alexander (The Guardian)
Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...
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Derrière les outils IA pour « déshabiller » les femmes, un véritable business qui fait sa publicité jusque sur Facebook
A la tête de dizaines de sites, les propriétaires de ces services en ligne permettant de dénuder les gens vont jusqu’à vendre des abonnements à leurs « clients » et contournent les filtres de modération des réseaux sociaux pour trouver leur public.Florian Reynaud (Le Monde)
#round : having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center
- French: ronde
- German: die Runde
- Italian: ronda
- Portuguese: redondo
- Spanish: redondo
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EU leaders decided to use joint borrowing instead of Russian frozen assets to support Ukraine, in a big win for Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever, who had long opposed the idea of a reparations loan amid fears of retaliation from Russia.
Why Every E-Book Needs an Instant Multilingual Voice Option
As AI voice becomes more present in everyday life, the idea of a silent e-book will start to feel incomplete. Readers will expect their digital books to talk, switch languages, and follow them seamlessly across devices and contexts.
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*watching a mcdonalds commercial in the 1980s* a singing moon? preposterous. put the clown back on
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in some personal news I came into a small fortune and quit my job today
JFK's family erupts over "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming plan (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
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JFK's family erupts over “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming plan
By Rebecca Falconer / Axios. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Les adolescentes de plus en plus victimes de « déshabillage » généré par l’IA
Des sites permettent facilement de « dévêtir », à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle, n’importe qui à partir d’une simple photo. L’utilisation de ces outils contre des jeunes filles mineures se développe.Morgane Tual (Le Monde)
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Shot: The U.S. Energy Department's internal watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's cancellation of $8 billion in clean energy grants in blue states:…
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Preemptively cutting off power to prevent destructive wildfires: no longer just a California thing. Almost like there is some underlying trend... coloradosun.com/2025/12/18/col…
