A machine at a Facebook mailing facility in Menlo Park alerted employees Monday that a package might contain sarin, according to fire officials. No employees have been exposed to the substance, the Menlo Park Fire District said. Facebook runs all of its mail and packages through a machine that can detect dangerous substances, according to the fire district.

In an event-sourced architecture, components record a history of events that occurred to the entities they manage, and calculate the state of an entity from the sequence of events that relate to it. Instead the application computes the current state from the event history when the entity is loaded from the database. The application still maintains a “projection” of the current entity states, but treats the projection as a read-through cache, used to optimise loading entities, so that it doesn’t have to load all of an entity’s events on every transaction, and to select subsets of the currently active entities, so that it doesn’t have to load all events of all entities.

This release concludes a year-long development process where maintainers and adopters worked relentlessly on building the most resilient, efficient, and easiest to integrate OpenID and OAuth 2.0 Server to date. We would like to thank everyone at Segment, Raspberry PI, Arduino, Hootsuite, and many other companies for their invaluable feedback and trust in this open source project. In the name of all the maintainers and contributors, we want to thank our sponsors Raspberry PI, German Stock Exchange, ThoughtWorks, Tulip Retail, AllMyFunds and everyone who helped financially with bringing this project forward.

Tesla’s head of production in charge of its Fremont factory, Peter Hochholdinger, is going to hold a similar position at Lucid Motors, an electric car startup looking to soon move to production. Last week, Electrek revealed that Hochholdinger was leaving Tesla after over three years as the head of production for the electric automaker. While I was sad to see Peter leave Tesla last week, I’m glad that he is at least still putting his talent toward accelerating the production of electric vehicles.

A few weeks ago we received a POWER9 Raptor Blackbird for testing that features an IBM POWER9 4-core (16 thread) processor clocked at 3.80GHz. For those curious about the performance potential for low-end POWER9 parts compared to the more common high-core/thread count POWER processors we have benchmarked before like in the Talos II server, here are some initial tests of that petite POWER9 processor. The CPU vulnerability mitigations were at their defaults and in the case of the POWER9 set to the less strict kernel protection only mode (more details in our Blackbird speculative execution testing).

Protesters inside the legislature spray painted the walls with graffiti, reading “[Chief Executive] Carrie Lam step down,” “the government forced us to revolt” and “Oppose Chinese colonialism,” among other slogans. Protesters eventually entered the main chamber of the building where the Hong Kong emblem was spray-painted black. In a statement, the government urged protesters to leave the legislature: “This evening, some radical protesters stormed the Legislative Council Complex with extreme violence.

by Martin Brinkmann on June 29, 2019 in Windows – Last Update: July 01, 2019 – 35 comments

We noticed back in October 2018 that Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system was not creating Registry backups anymore. We have created two Registry files to enable and disable automatic Registry backups on Windows 10. You can download them with a click on the following link: Windows 10 Automatic Registry Backup Script

Note: If you get 0KB files in the folder mentioned above then you may need to open the Task Scheduler again to set a trigger for the task (since there may be none).

That is why we built jerry.ai to create the easiest experience for our users. Enabled by disruptive technologies, jerry.ai aims for the one-click user experience in financial product offerings which traditionally requires users to fill out long forms. Based in Silicon Valley, we are looking for engineering talent to join our team in Canada.

This release concludes a year-long development process where maintainers and adopters worked relentlessly on building the most resilient, efficient, and easiest to integrate OpenID and OAuth 2.0 Server to date. We would like to thank everyone at Segment, Raspberry PI, Arduino, Hootsuite, and many other companies for their invaluable feedback and trust in this open source project. In the name of all the maintainers and contributors, we want to thank our sponsors Raspberry PI, German Stock Exchange, ThoughtWorks, Tulip Retail, AllMyFunds and everyone who helped financially with bringing this project forward.

One thing I’ve noticed GPT-2 doing is coming up with names that sound strangely like the names of self-aware AI spaceships in Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels. The humans in the books may not appreciate the names, but there’s nothing they can do about them:

Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again

Zero Credibility

Fixed Grin

Charming But Irrational

So Much For Subtlety

Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall

Now compare some of the effects pedals GPT-2 came up with:

Dangerous But Not Unbearably So

Disastrously Varied Mental Model

Dazzling So Beautiful Yet So Terrifying

Am I really that Transhuman

Love and Sex Are A Mercy Clause

And some of the cat names:

Did GPT-2 somehow have a built-in tendency to produce names that sounded like self-aware spaceships? A reader named Kelly sent me a list of 236 of Iain M. Banks’s Culture ship names from Wikipedia, and I trained the 345 million-parameter version of GPT-2 on them.