The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
I wrote a decade ago about the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, a strategy for corporations to evade taxes that was widespread and large-scale enough to come to the attention of the International Monetary Fund. But due to various changes in national and international tax agreements, the strategy seems to have faded substantially. Ana Maria Santacreu […]
macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption
When you enter a hostname in your web browser (e.g., apple.com), that name must first be translated into an IP address so your computer can connect to the server. This lookup is usually performed unencrypted, meaning your Internet provider and other parties monitoring your connection can see which sites you visit. To protect these lookups […]
TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast
Textube By Omar Olivares Urrutia Get the full transcription of any Youtube video, fast. Studies suggest that reading leads to better retention of complex information compared to video watching. Only English videos currently. Sign up to chat Sign up or Log in to chat
Swift 6
September 17, 2024 We’re delighted to announce the general availability of Swift 6. This is a major new release that expands Swift to more platforms and domains. Many people know of Swift as a language for app development, with a million apps on the App Store. But Swift is great for more than just apps. […]
Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits
Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, stained and magnified 63 times, revealing fine details of the dendritic spines. (Hatten Lab) More than 70 genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental condition in which differences in the brain lead to a host of altered behaviors, including issues with language, social communication, hyperactivity, and […]
Cloudflare Network Issues Affecting Service Reachability
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GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java
Using Python from Java with GraalVM GraalPy brings the world of Python data science libraries to Java and other languages running on GraalVM. Using GraalVM’s polyglot interfaces, it is now easier than ever to embed Python code in Java applications and with good performance to boot! Oracle GraalVM also includes sandboxing option to run Python […]
Pixtral 12B
Pixtral 12B in short: Natively multimodal, trained with interleaved image and text data Strong performance on multimodal tasks, excels in instruction following Maintains state-of-the-art performance on text-only benchmarks Architecture: New 400M parameter vision encoder trained from scratch 12B parameter multimodal decoder based on Mistral Nemo Supports variable image sizes and aspect ratios Supports multiple images […]
Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone
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WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
WonderWorld takes a single image as input and generates connected diverse 3D scenes to form a virtual world. Users can specify new scene contents and styles via text, and specify where to generate new scenes via camera movement as our system allows real-time rendering. Our system generates a single 3D scene in less than 10 […]