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South Korea's SK Telecom partners with Perplexity to access its proprietary models and to offer Perplexity's paid version of its AI-based search engine for free (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sk-tele

SK Telecom partners with AI search startup Perplexity in Korea
SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telco, is partnering with U.S. AI startup Perplexity to offer the artificial intelligence-based search engine to its users as an alternative to Google and Naver , the companies told Reuters.

O.o
okay, wild.
Theodor Herzl talked about the "Jewish question" in Der Judenstaat (1895)
which I guess was... different from the Nazi's version of "Jewish question" which was "final solution"... yyeeeeesh 1930's
then there's November 30th 1947 - May 14th, which Israel kinda wants you to gloss over as of 2011... ("Referring to the Israeli Independence Day or the founding day of the country as a day of mourning")
and yeah those massacres and depopulation continued after independence was declared...
by 11th of December 1948, Israel controlled 78% of former Palestine (55% intended originally for Israel, and 23% that wasn't theirs to take)
but, you know, Israeli sovereignty mythos tells that Palestinians "willingly left their homes" (which reminds me of teachers in the south saying the trail of tears was somehow voluntary sunshine)
what's cool is that Zochrot doesn't want the Nakba to be forgotten. They even had an app that showed you the ethnic cleansing and forced expulsions of Palestinian villages.

Deciphering the Digital Veil: Exploring the Ecosystem of DNS HTTPS Resource Records
Hongying Dong (University of Virginia), Yizhe Zhang (University of Virginia), Hyeonmin Lee (University of Virginia), Shumon Huque (Salesforce), Yixin Sun (University of Virginia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15672

Deciphering the Digital Veil: Exploring the Ecosystem of DNS HTTPS Resource Records
The DNS HTTPS resource record is a new DNS record type designed for the delivery of configuration information and parameters required to initiate connections to HTTPS network services. It provides the ability to perform zone apex redirection to a third-party provider, which the existing CNAME record cannot do. In addition, it is a key enabler for TLS Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) by providing the cryptographic keying material needed to encrypt the initial exchange. To understand the adoption and …

Logs & Co mit Bots und KI beherrschen: Die Herausforderung vieler ITOM-Teams ist die schiere Flut an Daten, die jede Sekunde von jedem einzelnen Netzwerkobjekt generiert werden. Zwar helfen Tools wie Apaches Kafka, die Informationen zu sortieren und in geregelte Bahnen zu lenken. Es sind dennoch immer noch nur Informationen. CloudFabrix packt das Übel an der Wurzel bzw. dem Datenstrom und versenkt kleine Bots in den Datenfluten.

Unconditional correctness of recent quantum algorithms for factoring and computing discrete logarithms
C\'edric Pilatte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16450

Unconditional correctness of recent quantum algorithms for factoring and computing discrete logarithms
In 1994, Shor introduced his famous quantum algorithm to factor integers and compute discrete logarithms in polynomial time. In 2023, Regev proposed a multi-dimensional version of Shor's algorithm that requires far fewer quantum gates. His algorithm relies on a number-theoretic conjecture on the elements in $(\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^{\times}$ that can be written as short products of very small prime numbers. We prove a version of this conjecture using tools from analytic number theory such as z…

An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management
Zhimin Zhao, Yihao Chen, Abdul Ali Bangash, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15990

An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management
In machine learning (ML), efficient asset management, including ML models, datasets, algorithms, and tools, is vital for resource optimization, consistent performance, and a streamlined development lifecycle. This enables quicker iterations, adaptability, reduced development-to-deployment time, and reliable outputs. Despite existing research, a significant knowledge gap remains in operational challenges like model versioning, data traceability, and collaboration, which are crucial for the succe…

Ha! I forgot, I did once do an article version of my #PHP arrays talk for php[architect].
https://www.phparch.com/article/never-use-arrays/
Subscribers can get it from the…

Never* Use Arrays | php[architect]
PHP arrays are a core feature of the PHP language, and so easy to use many developers don't go beyond them. Let's look at better options.

I may be alone, but I kinda wish there was an HTML 5 version of the ol' W3C validation icon: https://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons
I'd slap that bad boy on my site with pride.

Back in the #Java ecosystem, trying to get someone else's ten year old library to build, and the wasteland of broken tools, incompatible versions, non-backwards-compatible libraries, and general crud is awful to contemplate.
Why does anyone tolerate this dysfunctional mess?
Example: latest version of Gradle, given the command to publish the library to maven local repository, completes…