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Payments processor Wex plans to acquire Payzer, which offers field services software to plumbers, roofers, and other contractors, for about $250M (Payments Dive)
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/wex-payzer-payments-acquisition-merger-deal/698…

Wex buys Payzer for $250M
The purchase continues a spate of payments industry acquisitions this month, and will let the fleet management services company cross-sell more software. 

Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs
Nigar Azhar Butt, Salman Sherin, Muhammad Uzair Khan, Atif Aftab Jilani, Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal
https://arXiv.org/abs/2311.16645

Deriving and Evaluating a Detailed Taxonomy of Game Bugs
Game development has become an extremely competitive multi-billion-dollar industry. Many games fail even after years of development efforts because of game-breaking bugs that disrupt the game-play and ruin the player experience. The goal of this work is to provide a bug taxonomy for games that will help game developers in developing bug-resistant games, game testers in designing and executing fault-finding test cases, and researchers in evaluating game testing approaches. For this purpose, we p…

Meu gosto eclético buga o algoritmo do #YouTube. Estava tocando o tema de #Cosmos, do #Vangelis. E agora estš tocando The Phantom Agony do

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08327 has been replaced.
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Chow-Lefschetz motives
We develop Milne's theory of Lefschetz motives for general adequate equivalence relations and over a not necessarily algebraically closed base field. The corresponding categories turn out to enjoy all properties predicted by standard and less standard conjectures, in a stronger way: algebraic and numerical equivalences agree in this context. We also compute the Tannakian group associated to a Weil cohomology in a different and more conceptual way than Milne's case-by-case approach.

Byzantine Resilient Computing with the Cloud
John Augustine, Jeffin Biju, Shachar Meir, David Peleg, Srikkanth Ramachandran, Aishwarya Thiruvengadam
https://arXiv.org/abs/2309.16359

Byzantine Resilient Computing with the Cloud
We study a framework for modeling distributed network systems assisted by a reliable and powerful cloud service. Our framework aims at capturing hybrid systems based on a point to point message passing network of machines, with the additional capability of being able to access the services of a trusted high-performance external entity (the cloud). We focus on one concrete aspect that was not studied before, namely, ways of utilizing the cloud assistance in order to attain increased resilience a…

No estš a gusto la pequeña. No ni na

Hard agree. https://www.gq.com/story/bring-back-90s-legal-thrillers

It’s Time to Bring Back the '90s Legal Thriller
Legal thrillers like 'The Firm,' 'The Pelican Brief,' and 'The Client' used to rule Hollywood. Let’s make some more.

Israel-Hamas war live: IDF cannot confirm when fighting will stop as sides agree four-day ceasefire and release of 50 hostages
Israel military says it has not got ‘nitty gritty’ of deal that will see 50 Israeli women and children released in exchange for 150 jailed Palestinians
Support for the hostage deal appears to have been clinched with the decision by Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, and by senior officials in the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet domestic intelligence a…

Q: Issue with sound. I’ve got an Acer computer (stationary) that has suddenly lost all sound in the os. My soundcard is working and has the proper drivers according to the device manager. It worked fine before the latest update - but I can’t seem to roll back the update so the issue disappears. What do I do?
#issue

Canary: Congestion-Aware In-Network Allreduce Using Dynamic Trees
Daniele De Sensi, Edgar Costa Molero, Salvatore Di Girolamo, Laurent Vanbever, Torsten Hoefler
https://arXiv.org/abs/2309.16214

Canary: Congestion-Aware In-Network Allreduce Using Dynamic Trees
The allreduce operation is an essential building block for many distributed applications, ranging from the training of deep learning models to scientific computing. In an allreduce operation, data from multiple hosts is aggregated together and then broadcasted to each host participating in the operation. Allreduce performance can be improved by a factor of two by aggregating the data directly in the network. Switches aggregate data coming from multiple ports before forwarding the partially aggr…