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Phys.org reports on a study showing Saccharomyces cerevisiae can survive Mars-like conditions, including shock waves and perchlorates. The survival appears linked to the assembly of ribonucleoprotein
PlanetScale compares PostgreSQL 17 and 18 across different I/O configurations (sync, worker, io_uring) and storage backends using sysbench read-only workloads on multiple EC2 insta…
The FSF Licensing and Compliance Lab discusses how large language models intersect with free-software licensing. The FSF is surveying free-software projects to gauge positions on L…
Scientific American revisits a classic graphic to compare locomotion efficiency across the animal kingdom, highlighting that humans on a bicycle are among the most energy-efficient…
Binmoji is a compact, lossless 64-bit emoji encoding implemented as a C library and CLI. It encodes any Unicode emoji into a fixed 64-bit integer, using a primary codepoint, a hash…