Julian Assange plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge and will be released from a British prison after serving five years, as part of a plea deal with the US Justice Department. The deal allows Assange to return to Australia, his country of citizenship, after the proceedings, and he will be sentenced to 62 months with credit for time served.

The author discusses various "microfeatures" that can enhance the user experience of a website, including sidenotes, tables of contents, page progress bars, linkable headings, series navigation, dialogues, code decorators, and more. These features can improve navigation, readability, and overall quality of life for readers, and can be easily implemented using various website technologies and tools.

The European Commission has found Apple in breach of EU laws designed to promote competition and allow consumers to find cheaper alternatives, citing issues with app store rules and fees. Apple has made changes to comply with the Digital Markets Act, but the commission has opened a non-compliance procedure, citing concerns over contract terms and fees.

US prosecutors are recommending criminal charges against Boeing for violating a 2021 settlement related to two fatal crashes, while the Justice Department must decide by July 7 whether to prosecute. The potential charges could extend beyond the original fraud conspiracy charge, and Boeing may face financial penalties, a monitor, or even a guilty plea, which could impact its government contracts.

Bill Atkinson showed off his oval routines at Apple, impressing Steve Jobs, who then asked for rectangles with rounded corners, which Bill initially thought was impossible. Bill was persuaded to work on it and eventually developed a way to draw them quickly, adding the "RoundRects" primitive to LisaGraf.

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language without an interpreter or virtual machine. It reconfigures GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved format that runs natively on multiple platforms with good performance and a small footprint.

KakaoTalk's Android app has multiple vulnerabilities, including a deep link validation issue that allows remote attackers to run arbitrary JavaScript and steal access tokens. The access token can be used to take over a user's account and read non-end-to-end encrypted chat messages.

Let's Encrypt has deployed ntpd-rs, a memory-safe NTP implementation, to its infrastructure, marking a step towards replacing C/C++ software with safer alternatives. The goal is to improve security by replacing vulnerable software with memory-safe alternatives, and the organization relies on community contributions and sponsorships to continue its efforts.

Microsoft has enabled automatic OneDrive folder backup on Windows 11 without asking users, filling desktops with shortcuts. To turn off this feature, right-click the OneDrive icon, go to settings, and uncheck the folders you don't want to back up.

Flannery O'Connor's childhood fascination with Grimms' Fairy Tales, which often feature violence and darkness, influenced her writing style, which explores the themes of evil, death, and redemption. The author argues that children need to be exposed to these kinds of stories to help them process and cope with the darkness of the world, and that sanitized or overly optimistic tales can be ...

The inspection report details the findings of a facility inspection, including observations, non-compliances, and recommendations for improvement. The report covers various aspects, including facility operations, personnel, and equipment, and provides a comprehensive overview of the inspection results.

MTV News and CMT.com websites have been fully pulled down, removing decades of music journalism and archives, including interviews with major artists and early hip-hop and K-pop stories. The content is no longer available, with some former staffers expressing outrage and disappointment over the loss of music history and research material.

Apple rejected iDOS 3 due to design similarities with iDOS 2, despite the user explaining the difference, and then rejected again for "design spam". The user is frustrated with Apple's unclear guidelines and lack of communication, with the app still in review after 2 months.

CDK Global, a software company used by thousands of auto dealers, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks, causing an outage that has continued to impact operations, leading to delays and manual processes at dealerships. The company expects the restoration process to take several days to complete, and customers are being warned to be cautious of phishing attempts and potential data breaches.

Microsoft removed the option to bypass signing into Windows with a Microsoft Account, but users can still switch to a local account after installation. To do so, go to Settings > Accounts > Your info and select "Sign in with a local account instead" to follow the on-screen instructions.

The author proposes a data exchange format that works both locally and online, using a simple log-based protocol with CRDT compliance, allowing for robust and resilient data synchronization. The format uses a unique identifier for each client, storing changes and assets separately, and can be implemented as a database or file system, with flexibility for peer-to-peer synchronization and ...

GCC's new _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 level detects more buffer overflows and bugs at runtime, providing enhanced security mitigation. This level uses __builtin_dynamic_object_size, which returns a size expression evaluated at execution time, improving fortification coverage by nearly 4 times compared to _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.

The author, a new mother, discovers that Amazon's Kindle is serving her ads for bizarre, poorly written "bedtime stories" for kids and adults, which seem to be generated by AI and have no real authors or publishers. As she delves deeper, she finds that these books appear to be generated on the fly and are being served to other users, raising questions about Amazon's use of AI and its impact ...

After 13 years in software engineering, you're done with the industry and no longer enjoy coding, but you're unsure what to do next, considering entrepreneurship or sales at a tech company. You're looking for a full-time position with unlimited earning potential, leveraging your strengths in people and strategy, but are concerned about the future with kids.

The user built a personal feed reader, Feedi, and integrated it with their Kindle to streamline their reading workflow, overcoming limitations of reading on laptops and phones. They implemented a Kindle integration feature using a Flask route, Node.js script, and Python libraries to extract and package article content into an EPUB file, which is then emailed to their Kindle device.

The Sun Ra Arkestra, a musical collective founded in Chicago, moved to Philadelphia in 1968 and has since become a legendary band known for its inter-dimensional music and performances. Marshall Allen, the band's director and saxophonist, turned 100 last month and continues to lead the Arkestra, which has been touring the world and creating music for decades.

CentOS Linux 7 will reach End of Life (EOL) on June 30, 2024, and users should migrate to a new operating system to continue receiving updates and security patches. Red Hat offers various options to ease the migration, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Third Party Linux Migration, Convert2RHEL, and Red Hat Consulting, to help users transition to a more reliable and secure platform.

The article shows how to convert a wired doorbell into a smart, WiFi-enabled doorbell using an ESP-01S chip and a relay module board for around $2, without soldering or requiring electronics expertise. The project allows users to control the doorbell chime separately from the doorbell button and integrate it with Home Assistant for automations and notifications.

The author discusses the tradeoffs between legibility and expressiveness in programming languages, using Hindley-Milner (HM) type systems as an example. HM type systems offer a balance between legibility, gained through type inference and powerful type systems, and expressiveness, gained through the ability to write complex programs, but at the cost of some legibility.

Komorebi is a free and open-source tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above, allowing users to control application windows, virtual workspaces, and display monitors with a CLI. The project is licensed under the PolyForm Strict 1.0.0 license and has a community-driven development process, with documentation and guides ...

Some Wall Street banks are selling off commercial real estate loans to cut losses, a sign of distress in the market due to high interest rates and low office building occupancy. Banks are looking to shrink their exposures, with troubled loans worth a small fraction of the $2.5 trillion in commercial real estate loans held by US banks.

QQ is a configuration format transcoder with jq query syntax, allowing for multi-modal interaction and real-time rendering preview, and is inspired by jq and fq. It can transcode between various formats, including JSON, XML, and Terraform, and has an interactive mode with autocomplete and real-time rendering preview.

The European Commission has informed Apple that its App Store rules breach the Digital Markets Act, preventing app developers from steering customers to alternative channels, and has opened a new investigation into Apple's new contractual terms for developers. The Commission will investigate whether Apple's new requirements, including its "Core Technology Fee", comply with the DMA and whether ...

A new high-tech robot, E.M.I.L.Y., was donated to St. Joseph's Silver Beach to prevent drowning deaths on Lake Michigan. The robot, which can be controlled remotely, was demonstrated during a training event and is designed to reach struggling swimmers faster than human lifeguards, potentially saving lives.

Sarepta's approval of eteplirsen and golodirsen for Duchenne muscular dystrophy was met with controversy due to flawed trial designs and lack of convincing data. The company's gene therapy, elevidys, was approved despite failing to meet its primary endpoint, with the FDA's CBER head, Peter Marks, overruling review teams and granting a wider label approval.

Lockbit ransomware group claims to have breached the US Federal Reserve, exfiltrating 33TB of sensitive data, and threatens to leak it on June 25, 2024. Experts are skeptical about the announcement, with some believing it's just for attention, while the FBI has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys to help victims recover their data.

A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea killed at least 16 people and left five missing, with the cause of the explosion unclear. The factory, run by Aricell, was largely destroyed with parts of the upper level collapsing and large chunks blown out into the street.

The user's RSS feed was broken due to a MIME type issue caused by serving files from a .zip file, which led to a "seeker can't seek" error. Installing the mailcap package fixed the issue by allowing the Go HTTP package to detect the Content-Type of the file from its extension.

The Seattle Public Library is still recovering from a four-week-old ransomware attack that has disabled its networks, rendering its public computers and Wi-Fi unusable. The library is working to restore services, but it may take at least two weeks for public computers and internet to be available again, leaving many without access to essential services.

The success of a software project often depends on the people involved, rather than technology or process, and a team's dynamics can be a strong predictor of job satisfaction and success. A team that works well together, with people who like and respect each other, is more likely to succeed, and focusing on people issues can be a key factor in determining a project's outcome.

A Tesla Cybertruck owner experienced an unresponsive throttle, causing the vehicle to accelerate unexpectedly and crash into a neighbor's house. Tesla attributed the issue to the terrain, but the owner was told to deal with his insurance company to cover the damage, leaving the cause unclear.

Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, according to court papers filed by the US Justice Department. The guilty plea, which must be approved by a judge, will free Assange from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents.

Multi, a multiplayer desktop computer operating system, is being sunsetted and all user data will be deleted on July 24, 2024, unless an extension is requested. Users can export their Session Notes, delete their account, or request an extension by emailing [email protected].

The author discusses the simplicity of tracing garbage collection and how it can be used in systems programming, citing Yices2 as an example. They propose a custom memory management strategy using arenas and a moving collector, which can be optional and efficient, with minimal overhead.

Dev Drive, a feature that uses copy-on-write linking, was tested on several large internal codebases and showed a 10% or more reduction in build times for many repos, with the highest win being 43%. The feature is expected to be part of Windows Server 2025 and will be available by default in the 24H2 Windows operating system release wave, making many builds on Windows notably faster.

The European Commission is investigating Apple for violating the Digital Markets Act by not allowing developers to steer consumers to alternative app stores, and for charging a core technology fee. Apple could face fines up to 10% of its annual global revenue if found guilty, and has been previously fined €1.84 billion for anti-steering practices.

David Van Reybrouck's book "Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World" tells the story of Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Netherlands, a conflict marked by violence and war crimes on both sides. The book highlights the significance of Indonesia's struggle in the global context, arguing that it was a crucial moment in the birth of the modern world, inspiring ...

Uber and Lyft are locking out NYC drivers during low demand to avoid paying minimum wage, causing some drivers' wages to fall by 50%. The move aims to limit non-passenger time drivers log and be paid for, while drivers claim they need to work longer hours to earn the same amount.

The myth of Galileo's struggle against the Catholic Church is exaggerated, as Galileo's theories were not universally accepted and his opponents had valid points, and the story has been used to promote a simplistic narrative of reason vs. religion. The development of modern astronomy involved the contributions of many scientists, including Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler, and the ...

Gertrude Stein believed diagramming sentences reveals an innate logic and structure in language, while linguists in the US developed various methods to visualize sentence structure from the 1830s to the late 19th century. These methods, including construing, scanning, and sentence diagramming, aimed to teach grammar and syntax through visual representation.

Tomasz, a software engineer at Embark, discusses how the company approaches 3D rendering of user-created worlds, leveraging Rust to achieve their goals and share exciting open-source news. The article highlights Embark's rendering engineers' journey, including the development of two renderers, one of which is a global illumination renderer that is heavily opinionated and easy to hack, and the ...

The author, Devon Stork, discusses the challenges of terraforming Mars, including the need to overcome extreme temperatures, radiation, toxins, and lack of water, and proposes a research approach to engineer a microbe that can survive on the Martian surface. The goal is not only to terraform Mars but also to develop biotechnology that can support human civilization in space and improve life on Earth.

Gren, a functional programming language, has updated its core packages, compiler, and book, with new features and improvements, including a new file system API and a transition from Haskell to Gren. The language has also switched from Zulip to Discord for community discussion and has made other changes, such as adding Task-based functions and environment variable support.

The user installed test apps from the Mac app store, each with a unique URL, but one app started receiving requests from a random "cloud" service without indication. The app continues to poll the server every 3 hours, even after the user stopped running the program, potentially reading private feed content.

You've taken various challenging courses, including cryptography, compiler design, and computer graphics, which helped you improve your programming skills and understand the theory and practice of programming languages. You found that hands-on projects and building things from scratch, such as implementing AES and RSA, were more interesting and useful than theoretical courses, and you ...

The Psion Series 5, launched in 1994, was a revolutionary handheld computer that combined a 32-bit processor, a touchscreen interface, and a battery life of up to 30 hours. Despite its innovative design and capabilities, Psion's failure to adapt to the changing market and its inability to compete with Microsoft and Palm ultimately led to the company's decline and eventual exit from the ...

Structured logs are a good starting point for monitoring and observability because they are easy to add during development and can be tokenized and indexed upfront. However, storing and indexing logs can become expensive and require a solid retention strategy and maintenance of the logging ingestion pipeline.

The understanding of sound and music as mathematical objects enabled the creation of synthesizers, which revolutionized music production and enabled new sounds and genres. Similarly, understanding writing as a mathematical object can enable new tools and interfaces for writing, such as semantic heatmaps and feature icons.

Neko is a portable framework for high-order spectral element flow simulations written in modern Fortran, supporting various hardware backends and adopting an object-oriented approach. To build the project, you need a Fortran compiler, MPI, JSON-Fortran, and BLAS/lapack, with optional dependencies including gslib and ParMETIS.

Rheinmetall and Anduril Industries signed a MoU to develop a layered Counter small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) air defense system, combining Rheinmetall's command and control system with Anduril's sensors and autonomous interceptor. The partnership aims to provide a flexible, adaptable, and rapidly deployable system to address the growing threat of drones and stay ahead of evolving warfare.

Cloudflare is experiencing delays in ticket responses and functionality issues with subscription upgrades/downgrades. To resolve issues, users can check for unpaid invoices and pay online to restore service and make desired changes to their subscriptions.

Mesh Tumbler uses projections to detect overhangs and rotates the mesh to minimize them using Bayesian optimization. The program takes an STL file and optional arguments for function calls, mesh pitch, and maximum overhang angle.

Microsoft is adding native version control to File Explorer, allowing users to see changes and comments from Git directly in the app. The update also includes native file compression to 7-zip and TAR, replacing the current ZIP compression option.

Tech sector layoffs have reached 99,672 employees across 340 companies since January, with notable companies like ByteDance, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta cutting jobs. The rate of layoffs is outpacing 2022, with over 260,000 tech positions terminated in 2023, including major cuts in the video game industry.

Researchers are studying the human brain in unprecedented detail, using technologies like single-neuron recordings and brain-cell atlases to understand speech production, cognition, and behavior. However, they must ensure that participants' dignity and respect are maintained, revisiting consent forms and addressing concerns around AI and machine learning to avoid potential harm.

Erin Nash, a hospital chaplain, is one of millions of workers whose jobs rely on relationship and emotional labor, but are increasingly being subjected to new systems that try to make them more efficient, measurable, and reproducible. The spread of data analytics and technology into feeling labor has implications for AI, the future of work, and the stratification of human contact, threatening ...

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law opposes the latest draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, citing removal of civil rights provisions and privacy loopholes. The organization urges Congress to restore these provisions and close loopholes to ensure a comprehensive privacy bill that prioritizes civil rights and protects against data-driven discrimination.

Australia would need decades to develop regulations and skills to operate a nuclear power plant, with a realistic timeframe of 2040 or 2045, according to NSW's chief scientist and engineer. The experience gained at the existing Lucas Heights facility would not contribute much to supporting a nuclear power industry in the country, as it is a small, zero-power reactor with different complexities.

Slack's CEO plans to infuse AI into every aspect of the application, allowing users to find key conversations and create projects without leaving the platform. The goal is to make Slack a unified experience where AI parses data to offer users important summaries, increasing productivity and eliminating mundane tasks.

Venture capitalist Sarah Cone's tweet about tech guys being hot led to a business opportunity, offering personalized fashion advice and styling services to tech workers in San Francisco. The trend reflects a cultural shift in the city, where techies are increasingly aware of the importance of fashion and style, and are seeking help to upgrade their wardrobes.

Global supply chain disruptions are causing chaos, with cargo prices soaring due to ship attacks, canal closures, and labor strikes. The situation threatens to worsen inflation and product shortages during the holiday season, with carriers lifting rates and ships taking longer routes.

The EnABLES project aims to improve IoT device battery lifespans to reduce waste and promote sustainable power infrastructure, with recommendations to harvest ambient energy and minimize energy consumption. If not addressed, 78 million batteries powering IoT devices will be dumped daily by 2025, highlighting the need for collaborative efforts to revolutionize product design and reduce power ...

Apple has canceled its microLED smartwatch project, leading to the layoff of its entire microLED team and a non-cash impairment of EUR 600-900M for its partner Ams-OSRAM. The microLED industry is expected to pivot towards differentiating applications such as automotive, AR, and luxury consumer products, with Taiwan emerging as a new center of gravity for the industry.

Clair Wills' book "Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets" is a personal and historical exploration of her family's secrets and the Irish experience, delving into the country's dark past of institutionalized child abuse and forced adoptions. Through her research and storytelling, Wills sheds light on the complexities of family history, national shame, and the power of personal ...

Colorado becomes the first US state to introduce comprehensive regulations on AI use in companies' decision-making, aiming to protect the public from bias and discrimination. The law requires companies to inform individuals when AI is used, allows data correction, and sets up a process to investigate potential consequences for bad actors, with a focus on industries like education, employment, ...

Researchers developed a new imaging technique using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy to detect thousands of tiny plastic particles, including nanoplastics, in bottled water. The technique found an average of 240,000 plastic particles per liter of bottled water, with 90% being nanoplastics, and can help advance understanding of human exposure to these tiny plastic bits.

The user spent three months investigating Apple's actions and filed a complaint with the US EPA in June 2023. The user requested to be identified as the whistleblower and asked EPA investigators to reveal their identity to Apple if they inspect the plant.

Microsoft has discontinued its Project Natick underwater data center experiment, citing learning from the experience and applying it to other cases. The company found that seawater's temperature stability and inert nitrogen gas helped reduce server loss, but did not indicate whether it will start another UDC project in the future.

The Valli encoding is a novel entropy encoder that losslessly compresses data below the Shannon limit, using exact symbol frequencies and treating locations as i.i.d. It achieves this by leveraging the symbol frequencies and storing permutations in a fixed amount of space, outperforming traditional entropy encoders.

Counterscale is an open-source web analytics service that allows users to self-host and track website traffic without managing databases or containers, with a free plan that supports up to 50,000 page views per day. The service uses Cloudflare's Workers Analytics Engine, a managed service that provides unlimited-cardinality analytics at scale, and is currently limited in its functionality but ...

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In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report

US prosecutors have recommended criminal charges against Boeing for violating a 2021 settlement related to the 737 Max crashes, which killed 346 people. The Department of Justice has until July 7 to decide whether to file charges, which could include new fraud conspiracy charges beyond the original 2021 charge.

Icepat, a software engineer, is developing a Raspberry Pi-powered ultra-mobile PC called Pocket Z, a UPMC for under $100, with a 7-inch touchscreen display and silicone membrane keyboard. The first prototype runs Linux and XFCE Desktop Environment, with a goal to reduce the display size to 5 inches and develop a custom keyboard.

Fastmail has laid off 60% of its bargaining unit, including the bargaining committee, citing a surprise restructure, but the union was able to negotiate a better severance package. As a result, the remaining union workers are seeking support from customers and the public to continue their contract negotiations, and some customers are considering switching to alternative email providers.

In the year 2050, a new type of airliner is introduced that uses beamed power to fly, where microwave radiation is sent from the ground to the plane to power its engines, eliminating the need for fuel on board. While the idea seems outrageous, it may not be entirely crazy, as it could potentially solve the problem of decarbonizing aviation, which has been a major challenge for the industry.

The author predicts that the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) will lead to a significant shift in the software development industry, where LLMs will write most of the code, making junior developers less marketable and potentially leading to a market crash. To survive this change, junior developers should focus on gaining experience, learning algorithms, data structures, and software ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services suffered a data breach due to an employee falling victim to a push notification spamming attack, which may have compromised personal information of unknown individuals. The agency is providing affected individuals with one year of free identity monitoring services and has taken steps to disable the impacted email account and block suspicious emails.

Organize YouTube channels into custom lists for a curated viewing experience. Set custom notification schedules to receive updates on new videos and manage time effectively.

The paper discusses graph reordering to improve compression of graphs and inverted indexes, extending a recent theoretical model and proposing a novel algorithm based on recursive graph bisection. Experimental results show significant improvement in compression rate over existing heuristics, with efficient parallel and distributed implementations.

The Amish use technology selectively, rejecting some forms like TVs and personal computers, but adopting others like gas grills and farm equipment, to preserve their traditional way of life. They believe technology should be mastered, not controlled by outsiders, and have developed cultural adaptations to slow social change and keep worldliness at bay.

The internet's increasing bloat, driven by faster connections and larger websites, makes it inaccessible to those with slower connections and consumes more energy. To maintain the web's openness and participatory nature, it's essential to keep websites small and simple, allowing anyone to build and learn from them.

Venture capitalist Y Combinator and over 140 machine-learning startups signed an open letter opposing a proposed AI safety law in California, arguing it could stifle innovation and harm the state's tech economy. The law, California Senate Bill 1047, aims to impose guardrails and transparency requirements on large AI models, but the signatories claim the language is too vague and could be ...

Captain Hawkins, a skilled trader and linguist, played a crucial role in the British East India Company's early success, obtaining a warehouse concession in Surat and facilitating trade between England and the East Indies. The company's early leaders, including Hawkins, were driven by the possibility of extraordinary profits and were willing to take great risks to achieve them, a mindset that ...

Commodore 64 fans have successfully connected their 1982 computer to the internet using a WiC64 module and WiC64 software, allowing it to access online services like Google Maps and Google Street View. The project is a fun demonstration of the capabilities of old 8-bit computers, despite their limited graphics and processing power.

Jada Stratman, 25, moved into Culdesac, a car-free neighborhood in Tempe, Arizona, where she runs her candle business, Brite Candle Co., from a live-work space. She pays $1,472 in monthly rent and has access to amenities like a pool, gym, and e-bike, and has become less dependent on her car.