AT&T has disclosed a data breach affecting 110 million customers, with stolen data including phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data. The breach occurred when an unknown cybercriminal group stole data from Snowflake, a cloud data giant, and AT&T is working with law enforcement to arrest the perpetrators.

Crafting Interpreters is a comprehensive guide to designing and building a full-featured scripting language, covering high-level concepts and gritty details. The book helps you build a language with rich syntax, dynamic typing, and advanced features from scratch, with clean and fast code that you write yourself.

The py-free-threading.github.io website has launched, providing documentation and a status tracker for the rollout of free-threaded Python support across open-source projects in the Python ecosystem. The effort aims to make it easier to write parallel code and utilize multiple CPU cores, but requires addressing thread-safety issues and ABI incompatibilities in the wider ecosystem.

Tau is a framework for building low-maintenance, highly scalable cloud computing platforms that requires minimal configuration and no external dependencies. It simplifies infrastructure management, enables local coding equals global production, and provides a developer-friendly experience through its built-in auto-discovery, content-addressing, and plugin system.

AT&T disclosed a data breach exposing phone call and text records for nearly all its 110 million customers, with the stolen data including location information that could be used to determine the approximate location of the customer device. The breach occurred in April and was delayed in reporting due to "national security and public safety concerns," with the FBI confirming it asked AT&T to ...

The author shares a surprising discovery that S3 can be used as a container registry, allowing for faster upload speeds compared to traditional container registries like ECR. By exposing an S3 bucket through HTTP and uploading image files to specific paths, users can pull and run container images from the bucket's URL.

The ARC firmware is a low-level firmware for New World Power Macintosh systems using the Gossamer architecture, allowing installation of NT4 and potentially other operating systems. The process involves booting from a CD, running the firmware setup, partitioning the disk, and installing NT4, with notes on potential issues and workarounds for bugs and compatibility issues.

Recent tech layoffs demonstrate that employees are considered disposable by executives, regardless of company profitability or individual performance. This mindset is perpetuated by companies prioritizing executive profits over employee well-being, leaving employees feeling disposable and undervalued.

The author optimized their Syzygy tablebase server's performance by using dm-integrity on LVM, reducing tail latencies and improving response times. They also implemented parallelism, memory mapping, and SSD caching to further optimize the server's performance.

Physicists are investigating the "gallium anomaly", a mystery that has persisted for decades, where experiments have consistently produced fewer germanium atoms than expected, with possible explanations including the existence of a new type of neutrino called a sterile neutrino. Despite ruling out several possible explanations, the anomaly remains unsolved, leaving scientists puzzled and ...

The author wrote a fast interpreter for the Uxn CPU in assembly, achieving a 10-20% speedup over the reference implementation by keeping critical values in registers and using threaded code. The implementation uses 9 registers, a jump table, and macros to generate code for each opcode, and is optimized for performance on an M1 Macbook.

CISA's red team exercise at a federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings, including an unpatched vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, which led to a full compromise of the agency's network. The exercise highlighted the importance of defense-in-depth principles, network segmentation, and secure-by-design practices to prevent similar breaches, and also emphasized the need for ...

Mazeppa is a supercompiler that transforms a given program into a more efficient residual program by analyzing and optimizing its execution patterns. It uses a combination of techniques such as function unfolding, pattern matching, and algebraic simplification to achieve this, and provides a flexible interface for users to customize the compilation process.

The author created a custom microcomputer, the Floppy8, which fits inside a floppy drive and plays 4K movies and games on custom cartridges with wireless controllers and status lights. The project involved designing and 3D printing various parts, including internal brackets, drive mechanisms, and a servo to eject the cartridges, and required overcoming numerous challenges and setbacks along the way.

The AuraFlow model series is a new open-source flow-based generation model capable of text-to-image generation, marking a reaffirmation of the open-source community's resilience and determination. The model's development involved collaborative efforts, optimized training, and innovative techniques, resulting in a 6.8B parameter model that achieves a GenEval score of 0.703 with ...

Alderon Games' Path of Titans game experiences significant crashes and instability on 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs, despite updates, and the company advises against using these processors for hosting servers. The issue is widespread, with a 100% failure rate observed in testing, and the company is migrating to AMD servers, which experience fewer crashes.

GE Aerospace successfully demonstrated a new hypersonic dual-mode ramjet, exceeding performance expectations and achieving a threefold increase in airflow. The achievement marks a milestone in GE Aerospace's hypersonic programs and paves the way for continued testing and technology demonstration.

Dropbase is a web app builder that uses AI to generate code, allowing developers to quickly build and prototype web apps with flexibility and customization. It combines a drag-and-drop interface with code editing, and requires Docker installation and an OpenAI or Anthropic API key for AI features.

The article discusses the challenges of creating responsive and accessible data visualizations, particularly bar charts, using SVG and JavaScript, and explores the possibility of achieving this with HTML and CSS alone. The authors share their experience in creating responsive bar charts using HTML and CSS, highlighting the benefits of using declarative layouts and bidirectional positioning ...

LLDAP is a lightweight authentication server that provides a simplified LDAP interface for authentication and user management, integrating with various backends and offering a web frontend for easy user management. It can be run as a Docker container and supports various databases, including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, with a default configuration file and environment variables for customization.

Goldman Sachs' research paper questions the economic viability of generative AI, citing "little to show for" the huge spending on infrastructure and questioning whether it will ever pay off. The report suggests that investors may continue to get rich despite concerns, but notes that the stock price gains are based on assumptions that generative AI will lead to higher productivity, which may ...

Gemini Pro has no issue generating commands for any CLI tool, except for yt-dlp. The worst part is that the LLM will start generating a correct response and then flash and say "nvm, can't do it". Do better .

The author describes a high-performance solution to calculate the sum of 50 million ASCII-encoded integers uniformly sampled from [0, 2^31-1], using SIMD instructions and a novel approach to initializing lookup tables. The solution iterates over 32-byte chunks of the input, tracking the sum of digits in each decimal place, and then multiplies these sums with powers of ten to produce the final result.

The user is concerned that GitHub's features, particularly the blame view, are declining due to a frontend rewrite in React, which affects usability and functionality. The user is considering exploring alternative platforms and tools, as they no longer feel that GitHub prioritizes the features that matter most to them.

Daminik ist ein einfacher und skalierbarer Digital Asset Manager mit integriertem Content Delivery Network. Die Single Source of Truth für alle deine Assets. Open Source, blitzschnell und DSGVO-konform. In der Alpha-Phase und für den persönlichen Gebrauch kostenlos. Die Preise für Teams werden in der Beta-Phase bekannt gegeben.

EvolutionaryScale, a company using AI to create new proteins, has developed a protein language model called ESM3, which can create proteins to specifications and has been used to create a new fluorescent molecule. The company has received $142 million in funding to apply its model to drug development, sustainability, and other pursuits, and has released an open-source version of ESM3 for ...

CEL is a lightweight, non-Turing complete language for expression evaluation, designed for simplicity, speed, and safety. It has a C-like syntax and can be used to evaluate expressions, with a parser and interpreter included in the project.

Guillaume Lethière was a French artist of mixed-race origins who navigated the tumultuous period of French history, including the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power, while also grappling with his own complicated identity. An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the Louvre in Paris explores Lethière's life and art, showcasing his neoclassical ...

Arm Accuracy Super Resolution (Arm ASR) is an open-source solution for upscaling on mobile devices, derived from AMD's FSR2, offering improved GPU performance and power savings. Arm ASR is now available under an MIT open-source license, allowing developers to experiment with their own projects and enjoy longer battery life and higher-quality graphics.

The article discusses the importance of writing good commit messages in Git, including the benefits of atomic commits, well-documented PR/MR descriptions, and using conventional commits with semantic-release. It also shares personal experiences and tips for maintaining a clean and understandable commit history, including the use of git reflog, squash-merge, and fixup commits.

Despite the relatively small size of the cryptocurrency industry, cryptocurrency-focused PACs are among the most well-funded this election cycle.

WildGaussians, a novel approach, handles occlusions and appearance changes in 3D scene reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting, achieving state-of-the-art results. It matches 3DGS's real-time rendering speed while surpassing both 3DGS and NeRF baselines in handling in-the-wild data within a simple framework.

The user has created a set of install scripts for Windows that helps people install various programming languages using standard tools, aiming to provide a simplified and standardized developer environment for Windows users. The scripts use PowerShell to create a GUI meta-installer that installs packages from choco and winget, and can be customized to install specific languages and tools, ...

The StorageReview Lab Team has set a new world record by calculating pi to 202,112,290,000,000 digits, surpassing the previous record of 105 trillion digits, using a highly advanced setup with Intel Xeon 8592+ CPUs and Solidigm P5336 61.44TB NVMe SSDs. The team's achievement showcases the capabilities of modern high-performance computing and storage technology, highlighting the importance of ...

StreamVC is a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves speech content and prosody while matching target voice timbre, producing a resulting waveform at low latency. It leverages the SoundStream neural audio codec architecture and training strategy for lightweight high-quality speech synthesis, making it suitable for real-time communication scenarios.

Stack Overflow is changing the data dump process, moving it from Archive.org to a section of the Stack Exchange profile, to encourage commercial partners to give back to the community and to make the process more efficient. The change will not be ready until mid-August, and users will only be able to access the data dump for the specific site they have an account on, with the option to ...

The user values reading but struggles to focus due to attention deprivation, relying on the scrollbar to gauge page length. They request that content creators restore the scrollbar's accuracy by loading content eagerly or providing alternative indicators of page length, such as a "minutes to read" metric.

The concept of primary colors is not fixed and can vary depending on the medium, with different colors being considered primary in painting, printing, and computer graphics. The human brain plays a significant role in perceiving color, with the way colors are perceived being influenced by context, physiology, and psychology, making color theory a complex and multifaceted field.

The methodology involves iteratively identifying and rejecting illusions, optimizing solutions, and coding, until the problem is solved. It was developed by Charles Moore, who applied it to programming, hardware, and software, and declared the programming problem solved after 20 years of iteration.

As a freelancer, you completed a project outside of your usual platforms, but the client is refusing to pay the final invoice despite a clear agreement and delivered work. You're seeking advice on handling the situation, legal actions, and securing payment upfront in future projects.

You're a talented designer of custom concert visuals, seeking to transition from a side hustle to a full-time business, and need guidance on next steps. You're considering options such as finding a rep, reaching out to business managers, or partnering with someone to land bigger projects, and also weighing the pros and cons of annual membership fees and online shops for your VJ packs.

Deno 1.45 introduces workspaces, which simplify dependency management, configuration sharing, and module organization across large codebases, and also includes improvements to Node.js compatibility, updates to deno install, and more. The release also adds support for lifecycle scripts, improves compatibility with the wider ecosystem, and includes various other features and bug fixes.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffered an upper stage engine failure during its Starlink 9-3 mission, deploying 20 satellites into a perilously low orbit. The failure marks the first blemish on the Falcon 9's record in over 300 missions, and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the malfunction.

Just append #page=X to your URL, where X is a placeholder for the page you want to link to. For example, the following link should jump you to page 70 of the Raspberry Pi Pico getting started guide. You should see a section titled Debug with a second Pico: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/pico/getting-started-with-pico.pdf#page=70

Dravid is an AI-powered CLI coding framework that streamlines development by leveraging artificial intelligence for tasks like project setup, code generation, and file management. It can be used to add features or functionalities to a project, and is licensed under the MIT License, with contributions welcome.

AT&T revealed a massive data breach exposing call and text records of tens of millions of customers, including non-AT&T customers, between May 2022 and October 2022. The exposed data includes phone numbers, call logs, and interaction records, but does not include call or text content, and AT&T claims it is not publicly available.

Koel is a modern music player with advanced features like FLAC support, cross-device sync, and equalizer settings, offering a clean and intuitive interface. It's fast, customizable, and integrates with popular services like Last.fm, Spotify, and YouTube to provide a comprehensive music library experience.

PC-BASIC is a free and open-source software that runs classic games and legacy BASIC applications designed for MS-DOS systems. It aims for bug-for-bug compatibility with Microsoft GW-BASIC and supports various file formats for data interchangeability.

Smelt is a task runner optimized for chip development workflows, allowing users to define test variants, run them in parallel, and analyze results. It provides simple workflows for local and distributed compute contexts, with a focus on electronic design automation (EDA) and unifying best practices for testing infrastructure.

A 14-year-old Android app, "Is It Tuesday?", was killed by Google overnight due to its lack of functionality, despite being a simple and fun app that brought joy to users. The author reflects on the experience, lamenting the loss of the app and the freedom of the open web, and concludes that the free web remains the most open and versatile distribution channel for software and information.

The General Computer Control (GCC) setting proposes a unified interface for foundation agents to interact with software through screenshots and keyboard/mouse actions, enabling them to generalize across various virtual scenarios. The Cradle framework, a modular and flexible LMM-powered framework, demonstrates remarkable generalizability and impressive performance in interacting with software ...

The internet is flooded with low-quality, SEO-optimized content written by underpaid writers, making it hard to find genuine and high-quality blogs. To stand out, one should write like a human being, creating something worth reading rather than chasing cheap impressions.

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A fleet of drones patrolling New York City's beaches to detect sharks and distressed swimmers has drawn backlash from local shorebirds, including American oystercatchers, which have repeatedly swarmed the devices. Wildlife experts are concerned about the impact on threatened species nesting along the coast, and officials are adjusting flight plans to minimize disturbance to the birds.

Thunderbird 128 "Nebula" is an Extended Support Release that brings significant improvements to code, stability, user experience, and speed, including Rust integration, Cards View refinement, and improved theme compatibility. The release also introduces new features like account color customization, streamlined menu navigation, and native Windows notifications, with more updates and features ...

The author, a software developer, has decided to abandon his desktop app, Bingo Card Creator, in favor of a web-based version, citing the latter's superior sales, conversion rates, and customer support experience. Despite his personal preference for desktop apps, the author has concluded that the cumulative advantages of the web app, including its ease of use, scalability, and analytics ...

The German Navy is modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates by replacing 8-inch floppy disks with an onboard emulation system, citing reliability concerns. The project, worth around $436 million, is expected to start in October 2023 and end in July 2025, with the frigates set to remain in service until 2031.

The author discusses the art of cloud spotting and its connection to childhood, nostalgia, and the human experience, using examples from various video games to illustrate the different types of clouds and their characteristics. The article also explores the relationship between clouds and climate change, as well as the role of clouds in shaping our emotions and perceptions of the world around us.

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington have launched a new company, Thrive AI Health, which aims to use OpenAI's technology to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, but the company's ambitious plans and lack of concrete details have raised concerns about data privacy and the potential for exploitation. The article questions whether the company's faith-based approach to AI ...

The author, a cosmologist, explores the decline of public trust in science and proposes ways to rebuild it, including addressing the pressure to publish and the lack of transparency in scientific methods. The reliance on computer software in modern science makes it difficult to detect fraud and errors, as code is often not publicly available and peer review is no longer effective in ...

The court grants a preliminary and permanent injunction against the enforcement of 26 U.S.C. § 5601(6) and 26 U.S.C. § 5178(a)(1)(B), which prohibit the distillation of spirits at home for personal consumption, finding that these provisions exceed Congress's enumerated powers and are not authorized by the Commerce Clause. The court holds that the government's attempt to regulate home ...

The post reviews how to configure a Raspberry Pi image for hardware reverse engineering, including setting up a USB Ethernet gadget for SSH access and enabling common interfaces like SPI, UART, and I2C. The post also covers interacting with the OLED screen and device tree overlays, and installing Jupyter notebooks for teaching and demonstrating hardware hacking concepts.

OpenAI's safety team felt pressured to rush testing of its new AI model, GPT-4 Omni, to meet a May launch date, despite concerns about the technology's potential harm. The incident raises questions about the company's prioritization of commercial interests over public safety and the federal government's reliance on self-policing by tech companies to protect the public from AI risks.

Lobsters has been using Libera Chat for 9 years, discussing IRC's limitations and considering alternatives like Discord. The user highlights IRC's structural problems, including stalled feature development due to consensus issues, and suggests a process for sustaining consensus over revisions.

System76 is working on COSMIC, a Rust-written Linux desktop environment, and aims to release an alpha version before the end of July. The latest updates include features like customizable shortcuts, display mirroring, and improved performance, as well as bug fixes for gaming and multi-GPU systems.

The Checkly team optimized their pod startup times by reducing the size of their AWS SDK package, fixing a versioning issue that caused slow startup times, and implementing a log-based observability technique to measure and track startup times. This optimization resulted in a 300ms reduction in startup time, leading to a 25% reduction in pods and a monthly cost savings of $5.5k.

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Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, had an affair with Marcy Simon, a public relations executive, while both were married. The affair ended in a confidential settlement in 2014, but the deal imploded and led to years of wrangling, including accusations of fraud against Simon.

Hackers stole six months' worth of call and text records from nearly every AT&T customer, including phone numbers, but not content or personal information. The breach, considered a "megabreach," has the potential to reveal sensitive information about millions of Americans and is being investigated by the Justice Department, FBI, and FCC.

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Apple has agreed to provide developers with its NFC technology and access to iOS features, ending a four-year EU antitrust investigation and avoiding a potential $40 billion fine. The agreement allows third-party wallets to be default apps and opens up competition in the mobile payments sector, giving consumers more options.

Google's dominance over Chromium raises concerns about prioritizing interests over users', as seen in the Web Topics API. The web is evolving towards web apps, with native apps becoming less relevant, and everything becoming a service, leading to concerns about user experience and control.

The European Commission has warned Elon Musk's social media platform X of potential fines up to 6% of its turnover for deceiving users into engaging with harmful content. The EU regulators are concerned about X's use of blue check marks for verified accounts, which they believe misleads users into thinking such accounts are safe.

Large language models (LLMs) excel in familiar scenarios but struggle in novel ones, suggesting they rely more on memorization than true reasoning abilities. The study found that LLMs' performance drops significantly in unfamiliar counterfactual scenarios, indicating a lack of generalizable skills and overfitting to training data.

Carbon monoxide inhalation, a technique that can increase athletic performance, is being explored by some professional cycling teams, despite concerns about its potential risks and ethical implications. While the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has not banned the practice, experts warn that its use could lead to serious health problems or even death, and that it may not be long before ...

A special 10th anniversary edition of "What If?" is coming in November 2024, featuring revised and annotated content with new illustrations. The xkcd website has specific viewing requirements, including a specific browser and settings, and allows copying and sharing of comics but not selling them.

The SIGPLAN Software Award recognizes software systems that have had a significant impact on programming language research, implementations, and tools, with past winners including Rust, OCaml, CompCert, WebAssembly, Pin, Scala, Racket, V8, Z3, GCC, Coq, Jikes RVM, and LLVM. The award is presented annually at the SIGPLAN's PLDI conference and is given to the developers of software systems that ...

The website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks and has blocked the user's action. The user can email the site owner to report the block and include details of what they were doing when the page came up.

A new survey shows that a helium reservoir in northern Minnesota is larger than initially estimated, with higher helium concentrations than previously thought. The discovery could help address global helium shortages and provide a reliable source of the gas, which is in high demand for various industries.

Intro is a platform that connects entrepreneurs with experts, including venture capitalists, coaches, and designers, for paid consultations, with prices ranging from $79 to $11,699. The platform has gained popularity, with over 30,000 sessions completed and a waitlist of 14,000 people applying to become consultants, despite some critics arguing that the transactional model goes against the ...

The COPIED Act aims to protect journalists and artists from AI models using their work without consent by creating standards for authenticating and detecting AI-generated content. The bill, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, would also prohibit AI tools from removing or tampering with content origin information and allow content owners to sue for unauthorized use.

Space junk from SpaceX's Crew Dragon missions is falling to Earth, with fragments found in Saskatchewan, North Carolina, and Australia, posing a risk of serious injury or death. The lack of controlled re-entries and reckless behavior by space companies and governments must be addressed to prevent disasters, with regulations and lawsuits needed to ensure safety and accountability.

MicroPython is a Python-based programming language for microcontrollers that provides a high-level, interactive, and easy-to-use interface for developing projects, making it accessible to beginners and experts alike. While some critics argue that MicroPython has lowered the barrier to entry too much, making it difficult for users to learn about the underlying hardware and electronics, others ...

Flow Computing claims its PPU technology optimizes CPU tasks, boosting performance by up to 100x.

Microsoft has become the world's most valuable company thanks to its AI efforts, and Mozilla is testing an AI chatbot integration for Firefox, allowing users to opt-in and choose their preferred chatbot. The feature is currently available in the Nightly build of Firefox and can be enabled through the settings menu, allowing users to summarize text and more using the right-click context menu.

A web advertising company, Web Orange Limited, has recreated classic tech blogs like TUAW and iLounge using AI-generated content and fake author names, including those of former writers. The company has been accused of reusing photos of real people without permission and has changed the owner's name from Haider Ali Khan to "Mary Brown" after a former writer threatened legal action.

California grape growers are facing an existential crisis due to a wine sales malaise, with many struggling to sell their grapes and some vineyards being abandoned. The industry is also dealing with a structural problem of over-planting red grapes, which are harder to sell, and a lack of alternatives for farmers who want to exit the grape business.

The author discusses the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python, which limits the performance of multi-threaded, CPU-bound programs, and proposes a method to measure the impact of the GIL using eBPF and uprobes. The method involves attaching uprobes to the `take_gil` function and recording the time spent acquiring the GIL, allowing for the measurement of the additional latency introduced by the GIL.

The user's mailing list has grown to 48 subscribers and they are working on shipping SD cards to customers instead of electronic devices. They are researching ways to protect the SD cards in transit, considering using "gummy glue" to attach them to a letter, and planning to launch their e-commerce store on September 5, 2024.

The hive plot is a visualization method for networks that maps nodes to linear axes based on network structural properties, allowing for the detection of emerging patterns and the comparison of different networks. Unlike traditional hairball layouts, hive plots are tunable, rational, and founded on network structure, making them ideal for visualizing large networks and identifying meaningful ...

Former OpenAI employee William Saunders quit due to concerns the company prioritizes product development over safety, likening it to the Titanic's tragic fate. The analogy raises questions about the potential existential threat of AI and whether OpenAI's focus on profit over safety will lead to disaster.

Researchers used a global network of flux towers to isolate the effect of carbon dioxide on forest productivity, finding a 16% increase in gross primary productivity per 100 ppm CO2. This result provides a benchmark for evaluating and improving climate models, which can help accurately track the fate of future fossil fuel emissions and climate responses.

Scientists have sequenced the oldest high-quality human genome yet, a 200,000-year-old male Denisovan genome, which reveals a distinct population of early Denisovans that interbred with Neanderthals. The new genome provides insights into the mysterious Denisovans, including their interactions with Neanderthals and modern humans, and suggests they were replaced in the cave by Neanderthals ...

AT&T announced that a hacker stole records of calls and texts from nearly all of its wireless customers, but the data does not contain personal information. The company has taken additional cybersecurity measures and is working with law enforcement to arrest those involved, and does not believe the data is publicly available.

Researchers have developed a robot controlled by a mini-brain, a cultured brain grown in vitro, which can learn to navigate and interact with its environment through a brain-on-chip interface. The mini-brain, grown under low-intensity focused ultrasound stimulation, provides a more complex neural network and can be integrated with artificial intelligence algorithms to control the robot's ...

The author believes that building "superknowledge" is more pressing than building superintelligence, as current knowledge systems are inadequate and can hinder progress and safety. They are working on building a comprehensive knowledge system at Exa, which they believe will be a game-changer for accelerating human progress and ensuring safety.

Windows 9X is a simulacrum of an OS from the 90s but all applications are generated using AI. Windows 9X leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, SawyerSoft IntelliOptimize™, to optimize user experience and drive unparalleled operational efficiency.

Mesop, a Python UI framework, has launched experimental support for Web Components, aiming to simplify front-end development and reduce complexity. The framework allows for rapid prototyping and fine-grained UI control, making it a promising alternative to traditional front-end development.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore may have to stay on the International Space Station until mid-August due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner capsule. Engineers are working to resolve problems with faulty thrusters and helium leaks, and NASA is following a standard process to ensure the capsule's safety before allowing it to return to Earth.

React is a popular choice for front-end applications due to its massive community and popularity, and understanding how it works is essential for effective use. Five principles for new React programmers include using custom hooks, understanding state changes, managing state with useState and useReducer, and utilizing useRef for non-rendering values.

Microsoft has been banning the accounts of Palestinians living abroad who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza, with some users losing access to their email accounts and online services for over a decade. Microsoft claims the bans are due to suspected fraudulent activity, but users and experts argue that the company may be falsely labeling them as Hamas and that the bans are a violation of ...

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The author is taking a year to focus on building 12 different foundations, including fitness, productivity, healthy eating, reading, relationships, sleep, writing, reflection, and service, with the goal of creating a strong foundation for a meaningful life. The author believes that by focusing on each foundation for a month, and then maintaining good habits throughout the year, individuals ...