Apple is requiring Patreon to switch to their in-app purchase system by November 2024, which will affect creators' earnings and pricing. Patreon is offering tools to help creators navigate the change, including an optional price increase to offset Apple's 30% fee, and is providing support and resources to help creators migrate to subscription billing.

Antimemes are ideas that self-censor, making it difficult to share or remember, and anomalous antimemes are even harder to contain. The story "There Is No Antimemetics Division" explores the concept of antimemes and anomalies in a fictional setting, with bonus material featuring characters from the SCP Foundation wiki and the game Control.

SponsorBlock is an open-source browser extension and API that skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos, using a crowdsourced database of skip points. The extension has saved users a total of years and days of watching sponsors, with a leaderboard and open-source code available for anyone to view or host a mirror.

The author reflects on his varied career and life experiences, including his work as a handyman and lay minister, and shares his insights on the importance of "repair and remain" in relationships and life, rather than constantly seeking new solutions or escapes. He advises individuals to stay and work through the challenges and difficulties, rather than giving up or seeking a new start, and ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, citing the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general searches. The court found that geofence warrants are overly broad and invasive, and that police must have a specific user to be identified in a warrant, not just a temporal and geographic location.

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The author tries out WezTerm, a terminal emulator with a text-based config, and configures it to their liking, including customizing the appearance, keybindings, and multiplexing capabilities. The author shares their configuration setup and provides a guide on how to customize WezTerm, including using Lua scripting and WezTerm's API to create a personalized terminal experience.

A new report from NASA's Office of the Inspector General blames Boeing's mismanagement and inexperience for delays and cost overruns in the development of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B, which is intended to return Americans to the moon. The report criticizes Boeing's quality control practices, workforce training, and supply chain management, and recommends that NASA penalize the ...

Markus, a solo developer, uses Go for all tasks due to its simplicity, ease of use, and consistency, allowing him to focus on building software rather than managing multiple languages. He believes this approach enables him to be more productive and learn more deeply about the language, rather than spreading himself too thin across multiple programming languages.

The US government is launching an initiative called "Time Is Money" to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted memberships and recurring payment services, with new regulations and rules being rolled out across various industries. The effort aims to crack down on companies that waste consumers' time and money through paperwork, hold times, and other tactics, with some business ...

Blitz is a native HTML/CSS renderer built for the Dioxus Native project, replacing the JavaScript engine with a native Rust API for direct interaction with Rust reactivity/state management libraries. It's designed to render HTML and CSS, with a focus on simplicity and extensibility, and is currently experimental, not yet recommended for building apps.

Spice is a research project that aims to provide a low-overhead parallelism framework, allowing developers to add parallelism to their code without worrying about the overhead, and it achieves this by using a work-stealing fork/join model and a heartbeat scheduling mechanism. The project has been implemented in Zig and has shown promising results, but it still has some limitations and rough ...

Postgres.new is a browser-based Postgres sandbox that allows users to spin up unlimited databases with AI assistance, enabling features like CSV imports, chart generation, and ER diagram creation. The technology behind Postgres.new is PGlite, a WASM version of Postgres that can run directly in the browser, paired with a large language model (currently GPT-4o) that provides AI-driven ...

AMD gained share in data center and laptop CPU markets, but Intel still leads in desktops and overall units. AMD's success in servers, particularly high-end machines, is notable, with a 24.1% market share and higher average selling price than Intel's Xeon processors.

A 3D bookshelf displays ebooks from a Calibre library, using metadata and cover art to determine book height and thickness. Optional customization allows for variable-width books based on estimated page counts using the Count Pages Calibre plugin.

ParadeDB chose the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) due to its familiarity, future-proofing, and community-driven nature, which has helped the project gain traction, usage, and monetization opportunities. The AGPL license has also allowed ParadeDB to protect its intellectual property from cloud vendors and has been a key factor in the project's success, with 5K stars, 40K deployments, ...

The book "Nora's Compiler" provides a comprehensive guide to compiler design, covering topics from basic operators to advanced optimizations, with a focus on implementing a practical real-world language. The book is written in an accessible and engaging style, making it suitable for readers without a PhD in compilers.

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Haxe-based language for defining 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on a petition filed by NextNav Inc. to reconfigure the 902-928 MHz band (Lower 900 MHz Band) to enable the deployment of a 5G terrestrial positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) network that complements and backs up the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). The petition proposes a spectrum swap, increased flexibility, and ...

Pydantic's support for tagged unions allows for sum types in Python, enabling correct by construction design patterns and strict invariant enforcement, but also results in brittle and inflexible interfaces. The article demonstrates how to use Pydantic's features, including TypeAdapter, to create a sum type that can be deserialized from JSON and has a discriminator field to select the ...

A study tested 152 astrologers' ability to match people to their correct astrological charts, finding that they performed no better than random guessing, with even the most experienced astrologers getting less than 21% correct. Despite their confidence, astrologers had low agreement with each other on the correct charts, and no astrologer was able to get more than 5 out of 12 correct, failing ...

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Comma, a 21-person company, has refactored its teams to focus on research, openpilot, and operations, with a mission to ship AI products as consumer electronics. The company has shipped two products, 30 minor openpilot releases, and achieved profitability, with plans to improve the product and scale up production.

MVSplat is a model that predicts clean 3D Gaussians from sparse multi-view images, using a cost volume representation to localize Gaussian centers and learn other parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on RealEstate10K and ACID benchmarks with fast inference speed and fewer parameters than the latest state-of-the-art method.

The Hacker News (HN) community has had various search engines over the years, including early attempts by Jason Yan and Mike Cheng, and later ones like HNSearch and Algolia. These search engines have been built using various APIs, including Google's Custom Search Engine and Yahoo's search API, and have been well-received by the HN community, with some even being replaced by new versions.

The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is a mechanism in CPython that ensures only one thread executes Python bytecode at a time, but Python 3.13's free-threaded mode disables the GIL, allowing threads to run more concurrently. Disabling the GIL can significantly improve multi-threaded performance, but may degrade single-threaded and multi-process performance.

Paul Gerste's presentation at DEF CON 32 reveals vulnerabilities in database protocols, allowing SQL injection attacks through carefully crafted queries. To protect against these attacks, a size limit must be enforced on incoming requests, which can be challenging due to alternative paths and decompression considerations.

The Transformer model processes input text by converting it into numerical embeddings, which capture semantic meaning and position information, and then uses self-attention and multi-layer perceptron layers to generate predictions. The model's architecture includes tokenization, embedding, positional encoding, self-attention, and multi-layer perceptron layers, with advanced features like ...

Cloudflare has been experiencing an outage of its support services for Business and Pro customers since August 2nd, according to its status page. The user is seeking updates on the issue and recommendations on how to contact Cloudflare outside of its support portal.

The author discusses memoization schemes, including per-callsite memoization, and how it can be achieved using macros in languages like Janet. The author shares their experience of misunderstanding the quote-unquote pattern in Janet, which is used to pass values from compile-time to runtime.

Chrome's recent policy change to Manifest V3 will impact popular ad blocker uBlock Origin, which will be automatically disabled by Chrome updates, forcing users to find alternative ad blockers or browsers. uBlock Origin's developer has created a Manifest V3-compliant version, uBlock Origin Lite, but notes it's not a direct replacement and users will need to find a new content blocker that ...

DVUEFI is an exploitation toolkit and learning platform for UEFI firmware vulnerabilities, simulating real-world attacks and providing a catalog of documented vulnerabilities with exploitation methods and mitigation recommendations. The platform is deployable on Windows and Linux using QEMU, VMWare Workstation Player, and UEFITool, designed to help ethical hackers and security researchers ...

The author discusses the game Codenames and how it can be beaten by using side-channel information, such as the physical layout of the words on the board, rather than relying solely on word clues. The author also mentions other word-guessing games that they enjoy playing, including Montage, Decrypto, and Just One, and notes that some games have more replayability than others due to their ...

The author proposes a "BAM" method to address TypeScript type inference performance issues, which involves branching, adjusting, and measuring the impact of changes. The author uses the @arktype/attest library to benchmark the performance of different type inference scenarios and identifies areas for improvement, such as consolidating operator types into a union.

Researchers have successfully sent 20,000 entangled photons per second through a 34-km-long commercial fiber-optic network in New York City with a fidelity of 99%, a crucial step towards commercializing quantum networks. The achievement demonstrates a high-throughput, high-fidelity system using polarization entanglement, which is easier to measure and process in potential optical quantum ...

The paper presents a 3D Gaussian Splatting method for incremental 3D reconstruction using a single moving monocular or RGB-D camera, achieving state-of-the-art results in novel view synthesis, trajectory estimation, and reconstruction of tiny and transparent objects. The method utilizes direct optimization, geometric verification, and regularization to handle ambiguities and runs live at 3fps.

Creating an index in PostgreSQL with IF NOT EXISTS can lead to subtle issues in production environments, as it may silently complete while leaving behind an invalid index. A safer approach is to drop any existing index and recreate it, rather than relying on IF NOT EXISTS, to ensure valid indexes are created.

A researcher at the University of Edinburgh discovered a 13,000-year-old lunisolar calendar at Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, which records a major astronomical event, a comet strike that hit Earth. The calendar, marked on a pillar, confirms the date of the impact, which was previously disputed among academics.

The authors present a machine learning approach to automatically transliterate and segment Unicode cuneiform glyphs, achieving an accuracy of 97% on learned corpora and 70% or more on unlearned corpora. The model, called Akkademia, is publicly available and can be deployed online, as a Python package, or as a downloadable GitHub repository, with plans to expand and improve the online ...

Global temperatures have been above 1.5°C for 13 months, with a rapid recent rise, and are expected to continue rising due to feedbacks and El Niño events. The IPCC has failed to warn about the size of the temperature rise and its amplifying effects, such as Antarctic sea ice decline, which could lead to a catastrophic temperature rise by 2026.

Einstein's theory of relativity relied on tensors, which are mathematical objects that describe geometric relationships. Tensors can be thought of as arrays of numbers that store important data, but also have a deeper geometric meaning, making them a powerful tool in physics and other fields.

The paper discusses the importance of choosing elliptic curves for cryptographic use, highlighting the need to avoid implementation pitfalls and ensure the security of the curves. The authors propose the SafeCurves criteria, which require prime fields, special primes, and specific curve shapes, and argue that these criteria can help ensure the security of elliptic-curve cryptography.

Cancer incidence and mortality are rising in millennials and younger populations, with 17 types of cancer showing a higher risk for Gen X and Millennials compared to older generations. Early detection and screening are crucial, and young people need to be aware of their risk factors and take proactive steps to reduce their risk of cancer, including regular screenings and healthy lifestyle choices.

The author updated their Spotify app and found a new interface that made it difficult to find specific music, leading to frustration and a sense of being forced to listen to algorithmic recommendations. The author eventually deleted the app and switched to Apple Music, finding it to be a cleaner and more traditional listening experience.

David Rubino, a product manager for Firefox, discussed the concept of web apps on the desktop, including the ability to install any website as a web app, handle links to the website, and customize the experience. Users provided feedback and suggestions, including the need for a simple setup process, customizable themes, and the ability to manage web apps like separate applications.

Philadelphia's new mayor has ordered all municipal employees to return to the office five days a week, citing a leadership philosophy and a desire to make a more economically vibrant city. This change has upended the lives of employees who had grown accustomed to working from home, including Andrew DiDonato, who had to give up cherished family time and flexibility.

Emerson has acquired NI, combining their expertise in software-connected automated test and measurement systems. The merged company will continue to deliver innovative solutions, operate from Austin, Texas, and maintain customer relationships and engagement.

TP-LINK products contain software code subject to the GNU General Public License (GPL), and users can obtain machine-readable source code upon request. The GPL Code-Center provides a free download of GPL-licensed software source code for TP-LINK products, with no warranty or implied warranty.

The user shares their experiences with building small neural networks, including a VAE on MNIST and a game-playing AI, and discusses the importance of training data size. They also mention their current projects, including an autoencoder for visualizing transformer models, a Yahtzee-playing agent, and experimenting with vision models like Detectron 2.

The user experienced frustration with the new Tesla UI update, which hid the defroster icon behind the temperature indicator, requiring two taps to access instead of one. The user argues that this change increases cognitive load and makes it more difficult to access essential functions, particularly in high-stress situations like driving.

San Francisco is considering a ban on property management software that critics claim artificially raises rents and discourages competition. The software, used by companies like RealPage, allegedly shares non-public data to set rents and occupancy terms, contributing to double-digit rent increases and higher eviction rates.

The article explores the concept of the Faustian bargain, where individuals make a deal with the devil for knowledge, power, or other benefits, and how this theme has evolved over time in literature and culture. The author argues that the Faustian tale is a diabolically theological one, allowing cultures to project their anxieties and desires, and that today, we are all Faustians, making ...

The UN Cybercrime Convention aims to strengthen international cooperation for combating cybercrimes and sharing evidence, but critics argue it expands government surveillance powers, enables widespread personal data sharing, and criminalizes activities like hacking, whistleblowing, and security research. The treaty requires member states to adopt measures to freeze, seize, and confiscate ...

The chapter discusses the concept of categories, which are collections of objects and morphisms that can be composed in a way that is associative, and introduces the laws of identity and associativity as fundamental properties of categories. The author argues that these laws are necessary for categories to work effectively and provides examples of how they are used in programming and other ...

A study on unicorn founders found that 49% had STEM degrees, 50% had at least one serial founder, and 82% had at least one white founder in the US. The study also found that 62% of US unicorn founders were immigrants, with 1st gen immigrants building almost twice as many unicorns as 2nd gen in the EU.

The Apple Vision Pro, despite being a revolutionary device, has failed to meet expectations due to its high price, weight, and limited use cases, making it a niche product that is not yet ready for mainstream adoption. The device's limitations and high cost have led to a slow adoption rate, and it is unlikely to become a widely used device in the near future, despite Apple's significant ...

A-Alpha Bio is a biotech startup that has developed a method called AlphaSeq, which uses yeast cells to screen for protein-protein interactions at a large scale, with the potential to revolutionize the field of protein design and discovery. The company has already demonstrated the ability to generate millions of interactions per experiment and has partnerships with several major ...

FREST is a distributed architecture that allows for efficient function invocation by using triggers on relational stores, enabling parallelism and simplifying complex logic. This approach enables functional programming operations, reactive UIs, and custom API endpoints, making it a natural fit for expressing business logic in a relational manner.

In the 1970s, a Stanford professor and his students faced a conflict with the National Security Agency (NSA) over the publication of their research on cryptography, which the NSA feared would compromise national security. The dispute ultimately led to the democratization of cryptography, with the NSA adopting a voluntary system of pre-publication review and the academic community gaining more ...

Box2D version 3.0 has been released, featuring a new API, improved continuous collision and response, and enhanced performance through multithreading and SIMD. The new version also includes a new solver, Soft Step, and improved precision, making it suitable for simulations up to 20 kilometers in size.

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Jim Bunce and thousands of other homeowners are unable to sell or remortgage their properties due to the presence of spray-foam insulation, which is deemed to damage roof timbers and is now considered unsaleable. The government's endorsement of the insulation and lack of regulation in the industry have led to a situation where homeowners are left with costly removal bills and a loss of trust ...

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George Smith, a museum employee, discovered a clay tablet in 1872 that revealed the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, a prototype of the biblical flood story. Despite 152 years of efforts, about 30% of the epic remains missing, with many clay tablets unread and unpublished due to the limited number of cuneiform experts.

The author built a chatbot builder called Fastmind, overcoming challenges like scaling, security, and concurrency, and learned valuable lessons about solo development and prioritizing user feedback. The author shares their tech stack, architecture, and experiences, emphasizing the importance of launching a product early and iterating based on user feedback.

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OpenCost is an open-source project that provides real-time cost monitoring for Kubernetes environments, offering visibility to developers and companies on cloud-native application costs. The Headlamp plugin for OpenCost integrates cost data into the UI, allowing users to track costs and make informed decisions.

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CallistoScript is a low-level scripting language for Lua and other languages, part of the Callisto project. Example programs can be compiled and run from the examples folder, requiring the std submodule to be cloned recursively or updated.

Policymakers are trying to engineer higher birth rates to address demographic concerns, but experts argue that low or high birth rates are not the problem, and efforts to manipulate fertility are often coercive and inefficient. Instead, governments should focus on addressing social and economic problems directly through regulation and redistribution, rather than relying on pronatalist ...

Explore global wisdom in multiple languages, including English, French, German, and more. The app allows subscription and listening to podcasts directly from your phone via RSS feed, with no recording or storing of listening history.

NASA officials are deciding whether to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which has experienced thruster failures and helium leaks. The decision is crucial, as it will determine the safety of the spacecraft and the future of Boeing's Starliner program.

Neon and Supabase are two modern, serverless database platforms that offer robust features for managing Postgres instances, with Neon focusing on simplicity and cost-effectiveness and Supabase providing extensive features and flexibility. Both platforms offer various integrations, security features, and support options, making them suitable for different needs and use cases.

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Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Apache Airflow are integrated to enable generative AI models for data analytics, allowing for automated insights, data enrichment, and anomaly detection. New Airflow operators are added to interact with Vertex AI's generative models, enabling use cases such as targeted marketing, data cleansing, and anomaly detection for cost optimization.

I upgraded to an eSIM on O2, but encountered issues with no signal and the "SIM 2 not provisioned" notification, despite following installation steps. O2's system still registered my SIM as physical, and their solution was to wait 3-5 days for the process to time out, leaving me stuck in a tech limbo.

The UK Government is using artificial intelligence to answer taxpayer complaints, with an AI tool already in use at the Treasury and plans to expand to other departments. However, the Public and Commercial Services union has raised concerns about the tool's accuracy and potential misuse, citing the need for proper training and resources.

Imec is a research and innovation center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, with a team of 5,500 employees and research sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the USA. Imec's revenue in 2023 was 941 million euros, and it unites industry leaders across the semiconductor value chain and academia to drive innovation.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is a compact among states to award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most popular votes in the country, aiming to ensure that the president is elected by a national popular vote. The compact has been adopted by 17 states and the District of Columbia, representing 209 electoral votes, and is intended to come ...

The user wants to script an editor or IDE using a language they already work in, excluding Lua, Lisp, and Vimscript, and is interested in using Ruby, Python, Go, or Rust. They are open to exploring different options, including Neovim, Zed, Kakoune, and VSCode, and are looking for a scripting solution that allows them to use their everyday language.

Synnax is a platform that enables engineers to connect to sensors and actuators, stream telemetry, and query historical data for analysis, aiming to simplify the process of building custom software for hardware teams. The platform provides a bridge between specialized solutions like ROS and LabVIEW, and general-purpose tools like Apache Kafka and InfluxDB, with a source-available license and ...

Carl Zimmer's book "Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life" explores the fascinating world of E. coli, a bacterium that has been extensively studied by scientists to understand the fundamental rules of life, and how it has led to significant discoveries about genetics, gene expression, and the complexity of living organisms. Through his research, Zimmer reveals how E. coli's unique ...

Twitter is facing complaints from nine European countries for processing user data to train its AI chatbot without consent, with the Irish Data Protection Commission expressing surprise and noyb, a privacy rights nonprofit, calling for Twitter to fully comply with EU law. The complaints argue that Twitter's use of a "legitimate interest" legal basis is insufficient and that users should be ...

Recent research suggests that the abandonment of the Cahokia Mounds around 1400 was not due to drought-induced crop failure, but rather social factors and external pressures. The study found that the Cahokians likely had the skills to mitigate environmental challenges, and their departure was likely a gradual process driven by factors such as kinship ties and economic opportunities.

You've used English as a second language for years but are unfamiliar with a specific word, possibly due to your focus on PHP/Laravel/Eloquent or language changes. You've also noticed how technology affects language, citing an example of children in Portugal adopting the Brazilian variant of Portuguese.

The design space of wikis involves various axes, including mixin, hierarchy, type, and plain text, which can be combined in different ways to create a wiki system. The advantages of plain text wikis include ease of editing, portability, and flexibility, while the disadvantages include limitations in formatting and linking, but these can be mitigated by using a wiki compiler and a custom ...

Webstudio allows designers to paste Webflow elements and automatically converts them into components and styles, saving hours of work. The platform also supports copying and pasting entire pages, templates, and components, including responsive styles and breakpoints, with minimal effort.

A new method is introduced to detect long-duration gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals, improving gravitational wave detection research. Women with severe mental illness face challenges accessing reproductive health services, highlighting public and global health concerns.

CVBasic is a BASIC language cross-compiler that can create programs up to 1 MB for various retro consoles and computers, including Colecovision, MSX, and SG1000. The compiler has limitations and bugs, but is still useful for developing games, and the author welcomes donations and bug reports.

Preliminary data shows a 6% decline in violent crime among 69 major US cities in the first half of 2024, with some cities experiencing drops of over 25%. The decline in violent crime puts a dent in Trump's crime narrative and gives Vice President Kamala Harris a strong defense against attacks from the right on crime.

The author argues that breaking, also known as breakdancing, does not belong in the Olympics and that its inclusion is a co-opting of a countercultural art form. The author believes that breaking is a powerful and physical art form that doesn't need Olympic validation and that there are better ways to reach a new audience than through the Olympics.

Cloudflare announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, and has seen over 113,000 zones activate the new protocol, with experimental browsers able to access these zones. The company has also seen improvements in performance, with HTTP/3 offering increased speed and reduced latency, and is working to further optimize the protocol and support its adoption in mainstream browsers.

The development of the Perfected Phonograph in 1888 marked the beginning of recording technologies entering the lives of the general population, but the industry struggled to develop a reliable method for duplicating recordings until the early 1900s. The early recording industry was characterized by unique, hand-crafted recordings and the use of multiple phonographs to produce copies, with ...

Users are reporting various issues with Google services, including Chrome browser, Google Maps, Google+, Gmail, and more, with some experiencing problems for months. The issues range from connectivity issues to account syncing problems, with some users unable to access their business pages or use custom sound effects.

Genie is the best AI software engineer in the world by far - achieving a 30% eval score on the industry standard benchmark SWE-Bench. Genie is able to solve bugs, build features, refactor code, and everything in between either fully autonomously or paired with the user, like working with a colleague, not just a copilot.

The article discusses various methods to model a user-defined order of items in SQL, considering efficiency, robustness, and elegance, and concludes that using the rational type provides a robust and efficient solution. The rational type, a new base type for PostgreSQL, performs exact fractional arithmetic and uses exactly 64 bits per fraction, allowing for precise calculations and avoiding ...

The user conducted a benchmark comparing jQuery and ES6 and found that while ES6 has closed the gap, jQuery's value lies in its functional approach and chaining capabilities, making it a faster development tool. The user invites others to improve the ES6 code to match their claims and warns that misinformed opinions about jQuery's obsolescence could lead to incorrect recommendations.

The article provides a comprehensive guide on how to take high-quality photographs of CRT monitors, including setting up the camera, calibrating exposure and white balance, and processing the images using Darktable. The guide covers topics such as avoiding moire patterns, defocusing the lens, and adjusting the camera's settings to capture accurate colors and shadows.

Social norms around sharing personal information have evolved over time, from strict etiquette rules to a more relaxed approach. Today, individuals are navigating their own boundaries and seeking to reinstall some boundaries in the face of oversharing and the blurring of personal and professional spaces.

Bharti Enterprises, owned by billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal, has acquired a 24.5% stake in BT Group from Altice for £4 billion, making it the largest shareholder in the UK telecoms giant. The move is seen as a vote of confidence in BT's long-term strategy and growth prospects, and Bharti has no intention of making a bid to acquire the company.

I built a device, called Strofara, that plays a phrase "Wow, what a turn, come on Giorgi!" when taking a turn, inspired by a Greek meme video. It uses an accelerometer, ESP8266, and MP3 player to detect turns and play the audio, with a custom enclosure and open-source code.

Google's delay in deprecating cookies may lead AdTech companies to assume they can wait, but it's crucial to develop a strategy for a cookie-less world, as 47% of the open internet is already unaddressable. Aerospike's packaged cloud solution for entity resolution and scalable multi-model database can help AdTech firms create a unified, accurate, and consistent representation of entities, ...

Apple is requiring Patreon to switch to their in-app purchase system by November 2024, which will affect creators' earnings and pricing. Patreon is offering tools to help creators navigate the change, including an optional price increase to offset Apple's 30% fee, and is providing support and resources to help creators migrate to subscription billing.

The US government conducted numerous human experiments during the Cold War era, involving imported Nazi scientists, to advance its military capabilities and understand the effects of radiation on human beings, often without informed consent and with harmful consequences for the subjects. These experiments included biological agent testing, large-population and open-air testing, and radiation ...

Software Playlists: 'cosin2024' videos starting here / audio Scripting is a central part of how Bitcoin transactions work, so it is interesting to investigate real scripts from the blockchain for fun and profit. Scripting is a central part of how Bitcoin transactions work, so it is interesting to investigate real scripts from the blockchain for fun and profit.

A Northwestern University study found a decline in three key intelligence testing categories, known as the Reverse Flynn Effect, with scores in verbal reasoning, matrix reasoning, and letter and number series decreasing, but spatial reasoning scores increasing. The reasons for the decline are unclear, with hypotheses including a shift in societal values, falling nutritional standards, and ...