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Legalized sports gambling in the U.S. has led to increased financial strain, bankruptcy, and domestic violence, particularly among economically vulnerable households, prompting calls for its re-prohibition due to minimal tax benefits and ongoing illegal market activity. Despite its widespread legality in 38 states, the social and economic costs outweigh the revenue gains, suggesting that ...

PostgreSQL 17, the latest open source database, enhances performance, scalability, and developer experience with features like improved vacuum memory management, faster I/O, optimized query execution, and advanced JSON support. It also simplifies high availability and major version upgrades with logical replication improvements and introduces new tools for database maintenance and monitoring.

In 2024, researchers found Kia vehicles vulnerable to remote control via license plate, enabling unauthorized access to personal info and vehicle commands. Kia fixed the issue after being notified, and no malicious exploits occurred.

WordPress.org, led by Matt Mullenweg, has blocked WP Engine from accessing its resources due to legal disputes, preventing WP Engine customers from updating or installing themes and plugins, causing significant disruption and security concerns within the community. The conflict escalated after public criticisms and cease-and-desist letters were exchanged between Automattic and WP Engine over ...

hg absorb" and "git absorb" automate folding uncommitted changes into draft commits, enhancing version control workflows. They identify suitable commits for changes, create fixup commits, and integrate them automatically or via rebase.

Researcher discloses multiple critical vulnerabilities in CUPS-related software on Linux systems, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Despite extensive responsible disclosure efforts and significant real-world impact, the response from developers and CERT was largely dismissive, leading to frustration and public escalation by the researcher.

Tcl/Tk 9.0 introduces new features like full Unicode support, starkit-style app deployment, and modern event handling, while maintaining backward compatibility with select-based systems. It also offers partial SVG support for scalable widgets and themes.

LibGen, a long-running shadow library, faces a $30 million default judgment for copyright infringement after ignoring a lawsuit. Despite the ruling and broad injunction targeting third-party services, enforcing these measures against anonymous operators remains challenging.

The user reflects on the evolution of the iPhone and Rust, expressing initial excitement followed by disappointment over unmet potential and slow progress. They propose various improvements for Rust, including coroutines, function traits for effects, security capabilities to mitigate supply chain risks, and enhancements to Pin and raw pointer ergonomics.

After seven years of struggling with Google's changing API policies and security requirements, the developer of iA Writer for Android has decided to take the app offline due to unmanageable costs and bureaucratic hurdles. The decision was made in response to ongoing issues with device performance, piracy, and Google's favoritism towards larger partners, which have made it increasingly ...

The FTC exposed DoNotPay for deceiving consumers with false AI claims, leading to a $193,000 settlement and warnings to past subscribers. This action is part of the FTC's broader crackdown on deceptive AI practices to protect consumers and ensure fair business competition.

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Landsat 7, a USGS and NASA mission launched in 1999, provided crucial Earth imagery for 25 years despite equipment failures. Its data aided environmental studies and disaster response; Landsat Next aims to enhance these capabilities with improved resolution and faster updates.

NKRYPT, an intricate cryptography installation at Questacon in Canberra, designed by Stuart Kohlhagen in 2013, features unsolved ciphers on eight stainless steel pillars. The work includes various encryption methods like Caesar, Vigenere, and binary codes, with some solutions tied to Canberra's history and notable scientists.

The design of the polar star icebreaker was still incomplete as of july this year. bob greene: a lack of interest in acquiring foreign icybreakers has hurt the u.s. shipbuilding industry he says - offshore wind turbine installation, dredging... shackled to america's inefficient shipbuilder industry. greener, more efficient shipyards are needed to meet the needs of arctic nations

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X blocks links to a newsletter with alleged hacked Trump campaign research on JD Vance, suspending journalist Ken Klippenstein. Twitter's hacked materials policy, changed post-Musk acquisition, remains unclear in this context.

LWN.net, a subscriber-supported publication, requests support through subscriptions to maintain operations. Vanilla OS 2.0 "Orchid" is an immutable Linux distro for developers, shifting from Ubuntu to Debian Unstable, featuring easier installation of software from other distros and experimental Android app support via containerization and sandboxing.

To reduce drive noise in a Proxmox ZFS setup, consider reconfiguring the pool topology and increasing volblocksize. Optimal configurations include using four three-wide Z1 vdevs with 64KiB volblocksize or six two-wide mirrors for maximum performance and minimal noise.

Mathematics research, traditionally small-scale and expert-driven, faces challenges in large collaborations due to verification needs. Proof assistant languages like Lean offer a solution for modular, large-scale projects involving professionals, the public, and AI tools.

Cloudflare simplifies web tech adoption, enhancing speed and security with innovations like Zstandard compression, Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), HTTP/3 prioritization, and BBR congestion control, ensuring faster, more secure, and efficient web experiences. Zstandard, offering 42% faster compression than Brotli and 11.3% smaller file sizes than GZIP, alongside ECH for privacy and advanced ...

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Smart tvs implement a unique tracking approach called automatic content recognition (acr). we employ the analysis scripts to ex- tract relevant information and statistics from the captured network traffic. interestingly, the u.s. findings deviate from those of the uk, due to similarity of behaviors. future research can build on our findings by following the last heuristic in the previous ...

AWS Nitro Enclaves isolate sensitive workloads but have potential security pitfalls. This guide offers actionable insights for developers to secure enclaves, covering threat models, trust zones, virtual sockets, secure randomness, timing side-channel attacks, memory management, time sources, and cryptographic attestation.

A developer transitioned their personal website from Gatsby to Astro for better performance, reduced maintenance, and a more professional design. Astro's component-based design, simplified data handling, TypeScript support, and flexible framework integrations provided a smoother experience, despite minor challenges in styling and component conversion.

OpenAI faces significant leadership changes with key staff departures, including CTO Mira Murati, amid shifts towards a for-profit model under Sam Altman's vision, raising concerns about its future and partnerships. Analysts and experts question the company's stability and valuation amidst unreleased products, high operating losses, and increasing competition.

Nardwuar, a unique journalist known for his thorough research and quirky interview style, engages musicians with rapid-fire questions and surprises them with obscure personal facts, creating memorable and often humorous interactions. Despite facing challenges like long waits and unexpected reactions from interviewees, Nardwuar remains dedicated to uncovering unique stories and maintaining his ...

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Senior dev seeks motivation for hobby blog/website, unsure of content direction. Personal projects and online presence have historically aided career advancement through skill development and networking opportunities.

A network analysis of Italian music from 1902 to 2024 reveals dynamic eras and genre clusters, with Paolo Fresu identified as the most central artist, surpassing Gianni Maroccolo. The study, published in Applied Network Science, used data from Wikipedia and Discogs to map collaborations among nearly 2,500 bands.

Agile transitioned from an optional software development methodology in the early 2000s to an organization-wide practice, often viewed almost religiously. It emerged as an alternative to documentation-heavy approaches.

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