Netflix acquires Warner Bros. in a $82.7 billion deal, combining iconic franchises and libraries. The acquisition creates a stronger entertainment industry with more choice and value for consumers.
Cloudflare offers a unified platform with over 60 cloud services for network modernization and security. It provides Zero Trust solutions, WAF, DDoS protection, and ultra-fast CDN for accelerated performance and security.
Cloudflare experienced a 25-minute outage on December 5, 2025, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic due to a bug in its rules module. The issue was caused by a change to its body parsing logic to mitigate a React Server Components vulnerability.
Gemini 3 Pro is a multimodal model that excels in document, spatial, screen, and video understanding with state-of-the-art performance. It can accurately detect and recognize text, tables, math formulas, and figures in real-world documents.
Netflix uses AV1, a modern open video codec, to deliver high-quality streaming to its members, achieving 30% viewing share and reducing bandwidth consumption. AV1's superior compression efficiency and features like HDR and film grain synthesis enhance the streaming experience, with AV2 on the horizon to further improve streaming capabilities.
A secretive alliance of 11 US-based multinational enterprises, including Chevron and ExxonMobil, is working to dilute the EU's human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The companies are using lobbying and PR tactics to influence EU institutions and governments to serve their interests.
A company had significant technical debt due to outdated code and lack of unit tests. A project to port Windows-only modules to Linux only addressed symptoms, not the underlying people problems that created the debt.
BMW PHEV owners face high costs due to over-engineered diagnostic procedures and expensive replacement parts. This results in unnecessary waste and increased CO2 footprint.
The UniFi 5G Max lineup delivers a sleek, powerful 5G internet experience with easy deployment and flexible placement. It offers dual SIM capabilities, ultra-low latency, and WAN flexibility with UniFi routing policies and SLAs.
Kenya's high court declared unconstitutional a seed law that restricted farmers from sharing indigenous seeds. The ruling allows farmers to preserve and share seeds without fear of imprisonment or fines.
I resigned from Intel to accept a new opportunity. I contributed to AI flame graphs, cloud strategy, and customer meetings during my 3.5 years at Intel.
A new technique has been discovered that allows for complex interactive clickjacking attacks and multiple forms of data exfiltration by using SVG filters to run logic and provide visual output. This technique can be used to create convincing attacks such as fake captchas, input boxes, and even QR codes that can be used to exfiltrate data.
The author emphasizes the importance of defensive programming in Rust, where the compiler is used to enforce rules and prevent bugs from occurring in the first place. By following specific patterns and best practices, developers can write more robust and maintainable code that is less prone to errors and easier to understand.
MetaComputing offers an ARM-based mainboard that can be installed in the Framework Laptop 13 or mini PC case, providing 8 performance cores and an ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU. The MetaComputing ARM AI PC Kit costs $549 for the base model and $999 with a Framework Laptop 13.
Recent outages occurred at companies that adopted Vibe coding, but the issue appears to be resolved. The downtime was stressful for users of pirate sites, but tolerable for mainstream services like Crunchyroll.
A research article on glyphosate's safety has been retracted due to academic integrity issues. The study was written by Monsanto employees under the names of listed scientists.
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This study found that vaccinated individuals aged 18 to 59 years had a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to unvaccinated individuals over a 4-year period. The results suggest that COVID-19 vaccination is safe and does not increase the risk of long-term mortality.
The US State Department is instructing staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking or content moderation, citing "censorship" of Americans' speech. Critics say this policy is incoherent and unconstitutional, as it conflates trust and safety work with censorship.
The AV1 video codec won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its impact on video content delivery. AV1 is an open standard under a royalty-free patent policy, widely deployed across the streaming ecosystem.
Bausch & Lomb's prescription dry eye drug Miebo costs $800+ in the US, but its European counterpart EvoTears is available OTC for $20.
Jolla Phone is an independent European Linux phone with a price of 499-699 €. Pre-orders are required to bring the phone into production, with refunds if the 2,000 goal is not met.
The user uses a virtual machine with a minimal Ubuntu Server installation and runs Emacs as their window manager to keep a clear division between work and personal life. They customize Emacs to utilize every pixel, embed a text-oriented browser, and use a function to organize windows for ultimate distraction, making it their entire Linux desktop.
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The user created a hobby project called Time Waster Pro, a browser extension that serves random small websites to users, allowing them to upvote or downvote content. The goal is to provide a simple, ad-free experience that promotes discovery of niche content.
Researchers from the University of Zurich and others found that increased national advertising expenditure is linked to lower life satisfaction in European countries. This relationship holds even after adjusting for various factors, suggesting that high levels of advertising may negatively impact societal well-being.
The author chose Zig for Lightpanda due to its simplicity and performance, preferring it over C++ and Rust for the project's specific needs. They appreciate Zig's explicit memory management, comptime metaprogramming, and C interoperability, which fit well with the project's requirements.
HZ vaccination appears to have a beneficial effect on reducing new dementia diagnoses and deaths due to dementia, with a 3.1 percentage point reduction in new MCI diagnoses and a 29.5 percentage point reduction in deaths due to dementia over 9 years. The effect of HZ vaccination was larger among women than men, with significant reductions in new MCI diagnoses and deaths due to dementia among women.
Scientists discovered that adenosine signaling is the common mechanism behind rapid antidepressant therapies, including ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy. This finding opens up new avenues for treatment-resistant depression and may also explain the protective effects of chronic coffee consumption against depression.
A California judge has tentatively sided with Software Freedom Conservancy in its GPL case against Vizio over SmartCast TVs, pending a final outcome. The case involves Vizio's failure to provide source code for Linux and other software licensed under GPL and LGPL.
Frank Gehry, a renowned architect, has died at 96. He was known for his avant-garde style and iconic designs like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
Legacy Update archives Microsoft downloads removed between 2012 and 2025, including Windows, Office, and SQL Server. Users can browse or search the archive, but downloads may have security vulnerabilities and require updates.
CachyOS has released its seventh update with improved accessibility, mkinitcpio changes, and more. Key updates include Orca and espeak-ng support, mkinitcpio systemd hook, and Bcachefs integration.
The author chose Zig over C or Rust for TigerBeetle due to its exceptional quality, philosophy, and simplicity. Zig's favorable ratio of expressivity to language complexity and its approach to safety made it the best choice for TigerBeetle's needs.
The Best Paper Award Committee selected seven groundbreaking papers that highlight advances in various machine learning topics, including diffusion models, self-supervised reinforcement learning, and neural scaling laws. The papers address critical challenges in AI, such as the Artificial Hivemind effect, mode collapse, and the need for improved RL paradigms to unlock novel reasoning abilities in LLMs.
Perpetual futures (perps) in crypto allow for high-leverage trading, simplifying exchanges' business of blowing out losing traders. However, this comes with risks, including automatic deleveraging (ADL) and potential losses for exchanges and market makers.
Multithreading library provides robust concurrency primitives like thread-pool architecture, Mutexes, Read-Write Locks, and Condition Variables for JavaScript. It abstracts away WebWorkers complexities, allowing developers to write multi-threaded code.
Scientists discovered sugars essential for biology, a gum-like substance, and dust from supernova explosions in asteroid Bennu samples. These findings provide clues on the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life, supporting the "RNA world" hypothesis.
We are creating a simple Cheat Engine in Rust to attach to a process, enumerate all processes, and get their names, and we have successfully opened and named some processes but encountered access denied errors for system processes. We have used the winapi crate to interface with the Windows API and have implemented a custom Process struct with an impl Drop to clean up resources.
The user is asking for the smallest CSS code to print the Fizz Buzz sequence. They provide a four-line CSS solution but mention that it can likely be further minimized.
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Public patience with AI-generated media is wearing thin due to concerns over its impact and authenticity. The technology is seen as benefiting only the richest technologists, with many questioning its actual value and potential harm.
Britain's Ofcom is threatening to expand a probe into 4chan, a US company, after refusing to pay fines. The US is considering a GRANITE Act to protect Americans from foreign censorship, inspired by Ofcom's letters.
You're a blogger who misses the old web and is trying to revive your blog with minimal design and no trackers, despite the challenges of competing with social media. You're using AI code tools to simplify your blog software.
A US appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against OpenAI and Jony Ive's new venture from using the name "io" for their products due to a likelihood of confusion with AI startup iyO's name. The case now returns to a district court for a preliminary injunction in April 2026.
Detainees at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration jail were subjected to cruel treatment including being shackled in a metal cage and denied water. Amnesty International calls for the facility's closure and an end to mass detention, citing human rights abuses and medical neglect.
Typewriter plotters used ballpoint pens to draw text and graphics, with some models connecting to computers for custom printing. Panasonic, Brother, and other brands produced these pen typewriters in the 1980s, with prices ranging up to $350 for the Panasonic RK-P400C.
A group of friends created a method to generate random numbers using a polar coordinate system and a clock face, which they used to play a simplified D&D campaign. They also designed a game called verbal tennis where players use their generated numbers to hit a virtual ball, with the goal of winning the game.
Banks are lending heavily to AI companies while hedging their bets with credit derivatives to protect against potential defaults. The cost of insuring debt against default has risen sharply, with Oracle and Microsoft credit default swaps trading at high spreads.
Brown rats have been observed hunting bats in Germany, using their whiskers and air currents to detect prey. This behavior could harm local bat populations and potentially spread diseases to humans.
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Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Netflix is in exclusive talks to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's film studios and HBO Max for a potential $5 billion deal.
A Gmail hack attack is locking users out of their accounts by changing their age to 10 and adding them to a family account under the attacker's control. Google is looking into the issue and advises users to double-check associated phones and numbers, set up recovery information, and use a Google passkey to prevent account compromise.
Netflix submitted the highest bid for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets at $28 per share, surpassing Paramount's offer of around $27 per share. The bidding war has intensified, with Paramount's attorneys expressing concerns about the auction process and hinting at a potential hostile takeover.
The EU's governing coalition, spanning multiple parties and institutions, has produced around 13,000 acts between 2019 and 2024. This speed and productivity come from incentives for producing legislation, not exercising vetoes.
Zoekt is a text search engine for source code with fast substring and regexp matching. It supports searching individual or multiple repositories with a rich query language and ranking results based on code signals.
Word spacing in typography is crucial for readability and is controlled by the CSS1 word-spacing property in digital typography. Proper word spacing can illustrate the sound of speech and make text easier to read, with a good typographer able to determine the ideal spacing.
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Microsoft Excel has become a ubiquitous tool in the modern workplace, with nearly 500 million paying users worldwide, and its popularity has led to the creation of a thriving ecosystem of consultants, developers, and influencers. Despite challenges from competitors like Google Sheets and AI chatbots, Excel remains the leading spreadsheet application, with its versatility, power, and graphical ...
You created nluarepl, a Neovim Lua interpreter REPL using the Debug Adapter Protocol, and hprofdap for inspecting Java heap dumps. The DAP protocol allows for structured data modeling and completion, and nluarepl implements log points and variable definition location finding.
Tesla's Model Y ranked worst for reliability in its age group in Germany's TÜV Report 2026 with a 17.3% failure rate. Main issues include suspension components and brake discs, with EVs like Mini Cooper SE and Audi Q4 e-tron performing better.
I was writing a blogpost on Medium and I noticed errors, tried to open LinkedIn? down. tried downdetector? down. Claude.ai is also down Yep, just went back up and then down again. Let's not put all eggs in one basket...
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The SerpApi MCP Server is a hosted service that integrates with search engines for data extraction, requiring an API key for connection. It supports various search parameters and result types, with examples provided for local development and testing.
MIT engineers developed an ultrasonic device to recover water from atmospheric water harvesting materials in minutes, not hours, by vibrating water molecules out with high-frequency waves. The device can recover water 45 times more efficiently than heat-based designs.
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Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI, raising awareness to its misuses in society, including biased AI applications, surveillance, and manipulation of public opinion. AI is used in various concerning ways, such as facial recognition, predictive policing, and social media propaganda, highlighting the need for preventive technology and ethical considerations in AI development.
The user shares their experience and gear for collecting data in museum collections, including a notebook with a scale bar, digital calipers, and portable lighting, which helps them efficiently gather information for future analysis. They also discuss their workflow, prioritizing note-taking and sketching, and using various tools such as index cards, stickers, and a lanyard with a small brush ...
Mobile GPUs use tile-based deferred rendering to conserve power and memory bandwidth due to limited resources. This approach splits rendering into geometry processing and fragment processing phases, reducing memory traffic and enabling efficient rendering on mobile devices.
Cloud hardware trends show stagnation in CPU and DRAM gains, but improvements in network bandwidth and NVMe storage performance. Smaller cloud providers undercut major hyperscalers by up to 5× for commodity VMs, highlighting new challenges in designing cost-efficient cloud-native systems.
The author reflects on 40 years of life, highlighting lessons learned such as being decent, admitting mistakes, and focusing on personal growth. Key takeaways include prioritizing family, staying discreet online, and treating work as a financial relationship, not a personal one.