Jennifer Combs was arrested for a Facebook post about Trinidad's water supply, claiming residents were hospitalized due to bacteria. She filed a federal lawsuit alleging the arrest was an act of political retaliation for speaking out about the city's water problem.
The HTML <dl> element represents a list of name-value pairs, which is a common UI pattern. It consists of <dt> for names and <dd> for values, allowing for semantic markup and improved accessibility.
The user converted an old laptop into a writerdeck, a dedicated writing device, by installing Debian in text mode, replacing the network stack with network-manager, and setting up neovim for writing. They also added features like tmux for terminal tiling, acpi for battery details, and light for backlight control, and set up automatic login and syncthing for syncing notes.
The author, a security and privacy reporter, investigated Oura's data handling practices after a deal with the Department of Defense and Palantir sparked customer concerns. Oura's security design choices allow governments to access user data, and the company has a responsibility to ensure user data is secure despite its large valuation.
A website tracks AI industry spend and revenue, showing NVIDIA as the big winner due to its chip supply role. Estimated cumulative totals are based on leaked financials and industry estimates from sources like Bloomberg and the WSJ.
The author found a newborn baby in a New York City subway station in 2000 and later adopted him with his partner Pete. They named him Kevin and raised him as their own, eventually getting married when same-sex marriage was legalized in New York.
The author reminisces about reading Terry Pratchett's books as a teenager, particularly Rincewind's adventures, which resonated with their own experiences. They miss the impact Pratchett's writing had on them and worry that no one is currently reaching teenagers with similar stories.
Italy has acquired six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft worth 1.39 billion euros, shifting its air defence focus to Europe within NATO. This decision strengthens Europe's military capabilities and reduces Italy's dependence on US solutions.
Microsoft and Uber are scaling back their internal AI use due to high costs, contradicting the idea of an AI "renaissance" or "revolution". The economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than initially thought, with costs rising sharply despite falling token prices.
The user and others extracted microcode from a high-resolution image of the 80386 CPU die, disassembled it, and found 215 entry points with new instructions and shared code. The microcode has a hidden security bug in IO permission bitmap handling and may have undocumented features or opcodes, but the exact nature of these is unclear.
Dutch cabinet is extremely worried about US tech companies sharing civil servants' names with senate committee investigating tech censorship. This could lead to travel bans or sanctions for the officials.
P.T. Barnum's book "The Art of Money Getting" offers 20 rules for success, emphasizing finding one's natural abilities and avoiding debt. Key principles include being the best at one's work, keeping income above expenses, and maintaining a good reputation.
FBI director Kash Patel's merchandise site BasedApparel.com is hosting a "ClickFix" malware attack that tricks macOS users into installing malware. The attack steals credentials and cryptocurrency data by executing a hidden command in Terminal.
US lawmakers proposed a ban on automated license plate readers, but the FBI plans to buy nationwide access to the cameras for law enforcement. A crackdown on deepfake sexual abuse images is underway, with the FTC warning companies to remove nonconsensual intimate images and the Department of Justice arresting two men for sharing AI-created explicit content.
Rubish is a Ruby-based shell that supports bash syntax and integrates Ruby features. It allows seamless mixing of shell commands and Ruby code.
To improve deep learning model performance, first identify the bottleneck in your model, which can be compute, memory bandwidth, or overhead. Then, optimize accordingly, such as increasing compute intensity, reducing memory bandwidth costs, or minimizing overhead.
USCIS will no longer grant green cards to qualified immigrants inside the US, forcing them to self-deport. This policy will harm Americans, employers, and family members by driving talented people to other countries and making the US less competitive.
NordVPN was ordered to block IP addresses hosting LaLiga matches, but the court declined to fine the company due to lack of evidence of deliberate breach. The original injunction remains in place, with the case continuing as the court reviews NordVPN's technical objections.
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z386 is a 386-class CPU built around original Intel microcode, recreating enough of the original machine for the recovered 386 control ROM to drive it. It runs real protected-mode DOS software, including DOS 6 and 7, and games like Doom, with a focus on educational reconstruction and usability.
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency due to a toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County. Thousands are under evacuation orders as emergency crews try to contain the leak and prevent a potential explosion.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 750 cases and 177 deaths, with the World Health Organization classifying the risk level as "very high" at the national level. The US has been criticized for its withdrawal from global health efforts, which has hindered the response to the outbreak.
Assuming LLMs will fix code issues is irresponsible, but if organizational leadership mandates leveraging LLMs, we can adapt and move rigor elsewhere. This could involve standardized specifications and tests, checked into project repositories, to ensure accountability and understanding.
The Spacelab computer was a 16-bit minicomputer built by CIMSA, using a French-built Mitra 125 MS processor. It had a 32-bit ALU and supported up to 128 KB of magnetic core memory.
The author is frustrated with modern web design practices that override default browser functionality, leading to a worse user experience. They suggest developers should not roll their own X, especially when browsers already handle it well, to avoid introducing new problems.
JWT is an overcomplicated authentication method that creates more problems than it solves, especially for web apps. A simple session cookie or opaque bearer token is a more secure and efficient alternative.
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The article discusses two Vim plugins, Slimv and Vlime, which provide Lisp development environments for Vim, and compares their features and installation procedures. The plugins use a client-server architecture and rely on the Swank server to evaluate Lisp expressions, and both support interactive programming and debugging.
ICE awarded Bi2 Technologies $25.1 million for iris-scanning technology to aid field operations. The contract grants ICE continuous access to Bi2's database of over 5 million booking records.
CodeCrafters, a platform for engineers, reached 400,000+ users and 500,000 GitHub stars, but failed to turn into a profitable business. The project will pause new challenges, but existing ones will remain available.
Bun.Image is a chainable image pipeline for decoding and encoding images. It supports various formats and has a zero npm dependency, executing off the JavaScript thread.
Iowa lawmakers added a provision to a budget bill requiring University of Iowa students to take 6 credit hours at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to graduate. The bill now heads to Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk, affecting students at three state universities.
Polsia's company model has a kill-switch and override on every company, allowing them to impersonate, halt, or delete operations. Their $9.70M headline is mostly ad spend and one-time packs, with only $4.6M in recurring subscription revenue that churns at 48%/month.
Optimizing Docker images can significantly reduce size, improve security, and speed up CI and deploys, with most of the size reduction coming from the first three steps. By following six steps, including using a slim base image, multi-stage builds, and npm ci, teams can reduce their Docker image size from 1.2GB to 78MB and improve their overall development efficiency.
The White House is directing agencies to install its app on government phones of federal employees, despite concerns from officials about its potential dangers and lack of value. The app provides access to White House live streams, news, and policy initiatives, but also shares user data with third-party services.
SPEC has updated its CPU benchmark suite, SPEC CPU2026, with 52 workloads, more source code lines, and a focus on core throughput. The new suite challenges modern CPUs, particularly in instruction-side footprint and branch prediction, but retains portability goals and modernizes the benchmark suite.
User is customizing their i3 and Emacs setup to integrate keybindings and window management. They've modified i3 to pass key events to Emacs if it's focused, and added Emacs functions to send messages back to i3 for window movement and terminal launching.
Learn to use systems thinking to understand how developer ecosystems guide the evolution of your software systems. Improve your intuition for the systemic impacts of AI-driven software development and understand how you can better prepare for the exciting changes coming to our industry.
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John Gruber's Markdown syntax was designed to be easy to work with, but Microsoft's modifications, such as using isolated dollar signs for LaTeX, have made it ambiguous and difficult to implement. Orion uses an internal fork of markedjs/marked to avoid newer GFM parsers that track this misfeature.