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121. The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer
122. Invention of DNA "Page Numbers" Opens Up Possibilities for the Bioeconomy
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
123. Why I Joined OpenAI
Why I joined OpenAI
124. WebView performance significantly slower than PWA
125. India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
126. Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
127. I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
128. Canada, better the 28th EU member than the 51st US state
COLUMN. The Canadian prime minister has called for an alliance of middle powers to stand up to the world's great powers. This is a compelling idea, and one that Europe has been pursuing for 60 years, writes Le Monde columnist Pascal Riché.
129. Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really
130. How to effectively write quality code with AI
AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.
131. EU to delay anti-deforestation law. Again
It continues a trend of cutting back, delaying and cancelling EU laws brought in under the European Green Deal.
132. Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.01122: Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?
133. Voxtral Transcribe 2
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
134. Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage
135. Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."
136. The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and had zero email or any other contact with him … which is more (less) than some of my…
137. Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
In today’s E121 of “5mins of Postgres” we're talking about the upcoming Postgres 19 release, and how better extensibility of the Postgres planner will enable...
138. In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests
As the New START treaty curbing the US and Russian nuclear weapons programs expires, the work we do here in the red centre has become more important than ever before.
139. Betteridge's Law of Headlines
140. The silent death of Good Code
141. How virtual textures work
Virtual texturing is not about supporting larger textures, but about aligning memory residency with what can actually be visible on screen. This article explains the system end-to-end, from addressing to feedback and residency decisions.
142. macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs
While I was setting up my new mac mini yesterday I noticed something interesting - Apple have stopped shipping the ancient Emacs 22.1 with macOS! As I was mostly using Windows + WSL2 in the past 5 years I had missed the exact moment when this happened, but after some digging I discovered that the change was first made in macOS 10.15 (“Catalina”), which was released in October 2019.
143. British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
The move is part of the government's new road safety strategy, which plans to reform driving laws in Britain.
144. Things Unix can do atomically
145. Immigrants Reduced US Deficits by $14.5T Since 1994
146. TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
147. NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing
They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.
148. Early Christian Writings
149. You Are Here
150. Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better
100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing library for C, Zig, and Rust that is faster and supports all the modern globbing formats and gitignore - dmtrKovalenko/zlob