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EU Court of Justice ruling upholds Italy’s law requiring Meta to negotiate and pay news publishers for using their content. The Court said EU directive allows member states to empower publishers to seek fair remuneration and regulators to enforce national law. Meta’s challenge to Italy’s 2023 AGCOM framework—data requests, negotiation oversight, penalties, and benchmarks for compensation—was rejected. The ruling aims to level the playing field, require platform transparency, and help publishers recoup production costs, even as AI and platform interfaces shape access to journalism.
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Firecracker is a minimal VMM that runs microVMs with a real kernel, booting in about 125ms and using KVM with virtio devices for strong isolation at near-container density. A jailer sandbox tightens host access; each VM uses four devices: virtio-net, virtio-block, virtio-vsock, and a serial console. It supports ~5 MB per-VM overhead and ~150 VMs/sec, with 2–8% runtime overhead. Used by AWS Lambda and Fargate, Fly.io, and many AI sandboxes, it enables fast, auditable, co-located agent runtimes with secure, observable shadows and per-session identity.
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Wall Street Journal 404 Page Not Found: the requested page can’t be found; check the URL or email support. The page lists popular articles—There Is a Fire Sale on M.B.A.s; The Late-Night Truth Social; Xi’s Taiwan Warning to Trump; Highlights Tensions in Beijing Summit—and latest podcasts such as Xi’s Taiwan Warning Highlights Summit Tensions; U.S. Scales Up Hantavirus Response; The Future of Premium Credit Cards.
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From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Canada’s computer hobby movement built a national microcomputer culture centered on TRACE, the Toronto Region Association of Computer Enthusiasts. TRACE grew from CDC workers’ after-work meetings (1976) into a cross-Canada network that prized hardware hacking, software experiments, and local machines like MIL MOD-8/80 and the MCM/70, plus APL. It produced newsletters, ran exhibits (Ontario Science Center, Canadian Computer Show), and fostered early Canadian tech figures (Butterfield, Jennings) and shops. By the mid-1980s mass-market PCs reshaped the scene, winding TRACE down but leaving a lasting legacy.
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Explores pipes as modular IO (McIlroy) and Knuth’s Literate Programming; contrasts prose-with-code with pipe chaining for data. Uses seq | less to show SIGPIPE when a pipe has no readers, killing the writer. Demonstrates a pipe-based wait: read blocks until the child exits. Describes Unix process hierarchy: each process has a parent; init (pid 1) cannot be killed and reaps orphans via waitpid. The manyfork experiment shows rapid forking and numerous zombies when parents don’t wait; init eventually collects them.
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PR 30680 by Jarred-Sumner removes 1,234 Zig source files (~640k lines) from bun/src as part of the Zig→Rust port. No new code is added; deletions cover analytics, AST, memory allocators, encoding, core runtime, and JavaScript entrypoint. A subset of Zig files (about 56) is retained to support codegen, with test updates including regenerating ban-limits.json and swapping a large fixture from parser.zig to parser.rs. Labeled AI slop, the PR was closed and the branch deleted; CI indicated failures requiring local verification and a green build.
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Scotland has enacted a law mandating swift bricks in all new homes after a 12‑month consultation, making nesting bricks legally required where practical. The move, backed across parties, aims to reverse swift declines (about 60% since 1995) and aid other cavity-nesting birds. England currently relies on non-binding planning guidance, while Wales rejected similar measures. Critics note gaps in compliance with planning conditions. Campaigners say Scotland’s vote could push the rest of the UK to follow.
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The piece argues Apple will never ship a true family-wide AI assistant that works across devices. Apple treats families as separate accounts, with weak sharing and automation tools (AppleScript, Automator, Shortcuts). A capable family agent could manage tests reminders, medication schedules, pickup coordination, grocery lists, meal plans, smarter photo sharing, and cross-household tracking, all on-device. The real obstacle is Apple's mindset: households aren’t a product category, so Siri remains a single-user tool despite the company’s hardware and OS integration.
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Bumble plans to ditch swiping and the rule that women must message first in heterosexual matches, replacing it with AI-powered matchmaking. In a test rollout called Bumble 2.0, it will introduce an AI assistant “Bee” to match by interests, a “Dates” feature to move from match to real-life meetups, and chapter-based profiles that tell stories. With Gen Z wary of AI and paying users down about 20%, the update aims to revive engagement, but many doubt tech alone can fix an intimacy crisis.
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Alberta replaced two aging government IT systems with PRISM, built by a small public-service team using AI instead of a $54M vendor-led procurement. The effort replaced asset tracking and construction project management with live, user-centered systems used by 643 staff; total cost projected around $2.6M, a 95% saving. AI accelerated work: converting video walkthroughs to build requirements via Google Gemini, rapid prototyping, and data pipeline generation; staff also adopted AI tools and training via Alberta AI Academy. The initiative demonstrates government innovation and is expanding to additional legacy systems.
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Robert Moor recounts traveling to Papua to visit the Korowai tree houses, tracing how a childhood National Geographic image shaped his fantasy of an egalitarian, nature-centered life. He weighs awe at the architecture against critique of Western narratives—cannibalism, primitivism, Tarzan, tourism—that distort the Korowai. The essay presents the reality: an egalitarian, forest-linked society now moving to village life under state aid and capitalism, and the commodified lure of ultra-tall tree houses built for tourists and media. It ends with the tension between fantasy and reality and how the Western gaze shapes both.
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Modern Linux debunks /dev/urandom myths: /dev/urandom is not insecure; both devices pull from the same CSPRNG. Since 4.8, /dev/urandom outputs directly from the CSPRNG, not from a separate pool, so blocking is unnecessary. Entropy is estimated, not perfectly known; about 256 bits of entropy is enough. Re-seeding with fresh entropy improves security, but the risk of running out is overstated. For early-boot randomness, use getrandom; otherwise, /dev/urandom is suitable for most cryptographic needs; /dev/random is mostly legacy.
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Kyle Croarkin explains a single Dyalog APL line that detects which faces of voxel-chunk blocks are visible, a core optimization for his 3D voxel game. Inspired by Game of Life, it uses shifting and outer products on 3D boolean arrays. He later replaced it with a padding-based variant that only considers faces toward adjacent chunks, trading some speed for huge memory and vertex reductions: video memory from 261 MB to 72 MB, vertices from 31.4M to 6.2M, render time from 11.2 ms to 2.14 ms. He reflects on learning APL and sentimentality.
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Numa v0.14 bundles an ODoH client and a relay in one Rust binary to provide anonymous DNS without accounts. The client HPKE-encrypts a query to a target’s key; the relay sees the caller’s IP and only ciphertext; the authoritative DNS decrypts, while Cloudflare returns the answer encrypted back along the same path. The default config uses two independent operators to avoid same-operator collusion. A separate relay mode enables a public endpoint. Not fixed: the target still sees the question; traffic analysis can reveal users on relays. Usage: cargo install numa; run in odoh or relay mode, or via docker-compose.
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GitHub warns that the page is slow to load, asking users to refresh and contact support if the problem persists, and referencing GitHub Status and @githubstatus.
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Barlow recounts leaving the physically grounded West for the digital frontier. He describes his cattle-ranch background, the decline of physical labor, and becoming a knowledge worker. He explains discovering the Internet via the WELL, envisioning Cyberspace as a social, political space where 'architecture is politics' and openness and privacy are essential. He cofounded the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend digital rights, promote networked community, and reframe intellectual property. He anticipates a future where information replaces matter, enabling global collaboration, though privacy, cultural clashes, and lack of body language pose challenges.
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