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Eddie Bauer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the third time in its 106-year history. The Bellevue, Wash.–based retailer operates about 180 stores in the U.S. and Canada; stores will wind down some locations, but e-commerce and wholesale operations are unaffected, and non-U.S./Canada stores aren’t impacted. Catalyst Brands, which licenses Eddie Bauer stores in the U.S. and Canada, says the restructuring aims to optimize value and maintain liquidity. Dwindling sales, supply-chain issues and tariff uncertainty contributed to the decision.
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Seamus Culleton, a Kilkenny-born Irishman with a valid US work permit and married to a US citizen, has spent five months in ICE detention and faces deportation despite no criminal record. Arrested Sept 9, 2025 in a random sweep, he was held in facilities near Boston, Buffalo and El Paso; he says conditions were dire. He maintains he did not sign deportation papers, though ICE claims otherwise; a judge ordered a $4,000 bond, which Smyth paid. His case, and legal fight over signatures and process, underscores alleged bureaucratic errors in immigration enforcement.
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Jeff Jarvis argues that legacy media—led by The Washington Post and owned by billionaires and hedge funds—has collapsed under layoffs and consolidation, eroding journalism and democracy. He notes shrinking magazines, aging TV/radio audiences, and the demise of mass media’s attention economy. The piece claims media must replace old models with new ones—blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and AI—through collaborative, human-scale journalism that emphasizes accountability and explanation, not simply propping up failed incumbents.
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Explores the entropy of the distribution describing how a random integer in [N,2N] factors into primes (specially squarefree). Using the Poisson-Dirichlet model for prime factors (via random permutation cycle lengths), derives an expression for the entropy and finds the leading terms cancel, giving an approximate mean entropy of 1 (in the squarefree/permutation model). The author questions whether entropy actually converges to a distribution, the behavior of perplexity, and notes related references (Kontoyiannis, Tao) and links to Erdos–Kac style results.
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Over the year, coding with LLM agents has dramatically improved. The latest Opus can write about 90% of my code, and frontier models show qualitative gains, though public benchmarks are gamed. Agent harnesses haven’t kept pace; the frontier remains the model quality. IDEs are waning—I'm back to Vi, using go-to-def only. Local models will win, but for now pay up for top models. Built-in sandboxes fail; use a fresh VM. Stripe Sigma’s LLM aid is weak; I ETL from Stripe to SQLite for faster queries. Build software that’s best for programmers; customers will have agents writing against your product.
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The Gentle Author presents century-old glass slides of London's markets, describing how Clare Market (birthplace of Grimaldi) was cleared in 1905 for Kingsway and Aldwych, while Smithfield, Leather Lane, Hoxton Market, and East St Market still operate; Billingsgate, Covent Garden, and Spitalfields Market moved to new premises, and Leadenhall Market now has only a single fowl butcher. He portrays markets as theatres of life and culture, where porters’ status and social codes shape public life, and reflects on markets worldwide, celebrating their vitality.
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This article describes a real-time GBA audio interpolation method for emulators to reduce aliasing and noise. Instead of emulating PWM resampling, the emulator resamples each PCM channel from its source rate to the output rate (e.g., 48 kHz) using either 6-point cubic Hermite or windowed sinc interpolation, with a low-pass filter to avoid aliasing. Source rates are derived from GBA timers and can change during a game, requiring recalculation when timers/reloads/dividers change. Examples show cubic Hermite often preferred; sinc reduces aliasing but can sound muffled. PSG channels benefit from a post-resampling Butterworth LPF; the approach increases CPU load but improves sound across games.
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Google Research shows hard-braking events (HBEs) from Android Auto correlate with road-segment crash risk. Analyzing a decade of Virginia and California crash data plus HBE data, segments with HBEs are 18x more common than crash segments, providing a denser safety signal. NB regression, controlling for exposure, road type, slope, ramps, and lanes, finds higher HBE rates predict higher crash rates across roads. A CA freeway merge had 70x higher HBE rate and a crash roughly every six weeks, validating HBEs as a leading safety proxy. Implications for Roads Management Insights and future work include clustering and targeted interventions.
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MacRumors reports that next-gen AirPods Pro, likely AirPods Pro 4 for 2026, may include cameras to “see around you” via infrared sensors and possibly optical cameras in each earbud. Leaker Kosutami and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo describe a hardware upgrade enabling gesture controls and improved spatial audio with Vision Pro; Kuo mentions at least one infrared camera. The Pro 4 could be a pricier high-end variant of AirPods Pro 3 and priced around $249, potentially selling alongside Pro 3 rather than replacing it. Apple historically reveals AirPods in the fall, with multiple price tiers in the lineup.
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GitHub Status announces delayed incident notifications (about 50 minutes) with ongoing investigation and mitigation for affected services. It offers subscriptions via email, SMS, Slack, or webhooks, plus RSS/Atom feeds. Posted Feb 9, 2026; Statuspage powered by Atlassian.
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GitHub markets itself as an AI-powered development platform that accelerates software creation from idea to production. Key offerings include Copilot for AI-assisted coding, automation with GitHub Actions and Codespaces, and collaboration via Issues, Projects, and Discussions. It emphasizes built-in security (Advanced Security, Dependabot, Secret Protection) and autofix tooling, a rich marketplace for apps, and scalable solutions for enterprises. The platform covers the full lifecycle—from planning and review to deployment—while highlighting customer success stories and open source sponsorship.
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ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock uses a WEMOS D1 Mini to sync a cheap analog clock to local time via NTP, updating every 15 minutes and auto-adjusting for daylight saving. It drives the clock’s Lavet motor with bipolar pulses to advance seconds; if the clock lags, it speeds up, if ahead, it waits. Hand positions are stored in a 4Kbit EERAM (47L04) to recover after power loss. On first run, a web page lets the user set initial hand positions; a status page can render the clock face via SVG or Canvas. MIT license.
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Discord is rolling out teen-by-default settings globally for users 13+, adding age-appropriate protections while preserving privacy and connections. Starting in March, some actions may require age verification to access age-restricted content. Age assurance uses on-device facial estimation, ID verification via partners, or background age inference; processing is private and deletions are quick; age group can be viewed and appealed in My Account. Default safety settings include unblur restrictions, access limits to age-gated spaces, a separate DM inbox, friend-request warnings, and stage restrictions for adults. A Teen Council (10–12 teens) will advise policy; applications due May 1, 2026.
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Jimmy Lai, 78-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon and founder of Apple Daily, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for colluding with foreign forces under Hong Kong's national security law—the harshest penalty under the law to date. Lai has health concerns; the court also sentenced six former Apple Daily executives and two activists to 6–10 years. Lai denies wrongdoing, saying he relayed information rather than sought foreign influence. Rights groups call the sentence draconian; Hong Kong and Chinese authorities defend it. International voices urge release given his age and health.
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An error page from ScienceDirect indicating a problem delivering requested content. It asks the user to contact support with a reference number (9cb4835f5ad178eb) and IP address, notes a Cloudflare error, and includes standard site links and copyright/licensing terms for Elsevier content (including restrictions on text and data mining and AI training).
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Dormant in-memory Java loader planted in Ivanti EPMM via /mifs/403.jsp. The payload base.Info decodes to a class loader that, upon a trigger parameter, loads a second-stage class in memory—no disk write and a simple response. Indicative of initial-access broker activity: foothold now, activation later. Exploitation followed CVE-2026-1281/1340 (unauthenticated access). Remediate by patching Ivanti EPMM, restarting affected servers to flush the in-memory implant, and review logs. Indicators: /mifs/403.jsp requests; Base64 parameter starting with yv66vg; response markers 3cd3d/e60537; ERROR://. IOCs provided; detection via heuristic engines.
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An experimental simulation of emergent complexity that grows graphs, inspired by Paul Cousin’s Graph-Rewriting Automata; created by Alex Mordvintsev with a GitHub repo and an autonomous demo (status: Explore).
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