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Yang Youlin, a former Nanjing city official (1993–2023), was sentenced to death for taking more than 2.2 billion yuan ($325m) in bribes over 30 years. He used his positions to help others win engineering contracts, land transfers and financing, and was also convicted of embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering. The case, part of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, involved one of the largest sums in recent years. Death sentences for white-collar crimes are rare but possible when sums exceed about 1 billion yuan; Yang pleaded guilty and expressed remorse.
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Access to acm.org is blocked by Cloudflare's security protection. The page requests cookies and warns that the user's action triggered a security rule, potentially from certain keywords, SQL commands, or malformed data. To resolve, contact the site owner with details of what you were doing and the Cloudflare Ray ID shown on the page; your IP is also visible. The block is part of Cloudflare's performance and security measures.
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Better Auth announces it is joining Vercel to accelerate open-source auth and secure agent workflows. The partnership provides more resources to advance a framework-agnostic authentication core and to bring secure, revocable access across Vercel products as agents act on behalf of users. The post recounts Better Auth’s origin—solving multi-tenant auth, open-source DX, YC funding—and its acquisition of Auth.js/NextAuth.js. It previews a renewed focus on the Better Auth framework and the Agent Auth Protocol, aided by Vercel’s platform and tooling. Thanks to the community and investors.
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PostgreSQL on AWS benchmarks PostgreSQL performance across AWS EC2 instances (arm64 Graviton and x86-64) with gp3 storage, for 1–50 GB datasets under a 90% read / 10% write, 32-way concurrency in us-east-1, aiming for 33,000 RPS. A cost-performance frontier shows which configs meet the target; the cheapest 1 GB config is m8g.large gp3-baseline (~$82/mo, 45,515 RPS). Arm64 often offers best value; c8i.large reaches 52,203 RPS. The full 52-config table reports RPS, latency, and cost data for filtering and comparison.
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The text indicates an HTTP 415 “Unsupported Media Type” error from an Nginx server, meaning the request’s Content-Type is not supported.
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EU Parliament advanced a renewed extension of “Chat Control,” approving an urgency motion to reintroduce the transitional regulation that expired in April, allowing tech firms to voluntarily search private chats for child sexual abuse material. The move, 331-304 with 11 abstentions, enables a plenary vote Thursday before summer break. Critics call it a procedural trick undermining rules; supporters cite preventing a regulatory gap and that reports would otherwise miss abuse material. Privacy advocates warn of mass surveillance and pressure toward a permanent Chat Control 2.0.
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Sodium-ion batteries could cut cost and diversify battery supply for EVs and grid storage. CATL-backed cells power Changan’s Nevo AO6, signaling mass production of sodium-ion EVs. Although heavier with lower energy density than lithium, recent advances push sodium-ion density toward 175 Wh/kg, with costs dropping as production scales. Benefits include lower fire risk and better cold performance, since sodium moves more reliably at low temperatures; CATL says the pack retains about 90% capacity at -40°C and did not ignite in a halved test. Sodium could reduce reliance on lithium mining, expanding use in EVs, cargo vehicles, and grid storage.
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Explains asymmetric fences: a light, compiler-level barrier on the fast path and a heavy, OS-assisted barrier on the slow path. In Folly, asymmetric_light uses an asm memory clobber or _ReadWriteBarrier; asymmetric_heavy uses membarrier() (MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED) with a fast path for single-thread or mm_users==1. The post details how membarrier orders memory across threads via IPIs and smp_mb, and why a naive transitive model fails, prompting updated C++ wording (P1202) that confines ordering to the single total order on seq_cst operations. Includes discussions with David Goldblatt.
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The text is an HTTP 405 error (Method Not Allowed) from a Varnish cache server, indicating the requested method is not allowed for the resource; the message is repeated and garbled.
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WSJ 404 page: The requested page can’t be found. Check the URL or email [email protected]. The page also highlights popular articles—Belgium Ends Team USA’s World Cup Run After Political Firestorm; ‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America; Top Democrats Push for Graham Platner to Exit Senate Race—and latest podcasts: SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq-100 Today; NATO Allies Announce Billions in New Spending to Placate Trump; How a Tesla Challenger Veered Off Course.
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Dua Lipa has opened the Manifesto Library, a collection of banned and censored books, inside Porto’s Livraria Lello as part of the BABELL – City of Books festival. The library, roughly 100 titles, champions works that challenge power, censorship, and oppression, with themes of race, sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues. Notable titles include The Handmaid’s Tale and works by Salman Rushdie and Olga Tokarczuk. Linked to Lipa’s Service95 Book Club, it aims to defend reading as a “technology of freedom.” Lipa will also curate the London Literature Festival in 2026.
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98% sounds strong but isn’t enough for accessibility or reliability. The piece argues that serving 98% of users still excludes 2% (or more) in real-world audiences, with examples from food safety and browser features. Even so‑called “widely supported” features can fail for a significant minority (e.g., 30% of a client’s visitors). True robustness means gracefully handling edge cases, not optimizing for the majority; inclusive design is urged.
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Henry Begler maps Bob Dylan’s late-career rebirth and mythmaking. After a 1997 histoplasma scare and Time Out of Mind’s moody, enveloping sound, Dylan launched the Never-Ending Tour, reviving his relevance with Not Dark Yet and other mortality songs. The 2000s brought Love and Theft and Modern Times, rich with Whitman, Twain, and Confederate echoes, plus Masked and Anonymous. Shadows in the Night and Triplicate revisited the Great American Songbook, refining his weathered voice. Rough and Rowdy Ways, especially Murder Most Foul, turned to memory and American myth, presenting Dylan as the last great traditionalist who keeps moving on.
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Het Tulp Fonds, in 2025 door OCW en NWO opgericht, biedt internationale toponderzoekers de kans om hun onderzoek in Nederland voort te zetten. Het fonds heeft totaal 50 miljoen euro beschikbaar en verwelkomt 34 wetenschappers die vanuit universiteiten, umc’s en hogescholen naar Nederland komen (veel uit de VS; sommigen keren terug uit Europa/andere regio’s). Per onderzoeker kan een instelling maximaal 1 miljoen euro ontvangen over vijf jaar, voor fundamenteel tot toegepast onderzoek. Doel: versterking van de Nederlandse en Europese wetenschap en innovatie op gebieden als AI, quantum, vaccins, gezondheid, klimaat en democratie; meer toekenningen volgen in 2027.
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CipherCue analyzed apex and www records for 19,450 European companies across the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Poland to identify the internet-facing vendor serving the main website. US-headquartered vendors front a majority or plurality of sites in most markets, with UK 67.5% and NL 53.6%; Italy, Spain, and France around 44–48%; Germany 31.0% and Poland 18.8% (domestic hosting strongest in DE and PL). Cloudflare is the single largest internet-facing vendor in all seven markets. The study measures the vendor answering the DNS query, not hosting origin.
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Germany attracts skilled workers but struggles to retain them. An IAB survey found emigration driven by family reasons, discrimination, bureaucracy, housing, and language. About 60% of emigrants return home; 40% move to other EU countries. Emigrants tend to be younger, with weaker German and stronger English. Key complaints: lengthy, opaque processing for naturalization, residence, visas, and recognition of foreign qualifications; high fees; poor career support. Language acquisition support is crucial; English programs alone are not enough. Demand remains in care work; policymakers are pursuing a centralized 'Work and Stay' approach, but staff shortages and uneven digitization slow progress.
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An image-filled look at NASA/NACA wind tunnels from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing Langley and Ames facilities used to test aircraft and spacecraft under high-speed, turbulent, and specialized conditions (transonic, icing, ionization). It highlights giant tunnels like Ames’ 80x120 ft chamber, the era of numerous facilities, and their consolidation and demolition in the 1990s as computer simulations rose. The collection features iconic tests (Mercury capsule, X-15, space-shuttle ionization tests, Avrocar) and notes Mary Jackson’s path to NASA’s first Black female engineer.
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