2025-05-16
A Roundup of Things Wearing Other Things
We all recall the revelation last year that the ocean’s rebellious teenagers, orcas, have started wearing salmon on their heads. Again. (The official state animal of Connecticut is the sperm...
Starting Over: What to tell Sarah, at the edge of professional oblivion.
Published on May 15, 2025 9:34 PM GMTI came across a sad post recently from a woman on LinkedIn— let’s call her Sarah—who spent over a decade, in her words,...
Rust Is Adopting FLS: What Does This Mean for the Rust Reference?
Rust is adopting the FLS into the Rust Project as part of its ongoing specification efforts. This adoption is being made possible by Ferrous Systems.
Donald Trump’s F-55 Fighter Fantasy Makes Little Sense
Key Points – President Trump’s May 15th suggestion in Qatar of developing an “F-55″—a twin-engine “super upgrade” of the single-engine F-35 because he “doesn’t like single engines”—is as an overly...
Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They've Had Enough of His Tantrums
Elon Musk's social media company X-formerly-Twitter sued several major advertising brands last year, accusing them of conspiring to "collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising." It's an easily debunked claim...
Everything You Need to Know About Go 1.23
Go 1.23 comes with many improvements over Go 1.22. Some of the highlights include: language changes, tool improvements, and standard library improvements.
2025-05-15
What It’s Like to Be a Professional Card Counter. “Suddenly, I get...
What It’s Like to Be a Professional Card Counter. “Suddenly, I get a tap on the shoulder from security telling me that they don’t want my business anymore.” 💬 Join...
Turkish vs. Israeli Jets Over Syria: The Middle East Has A New Crisis Brewing
Tensions are escalating between US allies Turkey and Israel in Syria following Bashar al-Assad's ouster in December 2024 and the rise of HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. The post Turkish vs....
Yours Truly With Nilay Patel on ‘Decoder’
Nilay Patel: There’s a lot of tactical stuff you might talk about in the aftermath of this ruling — about what Apple might do next, how it might impact revenue,...
RevenueCat Report Suggests In-App Purchases Perform Noticeably Better Than Link-Outs to the Web
Speaking of Jacob Eiting, his company RevenueCat today posted some interesting findings from a test comparing conversions rates for IAP vs. web checkout for the same app: Two weeks ago,...
Andy Allen on the App Store’s Feature Stagnation
Andy Allen, of Not Boring Software, last week on Threads: While the focus on the App Store injunction has been mostly on the commission rate, what’s been overlooked is just...
US Navy Exposes Ohio-Class Nuclear Submarine in China’s Backyard
Key Points – The US Navy’s Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, USS Ohio (SSGN-726), made a significant port call in Guam starting April 23rd, with photos released May 13th, signaling a clear...
Typically interesting thoughts about AI from Neal Stephenson. “I see parallels between...
Typically interesting thoughts about AI from Neal Stephenson. “I see parallels between these and the hydrogen bomb tests that were conducted in your back yard during the 1950s.”
★ That EU App Store Warning About External Purchases Is Not New, and Apple Proposed Improving It Nine Months Ago
Apple proposed a much less objectionable “external payments” disclosure in August, but claims that the EC told them not to implement it.
Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game,' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way better
"I'm not interested in appealing to the mass market, or selling millions of copies."
Crypto Tycoon's Daughter Narrowly Escapes Kidnappers in Paris
The daughter, son-in-law, and grandson of French crypto mogul Pierre Noizat were the victims of a botched kidnapping attempt in Paris earlier this week. The trio were walking near Square...
How Digital Twins Use Big Data to Mirror the Real World
Spatio-temporal data from IoT, GPS, and apps fuels the growth of spatial digital twins. Tools like Hadoop, ArcGIS, Cesium, and Python libraries help process, analyze, and visualize these datasets for...
Future-Proofing Your Spatial Digital Twin
Building robust SDTs faces hurdles in merging varied data sources, enabling natural-language spatial queries, and benchmarking databases at scale. Future work should focus on seamless multi-resolution integration, leveraging large language...
NEXPACE Launches MapleStory N And NXPC Token, Charting a New Chapter For MapleStory Universe
MapleStory Universe brings player-owned economies to life as a blockchain-powered expansion of the 23-year old MMORPG IP, powered by its proprietary NXPC token. Now live on Bitget, Bithumb, Binance, Bybit,...
Avowed lets you replace spiders with orbs in the first of its major updates coming this year
A photo mode is coming before the end of the year too.
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