Apple first company to be found violating DMA
Today, the European Commission has informed Apple of its preliminary view that its App Store rules are in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), as they prevent app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative channels for offers and content. In addition, the Commission opened a new non-compliance procedure against Apple over concerns that its new contractual requirements for third-party app developers and app stores, includin … ⌘ Read more
How much RAM will you need in 5 years?
When did 8 GB become “barely enough”? ⌘ Read more
iOS and iPadOS 18 can format external drives
I can’t believe this is considered something I need to write about, but it’s still a very welcome new feature that surprisingly has taken this long to become available: iOS and iPadOS 18 now allow you to format external storage devices. Last year when I began testing iPadOS 17 betas, I noticed the addition of options for renaming and erasing external drives in the Files app. I watched these options over the course of the beta cycle for iPadOS … ⌘ Read more
Argentina: Javier Milei celebrates first week without food inflation in 30 years ⌘ Read more
Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian troops as soon as it was allowed to strike across the border, commander says ⌘ Read more
(#wf53u3q) @bender@bender Gotta fix that bug one day 🤣
@bender Gotta fix that bug one day 🤣 ⌘ Read more
(#4p5siaq) @xuu Like with no opt-out?! 🤔 😮
@xuu @txt.sour.is Like with no opt-out?! 🤔 😮 ⌘ Read more
Russia started Berlin factory fire as part of hybrid war on Europe, report says ⌘ Read more
Six Jewish minors attacked outside movie theater in Paris suburb ⌘ Read more
Secrets of salt drop stains unveiled: New research decodes chemical composition from simple photos
Imagine zooming in on a dried drop of salt solution—each pattern a unique masterpiece, reminiscent of abstract art, yet no larger than the size of a penny. ⌘ Read more
AI-based approach matches protein interaction partners
Proteins are the building blocks of life, involved in virtually every biological process. Understanding how proteins interact with each other is crucial for deciphering the complexities of cellular functions, and has significant implications for drug development and the treatment of diseases. ⌘ Read more
US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
The Recording Industry Association of America and record labels allege that the leading AI music generators trained on their artists’ work without permission. ⌘ Read more
Oct. 7 survivors sue UNRWA ⌘ Read more
4 Best Chromebooks (2024): Tested and Reviewed
Choosing the right Chromebook for your needs can be a tough decision. We can help with our favorite picks. ⌘ Read more
Lebanon holds tour of airport to prove there is no Hezbollah weapons stockpile, but denies entry to air cargo center ⌘ Read more
The 9 Best TVs We’ve Reviewed, Plus Buying Advice for Normies (2024)
From LEDs to fancy OLED models, these are our favorite televisions at every price. ⌘ Read more
Boeing plane plummets 7,600 metres and makes emergency landing | South China Morning Post ⌘ Read more
**(#jhw5eoa) > it is not weird, it is an “mdash”.
Thanks! That’s it! 😅**
it is not weird, it is an “mdash”.
Thanks! That’s it! 😅 ⌘ Read more
(#jhw5eoa) @bender@bender Well I think it’s a bug IMO, but I’ll have to file this upstream, unless you can? It should be filed against this …
@bender Well I think it’s a bug IMO, but I’ll have to file this upstream, unless you can? It should be filed against this project – We still haven’t migrated to goldmark 😅 ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Surface Pro (11th Edition) Review: An Overpriced 2-in-1
Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1 Surface delivers good performance (if you don’t play any games) and excellent battery life, but it’s way too expensive. ⌘ Read more
We Tried HelloFresh and It Was Easy and Delicious
Detailed instructions and tasty food make this a meal kit worth considering. ⌘ Read more
Unwelcome at the Debate, RFK Jr.’s Star Shines on TikTok Live
TikTok creators are hosting their own town halls with third-party candidates, bypassing mainstream media and platforming conspiracies. ⌘ Read more
Dubai to build $8 bn stormwater runoff system after record floods
Dubai on Monday announced an $8 billion plan for a stormwater runoff system, two months after an unprecedented deluge and widespread flooding brought the desert state to a standstill. ⌘ Read more
Mashed up purple marine bacteria makes an excellent eco-friendly fertilizer
New research published in npj Sustainable Agriculture reports that biomass made from the purple photosynthetic marine bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is an excellent nitrogen fertilizer. ⌘ Read more
Genetic switch in plants can turn simple spoon-shaped leaves into complex leaves with leaflets
The diversity of forms of living organisms is enormous. But how the individual cells together coordinate the formation of organs and tissues in complex organisms is still an open question. ⌘ Read more
EU says Apple’s App Store Is in Breach of Rules
Apple has been warned that its App Store is in breach of EU rules, and has backtracked on plans to roll out AI tech in Europe over regulatory concerns. ⌘ Read more
Apple found in breach of EU competition rules | European Commission finds iPhone maker broke new laws designed to protect smaller competitors against big tech platforms ⌘ Read more
Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 to Developers
Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after the release of the first betas after the WWDC 2024 keynote e … ⌘ Read more
Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Sequoia to Developers
Apple today seeded the second beta of upcoming an upcoming macOS 15 Sequoia update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after the release of the first beta after the WWDC 2024 keynote event.
Registered deve … ⌘ Read more
The Eternal Truth of Markdown
An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. ⌘ Read more
萬字解析 mysql innodb 事務實現原理
0 前言近期在持續學習 mysql innodb 底層技術細節相關內容，繼上期鎖原理篇之後，本期我們以 innodb 中的事務實現原理作爲主題，展開交流探討.有關本篇內容的目錄大綱展示如下：| 章節 | 小節 | 備註 || — | — | — || 1 事務基本概念 | 1.1 原子性 Atomicity | 事務原子性的概念；innodb 如何保證原子性 || 1.2 一致性 Co ⌘ Read more
Rust 如何避免 Box 常見的使用陷阱？
在系統編程的世界裏，有效和安全地管理內存是一個關鍵的挑戰。Rust 以其獨特的內存管理方法脫穎而出，提供了強大的工具來處理這種複雜性。其中一個工具是 BoxT 類型，它以一種與 Rust 的所有權和借用規則無縫集成的方式進行堆分配。本文將深入探討 BoxT 的工作原理、它的優點、在 Rust 編程中的用例以及常見的使用陷阱。理解 BoxTBoxT 類型是 Rust 的智能指針之一，它提供了一種在堆 ⌘ Read more
Vue 單文件組件 SFC
Vue 單文件組件 (Single File Components, SFC) 是 Vue.js 提供的一種組件格式，允許開發者在一個文件中編寫組件的模板、腳本和樣式。SFC 通常以 .vue 文件爲擴展名。以下是 SFC 的工作原理和其各個部分的詳細解釋：SFC 文件結構一個典型的 Vue SFC 文件包含三個部分：模板 (template)：定義組件的 HTML 結構。2. 腳本 (scrip ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Readers –
SR needs some help. I have been doing this every day for 33 years without pay, and Beth Alexander, SR’s webmaster, does her part for a fraction of what she ought to be paid. I don’t permit advertising because I don’t have time to research whether an advertiser is a company that fosters wellbeing. So there is no income from that. But doing this is getting difficult. Every aspect of producti … ⌘ Read more
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel, Senior Editor | Senior Data Reporter | Business and Consumer Finance Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: If American voters are stupid enough to elect criminal Trump for President, which I hope does not happen, he has promised his uber-rich backers he will lower their taxes and … ⌘ Read more
Gen Z putting homeownership dreams on hold
Sami Sparber, Staff Writer - Axios
_Stephan: Because of the endless greed of American corporations, the Great Schism Trend, the lack of universal birthright single payer healthcare and the cost of every aspect of healthcare, as well as the grotesque wealth inequality, and what climate change is doing, the culture of the United States is radically changing, and not in a good way. Like many of my friends, I bought my first house in 1971 w … ⌘ Read more
In the Year of Climate Finance, We Need to See Billions Flow Towards Transforming Our Food Systems
LAUREN BAKER, JANE MALAND CADY, and MICHAEL KWAME NKONU, Senior Director of Programs at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food | Program Director, Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems, McKnight Foundation | Head of Portfolio - Agricultural Livelihoods at the IKEA Foundation. - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Finally, h … ⌘ Read more
Linux 服務管理之 syste
簡介systemd 是一種用於 Linux 操作系統的初始化系統和服務管理器，由 Lennart Poettering 主導開發並在 LGPL 2.1 及其後續版本許可證下開源發佈。自 2010 年代中期以來，systemd 已經廣泛被多數主流 Linux 發行版採用，如 Ubuntu、Fedora、openSUSE、Debian 和 CentOS/RHEL 7 及以後版本，作爲默認的初始化系統取 ⌘ Read more
How milk became the new culture war dividing America
Tony Diver, Reporter - Yahoo News / The Telegraph (U.K.)
_Stephan: The willful ignorance, actually the stupidity, of anti-vaxxers anti-science mostly Republican MAGAts is amazing to me. The anti-vaxxers died by hundreds of thousands because they would not get vaccinated. Now they want to go back to drinking raw milk. Milk has been pasteurized for over a hundred years since Louis Pasteur discovered pasteurization in … ⌘ Read more
Parasites Were Found In North Korea’s Trash Balloons, Seoul Says ⌘ Read more
Rust 中 Future 的 liveness 問題
引言–Rust 的 futures 與大多數其他語言支持異步計算的方式不同; 除非你定期輪詢它們, 否則它們不能保證取得進展。具體來說, Future 有一個 poll 函數, 它接受一個 Waker, 當 future 可以取得進展時, 它會調用 Waker 的 wake 方法, 然後 “某些東西” 應該再次調用 poll。這主要由執行器 (如 tokio、 embassy 等) 處理, 執行 ⌘ Read more
Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse
With cyberattacks increasingly targeting health care providers, an arduous bureaucratic process meant to address legal risk is keeping hospitals offline longer, potentially risking lives. ⌘ Read more
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed
It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t solve the problem of one-third of dementia patients still going undiagnosed. ⌘ Read more
EU creates loophole to circumvent Hungary’s veto on support for Ukraine – the FT ⌘ Read more
So Belong (out retail mobile phone provider of choice), who are owned by Telstra want to increase the price of their plans by +40%.
Telstra, who own Belong, have had the following financial earnings over the past 4 years:
- FY2021: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +3.4% $1.9B
- FY2022: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): -4.6% $1.8B
- FY2023: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +13.1% $2.1B
- FY2024: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +11.4% $1B
Not sure how this year’s results had a +11.4% increase, but only $1B in profits.
**So Belong (out retail mobile phone provider of choice), who are owned by Telstra want to increase the price of their plans by +40%.
Telstra, …**
So Belong ( out retail mobile phone provider of choice), who are owned by Telstra want to increase the price of their plans by +40%.
Telstra, who own Belong, have had the following financial earnings over the past 4 years:
FY2021: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +3.4% $1.9B
FY2022: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): -4.6% $1.8B
FY2023: NP … ⌘ Read more