How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
Oliver Milman , Environment Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have given you a number of articles about what climate change is doing, and is going to do to the cost of home and business insurance if you can get it at all. The insurance industry, both healthcare and real estate, poured millions of dollars into getting Trump elected, so I doubt he is going to d … ⌘ Read more
Has someone a) found a bug or security hole in GoBlog or b) actually sent well over 5 million requests to my site to like my post about how to export GPX files automatically from Komoot? 🤔 ⌘ Read more
Paul Keating set for $40 million windfall from Telstra deal
The former prime minister co-founded a budget telco in 2000, and is now set for a massive payday. ⌘ Read more
Paul Keating set for $40 million windfall from Telstra deal
The former prime minister co-founded a budget telco in 2000, and is now set for a massive payday. ⌘ Read more
The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die
The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers. ⌘ Read more
Breaking the scale: Study finds 208 million Americans are now overweight or obese
Marie Ng et al, Affiliate Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington - Study Finds
Stephan: I keep seeing study after study about the rise in obesity. It is literally killing hundreds of thousands of us each year, and shortening our already shorter than any other developed nation lifespans. This is the latest.
- [Science](https://st … ⌘ Read more
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Greg Sargent, Staff Writer - The New Republic
_Stephan: If you are an hourly worker and you voted for Trump, you just got screwed out of overtime pay, although you may not know it yet since after I found it on an academic legal site I only found this report in The New Republic in the general audience press. The media as the article describes either didn’t understand the judge’s decision … ⌘ Read more
Initial thoughts about Bluesky
There’s a lot of noise about Bluesky recently, it seems like they passed 20 million users, with more than 1 million new users daily recently. ⌘ Read more
Apple Accused of Trapping 40 Million Customers into iCloud Service
Apple is facing an almost £3 billion ($3.78 billion) lawsuit after British consumer group Which? on Thursday alleged that the company breached competition law by locking millions of its customers out of its iCloud service and charging them “rip-off prices.”
Apple users receive 5GB of free storage t … ⌘ Read more
L’État français va devoir maigrir un grand coup
À son apogée en 1921, l’Empire britannique administrait le quart de la population mondiale et presque le quart des terres émergées soit 540 millions de sujets de Sa Majesté répartis sur 33,7 millions de km². Pour gérer cette masse considérable d’individus et le plus grand empire de l’Histoire humaine jamais dépassé depuis, le gouvernement britannique […] ⌘ Read more
Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed
Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed
Indonesia iPhone Ban: Apple Proposes $10M Manufacturing Investment
Apple has proposed investing nearly $10 million in Indonesian manufacturing operations in an effort to lift the country’s recent ban on iPhone 16 sales, according to sources familiar with the matter (via South China Morning Post).
 with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more
The hundreds of millions in tax incentives for Australian start-ups that went south
The R&D tax offset has served as a life raft for some of Australia’s most prominent technology start-ups, though in some cases it wasn’t enough. ⌘ Read more
From side hustle to buzzy AI start-up: Build Club raises $1.8 million
Build Club began life as a group of friends working together over the weekend. It’s now one of Australia’s hottest start-ups. ⌘ Read more
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83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.
Though I suppose it has to be the greater of the two. But I don’t even have one euro to start with.
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83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.
Though I suppose it has to be the greater of the two. But I don’t even have one euro to start with.
‘28 Years Later’ to Be First Blockbuster Movie Shot on iPhone
With a budget of $75 million, Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” will become the first major blockbuster Hollywood movie to be shot on iPhone, WIRED reports.
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iPhone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has been “lower than expected” since the devices became available to pre-order in the U.S. and dozens of other countries on Friday. Kuo … ⌘ Read more
Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
Linux marketshare has skyrocketed in the last year. ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
The post Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
WhatsApp Reaches 100 Million Monthly Users in the United States
WhatsApp this week reached a significant milestone of 100 million monthly active users in the United States, a market traditionally dominated by other messaging services such as SMS and iMessage.
The achievement, announced in an official blog post, indicates a potent … ⌘ Read more
Authy Users Urged to Stay Alert After Hack Exposes 33 Million Phone Numbers
Twilio has updated its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service after a hacker claimed to have retrieved 33 million phone numbers from its user database.
TechCrunch reports that the hacker(s) known as ShinyHunters took to a well-kn … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services
I will comment on an interesting article from Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund breaking down the cost of running a large-scale messaging platform.
It estimates that the cost to operate Signal messaging will reach 50 million dollars per year in 2025.
Habbo Launches Classic Version of Game on Mac in Throwback to 2005
If you were a kid who grew up using the internet in the early 2000s, there is a good chance that you heard of Habbo Hotel. Once a massively popular virtual world with millions of players, the game slowly died out over the years as the young teenagers who played it eventually became adults and moved on with life.
With the modern version of Habbo no longer offering th … ⌘ Read more
My opinion is that we need more Gophers, good, bad, or otherwise. Let there be thousands, millions of different gophers. Now there are no more than 400 servers left online. I’ll have a panic attack and cry again (
Facebook, Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out
If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union, you can’t stop them. ⌘ Read more
New York Times Source Code Leaked (and verified)
Over 3.6 Million files totaling over 334 GB. And it’s real. Source code. Documentation. Markdown files. The works. ⌘ Read more
Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
Notorious hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen the personal details and credit card information of millions of customers around the world. ⌘ Read more
Communications watchdog suing Optus over data breach
Some 10 million customers had their information stolen in what was one of the worst cyberattacks in Australian history. ⌘ Read more
Communications watchdog suing Optus over data breach
Some 10 million customers had their information stolen in what was one of the worst cyberattacks in Australian history. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and would save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and would save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Instant Scalability with MongooseIM and CETS
The main feature of the recently released MongooseIM 6.2.1 is the improved CETS in-memory storage backend which makes it much easier to scale up.
It is difficult to predict how much traffic your XMPP server will need to handle. Are you going to have thousands or millions of connected users? … ⌘ Read more
Discotheque: Music mogul Matt Gudinski joins investors sinking $10 million into start-up
Matt Gudinski is bringing his record label - which just turned 50 - firmly into the 21st century with a new investment. ⌘ Read more
Docker and JFrog partner to further secure Docker Hub and remove millions of imageless repos with malicious links
Docker and JFrog partner further secure Docker Hub by removing millions of imageless repos with malicious links. ⌘ Read more
Securing millions of developers through 2FA
We’ve dramatically increased 2FA adoption on GitHub as part of our responsibility to make the software ecosystem more secure. Read on to learn how we secured millions of developers and why we’re urging more organizations to join us in these efforts.
The post Securing millions of developers through 2FA appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Udemy Announce New Partnership to Supercharge the Next Generation of Cloud Native Developers
The partnership seeks to help millions of current and aspiring developers upskill on key Kubernetes disciplines to enhance their level of cloud native proficiency PARIS, France – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe –– March 21, 2024 –– The Cloud… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Member Akamai Upgrades Its Membership to Gold
The distributed cloud provider increases its investment in the cloud native ecosystem, earmarking $1 million in credits for CNCF compute infrastructure projects PARIS, France – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – March 20, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing… ⌘ Read more
‘Very graphic picture’ costs mum $1 million
A woman in Ireland lost a more than $1.2 million (AUD) in an injury lawsuit stemming from a car crash after photos showed her winning a Christmas tree throwing competition. ⌘ Read more
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says enthusiasm is high for Tuesday’s primary
Tomorrow is the last day to vote in Michigan’s Presidential Primary - Tuesday, Feb 27th. More than one million people have already voted - either by absentee ballot or early in-person voting. ⌘ Read more
Bowser unveils $400M plan to revitalize Downton DC
Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a $400 million plan Monday she hopes will help revitalize Downtown D.C. FOX 5’s Bob Barnard has the story. ⌘ Read more
Bird-feed loaf and a date: What children eat in Gaza
Hunger stalks the entire Gaza Strip, the tiny enclave where 2.3 million people have been living under Israel’s bombardment since Oct. 7 as it battles Hamas militants. In central Gaza, three young brothers had run away in secret to take refuge with their aunt in her tent in Deir al-Balah because there was nothing to eat in Gaza City. Just north of Deir al-Balah, Warda Mattar, a displaced mother … ⌘ Read more
Greens have ‘no idea what they’re doing’: Paul Murray
On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray Live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Dunkley by-election, cost-of-living, Greens mega tax and more.
Sky News host Paul Murray says the Green have “no idea what they’re doing”.
“They want to introduce new super profit taxes on businesses that have a turnover of $100 million dollars or more.
“Remember, turnover is not profit.
“But the Greens say you sh … ⌘ Read more
Affordable housing: Millions raised in Austin
A local non-profit is raising millions of dollars to develop affordable homes in Austin, thanks to a collaboration of investors, community partners and other non-profits. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million PCs To Landfills, Study Finds
According to Canalys Research, Microsoft’s plan to end support for Windows 10 could result in about 240 million computers being sent to landfills. “The electronic waste from these PCs could weigh an estimated 480 million kilograms, equivalent to 320,000 cars,” adds Reuters. From the report: W … ⌘ Read more
Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings
Learn about how we run a scalable vulnerability management program built on top of GitHub.
The post Scaling vulnerability management across thousands of services and more than 150 million findings appeared first on … ⌘ Read more
Watch YouTube Without Ads with FreeTube for Mac, Windows, Linux
YouTube is the webs most popular video site by a long shot, practically serving as a television replacement for millions. But as any Youtube viewer knows, the ads can be very aggressive and there are times where you’ll have to watch a 30 second ad before you can watch one minute of content, which is … Read More ⌘ Read more
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Why Are There More Than 100 Million Pull Requests for AI/ML Images on Docker Hub?
We look more closely at how Docker provides a powerful tool for AI/ML development. ⌘ Read more
I wonder when they will show a UAP\UFO in physical form to everyone.
So much talk about it - but no physical evidence is shown.
I have no doubt that tech like that exists somewhere in the universe - it’s not unlikely at all.
Just think about the tech advancement the last 200 years, and then what if there exists others that are 1 million years beyond our timeline.
Banquiers à Washington : les larmes des mauvais perdants
Un texte de Henry Bonner Imaginez : vous êtes un PDG de banque, vous gagnez un salaire de plusieurs millions de dollars par an, vous pouvez faire partie des meilleurs “country clubs” de Californie et envoyer vos enfants dans les meilleures écoles. De façon soudaine, votre banque commence à perdre des clients, des dizaines de milliards […] ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 6.1: Handle more traffic, consume less resources
MongooseIM is a highly customisable instant messaging backend, that can handle millions of messages per minute, exchanged between millions of users from thousands of dynamically configurable XMPP domains. With the new release 6.1.0 it becomes even more cost-efficient, flexible and robust thanks to the new arm64 [Docker containers](https://hub.docker. … ⌘ Read more
performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl to cultivate a new gradientspawn
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more
We Won (1 MILLION SUBS!) ⌘ Read more
Open source’s impact on the world’s 100 million developers
We’re taking a look at how open source software has evolved on GitHub, and how the role of a maintainer and contributor has changed alongside the massive growth in open source software. ⌘ Read more
100 million developers and counting
There are now 100 million developers around the world using GitHub. Here’s what this means—and why it’s just the beginning. ⌘ Read more
So many hacks and scams in the crypto space, no wonder it’s so lucrative to do such things.
Just sit at home at the computer, hack stuff, earn millions.
Basecamp Details ‘Obscene’ $3.2 Million Bill That Prompted It To Quit the Cloud
An anonymous reader shares a report: David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals – which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products – has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud in October 2022. The CTO and creator of Ruby On Rails did all the sums and came up with an e … ⌘ Read more
Report: Over 33 Million Desktop Linux users, worldwide
A detailed analysis of all available Desktop Linux market share metrics. ⌘ Read more
How to Make Millions Counting Cards ⌘ Read more
The Million Monkeys Theorem of Programming
It’s science. ⌘ Read more
How to Build and Run Next.js Applications with Docker, Compose, & NGINX
At DockerCon 2022, Kathleen Juell, a Full Stack Engineer at Sourcegraph, shared some tips for combining Next.js, Docker, and NGINX to serve static content. With nearly 400 million active websites today, efficient content delivery is key to attracting new web application users. In some cases, using Next.js can boost deployment efficiency, accelerate time to market, […] ⌘ Read more
How to Develop and Deploy a Customer Churn Prediction Model Using Python, Streamlit, and Docker
Customer churn is a million-dollar problem for businesses today. The SaaS market is becoming increasingly saturated, and customers can choose from plenty of providers. Retention and nurturing are challenging. Online businesses view customers as churn when they stop purchasing goods and services. Customer churn can depend on industry-specific factors, y … ⌘ Read more
GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default
As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more
No more GitHub Copilot for me
I was an avid user of GitHub Copilot during the technical preview phase. Apparently, as many as 1.2 million developers used Copilot. But now Copilot is out of beta and suddenly costs money. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more
Docker Verified Publisher: Trusted Sources, Trusted Content
Six months since its launch at DockerCon, the Docker Verified Publisher program delivers on its promise to developers and partners alike The Docker Verified Publisher program means trusted content and trusted sources for the millions of Docker users. At the May 2021 DockerCon, Docker announced its Secure Software Supply Chain initiative, highlighting Docker Verified Publisher […]
The post [Docker Verified Publishe … ⌘ Read more
The 2021 State of the Octoverse
The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers & repos to share trends across working habits, productivity, and career satisfaction. ⌘ Read more
An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. — The Guardian
And from the same article:
India’s skewed ratio of men to women – currently between 900-930 females per 1,000 males – reflects India’s ingrained attitude towards girls. Boys are seen as breadwinners while girls are seen as a burden across every social class. Boys are more likely to receive more nutritious food and better medical care than girls.
That is just beyond sad.
Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions
Docker is used by millions of developers to build, share, and run any app, anywhere, and 55% of professional developers use Docker every day at work. In these work environments, the increase in outside attacks on software supply chains is accelerating developer demand for Docker’s trusted content, including Docker Official Images and Docker Verified Publisher […]
The post [Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
35 millions d’Européens privés de vacances en raison de leurs faibles revenus ⌘ Read more…
Niplav Yushtun, treasurer of the “Clone John von Neumann a Million Times” party
Only Use Old Computers!
The ideal ThiccPad.
If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.
If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more
There’s a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. “A micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death ” Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
There’s a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. “A micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death ” Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
There’s a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. “A micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death ” Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
Scaling Docker’s Business to Serve Millions More Developers: Storage ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serve-millions-more-developers-storage/
Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/
the brand that burnt a million caves of quud
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/
Trendism is the logic of the Spectacle applied recursively: the image doesn’t matter, but whether or not the appearance of its appearance appears is worth arbitrary millions.
#now-playing ‘22, A Million’ by Bon Iver https://boniver.bandcamp.com/album/22-a-million
Girlfriend Roleplay videos are racking up millions of views on YouTube, here’s why - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7v9w/meet-the-whispering-girls-of-youtube-who-pretend-to-be-your-girlfriend?utm_source=idtwitter
I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I’ve just done 140K records.
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
What You Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/
So you bought a ghost town | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5605/ghost-town-owners-12-million
Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously
life hex: is your company’s marketing falling flat? Before spending millions on a re-branding effort, try charging your existing logo by staring at it during orgasm and then reproducing it in seminal fluid
We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.