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NASA's Punch Begins Mission to Study Solar Wind

nasa.gov

Mission controllers for NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) have received full acquisition...
Mission controllers for NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) have received full acquisition of signal from the four small satellites, indicating that they are functioning normally and at full power. Over a two-year planned mission, PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona...
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Are There Opportunities to Use OODA Loops in Your Software Project?

atomicobject.com

The world is full of good ideas misapplied, so I want to be careful when discussing...
The world is full of good ideas misapplied, so I want to be careful when discussing OODA loops. The OODA loop was created as an idea in the study of war. War is endemic to the way humans are (at least, so far), but it is always, in part or in whole, a tragedy. And characterizing software engineering, business operat...
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Photographers Are on Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits

404media.co

features news
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Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

ubuntu.com

Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes...
Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”. There are many areas we could look to modernise in Ubuntu: we could focus on the graphical shell experience, the virtuali...
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Is Rust a good fit for business apps?

bartoszsypytkowski.com

rust threading
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Ruth Belville: the "Greenwich Time Lady" who sold time from 1892 to 1940 (2022)

eehe.org.uk
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Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

newscientist.com

chatgpt politics uk
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Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

independent.co.uk

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights,...
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Shadeform (YC S23) is hiring a senior founding engineer

ycombinator.com
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Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

cnbc.com

This photo illustration created Jan. 7, 2025, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta,...
This photo illustration created Jan. 7, 2025, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo.Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty ImagesMeta is seeking to stop the promotion of a new memoir by a former staffer that paints the social media company in an unflattering light, including allegations o...

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Time Trouble

os2museum.com

Last Friday I had a moment of panic. While investigating why different run-time libraries might interpret...
Last Friday I had a moment of panic. While investigating why different run-time libraries might interpret file timestamps differently, I noticed that even Windows doesn’t always agree with itself. When was dos4gw.exe last modified, at 10:14 PM or 9:14 PM? Which is it, 9:14 PM or 10:14 PM? For some (but not all) file...
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Amateur Telescope Making Main Page

stellafane.org

Russell PorterGrinding a Mirror "For it is true that astronomy, from a popular standpoint, is handicapped...
Russell PorterGrinding a Mirror "For it is true that astronomy, from a popular standpoint, is handicapped by the inability of the average workman to own an expensive astronomical telescope. It is also true that if an amateur starts out to build a telescope just for fun he will find, before his labors are over, that ...
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The FAA's Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know

theatlantic.com

politics
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Cheating scandal shocks ski jumping, topples Olympic champions

apnews.com

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] GENEVA (AP) — Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] GENEVA (AP) — Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal that escalated Wednesday.Cheating by Norway team officials manipulating ski suits has shaken a national reputation ...

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Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis

copetti.org
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Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe

ftm.eu

Authorities suspect that Huawei lobbyists have paid bribes to MEPs in return for backing their cause...
Authorities suspect that Huawei lobbyists have paid bribes to MEPs in return for backing their cause in the European Union. Around 15 former and current MEPs are “on the radar” of the investigators. In the early hours, Belgium’s federal police raided Huawei’s EU office and the homes of lobbyists for the Chinese tech...
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Open source software for modeling soft materials

tufts.edu

When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation...
When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the optimal geometry that bears loads with the minimum cost of material. Designing for relatively hard materials that do not de...
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Jed Wagner on Being the Sole Maintainer of the Veterans Appeals System

logicmag.io

Tell us about your job. My official title is Computer Specialist. I’ve been the lead developer...
Tell us about your job. My official title is Computer Specialist. I’ve been the lead developer on a team of one for over thirty years. I created and maintain a computer system called VACOLS, the Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System, which manages the appeals process for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. ...
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Dithering in Colour

obrhubr.org
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Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

cursor.com

AI-powered IDE with Chat, Tab, and Agent for intelligent code development
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The political economy of Manus AI

marginalrevolution.com
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Shite: The little hot-reloadin' static site generator from shell

github.com
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The city that forgot itself

thecritic.co.uk

This article is taaraen from the March 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full...
This article is taaraen from the March 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Greek flags flutter from apartment blocks, Orthodox monks amble past statues of statesmen and freedom fighters along boulevards named after Byzantine emperor...
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A GS-Cache Inference Framework for Large-Scale Gaussian Splatting Models

arxiv.org
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