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If you run the popular Homebrew installer @brew.sh you might want to read this. E.g. signed binaries will become mandatory soon, and there is a deadline (2027) for Intel support on macOS.
Mike McQuaid@mikemcquaid.com · 9mo ago🍺 Today I'm proud to announce Homebrew (@brew.sh) 5.0.0 bringing you download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel and removing macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours. Read more at brew.sh/2025/11/12/h...
In today’s Russian papers: ▪️ Russia’s budget deficit gets bigger ▪️ plans for a new “tax on gadgets” ▪️ a “cooling off period” for SIM cards ▪️t he dangers of rehabilitating Joseph Stalin #ReadingRussia
Russia: budget deficit grows and new "tax on gadgets"
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Node excitement 😉 Congrats to @marcoippolito.dev on making it official: type-stripping in Node 25 is now declared to be stable 🎉 You can run: node index.ts The capabilities have not changed since Node 24. This is purely a maturity indicator.
Marco Ippolito@marcoippolito.dev · 9mo agoType stripping is now stable. Enjoy 🌞
Today on the pod, Node 24 goes LTS, Nuxt Image V2 brings TS goodies, and Anders shares insights on TypeScript's AI era rise. Plus community takes on engineering practices! share.transistor.fm/s/b87c759b #typescript
Nuxt Image Loves TypeScript, Node 24 Goes LTS, and a Satisfying Use of satisfies | News | Ep 43 | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers | Episode 43
News for the week of November 3, 2025: Node 24 promoted to LTS, Nuxt Image V2 is full of TS goodies, and Anders is humbled by TypeScript's rise. From the community: TypeScript is not a substitute for...
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'A U.S. war cemetery in The Netherlands added displays about black soldiers. Then they were quietly removed' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
theguardian.com
A planned supersized floating wind turbine with two spinning heads will generate nearly double the amount of energy as the current record-holder
The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Will Smash Previous Records
A planned supersized floating wind turbine with two spinning heads will generate nearly double the amount of energy as the current record-holder
scientificamerican.com
German Nazi party is trying to forbid school teachers from condemning Nazism, calling it "unacceptable political indoctrination". Which formally makes sense, as Nazis are an official party in the parliament, and schools need to stay neutral. Thats the sort of paradoxes you get if you tolerate Nazis.
Tagesschau Bot@tagesschau.bsky.social · 9mo agoECMAScript excitement 😉 TC39 has a *packed* agenda for next week & will consider advancing: 4️⃣ Intl.Locale info 4️⃣ Iterator Sequencing 4️⃣ JSON.parse source 3️⃣ Intl Era Month Code 3️⃣ Joint Iteration 2️⃣.7️⃣ Error.prototype.stack 2️⃣.7️⃣ export defer 2️⃣ Amount 2️⃣ await dictionary 2️⃣ Declarations in Conditionals 🧵
Today one Russian paper suggests the US midterms “could undermine Donald Trump’s power & hurt Russia.” Other papers focus on Russia’s economic problems: “Zero growth in the 4th quarter…a gradual increase in crisis phenomena in manufacturing.” #ReadingRussia
Russian paper suggests the US midterm elections could "hurt Russia"
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
In today’s Russian papers: “Budget revenues still falling, trade with China declining" & ”petrol supply problems in the regions.” Plus an interesting editorial: “In a situation where almost everything is prohibited, a little something at least should be permitted” #ReadingRussia
Russian paper points out that "almost everything is prohibited" in Russia
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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New article, North Korea’s unreported submersible torpedo boat may be uncrewed www.hisutton.com/North-Korean... #OSINT
Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
NRC@nrc.nl · 9mo agoOp Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?
TPAC 2025 - Hybrid meeting
Our major event of the year gathers our community for thought-provoking discussions and coordinated work.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
statnews.com
Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line | Ken Segall
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Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
My "The Building Blocks of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Language Models" talk at the PyTorch Conference is now up on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=nDl6... The silver lining of my late arrival and rescheduling: There was no talk after mine, it's followed by a 30 min Q&A instead of just the usual 5 :)
The Building Blocks of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Language Models - Sebastian Raschka, RAIR Lab
YouTube video by PyTorch
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Currently available in early release for O’Reilly subscribers: www.oreilly.com/library/view... and it’ll be properly published and widely available from February
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved.... - Selection fro...
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Why does it feel like Chinese AI labs are informally sharing information with one another? How else can Alibaba, Baidu, MiniMax, Moonshot AI, and Zhipu AI all release state-of-the-art models around the same time?
The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs. The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.
“Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, according to the city health department. The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”
Nashville finds first measles case since 2005 as vaccine exemptions gain popularity
Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, and the infected person is now in isolation.
wpln.org
blog.cloudflare.com/async-quic-a... Cloudflare has open-sourced the tokio-quiche library, which combines the QUIC implementation they created six years ago with the Rust asynchronous runtime Tokio, to facilitate easy support for HTTP/3 and QUIC.
Async QUIC and HTTP:3 made easy- tokio-quiche is now open-source
We’re excited to announce the open sourcing of tokio-quiche, our async QUIC library built on quiche and tokio. Relied upon in our services such as iCloud Private Relay and our next-generation Oxy-base...
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Ukraine with high impact to Poltava, also affecting parts of Kyiv after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌📉
