The EU is backing tougher migration policies that seek to ramp up deportations of failed asylum-seekers. Under the new legislation, EU states can establish "return hubs." Read more ›
NEW YORK — The NHL said Thursday it completed a review of Mike Babcock’s tenure in Columbus, cleared him to coach the Edmonton Oilers if they opt to hire him. Read more ›
I was tempted to go back to reading RSS but after a few days I just couldn't any longer. Tapestry is a cool app for iPhone and Mac and recently it was $3... Read more ›
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is amazing. It allows you to precisely define how an image should look. Written in XML, it uses various mathematical operations to display an image which looks crisp and clear at any size. Here's a trivial example: … Read more ›
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh opened a new era of US monetary policy on Wednesday, with officials agreeing to leave interest rates unchanged despite inflation stuck well above their target but also launching an ambitious review that could reshape how the central bank makes decisions and communicates with the public. Read more ›
I’d really like to create a web service that implements Micropub as a front end to many different blogging systems. Read more ›
The US has imposed visa restrictions on several members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia who it said were threatening peace and stability in the Horn of Africa nation. Read more ›
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Classiq, the leading quantum computing software company, and Rolls-Royce today published a new technical blog describing work that examines how quantum computing methods could support computational fluid dynamics (CFD), one of the most demanding areas of engineering simulation. CFD is used across industries such as... Read more ›
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over […] Read more ›
Trump made the surprise demand over Truth Social in his latest dustup with Senate Republicans, insisting instead they first confirm Clayton’s successor as US Attorney for the Southern Distric… Read more ›
Both Google and Amazon have generative AI-powered smart speakers for under $100, so which one stands out? Read more ›
Simon at Firesphere.dev wrote a short post titled If you want to buy me a coffee in response to a hot take post on the IndieWeb against “Buy Me a Coffee” buttons on blogs or capitalism or something. But instead of joining the button debate, he stated what kind of cofee he would like for […] Read more ›
Edge devices now behave like cloud systems, and software has outgrown cross-compilation. Why a growing class of small teams needs a build system shaped for that job. Read more ›
American University philosopher Karin Meyers made an important contribution to Buddhist philosophical studies with her 2016 essay “The damned topics of Buddhist philosophy”. The essay (… Read more ›
Last week I spent a few days in Switzerland. I went to Zürich on Thursday to meet up with a few people, having a pleasant chat with Beat Döbeli about his 30 year old PKM system Biblionetz, and a nice dinner with long time open data friend André Golliez, who chairs the Swiss Data Alliance. […] Read more ›
The computational neuroscientist on how scientists themselves need to better advocate for government support Read more ›
South Africa rallied from a goal down to hold the Czech Republic to a 1-1 draw in their opening World Cup match on Thursday, with Teboho Mokoena converting a late penalty to cancel out Michal Sadilek's first-half strike. Read more ›