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Relational Quantum Mechanics: A Revolutionary Interpretation

2025-02-11

Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) offers a radical departure from traditional quantum interpretations. Instead of focusing on wave functions or quantum states, RQM centers on the values of physical variables, which are inherently relational and only actualized during interactions between systems. This challenges classical assumptions of absolute, always-defined variable values. RQM reinterprets quantum superposition, not as a 'half-alive, half-dead cat,' but as probability distributions influenced by interference effects. It differs from interpretations like Many-Worlds and Bohmian mechanics by emphasizing the relativity of all physical variables and avoiding the measurement problem. While RQM faces criticism, such as potential solipsism arising from its relative perspectives, it provides a novel and thought-provoking approach to understanding quantum mechanics.

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(plato.stanford.edu)
Tech interpretation

Danish Citizens Petition to Buy California

2025-02-11
Danish Citizens Petition to Buy California

In response to President Trump's repeated suggestions of the U.S. acquiring Greenland, Danish citizens have launched a satirical petition to purchase California. The online petition, aiming for the 'Denmarkification' of California, has garnered nearly 200,000 signatures. The humorous proposal highlights California's sunshine, tech industry dominance, and Disneyland (to be renamed after Hans Christian Andersen) as enticements. This lighthearted counter-move underscores the tension between California and the Trump administration, mirroring Trump's pursuit of Greenland.

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(ktla.com)
Misc international politics online petition

Jeep's Full-Screen Ads: A PR Nightmare

2025-02-11

Stellantis, parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, is facing backlash for implementing full-screen pop-up ads on its infotainment systems. Jeep owners report being bombarded with ads, particularly for Mopar extended warranties, every time the vehicle stops. This intrusive advertising is disrupting the driving experience and causing significant frustration. While Stellantis claims the ads are part of a SiriusXM contract and suggests users simply close them, the move is seen as prioritizing ad revenue over user experience, particularly given the high cost of new vehicles. The negative response has prompted discussion among Jeep owners about finding ways to disable the ads, highlighting a growing consumer backlash against subscription models and in-car advertising.

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(techstory.in)
Tech in-car advertising subscription models

Google Calendar Removes Default Highlighting of Cultural Observances, Sparking Outrage

2025-02-11
Google Calendar Removes Default Highlighting of Cultural Observances, Sparking Outrage

Google Calendar has removed the default highlighting of cultural events like Pride Month and Black History Month, leading to significant user backlash. Users have criticized the move as "shameful" and accused Google of capitulating to fascism. Google responded that maintaining hundreds of global cultural events manually was unsustainable, so they reverted to displaying only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com, allowing users to add other events manually. The reasoning and timeline behind the change remain contested.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Cultural Observances Controversy

LHC Ultraperipheral Collisions Unravel the Mystery of Gluon Saturation

2025-02-11
LHC Ultraperipheral Collisions Unravel the Mystery of Gluon Saturation

Ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offer a unique window into gluon dynamics. Experiments use photons to probe gluons within protons and nuclei, investigating gluon saturation—a dynamic equilibrium between gluon splitting and recombination. Researchers found that as energy decreases, the number of gluons in hadrons increases, forming 'gluonic hotspots' that overlap in the gluon saturation regime. The experiments also observed nuclear shadowing, where nuclei contain fewer gluons than expected. These findings shed light on the origin of 99% of the visible universe's mass and the nature of the strong interaction. Future LHC runs and the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will further explore gluon dynamics, uncovering more mysteries.

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(cerncourier.com)
Tech gluon saturation hadron physics

Floppotron 3.0: A 512-Floppy-Drive Orchestra Upgrade

2025-02-11

The Floppotron 3.0 is here! This massive hardware orchestra, featuring 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners, and 16 hard disk drives, has undergone a major upgrade. This enhanced version boasts increased scale and capabilities, incorporating custom electronic circuits and a completely rewritten firmware. The article details its operational principles, construction, and sound generation, explaining the intricacies of the floppy disk drive wall, scanners, and hard drives, and how MIDI controls them to produce music. It also addresses the significant power consumption and the power supply solution, along with plans for future instrument additions.

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(silent.org.pl)
Hardware Creation

TikTok Sidesteps US Ban: Encourages Android Users to Sideload APK

2025-02-11
TikTok Sidesteps US Ban: Encourages Android Users to Sideload APK

Facing potential US bans, TikTok has implemented a workaround. While President Trump's executive order temporarily halted a ban, TikTok is encouraging Android users to download the app directly from its website as an APK file, bypassing the Google Play Store. This allows TikTok to temporarily circumvent app store bans, though a similar option isn't yet available for iOS users.

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(techcrunch.com)
Tech APK Sideloading

Google Maps Renames the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America'

2025-02-11
Google Maps Renames the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America'

Google Maps has updated its maps in the US to reflect the Trump administration's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America', showing the new name on both web and mobile platforms. Google states this follows the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Mexican users still see 'Gulf of Mexico', while the rest of the world sees the original name with '(Gulf of America)' appended. Location is determined by mobile OS, SIM card, and network data. Desktop users see the changes based on search settings or device location. Apple Maps has yet to change, though redirects 'Gulf of America' searches to the Gulf of Mexico. Other map providers like MapQuest haven't updated either. Interestingly, Waze shows both names when searching 'Gulf of Mexico', but yields no results for 'Gulf of America'.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Name Change Gulf of Mexico

Brave Browser's New Custom Scriptlets: Take Control of Your Browsing Experience

2025-02-11
Brave Browser's New Custom Scriptlets: Take Control of Your Browsing Experience

Brave Browser version 1.75 introduces 'custom scriptlets' for desktop users, allowing advanced users to inject their own JavaScript into websites for deep customization. Similar to Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey, this feature enables users to create scripts modifying website functionality. Initially developed for debugging Brave's ad blocker, its value led to its release. Custom scriptlets enhance privacy, security, and usability by blocking trackers, customizing appearance, and improving accessibility. However, caution is advised as untrusted scripts pose risks. The feature is located in `brave://settings/shields/filters` and requires enabling 'Developer mode'.

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(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Development Brave Browser Custom Scriptlets

Xvesa Resurrection: A Tiny X Server Rises Again

2025-02-11
Xvesa Resurrection: A Tiny X Server Rises Again

Xvesa, a lightweight X server, has been resurrected from the depths of git history! The team chose to maintain it with Xfbdev, prioritizing bug fixes, security improvements, and occasional new features because TinyX servers are much smaller than Xorg can be. Version 1.2.0 was chosen over 1.3.0 due to input issues in the latter. The design emphasizes minimalism and full functionality, omitting xkb, xinput, xinerama, and gl. TCP listening is disabled by default, and shadow framebuffer is enabled. The license is GPLv3.

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(github.com)
Development X server

Order-Independent Keyword Arguments in C++26 using Reflection

2025-02-11

This blog post explores implementing order-independent keyword arguments for C++ using C++26's proposed reflection features. The author stumbled upon this technique while experimenting with reflection and shares it as a compelling demonstration of the power of these features. The post contrasts this approach with prior, less elegant solutions, including designated initializers and helper objects. The core of the post details how to leverage reflection to achieve order-independent and optional keyword arguments, providing complete code examples and explanations. This includes handling lambda expression captures and extending the fmt library for enhanced formatting capabilities.

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(pydong.org)
Development Keyword Arguments

Smooth Scroll Animations: Say Goodbye to Janky Scrolling

2025-02-10
Smooth Scroll Animations: Say Goodbye to Janky Scrolling

Tired of janky scroll animations? The new Scroll-driven Animations specification is here! Integrating with the Web Animations API and CSS Animations API, it enables silky-smooth scroll animations running off the main thread. Create stunning effects like parallax backgrounds, reading progress indicators, and image reveals with minimal code. The article features numerous demos and a video course to help you get started building amazing scroll-driven experiences.

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(scroll-driven-animations.style)
Development Scroll Animations

IT Hiring: A Rollercoaster Ride?

2025-02-10
IT Hiring: A Rollercoaster Ride?

While US Bureau of Labor Statistics data paints a bleak picture of IT hiring, Janco Associates argues otherwise. A reclassification of job titles led to a downward revision of over 111,000 positions in November and December 2024, resulting in a net loss of 123,200 IT jobs for the year. However, Janco reports that IT hiring is actually on the rise, with 11,000 new roles added in January 2025. Despite this, January's IT unemployment rate remained at 5.7%, higher than the national average. High demand exists for AI specialists, security professionals, and new technology programmers. Janco predicts IT job growth in the next five years, but anticipates the elimination of many white-collar IT roles due to AI automation.

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(www.theregister.com)
Tech IT hiring

Greenland Ice Sheet Crevasses Accelerate Melt: A Rising Sea Level Threat

2025-02-10
Greenland Ice Sheet Crevasses Accelerate Melt: A Rising Sea Level Threat

Numerous studies in recent years highlight the accelerating role of crevasses in Greenland's ice sheet, significantly contributing to ice calving and exacerbating sea level rise. Researchers have employed diverse methods, including satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR, and field observations, to investigate crevasse formation, expansion, and hydrological impacts. Findings reveal that crevasses not only compromise ice sheet stability but also expedite meltwater drainage, further accelerating ice melt. This poses a significant challenge to the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet and presents a major threat to global sea level change and coastal safety.

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(www.nature.com)
Tech Greenland Ice Sheet ice melt sea level rise

Apple Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability Used in Sophisticated Attacks

2025-02-10
Apple Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability Used in Sophisticated Attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-24200) exploited in targeted, sophisticated attacks. The vulnerability could bypass USB Restricted Mode on locked devices, potentially allowing data extraction. This mode was designed to prevent forensic software from accessing data on locked iOS devices. Apple urges users to update immediately to mitigate potential ongoing attacks. This incident highlights the importance of regular software updates and mobile device security.

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(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Tech Apple security update zero-day vulnerability iOS security

Trump 2.0 and the Ghost of McKinley: American Imperialism Revisited

2025-02-10
Trump 2.0 and the Ghost of McKinley: American Imperialism Revisited

This article explores the policy legacy of President William McKinley and its influence on the Trump administration. McKinley's presidency saw the rise of the US as a global superpower, and his protectionist, expansionist, and imperialist policies bear a striking resemblance to Trump's 'America First' strategy. The article analyzes the economic boom, territorial expansion, and racial ideologies of McKinley's era, comparing them to the policy goals of the Trump administration. Both prioritize American economic interests and global hegemony while downplaying international cooperation and human rights. While acknowledging differences, the article concludes that the Trump administration's policy direction echoes McKinley's 'America First' ideology, with profound implications for the future global landscape.

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(jasonsteinhauer.substack.com)
Misc McKinley

CIA Leaks Employee Names in 'Counterintelligence Disaster'

2025-02-10

The New York Times reported that the CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired in the last two years, complying with an executive order to shrink the federal workforce. This list, including first names and the first initial of last names of probationary employees—many young analysts focusing on China—was deemed a "counterintelligence disaster" by former officials. They argue the information, easily combined with publicly available data, puts these employees at risk from foreign intelligence services. The article highlights core counterespionage principles: the "mosaic" effect of combining seemingly innocuous data, and the assumption that all unclassified systems are compromised. The CIA's action violated not only classification rules but also the fundamental obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.

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(www.lawfaremedia.org)
Tech Intelligence Leak

Real-time App Architectures: A Comparison of Poke/Pull, Push State, Push Ops, and Event Sourcing

2025-02-10

This article explores four main patterns for building real-time applications: Poke/Pull, Push State, Push Ops, and Event Sourcing. Poke/Pull is easy to integrate but suffers from fan-out issues; Push State directly pushes state but struggles with large-scale state updates; Push Ops push operations instead of the entire state, which is more efficient; Event Sourcing pushes events, requiring client-side logic. The article also compares different transport methods (WebSockets, SSE, etc.) and their challenges in horizontally scaled systems, highlighting the role of Pub/Sub.

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(zknill.io)
Development real-time application state synchronization

Buffalo Comeback: A Keystone Species Restores the Ecosystem

2025-02-10
Buffalo Comeback: A Keystone Species Restores the Ecosystem

The US's “scorched earth” policy nearly drove buffalo to extinction, severely damaging the ecosystem. Now, organizations like the Tanka Fund are working to return buffalo to their ancestral lands to restore ecological balance. As a keystone species, their return is crucial for restoring prairie vegetation, maintaining biodiversity, and providing new economic and cultural opportunities for Indigenous communities. Despite facing challenges from government policies and funding, the project relies on diverse funding sources and continues to advance buffalo restoration and ecosystem recovery, showcasing the resilience and collaborative spirit of Indigenous communities.

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(www.nativesunnews.today)
Tech ecosystem restoration buffalo Indigenous communities

reCAPTCHA: A Trillion-Dollar Tracking Cookie Farm?

2025-02-10
reCAPTCHA: A Trillion-Dollar Tracking Cookie Farm?

A UC Irvine study reveals Google's reCAPTCHA not only fails to prevent bot traffic effectively but also raises privacy concerns through tracking cookies, wastes billions of collective hours, and generates nearly a trillion dollars' worth of data for Google. The study finds both reCAPTCHA's image recognition and behavioral analysis features are valuable to Google, the former for ad targeting and the latter for AI model training. Researchers estimate the time spent solving reCAPTCHA is worth $6.1 billion, while Google's potential earnings from reCAPTCHA could reach trillions. The study concludes reCAPTCHA's true purpose is as a profitable tracking cookie farm, not a security service.

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(www.pcgamer.com)
Tech

Malicious VS Code Extension Uses Typosquatting to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware

2025-02-10
Malicious VS Code Extension Uses Typosquatting to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware

Researchers uncovered a malicious VS Code extension, `truffelvscode`, which typosquatted the popular `truffle` extension. This extension acts as a Trojan horse for multi-stage malware. The malware downloads and executes several stages of malicious code, ultimately installing and configuring the ScreenConnect remote access tool, granting attackers remote control of the compromised system. Obfuscation techniques were used to hide the malicious code, but researchers used deobfuscation and sandbox analysis to reveal the entire attack chain. This incident highlights the importance of caution when installing VS Code extensions and underscores the growing threat of software supply chain attacks.

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(www.mend.io)
Development

40-Year-Old Conjecture Shattered: New Hash Table Outperforms Expectations

2025-02-10
40-Year-Old Conjecture Shattered: New Hash Table Outperforms Expectations

Graduate student Krapivin (University of Cambridge), along with Farach-Colton and Kuszmaul (New York University), have overturned Yao's conjecture, a long-held belief in computer science. Their novel hash table achieves a worst-case time complexity of (log x)² for element lookups, significantly faster than the previously believed optimal x. This groundbreaking research not only solves a classic problem in hash table design but also dramatically improves data storage efficiency, sparking significant interest within the academic community.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
Development hash table

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-02-10
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only partners with those who adhere to these principles. Got an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
Development

The Rise and Fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

2025-02-10
The Rise and Fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

This article chronicles the remarkable history of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Starting with Ken Olsen's post-WWII creation of the TX-0 in a MIT basement, DEC revolutionized the computing industry with its PDP series of minicomputers, emphasizing low cost, ease of use, and user interaction. The PDP-1 heralded the dawn of the personal computing era. However, facing the onslaught of the IBM PC and strategic missteps, DEC was ultimately acquired by Compaq in 1998. This history showcases the power of technological innovation and the ruthlessness of market competition, offering valuable insights into management decisions and technological direction.

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(www.abortretry.fail)
Tech Computer History

Macron: Europe Lagging in AI Race, Needs to Catch Up

2025-02-10
Macron: Europe Lagging in AI Race, Needs to Catch Up

French President Emmanuel Macron, in an exclusive interview with CNN, warned that Europe is falling behind the US and China in the AI race, risking becoming a mere consumer of the technology. To counter this, France is hosting an AI summit and plans to build Europe's largest supercomputer, aiming for 20% of global data centers. However, securing funding and streamlining regulations are crucial challenges. Macron calls for simplified rules and a more business-friendly environment to attract investment and compete with US and Chinese dominance.

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(edition.cnn.com)
Tech Europe Tech Competition

Disrupting Founding Engineer Equity: FetchFox's Crypto Token Approach

2025-02-10

FetchFox is revolutionizing founding engineer equity. The traditional model is broken, offering meager equity and illiquid shares. FetchFox offers a radical solution: replacing stock options with crypto tokens, granting engineers up to 25% equity with instant liquidity. While this carries risks (crypto volatility, perception issues), FetchFox believes it's a compelling proposition for top engineers seeking high-risk, high-reward opportunities and comfortable with crypto.

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(fetchfox.ai)
Startup equity compensation

Crypto Advocate Demands Retraction: A Debate on 'Debanking'

2025-02-10

A deep-dive article analyzing the phenomenon of 'debanking' in the cryptocurrency industry faced a retraction request from the CEO of a cryptocurrency firm. The author meticulously addressed the CEO's accusations, arguing they lacked merit, and defended the article's core argument: regulators' risk assessments of cryptocurrencies are not unfounded, and banks' cautious approach towards crypto businesses is not entirely unreasonable. The article delves into the complexities of banking regulation and the compliance challenges faced by the crypto industry, using the cases of Silvergate and Prime Trust to illustrate the importance of risk management. Ultimately, the author rejected the retraction request, emphasizing the responsibility of the press in pursuing truth and resisting censorship.

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(www.kalzumeus.com)
Tech banking regulation compliance

USB Spec Meeting Anecdote: The Premium of Translucent Blue

2025-02-10
USB Spec Meeting Anecdote: The Premium of Translucent Blue

At a USB specification meeting, a company showcased their USB floppy drives, surprisingly offering separate versions for PCs and Macs. Committee members were puzzled, as the specification ensured the same drive worked on both systems. The representative explained that the drives were electronically identical; the only difference was the Mac version came in translucent blue plastic and cost more. This reflected the then-popular translucent plastic trend of iMacs and highlighted how some manufacturers leveraged design differences for price premiums.

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(devblogs.microsoft.com)
Hardware floppy drive
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