33 results
tagged
its x
-
Just one more sprite bro | MetaFilter
Nine is a deceptively simple demo breaking free of the Commodore 64's famous 8 hardware sprite limit. Its creator has made an accessible explanation of the numerous tricks used to make it possibleSun Mar 2 14:07:33 2025 - permalink -- https://www.metafilter.com/207866/Just-one-more-sprite-bro
-
Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands | The Verge
Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backupsFri Feb 21 18:25:57 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theverge.com/news/617273/apple-removes-encryption-advanced-data-protection-adp-uk-spying-backdoor
(ADP) access Advanced and Apple at backdoor backups comes Data disable earlier encrypted end-to-end existing feature following future. grant has iCloud in its month move new offering point Protection reports requested require security services some stopped storage that The the them this to UK UK users users’ will worldwide -
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon | Books | The Guardian
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketedMon Feb 17 22:33:55 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/16/goodreads-amazon-nadia-odunayo-the-storygraph
-
Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI ‘Sputnik moment’? | DeepSeek | The Guardian
Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI ‘Sputnik moment’?Wed Jan 29 08:38:09 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/who-is-behind-deepseek-and-how-did-it-achieve-its-ai-sputnik-moment
-
Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs - WSJ
Landing a professional job in the U.S. has become so tough that even Harvard Business School says its M.B.A.s can’t solely rely on the university’s name to open doors anymoreWed Jan 15 20:38:41 2025 - permalink -- https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/harvard-mba-employment-rate-job-hunt-difficulty-addfc3ec?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
-
People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over | Fatma Aydemir | The Guardian
"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"Tue Dec 31 10:30:44 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/people-like-me-flocked-to-berlin-because-it-was-poor-but-sexy-those-times-are-over
a about affordable all also an are Berlin But cafe call city could cuisine Deutschland DitIsBerlin! face. fast find flat food. home impossible is Its it’s It’s Large like nearly nightmare no not now of on out overdosed parts pass people-watch. place. pretty public randomly sit smell street. sunlight terrace The the to toilet; total tourists town warm where winters would WTF! you Zeitgeist -
Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions | Canada | The Guardian
Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT softwareSat Nov 30 10:41:13 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/canada-media-companies-sue-openai-chatgpt
-
How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens | MetaFilter
How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of DiggingMon Nov 18 09:11:43 2024 - permalink -- https://www.metafilter.com/206351/How-a-Team-of-Gophers-Restored-Mount-St-Helens
-
FTX sues Binance and its former CEO for $1.8bn | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
FTX sues Binance and its former CEO for $1.8bnTue Nov 12 06:21:02 2024 - permalink -
Collapsed cryptocurrency company says $1.8bn was ‘fraudulently transferred’ to Binance and its executives- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/11/ftx-sues-binance-changpeng-zhao
-
Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech - Bert Hubert's writings
Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big TechSun Oct 27 12:46:48 2024 - permalink -- https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-for-big-tech/
-
Karaoke has its origins in a 60-year-old car stereo | Japanese Nostalgic Car
Karaoke has its origins in a 60-year-old car stereoThu Oct 17 20:21:57 2024 - permalink -- https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/karaoke-car-stereo-origins/
-
The last tiny Tokyo shop and its owner — Tokyo Times
The last tiny Tokyo shop and its ownerTue Oct 15 08:37:28 2024 - permalink -- https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-last-tiny-tokyo-shop-and-its-owner/
-
Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller - The Hustle
"Toilet paper is shrinkflation at its absolute worst"Tue Aug 27 19:31:55 2024 - permalink -- https://thehustle.co/news/why-toilet-paper-keeps-getting-smaller-and-smaller
