South Carolina tops Texas measles outbreak record—with no end in sight
The explosive measles outbreak in South Carolina has now reached 789 cases, breaking Texas’s outbreak record last year of 762 cases, which at the time was...
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A decade of werf, a software delivery tool for Kubernetes
Various cloud native projects are celebrating their first decade. While there are obvious big names, such as Kubernetes itself, Helm, and Cilium, the ecosystem is much...
Read moreRyzen 9850X3D review: AMD’s bragging-rights gaming CPU gets more to brag about
AMD has released three distinct generations of its 3D V-Cache technology, which initially appeared in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2022. The kernel of the idea...
Read moreHow to Use the Builder Pattern in Python – A Practical Guide for Developers
Creating complex objects can get messy. You’ve probably written constructors with too many parameters, struggled with optional arguments, or created objects that require multiple setup steps....
Read moreWikipedia as a Storage Medium
We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a...
Read moreFreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%
The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks...
Read moreRoundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear
AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for...
Read moreThe Art of Asking Questions
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Read morePC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler
PC Gamer has run an amusing review of the scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux, which uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions. The scheduler is full of bizarre...
Read moreDrupal turns 25: From simple to complex — then simple again
It’s rare that a web product lasts 25 years, given how fast the industry cycles through technologies. But this month marks a quarter century of Drupal,...
Read moreSwift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their...
Read moreElection Denier Tina Peters Was ‘Pardoned’ by Trump. She’s Still in Prison
Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado’s governor has held firm against...
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