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Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals

sjvwater.org

Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off...
Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive amounts of water from Kaweah and Success lakes. Water managers said they got about an hour’s warning from the Army Corp’s Sacramento office to expect the Tule and...
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All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

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US drug agency approves potent painkiller – the first non-opioid in decades

nature.com

Chronic pain can be treated — so why are millions still suffering?

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Switching to Linux: Reclaim Your Freedom

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Purely AI-generated art can't get copyright protection, says Copyright Office

theverge.com

Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts — even detailed ones — isn’t protected...
Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts — even detailed ones — isn’t protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office.The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The ...
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What a trade war would mean for the US, in 9 charts

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Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014)

theappendix.net

By Kristen D. Burton – Published December 3, 2014 “Alcohol, Death, and the Devil” by George...
By Kristen D. Burton – Published December 3, 2014 “Alcohol, Death, and the Devil” by George Cruikshank, c. 1830. Library of Congress During an evening of carousing and drinking at a Salisbury tavern, a soldier and his comrades were drinking to one another’s health. Then the soldier did the unthinkable: he drank to t...
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Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers

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Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications

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Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia

6abc.com

Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Multiple casualties...
Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Multiple casualties have been reported after a small plane crashed in a residential neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia.It happened near Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard just after 6 p.m. Frida...

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Notes on OpenAI O3-Mini

simonwillison.net

31st January 2025 OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly...
31st January 2025 OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini or (if we have access) o1 Pro. Confusing matters further, the benchmarks in the o3-mini system card (PDF) aren’t a universal...
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Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees

theverge.com

A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn’t taken similar steps (yet)...
A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn’t taken similar steps (yet) in 2025, but employees are fearing the worst. And if the Platforms and Devices team is anything to go by, there’s ample reason for concern. Google has distributed a memo to all US employees working on Android, Pixel hardware, ...
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LinuxPDF

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Web Analytics Accidentally Collecting Passwords

freshpaint.io

Posted on October 5, 2020RudderStack is an open source data collection and routing tool. It collects...
Posted on October 5, 2020RudderStack is an open source data collection and routing tool. It collects data from your website with a bit of Javascript and allows you to send it to different tools like a database or 3rd party analytics tool. Three months ago, I reported a serious issue where under certain circumstances...
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income

truthout.org

| Trump’s economic team is a “recipe for disaster,” according to Americans for Tax Fairness Executive...
| Trump’s economic team is a “recipe for disaster,” according to Americans for Tax Fairness Executive Director David Kass.
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Designing Great Watchdog Timers for Embedded Systems

ganssle.com

Great Watchdog Timers For Embedded Systems, by Jack Ganssle A watchdog timer is an embedded system's...
Great Watchdog Timers For Embedded Systems, by Jack Ganssle A watchdog timer is an embedded system's last line of defense against firmware failures. It simply has to be designed correctly. Few are. This page shows how. Sept 2011 - updated July 2016 - Added reference to Niall Murphy article Launched in January of 199...
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Sparrow, a Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

medium.com

We are thrilled to introduce Sparrow, a new library designed to simplify the integration of Apache...
We are thrilled to introduce Sparrow, a new library designed to simplify the integration of Apache Arrow’s columnar format into C++ applications.Why Sparrow?Apache Arrow is a universal columnar format and a multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. It offers accessible and well-tested...

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Cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety

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LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda

techdirt.com

Failures Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media...
Failures Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media over the last few months. Instead, he has launched an escalating campaign of editorial interference that accomplishes exactly the opposite. First, he blocked the paper from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris. Th...
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The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech

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Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the...
Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial system and executive power, to actually suppress speech. It’s a strategy that turns the First Amendment’s principles inside out,...
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Germany: Number of unemployed highest in 10 years

dw.com

The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures...
The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures from Germany's Federal Employment Agency. While such upticks are typical for the first month of the year, the 2025 figure is the highest since January 2015. Employers have blamed a range of headwinds that have ha...
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Show HN: Lua-libuv – A Lua with libuv experiments

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Non-Western founders say DeepSeek proves innovation need not cost billions

restofworld.org

During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said...
During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said it was “hopeless” for a young team with less than $10 million to compete with his company on training foundational large language models. A year and a half later, a Chinese startup appears to have proved him wrong. “This is the ne...

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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

lrb.co.uk

Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept...
Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Yet the fossil fuel reserves current...

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