Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’

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Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April … Read more

China Gave Its AI Away

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Beijing’s newly approved 15th Five-Year Plan landed with very little fanfare in the Western press. It should not have. In the 141-page planning document submitted to the National People’s Congress in March, the word for lithography machine does not appear once. Neither does wafer fab, extreme ultraviolet, or chip manufacturing.  The entire Western vocabulary of … Read more

How to Set Up an ESP32 with VS Code on Windows

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This guide was inspired by challenges encountered while installing the ESP32 library on the Arduino IDE, specifically the error: “Client.Timeout or context cancellation while reading body”. While this issue can be fixed by increasing the connection timeout value, this guide takes a more reliable approach. It shows you how to set up a stable, efficient … Read more

How to Optimize Market Data APIs for Millisecond-Level Trading Performance

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When I first started working with market data APIs, it quickly became clear that milliseconds can make the difference between a winning strategy and a missed opportunity. I spent hours chasing latency spikes, only to realize the bottleneck wasn’t in the strategy itself—it was in how the data was fetched and processed. Optimizing market data … Read more

How AT&T created the most iconic phone ever

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For years, even decades, virtually everyone in the United States had the same phone. Nobody really thought about it, it didn’t even matter what it was called – it was just The Phone. Well, The Phone was called the Western Electric 500, and when landline phones ruled the world, the Western Electric 500 ruled the … Read more

Fixing Indefinite Geolocation Hangs in React and React Native Applications

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This article investigates why geolocation requests in React and React Native apps can hang indefinitely despite granted permissions. The issue stems from a combination of missing timeouts in the API, platform-specific restrictions (like Android battery saver and iOS authorization mismatches), and poor lifecycle management. By implementing manual timeouts, platform-aware logic, robust error handling, and proper … Read more