Month: August 2024

Verizon is going to launch satellite messaging this fall

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Verizon is the next big phone company to launch a satellite messaging service — and it’s coming soon. Starting this fall, the service will let “certain smartphones” access emergency messaging and location sharing via satellite in a partnership with Skylo — which is also powering Google’s recently announced Satellite … Read more

FOMO HOUR 190 – OPENSEA VS SEC

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BTC: 59.7k (0%), ETH: 2545 (0%), SOL: 146 (-1%). Top Gainers: HNT, IMX, ICP, ADA, KCS. BTC ETFs: -$105m, ETH ETFs: +$6m. Bitcoin in tight liquidation range, ETH outperforms. ETH ETF sees first in flow in 10 days. Funding rates all turn negative. Mr 100 buys 500 BTC in dip. France formally charges Durov, can’t … Read more

An Intro to Kubernetes for Docker Developers

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As a developer with Docker experience, you already understand the basics of containerization—packaging applications with their dependencies into a standardized unit. Now, it’s time to take the next step: Kubernetes. Kubernetes, or K8s, is a powerful container orchestration system that can manage your containerized applications at scale. This guide will help you move from Docker … Read more

Apple Sports is ready for all kinds of football

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Image: Apple The Apple Sports app is gearing up for football season with an update that brings live scores and play-by-play information for NFL and college football games to your iPhone’s lockscreen. With Live Activities support “for all teams and leagues available in the app for the first time ever” in iOS 18 and watchOS … Read more

Code Smell 266 – Collection Aliasing

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Exposing your collections couples your solution TL;DR: Use immutable collections to prevent unintended side effects. Problems Unpredictable behavior Debugging challenges Data corruption Violation of the Principle of Least Astonishment Premature optimization Unexpected Mutations Concurrency problems Compromised thread safety Increased coupling Solutions Use immutable collections Create immutable classes Copy the collection before modification Avoid collection getters … Read more

Flying through Sea-Tac’s hacked airport

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Several days after the Port of Seattle announced a “possible” cyberattack on its systems, Sea-Tac Airport is still largely offline, causing chaos among travelers and acting as a standing warning against taking security lightly. Ask me how I know. The outage resulting from the recent hack has not, fortunately, caused planes to fall out of … Read more

A demure and mindful trademark investigation

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Jools Lebron At this point, you either already know about the “very demure, very mindful” meme that originated on TikTok, or you have neither the interest nor the capacity to understand. It is simply A Thing, a viral catchphrase that may become as ubiquitous in the 2020s as “eyebrows … Read more

Interface and Data Biopolitics in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: Interface and Data Biopolitics

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:::info Author: (1) Salvatore Iaconesi, ISIA Design Florence and *Corresponding author (salvatore.iaconesi@artisopensource.net). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. A Hymn 2. Asymmetry 3. Bubbles, Guinea Pigs 4. Interface and Data Biopolitics 5. Conclusions: Implications for Design and References 4. Interface and Data Biopolitics The scenario described in the previous sections has important impacts on … Read more

Meta now allows preteens to explore Horizon Worlds with parent’s permission

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Meta is now letting preteens with parent-managed accounts explore different experiences in its online virtual reality (VR) platform, Horizon Worlds, with certain restrictions in place. The company announced that parents will soon be able to approve age-appropriate worlds they’d like their preteens (aged 10 to 12) to experience, including hanging out in The Space Station, … Read more