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A Timepiece Straight Out of Back To The Future

[Stephen Holdaway] needed a desk clock, and decided to whip something up from scratch. The result is a beautiful tribute to the DeLorean’s time circuits from legendary 1985 film Back to the Future. We say it’s a tribute rather than an exact replica, as it only implements the “present time” section of the time circuits. However,

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Sources: Twitter offers advertisers generous incentives, including matching $500K to $1M in spending in 2022, in a bid to jump start its faltering business (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Twitter offers advertisers generous incentives, including matching $500K to $1M in spending in 2022, in a bid to jump start its faltering business  —  Advertisers booking at least $500,000 in incremental spending would be matched, up to a $1 million cap  —  Elon Musk Says Twitter Bankruptcy Is

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Palmer Luckey’s Anduril, which builds autonomous systems for the US military, raised nearly $1.5B at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $4.2B in June 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Palmer Luckey’s Anduril, which builds autonomous systems for the US military, raised nearly $1.5B at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $4.2B in June 2021  —  Second-biggest venture capital round of the year in the US values company at $7bn  —  Defence technology start-up Anduril …

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What is DevSecOps? Securing devops pipelines

Software runs our businesses today. It powers operations, transactions, communications—just about every facet of the digital organization. It follows that ensuring the security of applications and operating systems is a major priority for development and security teams. This is where DevSecOps plays a key role. Development, security, and operations DevSecOps is short for development, security, and

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Cloud computing gets back to basics

There seems to be a clear trend in the world of cloud computing to return to IT fundamentals—the core problems that IT was set up to solve, such as data management, security, operations, governance, and development. All these things have been practiced for many decades and should be practiced now. The issue is not that

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Kotlin 1.8.0 beta introduces experimental functions

Kotlin 1.8.0, an upgrade to the JetBrains-developed, statically typed language for multiplatform mobile, web, and native development, is available in a beta release. The new version introduces experimental functions for the JVM. The standard library in Kotlin 1.8.0 adds new experimental functions for java.nio.file.path that can recursively copy or delete directory content. Experimental functionality also

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Elon Musk is Elon Musk-pilled

[cash register noise] | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Programming note: This will be the last This Week in Elon this year. In 2023, I will return with something delightful for you that is not just about Musk shenanigans — but we will have occasional chats when there is too much Elonning going

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TSMC to Produce 4nm Chips at Arizona Fab in 2024

Credit: Laura Ockel/ Unsplash, PCMag (Credit: Laura Ockel/Unsplash)It was previously reported that Apple has been urging TSMC to begin producing some of its more advanced chips in America. This would allow Cupertino to claim it’s using American-made silicon in its devices, a first for Apple. A new report confirms this will indeed be happening, but

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TikTok and Bumble plan to use StopNCII.org’s database of hashes of nude images and videos to block revenge porn; Meta has been using it since last year (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: TikTok and Bumble plan to use StopNCII.org’s database of hashes of nude images and videos to block revenge porn; Meta has been using it since last year  —  The UN’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is on now, and “revenge porn” is in focus.  But first…  Today’s must-reads:

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