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Insights on expanding attack surfaces

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Julian Assange freed on US plea deal and starts journey home - BBC.com

  1. Julian Assange freed on US plea deal and starts journey home  BBC.com
  2. Julian Assange: Wife 'elated' after husband reaches US plea deal  BBC
  3. Watch moment Julian Assange boards plane in London  BBC.com
  4. Julian Assange: What happens next for WikiLeaks founder after plea deal  The Independent
  5. GMB's Susanna Reid issues breaking news as ITV programme brought to sudden halt  Express

Open Culture 

How the 18th-Century French Media Stoked a Werewolf Panic

If you’ve studied French (or, indeed, been French) in the past couple of decades, you may well have played the card game Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux. Known in English as The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, it casts its players as hunters, thieves, seers, and other types of rural villagers in the distant past. By night, […]

Phys.org 

New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

A new and worrying way that large ice sheets can melt has been characterized by scientists for the first time. The research focuses on how relatively warm seawater can lap at the underside of ground-based ice, which can accelerate the movement of the ice into the ocean.

Phys.org 

Using sound waves, scientists develop findings that challenge standard theories of solar convection

A team of solar physicists at NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS), led by Research Scientist Chris S. Hanson, Ph.D., has revealed the interior structure of the sun's supergranules, a flow structure that transports heat from the sun's hidden interior to its surface. The researchers' analysis of the supergranules presents a challenge to the current understanding of solar convection.

Technology Review  

My colleagues turned me into an AI-powered NPC. I hate him.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It feels weird, talking to yourself online.  Especially when you’re pretty much the most unpleasant character you’ve ever met. The “me” I’ve been chatting to this week, called King Fiall of Nirth,…

Technology Review  

Lego bricks are making science more accessible

Etienne Boulter walked into his lab at the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, one morning with a Lego Technic excavator set tucked under his arm. His plan was simple yet ambitious: to use the pieces of the set to build a mechanical cell stretcher.  Boulter and his colleagues study mechanobiology—the way mechanical forces, such…

InfoWorld 

What senior developers know

You will find a lot of articles on the web about what it takes to become a senior developer. Many of these articles focus on soft skills. They often advise staying current with technology, learning to communicate well, mentoring junior developers, and other things along those lines. These recommendations are all fine and good, but, well, let’s be honest. They are also pretty much pabulum. 

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InfoWorld 

AI is in the tire-kicking phase

Just like big data back in 2013, we’re in the “everyone’s doing it, no one knows why” phase of generative AI (genAI). A recent McKinsey survey found that 65% of enterprises are “regularly using genAI.” Promising! In Elastic’s recent earnings call, the company noted that over 1,000 customers are paying to build genAI applications. Wow! Each of the big cloud companies, as well as Oracle, has talked up how genAI is driving cloud spend. Amazing!

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Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Nevadans would benefit from Pharmacy Benefit Manager reform

Over the past decade, the Nevada Legislature has taken strong steps in bringing transparency and accountability to drug pricing so that Nevada families stop getting price gouged on life saving drugs. Now, as leaders look for additional ways to help patients get their prescriptions, they should swiftly move to reform how Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) operate.

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Time to stop GOP damage

This November, the American people have a chance to defend against Republicans who are doing all they can to take away our rights and freedoms.

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Court is now unhinged

In 1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned for accepting a $20,000 consulting fee (which he returned) from a man who was convicted of security fraud. He did so because the Supreme Court is the final word on the rule of law and must be viewed by the American people as being absolutely fair and impartial beyond all doubt. …