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40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how.

Biden repeatedly fact-checked reporters' lame gotcha questions — they should all be replaced with real people

Just as married people have obligations that single people do not, religious people have responsibilities that secular people do not.

Top stories in the Russian press on Friday, March 26

Work on the next phase of the Manchester to Chorlton walking and cycling route is set to get underway next month.

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The Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is 885,000 square feet of shiny new construction. Signs painted on the windows in bursts of green, red, yellow greet workers at the main entrance with the words: Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History. Under these slogans, the silhouette of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s face adorns yellow placards reading, The Dream Is Alive.

Why is the United States so reliant on police officers for basic social services? What societal roles do cops fill other than investigating crimes, arresting suspects, and patrolling communities? And what happens when those roles intersect, or even clash, with their law enforcement duties? Over the past few years, these questions have fueled a national debate over American policing. This week, the Supreme Court also came tantalizingly close to wrestling with all of them.

As last week was winding to a close, The New York Times reported on an odd instance of power brokering by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Ahead of a planned April 1 rollout, the New York senator stepped in to halt the nationwide rate hike on federal flood insurance policies, one that had long been planned and sorely needed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Schumer’s reason, per the Times: Some of his wealthier constituents on Long Island would have to pay significantly more to... Читать дальше...

Shortly after the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a sweeping labor-law reform bill, on March 9, freelance writers began expressing concerns about the bill, with op-eds appearing in The Hill, Forbes, and Business Insider. One such column, published in The Week, is representative of the genre.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Democratic president takes power amid a national crisis, his power bolstered by Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The economy is in the tubes, people across the country are hurting, and the ever more radical Republican Party doesn’t seem to care. This new president promises to enact a bold policy agenda, one that will bring relief to working people, but first he has to thread the needle between the centrist and moderate factions of his own party. Читать дальше...

Last summer, France’s pandemic response seemed far more competent than America’s. In the vaccine stage, everything looks different.

Google runs some of the most venerated cybersecurity operations on the planet: its Project Zero team, for example, finds powerful undiscovered security vulnerabilities, while its Threat Analysis Group directly counters hacking backed by governments, including North Korea, China, and Russia. And those two teams caught an unexpectedly big fish recently: an “expert” hacking group exploiting…

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Winners of three out of their last four contests, the Pittsburgh Penguins sit pretty comfortably in third place in the East Division. Granted, the last five games being against the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres means the Penguins have likely been heavy favorites, but they will take points wherever and whenever they can get them. Injuries have (once again) ravaged this team. What else is new? For context, take a look at this tweet from The Athletic’s... Читать дальше...

Does RGB really make a laptop go faster? Indeed it does. At least, you’ll probably believe that after seeing the in-your-face RGB bar running across the front of the MSI GE76 Raider gaming laptop. 

Flexera’s report confirms that multicloud deployments are increasingly a two-cloud race between public cloud providers. Among all respondents, 50% of enterprises have significant workloads on AWS, and 41% run those significant workloads on Azure. Google Cloud has a 22% share. What they all have in common is explosive growth in 2020 and, I’m sure, continued growth this year. 

This winter home for sheep is situated in the courtyard of a heritage farm in the Dutch town of Hummelo. The scale of the surroundings and the proximity of a 19th-century farmhouse required a modest and accurate design for an ancillary structure easily set in the hierarchy of buildings. This led to an abstract interpretation of a common local barn.

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Installing a security camera outdoors presents three challenges. The first is related to power, the second has to do with connectivity, and the third is coverage—monitoring outdoor space is much more challenging than keeping an eye on an interior room.

How a younger generation used the Internet to master the falling blocks.