https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/364384/its-practically-impossible-to-run-a-big-ai-company-ethically
Anthropic is opposing Scott Wiener’s California bill to regulate AI, taking Google and Amazon money, and scraping web data without permission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/britain-budget-spending-rachel-reeves.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.HYK_.arwvKIiCEpAY&smid=url-share
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the Exchequer, cut some infrastructure funding and pensions benefits, adding that more “difficult decisions” would come later this year.
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/darpa-translating-all-c-to-rust-tractor/115242
For those who care about US government things: After more than two decades of grappling with memory safety issues in C and C++, the software engineering community has reached a consensus. It’s not enough to rely on bug-finding tools. The preferred approach is to use “safe” programming languages that can reject unsafe programs at compile time, thereby preventing the emergence of memory safety issues. The TRACTOR program aims to automate the translation of legacy C code to Rust. The goal is to ...
https://archive.is/mWZw8
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/411720/view/4342117228500413147?l=english
Hey Everyone, QL was our first game and although it was a big milestone for us, it was created at a time before we understood version control software. We do not have access to the source code anymore and cannot make any fixes or changes to the game. Because of this, we have decided to disable the ability for anyone to buy copies of the game. Thank you for your time and feel free to reach out to us.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-31-saves-the-day-during-crowdstrike-outage
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 save the day.
https://bkhome.org/news/202112/why-iso-was-retired.html
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