Tariffs Create World Challenges, Opportunities, WTO Head Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/tariffs-create-world-challenges-opportunities-wto-head-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says blockchains could enable novel securities use cases and "policymaking will no longer result from ad hoc enforcement actions" (Christopher Tepedino/Cointelegraph)
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SEC Chair: Blockchain 'holds promise' of new kinds of market activity
Tokenization could lead to novel use cases for securities, Paul Atkins, Chairman of the SEC, said, even some that the SEC does not contemplate.Christopher Tepedino (Cointelegraph)
A Single-Pixel Camera Without Moving Parts Using Compressed Sensing
There’s a strange allure to single-pixel cameras due to the simultaneous simplicity and yet fascinating features that they can offer, such as no set resolution limit. That said, the typical implementations that use some kind of scanning (MEMS) mirror or similar approach suffer from various issues even when you’re photographing a perfectly stationary and static scene due to their complex mechanical nature. Yet there’s a way around this, involving a LED matrix and a single photoresistor, as covered by [Jon Bumstead] in an article with accompanying video.
As he points out, this isn’t a new concept, with research papers cited that go back many years. At the core lies the signal processing technique called compressed sensing, which is incidentally also used with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. Compressed sensing enables the reconstruction of a signal from a series of samples, by using existing knowledge of the signal.
In the case of this single-pixel camera, the known information is the illumination, which is a Hadamard matrix pattern displayed on the 64 x 64 pixel LED matrix, ergo 4,096 possible patterns. A total of 4,096 samples are thus recorded, which are subsequently processed with a Matlab script. As pointed out, even 50% of the maximum possible matrices can suffice here, with appropriately chosen patterns.
While not an incredibly fast method, it is fully solid-state, can be adapted to use other wavelengths, and with some tweaking of the used components probably could cut down the sampling time required.
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Partial panorama assembled from overlapping navigation camera images after a drive of 18.6 meters (61 ft) during mission sol 4537 (May 11, 2025), also attached is a screen capture of the traverse map (with scale), and the drive details / stats. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.
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We've improved how we direct connections to GrapheneOS servers by using anycast to fill in missing GeoIP data. This should reduce service latency and improve download bandwidth for many users in the western US and especially with certain VPN providers.
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use nameserver location as fallback for GeoDNS · GrapheneOS/ns1.grapheneos.org@fd37a0c
This fills out missing GeoIP information based on the location of our nameservers. We have Rage4 anycast with 4 locations for ns1 and BuyVM anycast with 3 locations for ns2 so resolvers tend to be ...GitHub
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Poland says it has evidence Russia was behind huge 2024 shopping centre fire
In an exclusive BBC interview, the Polish foreign minister accuses Russia of recruiting agents and paying them for acts of sabotage.BBC News
Apple discontinuing support for older Home architecture with iOS 19 - appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
The original Apple Home architecture will officially lose support with the release of iOS 19, and users are already being encouraged to update ahead of the discontinuation.
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Monday.com reports strong Q1 2025 results, exceeding Wall Street expectations
Monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY), the leading global software company known for transforming business operations, has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2025, ending March 31.Isaac Francis (Grafa)
Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces 15 years in prison if convicted as trial begins in New York
https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/13/music-mogul-sean-diddy-combs-faces-15-years-in-prison-if-convicted-as-trial-begins-in-new-?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces 15 years in prison if convicted as trial begins in New York
Prosecutors called two witnesses to the stand to testify in the first day of the trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York. The hip hop star is facing a five count indictment that could land him 15 years in prison if convicted on all charges.Malek Fouda (Euronews.com)
SQL-tString
SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries.
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I made a playlist of hundreds of classical music pieces that are all my very favorites!
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This was shot in an old reconverted Nazi submarine base, this space is difficult in many ways, nearly undestructible given the amount of concrete, at least this stain of history serves a better purpose now.
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Fox Business Correspondent Spots Why Trump Was 'Forced To Back Off' On China Tariffs
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-business-network-charles-gasparino-trump-china-tariffs_n_6822799de4b04d30c1c9d68f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fox Business Correspondent Spots Why Trump Was 'Forced To Back Off' On China Tariffs
Charles Gasparino added he "couldn't help" himself from predicting that Trump would try to spin the deal between the countries as a "major victory" for America.Ben Blanchet (HuffPost)
Tanks for nothing: Wizards’ lottery luck lands the No. 6 pick in draft
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/05/12/wizards-nba-draft-lottery/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Jest iOS 18.5. Apple naprawia irytującą zmianę i wprowadza kilka nowości
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Jest iOS 18.5. Apple naprawia irytującą zmianę i wprowadza kilka nowości
Firma Apple udostępniła finalną wersję systemu iOS 18MARIAN SZUTIAK (TELEPOLIS.PL)
Asian shares gain after Wall Street's rally, but hopes are tempered by trade war uncertainties
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-tariffs-trump-china-656a52628a99cff19a802923ff54ab17?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations
The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
One of the participants at GodotCon Boston has a nice write up of attending the conference and other side events:
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Five things we learned from #WhatsApp vs. #NSO Group #spyware lawsuit
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Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit | TechCrunch
The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
13 May 1921 | Czech Jew, Jiří Altschul, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. He did not survive.
Einen Moment lang daran denken, dass Jiří Altschul in einem faschistischen System von Menschen deportiert und ermordet wurde. 🖤
Journalist killed in attack on hospital in southern Gaza
Journalist Hassan Eslaih was killed in Israeli bombardment of the burns department at Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Younis.
Eslaih was among several people injured last month in an attack on a media tent outside the hospital.
Trump’s Gulf tour doesn’t bode well for Israel
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Trump’s Gulf tour doesn’t bode well for Israel
For the U.S. president, Gaza is a sideshow, and he doesn’t want it disrupting his bigger diplomatic agenda of resets and mega deals.Jamie Dettmer (POLITICO)
Walker, Svechnikov score late as Hurricanes push Capitals to brink of elimination in 5-2 win
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Here's an example of how we use anycast to send traffic to the nearest nameserver:
ping.pe/ns1.grapheneos.org
This shows how we respond with an IP address based on GeoIP + anycast node:
dig.ping.pe/grapheneos.org:A:n…
With these examples, only 1 is off (UK server geolocated in US).
Ping, mtr, dig, TCP port check and real time BGP looking glass from multiple locations
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •You can compare those to see that does a great job:
ping.pe/51.222.156.101
ping.pe/209.141.35.164
ping.pe/54.37.41.188
ping.pe/51.79.160.50
Note ping.pe looks up a domain name in 1 location, then pings it everywhere, so it's misleading for a domain.
Ping, mtr, dig, TCP port check and real time BGP looking glass from multiple locations
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Unknown parent • • •@kurtz We improved it for everyone around the world. We're only saying that the biggest improvement is for the western US. That's because directing traffic with GeoDNS in the US to each coast relies on GeoIP data having a state but it often only has a country. We use the free GeoLite2 database from MaxMind instead of their paid GeoIP2 database with more city/state data.
It also helps with VPN providers using servers without GeoIP data available. Server provider GeoIP is worse than residential.