Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turns up in Mike Melanson’s column “This Week in Programming”: While the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI) definition of open source software is quite clear on the matter — there must be “no discrimination against persons or groups” and “no discrimination against fields of endeavor” — the Read more…
In Wednesday’s issue of Nature, a new paper describes a potentially useful way of measuring the interactions between normal matter and exotic particles, like antiprotons and unstable items like kaons or elements containing a strange quark. The work is likely to be useful, as we still don’t understand the asymmetry Read more…
Google is rolling out a Google Docs update that lets Workspace and legacy G Suite users collaborate on Gmail drafts. Open the email draft template (Insert > Building Blocks > Email draft) and your colleagues can comment or make suggestions. You won’t always need to know recipients’ email addresses, either, Read more…
Love them or hate them, NFTs will soon be coming to Instagram. From a report: Speaking at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that digital collectibles would be arriving on Instagram “in the near term.” “We’re working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term,” he said. He didn’t detail exactly Read more…
Intel on Tuesday revealed plans for a second new “megafab,” a chipmaking site in Magdeburg, Germany, that’s the centerpiece of an expected $88 billion in investments across several European countries. The capacity expansion comes on top of other gargantuan spending commitments in the United States, including a planned megafab in Read more…
Amid the ongoing disruption from Russia, some ethical hackers in Ukraine are feeling lost as bug bounty platform HackerOne has allegedly withheld their payouts. The loss due to the sudden halt is said to have mounted to hundreds and thousands of dollars. A few of the affected ethical hackers — Read more…
Foxconn, the biggest assembler of Apple iPhones, is in talks with Saudi Arabia about jointly building a $9 billion multipurpose facility (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source) that could make microchips, electric-vehicle components and other electronics like displays, according to people familiar with the matter. The Saudi government is reviewing an Read more…