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23-time Grand Slam champion
Serina Williams will be the most anticipated factor in the women’s draw
as she makes her return to Wimbledon as a
44-year-old wildcard.
Williams last played competitive singles at the 2022 U.S. Open, when she lost to Ajla Tomljanović in the third round, and said she was “evolving” away from tennis.
When she takes the court at Wimbledon,
which runs June 29-July 12,
it will have been over 1,400 days since she last competed i…

Serena Williams Readies For Wimbledon Return: ‘No One’s Going To Want To Face Her’
The 23-time Grand Slam champion will be the most anticipated X factor in the women’s draw as she makes her return to The All-England Club as a 44-year-old...

NFL preseason Week 2 takeaways; coaches predict college basketball's best teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-preseason-week-2-takeaways-co…

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/

Sarah's Wager
Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

Heute vor 62 Jahren: Am 22. August 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Canvasback". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/

SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacex

SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk’s predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitt…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum

SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacex

SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk’s predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitt…

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

Alisa Bowen, president of Disney since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alisa-bowen-ceo-fubo-disney-plus-1236806015/

Alisa Bowen Exits Disney+ to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo, the internet TV streaming service that is majority owned by Disney.

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

UNCHARTED DATA: Interactive Tooltip Tables
How to include tables in your {ggiraph} tooltips.