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A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
United Talent Agency (UTA) financial filing reveals it paid £43.3M ($55M) for Curtis Brown in 2022. The deal helped supercharge its sales.

New York City payroll website has been down for a week, following phishing attack
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/02/new-york-city-payroll-system-has-been-down-for-a-week-following-phishing-attack-00150198

Maybe we should stop relying on developers to do the right thing and have the government tackle it directly.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-cities-are-failing-to-hit-housing-goals/

Santa Clara County cities are failing to hit housing goals - San José Spotlight
Nearly all the cities in Santa Clara County — including San Jose — are moving so slow in meeting state housing goals that hitting the numbers looks like a pipe dream, a data analysis by San José Spotlight shows.

I coded a thing, just because https://github.com/rock3r/sandbox-demo
Don't yell at me for the possible performance optimisations and missing features. Open a PR :)

GitHub - rock3r/sandbox-demo: Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator
Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator. Contribute to rock3r/sandbox-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

so, there is this this space filling curve called a Gosper curve, which got some neat property like forming a fractal island that can tile the plane.
however, the best part of it is that it's also called a flowsnake 😃.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve

Gosper curve - Wikipedia

Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Havoc following the attack on Change Healthcare deepens
--DOJ indicts IRGC-linked hacker for massive cyberespionage campaign,
--N. Korea conducted cyber attacks on S. Korea's semiconductor companies,
--Russian intel eavesdropped on German military brass via WebEx,
--CryptoChameleon phishing targets FCC employees,
--German cops seize Crimemarket,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/healthcare-havoc-following-attack-change-healthcare-deepens

I coded a thing, just because https://github.com/rock3r/sandbox-demo
Don't yell at me for the possible performance optimisations and missing features. Open a PR :)

GitHub - rock3r/sandbox-demo: Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator
Compose for Desktop falling sand simulator. Contribute to rock3r/sandbox-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Filings: Apple laid off 600 employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's display and car research teams were reportedly based (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple (AAPL) Laid Off More Than 600 Workers When Car, Screen Projects Stopped
Apple Inc. laid off more than 600 employees in California as part of the decisions to end its car and smartwatch display projects, according to filings with the California Employment Development Department.