@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Sun EIC Victoria Newton told staff that the paper plans to merge its features desk with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle team, placing some jobs at risk (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@paul@social.van.buu.reMij lijkt het een verschrikkelijk plan dat Rotterdam z'n kunstacademie verliest.
Onderteken de petitie:
https://savewdka.petities.nl/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaI stayed up far too long tonight for this one, but it was fun. Saw that we were dealing with an absolute metric ton of ranges at the very beginning so my initial thought was to reduce/merge those ranges and that's what I spent most of my time on before even tackling part 1.
It paid off tremendously and made solving everything very, very easy. There's still the Nim version to write, but I'll handle that after I get some sleep.
Solution:
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialA classic. I've implemented the sweep-merge-interval algorithm in more languages than I can remember. #Gleam
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
@dawid@social.craftknight.comWydaje się dużo - przekombinowanie i masakra, ale - co ważne kroki 1a-1h są zautomatyzowane w GitPod'zie gdzieś w chmurze. Taki "Sprint" to teraz max 1 dzień, a zazwyczaj i 2-3 sprinty na dzień - coś co wcześniej ręcznie zajmowało 2tyg sprint i czasem dłużej. Równolegle uruchamiam kilka takich zadań.
Restrykcyjny CI odrzuca wszelkie błędy, pre-commit hooki sekrety, dziwne formatowanie, martwy kod, CD pozwala na natychmiastowe sprawdzenie merge request'a bez potrzeby dot…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toNature: OpenAI's brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? #ultrasound
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialDifferent Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Comcast is looking to merge NBCUniversal, including NBC TV, studios, and theme parks, with WBD, whose shareholders would get cash and stock (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/comcast-s-bid…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAdded performance counters for keeping track of PCIe transfers between the CPU and GPU.
I still need to track allocations, and there's a bunch I can do to merge temporary buffers etc. But one step closer to understanding memory system behavior better.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SpaceX plans to merge with xAI ahead of an IPO; the combined company is expected to price shares at ~$527 each and would have a valuation of $1.25T (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/elon-mu…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaInterview with Eugen Rochko, creator of Mastodon https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/
@cdarwin@c.imEnshittification wasn't an accident.
It also wasn't inevitable.
This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of history
#Enshittification was a choice:
Known individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment.
They created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to monopoly,
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
@x_cli@infosec.exchange
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDon Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynihan-interview-purge-merge-surge
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p21#a251108p21
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomething that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/115741417416659492
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIntroducing Merge Labs https://merge.io/blog
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaWe need to merge #cloudflare with #aws so that this industry ~~fails~~ wins harder next time.
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… deep merge??
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeIn case you don’t know what this game is about: Squishing cats so the merge into bigger ones. You run out of space the more you get.
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI just found a relatively new tool for syntax-aware diff/merge operations on git repositories ( #Mergiraf ).
Unlike other tools I've tried in the past, this one is also diff3-friendly 
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- https://mergiraf.org/
- https://lwn.net/Articles/1042355/
For the weirdos like me who prefer `rebase` over `merge` this can be a great mood & productivity booster 
@servelan@newsie.socialWhat could go wrong?
Trump Media to Merge With TAE Technologies, a Nuclear Fusion Firm, in a $6 Billion Deal - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-fusion-power-deal.html
@keen456@infosec.exchange@… have you seen this PR for KDE's Kwin that turns it into a 3D VR Desktop. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8671
@keithp@fosstodon.orgI managed to merge five PRs from other picolibc contributors today. I really like getting contributions from other other people; it makes me think that maybe my little project is starting to be useful in the world.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toExclusive: OpenAI and Sam Altman back a bold new take on fusing humans and machines https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman-back-merge-labs-bci The Merge or the Übermensch in a Silicon Valley jacket.
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social@… @… @… aus dem Nähkästchen: ich merge bei uns Dupes in Bookwyrm und da kommt…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAt sufficiently high energy levels, incompetence and malice become indistinguishable and merge into a single force https://beige.party/@pattykimura/115964654344514184
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…
@publicvoit@graz.socialYesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe Extended Stellar Distribution in the Outskirts of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: #DwarfGalaxies Merge? New Clues from the Outer Stars of a Milky Way Satellite: https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2026/01/13/3641.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Lessons from merging hash tables.
https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338
saved 2026-01-08
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caNavigating our golden years involves balancing robust health with sound financial management. Both are key for true wellness as we age. What's one invaluable tip you've discovered to merge physical vitality with financial security? Let's share insights and empower each other for a thriving future! 🌟 #FinancialWellness #HealthyAging
@sean@scoat.esFWIW, this is fixed now. Thanks for the merge @….
https://php.net/pipe
@arXiv_mathQA_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for math.QA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.QA/new
[1/1]:
- Merge on workspaces as Hopf algebra Markov chain
Matilde Marcolli, David Skigin
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/altman-s-merge-raises-252-million-to-l…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaI've asked before, and I ask again.
People who try to merge onto the interstate at 40 mph, what are you doing?!?!
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThis game has captivated the whole family. You shoot squishy bouncy cats together to merge them into bigger squishy cats?! Game of the Year contender! 😂
https://www.nintendo.com/de-de/Spiele/Nintendo-Switch-2-Spiele/PUNYAN-for-Nintendo…
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaGit merge flatten is a mistake and a skill issue from those with bad git history visualisers.
#git
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaObvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: French production company and MasterChef-owner Banijay is in advanced talks with All3Media-owner RedBird IMI to merge their TV production businesses (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzJoint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments: #neutrinos may hold the keys to why we exist: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103650 - MSU scientists help merge data from two neutrino experiments to offer most precise look yet at elusive particles.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoursera plans to acquire rival online education platform Udemy in an all-stock deal valued at $2.5B, combining two of the largest US learning platforms (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coursera-udemy-merge-deal-v…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk@… both gitlab and GitHub do have some capability for reviewing merge requests. I don't know if they can auto apply patches though.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694
@seeingwithsound@mas.toInstead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Comcast's offer to merge NBCUniversal with WBD valued Comcast's media and theme-park assets at about $81B; Comcast's overall valuation is about $111B (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBoat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M in bookings in 2025 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/two-air
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/-ford-…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toInstead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNexstar reports Q3 revenue down 12.3% YoY to $1.19B and net income down 64% to $65M as ad revenue fell 23.5% to $476M due to lower political ad revenue (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
