FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-report-on-the-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-landscape/
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A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…
Ukraine's Special Forces confirm 'successful fire attack' on Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukraines-special-forces-confirm-successful.html
These are three arguments for web dev serv. APIs, even if you have to take a critical look at them in detail:
»Speed Comparison: Benchmarking programming languages using the Leibniz formula for calculating π«
— 2025-12-12
📊 https://niklas-heer.github.io/speed-comparison/…
Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133845/call-papers-catholic-record-society-68th-annual-conference-1-2-…
A new vision: Comparing electrical prostheses in the race to end blindness https://www.jfophth.com/a-new-vision-comparing-electrical-prostheses-in-the-race-to-end-blindness/
Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4,
which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls.
For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri abou…
Efficient Bayesian Inference from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
Till Aczel, Lucas Theis, Wattenhofer Roger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09333 https://arxiv.org/…
Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace,
a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.
As community members rallied to halt the raid,
federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters.
Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd
as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, s…