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NTWRK CEO says the company plans to fold its brand and business into Complex and form Complex NTWRK, less than two weeks after acquiring Complex for $108.6M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/05/ntwrk-folds-into-complex-original-exec…

Exclusive: NTWRK folds into Complex, original execs return
The company plans to relaunch its print magazine.

As part of its DMA compliance plan, Google details its program that lets Play Store developers lead EEA users outside their app, including fees of 5% to 17% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/goog

Google announces the new fees that come with its Play Store's DMA compliance plan | TechCrunch
Google today is sharing more details about the fees that will accompany its plan to comply with Europe's new Digital Markets Act (DMA), the new regulation

Lithuanian farmers complain about Russian, not Ukrainian grain: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/lithuanian-farmers-complain.html

A History of C Compilers - Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
The first part of a whistle stop tour of the history of C compilers. Also GNU/Linux, dragons and lots of architectures!
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/a-history-of-…

Freedom and Portability
Let's talk compilers with part one of a whistle stop tour of their history

Some things were not supposed to be Turing-complete, but are!
This is a collection of such accidents.
Stuff which is somehow limited (stack overflows, arbitrary configuration, etc) is still considered Turing complete, since all "physical" Turing machines are resource limited.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
On February 6 each year, people around the world compliment others. Let's play!
#ComplimentACharacterWithASong

Very interesting event, likely of particular interest to Providence people:
«“Debates in AI” Symposium at Rhode Island School of Design to Explore the Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Creative Disciplines»
https://www.risd.edu/ne…

https://www.psypost.org/psychological-entitlement-new-research-unveils-link-to-pandemic-non-compliance-and-conspiracy-beliefs/
Noi unexpected, honestly, but... Yeah.

Psychological entitlement: New research unveils link to pandemic non-compliance and conspiracy beliefs
New research reveals that individuals with a strong sense of entitlement were more likely to ignore COVID-19 safety measures, visiting non-essential venues and endorsing conspiracy theories. This behavior highlights the complex interplay between psychological traits and public health responses.

Delightful - using WebAssembly to speed up Swift macro compilation.
https://forums.swift.org/t/poc-improving-macro-build-times-with-webassembly/70967

PoC: Improving macro build times with WebAssembly
The Lede I decided to take a crack at the whole "Building Macros with WebAssembly" idea and managed to put together something that improves build times by up to 10x even without any compiler integration! There's currently some caveats on the usability front since this is a standalone package instead of integrating into swiftc/SwiftPM, but I think integrating something like this into the compiler would make macros much more usable. Performance The repo offers two WebAssembly runners, one wit…