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Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

Google releases a core update to Discover, rolling out first to US users, aiming to cut clickbait and show more locally relevant, in-depth, timely content (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-releases-discover-core-upd…

Google releases Discover core update - February 2026
This Discover update will show more locally relevant content based on the users country.

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.

CeeDee Lamb injury update from respected concussion doctor is scary news for Cowboys WR https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-injury-update-concussion-doctor-scary-news-cow…

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

Change board meeting next week. Short briefs on mini releases that I did since December. Also asking that if someone updates what screens are presented to the users in production you MUST brief the change board first. Document why it is needed, what the changes are, who makes the changes, where in the system it is and when! There are dates that are blocked from any changes except for emergencies. Then a backup plan, deployment plan and rollback plan.

Representations of Empowerment and Resistance in Contemporary Indian Women’s Literary and Cultural Discourses
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updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:13pmfull name / name of organization: Department of…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had started an immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans today.
The department said the offensively titled "Operation Catahoula Crunch"
would target
“criminal illegal aliens roaming free thanks to sanctuary policies”.
New Orleans is the latest Democratic-run city (albeit in a Republican-led state) to see federal immigration agents on its streets.
Most recently, the Trump administrationtargete…

Speaking at the US Capitol today, Senate and House Democrats said that
“dramatic changes” are needed
at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
as they continue their negotiations over a full-year appropriations bill
Trump signed a stopgap spending measure on Tuesday that funds the DHS until 13 February while lawmakers hammer out guardrails.
The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said that the party is also demanding the end of “roving patrols”,
“inde…