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Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook:
The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years,
it is shuttering the popular reference manual.
The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook,
but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.

The CIA World Factbook is no more
The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday but gave no reason for it. It comes as CIA Director John Ratcliffe has promised to return the agency's focus to its core missions. First launched more than 60 years ago as a classified reference manual for CIA officers, the Factbook went on to be a reference manual cited by journalists, trivia experts and college essayists alike. A message seeking comment from the CIA ab…

Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/match-group-coo-out-as-…

Match Group COO out, as dating apps struggle to connect with Gen Z | TechCrunch
Match Group eliminates the COO role as CEO Spencer Rascoff has been managing operations.

Memo: Philo CEO Andrew McCollum is stepping down and will be replaced by COO Mike Keyserling; source: McCollum will become executive chairman of Philo (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/03/philo-ceo-andrew-mccollum-resigns-mike-keyserling/

SCOOP: Philo CEO Andrew McCollum steps down; COO Mike Keyserling to succeed as CEO
Philo CEO Andrew McCollum is leaving the company after more than a decade; COO Mike Keyserling is succeed him in the role.

c't Sonderheft: Quantencomputer verstehen und selbst nutzen
Quantencomputer verstehen statt Hype glauben: Das neue c't Sonderheft leitet Sie von den Grundlagen der Quantenphysik bis zum ersten eigenen Quanten-Code.

🇵🇱 Takie cacko zrobiłem dla moich córek. Zdjęcia pokazują porównanie przed i po. Jutro organizujemy im z żoną zbieranie jajek i to ma być ostatni etap poszukiwań, więc siedziałem dzisiaj do 23:20, żeby skończyć ten samochodzik :)
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🇬🇧 This is the kind of thing I made for my daughters. The photos show a before and after comparison. Tomorrow my wife and I are organizing an egg hunt for them and this is to be the last stage of the search, so I sat until 11:20 pm today to finis…

Tl;dr: LLMs are shit at citations.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

„The World Factbook“: CIA hat ein Urgestein des Internets unerwartet geschlossen
Das „CIA World Factbook“ gehörte zu den ältesten Seiten im Internet und war in dessen Anfangsjahren eine beliebte Anlaufstelle. Am Mittwoch ging es offline.

Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-dif…

MacBook Neo Features Two Different USB-C Ports
The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds. One port is a USB-C 3 port with...

I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
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Cowboy kündigt mehrere Rückrufzentren für C4 ST in Deutschland an
Der E-Bike-Hersteller Cowboy hat weitere Informationen zu seinem Rückrufprogramm für das Modell C4 ST veröffentlicht.
https://www.