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Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/missing-66-year-old-hiker-is-found-even-after-2-week-search-was-called-off-in-nz/

Missing 66-Year-old Hiker is Found–Even After 2-Week Search was Called Off in New Zealand
A 66-year-old who'd been missing in New Zealand backcountry for two weeks has now been found, even as search was called off three days ago.

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam…

I am sad: I was going to get tickets to the annual Tolkien Lecture here in Oxford. It is Brandon Sanderson this year, and yeah, I know, but it was the only time I was going to get to see the lecture. Tickets went on sale 3m ago at noon British time on Eventbrite. I was logged in, good to go, and the whole event locked up at precisely 12:00 with a flood. I got no tickets and the next refresh showed the whole thing sold out. It was faster than ShmooCon. I can only assume there was a flood of S…

Transform 2026: Was tun gegen den Transformation Overload?
Auf der Konferenz ging es um die rasanten Veränderungen durch KI - und die Schwierigkeiten von Unternehmen, mit der Entwicklung Schritt zu halten.
https://…

The Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/wga-west-staff-strike-ahead-of-amptp-negoti…

WGA West Staff Goes On Strike Ahead Of Writers Union’s AMPTP Negotiations
The WGA West staff has called a strike after negotiating its first contract with union management since September

Last month I was trying to unstick a WCAG issue on contrast for disabled controls,where I was fine with disabled buttons passing 1.4.3:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/4874#issuecomment-3929263408
Today, someone is trying to unstick low-contrast disabled bu…

Apple Vision Pro: Was bringt das neue „Foveated Streaming“?
Apple führt mit visionOS 26.4 Beta „Foveated Streaming“ für Apple Vision Pro ein. Die gleiche Technik kommt künftig auch bei der Steam Frame zum Einsatz.
h…

Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Zunächst in den USA: Microsoft will Weg für „Medical Superintelligence“ ebnen
Microsoft startet mit Copilot Health einen KI-Assistenten, der möglichst alle Gesundheitsdaten bündelt und analysiert – zunächst in den USA.

Drohende Arbeitslosigkeit: „Es gibt nur zwei Strategien, richtig zu reagieren“
Was tun, wenn der Arbeitsplatz mehr oder weniger stark wackelt? „Aktiv werden und bloß nicht abwarten, was passiert“, rät ein Wirtschaftspsychologe.