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Early Arthropods

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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Some notes on starting to use Django

Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+ years. It feels really good when every problem I’m ever going to have has been solved already 1000 times and I can just get stuff don...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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BellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave

The hardened container market has been heating up with venture money and startups, but Java platform provider BellSoft thinks its

The post BellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave appeared first on The New Stack.

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There’s a Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on MacOS 14 and 15

forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/auto-resizing-columns-in-finder/52435

Good tip from “DifferentDan” on the Realmac customer forum, posted back in November: I saw on macOS Tahoe 26.1, Apple finally added an option in the Column View settings to automatically right size all columns individually and that setting would persist, but I don’t real...

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Nvidia Set to Supplant Apple as TSMC’s Largest Customer

cnbc.com/2026/01/26/nvidia-set-to-supplant-apple-as-tsmcs-largest-customer.html

Kif Leswing, CNBC:

Nvidia will become TSMC’s largest customer this year, according to analyst estimates and Huang himself. Apple is believed to currently be TSMC’s largest customer, mostly to manufacture A-series chips for iPhones and M-series chips for PCs and servers.

The positional swap will mark a fundamental shift in the semiconductor industry, reflecting Nvidia’s growing importance amid the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. [...]

Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies, said he projects Nvidia to generate $33 billion in TSMC revenue this year, or about 22% of the chip foundry’s total. Apple, by comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about 18% of TSMC’s revenue.

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[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth

workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12026&utm_content=no_rebuild

Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.

WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.

Simplify integrations with WorkOS Pipes.

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After Alex Pretti's killing, a battle of narratives

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/after-alex-prettis-killing-a-battle-of-narratives/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

The killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday morning marks a dramatic escalation of what was already a very tense moment for Minneapolis.  Just a day before, thousands of residents marched in a citywide strike organized by faith leaders and labor unions....

WIRED
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Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Was Being Illegally Punished

A federal judge ordered a new briefing due Wednesday on whether DHS is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies, leaving ICE operations in place for now.

WIRED
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

WIRED
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TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners

The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.

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Airlines That Support Shared Item Location for Luggage With AirTags

macrumors.com/2026/01/26/airtag-2-airlines-lost-bags/

Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors:

Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at participating airlines. This way, if you put an AirTag inside your bags, the airline can better help you find them in the event they are lost or delayed at the airport. [...] Below, we have listed most of the airlines that support the feature.

Apple’s announcement claims that 36 airlines support it today, and 15 more are coming soon.

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Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’

Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’

Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study.

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I’ve really been completely turned around on Tahoe. Only looks truly good in dark mode, with tinted glass, and a dark wallpaper. Otherwise it’s sort of a mess. I loved it at first but over time really soured on it. Hope macOS 27 peels much of it back, or at least takes steps to refines the changes.

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Apple Introduces Second-Generation AirTags

apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/

Apple Newsroom: Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip — the same chip found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 — powers the new AirTag, making it easier to locate than ever before. Using haptic, visual, and audio f...

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★ App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S.

The only apps in the top 10 not from Google or Meta are ChatGPT (#1) and TikTok (#4).

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I'm looking forward to #FOSDEM. We're bringing some easy to carry merch, loads of stickers, and even leaflets I designed. Definitely come by Mastodon's stand if you're there ☺️ We're going to be in building F this time.

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Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice

Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice
The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the staff that the Jeff Bezos regime had decided “not to send a contingent to the...

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Why We Speak

I've been working in and around the technology industry for a long time. Depending on how you count, it's 20 or 30 years. (I first started getting paid to put together PCs with a screwdriver when I was a teenager, but there isn't a good way to list that on LinkedIn.) And as ...

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From the DF Archive: ‘Untitled Document Syndrome’

daringfireball.net/2009/02/untitled_document_syndrome

Yours truly back in 2009, hitting upon the same themes from the item I just posted about TextEdit vs. Apple Notes: This, I think, explains the relative popularity of Mac OS X’s included Stickies application. For years, Stickies’s popularity confounded me. Why would anyon...

WIRED
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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE

A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE.