Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved
the Guardian
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/switching-pip-to-uv-in-a-dockerized-flask-or-django-app
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/switching-pip-to-uv-in-a-dockerized-flask-or-django-app
Nick Janetakis
Switching pip to uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App — Nick Janetakis
I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.
Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one
https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/
https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/
Technical.ly
Microsoft’s big lie: Your computer is fine (and you don’t need to buy a new one)
Windows 10 support ends in October, and the company is telling millions of users their machines can’t support Windows 11. That’s simply not true.
Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/
Google DeepMind
Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01969-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01969-1
Nature
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes
Nature - The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
New Firefox Add-On Policies
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/06/23/updated-add-on-policies-simplified-clarified/
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/06/23/updated-add-on-policies-simplified-clarified/
Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
Updated Add-on policies — simplified, clarified
We’ve updated Add-on policies for addons.mozilla.org (AMO). Here’s a summary of the changes and their impact on AMO’s publishing process. Our main objective was to simplify and clarify Add-on policies ...
US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2o
Bbc
US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
Videos posted online appear to show the newly launched self-driving cars speeding and driving in the wrong lane.
4Real-Video-V2: Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation
https://snap-research.github.io/4Real-Video-V2/
https://snap-research.github.io/4Real-Video-V2/
YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide, and her husband blames online abuse
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/youtube-star-mikayla-raines-dies-suicide-29-husband-blames-online-abus-rcna214720
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/youtube-star-mikayla-raines-dies-suicide-29-husband-blames-online-abus-rcna214720
NBC News
YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29; husband blames online abuse
Raines created a successful YouTube channel dedicated to her advocacy efforts rescuing foxes from fur farms.
iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-by-apple-wallet-ad-pushing-f1-movie/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-by-apple-wallet-ad-pushing-f1-movie/
TechCrunch
iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing 'F1' movie | TechCrunch
However well-received the film may be, iPhone users don't necessarily want their built-in utilities, like their digital wallet, marketing to them.
Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18899
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18899
arXiv.org
FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for...
AI-driven content creation has shown potential in film production. However, existing film generation systems struggle to implement cinematic principles and thus fail to generate...
Forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed