Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/politics/chips-act-grant-intel.html
NY Times
Intel Receives $8.5 Billion in Grants to Build Chip Plants
The award, announced by President Biden at a plant in Arizona, is the biggest the government has made under a new program that aims to rebuild the nation’s semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source https://rive.app/blog/rive-renderer-now-open-source-and-available-on-all-platforms
Suspicious discontinuities (2020) https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
Redis adopts dual source-available licensing https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Redis
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing | Redis
Developers love Redis. Unlock the full potential of the Redis database with Redis Enterprise and start building blazing fast apps.
The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
jsomers.net
E. coli chemotaxis: the baffling intelligence of a single cell
Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html
NY Times
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months https://today.ucsd.edu/story/biodegradable-microplastics
UC San Diego Today
Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics
Finding viable alternatives to traditional petroleum-based plastics and microplastics has never been more important. New research from scientists at UC San Diego and Algenesis shows that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level…
SQLite Schema Diagram Generator https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/sqlite-schema-diagram
GitLab
Screwtape / sqlite-schema-diagram · GitLab
Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable https://oimo.io/works/life/
oimo.io
Life Universe
Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts https://feedle.world/
feedle
feedle: Search and Discover Quality RSS Feeds from Thousands of Blogs and Podcasts
A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022) https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-man-who-bought-pine-bluff-arkansas
Substack
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
A Hackernews comment introduces a new character
New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco https://tlacuilolli.com/2024/03/21/new-aztec-codices-the-codices-of-san-andres-tetepilco/
Tlacuilolli
New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco
The recent announcement of the discovery of three new Aztec codices is covered here for the English-speaking public.
TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh
GitHub
GitHub - janmojzis/tinyssh: TinySSH is small server (less than 100000 words of code)
TinySSH is small server (less than 100000 words of code) - janmojzis/tinyssh
PSChess – A chess engine in PostScript https://seriot.ch/projects/pschess.html
Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/
Krebs on Security
Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts…