In Australia's Great Emu War, the emus showed themselves to be a potent force. Now that they are allied with the monkeys, they could be a match for any 21st century army.

Classroom doors at the school are always locked

America is truly a different world from the one I live in.

Nostr, a startup decentralized social network, got its Twitter-like Damus application listed on Apple's App Store.

Good for them! I've never had an app on the App Store. Are they, like, the first ever to do that?

The World Wide Web Consortium began the year 2023 by forming a new public-interest non-profit organization.

How is this different? Were they a for-profit organization before? Did they not operate in the public interest?

After this story has been posted, I see that the rocket hasn't launched yet. Launch livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, because it costs tens of thousands of dollars just to get started fighting this in court. That's a big problem with the DMCA - someone can go around ripping off a bunch of people who don't have the resources to assert their legal "rights".

How is Alexa losing $10 billion this year? There's no way it costs that much to run. Is Amazon sending $10 to everyone who says "Alexa, send me $10"?

Thanks for this. I couldn't make heads nor tails of the article.

Other open-source licenses assert copyright ownership but allow people to use the code (with certain conditions). CC0 asserts that there is no copyright and puts the code in the public domain (as far as that is allowed under copyright law, which generally assumes that everything is owned by someone).

"US Returns $154 Million Stolen By Sony Employee"
The employee stole regular, old-fashioned money and then spent it to buy bitcoin.

It's the programmer's job to write correct code. You're not supposed to submit untested code and wait for QA to send it back to you.

That's how I've always worked, anyway. I say it takes half a day to change a line of code, including time to test it, commit it, update the bug report, etc.

As soon as the company closes down a Slack channel, an employee creates a Discord server for them to discuss whatever they're not supposed to discuss.

But I didn't lose all of my money to QuadrigaCX, so I need to know who can scam the rest off me.

And here it is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

Tons of blank space, far less news on the screen. It was fine before, not cramped or hard to read. I don't understand how they would think the new layout is an improvement.