Maybe they are trying to develop more ecotourism in the African nations.. only my guess

Well, remember how every Unix app, server, and utility in the 80s and 90s was written in C? Because there was only one refrigerator-sized departmental server with a only few megabytes of memory and two dozen users connected through serial lines, and writing in C was the only way to squeeze out every bit of performance out of it. There was a disk usage quota system allowing each user only a few megabytes of storage. The developer mentality today is that the resources are infinite and they can write code in the least efficient programming languages, and download frameworks the size of a Walmart when they need only a pocket knife.

Saving publishers? You gotta be kidding. The priority should be helping Ukrainian citizens survive at all. Books can be printed later. This country already lost roughly half of its population to emigration because of war. Those who remain in Ukraine are preparing to survive another winter without central heating or electricity.

Least important material? You weren't a STEM major, were you? I wanna see how physics/chemistry/math 101 is going to be the least important material.

One problem with the smartphones in USA is that the Chinese were chased out, so there is significantly less competition now. Huawei devices were as good as Nexus/Pixel but left a decade ago. So we have been stuck with just Apple/Samsung/Pixel.

Another problem with the US market is that most customers don't pay for their smartphones upfront. Instead, they are used to hook up with expensive cellular plan contracts and end up getting their phones for "free" or half price. So nobody is actually shopping for phones with a good price and value.

This makes me wonder what else is getting stolen from Netflix offices? Why stop at storage? There is probably some good tech gear laying around there (laptops, tablets, displays, phones, etc), wallets and purses, bicycles, computer chairs, cat trees, toys, etc maybe some leftover pizza

alleging the streamer lost a stolen drive containing an unencrypted master copy of the unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude...

alleging the streamer lost a stolen drive containing an unencrypted master copy of the unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude...

How could Netflix lose something that was already stolen? Or did production company submit the film on a drive that was previously from someone else? Sounds like a great script idea for new Coen brothers movie.

And this news sucks. The American smartphone market is the most boring in the world, specially in the mid and low priced segments. We just got Apple, Samsung, and Pixel.

How will Ukrainians now stay employed?

The 2026 Iran conflict was also disastrous for Formula 1 fans. Two GPs were already cancelled and this is probably not the end (There are Qatar and Abu Dhabi GPs coming later this year). Can't they make a truce for F1 GP weekends?

It's plausible that they didn't write any code because they're still coming back from a Christmas vacation.

The mobile version of Firefox still does not allow deleting/editing entries from history/bookmarks search results, so you can't get rid of a year old entry without finding it in history/bookmarks yourself.

No one was asking for the radical changes being implemented in Formula 1 for 2026 season. Arguably, the current cars (tracing architecture to 2014 season) and regulations have been delivering an excellent on track show, specially starting with 2020 season when the budget caps were finally implemented for the teams. For example in 2025, F1 had three drivers from two teams fighting for the champion title all the way until the end of the final race of the season.

Most of the criticism of the current technology is lame and superfluous.

1. Cars are "too big".

So what? They still look great.

2. DRS is lame.

So the solution is to replace DRS with another more complicated still DRS-like technology, where drivers still push the button to overtake, only this time to get a power boost instead of opening the rear wing. Big yawn (Indycar had this more than a decade ago). And current DRS is not lame. The overtake is not automatic. For one, the car has to be within 1 second from the car in front to be able to activate it, and we have seen many times that having active DRS still does not guarantee an overtake.

3. 50/50% hybrid power units.

Nobody was asking for this either. The current PU is already hybrid. F1 and manufactures are just surrendering to the "green" politcs of EU.

I honestly believe that 2026 will turn out to be a disaster season for F1 one way or another.

Why can't we repopulate the south pole with polar bears to save them?