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Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips, making the world’s best pro laptop even better - These look amazing. If there was one thing that would make my life infinitely better it's a new MacBook Pro M3 Max. Just putting that out there into the world in case that's in any way a possibility. apple.com #

A DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore - They sure have a way of making their work sound boring with these technical titles and the scientific paper style of writing, but when you take the time to read through, the stuff they are doing is pretty amazing. It's like a motorboat propellar for tiny boats. How tiny? 24 nanometers. For comparison, the cutting edge of transistors on microchips is 3 nanometers. And it's made from DNA, so they could potentially lead to nanoscale robots that fix your body from the inside. Material science is cool. nature.com #

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt - Important step on the journey to reproduceable builds. From the HN thread: "It's not about proving that the result is 100% trustable. It's about proving it's 100% faithful to the source. Which means that should monkey business be detected (like a sneaky backdoor), it can be recreated deterministically 100% of the time. In other words for the bad guys: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide". discourse.nixos.org #

Bloomberg invests in Nodejs. Shouldn't you? - Qudos to Bloomberg for leading by example. More companies should invest in the Nodejs ecosystem, from core but also into the libraries that power the things we build. The ecosystem is complex and many different places need support. Do your bit. nearform.com #