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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Digital wallets and the "only Apple Pay does this" mythology - Has some interesting and useful technical info about digital wallets, specifically about the reasons and uses for FPAN and DPAN numbers. birchtree.me #
Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole - I'm still a bit confused how we are able to get these side on views since we are in the same plane as the rotation of the black hole. Or is it that the black hole rotates perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy? Or is it because of how the light gets polarized? Anyway cool picture, and cool to discover similarities between these beasts. eventhorizontelescope.org #
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 - The 35th anual event will be an online event rather than in person, anyone can attend for free. It's likely they will announce their AI strategy going forward. macrumors.com #
Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve in case against extradition to US - How can this case still be going on? I feel like he's been on trial for most of my career. theguardian.com #
Donald Trump media firm soars in stock market debut - At one point in early trading the company was being valued at $9bn. This is despite the fact that revenue last year was only $3.3m, and they lost almosy $50m. Trump stands to make $4bn. bbc.com #
Behind the plot to break Nvidia's grip on AI by targeting software - Qualcomm, Google and Intel plan to create open source software that will help people migrate off of Nvidia's platform - "The UXL Foundation, a consortium of tech companies, plans to build a suite of software and tools that will be able to power multiple types of AI accelerator chips". reuters.com #
New Post: Regulators as secret crypto shills markjgsmith.com #
Building a Micro HTMX SSR Framework - Super interesting to see how Vite works, and it's a very good tutorial, but I got about half way through and realised my idea of micro and the author's differ considerably. Imo this is very complicated, and it feels like there's quite a lot of 'magic' going on, or at least more than I am comfortable with. However I'm willing to concede it might just be my unfamiliarity with modern esm frontend applications. blog.platformatic.dev #