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Interested in how we test systems at Amazon?

In a new article in Communications of the ACM, Ankush and I write about the evolution of systems correctness and testing practices at AWS. We cover classic and formal approaches, and new ones like deterministic simulation.

cacm.acm.org/practice/sys...

The Biggest Dating App Faux Pas for Gen Z? Being Cringe For many young people dating online, sincerity is a deal-breaker and earnestness feels desperate, or even “revolting.” But by guarding their emotions, daters could be missing out on true love.

For many young people dating online, sincerity is a deal-breaker and earnestness feels desperate, or even “revolting.” But by guarding their emotions, daters could be missing out on true love. www.wired.com/story/bigges...

Phallus festival?

YouTube video by Larry & Paul #BrokenNews: "Shut Up. Everything Is Fine" Say Billionaires

🚨 STATEMENT: “Shut up. Everything is fine.” The message to you from billionaires.

👇🏻 The #BrokenNews team have the details…

youtu.be/cnd-HQz5-X4?...

This reminds me I need to book my bike mot

I had a nosey through for anything obvious, but it's late here and I'm tired and may have missed something!

This is actually what I get in the Kagi app, with settings mirroring yours.

I actually just repeated your query and the top result was the same, just without those helpful links. I'm using Brave Browser on Android which might be the reason. @kagi.com

I don't seem to have this, did you have to activate it somehow?

Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox I played a fictional billionaire on TV. It’s time world leaders got serious about taxing the real ones, says the actor Brian Cox

Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

More Green Lung! Let the devil in

Green Lung at O2 Kentish Town!

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:

Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.

www.ft.com/content/29fd...

YouTube video by LBC 'What the hell should we do now?' | James O'Brien on LBC

youtu.be/5GslIsDUMsk

Benevolent

The cybertruck hasn't achieved much, but it has demonstrated how well other cars are designed. The universal base level of competent car design was kind of invisible until the cybertruck.
It's like if a toilet came out that sprays shit across the room, making us appreciate other toilets that don't.

I read that as GCHQ at first and had a panic about our intelligence community.

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

No, Gen Z Do Not Want to Be Ruled by a Dictator The media has been full of incredibly dubious claims that young people want to be ruled by a dictatorship. The reality is very different, finds Natasha Devon

You've probably seen a lot of dodgy reporting over the past couple of weeks suggesting that Gen Z is desperate to be ruled by a dictator

The reality, as @natashadevon.bsky.social found this week, is very different

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

U.K. asks to backdoor iCloud Backup encryption I’m supposed to be finishing a wonky series on proof systems (here and here) and I promise I will do that this week.. In the midst of this I’ve been a bit distracted by world events. La…

I wrote a bit more about the UK’s recent move to allegedly demand backdoors in Apple encryption. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u...

YouTube video by Larry & Paul All Hail King Elon! - #BrokenNews

🇺🇸 LATEST: America Set To Crown Its First King. All Hail King Elon!

👇🏻 Please like and share this morning’s #BrokenNews report.

youtu.be/FtdC5-JDMPM?...

Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans’ Communications Against Foreign Surveillance Demands | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Senator Wyden has proposed a bipartisan bill that would block foreign nations from demanding backdoors in US encryption. www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Keir Starmer has spoken to President Zelenskyy and reiterated the UK’s “concrete support” for Ukraine “for as long as it’s needed”

MEPs asked Donald Tusk about the Polish Presidency goals and political strategy © European Union, 2024 - EP

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the EU: “Our future is in our hands, not of the Chinese or Americans, and we should not be afraid.”

7 rule changes you need to know for the 2025 F1 season One year out from a major overhaul of the technical regulations, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing is changing this year. But there are still a number of tweaks to the rules for the 2025 F1 ...

I see #f1 are scrapping the point for fastest lap

www.formula1.com/en/latest/ar...

I think they should have introduced points for all sorts of shit, like fastest start from the grid, longest stint on one set of tyres, fastest pit stop. Absolutely go bonkers and come up with all sorts of junk!

Smoked haddock sitting on foil with sliced cherry tomatoes, Indian spices and long fine carrots, ready to be wrapped in a foil bag and cooked with cream

Did someone say fish bag @chezdon.co.uk Chezmondo?

bugs bunny says: I wish all [redacted] a very cybersecurity incident

In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine)

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