Maurizio Branca

Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees Xbox will end or decrease work ‘in certain areas’

9000 layoffs today from microsoft.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.

This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.

Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.

the only way forward for video games is self-published games made by properly-organised studios

corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.

Golfo del Gringo Loco Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.

Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.

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Arco is 30% off now on Steam 💫 if you want to try the game first, you can try our free demo at Steam and if you buy it later you can keep your save ✨

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YouTube video by Scott Hanselman EPISODE 9 - Scott and Mark Learn To... Public Speaking

Do you want to learn how to be a better public speaker? Join @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I in this episode of "Scott and Mark Learn To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jr...

Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, ScarJo, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willen Dafoe, etc. [en.wikipedia.org]

Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks What’s worse than Middle School? Watching your child suffer through it. Those years were excruciating for my son Elijah—even at his small progressive school. Bright, reserved, and contrary, Elijah …

Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listing to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from each other too.” I *love* listening to audiobooks w/ my kids. [lithub.com]

I found a crazy bug in Avowed guys

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.

🐍🎧 Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv

How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.

https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/

How to create a Python CLI that's globally available in your system in 5 easy steps.

1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer

uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations.

Happy birthday, uv! 🥳

Silent Hill.

Someone did have a sign that said he cheats at Diablo lol

Great episode! I enjoyed every minute of it ❤️

Teaching the next-gen engineer with Dr Carlotta Berry

Check out @drcaberry.bsky.social on the podcast this week! www.hanselminutes.com/982/teaching...

In provincia invece andiamo alla grandissima.

8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, suppl...

This is a great research! It proves a basic security principle: security teams should invest their time and effort in common - and often easily solvable - well-known issues: public S3 buckets, MFA enforcement, dependencies monitors, etc. 0-days are cool, but probably not your major concern.

To help people understand what's going on we've brought in our corporate translator cat.

“We realized there is a lot of money in making weapons and spying on people. Fuck the pledge. I love money” — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind

Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run

uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest

til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...

Paper with all caps writing: A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...

Dear Arduino User, We’re reaching out to you because you have one or more Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices connected to Arduino Cloud that require a mandatory update. In order to continue to ensure a reliable and secure connection between your IoT devices and Arduino Cloud, we need you to update the security credentials stored on your IoT devices that connect using a Secure Element. This update is essential to ensure your devices can continue to connect to our MQTT broker.

🧵 [1/2] If you are an Arduino customer and use their online service, you should probably know that it could be compromised - but I am waiting for official updates. Arduino sent an e-mail today communicating they are rotating *all* the IoT devices' credentials, for all customers.

why is this so real rn

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

For all of my life I've lived with the dreadful certainty that we were headed for disaster. To those of you who are struggling with that now: find the things you can do that help others around you, and hopefully bring you joy/satisfaction, and funnel your all sorrows into that.

YouTube video by Movie Matinee - Short Films Every Week Rabbits (2002) A Short Film by David Lynch

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