To get started, you need to have an Apple Silicon Mac (we support all M1 – M4 series chips) running macOS 15 or newer, with Xcode 16 or newer installed. The version of the Metal Shading Language we use (3.2, AIR bitcode version 2.7.0) needs the macOS 15 SDK, and you’ll get an error about incompatible bitcode versions if you run on an older macOS or use an older version of Xcode that doesn’t have the macOS 15 SDK.

“It dawned on me that it wasn’t going to be a (continuing) business and that it was just going to slide away and somebody would develop it into something else,” Fiege said. “I think the only way we can (keep) traditions is by taking the bull by the horns and making it happen.”

And while Mr. Kirk was building a conservative powerhouse in Phoenix, Ms. Kirk, who had spent her adolescence in nearby Scottsdale, had chosen to live in Manhattan.  Once he had confessed that he wanted to date her rather than hire her, and she recovered from the shock, “he engulfed me into his world,” Ms. Kirk said. “I made that choice. It’s so hard to articulate the beauty of an Ephesians 5 marriage when you actually have a man that’s worth following, to have a true example of a leader to look up to. And I had that in Charlie.” She added, “I’ve had so many people ask, ‘Do you feel anger toward this man? Like, do you want to seek the death penalty?’ I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?”

Packers data suite.

Season ticket sales in general seating areas fell 10% from 2024 to 2025, and attendance at the first two home games was the lowest it has been since 1992.

When the family is unable to afford a spot at a campground, which can cost $25 to $45 a night, they park on remote federal lands, which are free for two weeks. But those sites don’t come with water or electricity and have spotty cell service. At times, the family has bathed and washed their clothes in a river and gone to the bathroom in the woods to conserve the water in their RV’s tank.

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.

The standard ‘iron bomb’ to which the kits are added to create complete JDAMs raises the full price point by another few thousand dollars. The latest variants of the AIM-120 cost around $1 million apiece, while current-generation AIM-9Xs each have a price tag around $450,000.

Stories like the recent widow whose husband used to mow everyone on the block’s lawn who can’t do it themselves, because of age or infirmity, so now that is how she spends her free day, the one day a week she isn’t working at the plant or caring for her grandkids, pushing the lawn mower, which does tear her up now and then because it smells of her husband, can you believe that, a mower smelling of a man dead for over a year, but it does, and if you had only met him you would know why that brings me to tears, because they don’t make men like that anymore, a man who didn’t have a bad word to say about anyone and only cared about helping and that is who God struck down at sixty-five, which doesn’t seem fair, but he lived a good life and I only wish he would have had a few more years to go to his favorite granddaughter’s wedding, which is next weekend, down at the casino. Have you been? You should go if you haven’t.

A devout Christian, Thiel is expanding on a number of speeches and public interviews he has given about the Antichrist in a closed, four-part lecture series this month in San Francisco. The second lecture happened on Monday, and the series will end in early October. 

The findings appear to point to a program running outside the bounds of statute or oversight, experts say, with CBP officers exercising broad discretion to capture genetic material from Americans and have it funneled into a law-enforcement database designed in part for convicted offenders. Critics warn that anyone added to the database could endure heightened scrutiny by US law enforcement for life.

As a production engineer who has spent the majority of my professional life in manufacturing facilities, I cannot emphasise enough how much the unboxed process is a game changer. If Tesla make this happen, production costs will fall so dramatically that the competition will disappear from the market – wiped away. There is simply no way to compete with Tesla any more as product will remain superior but costs will be way down and with verxy low prices demand will grow exponentially.

Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing.

For more than a decade, Murkowski has moved in the same Arctic policy circles as Maxwell, Borgerson, and Rogoff.

The other option is to ignore range or depreciation and buy the cheapest car possible and drive it into the ground. This works well for people who only need a car for around town — most people don’t drive more than 40 miles a day — and don’t care about features. This is what Helveston did when he bought a 10-year-old Leaf off Facebook Marketplace for $5,000. It had a remaining range of just 60 miles, but he drives no more than 30 per day.  “The miles are double what I need,” he said, and he doesn’t have to pay for gas or oil changes, either. “If it dies on me, I only invested five grand in it and I’ll buy another one.”

Unified by the VW.os operating system, these architectures aim to support over 40 million vehicles by 2030

There’s a problem with boxed mixes, and it’s impacting grandmas’ most beloved recipes. At some point last year, shoppers noticed Betty Crocker cake mixes shrank (again), this time from 15.25 ounces down to 13.25 ounces. And while few people would ever argue for less cake, the 2-ounce decrease is weighing particularly heavy on grandmas. 

Here he preached his first sermon on the Second Sunday in Advent, December 4, 1524, and on the following Saturday, December 10, was burned at the stake in the nearby village of Heide by a band of drunken peasants instigated by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities.

While marketing glorifies and normalizes complexity, several deeper, more innate forces draw us developers toward it:

Kitchen United raised $100 million in July 2022, including funding from grocery giant Kroger². Fifteen months later, the company shut down all eight of its Kroger locations². That represented 44% of Kitchen United’s entire 18-unit footprint². The company then announced it would sell or close every remaining physical location and pivot to “software only”³. Translation: We burned through $100 million and have nothing left to show for it.

How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

Thus the naïve reader, who wants to take the printed word at its nominal value, logically infers a common attitude and purpose among the previously named Western politicians and the soviet enemies of perestroika. Common sense could protect the sane man from such an absurdity, but this runs out of answers in the face of the schizophrenia of political vocabulary, proving insufficiently idiosyncratic; he seems to have resigned himself without grumbling. The common retort is that conservatives are defenders of the status quo, whatever that may look like in the particular case, so conservatives living in very different societies, unsurprisingly, advocate very different and even contradictory programs. But if political classifications are not backed by political substance, then these classifications must be grounded in psychological or anthropological factors, common attitudes towards life. 

How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?

Chinese President Xi Jinping in July gave his clearest warning yet against “involution” — extreme price competition stemming from industrial overcapacity — when he pointed to reckless investment plans and questioned whether every province needed EV factories. Stella Li, the executive vice-president of BYD, China’s dominant EV maker, last week said Beijing’s crackdown on aggressive discounting could see as many as 100 carmakers out of more than 120 being “pushed out”. She was speaking on the sidelines of the Munich motor show.

Roll is the co-author of a new report, titled “Redshift,” on the acceleration of China’s commercial and civil space activities and the threat these pose to similar efforts in the United States. Published on Tuesday, the report was sponsored by the US-based Commercial Space Federation, which advocates for the country’s commercial space industry. It is a sobering read and comes as China not only projects to land humans on the lunar surface before the US can return, but also is advancing across several spaceflight fronts to challenge America. “The trend line is unmistakable,” the report states. “China is not only racing to catch up—it is setting pace, deregulating, and, at times, redefining what leadership looks like on and above Earth. This new space race will not be won with a single breakthrough or headline achievement, but with sustained commitment, clear-eyed vigilance, and a willingness to adapt over decades.”

But many of these beloved settings weren’t born from pure imagination. They were inspired by real places across Japan – some sacred, others endangered but all profoundly cherished. As Studio Ghibli celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, we’re exploring the real-world places behind some of its most iconic films.

Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of All Demos” at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect.

The intricate model features what Macken says are hundreds of thousands buildings, landmarks and geographic elements across the five boroughs and their surroundings, including bridges, airports, the Hudson and East rivers, New York Harbor, Central Park, One World Trade Center and the original World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building. The work consists of 350 handmade sections that are pieced together and can be taken apart and moved.

IBM Tethnology Atlas

Elon came up with a new genius trick to beat rivals at time-to-market. Colossus 2 will be an even more impressive achievement than xAI’s first cluster. Let’s dig in.  The first half of this report will dig into the Colossus 2 prowess. The second half will discuss Grok models, our mid-to-long term thoughts on xAI, and the unique RL method xAI is using that may lead them to leapfrog OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.  More.

While that’s troubling, some law enforcement experts are more concerned that the accused man was able to stand directly next to the state’s most powerful executive despite having outstanding warrants in four states.

Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin, we also have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US.

“When you play blackjack, you play the odds, and every hand, there’s a right [or] wrong answer?.?.?. that wasn’t so dissimilar here, where the hand that we’re dealt by the FCC was one that there’s only one logical path that we’re going to be able to take.”

The actual design of the building is also spurring disgust over how ugly it is. Many are blasting the design as a “monstrosity” and an eyesore. Some have even said it looks like something the evil empire in Star Wars would build for the movies. But perhaps more concerning, the center has become a threat to the residents in the area.

Launch sites of the future need to be fully operationalized like an airport. That means multiple launches a day from multiple providers, able to launch when ready to support a variety of vehicles and missions. SpaceX is committed to working collaboratively with federal regulators, the federal ranges, and industry partners to realize this vision, including making significant investments in scientific research on blast and acoustics, physical infrastructure, and operational techniques and modern tools that foster dynamic, safe, and high-cadence spaceports in the U.S.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster on Thursday, accusing the online broker of raking in profits through exorbitant fees and turning a blind eye as bots illegally resell millions of tickets to customers.

If people are uneducated and foolish, you can’t do much about it. People like to be foolish, but don’t make it easy for them. Argue with them.”

“The Imperial needs to be a destination, so a restaurant without a drive-thru should be there,” Sanford said. “Sadly, Imperial Garden cannot be the restaurant there because Chinese food is prepared over high heat and generates smoke and cooking aroma, which is problematic with residential units above.”

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances.

It strikes me that no matter the service charge, or the quality of the restaurant — which John chides as “more like a backstreet cafe” — or whether privately owned or council-housed, you may still end up defecating onto your shoe in the middle of a bistro. No amount of ground rent can protect your dignity when there is an intrinsic lack of it in ageing. That’s the part The Thursday Murder Club glosses over. You don’t see Pierce Brosnan shuffling down a hallway in stained joggers, unsure where he’s going. Helen Mirren isn’t seen denuded of dignity, lying on her back and promising she won’t sue.

As California AG, Kamala Harris raided the home of journalist David Daleiden and dragged him through the court system for years after he exposed Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal body parts.

The VW Transporter has been in production in its various forms for 75 years in 2025, having first appeared way back in 1950. It’s won countless accolades and many more fans over that time, and plenty of those have been paying tribute in what is yet another notable anniversary year for the bus/van.

I agree that her role is less direct and, unlike with McIntosh/Fickell I’m not necessarily calling for her termination. With that said, I’ll direct your attention to this:

So, what’s the danger? If something on Starship fails, it could disintegrate in the atmosphere. Surviving debris would rain down to the ground, as it did over the Turks and Caicos Islands after two Starship launch failures earlier this year. Two other Starship flights ran into problems once in space, tumbling out of control and breaking apart during reentry over the Indian Ocean.

“In some ways it was a complete success,” Tim Barnes, who leads the CCCBR’s methods team, told me about the reform. “Allowing people to do what they wanted to do within a framework for what they could do.” For his part, Earis is happy with the revisions. Stedman Jump Triples can finally be found in the CCCBR’s official library.

All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the representation of these abstract entities in programming languages and the mapping of these onto machine languages within space and speed constraints. Most of the big past gains in software productivity have come from removing artificial barriers that have made the accidental tasks inordinately hard, such as severe hardware constraints, awkward programming languages, lack of machine time. How much of what software engineers now do is still devoted to the accidental, as opposed to the essential? Unless it is more than 9/10 of all effort, shrinking all the accidental activities to zero time will not give an order of magnitude improvement.

In recent years, OpenStreetMap has emerged as the de facto standard for global electrical grid data. However, many developing countries are still lagging behind. This gap limits rural energy access and slows down climate action:

In our paper Extracting Profits from the Public, we explain how utilities are forcing regular ratepayers to pay for the discounts enjoyed by some of the nation’s largest companies and identify ways policymakers can limit the costs to the public. 

The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.

“The term ‘they aren’t listening’ typically means the council didn’t agree with them,” Guequierre said. He added the council considered the neighbors’ concerns about stormwater runoff and added traffic from the apartment complex but said sometimes people “arrive at different conclusions.”

SpaceX especially wants Apple to cooperate instead of pursuing the C-3 constellation because the H-block and AWS-4 spectrum, that SpaceX is now acquiring from EchoStar, is not supported by any current phones (EchoStar’s Band 66 and Band 70 used different frequency pairings). Thus support from device manufacturers will be needed to get the new capabilities enabled by this spectrum into consumers’ hands in the near term. Of course if Apple doesn’t come around, then there’s always the possibility that SpaceX will announce a “Starlink phone” as Apple executives worried about in the May article.

Porsche is using Apple Vision Pro to showcase the internals of the new 911 Turbo S.

The study found 95 percent of the world exhibits “no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise.” The researchers projected that observed sea level rise will work out to about six inches by 2100. That’s not insignificant. Six more inches of sea level could cause problems in many places. But they’ll be manageable problems, not calamities the instant-doomsday crowd says are coming. Bear in mind there’s money in crying doomsday – government grants, foundation funding, tenure, book contracts.

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change.

We provide a first?of?its?kind dataset of 5?D blur fields—for smartphone cameras, camera bodies equipped with a variety of lenses, etc. Finally, we show that acquired 5?D blur fields are expressive and accurate enough to reveal, for the first time, differences in optical behavior of smartphone devices of the same make and model.

Oracle’s new market cap, near a trillion dollars, up nearly 50% this week, driven largely by this one apparently non-binding deal with a party that doesn’t have the money to pay for the services, seems more bonkers than most.

One of Britain’s largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed can be found in the unlikeliest of locations: a vast former youth hostel in a pretty corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Meticulously sorted into subject areas, from naval history to 19th-century literature, architecture to zoology, over 150,000 volumes fill some 25 high-ceilinged rooms spread over four floors. To withstand the sheer weight of all those hardbacks, the building, which began life as a prep school in c1878, must surely be as strong as a Romanesque church.

Just like none of the buildings captured by F.A. Schwartz survived beyond the end of the nineteenth century, neither did the above Straßenmöbel make it for much longer. You might occasionally stumble upon one or the other gaslight but if so, cherish the sight – they are as good as gone, too.

It was a turbulent century of ideological struggles; the aristocracy survived by adapting to new political structures and by the absorption of an emerging bourgeoisie.

Can the biggest biotech outcomes come from repurposed drugs? “The most fruitful basis of the discovery of a new drug is to start with an old drug”, James Black (Nobel Laureate). Perhaps you can refuse to spend any money on early R&D and safety studies, and instead weaponize ChatGPT to index all the possible mechanisms in all the possible diseases and drugs that can potentially target those. I’ve heard this pitch from at least 4 different friends in the past 3 months, so I suspect many people are pursuing this avenue now, or some other approach to repurposing.

AdBlue is a diesel exhaust fluid used to reduce harmful emissions from diesel-powered vehicles. It is a legal requirement for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) over 7.5 tonnes and diesel engines fitted with selective catalytic reduction (SCR). The use of AdBlue became more widespread with the introduction of Euro 6 emission standards in September 2015, which imposed stricter limits on nitrogen oxide emissions. As a result, diesel cars produced from this date onwards are subject to these laws and are typically fitted with AdBlue tanks.

Roughly a year and a half later, after what Wall called “a long, drawn-out battle” over lighting, city departments finished reviewing the project, moving it closer to construction. Wall said he needs a building permit — which has yet to be issued — to move forward with demolishing the parking garage as part of the new development.

Trader hired one of the builders featured on “Container Homes” but now thinks the company, MODS International, never really intended to build the home. It was supposed to cost $165,000 and be done by the end of 2021. Ultimately, all the company did before walking away was pour a foundation and plunk the five containers — two 40-foot-long ones for the first floor and three 20-foot-long ones for the second — on top of it.

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 16, 2024: “Fed must cut by 75bps on Sept 18” (the Fed cut by 50bps two days later).

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 4, 2025 to Stephen Miran: “What you are doing (by pushing for lower rates) will take an axe to Fed independence”

Vector Tiles are small files that also represent geographic features, similar to GeoJSON. The key difference is that they represent a specific sector, a tile (thus the name), at a specific zoom. That means if I want to display a map of the world with Vector Tiles, it will actually be a collection of square tiles pieced together. Imagine taking a globe and cutting it up in multiple squares – that’s what vector tiles are (we’ll ignore distortion and projections for now, that’ll be a post for another time).

You are NOT counted as “vaccinated” until 2 weeks after your 2nd shot. For the first 6 weeks, the vaccine is ineffective. Infection & death rates rise. But all those deaths are attributed to the “unvaccinated” group.

Now imagine if SpaceX could’ve had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9’s reusability campaign. Imagine if they could’ve tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen.

Can this vehicle save the German Auto Industry?