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In 1963, the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to stop nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.

The decision was made over environmental concerns and the fallout of the Cuban Missile Crisis, per the CSIS. The Threshold Test Ban Treaty in 1974 limited the yield of underground testing to below 150 kilotons. In 1992, Congress passed a resolution that prohibited the U.S. from conducting underground nuclear tests unless a foreign state did so, leading to the current moratorium. Of note: The 1997 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty sought to ban all nuclear testing worldwide, and it proved largely successful even though it was not universally ratified.

The SNAP shutdown halts roughly $8 billion a month in federal food assistance — money that usually flows straight into grocery stores and helps feed 42 million Americans. Without it, both low-income households and major retailers like Walmart, Aldi and Kroger feel the pinch. Driving the news: Companies and nonprofits are rolling out new programs to keep food flowing — from free grocery credits to multimillion-dollar donations.

IntersectionObserver interface of the Intersection Observer API provides a way to asynchronously observe changes in the intersection of a target element with an ancestor element or with a top-level document's viewport

This software is not made for making the Crawlers go away. It is an aggressive defense mechanism that tries its best to take the blunt of the assault, serve them garbage, and keep them off of upstream resources. Even though a lot of work went into making iocaine efficient, and nigh invisible for the legit visitor, it is an aggressive defender nevertheless, and will require a few resources - a whole lot less than if you’d let the Crawlers run rampant, though.

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It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, Markov-babble is added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse.

Fascinating prompt engineering and injection (harmless).

Yet today it often seems like every project — big or small — gets mired in a slog of reviews, permits and delays. This saps our innovative spirit, reduces citizens’ trust that government can get things done and ultimately slows our progress as a nation.

I figured out there is a second hotsport wifi named "PROjb3e11" that has to have "auto-Join" selected or wireless Carplay will never work. This is a different SSID if you subscribe to AT&T hotspot built into the Mach-E. It took a senior Apple "Genius" to figure this out. Ford tech should be aware of this. You need both a wifi and Bluetooth connection in order for wireless Carplay to work and you will have to manually set the "Auto Join" even after re-pairing the Bluetooth connection.

A $9.5B return on an $8B investment in less than a year. Not bad! How does "main street" get in on investments like that?!

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in Amazon’s non-operating income for the quarter...

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business — historically Amazon’s primary profit engine — generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits...

Amazon has invested and committed a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes.

I should switch from debian to this maybe.

Looks like a clean beat. Why did the stock go down?

Love this. Like a well-defined retro process for events from tech to all parts of the business.

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