YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google
YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tips on what to watch. Before, […]
The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess
On Sunday, Kensington Palace released a photo of Kate Middleton, the princess of Wales. The image, also shared to the royal couple’s Instagram account, depicts Middleton seated, smiling, and surrounded by her three children. Purportedly taken by her husband Prince William in Windsor, the photo was widely distributed by wire services like the Associated Press, […]
Proposed parking rules put American pickups, hulking SUVs in the firing line
One Australian councillor wants to follow the lead of Paris by slugging utes, pickups and some of the country’s best-selling SUVs with higher parking rates in a bid to reduce the number of “truckzillas” in city centres. On Tuesday, March 12 the Yarra City Council in Melbourne’s inner suburbs will debate a motion put forward […]
Phase3D releases True Layer Thickness | VoxelMatters
Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community. Phase3D, a Chicago-based company commercializing in-situ monitoring for additive manufacturing (AM), is introducing True Layer Thickness. This toolkit measures the quantity, in microns, of metal powder spread across the build area, certifying uniform distribution for every […]
segregated witness – Example of computing segwit txid from raw tx data
what bytes exactly should be removed Those corresponding to the Segwit data fields: segwit flag and marker after the version number (bytes 4-5 with zero-based indexing). segwit witness data between final output and lock time In general you cannot say something like remove bytes 100-166 because the length and number of inputs and outputs is […]
U.S. Cracks Down on Predatory Spyware Firm for Targeting Officials and Journalists
Mar 06, 2024NewsroomPrivacy / Spyware The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in “developing, operating, and distributing” commercial spyware designed to target government officials, journalists, and policy experts in the country. “The proliferation of commercial spyware poses […]
Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win shows the weirdness of the Supporting categories
Robert Downey, Jr. just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. “I would like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order,” Downey quipped as he accepted his trophy. The award, which represents Downey’s first Oscar win and third nomination, is a slightly odd achievement, […]