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🤔 Synthetic gasoline promises neutral emissions –- but the math doesn’t work

Synthetic gasoline promises neutral emissions, but the math doesn't work as e-fuels sound like a panacea, but there's not enough spare electricity to make them according to a report by Ars Technica.

🤖 EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US

The European Union (EU) has been urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing control of artificial intelligence to foreign firms such as Google, as experts warn that leaving AI in foreign hands could limit academic freedom, transparency, and competition.

🐘 Mozilla’s setting up shop on Mastodon and trying to reinvent content moderation

Mozilla is setting up shop on Mastodon, a social network that is trying to reinvent content moderation by not trying to be neutral and not attempting to preserve free speech, but instead trying to make the internet a nicer place to be by not allowing harassment or derogatory language about physical, social or cultural attributes or classifications and erring on the side of protecting people who need to be protected, in the hope of making it a good place to share cat pictures and engage with friends.

💡 Way to avoid a down round is to found an AI startup

AI-focused startups are outperforming their larger peers at both the seed and Series A stages, according to new data from Carta, suggesting that perhaps the best way to avoid a downround today is to build in the artificial intelligence space.

🌍 Modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise Europe

New research suggests that it took three waves of modern humans approximately 12,000 years to fully colonize Europe, with the first two waves failing, according to archaeologists studying caves in the Rhone valley. The controversial research also challenges the idea that one of the key prehistoric stone tool industries in central France, the Châtelperronian tools, was the work of Neanderthals, instead suggesting they were brought into Europe by Homo sapiens.

🚶 Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

The entire editorial board of the science journal Neuroimage has resigned in protest of "unethical" and exorbitant publication charges imposed by Elsevier, a publishing giant accused of preying on the academic community, sparking hopes of a rebellion against the high profit margins in academic publishing.

🏛 Architect Yasmeen Lari: ‘The international colonial charity model never works’

Yasmeen Lari, the architect who is the winner of this year's royal gold medal for architecture, has set a target of one million homes in two years to replace those lost in last year’s floods in Pakistan and she is aiming to achieve it by empowering people to rebuild in the climate emergency by reviving and adapting long-established techniques and by building with earth, lime, and bamboo.

🔍 Blue verified checkmarks coming to Gmail

Google announced that it will start displaying blue checkmarks next to select senders' names on Gmail to verify their identity, which will automatically appear next to companies that have adopted Gmail's existing Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) feature, helping users identify messages from legitimate senders versus impersonators.

🚨 Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets

Twitter admits to a "security incident" concerning its Circles feature, allowing users outside of the intended audience to view private tweets.

💡📚 Articles

🧱 Modular building blocks: The case of Amazon (6 min read)

Discover how Amazon built the revolutionary AWS cloud computing platform, enabling developers to innovate without limitations and sparking a new era in software development.

🔄 Make backward incompatible changes backward compatible (Parallel changes / deferred changes patterns). (2 min read)

Make Your Backward Incompatible Changes Backward Compatible: The Parallel Changes/Deferred Changes Pattern

🚀 How to Design Scalable Web Apps Right (11 min read)

Get Your Web App Ready for Success with Proper Scalability Design: learn how to meet the principles of scalability during development, what can limit the structure of a sustainable and scalable web app, what technologies embody the idea of scaling to life, and how to develop an app that will withstand the visitors' inrush and painlessly transfer the expansion of functionality at any development and operation stage.

💻 How to Create Svelte Component Libraries with SvelteKit (3 min read)

Build and Publish Your Svelte Component Library to NPM: Learn how to create and publish your own Svelte component library to NPM using SvelteKit in this step-by-step tutorial.

💡 Good habits — Keep updating smart and not stupid (3 min read)

Smart Updating: Why Outdated Frontend Frameworks Are Stupid and How to Stay Ahead

📈 Azure Charts: Design foundation for IaC and Devops!!! (6 min read)

Designing Your Azure Foundation for IaC and DevOps Automation with Azure Charts: Real-Time Insights and Best Practices.

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