Join Free The Hustle Loading Oh no! We couldn't find anything like that. Try another search, and we'll give it our best shot. Home Originals How corn syrup took over America Published: January 10, 2025 Corporate welfare has propped up high fructose corn syrup for decades. It’s unlikely to end…

Japanese retail analyst BCN+R released a new report showing that consumer electronics, including cameras, experienced a huge boom during 2024, especially at the very end of the year. BCN+R’s report shows that digital cameras sold much better in 2024 than in 2023 across BCN+R’s Japanese retailer…

Image Credits:Mozilla (opens in a new window) Social Mastodon announces transition to nonprofit structure Ivan Mehta 3:00 AM PST · January 13, 2025 Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new nonprofit organization in Europe and hand over…

(Credit: Raffi Asdourian) The eccentric actor Werner Herzog compared to a jazz musician: “It’s just wonderful” Fri 10 January 2025 22:30, UK Few individuals involved in the world of film are as captivating, infuriating, and mesmerising as Werner Herzog. The maverick German filmmaker has lived a wild…

Published on January 6, 2025 This year’s Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser was a record-breaking success, generating over $1 million to directly support organizations fighting for privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights worldwide. We’ve held our annual charity fundraiser since 2018,…

USB-C ports that support Thunderbolt 3 differ between models, and those on the same Mac may not all be the same. This article explains what each can and can’t do. USB4 support USB-C+Thunderbolt 3 ports on Intel Macs are run by Intel chips that don’t support USB4 connections, while those on all Apple…

Millions of Americans can have their data stolen right now because of a deficiency in Google’s “Sign in with Google” authentication flow. If you’ve worked for a startup in the past - especially one that has since shut down - you might be vulnerable. I demonstrated this flaw by logging into accounts…

For a long time, Western audiences have largely viewed animation, particularly Japanese anime, as a medium restricted to children or as something “vulgar”. However, in 2001, Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Spirited Away introduced a seismic shift in the global perception of anime. This Studio Ghibli…

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At first, this article was going to be a grumbling about well-known ideas like: "Let's add support for objects in Bash instead of ObSoLeTe text and add support for images and GIFs in the commands' output." But as I was writing it, it turned out to be a nostalgic text about the learning Linux in the…

On a university level, what makes for a good computer science curriculum? One of the most common career paths for a computer science major is as a software developer. An effective university curriculum must prepare computer science students with the skills needed to be successful in their careers as…

WM BROWN From Issue 18 of the Wm Brown Magazine (Fall 2024) by Aaron Sigmond SMOKING SECTION doesn’t carry a headline. If it did, though, this one would say something along the lines of “J.C. Newman x Wm Brown Team Up for a First-of-Its-Kind Cigar Collaboration:’ Private banded cigars-often given as…

Jan 1, 2025 performance jdk spring Share on: Background My previous article focussed on comparing solutions for performing parallel execution using Spring Core Reactor and JDK 21. This article will follow my previous article where I will provide comparative analysis of Virtual Threads based…

If anyone in the future cares enough to write an authentic history of the 2024 presidential campaign, they might begin by noting that American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river. Like any river, American culture follows a particular path, which has been…

“The Brain – is wider than the Sky – / For – put them side by side – / The one the other will contain / with ease – and You – beside –,” wrote Emily Dickinson. To all that the world presents to our senses, the mind effortlessly adds things that will not and cannot ever be. We can’t help it:…

by Gill Pringle Having issues finding a work-life balance? In Apple TV+’s dark comedy series Severance, one company offers a solution – its employees undergo a “severance” procedure to surgically divide their memories between their work and personal lives. With Patricia Arquette in the role of Lumon…

W e are rapidly losing the natural world—the very foundation of our existence—and many of us fail to notice. The intricate connections between humanity and the wild are fading from our awareness. We no longer see, hear, touch, or smell the vibrant ecosystems that once surrounded us; we have…

For all the chatter about the decline of San Francisco, data repeatedly shows that the Bay Area, including the city itself, is still the best place for venture-backed startups. Startups located in the Bay Area vacuumed up $90 billion of VC investment in 2024, which was 57% of the $178 billion of US…

We all know what it means, colloquially, to google something. You pop a few relevant words in a search box and in return get a list of blue links to the most relevant results. Maybe some quick explanations up top. Maybe some maps or sports scores or a video. But fundamentally, it’s just fetching…

Canon chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai says the company may reorganize its manufacturing efforts, potentially moving additional camera production outside Japan. “We want to go fabless with the printers and lower-end digital cameras we manufacture in Asia,” Mitarai told Nikkei Asia in an interview,…

When Reddit went down on March 13, 2022, it was a rude reminder that the company needed to manage its infrastructure in a different way. The notorious “Pi Day” site-wide outage, which, coincidentally, lasted for 314 minutes, came from a cluster-wide upgrade from Kubernetes 1.23 to 1.24, that…

Me, a podcaster? (Image credit: Google) Google's NotebookLM has recently introduced one of my favorite AI features for generating content. NotebookLM Interactive Mode now allows users to engage in real-time conversations with AI-generated podcast hosts as if chatting with real people. By actively…

Jack Dorsey, cofounder and CEO of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square, wakes up at 5 a.m. After drinking a juice made from Himalayan sea salt, water, and lemon, he takes an ice bath. He meditates for one hour each morning and one hour each evening. On weekends, he eats nothing and drinks only…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Bar Is Closed A short drive from my home in North Carolina is a small Mexican restaurant, with several tables and four stools at a bar facing the kitchen. On a sweltering afternoon last summer, I walked in…

Facebook declines, Google grows as battle for news audiences continues As an analytics provider for hundreds of the web’s leading publishers, we have a bird’s-eye view of trends in web-wide news consumption. This vantage revealed an industry-wide shift in how readers find news in June 2015. Facebook…

People often ask me, “What is your tool for?” They want an answer like “AI” or “ETL” or “Training Models”. They want a clean and specific application for easy comparison. I, of course, do not give them that satisfaction. Instead I ask “What is Python for?” or “What is the cloud for?” Them: Well, all…

Python Support is Socially Complex Supporting a Python product is difficult because it’s hard to draw a line between your product and the rest of the ecosystem. This creates confusion, especially when it comes to triage and attributing failure to one product or another. When a complex product like a…

TL;DR This article is for someone trying to decide whether to work at an early-stage, venture-backed startup. There is a romantic vision of startup employment that doesn’t hold up under close scrutiny. Business model risk is extreme and the financial opportunity cost is significant. Typically we…

Welcome to Your Mileage May Vary, my new twice-monthly advice column offering you a framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions. Your Mileage May Vary isn’t like other advice columns, which usually aim to give you a single answer — the underlying premise being…

December 2, 2024 What it takes to set up a new Python environment from scratch using standard tooling versus uv. If you're a Python developer, you may have heard murmurings about this new tool called uv that everyone's talking about. And if you're like me—generally wary of the latest tooling fad—you…

Metallic Resonance Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space” Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser. Kevin Purdy – Jan 9, 2025 12:15 pm | 1 Credit: Chromium Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more Supporters of…

learning the machine How I program with LLMs Generative models can be powerfully useful—if you're willing to adapt your approach. David Crawshaw – Jan 8, 2025 2:51 pm | 233 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only…

Orbiting HQ About Us Ars Technica was founded in 1998 when Founder & Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher announced his plans for starting a publication devoted to technology that would cater to what he called "alpha geeks": technologists and IT professionals. Ken's vision was to build a publication with a…

Probe to wrap ASAP EU “energetically” probing disinformation, right-wing bias on X, report says Elon Musk wading further into global right-wing politics raises alarms in EU. Ashley Belanger – Jan 8, 2025 12:37 pm | 428 Credit: Tom Williams / Contributor | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. Credit: Tom Williams /…