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Tim Cook could reportedly step down as Apple CEO as early as next year 🚨

Apple’s board and senior executives have recently accelerated its succession plans, with John Ternus (Apple’s Senior VP of Hardware Engineering) the favorite to takeover

Source: Financial Times

The Upcoming Guy

First look of iPadOS on iPhone 17 Pro Max

Professional Engineers Bill (2025) — Key Points

Objective:

AICTE has prepared the draft *Professional Engineers Bill (2025)* to create a nationwide licensing and registration framework for practising engineers. It establishes the Indian Professional Engineers’ Council (IPEC) as the statutory regulator.

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What the Bill Proposes

* Mandatory registration for anyone practising engineering that affects public safety, health, or welfare.
* Only registered individuals may use the protected noscript “Professional Engineer” (P.Engr.).
* IPEC will maintain registers, set competency standards, enforce a Code of Ethics, and conduct disciplinary actions.
* Practices covered: design, supervision, consulting, construction, production, operation, and related engineering services.
* Teaching-only roles are expected to be exempt; those who also practise must register.
* International alignment via frameworks like the Washington Accord.

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Governance Structure

* Board of Governors + Initial Council of 27 members for the first 3 years.
* Nominations come from various ministries (MoE, DRDO, ISRO etc.), IITs/NITs, State Governments, industry associations (CII, FICCI) etc.

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Transition & Timeline

* Stakeholder feedback phase completed.
* AICTE is finalising the draft for submission to the Ministry of Education.
* Aim: Introduce the Bill in Parliament’s Winter Session (Dec 1–19, 2025).
* Proposed 5–10 year transition for existing practitioners to register.

Data Protection Board of India (DPBI)

* Established under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Section 18).
* Acts as an adjudicatory and enforcement body for digital personal-data violations.

Key Functions

* Handles complaints from individuals.
* Investigates personal-data breaches.
* Orders urgent mitigation measures.
* Imposes financial penalties.
* Accepts voluntary undertakings.
* Can block apps/websites of repeat offenders.

Structure

* Comprises a Chairperson + Members, appointed by the Central Government.
* Members must have expertise in law, tech, governance or related fields.
* Functions as a body corporate.

Status & Significance

* Requires rules and appointments for full operation.
* Strengthens digital-privacy enforcement in India.

Concerns

* Resources, and limited scope (covers only digital data).

🌐 The “Next Y2K”: The Year 2038 Problem

What it is

Many Unix/C-based systems store time as a signed 32-bit integer (time_t), counting seconds since 1 Jan 1970.

This number reaches its maximum at 03:14:07 UTC, 19 Jan 2038.

One second later, it overflows, becoming negative — making systems think it's December 1901.

That breaks anything relying on time: logs, schedules, certificates, calculations, and more.

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Who’s at risk

* Legacy systems running 32-bit OSes
* Embedded/industrial devices (PLCs, SCADA, routers, sensors)
* Old databases & applications using 32-bit timestamps
* IoT devices with long lifespans and no update path

Modern 64-bit systems are mostly safe, but legacy tech remains widespread and often forgotten.

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Possible failures

* Wrong or corrupted timestamps
* Broken cron jobs & schedulers
* TLS/certificate validation errors
* Audit/log malfunction
* Software crashes or unpredictable behavior
Impact ranges from mildly annoying → operationally dangerous.

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Mitigation

* Migrate to 64-bit time (practically fixes the issue for centuries)
* Update OS, libraries, and firmware
* Replace unsupported hardware
* Test date handling beyond 2038
* Avoid mixing old 32-bit and new 64-bit interfaces carelessly

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Bottom line

The Year 2038 bug is real but fixable.

The biggest danger isn’t modern computers — it’s the hidden, long-lived embedded systems quietly running the world.

Gravity Ageing — Summary of Continue Research’s Hypothesis

Continue Research, founded by Deepinder Goyal, proposes the Gravity Ageing Hypothesis:
Earth’s constant 1g pull gradually reduces cerebral blood flow (CBF) over decades—especially to high-demand regions like the hypothalamus and brainstem—triggering systemic ageing.

Core Claims

* Ageing brains show a steady CBF decline (~0.7%/year).
* Upright posture reduces CBF; gravity strains circulation to the brain.
* Reduced perfusion may impair regulatory centers controlling hormones, metabolism, and repair.

Reported Findings

* Passive inversion: ~20% CBF increase.
* Active inversion: ~13% increase.
* 6-week protocol (10 min/day): ~7% average daily CBF boost
→ framed as “≈10 years younger” based on annual decline.

Proposed Interventions

* Inversion therapy (inversion tables).
* Inverted yoga poses (e.g., legs-up-the-wall, headstands).
* Supportive habits: posture, exercise, sleep, hydration.
* A $25M fund launched to back upstream ageing research.

Why It’s Interesting

* Connects physics (gravity) with biology (ageing) in a novel way.
* Suggests low-tech, accessible interventions may aid brain perfusion.

Key Caveats

* Early-stage hypothesis; limited peer-reviewed data.
* Causation not established; effect sizes need validation.
* Long-term safety of inversion varies (heart, eye, BP risks).
* Unclear how much CBF boosts translate to slowed biological ageing.

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According to @VadimYuryev test, the OnePlus 15 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 5 stopped the 3Dmark test due to overheating

iPhone 17 PM: 39.1 °C
OnePlus 15: 51.9 °C