As Europe desperately scrambles to fund its war chest, debt climbs to eye-watering levels

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The expansion will enable approximately 86% of U.S. families to qualify for Harvard College’s financial aid, the college said.

Alphabet Inc. is in talks to purchase cloud-security company Wiz Inc. for $33 billion, restarting discussions that were called off last summer after extended negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally…

Scientific Reports - The invisible witness: air and dust as DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises

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Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering…

This article is about why on-call in it's current state in big-tech is flawed, or how to properly develop software.

We present a calculational approach to the design of type checkers,
showing how they can be derived from behavioural specifications using
equational reasoning. We focus on languages whose semantics can be
expressed as a fold, and show how the calculations…

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks.

The 2024 10-K reports of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies show that they continue to avoid paying much, if any, U.S. corporate income tax.

Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.

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