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Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts

TechCrunch

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark, Paul reports. We learn something new every day : The Linux Foundation launched a new organization to maintain TLA+ , Kyle writes. The layoffs will affect corporate employees, of which there are about 4,000, because Lyft doesn’t employ its drivers.

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Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

TechCrunch

A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. In non-book news, there’s a bushel of stories from TechCrunch for ya! Christine and Haje.

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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal

OverOps

Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. LLDB on Alpine Linux. Even getting GDB up and running proved to be a major challenge!

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

Investors are going after Zilliz as they increasingly recognize open source as an effective software development strategy, Charles Xie, founder and CEO of Zilliz, told TechCrunch at an open source meetup in Shenzhen where he spoke as the first Chinese board chairperson for Linux Foundation’s AI umbrella, LF AI.

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Error'd: Just Beastly

The Daily WTF

. "It looks like the Microsoft devs have dipped their toes into hacking on Linux - here the time remaining stayed at 0.0ns and the progress stayed at 100 percent while the bandwidth numbers slowly went to almost (but not quite) 0 b/s over a good few seconds. "

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The 4000 Characters

The Daily WTF

Specifically, when deploying to Azure, he got this error message: Linux Version is too long. That’s such an odd message, and when Ricardo started digging around, it wasn’t really easy to see what it was referring to when it was talking about “Linux Version”. Advertisement]. It cannot be more than 4000 characters. Explore how!

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Error'd: Time's Up

The Daily WTF

"I've never seen a furnace running Linux. Advertisement]. . "You have to be in at least 8th grade to join, meaning at the very latest you could be born in 2009." " Not so, Caleb, not so! A precocious 8th grader might have been born as late as 2013. It could happen. . "I've Was it autocorrect gone crazy?

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