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

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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

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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. Image Credits: Jonathan Knowles (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Paul has more.

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Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results

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One of the more intriguing ones I’ve stumbled upon is Moemate , an assistant that runs on most any macOS, Windows and Linux machine. It can bring your chat window into focus and show the number of subscribers to your channel. Startups, too, are beginning to realize their own versions of more helpful, useful AI assistants.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

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Image Credits: Dmitrii_Guzhanin (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Getty Images under a GK Hart/Vikki Hart (opens in a new window) license. Image Credits: Getty Images under a jayk7 (opens in a new window) license. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). “We

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CodeSOD: A Proper Mode of Address

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Those methods should behave more-or-less the same on both Windows and Linux, so checking the IP address should be a simple and short function. We set os_type = 'windows' , then check the platform. The entire 'windows' branch of the if isn't needed. What if we want to check the IP on Linux?

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A Massive Leak

The Daily WTF

Now, normally, we do this from Python programs on Linux. After a quick test of doing multitouch interactions, we also decided that we shouldn't deploy to Linux (Unity didn't really have good Linux multitouch support), so we would deploy a Windows kiosk. We don't care - but Windows does. Months go by.

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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2024

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A supply chain attack added a back door to Linux systems through the widely used xz package. Fortunately, this attack was discovered before the package was incorporated into the leading Linux distributions. It’s available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. All of them feature a 200,000 token context window.