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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 9h

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 9h

This can't possibly be organic traffic.

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 17h

Technology Bubbles: Causes and Consequences paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology...

Technology Bubbles: Causes and Consequences

What history can teach us about AI frenzy

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3d

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Intel Fab 52 in Chandler Arizona is Running 18A - ServeTheHome www.servethehome.com/intel-fab-52...

Intel Fab 52 in Chandler Arizona is Running 18A

We got to tour Intel Fab 52 in Chandler, Arizona, and see the new Intel 18A process manufacturing in action while we were there

www.servethehome.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-so...

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Quantum Networks: Cisco Software Boosts Classical Tech - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-netw...

How Will Quantum Networks Transform Classical Computing?

How does Cisco's quantum tech promise to enhance classical computing?

spectrum.ieee.org

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?

An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.

www.newyorker.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Why Reactive Programming Hasn't Taken Off in Python (And How Signals Can Change That) bui.app/why-reactive...

Why Reactive Programming Hasn't Taken Off in Python (And How Signals Can Change That)

TL;DR: Reactive programming offers significant benefits for Python applications - it reduces bugs, simplifies complexity, and improves maintainability. Yet most Python developers avoid it. The problem...

bui.app

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Introducing Air: A Pioneering AI-First Python Web Framework — audrey.feldroy.com audrey.feldroy.com/articles/202...

audrey.feldroy.com — Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld: Researching the frontier of web development + AI

A statically-rendered, typographic homepage for notes and notebooks by Audrey Feldroy.

audrey.feldroy.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 3d

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? - miguelgrinberg.com blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-...

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

The federal government is currently shut down. This is how it's affecting services across the country.

The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means across the country

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

n.pr

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 4d

How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found...

How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler

84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.

blog.cloudflare.com

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 4d

Modern Observability Is a Single Braid of Data - The New Stack thenewstack.io/modern-obser...

Modern Observability Is a Single Braid of Data

The problem with three separate pillars of observability is how we use them. To be useful, we have to bring all of the tools together.

thenewstack.io

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 4d

Someone needs to do this with a Monarch. Any king or queen willing to donate some time to humor?

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5d

148 clinical trials have been impacted, with 138k patients due to be enrolled or already enrolled.

Once research stops, some won't pick up where they left off. Even when terminated funding was reinstated, things do not go back to normal.

There is so much waste happening.
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The damage done - Nature Medicine

When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

www.nature.com

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 4d

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown : NPR www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown

Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

www.npr.org

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 4d

A $6,000,000,000 Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100,000,000 Diesel 'AIP' Sub - National Security Journal nationalsecurityjournal.org/a-6000000000...

A $6,000,000,000 Nuclear U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100,000,000 Diesel 'AIP' Sub

How Sweden’s AIP sub Gotland “sank” USS Ronald Reagan in 2005—and why the U.S. Navy leased it for two years to relearn the art of hunting truly quiet subs.

nationalsecurityjournal.org

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 5d

Here we go again

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 5d

The Y2K38 Bug Is a Vulnerability, Not Just a Date Problem, Researchers Warn - SecurityWeek www.securityweek.com/the-y2k38-bu...

The Y2K38 Bug Is a Vulnerability, Not Just a Date Problem, Researchers Warn

The Year 2036/2038 problem is a bug that will be triggered in more than a decade, but hackers could exploit it today.

www.securityweek.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 5d

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

arstechnica.com

Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 6d

OpenAI looks to take 10% stake in AMD through AI chip deal www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/o...

AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in 2026.

www.cnbc.com

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful thing about vaccines is they can save your life and the lives of those around you multiple times in many different ways. A shield for life, with benefits scientists are just beginning to unlock.🩺 🧪

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 6d

People vaccinated against shingles had significantly lower dementia risk than those who got a control (pneumococcal) vaccine:
- 33 % lower after the live-attenuated Zostavax
- 27 % lower after ≥ 2 doses of the recombinant Shingrix
Protection tracked with how well the vaccine prevents shingles

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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 6d

Today is Global Remember To Make Backups Day.

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...

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