Wikipedia Spends $31 Million on “Racial Equity” in 2024
Wikimedia Foundation now has $286 Million in assets, spends 10x more on “Equity” than server hosting. ⌘ Read more
Software start-up likened to Atlassian defies funding slump, raising $27.5 million
Australian start-up funding continues to tank, but not for this company, which wants to emulate the success of local tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. ⌘ Read more
Thousands of Australian Facebook users to share $50 million after privacy scandal
Meta has agreed to a record settlement with Australia’s information commissioner, ending years of legal proceedings over Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. ⌘ Read more
Has someone a) found a bug or security hole in GoBlog or b) actually sent well over 5 million requests to my site to like my post about how to export GPX files automatically from Komoot? 🤔 ⌘ Read more
Paul Keating set for $40 million windfall from Telstra deal
The former prime minister co-founded a budget telco in 2000, and is now set for a massive payday. ⌘ Read more
Paul Keating set for $40 million windfall from Telstra deal
The former prime minister co-founded a budget telco in 2000, and is now set for a massive payday. ⌘ Read more
The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die
The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers. ⌘ Read more
Frustrated farmers take Silicon Valley approach to launch world-first $60m startup fund
Frustrated with how long it takes for research ideas to become reality, fruit, vegetable and nut growers invest millions in high-risk startups. ⌘ Read more
Initial thoughts about Bluesky
There’s a lot of noise about Bluesky recently, it seems like they passed 20 million users, with more than 1 million new users daily recently. ⌘ Read more
This pod is now using the index for archive twts instead of the old (naive) disk-based index with that results in millions of files over a lon …
This pod is now using the index for archive twts instead of the old ( naive) disk-based index with that results in millions of files over a long time 🤣 ⌘ Read more
L’État français va devoir maigrir un grand coup
À son apogée en 1921, l’Empire britannique administrait le quart de la population mondiale et presque le quart des terres émergées soit 540 millions de sujets de Sa Majesté répartis sur 33,7 millions de km². Pour gérer cette masse considérable d’individus et le plus grand empire de l’Histoire humaine jamais dépassé depuis, le gouvernement britannique […] ⌘ Read more
Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed
> I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with an …
I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?
Hmmm 🧐 ⌘ Read more
‘Delete, delete, delete’: Musk’s political plans put millions of Americans at risk
Elon Musk’s company stewardship gives us some clues about what his role in a Trump administration might look like, and it’s not good news – for anyone. ⌘ Read more
Wikipedia’s War on Israel, USA, & Truth
Pro-Hamas and Pro-Iran editors flood Wikipedia (& Google) with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more
The hundreds of millions in tax incentives for Australian start-ups that went south
The R&D tax offset has served as a life raft for some of Australia’s most prominent technology start-ups, though in some cases it wasn’t enough. ⌘ Read more
From side hustle to buzzy AI start-up: Build Club raises $1.8 million
Build Club began life as a group of friends working together over the weekend. It’s now one of Australia’s hottest start-ups. ⌘ Read more
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83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.
Though I suppose it has to be the greater of the two. But I don’t even have one euro to start with.
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Mango lovers get ready, Darwin is forecast to produce 2.4 million trays this season
Mango season in the Northern Territory is starting to heat up, with 24,000 trays sent to markets last week and future yields looking good. ⌘ Read more
Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
Linux marketshare has skyrocketed in the last year. ⌘ Read more
Almost 500,000 black market cigarettes, 380kg of ‘chop chop’ seized in Queensland raids
Health officials and police are cracking down the sale of illicit vapes, cigarettes and “chop chop” tobacco in Queensland. In the Wide Bay area alone sellers are estimated to have avoided paying about $1.2 million in tax. ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
The post Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Breaking Down the Costs of Large Messaging Services
I will comment on an interesting article from Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund breaking down the cost of running a large-scale messaging platform.
It estimates that the cost to operate Signal messaging will reach 50 million dollars per year in 2025.
Over 3.6 Million files totaling over 334 GB. And it’s real. Source code. Documentation. Markdown files. The works. ⌘ Read more
Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
Notorious hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen the personal details and credit card information of millions of customers around the world. ⌘ Read more
Communications watchdog suing Optus over data breach
Some 10 million customers had their information stolen in what was one of the worst cyberattacks in Australian history. ⌘ Read more
Communications watchdog suing Optus over data breach
Some 10 million customers had their information stolen in what was one of the worst cyberattacks in Australian history. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and would save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to cut up to 2800 jobs
CEO Vicki Brady says the cull would affect 9 per cent of its workforce and would save the company $350 million. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Instant Scalability with MongooseIM and CETS
The main feature of the recently released MongooseIM 6.2.1 is the improved CETS in-memory storage backend which makes it much easier to scale up.
It is difficult to predict how much traffic your XMPP server will need to handle. Are you going to have thousands or millions of connected users? … ⌘ Read more
Discotheque: Music mogul Matt Gudinski joins investors sinking $10 million into start-up
Matt Gudinski is bringing his record label - which just turned 50 - firmly into the 21st century with a new investment. ⌘ Read more
Docker and JFrog partner to further secure Docker Hub and remove millions of imageless repos with malicious links
Docker and JFrog partner further secure Docker Hub by removing millions of imageless repos with malicious links. ⌘ Read more
Securing millions of developers through 2FA
We’ve dramatically increased 2FA adoption on GitHub as part of our responsibility to make the software ecosystem more secure. Read on to learn how we secured millions of developers and why we’re urging more organizations to join us in these efforts.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Udemy Announce New Partnership to Supercharge the Next Generation of Cloud Native Developers
The partnership seeks to help millions of current and aspiring developers upskill on key Kubernetes disciplines to enhance their level of cloud native proficiency PARIS, France – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe –– March 21, 2024 –– The Cloud… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Member Akamai Upgrades Its Membership to Gold
The distributed cloud provider increases its investment in the cloud native ecosystem, earmarking $1 million in credits for CNCF compute infrastructure projects PARIS, France – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – March 20, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing… ⌘ Read more
Fruit, veg growers say biggest customer ‘is the rubbish bin’, as millions of tonnes of food is wasted
Fresh produce growers scramble to meet “forecast” supply deals with supermarkets, but every year millions of dollars of surplus food goes to waste. So what’s going on? ⌘ Read more
‘Very graphic picture’ costs mum $1 million
A woman in Ireland lost a more than $1.2 million (AUD) in an injury lawsuit stemming from a car crash after photos showed her winning a Christmas tree throwing competition. ⌘ Read more
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says enthusiasm is high for Tuesday’s primary
Tomorrow is the last day to vote in Michigan’s Presidential Primary - Tuesday, Feb 27th. More than one million people have already voted - either by absentee ballot or early in-person voting. ⌘ Read more
Bowser unveils $400M plan to revitalize Downton DC
Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a $400 million plan Monday she hopes will help revitalize Downtown D.C. FOX 5’s Bob Barnard has the story. ⌘ Read more
Bird-feed loaf and a date: What children eat in Gaza
Hunger stalks the entire Gaza Strip, the tiny enclave where 2.3 million people have been living under Israel’s bombardment since Oct. 7 as it battles Hamas militants. In central Gaza, three young brothers had run away in secret to take refuge with their aunt in her tent in Deir al-Balah because there was nothing to eat in Gaza City. Just north of Deir al-Balah, Warda Mattar, a displaced mother … ⌘ Read more
Greens have ‘no idea what they’re doing’: Paul Murray
On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray Live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Dunkley by-election, cost-of-living, Greens mega tax and more.
Sky News host Paul Murray says the Green have “no idea what they’re doing”.
“They want to introduce new super profit taxes on businesses that have a turnover of $100 million dollars or more.
“Remember, turnover is not profit.
“But the Greens say you sh … ⌘ Read more
Affordable housing: Millions raised in Austin
A local non-profit is raising millions of dollars to develop affordable homes in Austin, thanks to a collaboration of investors, community partners and other non-profits. ⌘ Read more
The humble spud is now a $1 billion industry but a potato farmer says not all growers are benefitting
Australia consistently produces about 1.4 million tonnes of spuds each year and their value is on the rise. ⌘ Read more