Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Capital Markets conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Cyril Marcilhacy | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take direct stakes in companies it considers crucial to U.S. interests.The bank said in a statement it would invest up to $10 billion into companies in four areas: defense and aerospace, "frontier" technologies including AI and quantum computing, energy technology including batteries, and supply chain and advanced…
Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can … Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What…
Rashford arrived in Barcelona determined to make his mark and launch a positive new chapter in an up-and-down career.The club have the option of signing him on a permanent basis for £30.3m (35m euros) in 2026, but that is something that Deco told Spanish media would only be discussed at a later date."It's too early to talk about decisions for next season but what matters is that we're happy with him," the director of football said.This was reiterated by another source at the club, who said: "We're all delighted and thrilled with him and his performance, Deco, Flick, and his…
Every four weeks, Maria leaves her small Romanian town and heads to Austria, where she is employed as a care worker for elderly people. Her life is split between borders and constant goodbyes, a transient emotional state vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait. In the opening scene, Maria drives along her local roads, pointing out the houses left empty by those who have moved abroad for work opportunities. Under the precarious forces of economy, it seems as if a whole community is gradually evaporating.Structured around Maria’s monthly drives, the film juxtaposes her home life with…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost. You may end up spending too much time putting the pieces in order.This dilemma is especially relevant to one of the most iconic problems in computer science: finding the shortest path from a specific starting point in a network to every other point. It’s like a souped-up version of a problem you need to…
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Former Arsenal and England midfielder Jack Wilshere is set to be announced as manager of League One side Luton Town.The 33-year-old will succeed Matt Bloomfield, who was sacked earlier this month having spent less than a year in charge at Kenilworth Road.It will be Wilshere's first full-time managerial role, taking over a Luton side 11th in the third tier following back-to-back relegations.He beat Leyton Orient boss Richie Wellens to the role. Chris Powell will also join Luton as Wilshere's assistant - the former England left-back has been at Walsall for just two weeks as interim first-team coach after coming in…
maml{ project: "MAML" tags: [ "minimal" "readable" ] # A simple nested object spec: { version: 1 author: "Anton Medvedev" } # Array of objects examples: [ { name: "JSON", born: 2001 } { name: "MAML", born: 2025 } ] notes: """ This is a multiline strings. Keeps formatting as-is. """ }Rationale JSON is the most popular data-interchange format. But it isn't a very good configuration language.MAML keeps JSON’s simplicity and adds only the needed bits for a good configuration language:CommentsMultiline stringsOptional commasOptional key quotesMAML is human-readable and easy to parse.What’s the difference between MAML and JSONC/JSON5?Why not Zig-style multiline?Implementations…
Bannan's testimony is glowing, but would Rohl be able to do what Martin could not?The German is younger, has managed significantly fewer matches, and does not have as much experience of Rangers or Scotland as the man he would succeed.Would all that undermine his ability to handle the myriad problems the next Rangers boss will face on and off the pitch?"Danny Rohl is 36 years old - you can be as good a coach as you want, but is he going to have the experience of handling all the fires that need to be put out at Rangers at the…
Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, both instantly recognisable and actually read. His plays are performed. His words are quoted. He reclines in effigy on both the Strand and the King’s Road. He even has a commemorative window in Westminster Abbey. But it was not always so.When he died in Paris, in 1900, aged just 46, the obituaries were not generous. There was a feeling of relief that an embarrassing figure had been removed the scene, and a general hope that he and his works would soon be forgotten. The Pall Mall Gazette suggested…
