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Things UNIX can do atomically β€” Crowley Code!

πŸ”₯ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks.Β  The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future. The philosophy here is to let the kernel do as much work as possible.Β  At my most pessimistic, I trust the kernel developers more than a trust myself.Β  More practically, it’s stupid to spend CPU time locking around…
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‘I was advised not to say certain things’: Secret Agent filmmakers on Oscars, dictators and death threats | film

‘I was advised not to say certain things’: Secret Agent filmmakers on Oscars, dictators and death threats | film

✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Oscars 2026,Brazil βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: ShTypically a non-English language political period drama, lasting nearly three hours and punctuating its authentic depiction of military dictatorship with gags and bloody shootouts, Secret Agent turns out to be an awards magnet. Best Picture and Best Actor, for its star Wagner Moura (who recently won a Golden Globe), are two of the four categories he will compete in at next month's Academy Awards.The nominations had not yet been announced when I met Maura in a London hotel room, but it…
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Anthropic launches Opus 4.6 with new β€œagent teams.”

Anthropic launches Opus 4.6 with new β€œagent teams.”

πŸ’₯ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,agents,Anthropic,Claude,Opus πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus β€” its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only launched last November, and with version 4.6, the company has sought to expand the capabilities and appeal of its model, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers. Perhaps the most notable addition to the latest version of Opus is the inclusion of what the company calls β€œagent teams” β€” teams of agents that can break down…
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Football Daily – European Leagues: Ronaldo and Messi reunited? Who is JΓ©rΓ©my Jacquet, and can Riera revive Frankfurt?

Football Daily – European Leagues: Ronaldo and Messi reunited? Who is JΓ©rΓ©my Jacquet, and can Riera revive Frankfurt?

πŸ’₯ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Available for 29 daysSteve Crossman is joined by ESPN's Guillem Balago, Archie Rhind-Tutt and Julian Lorenz in this week's European Leagues. The team is considering Cristiano Ronaldo's decision to strike from Al-Nasr after Karim Benzema's transfer to his Saudi rival, Al-Hilal! Will CR7 leave Saudi Arabia, and if so, where? Could an MLS move and reunion with Lionel Messi be on the cards? Although Messi may be on the move himself, with rumors circulating about a return to his boyhood club, Newell's Old Boys! Who…
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Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs gladiators star Apollo – and artificial intelligence

Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton vs gladiators star Apollo – and artificial intelligence

πŸš€ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: I'm in this game and we've reached the stage where it's really important how teams struggling to get relegated do in head-to-head battles like this.I think the last two teams, Wolves and Burnley, have dropped, but you don't know what West Ham will do from here.There are signs they might click, so with Leeds and Nottingham Forest both on 26 points, this is a big deal for both.From Leeds' point of view, their home form has carried them a lot this season. They faced Arsenal…
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GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team – Ian Duncan

πŸ”₯ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: I was an early employee at CircleCI. I have used, in anger, nearly every CI system that has ever existed. Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, Semaphore, Drone, Concourse, Wercker (remember Wercker?), TeamCity, Bamboo, GitLab CI, CodeBuild, and probably a half dozen others I’ve mercifully forgotten. I have mass-tested these systems so that you don’t have to, and I have the scars to show for it, and I am here to tell you: GitHub Actions is not good. It’s not even fine. It has market share because it’s…
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Finding Harmony: The King’s Vision Review – There is a strange moment when Charles appears to have taken acid | television

Finding Harmony: The King’s Vision Review – There is a strange moment when Charles appears to have taken acid | television

πŸš€ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,King Charles III,Monarchy πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: WWe find ourselves at an interesting moment in streaming wars; One where Amazon's programming policy has seemingly shifted to merely providing a massive platform for power. Last week saw the release of Melania Trump's film (an annoying vanity project she was paid $75 million for) and this week it's our turn, as the platform launches King Charles's documentary Finding Harmony: A King's Vision.Why Jeff Bezos would want to curry favor with the most powerful people on the planet…
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OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

πŸ”₯ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Agent Management Platforms,AI agents,artificial intelligence,OpenAI,Salesforce πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI has launched a new product to help organizations navigate the world of AI agents, focusing on agent management as an important infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption. AI giant OpenAI on Thursday announced the launch of OpenAI Frontier, a comprehensive platform designed for organizations to build and manage AI agents. It's an open platform, which means users can manage agents built outside of OpenAI as well. Frontier users can program AI agents to connect to external data and applications, allowing them…
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Challenge Cup: Rugby League review suggests moving final from Wembley

Challenge Cup: Rugby League review suggests moving final from Wembley

πŸ’₯ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: In October last year, Peter Valandys, chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission, told BBC Sport that the Premier League was heading towards a "train crash" if it did not find ways to increase its revenues.He also claimed they had missed a major marketing opportunity by not including the London Broncos in next season's competition, and questioned how an expanded 14-team structure would be supported in the long term.The Premier League returns as a 14-team, 12-team division this season, with the new season starting on…
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Tower of Flaws: Dismantling Tower of Fantasy’s Anti-Cheat Driver While Waiting for The Game to Install

Tower of Flaws: Dismantling Tower of Fantasy’s Anti-Cheat Driver While Waiting for The Game to Install

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: This all started because I wanted to delete my Tower of Fantasy account from over 4 years ago. For the life of me, I couldn’t find a way to do it without having the game installed. There was no web portal and no obvious support route. Eventually I gave up and decided to just download it. Tower of Fantasy is over 100 GB so it would be a long install. I already knew the game shipped with an anti-cheat driver from past experience, so while…
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