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EU lawmakers push to ban term ‘veggie-burger’

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BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.Lawmakers at the European Parliament voted by 355 to 247 in favour of an amendment to a regulation designed to give farmers a stronger negotiating position so that powerful companies in the food supply chain do not impose unfavourable conditions. Sign up here.The text of the final regulation will follow negotiations between representatives of the Parliament, EU governments and the…

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My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Whether it's building a new project from scratch, implementing a big feature, or beginning a large refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that. We've all experienced that feeling of excitement starting a new project. The first few weeks you can't wait to get on the computer to work. Then slowly over time you get distracted or make up excuses and work on it less. If this is for real work, you forcibly…

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Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren’t Giving Up

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Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. “These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They're publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing public events,” says David Greene, a civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.This hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from attacking the developers behind these ICE-related apps. When ICEBlock first rose to a top spot in Apple’s App Store in April, the Trump administration responded…

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GitHub – James-HoneyBadger/Time_Warp: 🚀

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Compile Educational Programming Languages to Native Executables TimeWarp Compiler is a command-line tool that compiles educational programming languages (PILOT, BASIC, Logo) to native Linux executables. Transform your educational code into standalone programs that run without interpreters. 🎯 Multi-Language Compilation Compile 3 educational programming languages to native executables: PILOT - Educational language with turtle graphics (1960s) BASIC - Classic line-numbered programming (1960s) Logo - Educational turtle graphics language (1960s) GCC Compilation - Generate optimized C code and compile to native executables Cross-Platform - Linux executables (easily extensible to other platforms) No Runtime Dependencies - Standalone binaries that run anywhere 📚 Rich…

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I left Mexico behind. U.S. bureaucracy made me leave this too.

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Starbucks barista calls out “Joe, grande latte for Joe!” It takes him two tries before I remember I’m Joe and go pick up my coffee. A minor episode in the long history of non-Anglo immigrants changing their names after moving to America. If your family immigrated to the United States in the 19th century and/or you took middle-school social studies in the States, you’ve probably heard that officials at Ellis Island often changed newcomers’ names, either because they couldn’t…

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Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

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As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to strengthen our security processes.On September 30th, a blog post raised concerns that a former maintainer continued to have access to the RubyGems.org production environment after administrative access was removed from several accounts earlier that month. We want to share the outcome of our investigation including: what happened, the extent of what we verified, what we got wrong, and the actions we have taken…

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GitHub Status – Incident with Webhooks

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Subscribe to updates for Incident with Webhooks via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever GitHub creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda (+1) Bolivia (+591) Bosnia and Herzegovina (+387) Botswana (+267) Brazil (+55) Brunei (+673) Bulgaria (+359) Burkina Faso (+226)…

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The End – MC++ BLOG

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Dear readers, we are extremely sad to inform you that Rainer passed away on October 6, 2025, surrounded by his closest family. After suffering from life-threatening pneumonia, Rainer decided against further life-sustaining measures that would have severely restricted his life. He passed away peacefully, accompanied by his family. >> Rainers Journey with ALS << Rainers lifework Despite his progressive ALS disease, Rainer remained full of energy and drive until the very end and continued to work on his two life goals: 1. Creating Value for the C++ Community First, to share his knowledge and experience of C++ with you through…

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Governor Newsom signs first-in-the-nation law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

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“With Governor Newsom’s signature on AB 1264, California has taken a historic step toward protecting our children from harmful ultra-processed foods and chemical additives,” said Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel. “While Washington DC is paralyzed by inaction, California is once again leading the nation with a bipartisan, commonsense, science-based approach. Here in the Golden State, Democrats and Republicans are joining forces to ensure that students are receiving healthy, nutritious meals that are made from real foods, not harmful chemical additives. I applaud Governor Newsom for his continued leadership on food safety and I am grateful to the dedicated advocates from around the…

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Founding Machine Learning Engineer at The Forecasting Company

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We are on a mission to create the forecasting foundation model to rule them all. Forecasting drives critical decisions worldwide - impacting staffing, supply chain management, finance and more. Our solution provides companies with the models, platform and APIs they need to easily generate the most accurate forecasts possible, helping to significantly reduce waste and enabling smarter, more confident decisions. The forecasting model is at the heart of our technology. As the second founding MLE, you will build, train and deploy large foundation model architectures: implement and combine ideas from the literature, push the state of the art, and ultimately…

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