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Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: The 82-year-old Ken Thompson has some amazing memories about the earliest days of the Unix operating system — and the rowdy room full of geeks who built it. This month Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum released a special four-and-a-half-hour oral history, in partnership with the Association for Computing Machinery, recorded 18 months ago by technology historian David C. Brock. And Thompson dutifully recalled many of his career highlights — from his work on the C programming language and Unix to the “Plan 9 from Bell Labs”…

TV tonight: a terrifying prequel series to Stephen King’s It | television

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,It,Gaza,Prisons and probation 💡 Key idea: Him: Welcome to Derry9pm, Sky Atlantic"Do you think someone could kidnap a child and keep him underground... in the sewers?" For those of us who were too terrified by Stephen King's Pennywise to watch the It series, this original series is best watched through the fingers (or with eyes closed the entire time). Developed by the team behind the latest blockbuster, the supernatural horror film is set in 1960s America, following the events of a small town with missing…

Celtic: Should Brendan Rodgers get more of what he has?

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💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Rodgers spoke before the match about the bravery of the young players, but Murray in particular had a difficult time at Tynecastle.His panicked shot deflected into his own net to give Hearts the lead, and it was the 22-year-old's foul on Claudio Braga that led to the third penalty being awarded.“Where we are as a team, we need these players,” Rodgers said afterwards. "Dean scores an own goal and then has a bit of a rush on the penalty kick. It's something he'll…

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign is entirely based on MAGA influencers

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✨ Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Politics,Time's Up 📌 Key idea: With only 13 Just days before New York City's mayoral election, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is teaming up with some of the same influencers who helped President Donald Trump win the White House last year.Over the past week, right-wing content creators like Logan Paul, the former vlogger turned podcaster and WWE wrestler, and Emily Austin, the influencer and sports commentator, have posted content featuring Cuomo as a guest on their shows. These appearances marked a new investment by Cuomo's team in generating online attention as…

NFL results and summary of eight: Colts’ best record, Rodgers loses to Packers and Saquon Barkley shines

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Aaron Rodgers insisted revenge was not on his mind in his first game against the Green Bay Packers, but he had history to play for, as a win would have seen him join Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks to defeat all 32 NFL teams.Instead, his replacement, Jordan Love, went ahead with 20 points in the fourth quarter, as the Packers cruised to a 35-25 winner for their first win in Pittsburgh since 1970.Rodgers hopes to…

Ethan Richards – We’re in the Wrong Moment

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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: August 20th, 2011: Marc Andreessen proclaims ‘Software is eating the world.’ That was over ten years ago. Today, software is still eating the world, but this is no longer a groundbreaking proclamation nor a surprise to anyone. In the years that followed, software would become integral to our daily lives, business, and attention.My StoryAs I learned and continue to learn more about computer science through my degrees, I am constantly reminded of times gone by. I had professors who had lived through the rise…

“We want people to get lost!” New Princeton Museum Survives Scandal to Present Labyrinthine Art Ambush | Build

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Architecture,Art and design,Museums,Culture,David Adjaye,Princeton University,Education,Higher education 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: A A cluster of jagged concrete bunkers has descended into the heart of Princeton University's leafy campus in New Jersey, sending tremors through Uxbridge's fairytale land of Gothic turrets and spiers. The empty, blank facade of the new addition gives little away from the outside. It is wrapped in rows of vertical gray ribs, which contrast with the arched windows of the stately stone halls surrounding it, and has the appearance of a secure storage facility,…

Google Earth is getting an AI-powered chatbot to help map the climate crisis

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✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Sphere of Knowledge ✅ Main takeaway: Google has come Finding a way to better map Earth's disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems will be affected. If you want to know what's stressing the environment in your neck of the woods, all you have to do is ask.Google Earth AI, a combination of Google Earth and Gemini AI systems, was introduced in July. Part of that effort is an artificial intelligence model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which turns terabytes of satellite…

Hitman: Horse named after Ricky Hatton wins first race since boxer’s death in the Old Roan Chase at Aintree

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✨ Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Hitman, named after Ricky Hatton, won his first race since the boxer's death - and his first in three years - in the Old Roan Chase at Aintree.The Paul Nicholls-trained nine-year-old finished two lengths ahead of Master Chewie and co-owner Jed Mason said the £45,560 prize money would be donated to the Ricky Hatton Foundation."I'm very happy that we can help in some way in memory of Ricky and his legacy. The family has set up the foundation and the proceeds will start today," Mason told…

Can Hearts make the impossible possible and win the Scottish Premiership?

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✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Derek McInnes is building something important here. He knows that, but he has a lot of intelligence to show off. It's calculated, precise, and very impressive at the moment. Hearts are great to watch - and from McInnes you get the sense there's a lot more to come. More new players are arriving, others are just returning to the team after injury. Not couples, but old people, or so he hopes.There were many moments that stuck in the mind's eye. The relentless nature of the way…