David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll. “I’m not a coder, but I enjoy how vibe coding lets me turn an idea into something real. So naturally, I turned to vibe coding for this. It didn’t work.”

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From Benetton’s racing story to collaborations with Armani and Nike, Formula 1 has long intersected with fashion — blending style, culture and creating renowned brand partnerships.

While McLaren's Jenson Button went on to secure his 15th and final F1 victory, there was also a dramatic showdown for the 2012 Drivers' title in Brazil...

De protesten begonnen nadat Nepal sociale media had verboden, maar gingen evengoed over de sociale ongelijkheid in het land. Nadat premier Khadga Prasad Oli was afgetreden, bevond het Aziatische land zich kortstondig in een constitutioneel niemandsland.

Onder de naam Eastern Sentry (Oostelijke Schildwacht) wordt een ‘verdedigingslinie’ opgetrokken waar een aantal Europese NAVO-bondgenoten met extra materieel aan zal bijdragen.

The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption. From a report: The proposal, which is not subject to parliamentary approval, has alarmed privacy and digital-freedoms advocates worldwide because of how it will destroy anonymity online, including for people located outside of Switzerland. A large number of virtual private network (VPN) companies and other privacy-preserving firms are headquartered in the country because it has historically had liberal digital privacy laws alongside its famously discreet banking ecosystem.

Proton, which offers secure and end-to-end encrypted email along with an ultra-private VPN and cloud storage, announced on July 23 that it is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland due to the proposed law. The company is investing more than $117 million in the European Union, the announcement said, and plans to help develop a "sovereign EuroStack for the future of our home continent." Switzerland is not a member of the EU. Proton said the decision was prompted by the Swiss government's attempt to "introduce mass surveillance."

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Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. TechCrunch: In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, depending on their needs.

Launched in 2020, Tables focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation. It was one of the many projects to emerge from Google's in-house app incubator, Area 120, which at the time was devoted to cranking out a number of experimental projects. Some of these projects later graduated to become a part of Google's core offerings across Cloud, Search, Shopping, and more. Tables was one of those early successes: Google said in 2021 that the service was moving from a beta test to become an official Google Cloud product. At the time, the company said it saw Tables as a potential solution for a variety of use cases, including project management, IT operations, customer service tracking, CRM, recruiting, product development and more.

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Get ready for a fight over who steers the global standard for vulnerability identification

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) nearly let the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program lapse earlier this year, but a new "vision" document it released this week signals that it now wants more control over the global standard for vulnerability identification.…

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Voor de 18-jarige Owen uit Berkel en Rodenrijs gaat zondag een droom in vervulling. Al jaren is hij fan van de Amerikaanse zanger Post Malone en zondag mag hij tijdens een show in Lissabon live optreden met zijn held. Al ging dat nog bijna mis.