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The spectacular silent film Wings (1927; Fanfare)--now considered the Oscars' first Best Picture--is among dozens of classics referenced in the Cthulhu homage Minions & Monsters (2026; earlier trailer). Two LGBTQ-coded scenes in Wings led one TikToker to expect "the greatest cinematic crossover." Other WWI biplane combat films online include the romance Lilac Time (1928) and The Dawn Patrol (1930) & Hell's Angels (1930). Some WWI biplane combat memoirs: Rickenbacker (well-known but arch-conservative pilot / airline CEO), von Richthofen, McCudden, Bishop (subject of a musical), Grider & Springs (subject of an unproduced script by Faulkner), Bölcke, McConnell, Biddle, Bott, and Hall (co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty). Some biplane games: Tryplane, Bit Planes, and many old tabletop games including Dawn Patrol, "the first to have character advancement"?
99% of chemicals in our food right now were added without FDA approval. Many were added in secret, through a sneaky loophole built into the 1958 Food Additives Amendment. NPR Planet Money report.
Ecosystem engineers returned to desert decades after local extinction.
Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback New South Wales.
A coder named [SnailMail] has taken on the challenge of writing his own text editor, from scratch, in C, on a 386. Modern IDEs, code completion and AI integration did not gel with him, so he dug up diskettes for Borland Turbo C and Turbo C++ and did it 1980s style -- poring over books and coding by hand.
This was the first programming language the young coder learned. In order to emulate the developers of the time, hardware was also limited to period PCs (an IBM he won on an auction for $630.)
[SnailMail] describes how his solution works from about 8:00 in the video (YT). No word on whether he copied that floppy.
[SnailMail] describes how his solution works from about 8:00 in the video (YT). No word on whether he copied that floppy.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world's biggest tech companies. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the consumer tech giant said that OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence that has a new hardware business, had asked job candidates from Apple to share details about secret projects and to bring device components and prototypes to their interviews. Apple also accused an OpenAI employee of downloading internal documents from a laptop owned by the iPhone maker. OpenAI used the confidential information to approach Apple's manufacturing partners, including asking one partner to demonstrate Apple's technique for finishing metal on its devices, the lawsuit says. Apple sent a letter to OpenAI in February to raise concerns that confidential information could be "making its way to OpenAI's business improperly," according to the suit. OpenAI did not respond, Apple said. "OpenAI's nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets," Apple wrote in its lawsuit.
[...] In its lawsuit Friday, Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple's security processes for departing employees. Apple accused another former employee, Chang Liu, of using a former colleague's Apple-owned laptop to access and download technical documents while working at OpenAI. Mr. Liu told that Apple employee what information about unannounced products she should study before job interviews, Apple said. Mr. Liu also planned to access internal documents through an Apple-owned laptop that he didn't return when he left the company, according to the lawsuit. OpenAI had misled the manufacturing company it approached to learn about the metal finishing technique to believe it had Apple's permission to view it, according to the lawsuit. Apple is seeking an injunction that would prevent OpenAI from possessing, using or sharing Apple's trade secrets, as well as an order requiring OpenAI to return Apple's intellectual property.
[...] In its lawsuit Friday, Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple's security processes for departing employees. Apple accused another former employee, Chang Liu, of using a former colleague's Apple-owned laptop to access and download technical documents while working at OpenAI. Mr. Liu told that Apple employee what information about unannounced products she should study before job interviews, Apple said. Mr. Liu also planned to access internal documents through an Apple-owned laptop that he didn't return when he left the company, according to the lawsuit. OpenAI had misled the manufacturing company it approached to learn about the metal finishing technique to believe it had Apple's permission to view it, according to the lawsuit. Apple is seeking an injunction that would prevent OpenAI from possessing, using or sharing Apple's trade secrets, as well as an order requiring OpenAI to return Apple's intellectual property.
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