Kamila Andini’s ‘Four Seasons in Java’ Wins Big at Inaugural Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Awards

Indonesian auteur Kamila Andini's latest project 'Four Seasons in Java' won two prizes at the inaugural Tokyo Gap-Financing ...

Mojang is finally revealing all of Minecraft: Java Edition's code after 16 years to "make it quicker and easier for modders to create and improve mods"

Well over a decade has passed since the release of Mojang 's monumental sandbox game Minecraft, with countless mods dropping ...
GitHub

Reading AVRO files with divergent schema and nested records should be optimized

When reading a lot of AVRO files from e.g. s3 you should be able to pass structure of fields you want to read, including nested structures without relying on schema inference. When reading a lot of ...
Wall Street Journal

These Parents Are Willing to Pay Up to $15,000 to Get Their Kids Into High School

There are the parents who want to know what the “magic number” is to donate to guarantee admission. The moms who ask whether a friend-of-a-friend should put in a good word. The dads who call shortly ...
The Verge

Windows 11’s dark mode is getting more consistent in File Explorer

Microsoft is officially addressing the dark mode complaints in Windows 11. Microsoft is officially addressing the dark mode complaints in Windows 11. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has ...
Cinema Blend

Weapons Cut Out Its Chapter About Aunt Gladys, And I Had To Ask The Director How It Would Have Fit Into The Movie

Interviews Weapons Director Is Very Excited To See Everyone’s Aunt Gladys Costumes This Halloween, Including Sexy Aunt Gladys: ‘It’s All Legal’ Interviews Weapons’ Ending Is The Wildest Thing I’ve ...
Scientific American

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Showed Quantum Tunneling on a Chip

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three pioneers in bringing its ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI wants to make ChatGPT into a universal app frontend

At an OpenAI Dev Days keynote today, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is launching an SDK preview that will allow developers the ability “to build real apps inside of ChatGPT.” Altman said ...
The New York Times

How to Save the American Experiment

Mr. Witt is the author of “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.” As democracy in the United States spirals into a widening gyre of distrust, demagogy and ...
New York Magazine

Johnson Seems to Be Stalling to Block Epstein-Files Vote

On April 2, House Speaker Mike Johnson swore in two Republicans who had won special U.S. House elections in Florida the day before, even though the chamber was between business sessions. The House was ...
InfoWorld

C, C++, Java vie for second place in language popularity

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...
Gizmodo

Adobe Firefly Creates Videos from Your Images, Discover the AI Tool That Turns Imagination Into Motion

Turn your still images, illustrations, and text prompts into amazing AI videos with this advanced yet easy-to-use tool. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Everyone loves making cool videos, but the ...