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EU law gives researchers unprecedented rights to scrutinize Big Tech. Researchers say Tik Tok, X, and Meta are still deciding who gets to look inside.

Ever chased a bug for days, only to discover the "bug" was actually the platform working exactly as designed? That happened to me building a client reporting pipeline. The lesson stuck. Here's what nobody tells you about pulling marketing data from multiple ad platforms: the hard part was never the dashboard. It was everything underneath it. The Setup That Looked Simple on Paper The brief sounded easy. Pull spend, clicks, and conversions from Google Ads and Meta. Store it. Display it in a chart. A junior dev could knock this out in a sprint, I figured. Reality disagreed. Google Ads API enforces operation quotas per developer token, and those quotas scale differently depending on account tier. Meanwhile, Meta's Marketing API throttles based on a rolling usage score tied to the ad account itself, not your app. Two platforms. Two completely different throttling philosophies. Neither documented in a way that made the actual limits obvious until you hit them in production. Where Things Actually Broke My first version polled every client account every hour. Fine for three clients. Then we onboarded client number twelve, and Meta started returning 429s intermittently. Not consistently — intermittently. That's the worst kind of bug. I initially assumed it was a code issue. Retry logic, maybe a race condition in my job scheduler. I spent three weeks going down that path. Eventually, I found the real cause: cumulative API call volume across all client accounts was tripping Meta's app-level rate limit, not the individual account limit. The fix wasn't more retries. It was a request queue with exponential backoff, plus a priority system so active dashboards refreshed before idle ones. Simple in hindsight. Expensive in dev hours. The Real Architecture Behind Multi-Platform Reporting If you're building this yourself, here's what a production-grade pipeline actually needs, based on what broke for me. A Queue, Not a Cron Job Don't just fire off API calls on a schedule and hope for t

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June […]

The European Union has fined Google's parent company Alphabet €890 million (about $1 billion) for two separate violations of the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA). One penalty is for giving its own products preferential treatment in search results, while the other is for blocking Android developers from sending users to alternate payment options. A €460 […]

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.

If you have ever stared at a misbehaving circuit at two in the morning, muttering about the "bug" you cannot find, you are part of a lineage that runs back to a very literal insect. On September 9, 1947, engineers working on Harvard's Mark II computer opened up the machine, found a moth wedged inside a relay, and taped it into their logbook. The note beside it reads: "First actual case of bug being found." It is one of the most charming artifacts in the history of computing, and it carries a surprisingly practical lesson for anyone who builds connected hardware today. What actually happened in 1947 The Mark II was an electromechanical monster: a room-sized calculator built from thousands of relays, switches that physically clacked open and closed to represent ones and zeros. On that September day the machine was producing errors, and the operators -- part of the U.S. Navy computing effort that Grace Hopper worked in -- traced the fault to Relay #70 in Panel F. Inside was a moth, its wings shorting across the contacts. They removed it, taped it into the logbook at 15:45, and recorded the now-famous line. That page, moth still attached, lives today in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Hopper loved telling the story for the rest of her career, which is why her name is forever attached to it. She is often credited with coining "bug" and "debugging" because of that moth, but the honest history is a little different, and the difference is the interesting part. The word "bug" was already old Engineers had been calling faults "bugs" for decades before 1947. Thomas Edison used the term in an 1878 letter to describe the little glitches and "difficulties" that show up when a new invention meets the real world. By the early twentieth century "bug" was common shop-floor slang among electrical and telephone engineers. So the moth did not invent the word. What made the logbook entry so memorable is the joke buried in it: "first actual case of bug being found"

Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would tackle the forces behind them if he’s elected.

Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.

I self-host Umami for my SaaS, ParserBee . The main reason I picked it: privacy-friendly, cookie-less, first-party analytics that adblockers supposedly leave alone because the script comes from your own domain. That last assumption turned out to be wrong, and the reason is the subdomain name itself. Writing it up because the fix is small and the failure mode is silent. The problem My Umami instance ran at umami.parserbee.com , so the tracker was loaded like this: <script defer src= "https://umami.parserbee.com/script.js" data-website-id= "..." ></script> The EasyPrivacy filter list (used by uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, AdGuard, and most other blockers) contains a rule that matches the Umami tracker by hostname pattern, along the lines of: ||umami.*/script.js It doesn't target a specific company's server. It targets any host whose subdomain is literally named umami serving a file called script.js . Which is exactly how most of us name things when self-hosting: umami.mydomain.com , plausible.mydomain.com , matomo.mydomain.com . The filter lists know this convention, and they have rules for it. The result: every visitor with an adblocker never loads the script. No errors on your side, no console noise, nothing in the Umami logs. The traffic just quietly never shows up. I only caught it because signups were arriving from campaigns that Umami claimed nobody clicked; the server logs and Stripe disagreed with the analytics, and the server logs were right. The fix Serve the same Umami instance from a second hostname that no filter list matches. No proxying, no renaming files, no changes to the Umami install itself. I added u.parserbee.com as an alias for the same service: 1. DNS record. A CNAME (or A record) for u.parserbee.com pointing at the same server as the existing umami.parserbee.com . 2. Reverse proxy. Add the new hostname to the existing Umami site config so both route to the same instance. I run Umami in Docker behind Coolify, where this is just adding a second d

Publicado originalmente en Justicia Liberal . El hecho y su lectura económica La reconfiguración de lealtades internas en el bloque peronista del Congreso que reporta LA17 podría leerse como un episodio más del folletín peronista: disputas de conducción, alineamientos con gobernadores, señales cruzadas hacia 2027. Pero desde una perspectiva económica aplicada, el fenómeno tiene consecuencias concretas sobre variables que le importan a cualquier empresa, ahorrista o asalariado argentino. La inestabilidad legislativa no es un dato político neutro. Es un factor de riesgo que los mercados descuentan en tiempo real. Incertidumbre legislativa y su precio en variables macro Cuando un bloque opositor mayoritario se fragmenta, el resultado inmediato no es la debilidad del peronismo: es la imprevisibilidad del Congreso. Y la imprevisibilidad tiene precio. El riesgo país argentino, que según datos del BCRA y operadores de mercado secundario rondó los 600-700 puntos básicos durante buena parte de 2025, es en parte una prima por incertidumbre institucional. Cada vez que el Poder Legislativo se convierte en un tablero de negociaciones opacas —donde un artículo fiscal puede ser bloqueado, modificado o aprobado según quién necesite qué favor de quién— la tasa de descuento que aplican los inversores sobre activos argentinos sube. Eso se traduce en mayor costo de financiamiento para el Tesoro y, por efecto derrame, para el crédito privado. El mecanismo es simple: si no sabés qué va a salir del Congreso la semana próxima, no invertís a largo plazo. Y si no invertís, no generás empleo formal ni capacidad productiva. El déficit como rehén de la interna El equilibrio fiscal que el gobierno de Javier Milei logró sostener durante 2024 —el primer superávit financiero en más de una década, según datos del Ministerio de Economía— depende en parte de que el Congreso no apruebe gastos que el Ejecutivo no puede financiar sin emisión. Ahí es donde la fragmentación peronista se vuelve peligrosa de

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25. Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so […]

AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products from being sold on the e-commerce platform. The European Commission ruled that AliExpress didn't take effective measures to reduce the dissemination of illegal products, noting the […]

Nothing is more frustrating than spending hours, or even days, perfecting a PCB design only to discover it fails during production. The secret to avoiding this is simple: apply PCB design standards from the very beginning. These guidelines act as a blueprint for reliability, manufacturability, and long-term performance, guiding every aspect of your board—from trace widths and spacing to via placement, solder mask, and layer stackups. Following these recommended practices doesn’t just prevent manufacturing errors—you save time, reduce costs, improve quality, and minimize delays. Whether you’re building a prototype or preparing for full-scale production, designing with these rules in mind ensures your PCB performs exactly as intended. Applying these best practices sets the foundation for success in any production scenario. By starting with the right standards, you can avoid costly mistakes before they happen and bring your product to life smoothly. Why PCB Design Standards Matter (More Than You Think) PCB standards are not theoretical rules. They are: • Proven engineering practices • Built from real-world failures • Designed to reduce risk Without them, you are basically designing blindly. With them, you get: • Higher first-pass success rate • Faster manufacturing approval • Reduced rework and cost • Better product reliability Steps to Apply PCB Standards in Your Design Here’s a practical, step-by-step guide to apply PCB design standards effectively: Step 1: Start with the Right Standards (Not All Are Needed) You don’t need to follow everything. You need to follow the right ones. Key standards to consider: • IPC-2221 → General PCB design standard • IPC-7351 → Footprint design guidelines • IPC-A-600 → PCB acceptability • IPC-A-610 → Assembly quality Practical Tip: Start with IPC-2221 + IPC-7351 if you're doing design. Step 2: Apply Standards During Component Placement Most failures start here—not routing. Common Mistakes: • Random component placement • Ignoring signal

Scan a menu, pay a bill, onboard a smart plug, and you are using a piece of technology that was never meant for any of those things. The QR code was invented in 1994, and its original job was tracking car parts on a factory floor. Understanding why it was built the way it was explains why it now shows up on nearly every connected device. Who invented the QR code The QR code was created in 1994 by a team led by engineer Masahiro Hara at Denso Wave, a subsidiary of the Toyota group in Japan. At the time, the automotive industry ran on standard one-dimensional barcodes, the striped labels still seen on grocery products. Those barcodes held very little data, usually around 20 characters, and a busy assembly line often needed a worker to scan ten different labels on a single box of components. It was slow, and it was error-prone. Hara wanted a code that could store far more information and be read much faster. His answer was to go two-dimensional: instead of encoding data only in the width of vertical bars, a QR code (short for "Quick Response") stores data across a grid of black and white squares, packing in thousands of characters in a fraction of the footprint. The board game that shaped it The most famous detail of the QR code's origin is where Hara found his design inspiration. He was reportedly playing the board game Go on a lunch break, staring at the black and white stones arranged on the grid, when the idea of encoding information in a two-dimensional matrix of light and dark cells clicked into place. The harder problem was speed. A scanner needs to find the code and figure out its orientation before it can read anything, and in a factory a label might be rotated any which way. Hara's team solved this with the three distinctive square markers in the corners of every QR code. Those "position detection patterns" use a ratio of black to white areas that almost never occurs by chance in printed material, so a scanner can instantly locate the code and work out its an