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Daily Crunch: Starting today, Twitter says all advertisers must obtain verified accounts

TechCrunch

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark, Paul reports. We learn something new every day : The Linux Foundation launched a new organization to maintain TLA+ , Kyle writes. The layoffs will affect corporate employees, of which there are about 4,000, because Lyft doesn’t employ its drivers.

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Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

TechCrunch

A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. Image Credits: Jonathan Knowles (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Paul has more.

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Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results

TechCrunch

One of the more intriguing ones I’ve stumbled upon is Moemate , an assistant that runs on most any macOS, Windows and Linux machine. It can bring your chat window into focus and show the number of subscribers to your channel. Startups, too, are beginning to realize their own versions of more helpful, useful AI assistants.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Dmitrii_Guzhanin (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Getty Images under a GK Hart/Vikki Hart (opens in a new window) license. Image Credits: Getty Images under a jayk7 (opens in a new window) license. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). “We

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CodeSOD: A Proper Mode of Address

The Daily WTF

Those methods should behave more-or-less the same on both Windows and Linux, so checking the IP address should be a simple and short function. We set os_type = 'windows' , then check the platform. The entire 'windows' branch of the if isn't needed. What if we want to check the IP on Linux?

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Villains may live long enough to become heroes

David Heinemeier Hansson

They've even put Linux inside of Windows with WSL! And I remain a staunch opponent of targeted advertising, the privacy assault that inevitably comes with them, and what it's done to the web. They've gone from being the sworn enemy of open source to one of the biggest sponsors of it. They've been exemplary stewards of GitHub.

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CodeSOD: A Learning Opportunity

The Daily WTF

He was quite happy to see C offered as an option, since he's used to seeing very web-focused security training and since he does Linux kernel and driver development, that's not exactly useful. What wasn't clear was that they expected developers to be ready to delve into Windows APIs as well as Linux APIs.

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