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‘It was messy’: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights | CNN Politics

Federal workers across the US are being forced to return to offices following the end of Covid-era remote work policies, encountering unprepared facilities with infrastructure issues and space constraints. President Trump's administration has mandated full-time office presence while simultaneously reducing government real estate, creating logistical challenges for agencies and employees nationwide. The situation is complicated by varying implementation timelines across agencies and resistance from employee unions citing safety concerns and contract violations.

DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek’s smallpond takes on Big Data

DeepSeek has released smallpond, a distributed compute framework built on DuckDB, capable of processing 110.5TiB of data in 30 minutes. The framework leverages Ray Core for distribution and DeepSeek's 3FS storage system, offering a simpler alternative to traditional distributed systems while maintaining high performance. This development showcases DuckDB's growing adoption in AI workloads and demonstrates various approaches to scaling analytical databases.

Effective Rust

A comprehensive guide presenting 35 specific methods to enhance Rust programming practices, covering essential topics from type systems to FFI boundaries. The guide is structured into six main sections, focusing on types, traits, concepts, dependencies, tooling, and advanced Rust features. Each item provides detailed insights for writing more effective and maintainable Rust code.

One Logo, Three Companies (I)

Mitsubishi represents three distinct entities sharing the same name and three-diamond logo: the Mitsubishi Group (a diverse keiretsu), Mitsubishi Pencil Co. (an independent writing tools manufacturer), and Mitsubishi cider (a beverage company). These separate companies' shared branding led to the creation of the Mitsubishi Corporate Name and Trademark Committee to prevent fraudulent use.

Use Firefox in 2025

Firefox remains a competitive browser choice in 2025, offering unique features like full uBlock Origin support, robust privacy protections, and extensive customization options. The browser maintains strong technical capabilities including offline translations, DNS over HTTPS, and superior history synchronization, while supporting user interests over advertiser demands.

Yoke is really cool

Yoke enables infrastructure management through actual code rather than configuration files, allowing developers to write infrastructure definitions in Go or Rust and compile them to WebAssembly. Its Air Traffic Control feature offers powerful Kubernetes operator capabilities through CustomResourceDefinitions, while maintaining security through WebAssembly sandboxing and limited system access.

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

Global trends show significant shifts in societal patterns, from declining combustion engine car sales to increasing urban migration and changing household compositions. Notable developments include rising assisted reproductive technology usage in Europe, with Spain leading at 9% of births, and evolving household structures in the US where single-person households now predominate at 28%. Life expectancy data consistently shows women outliving men across all countries.

Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert's Dune - Reactor

An analysis comparing Frank Herbert's Dune with T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom reveals significant parallels and differences between Paul Atreides and Lawrence of Arabia as outsider figures leading desert peoples. While both works share themes of desert power and cultural adaptation, Lawrence expresses deep guilt about his role whereas Paul maintains confidence, and Herbert's work includes more prominent roles for women and religion.

How Clay's UI Layout Algorithm Works

Clay, an open-source UI layout library, uses a simple three-function approach to create flexible user interfaces that adapt to screen size and content changes. The layout algorithm processes positioning in multiple passes, handling sizing calculations independently from positioning, and supports features like container fitting, growing, shrinking, and text wrapping.

GitHub - takara-ai/go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure go.

Frontier Research Team at takara.ai introduces a pure Go implementation of attention mechanisms and transformer layers, featuring high performance and zero dependencies. The library offers efficient dot-product attention, multi-head attention support, and complete transformer layer implementation, making it ideal for edge computing and real-time processing.

Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403

An investigation into a Chrome browser bug reveals unexpected behavior when handling range requests for partially-cached content, where Chrome silently modifies range headers and returns incomplete data while reporting success. The Chromium team ultimately declared this behavior a feature rather than a bug, citing potential compatibility issues with existing applications.

FOSDEM 2025 - Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers

A technical comparison between Fuchsia's component framework and Linux container solutions, highlighting their similarities in blob fetching, filesystem isolation, and process namespacing. The presentation explores how different use cases and requirements lead to distinct strengths in each system, focusing on their key technological divergences.