the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups

Examples of wasted potential:

    Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

    James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.

    Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.

These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.

This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.

the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"

ehhh...

Reeves, who qualified 31st out of the 35 cars, ran as high as 21st and successfully avoided a first lap crash in turn 14. Reeves finished 25th

Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable

One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation

It turns out, the “One Weird Trick” to faster software delivery was not “fire your testers”.

Wrecking this discipline was one of the worst kind of management mistakes

Mit offenen Karten: Deutschland einig "Pharma-Land" (Zitat Söder)