Last year:
This year:
Next year:
“I never thought Leopard Slugs would eat my face!”
Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist
I don’t think this is actually true
There was a whole controversy about it last year
Ken Rice of the University of Edinburgh, UK, criticised the paper for an “elementary” mistake about celestial mechanics. “It’s well known that the sun moves around the barycentre of the solar system due to the influence of the other solar system bodies, mainly Jupiter,” he says. “This does not mean, as the paper is claiming, that this then leads to changes in the distance between the sun and the Earth.”
“The claim that we will see warming in the coming centuries because the sun will move closer to the Earth as it moves around the solar system barycentre is very simply wrong,” adds Rice. He is urging the journal to withdraw the paper, and says it is embarrassing it was published.
Journal criticised for study claiming sun is causing global warming | New Scientist
Yes, I thought it was odd.
It’s wild that people are still arguing over what is the center.
12.5. UTF-8 Issues
UTF-8 [RFC3629] permits only certain sequences of octets and designates others as either malformed or “illegal”. The Unicode standard identifies a number of security issues related to illegal sequences and forbids their generation by conforming implementations. Implementations of this specification MUST NOT generate malformed or illegal sequences and SHOULD detect them and take some appropriate action.
Can we just go back to ASCII?
Oh boy, that list of recommendations:
o Generating a 501 response code.
Ok
o Replacing such sequences by the sequence %xEF.BF.BD, which encodes
the “replacement character” U+FFFD.
Seems reasonable
o Closing the connection.
Sure
o Replacing such sequences by a “guessed” valid sequence (based on properties of the UTF-8 encoding).
Yeah. After checking the crypto signatures along the message path, dealing with multiple layers of quoting and escapes, being careful that Robert Droptables can’t inject, I now have to screen every single UTF-8 string to make sure that the evil bit isn’t set?
Did someone “improve” UTF by allowing executable code, or did they tuck a Turing-complete language in there?
They could start over with a system based on typesetting machines
How many bits should it really take to distinguish between “ and ” anyway
There has got to be some middle ground between crudely simulating a manual typewriter and encoding every obscure glyph ever set to paper plus emoji that some kid invented yesterday
Single quotes, primes, apostrophes are the worst.
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, ''', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '’', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, ''', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, ''', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, #146, '''', [rfReplaceAll]); // Tampabay weirdness
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '’', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '‘', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '`', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '’', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, ''', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, ''', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '´', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '‘', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '’', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
sPage := StringReplace(sPage, '′', '''', [rfReplaceAll]);
When it comes to character variants it’s rarely wise to ask, “how hard can it be?”.
Unicode isn’t perfect but I have yet to see anything better at this point.
Ok, we’ve still got Flat Earthers and people who want to die on the “Everybody said Global Warming would happen, not Climate Change!” hills. I shudder to think what anti-science spin will come from this. 
/chromebook suddenly starts shooting molten lead from screen
EU orders Airbus A350 operators to install anti-coffee spillage covers in airliner cockpits
Airbus has solved the ongoing problem of cack-handed airline pilots spilling coffee over vital cockpit electronics – with a plastic cover.
Following “inadvertent liquid spillage” on engine control panels in the flight decks of Airbus A350 airliners, the Franco-German-Spanish multinational company has also waterproofed engine controls that are most likely to be in the firing line of an unintentional drenching.
The low-tech solution to the accidental destruction of hi-tech systems was revealed in a revised EU airworthiness directive (AD) published last week.
Eye see you’re having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Researchers have built a 2.4g robot that could be capable of eye surgery, inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami.
A paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence describes how the machine was able to trace a square of 0.5mm by 0.5mm and reduced the deviation from the desired trajectory by 68 per cent compared to manual operation.
