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Sep 30, 2022 This is a maintenance release, after the previous one was more than a year old. There were a couple open pull requests which I merged. Changes Changed DTTextAttachment to be a subclass of NSTextAttachment to avoid some crashes.Remove the checking of tiled layer in DTAttributedTextContentView.Removed unneeded constant causing a warningAdded support for underline colorAdded ability to pass in a UIFontDescriptor for DTHTMLAttributedStringBuilder On the first change I think there might be some further work necessary to actually use the native sizing functions correctly. DTCoreText was started at a time when there was no NSTextAttachment on iOS (before…

Home Assistant’s Franck Nijhof has announced the release of Home Assistant 2026.2, which brings with it a shift to the new Home Dashboard default display, a rebranding of add-on packages, redesigned quick search, and the ability to opt-in to data gathering for a planned public device database.”The new Home Dashboard is now the official default for all new installations,” Nijhof says in the new release announcement. “If you’ve been using Home Assistant for a while and never customized your default view, you’ll get a suggestion to switch; give it a try! Add-ons are now called Apps! After a lot of…

Spotify unveiled its newest audiobook feature, named Page Match, which lets users swap more easily between printed books (or e-readers) and the audiobook version by scanning printed text, at an event in New York on Thursday.The premium service feature rolls out in 22 countries beginning Thursday, and it lets readers “match” the section in the audiobook to the physical book by using their camera. Users can use Page Match to swap from the book to audiobook or vice versa. Author Harlan Coben and Spotify’s Dustee Jenkins Ty Pendlebury/CNETAuthor Harlan Coben, who was at the event, said he was enthused about…

After years of slow progress, researchers may finally be seeing a clear path forward in the quest to build powerful quantum computers. These machines are expected to dramatically shorten the time required for certain calculations, turning problems that would take classical computers thousands of years into tasks that could be completed in hours. A team led by physicists at Stanford University has developed a new kind of optical cavity that can efficiently capture single photons, the basic particles of light, emitted by individual atoms. Those atoms serve as the core components of a quantum computer because they store qubits, which…

A recent NPR investigation found that the Trump administration had secretly rewritten nuclear rules, stripping environmental protections and loosening safety and security measures. The government shared the new rules with companies that are part of a program building experimental nuclear reactors, but not with the public. I’m reminded of a talk during our EmTech MIT event in November, where Koroush Shirvan, an MIT professor of nuclear engineering, spoke on this issue. “I’ve seen some disturbing trends in recent times, where words like ‘rubber-stamping nuclear projects’ are being said,” Shirvan said during that event.   During the talk, Shirvan shared statistics showing…

We’re at a critical moment in education. New research and emerging technologies, such as Generative AI, have the potential to reshape how we teach and learn. With decades of leadership in education technology, Dell Technologies is supporting schools in this transformation – equipping students and educators with tools and programs designed for the AI era, ensuring they are prepared for the opportunities ahead. This commitment is reflected in Dell’s expanded education portfolio – including new Dell Pro Education and Dell Chromebook devices – alongside programs that help prepare students for the future. These new PCs are purpose-built for modern learning…

This post first appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Signals from Our Futures Past newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission.We’re long past the novelty phase of AI-assisted coding. The new challenge is measurement. How do we know whether all this augmentation—Copilot, Cursor, Goose, Gemini—is actually making us better at what matters?The team at DX offers one of the first credible attempts to answer that question. Their AI Measurement Framework focuses on three dimensions: utilization, impact, and cost. They pair these with the DX Core 4: 1) change failure rate, 2) PR throughput, 3) perceived delivery speed, and 4)…

As analytical workloads increasingly demand real-time insights, organizations need business data to enter the data lake immediately after generation. While various methods exist for real-time CDC data ingestion (such as AWS Glue and Amazon EMR Serverless), Amazon MSK Connect with Iceberg Kafka Connect provides a fully managed, streamlined approach that reduces operational complexity and enables continuous data synchronization. In this post, we demonstrate how to use Iceberg Kafka Connect with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Connect to accelerate real-time data ingestion into data lakes, simplifying the synchronization process from transactional databases to Apache Iceberg tables. Solution overview…

I just finished listening to the latest episode of our Find Yourself in the Future series, and I have to tell you—if you’ve ever thought that a career in data science was out of your reach or “too technical,” you’ll definitely want to watch this session. Our host, Yasmeen Seddeek, Junior Technical Advocate for Learn with Cisco, sat down with two of the brilliant minds powering data science at Cisco Networking Academy: Amy Guimond and Tashia Avery. Hearing the “how” and the “why” behind their journeys was inspiring! Here are my top takeaways from their conversation. 1. The data science…

A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting executives and their families, all while notifying journalists and regulators about the extent of the intrusion. Some victims reportedly are paying — perhaps as much to contain the stolen data as to stop the escalating personal attacks. But a top SLSH expert warns that engaging at all beyond a “We’re not paying” response only encourages further harassment, noting that the group’s fractious and unreliable history means the only winning move…