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What are the Old Hill Figures Dotted Around Britain? — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

The Uffington White Horse. Source: World Wind, available here. The description of this activity has been termed “leucippotomy” for the carving of horses and “gigantotomy” for giants (there are currently four of this kind in Britain). Whether these adopted terms are intended to be applied seriously is debatable since they do not appear in the […]

PNG’s ICCC should stick to promoting competition, not setting prices – Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

The PNG Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) proposed an amendment to the Prices Regulation Act in August that would allow it to “ensure the application of unilateral price controls under special circumstances (based on grounds of social equity)”. While sounding relatively benign, this amendment would in fact allow the ICCC to implement price ceilings […]

In Memory of Stiver | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily developing software for medical equipment. Twenty years ago, he developed a deep professional interest in Java virtual machine internals. You may remember his research blog posts, […]

Sharing our latest differential privacy milestones and advancements- Google Developers Blog

As new digital platforms and services emerge, the challenge of keeping users’ information safe online is growing more complex – novel technologies require novel privacy solutions. At Google, we continue to invest in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), a family of cutting-edge tools that help solve the critical task of data processing by providing people guarantees that […]