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Iran fully closes Strait of Hormuz over US blockade and fires on ships (+5047)
apnews.com

Alec Baldwin to face civil trial over alleged negligence in ‘Rust’ shooting, judge rules (+1579)
nbcnews.com

DR Congo accepts first set of deportees from the US (+966)
bbc.com

Iranian gunboats fire on tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Iran reimposes restrictions - North Shore News (+3491)
nsnews.com

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters (+19723)
apnews.com

Hacker News

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (+624)
isayeter.com

Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% (+372)
tokens.billchambers.me

Michael Rabin has died (+365)
en.wikipedia.org

State of Kdenlive (+306)
kdenlive.org

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (+284)
victorpoughon.github.io

Why Japan has such good railways (+263)
worksinprogress.co

Amiga Graphics Archive (+222)
amiga.lychesis.net

Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (+217)
abuseofnotation.github.io

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (+210)
www.righto.com

It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (+164)
lisyarus.github.io

Daring Fireball

★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’ – Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.
daringfireball.net

Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages – Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with 32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” o…
www.wsj.com

Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts – Apple Design: Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can be irritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion of your app. Consider allowing at least a week or two between requests, prompting again after people demonstrate add…
developer.apple.com

Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted – I wrote yesterday: And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized. On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded : Review prompts are the difference between a great app ge…
daringfireball.net

App Store Reviews Are Busted – Terry Godier: For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average . In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review . [...] You will see a lot of 4 star re…
blog.terrygodier.com

r/technology

Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours (+13805)
tomshardware.com

Tech CEO accused of running $420M AI business scam (+2520)
thehill.com

Anna’s Archive to pay $322million after losing court case for scraping “nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” from Spotify (+10249)
nme.com

ICE monitoring app takedowns violated the First Amendment (+1439)
appleinsider.com

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI (+1953)
gizmodo.com