When Apple announced iPadOS earlier this month, no-one from the company made mention of a major new feature: mouse support. Apple no doubt has good reasons for wanting to keep people focused on the touch interface, but the ability to use a mouse has the potential to completely change how people get things done on the iPad Pro. If you use your iPad Pro as your primary computer, particularly if you do a lot of writing or text editing, the new iPadOS mouse support is definitely worth looking into.

Three weeks ago I received a very flattering email from the University of Cambridge, asking me to judge the Adam Smith Prize for Economics:

My name is Gregory Harris. As far as I can make out (I haven’t seen this explicitly written anywhere, and I could very well be wrong about it), attackers compromised email accounts and webpages at the University of Cambridge belonging to two people called “Gregory Harris” and “Neil Morris”. I don’t know if “Gregory Harris” and “Neil Morris” are real people whose university accounts were compromised, or if they’re fake people created by someone who compromised the university computing system itself, or if I’m just completely misunderstanding what happened.

“These results demonstrate that bad smells are capable of producing memory enhancements in both adolescents and adults, pointing to new ways to study how we learn from and remember positive and negative experiences,” explains Catherine Hartley, an assistant professor in New York University’s Department of Psychology and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal Learning and Memory. “Because our findings spanned different age groups, this study suggests that aversive odors might be used in the future to examine emotional learning and memory processes across development,” adds Alexandra Cohen, an NYU postdoctoral fellow and the paper’s lead author.The impact of negative experiences on memory has long been shown–and is familiar to us. A day later, researchers tested participants’ memory for the images.Their findings showed that both adolescents and adults showed better memory specifically for images paired with the bad smell 24 hours after they saw these images.

Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launch pad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests. Reuters interviewed 30 people involved in the Cloud Hopper investigations, including Western government officials, current and former company executives and private security researchers. “The Chinese Government uses its own intelligence services to conduct this activity and refuses to cooperate with any investigation into thefts of intellectual property emanating from its companies or its citizens,” DOJ Assistant Attorney General John Demers told Reuters.

Most traditional chocolate chip cookie recipes start with the same basic ingredients and technique: butter and sugar (a mix of white and brown) are creamed together with a touch of vanilla until fluffy, eggs are beaten in one at a time, followed by flour, salt, and some sort of chemical leavening (baking soda, baking powder, or a bit of both). Other than the small amount in the butter, eggs are the main source of water in a cookie dough recipe. Going back to my initial problem of wanting the flavor of browned butter but disliking the way it prevented sugar from properly dissolving, I asked myself, what if I were to flip the script for these cookies: instead of creaming sugar and butter and adding eggs, why not beat together the eggs and sugar then add the butter?

But Donald Trump, and his aggressive “America First” economic and tariff policies are posing a challenge not only to China, but also to the U.S.’s European allies and states like Canada, Japan and South Korea. Although China has so far reacted to tariffs from the U.S. in tit-for-tat fashion, it has also selectively lowered duties on imports from other countries — Canadian lobster, for example. At the Silk Road summit earlier this year, which several European leaders traveled to Beijing to attend, Xi Jinping admitted that some criticism of China was completely understandable.

There were many candidates, but we chose WriteFreely for the following reasons:

The Kernel Planet is an aggregator of people’s individual blogs. At this time, we are aiming to roll out this service to a subset of high-profile developers, and the easiest way to do so is to offer it initially to those folks who are listed in the MAINTAINERS file. That said, if you are not currently in the MAINTAINERS file, but think you can be a great writer for people.kernel.org, then you can simply ask someone who is in that file to “sponsor” you.

As an example of quantitative difference, orthopaedic surgeons entering postdoctorate specialty education before 1979 obtained an average of 4 years of residency education after medical school. So a typical orthopaedic surgeon who is today 56 years old or older could not have been taught the technique of locked intramedullary fixation of femoral fractures during his or her residency education. So a typical orthopaedic surgeon who is today 66 years old or older could not have been taught anything at all about joint replacement during his or her formal residency education, and a present surgeon older than approximately 40 years old could not have been taught modern joint replacement techniques during his or her formal residency education.

Earlier this month we announced Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default for new users in our flagship Firefox Quantum browser as a way to stop third-party cookies in their tracks. You’re being followed across the web through cookies—small data files stored by your browser—that remember things like language preferences, sites you’ve visited, or what’s in your shopping cart. If you’d rather straight-up block third-party tracking cookies, go ahead and get Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox.

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watched the storm, so…
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