An anonymous reader quotes the Huffington Post: Six months ago, under tremendous public pressure, YouTube announced that it would tweak its algorithm to recommend fewer videos “that could misinform users in harmful ways.” It was a major step for a company that has spent years driving people toward increasingly sensationalist content — including dangerous disinformation — that would keep viewers glued…
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Huge Ash Cloud Blasts Out of Indonesian Volcano
A volcano on the island of Java, in Indonesia, blasted ash into the air today (July 26), causing panic and spurring an evacuation of the vicinity, according to the Associated Press. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66038-volcano-ash-cloud.html
Google Abandons Go’s try() Function Proposal, Citing ‘Overwhelming’ Community Response
Google’s Go programming language will not add a try() function in its next major version, “despite this being a major part of what was proposed,” reports the Register: Error handling in Go is currently based on using if statements to compare a returned error value to nil. If it is nil, no error occurred. This requires developers to write a lot…