Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm

Advancing the right to repair is a cost-free policy move that will strengthen Canada’s economy in an era of trade uncertainty. Unlike subsidy programs or industry bailouts, right to repair legislation focuses on consumers and independent businesses.

#righttorepair
#uscanadatradewar
#climatechange

https://theconversation.com/bolstering-canadas-right-to-repair-could-shield-it-against-u-s-tariffs-and-trade-uncertainty-248970

In addition to formal government institutions, Musk is also trying to tear apart Wikipedia

That is almost certainly, as this analysis notes, because Wikipedia is "a last bastion of shared reality" ...

... and Musk, in contrast, only wants online sources that repeat his sort of conspiratorial blather

The piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/1mjMq

New by me: In which the United States has been compromised by a domestic adversary and faces a future where no Five Eyes nation with an ounce of self-preservation will trust it as an intelligence partner.

https://medium.com/@violetblue/americas-unfolding-cybersecurity-catastrophe-22ac481cdb9c

#cybersecurity

Friend asked a "Data Structures & Algorithms" question. For a certain kind of geek, I am one, there is so much joy in puzzling out this kind of thing.

So much of modern programming isn't really programming at all, it's plumbing, or it's library memorization.

Getting close to the metal, we don't have plumbing and we don't have libraries, we have primitives and RAM, like Forth words or even assembly instructions. Very little is pre-made for you, so you have to solve these cool problems yourself.

Musk's DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets?srnd=phx-latest