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Senate overwhelmingly advances stopgap funding bill aimed at preventing shutdown

The Senate on Monday overwhelmingly advanced a stopgap funding bill aimed at avoiding a government shutdown ahead of this fall's midterms. The chamber voted 89-4 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the legislative vehicle for the continuing resolution (CR), overcoming the first big hurdle for the legislation. The level of bipartisan support...

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Senate overwhelmingly advances stopgap funding bill aimed at preventing shutdown

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Analysis: Federal Reserve may be pulled into Bessent’s effort to support Japan’s yen

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to defend the yen without selling Treasurys into a sensitive U.S. bond market. The Federal Reserve could help.

  • Federal Reserve may be involved in Japan's yen stabilization efforts.
  • New Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh aims to redefine Treasury-Fed relationship.
  • U.S. may support Japan's yen by selling euros from Exchange Stabilization Fund.

·cnbc.com

Building Reliable UDP

How to Turn an Unreliable Protocol into One You Can Trust When most developers think about networking, they immediately think of TCP .

  • Reliable UDP is an engineering pattern that rebuilds TCP capabilities, only necessary ones
  • Packet structure includes sequence number, acknowledgement, flags, and payload

·dev.to

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