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How a tiny naming quirk hid seventy tests in Google Mug

I spent my morning digging into google mug and came away with a fun debugging story. While reading through their dot parse regex engine I noticed malformed escape sequences like incomplete unicode or empty character names were quietly passing through. A broad fallback rule was catching them and turning them into plain letters. Looking deeper into the test folder I found an entire suite of error…

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M6 iMac Coming This Year in New Colors

Apple is readying new iMac models with an upgraded chip and new color options, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman . Writing in his latest Power On newsletter , Gurman says the new version is likely…

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