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Council backs new data centre rules, stops short of moratorium

City staff will develop a new framework that will come back to council next year for approval.

2h ago ·ottawacitizen.com

Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (Reuters)

Meta Platforms (META.O) will pay up to $18 billion and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a sweeping agreement …

2h ago ·reuters.com

The Node.js Event Loop, Explained Simply (with Examples)

"Node.js is single-threaded" — you've heard it a hundred times. So how does it handle thousands of requests at once without freezing? The answer is the event loop .

• Node.js is single-threaded but handles thousands of concurrent connections
• Non-blocking code allows program to continue executing tasks while waiting for I/O operations
• Event loop consists of Timers, Poll, Check, and Close phases with microtask queue draining

2h ago ·dev.to

A robot sprinter shatters a 100-meter record again as sparks fly at China’s robot competition

BEIJING (AP) — A robot sprinter broke another 100-meter record Wednesday at a showcase of China’s growing technological prowess. The record ended China’s five-day…

2h ago ·apnews.com

The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

2h ago ·thetariffcost.com