Android Auto sold me my car, now carmakers are betting it'll sell you one too
A third of car buyers would walk away without it
We haven't written up this one. Android Police has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
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The test that failed every morning and passed every afternoon
Originally published on the WatchNext blog . While making an unrelated change — adding a processor to a privacy page and a link to a footer — the test suite came back with eleven passes and one…
- Test suite failed due to date measurement mismatch
- UTC vs. U.S. timezone caused intermittent failures
- Fix aligned test and function timezones
Sindh Decides to Pay Employees’ Pension on Day of Retirement
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South Africans join Thais and Americans in rejecting data centers as clashes over water and power resources mount
South Africa faces opposition to new data centers as communities question electricity, water, and transparency issues surrounding digital infrastructure expansion.
A Dialog Can Now Be a Native Desktop Window
Last week's native-window release could open an editor, inspector, and tool palette as separate operating-system windows.
- Dialogs can now function as native desktop windows in Codename One framework.
- Dialog.setDefaultNativeWindowMode(true) enables dialog to be a native window.
- Transition handling and accessibility state preserved across Windows and Mac platforms.
Why Timestamps Lie in Distributed Systems (and How Logical Clocks Fix It)
There's a line of code in almost every service that stores replicated data: def resolve ( incoming , stored ): # keep whichever write is "newer" return incoming if incoming . timestamp > stored .
- Timestamps lie in distributed systems, leading to last-write-wins (LWW) corruption
- Lamport clocks introduce causal order using integer per process, resolving conflicts
Custom Domain Onboarding: Show DNS Records, Copy or Write Them for Customers
Short answer: show the exact SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records first, then let a customer explicitly authorize a write; this keeps onboarding honest when the DNS zone is customer-owned and prevents your…