Apple may see further fallout over its failure to comply with a court order that led to last week’s contempt ruling. A class action suit filed on behalf of developers claims that Apple’s actions cost Pure Sweat Basketball (and other developers) revenue during the period it was found to have violated the original court order. “Had Apple complied with the injunction, as required, Pure Sweat would have been able to sell subscriptions to its app directly to its customers,” the law firm, Hagens Berman, alleges.
The original 2021 court ruling forced Apple to allow App Store developers to direct user to other payments systems so that they could bypass the 30 percent of of in-app payments taken by Apple. The App Store was supposed to stop preventing developers from including buttons or links in their apps and metadata that would allow allow users to make purchases outside the App Store environment.
However, developer Epic Games accused Apple of “malicious compliance” with the ruling because it still charged a commission of up to 27 percent on any sales made through links to external payment systems. It also said Apple came up with onerous restrictions on external buttons, among other violations.
In her ruling last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Apple “chose the most anticompetitive option” at every turn. She even alleged that Apple lied under oath to hide the truth about its actions and referred the case to a US attorney for a criminal contempt investigation.
“The court ultimately held that Apple willfully violated the injunction to protect its revenues, and then ‘reverse engineered’ justifications to proffer to the court, often with ‘lies on the witness stand,” the class action lawsuit states. “The evidence showed that while one senior Apple executive [Phil Schiller] ‘advocated that Apple comply with the injunction,’ Mr. Cook ignored this advice and allowed others in his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly.”
The class action seeks to recover lost revenue for up to 100,000 or more developers forced to pay Apple commissions that shouldn’t have existed. Hagens Berman obtained a $100 million settlement for iOS developers in a previous App Store class action suit.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/apple-hit-with-class-action-suit-from-developers-after-app-store-ruling-120058208.html?src=rss
Most astronauts these days are fairly anonymous, and chances are you have never heard of Nichole Ayers. And that’s OK.
But sometimes it’s worth pausing for a moment to reflect on just how accomplished these people are. Ayers, 36, flew the supersonic F-22 stealth aircraft in the international war against the Islamic State and rose to become a major in the US Air Force before being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021. Oh, yeah, she also completed a master’s degree in computational and applied mathematics at Rice University.
For her first spaceflight, Ayers launched on the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station in March. This flight got a fair amount of media attention, but that was largely because the arrival of Crew-10 allowed the Crew Dragon spacecraft to which Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were assigned to return home. Since then, Ayers has spent 50 days in space, astronauting. This included a spacewalk last week, her first, alongside veteran astronaut Anne McClain.
Last month, the Science Museum of Minnesota buzzed with excitement as young tech creators from across the country came together for Coolest Projects USA in a celebration of creativity, curiosity, and coding.
Around 40 young people showcased their projects on the day, sharing their work with friends, family, and the wider coding community. With hands-on tech activities, project demonstrations, fun swag, and certificates of achievement, the day was packed with energy and enthusiasm.
Coolest Projects is all about empowering young people to show off what they’ve built, no matter their skill level or experience. From first-time coders to budding engineers, everyone was welcomed and learnt something from the day.
Celebrating impact: Broadcom Foundation Coding with Commitment®
One of the standout moments was the presentation of the Broadcom Foundation Coding with Commitment® special recognition, which highlights a project that uses code to solve real-world problems.
The award went to Kaila for her project, Car vs Road, a self-driving car simulation designed to explore how natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes might impact autonomous vehicle technology.
“My project was inspired by Waymo. After hearing about Coolest Projects through the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair, I decided to attend — and absolutely loved it! The atmosphere was welcoming, the judges were so involved, and the entire experience was truly unforgettable.” – Kaila, 2025 Coding with Commitment® recipient
Broadcom Foundation’s partnership with Coolest Projects USA highlights how coding can be a powerful tool for tackling global challenges, from health to climate change, and champions digital literacy for all youth.
Celebrating creativity across categories
With seven categories available for entries, the judges had their work cut out for them choosing their favourite projects. Here are some that captured their attention on the day:
Mila | Sports Compilation, Scratch
Mila’s project, Sports Compilation, tells a story through animated sports scenes that inspire people to try new things and embrace their rebellious side.
“I wanted to show my mom that I could code — even though I’m not a ‘full-time coder’. I kept working on my original sports scene and added more to create something bigger.”
“My biggest challenge was making it reset automatically. At first, I didn’t understand the instructions I found online, but then I figured out how to use timing and broadcasts to make it work.”
“Coolest Projects was so fun, my teacher hyped it up, and it lived up to the excitement!”
Ethan | Coding AI to Enhance Speech Therapy
Ethan’s project was inspired by his experience with speech therapy. He used machine learning to help people identify and correct different types of incorrect pronunciations of the /s/ sound. Ethan shared his motivations behind attending:
“I went to Coolest Projects USA to get the opportunity to present my work and receive feedback from a large audience of judges, participants, and other viewers on how to improve my project and the presentation of it.”
“I had fun at Coolest Projects USA, seeing the different ways that young people like me are taking advantage of technology to try and help the lives of others, and also seeing the creativity and determination that we have.”
A big thank you
We want to say a huge thank you to every young creator who presented a project, to the families who cheered them on, and to our amazing volunteers and partners. We also want to give a special shoutout to our sponsors, Broadcom Foundation and Best Buy Inc., for their incredible support. We couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you for making Coolest Projects USA 2025 such a special day!
There’s still time to get involved with Coolest Projects this year…
If you missed the event or are feeling inspired, there are still ways to join the Coolest Projects global community!
The online Coolest Projects showcase is open for entries from young people anywhere in the world. Entries close 28 May.
Coolest Projects UK takes place in Bradford on 17 May. Come along and discover what young people are creating.
Partner events are held around the world — head to the Coolest Projects website to find out more.
If you’re sensing the world right now is becoming more and more unhinged, you’re not alone. Fortunately there’s a podcast poking holes in your subject of choice, whether that be diet culture, science journals, airport books, or Bill Maher specifically. With research and often a sense of humor, these shows break down some of the messages we are getting online, in the news, and across all sorts of media, explaining why you’re not crazy, it isn’t you, and why some of the systems we have right now (looking at you, capitalism) are broken.
Normal Curves
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Normal Curves is kind of like a science book club—on every episode, stat-savvy friends (and professors) Regina Nuzzo and Kristin Sainani help make sense of academic journals that have made their way to mainstream and pop culture. Examples include The Sweaty T-Shirt Study, which said you could find a perfect mate by smelling their sweat, and the The Red Dress Effect, which said that women in red were sexier. They’re the ones you can count on to dissect the data, challenge the claims, and arm you with tools to assess scientific studies on your own.
Diabolical Lies
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Is tradwife TikTok confusing the heck out of you? Wondering why capitalism feels like a scam wrapped in a vibe? Allow me to introduce you to Diabolical Lies, your new favorite rabbit hole. Hosted by Katie Gatti Tassin and Caro Claire Burke, this long-form (episodes are upwards of three hours long) podcast is part cultural critique, part political roast, and fully addictive. Katie and Caro named their show Diabolical Lies to poke fun at something Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in a speech, that “it’s the women who have had the most diabolical lies told to you,” suggesting that feminism is the source of our unhappiness. Katie and Caro point their fingers at capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, instead. They hold everything, from the yassification of Christian nationalism to the myth of the girl boss, all to the fire while making you laugh, think, and maybe (probably) get a little mad.
Corporate Gossip
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If you think the best true-crime is white collar crime, you might want to tune into Corporate Gossip, which is all about the shady stuff that happens in board rooms and business deals. Hosts (and siblings) Becca and Adam Platsky use tons of research and storytelling to tell the truth behind eBay, the WWE and Vince McMahon, Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, Enron, and more. The topics are serious, but the vibe is casual and often hilarious.
Oddly Specific
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Meredith Lynch (who you may recognize from TikTok) has one foot in pop culture and the other in politics—and her show represents that. Oddly Specific features a bit of everything, from the problem with dollar stores to the prison industrial complex. Experts come on to cover things they’re passionate about, and Meredith has a good way of explaining the basics of the subject at hand, exposing its problems, and helping you understand why it matters to you, your wallet, and your everyday life.
Bad Therapist
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If you’ve ever side-eyed an Instagram carousel telling you to “cut off anyone who drains your energy,” there’s a chance you’ve been served some therapy speak. Fortunately, the podcast Bad Therapist is here to help. Psychotherapist Ash Compton and journalist Rachel Monroe are pro-therapy, but they are also pro-skewering the bad actors who use pop psych cliches and weaponize wellness to make a living from it, usually taking advantage of people who actually need real help. Whether they’re dissecting therapeutic communes, conversion therapy, or life coaches, all roads lead to grifting. Along the way, you’re always in for some history, cultural analysis, and humor.
If Books Could Kill
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You know those best-selling books—the ones that often promote miracle diets, pop psychology, pseudo-science, and reskinned versions of The Secret—sold at the airport that seem to take the country by storm, one book at a time? Michael Hobbes (original co-host of You’re Wrong About and co-host of Maintenance Phase) and Peter Shamshiri host If Books Could Kill, a podcast about those books and how they shape our culture and ruin our minds. (There is actually an entire episode dedicated to The Secret.) Together they point out the lack of citations, vague references, and fear-based marketing you find in every page. Episodes swing from hefty (the episode on Liberal Facism) to lighter and silly (there’s a great one on Who Moved My Cheese?).
The Dream
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Seasons one and two ofThe Dream are about multilevel marketing schemes and fraud in the wellness industry, but the show has since been turned into a weekly interview show. Its episodes now focus on a myriad of subjects, but they’re all generally about critiquing the people, industries, and concepts that make “the American Dream” unmanageable. Hosted by This American Life alum Jane Marie, episodes cover the MAHA movement, abortion bans, cults, divorce, and more. Jane Marie is a top-notch storyteller and interviewer—even episodes that feel heavy have a lightness to them.
5-4
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Hosted by Peter Routhier (If Books Could Kill), Rhiannon Brown, and Michael F. Vecchione,5-4provides a funny, liberal perspective on the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, often illustrating how much SCOTUS totally sucks. Always from a progressive point of view, each episode analyzes and discusses a single Supreme Court decision, providing an accessible and engaging way for listeners to learn about the high court’s biases surrounding hot-button issues like affirmative action, gun rights, and campaign finance. It clears the fog from our court system and clarifies how often the Supreme Court perpetuates unjust outcomes for marginalized groups.
Knowledge Fight
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Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes keep close tabs on Alex Jones so you don’t have to. Each week on Knowledge Fight they review recent clips from Jones’ Infowars programming and try to make sense of it all. They go deep (and some of the content is dark) but Dan and Jordan are funny enough to make it both a wild ride and an enjoyable listen. There’s no better way to learn about conspiracy theories than to study the people steeped in them, and this show is like Cliff’s Notes for the source of many of the wildest theories taking hold of America.
Maintenance Phase
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When Michael Hobbes left You’re Wrong About, he put his energy into Maintenance Phase, a show he co-hosts with Aubrey Gordon that explores and critiques popular health and wellness trends and products. With tons of notes and a lot of rage-laughter, Michael and Aubrey run through the the worst diets, exercise trends, supplements and beauty products, and “nutrition” books, and evaluate whether they are actually effective or if they are based on misleading or harmful information. (It’s almost always the latter.) If you hate the BMI, were led astray by the food pyramid in the ‘90s, or roll your eyes every time your friend goes on and on about their latest cleanse, you’ll appreciate their myth-busting efforts.
I Hate Bill Maher
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Comedian Will Weldon hates Bill Maher so much that he created an entire podcast about it. Every episode of his show, I Hate Bill Maher, is a takedown of Bill Maher in general, but specifically his TV show Real Time and his podcast Club Random, episode by episode. Will is dead set on pointing out some of the superficial, misogynistic, and transphobic things Bill has said, as well as how lazy some of his comedy can be. He’ll even dip back into old episodes of Real Time to prove how much Bill’s opinions have changed over the years. (Not much.) Some call it petty, some call it a public service. Listen to the Emma Arnold episode—Will interviews her about the time she got to tag along on Bill’s annual New Year trip to Hawaii.
The team at SISU Racing has just announced its first Grand Tour of 2025. Held on Saturdays and Tuesdays, it’s a 7-stage tour across the three weeks of the Men’s Giro d’Italia.
The series can be raced as an individual or a team, and features both an individual time trial in Bologna and a tough queen stage finish on the ZG25 Queen route. Read on for details!
It’s been eight years since Nintendo released its revolutionary hybrid console, and while many have spent the last couple of those itching for sequel hardware, it’s a good time to recall how Nintendo smashed expectations and continued to forge its own path in gaming, graphical fidelity be damned.
Whether it was its core conceit — a handheld and a TV-connected console — or Nintendo’s continued production line of hit games, which included arguably the best game of the decade, we have a lot to say. And let’s not forget the Switch came before the Steam Deck and the tidal wave of handheld gaming PCs that have appeared in recent years. Nintendo proved people would play triple-A games without being tethered to their TV.
We’ve pulled together some of the Engadget team’s reflections. I love to say “reflections”.
A judge’s ruling this week may have finally ended Apple’s anti-competitive app commissions.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple was using loopholes to circumvent her own ruling against the company from 2021. Companies are wasting no time streamlining payments outside of Apple’s walled garden, and Spotify is the latest to make these changes.
With the latest update available in the App Store, the Spotify app has added external links, so it can advertise lower prices and different tiers without giving nearly a third of its revenue generated back to Apple.
This could be a major change for the App Store ecosystem and Apple’s business if it comes into effect. Developers would no longer have to fork over 30 percent of iOS app revenue to Apple, which could cost the company billions. Spotify and Netflix are among the major companies that don’t allow users to sign up for a subscription through their iOS apps, due to the cut Apple takes.
Netflix has released a teaser trailer for the final season of Squid Game. It suggests that the games restart after a failed uprising led by the show’s protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, or Player 456.
In the teaser, Player 456 is brought back into a room full of players — inside a coffin. When he wakes up, the games resume, players are segregated into groups, mother and son are separated and, curiously, there’s a baby crying by the end of the teaser.
For the first time, Google is breaking out some Android updates into a separate event.
Google’s annual I/O developer conference is coming on May 20, but for the first time, there are two events. The classic I/O 2025 kicks off on May 20, and a week earlier, on May 13, there’s also The Android Show: I/O Edition, a dedicated showcase for, you guessed it, Android.
Google’s I/O keynote will be available to watch on Google’s YouTube channel and right here once the livestream is up on May 20 at 1PM ET. The Android Show: I/O Edition will also go up on Google’s Android YouTube channel on May 13 at 1PM ET — we’ve already embedded it above. Oh, and here’s what we’re expecting to see.
If you’re tired of scrolling through your Strava feed and manually giving kudos to your friends’ rides, Strava Kudo All is the Google Chrome plug-in for you.
This browser extension automatically drops kudos on the activities of all the people you’re following, meaning you can sit back and watch the support return almost transactionally to your latest ride.
The plug-in, created by Thomas Ciles, adds a button to Strava’s homepage titled ‘Kudo All’, which, when pressed, sends kudos to all activities on your feed from the previous 24 hours.
Strava Kudo All is labelled as Featured in Google’s Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome Web Store
It only works on the desktop version of Strava and therefore won’t be available on mobile devices.
Having downloaded Strava Kudo All to see how it worked, I was impressed by its simple functionality and the increased kudos I received after using it for only a couple of days.
The button is added to the top-right of your feed on Strava’s Dashboard. Strava
While some may say the plug-in goes against the ‘spirit of Strava’, there’s no denying its effectiveness, with kudos on my rides now given in greater volume and by a wider variety of people.
Google Chrome’s Web Store says there are 3,000 users of the plug-in, a small number compared to the millions signed up to Strava, meaning it’s highly likely the kudos you’re receiving is genuine support from your followers.
“Another year, yet another Hugo Awards-adjacent controversy?” writes Gizmodo’s Cheryl Eddy, reporting that three key organizers of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon resigned after backlash over the use of ChatGPT to vet program participants. From the report: In a post on Bluesky co-signed by Hugo administrator Nicholas Whyte, deputy Hugo administrator Esther MacCallum-Stewart, and World Science Fiction Society division head Cassidy, the trio announced they were resigning from their roles ahead of the Seattle event, which takes place in August. “We want to reaffirm that no LLMs or generative AI have been used in the Hugo Awards process at any stage,” the statement read in part, which might turn the heads of anyone who is a) interested in the Hugos, but b) not up on the latest controversy.
However, plenty of people in the community are well aware of what’s been going on. A quick journey to the blog File 770 will bring you up to speed, as will a visit to Seattle Worldcon 2025’s own site, which on April 30 shared a post clarifying exactly what role AI played in the upcoming event. […] However, as File 770 pointed out, the damage has apparently already been done: the use of ChatGPT in any capacity in connection to Worldcon created a furor on social media. It also inspired at least one Hugo nominee to remove their book from contention: Yoon Ha Lee, whose Moonstorm was named a Lodestar Award finalist, which honors YA releases. In a May 1 post on Bluesky, the author linked to the April 30 Worldcon blog post noted above, and noted he was withdrawing the title from consideration.
Then, in a post shared today responding to File 770’s latest post announcing the resignations, the author wrote âoeAll respect and I’m grateful to them for their work, sorry [things] came to this pass.” Seattle Worldcon 2025 takes place August 13-17; the Hugo Awards will be handed out August 16.
Canyon’s latest Sender downhill bike has a high-pivot idler-equipped rear suspension design and is the result of years of research.
Before the bike was available to the public, it had helped riders such as Troy Brosnan stand on the top step of the downhill World Cup podium.
While this proves the finished product is very good indeed, it’s how Canyon got to this point that’s interesting, though.
The warts-and-all development process of a bike can be filled with dead ends, red herrings and other unproductive quests.
However, Canyon built the ultimate prototype, which played its part in the success of the new Sender, leaving no stone unturned in the development process.
Troy Brosnan won the 2024 Mont-Sainte-Anne DH World Cup on the new Sender. Canyon Bikes
The final product is an affordable top-performing downhill bike.
With prices starting at €4,499 (CFR Underdog) and rising to €5,999 (CFR Team) for the top-flight model, podium-contending performance has never been more attainable.
Cue the Canyon Frankenbike
The Frankenbike looks ugly but serves a beautiful purpose. Canyon Bikes
Created by Canyon’s engineers – the cycling equivalent of Victor Frankenstein – the Sender test mule is as monstrous and all-encompassing as it looks.
Recognised internally as the ‘most advanced’ prototype Canyon has ever built, the Frankenbike was created to test every conceivable suspension and geometry permutation.
But to achieve such a feat, Canyon had to sacrifice the Frankenbike’s looks.
The Canyon Frankenbike is one of the most advanced prototypes out there. Canyon Bikes
It has more holes, pivot points, bolts, lugs and mounting options than you can imagine, to test each of the bike’s parameters without affecting the others.
That means testing one variable – whether that’s leverage rate, wheelbase, wheel size, anti-squat, anti-rise or anything else – without influencing anything else, is possible.
The Frankenbike enabled Canyon’s test riders and engineers to form their own opinions and ideas of each parameter based on real-world testing, rather than being led by assumptions or dirtied data.
Despite having looks only a mother could love, the Frankenbike is wonderfully functional. Canyon Bikes
Usually, they’d rely on compromised and muddied input, where each prototype bike is relatively fixed. If an iterative change – say, reducing the leverage rate or increasing chainstay length – is needed, a whole new frame will have to be made.
Visually, the Frankenbike is far from beautiful, but conceptually it’s one of the best things on the MTB scene.
Each suspension and geometry parameter can be adjusted independently. Canyon Bikes
And it’s also one of the reasons downhill racing is such an important discipline; innovation, technological advancements and leaps in engineering are all at the forefront of competition.
Leaving no stone unturned in the development process – because brands and racers want to win world cups – means the production bikes you can buy are only ever going to get better.
The production Canyon Sender
The production Sender has clean lines and a great aesthetic. Canyon Bikes
The result of all this research and development is one of the most refined, bang-up-to-date DH bikes on the market.
Canyon was able to quickly turn the best combinations of Frankenbike into rideable, almost production-looking prototypes thanks to 3D printing at its Koblenz HQ in Germany.
This means the final look, including smooth, clean lines – that Canyon was really picky about, and spent a good chunk of time getting right – is also loaded with plenty of tech.
High-pivot suspension tech
The chain idler gives you some idea just how high the main high pivot is. Canyon Bikes
Multiple DH world champion and World Cup winner Fabien Barel – who heads up the Canyon Factory race team – was on a mission to give the Sender the most traction possible.
Key to this is the high-pivot suspension design.
By moving the main pivot point on the single pivot, linkage-driven suspension, Canyon has given the new Sender a rearward axle path.
As the suspension compresses, the rear wheel moves in a rearward arc until the bike has compressed roughly 70 per cent into its travel.
The rear suspension is a single-pivot design, but there’s a linkage to adjust the leverage rate. Canyon Bikes
From uncompressed up to this point, it has roughly 24mm of rearward travel. From 70 per cent of its travel to bottom-out, the rear wheel then moves forwards by 5mm, finishing roughly 19mm further back from where it started.
By positioning the idler so the chain runs directly in line with the main pivot, Canyon has virtually eliminated pedal kickback and upper chain growth.
The latter is now down to 0.1mm in all gears, from roughly 27mm in total on the old model.
Pedal kickback has been reduced to 0.5 degrees, from 5.7 degrees on the outgoing bike.
Canyon claims this helps boost grip, reduce rider fatigue and create an ultra-sensitive suspension platform.
Canyon says ‘pushability’
The progressive leverage rate means the bike is best suited to coil shocks. Canyon Bikes
But that’s not all.
A term coined by Canyon, ‘pushability’ refers to how well the bike picks up speed from pumping and pushing compressions in the terrain.
Clearly, this is important for racing, where every millisecond counts.
Bikes with no chain growth or kickback and plush, rearward-arcing rear suspension can feel soggy and slow, but Canyon has tuned the Sender’s suspension curve to retain its pushability.
Here, the mid-stroke’s leverage rate is claimed to provide a platform for the rider to work the bike against. Combine it with a custom shock tune and the bike’s responsive rather than lethargic.
Every pivot uses easy-to-remove hardware. Canyon Bikes
The Sender also has two progression settings – a more linear 32.7 per cent and a more progressive 37 per cent, changed by a flip chip.
Coil shocks or high-volume air-spring versions are going to be the order of the day here.
Finally, it’s got an unusually high anti-rise figure, sitting around 130 per cent at sag.
This means when you brake, those braking forces are more likely to cause the suspension to compress rather than extend.
During the prototyping phase, Canyon said it broke no frames. Canyon Bikes
Critics of high anti-rise claim it can cause the suspension to ‘pack down’ (keep compressing into its travel on successive bumps without being able to return to sag or full travel), resulting in a rough ride.
Proponents think it helps better preserve the bike’s geometry. When you brake, your weight shifts forwards, unweighting the rear of the bike, extending the suspension and loading up the front.
If braking forces are compressing the suspension thanks to higher anti-squat, in theory some of that rear-suspension extension should be mitigated against, helping preserve its geometry.
The perfect geometry mix
The upper shock mount has a high/low flip chip to adjust the bottom bracket height by 5mm. Canyon Bikes
Available in four sizes – from small to extra-large – the new Sender’s geometry is evolutionary rather than revolutionary compared to the outgoing bike.
But what it lacks in revelations, it makes up for with adjustability.
There’s 8mm of reach adjustment thanks to the offset headset cups and 5mm of bottom-bracket height adjustment with a flip chip.
A reach-adjusting headset gives you more choice on frame size. Canyon Bikes
Standout figures include a 63-degree head tube angle and reach figures that span from 443mm (small, 0mm headset adjustment) up to 518mm (extra-large, 0mm headset adjustment).
The entire size range is built around mixed wheels – gone is the full 29er – and chainstay lengths stay at 438mm on all sizes.
Final details
A reach-adjusting headset and Canyon’s K.I.S. are both present. Canyon Bikes
Canyon’s K.I.S. (Keep It Stable) steering stabiliser is pre-installed on both models of Sender.
Canyon says it’s easier to remove than install, so wanted to give customers the option of trying it before removing it.
The rear end runs a 148mm-wide bespoke DT Swiss rear hub with wider spoke bracing.
Wider hub flanges, to give the wheel more strength, fit within the usual 148mm frame spacing. Canyon Bikes
Thanks to a narrower freehub body and wider spoke flanges, the 148mm hub shares its internal dimensions with the standard 157mm rear hubs usually found on DH bikes, while being thinner between the axle end caps.
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be
considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely
rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it.
Unlike the previous version that relied on word statistics and
older neural network techniques, AUTOSEL leverages modern large
language models and embedding technology to provide significantly
more accurate recommendations.
The UnoNet is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328PB, designed with the same form factor and pin layout as the Arduino Uno Rev 3. It integrates Ethernet via a W5500 controller and includes a USB Type-C port, RJ45 connector, DC barrel jack, ICSP header, and reset button. The ATmega328PB is clocked at 16 MHz […]
According to Valve insider Tyler McVicker, Half-Life 3 is finally playable from start to finish and could be announced this summer, with a release as soon as winter 2025. Engadget reports: Besides McVicker’s hours-long livestream, there have been other recent hints about Valve’s progress on its highly anticipated title. In March, Valve concept artist Evgeniy Evstratiy claimed that he was in the room where Valve made Half-Life 3 on CG Voices Podcast. In the same month, another Valve leaker, Gabe Follower, claimed that Half-Life 3 would be the “end of Gordon’s adventure,” potentially signaling a non-cliffhanger ending to one of gaming’s best franchises. Outside of these rumors, internet sleuths discovered code referencing HLX, which is widely thought to be the codename for Half-Life 3, in major updates to Deadlock and Dota 2.
FEX 2505 is out today as the newest version of this user-space software that enables running x86_64 binaries on ARM64/AArch64 Linux hosts with great speed that a number of games and applications are enjoying much success with this emulator…
The Open Document Format reached its 20th anniversary on May 1, marking two decades since OASIS approved the XML-based standard originally developed by Sun Microsystems from StarOffice code. Even as the format has seen adoption by several governments including the UK, India, and Brazil, plus organizations like NATO, Microsoft Office’s proprietary formats remain the de facto standard.
Microsoft countered ODF by developing Office Open XML, eventually getting it standardized through Ecma International. “ODF is much more than a technical specification: it is a symbol of freedom of choice, support for interoperability and protection of users from the commercial strategies of Big Tech,” said Eliane Domingos, Chair of the Document Foundation, which oversees LibreOffice — a fork created after Oracle acquired Sun.
Riot Games has reduced cheating in Valorant to under 1% of ranked games through its controversial kernel-level anti-cheat system Vanguard, according to the company’s anti-cheat director Phillip Koskinas. The system enforces Windows security features like Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot while preventing code execution in kernel memory.
Beyond technical measures, Riot deploys undercover operatives who have infiltrated cheat development communities for years. “We’ve even gone as far as giving anti-cheat information to establish credibility,” Koskinas told TechCrunch, describing how they target even “premium” cheats costing thousands of dollars.
Riot faces increasingly sophisticated threats, including direct memory access attacks using specialized PCI Express hardware and screen reader cheats that use separate computers to analyze gameplay and control mouse movements. To combat repeat offenders, Vanguard fingerprints cheaters’ hardware. Koskinas admits to deliberately slowing some enforcement: “To keep cheating dumb, we ban slower.” The team also employs psychological warfare, publicly discrediting cheat developers and trolling known cheaters to undermine their credibility in gaming communities.
Netflix has released its first teaser trailer for the final season of Squid Game. Based on the scenes the streaming service included in the video, the games will be restarted after a failed uprising led by the show’s protagonist Seong Gi-hun, or Player 456. While Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger, it hinted strongly that the rebellion will fail to end the games right then and there.
In the teaser, Player 456 could be seen being brought back into a room full of players inside a coffin. And after he wakes up, the games resume, players are segregated into groups, mother and son are separated and, curiously, a baby could be heard crying by the end of the teaser. We also get glimpses of Jun-ho as he searches for the island where the games are being held and his brother In-ho, who resumes his role as the games’ Front Man after pretending to be a player in the previous season.
Squid Game is a Korean survival thriller with themes revolving around class struggle and social inequality. In the story, ordinary people, often buried in debts and desperate to earn money, are locked in a facility where they’re forced to play games. Only one person wins the pot of money players collectively earn by winning games. Everybody else? Well, they die. Seong Gi-hun, the first season’s winner, chose to come back for another round in order to dismantle the organization running the games, and the third season will show the culmination of his efforts. Squid Game season 3 arrives on Netflix on June 27.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The European Union launched a drive on Monday to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans, after the Trump administration froze U.S. government funding linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. “A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at the “Choose Europe for Science” event in Paris. “No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,” Macron said. “But here we are.”
Taking the same stage at the Sorbonne University, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU’s executive branch would set up a “super grant” program aimed at offering “a longer-term perspective to the very best” in the field. She said that 500 million euros ($566 million) will be put forward in 2025-2027 “to make Europe a magnet for researchers.” It would be injected into the European Research Council, which already has a budget of more than 16 billion euros ($18 billion) for 2021-2027.
Von der Leyen said that the 27-nation EU intends “to enshrine freedom of scientific research into law” with a new legal act. As “the threats rise across the world, Europe will not compromise on its principles,” she said. Macron said that the French government would also soon make new proposals to beef up investment in science and research. […] While not mentioning the Trump administration by name, von der Leyen said that it was “a gigantic miscalculation” to undermine free and open research. “We can all agree that science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party,” she said. “We believe that diversity is an asset of humanity and the lifeblood of science. It is one of the most valuable global assets and it must be protected.”
Macron said that science and research must not “be based on the diktats of the few.”
Macron said that Europe “must become a refuge” for scientists and researchers, and he said to those who feel under threat elsewhere: “The message is simple. If you like freedom, come and help us to remain free, to do research here, to help us become better, to invest in our future.”
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