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Markdown has limitations for technical content due to its lack of structure and semantic markup. While Markdown is easy to use, its implicit typing and inconsistent flavors make content reuse, machine consumption, and scalability harder. Alternatives like reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, DocBook, and DITA have improved content structure and transformation capabilities.

How we uncovered a device fingerprinting exploit on cytooxien.net and more

Google will kill XSLT by 2027

Google setzt bei Bundesliga und Champions League auf KI-generierte Liveticker. Das Ergebnis gehört vom Platz gestellt.

System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store.

Die Verunsicherung bei Online-Medienmachern ist groß: KI-Zusammenfassungen in der Google-Suche und Tools wie ChatGPT sorgen für Trafficverluste. Gleichzeitig führen die vielen Austritte aus der Online-IVW dazu, dass es schwerer wird, Traffic-Entwicklungen nachvollziehen zu können. MEEDIA hat sich daher entschlossen, mit Hilfe der Messungen und Hochrechnungen von Similarweb ab sofort monatliche Analysen und Rankings für den deutschen Markt zu liefern. Schon in der Premierenausgabe findet sich so mancher spannender Trend.

What the fuck happened to making HTTP requests?

Global database of data centers, covering colocation, cloud and connectivity in data centers worldwide.

This article warns of a dramatic decline in software reliability, highlighting incidents like massive memory leaks and catastrophic AI errors. It argues that industry practices have normalized shipping broken code, leading to exponential degradation, immense energy consumption, and a looming hardware crisis. The piece criticizes the focus on infrastructure spending over fundamental quality, warns about the erosion of future developer talent due to AI replacing junior roles, and urges a return to core engineering principles to ensure sustainable software development.

If you are dealing with text in a computer, you need to know about encodings. Period. Yes, even if you are just sending emails. Even if you are just receiving emails. You don't need to understand every last detail, but you must at least know what this whole "encoding" thing is about. And the good news first: while the topic can get messy and confusing, the basic idea is really, really simple.