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• Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma — Competition probes in the EU and UK made regulatory approval dicey.
• U.S. Government Officials Reportedly Want DOJ To Investigate Apple For Its Anti-Competitive Behavior Against Beeper Mini Over iMessage — Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud are still inaccessible for 60 percent of Android users, with Apple trying its best to prevent access to iMessage servers
• The Coder Robe — Look and feel comfortable, life is better in a robe.
• Unreal Engine 5: everything you need to know — Unreal Engine 5 is the real-time creation platform that has it all for game development, visualisation, and VFX.
• A Fan Used Unreal Engine 5 To Make A ‘Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’ Studio Ghibli Movie And It’s Amazing — The second half of the video switches from animated movie to third-person perspective video game, and I’m left thinking “I really want this game, with these incredible cut-scenes.”
• Red Dead Redemption Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the remaster look like poop — Thankfully a devoted fan has taken matters into their own hands by creating a concept for the original Red Dead Redemption remake on Unreal Engine 5.
• Unreal Engine 5's next big RPG is Elden Ring meets Assassin's Creed
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• New Xbox Unlikely as Microsoft Gaming Chief Doesn't Feel Need for Upgrade — “That’s not the feedback we’re getting right now,”
• Stephen Totilo on Twitter — At a behind-closed-doors presentation to press, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says gaming revenue for the company is double what it was in the 360 era, says Xbox has more players than ever, expecting more than $1 billion in PC gaming revenue this year
• Apple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac — Developers interested in porting Windows games to the Mac can watch Apple's series of "bring your game to Mac" videos for more details. Apple also has a page on its website outlining various gaming technologies and tools available for developers.
• Whisky — Whisky provides a clean and easy to use graphical wrapper for Wine built in native SwiftUI. You can make and manage bottles, install and run Windows apps and games, and unlock the full potential of your Mac with no technical knowledge required.
• Coder Radio: Bite of the AR Apple | CR 276 — Wes joins Mike to chat all things Apple. We discuss the surprising implications of the iPhone X, including the challenges of its new special shape & the exciting possibilities of ARKit.
• Cheaper Apple Vision Headset Likely to Launch by End of 2025 — Apple still plans to launch a more affordable version of its Vision Pro headset by the end of 2025, with the non-Pro model likely to be called "Apple Vision One," or more simply, "Apple Vision," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• Apple Executive Discusses New Mac Pro's Lack of Graphics Card Support — "Fundamentally, we've built our architecture around this shared memory model and that optimization, and so it's not entirely clear to me how you'd bring in another GPU and do so in a way that is optimized for our systems," Ternus told Gruber. "It hasn't been a direction that we wanted to pursue."
• Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO — Fallout from the unpopular API pricing change and disastrous AMA with CEO Steve Huffman is turning out the lights on some of Reddit’s most prominent communities.
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• Sebastiaan de With on Twitter — Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remakes from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership? Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months.
• Paul Hudson on Twitter — Apologies for the interruption on r/swift, but Reddit needs a change in management. See https://reddark.untone.uk for the huge number of other subreddits going dark in support of @ChristianSelig 💪
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Plus some Qt license clarity, a handy new Rust feature, and your feedback.

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• Feedback: ChromeOS vs Windows
• Feedback: Hardware Coverage
• Complying with the Requirements of the GPL/LGPL v3 License — With the discontinuation of our continued support for Qt 5.6 also ends our support for the last Qt version licensed under LGPL v2.1. Moving forward, versions 5.7 and beyond will be subject to LGPL v3. This webinar is a great opportunity to gain a better understanding of the differences in rights and obligations between the two licensing versions.
• Rust Pinning — The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.33.0. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Regularized Programming with the BOSQUE Language — We believe that, just as structured programming did years ago, this regularized programming model will lead to massively improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a second golden age of developments in compilers and developer tooling.
• All That You Need to Know About Microsoft's New Programming Language: Bosque — The Bosque programming language is a Microsoft Research project that is investigating language designs for writing code that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines
• Bosque Language Overview
• Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
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• git-secrets — Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories.
• git-hound — Hound is a Git plugin that helps prevent sensitive data from being committed into a repository by sniffing potential commits against PCRE regular expressions.
• truffleHog — Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.

Plus the battle against the Cult of Swift gains new allies.

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• Marco Arment on Twitter — Add up all of the time you’ve spent learning Swift from scratch, accommodating its strictness, fighting its buggy tools, migrating your code through language changes, and re-learning APIs and conventions as they’ve changed over the last 5 years. I’ve spent zero time doing that.
• A Swift Takes Flight on Windows — I have finally managed to get the compiler, the support libraries, the runtime, standard library, libdispatch, and now, Foundation to build and run on Windows!
• Apple Plans to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas in Fight Against Patent Trolls — To continue to serve the region, Apple plans to open a new store at the Galleria Dallas shopping mall in Dallas, just outside the Eastern District of Texas border.
• Linux Academy - Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote) — Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• What is Serverless? — Serverless computing (or serverless for short), is an execution model where the cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) is responsible for executing a piece of code by dynamically allocating the resources.
• Serverless Architectures - Martin Fowler — Serverless architectures are application designs that incorporate third-party “Backend as a Service” (BaaS) services, and/or that include custom code run in managed, ephemeral containers on a “Functions as a Service” (FaaS) platform.
• Serverless Architectures at AWS — A serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure.