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How Big Oil Wrecked Your Summer

I love the summer. Growing up, it meant family vacations, beach days, block parties—really, what’s not to like? But for millions of Americans, the meaning of summer has been shifting. In many parts of the country, excitement for the upcoming season has turned into anxiety over the weather events—the extreme heat, hurricanes, drought, and wildfires—that have increasingly defined our summers in…

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Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This chip was highly influential, and today most processors use the floating-point standard introduced by the 8087.

The 8087 uses complicated algorithms to accurately compute functions such as square roots, tangents, and exponentials. These algorithms are implemented…

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Trump’s Pirate Pretensions Reveal an Ugly Truth

Back on May 1, at an event in West Palm Beach, President Donald Trump quipped that the U.S. Navy was acting “like pirates” while seizing ships as part of the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “We took over the ship, we took over the cargo, we took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” Trump bragged. “We’re like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates, but we are not playing…

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China closely watching Strait of Hormuz’s closure, Foreign interference roils Slovenia’s election, Ukraine lends drone defense to the Gulf

China wants the Iran conflict to end – but could it still benefit?

Given that China is the world’s top oil importer, and oil prices continued to surge this week as energy facilities in the Middle East were struck, it’s no surprise that Beijing again called for an end to the Iran conflict on Friday. That doesn’t mean that the CCP won’t gain anything from this war. First, the US is…

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Global security order shifting rapidly, UN chief warns

• Notes human rights are under a ‘full-scale attack’ worldwide
• Highlights blatant violations in occupied Palestinian territory, warning that two-state solution is being undermined
• UN rights chief Volker Turk says domination and supremacy are resurfacing globally

GENEVA: The United Nations Secretary General on Monday called for a renewed international security architecture in response to…

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Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficiency” from right-wing forces of privatization and austerity.


Zohran Mamdani has frequently expressed his frustration with the Left’s tendency to cede concerns about government waste and…

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