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In Maine, Sara Gideon prevailed over limited competition in the Democratic primary for Senate and will face Susan Collins in a race that has become the priciest Senate campaign in the state’s history.

The president spoke in the Rose Garden for 63 minutes. He spent only six of those minutes answering questions from reporters.

The president rejected the fact that Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality and made startling remarks about the Confederate flag and a recent confrontation in St. Louis.

The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the C.D.C. with key virus data. Critics are sounding alarm bells.

He beat back tears. He said he let his family down. He declared of politics, “This chapter of my life is closed.” But he would not criticize his former boss, and even said President Trump could win in November.

Ms. Gideon, backed by the Senate Democratic campaign arm and outside political groups, had long been the favorite to challenge Senator Collins, the sole remaining New England Republican in Congress.

Dr. Jackson, a Republican who was backed by President Trump and based his campaign around their close relationship, effectively stamped his ticket to Congress in a deep-red district.

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The speculation that Alibaba’s fintech affiliate Ant Group will go public has been swirling around for years. New details came to light recently. Reuters reported last week that the fintech giant could float as soon as this year in an initial public offering that values it at $200 billion. As a private firm, details of […]

The e-reader category was exciting once — or at least as exciting as one could hope from such a space. It was a vibrant category, with plenty of key players, each looking to outdo one another. But as is the case with a depressing number of verticals, Amazon has largely wiped the floor with the […]

Adam Neumann, the controversial co-founder and former CEO of WeWork, has taken a 33% equity stake in GoTo Global, a shared mobility company that operates in Israel and Malta and aims to expand into Europe later this year. Neumann’s family office, 166 2nd Financial Services, invested $10 million into GoTo Global, as part of a […]

Lawmakers in Texas just gave Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk another incentive to locate its next factory there. Commissioners in Travis County, home to Austin and the possible next Tesla factory, approved Tuesday property tax breaks worth at least $14.7 million — and potentially more — over 10 years. The incentives are on top […]

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

VidMob, which started out as a marketplace connecting marketers and video editors, now bills itself as a “creative technology platform.” Now there’s a “creator network” that’s part of a broader suite of tools for managing video production and turning those videos into online ads. And the company has continued to evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

TechCrunch launches a major new initiative, Amazon tests a smart shopping cart and ICE backs down from its controversial student visa rule change. Here’s your Daily Crunch for July 14, 2020. The big story: Behold, The TechCrunch List Back in June we published a story with the rather grandiose headline “How we’re rebuilding the VC […]

What did you do this week? I started a new PR that adds multimethods for mathematical functions. The multimethods that were added are the following: Trigonometric functions degrees radians unwrap Rounding around (and its aliase round_) fix Sums, products, differences cumprod cumsum nancumprod nancumsum ediff1d cross trapz Other special functions i0 sinc Arithmetic operations float_power Handling complex numbers angle real imag conjugate Miscellaneous convolve clip nan_to_num real_if_close interp I've also concluded the PR on array manipulation routines from previous weeks which still had some unresolved issues. It turns out that this week's work was mostly spent patching up the previous PR and less working on the new one unfortunately. This ended up delaying the new PR a bit but since the new one already added quite a few multimethods the schedule is unaffected. What is coming up next? Continuing the new PR by adding default implementations to the appropriate multimethods and starting a new PR that adds multimethods for functional programming routines. I already did some offline prototyping of default implementations for mathematical functions, the more easy ones at least. The more difficult ones (e.g., unwrap, convolve and interp) should be the focus of that part of next week's work. Did you get stuck anywhere? There were no major blocks this week. The only issue was the somewhat precedence that the older PR had which prevented the newer one to advance. For example, both PRs had failing tests in the XND backend so this backend was removed (the project is not maintained anymore) in the older PR. Since this has now been merged the newer PR can now receive those changes that fix its failing tests.

Hello everyone So we are into Week #7 now. In the last week, we were done with integrating query functions and I had mentioned that next I would be working on BAM serialization. So yes, BAM serialization took me some time to get the feel of, though finally I was able to implement in successfully with the help of mentors. BAM serialization gives the users and game developers ability to save the generated navmesh in their hard disk and load it from there whenever required. This can be really helpful in games as a lot of time and computational power required to generate navmesh will be saved and hence the games would load faster. So, as for this week, this was the major development done.  Where did I get stuck? Well, BAM serialization was a totally new concept for me and hence I was stuck in the process of understanding it. Once I understood the concept and how the functions implement it, then it was quite easy to code, though there were moments i got stuck while compiling after implementing BAM serialization. Mentors rescued me there. XD For next week, I have few things on card: Writing Test Files for BAM, sample code and making more user friendly functions so that users do not have to dig deep into objects to use basic API functions. After that, a few more changes as per the PR review. See you next week :)  Stay Safe

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#429 – JULY 14, 2020 View in Browser » The (Non-)Return of the Python Print Statement Guido van Rossum recently proposed re-introducing the Python print statement. He was completely serious and even though the idea didn’t gain traction, it’s interesting to know why he made the proposal. JAKE EDGE Grow Your Python Portfolio With 13 Intermediate Project Ideas Get started on 13 Python project ideas that are just right for intermediate Python developers. They’ll challenge you enough to help you become a better Pythonista but will still be doable! REAL PYTHON course Scout APM Now Available for Python! Find Performance Issues Fast Scout’s intuitive UI helps you quickly track down issues so you can get back to building your product. Rest easy knowing that Scout is tracking performance and hunting down issues before they affect customer experience. 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We would like to remind you how you can configure your tickets and profiles, so that we get the right information for on-boarding you on our Discord server in the coming days and your communication preferences.This is especially important in case you bought tickets for other people. Without having the registered on our website and assigned a ticket, we cannot on-board them to our Discord server.Log in to the websiteThe first step to administer your tickets and account is to log in to the website. If you don’t have an account yet, you can register easily using email and password or Google authentication.Please avoid creating multiple accounts, since this can easily cause confusion and merging accounts is currently not possible.Assigning tickets to other peopleIf you are the buyer of the tickets, you can now assign the tickets to other people, e.g. in your company.In order to assign tickets, the people you want to assign them to need to have an account on our system. Please tell them to register with the EuroPython website and provide you with the email address they use to register.Once they have registered and you have the email address they used, you can then go to the ticket section and reassign the ticket:Click on “Assign ticket” and then enter the email address of the person to assign the ticket to:Clicking save will then transfer the ticket to the new user.Configuring your ticketIf you have bought a ticket or have been assigned a ticket, please check the configuration of the ticket. This will take you to a form where you can find the name as we will need it for the Discord registration, expected days of attendance and a (funny) tagline to put on the badge.Printing your invoiceIf you have bought tickets on the website, you will find the invoices for the tickets on your account page as well:You can download the invoice in PDF format, print and save it to your records.Configuring your EuroPython accountThe website also provides a couple of other dialogs which allow you to configure your account:The “Profile settings” allow you to edit the profile shown on the website. This is especially important for speakers, since their profiles will be public and associated with their presentations.The “Privacy settings” dialog allows you to opt-in to recruiting emails from our sponsors (among other things):If you happen to be looking for a new job or freelance opportunity, this is a good way to get more information from sponsors who will present in our recruiting session. Enjoy,–EuroPython 2020 Teamhttps://ep2020.europython.eu/https://www.europython-society.org/

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Joomla 3.9.20 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains over 25 bug fixes and improvements.

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The PHP team is pleased to announce the second testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Alpha 2. This continues the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 2 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be Alpha 3, planned for 23 Jul 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the first testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Alpha 1. This starts the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 1 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be Alpha 2, planned for 9 Jul 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.7. This release is a bug fix release.All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.4.7 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.19. This is a bug fix release.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.19 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.31. This is a security release.All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.2.31 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.18 This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.18 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.6. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.4.6 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

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More than two thousand sites using Extended Validation certificates stopped working this weekend and remain inaccessible today (Monday), including those run by banks, governments, and online shops. The EV certificates used by these sites were revoked on Saturday, and have yet to be replaced. Most visitors using modern web browsers are completely locked out: this certificate error cannot be bypassed in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge. Chrome’s unbypassable revoked certificate interstitial on online.anz.com. ANZ is one of the"big four" Australian banks. Last week, DigiCert disclosed a reporting discrepancy in its audit for EV certificates. As part of its response, DigiCert committed to revoking the certificates, which it intends to complete over the coming weeks. Only a subset of DigiCert’s EV certificates are affected: in the July SSL Server Survey, Netcraft found 17,200 EV certificates in active use on port 443 that are due to be revoked. The first batch of revocations happened this weekend. While most of the certificates revoked on Saturday 11th July have been correctly replaced and reinstalled, many have not. On Monday morning, Netcraft found 3,800 sites still using EV certificates issued by the affected sub-CAs. Of these 3,800, more than 2,300 were still using a revoked EV certificate, completely disabling the sites for users in modern browsers, which handle EV revocation more robustly than other types of certificate. The remainder are yet to be revoked. Many organisations appear to have been caught unawares, continuing to use revoked EV certificates, including The State Bank of India, Rackspace, Authorize.net, ANZ Bank, and Telegram. Authorize.net using a revoked EV certificate The New Zealand government using a revoked EV certificate Wirecard, the beleaguered German payment processor, briefly had its main site, www.wirecard.com, displaying a certificate warning early on Monday, but the certificate has since been replaced with a working non-EV certificate. There are still a number of Wirecard domains with revoked certificate warnings.

The current coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the closure of many pubs, restaurants, and brick-and-mortar retail stores. Many purchases that would previously have been made in person now take place online. In research commissioned by Visa, 89% of Britons have shopped online since the UK’s lockdown restrictions began, with 31% buying items online for the first time during this period. This increase in online shopping activity benefits criminal groups in that: smaller businesses newly reliant on online transactions provide attackers with a stream of inadequately-defended shopping sites to exploit, and buyers are far more likely to be driven to these compromised shops or to fake shops compared to before the pandemic. JavaScript skimmers run on compromised shopping sites. When shoppers enter their payment details, the skimmer secretly sends a copy to the attacker - potentially even if the customer does not complete the transaction. Even the most careful of users can be victims of these attacks, as they appear on compromised but otherwise well-intentioned shops with no visual indication of their presence. Fake shops are another threat. Shoppers seeking bargains may unknowingly find themselves on a fake shop which claims to offers the products they want at a highly discounted price, but the victim will subsequently only receive counterfeit goods, no goods at all, or have the transaction aborted after entering credentials which is equivalent to a phishing attack. Fake shops also take advantage of the pandemic by offering goods in high demand due to coronavirus, such as N95 masks. The FBI has released a Public Service Announcement about an increase in online shopping scams involving the sale of counterfeit healthcare products such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). To date, Netcraft has blocked over a thousand such coronavirus-themed fake shops, 80,000 other fake shops selling all sorts of counterfeit goods, and around 3,500 compromised shops hosting JavaScript skimmers. The Netcraft browser extension and mobile apps provide protection against fake shops as well as legitimate shopping sites that have been compromised with JavaScript skimmers. When an extension or app user visits one of these dangerous shops, Netcraft will block access to the shop and alert them: Visiting a fake shop without the Netcraft extension Visiting a fake shop with the Netcraft extension

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.238 0.004 0.020 0.020 2 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.314 0.070 0.141 0.141 3 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.234 0.085 0.169 0.169 4 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.348 0.096 0.192 0.192 5 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.273 0.088 0.175 0.175 6 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.466 0.013 0.029 0.030 7 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.176 0.075 0.150 0.150 8 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.239 0.082 0.164 0.164 9 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.304 0.094 0.188 0.188 10 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.015 0.239 0.077 0.155 0.155 See full table The most reliable hosting company site in June 2020 belonged to Choopa.com, with no failed requests and the fastest average connection time. Choopa.com offers cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as smaller facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. The top four sites each responded to all of Netcraft's requests in June and were separated by average connection time. Webair, ServerStack and Pair Networks complete the top four. Webair provides colocation as well as managed cloud services from its data centres in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Amsterdam. ServerStack has now appeared in the top 10 for the past five consecutive months.

Online shopping has surged since lockdown started in March. Many of us, looking to be healthier, have headed online for sports equipment and a number of sportswear retailers have reported booming online sales. John Lewis recorded a 72% increase in total sports shoe sales, while Adidas and Puma have both seen an increase in ecommerce revenue. Shoppers browsing online for the best deals, however, need to take care, as many people would be surprised at the scale of fake shops. Each day we find new fake shops designed to entice shoppers away from bona fide outlets, as many brands have yet to find effective countermeasures. Counterfeit shoes, clothing and other accessories are estimated to lose the industry more than €26 billion each year in the EU alone, while the loss due to all online counterfeiting is estimated at $323 billion a year. The OECD estimated that over 3% of all imports worldwide are counterfeit. Traditionally fake shops claim to sell luxury consumer goods at highly discounted prices. We have seen fake shops using at least three different models: Payment is accepted, but no goods are delivered. At the end of the checkout process, an error message is displayed such as “Out of Stock” and no transaction occurs. This is equivalent to a phishing attack, as the fake shop has the consumer’s credentials. Payment is accepted, and goods are delivered. The quality of goods varies between junk and identical to the bona fide item. Trainers are the most counterfeited goods We currently block around 75,000 fake shops in our extension and apps. Of these, roughly half target a specific brand, such as Nike or Adidas. About 70% of the fake shops selling branded goods sell shoes, predominantly trainers. Corroborating this, European customs authorities handle more cases of counterfeit sports shoes than any other type of product. Fake shops by type of goods sold

In the June 2020 survey we received responses from 1,224,760,416 sites across 262,406,750 unique domains and 10,042,047 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 1.21 million domains and 149,000 computers, but a loss of 13.3 million sites. Microsoft lost the largest number of sites – more than 20 million – taking its total down by 13% to 135 million. This has decreased its market share by 1.51 percentage points to 11.0%. Apache also suffered a sizable loss of 10.7 million sites, decreasing its total to 304 million and taking its share down by 0.60 points to 24.8%. nginx continues to lead with a total of 449 million sites, an increase of 2.95 million since last month. Coupled with the other major vendors' losses, this has increased nginx's market share by 0.63 points to 36.6%. nginx also showed the largest computer growth, with 115,000 more computers taking its total up to 3.35 million and putting it only 76,000 computers away from Apache's leading total. While nginx looks set to soon become the largest vendor in terms of computers – possibly even by next month – celebrations by F5 Networks are likely to be marred by the latest developments in the dispute over the ownership of the nginx web server source code: it is now being sued by Lynwood Investments, who claim it owns the software. The latest move comes after police raids on the offices of nginx and the home of one of its co-founders, Igor Sysoev, in December 2019. Russian search engine and e-commerce service provider, Rambler, alleged the webserver was developed while Igor Sysoev was a Rambler employee. Rambler transferred the rights to pursue the dispute to Lynwood Investments. Meanwhile, nginx has also extended its recent new lead in the domains metric, with it now being used to host sites across 1.82 million more domains than last month. Google was the only major vendor to gain active sites this month – a 2.12% increase to 19.3 million – and LiteSpeed was the only one to increase its presence among the top million websites, where it now has a share of 1.92%. New vendor releases nginx 1.19.0 mainline was announced on 26 May. This first release in the 1.19.* stream adds client certificate validation with OCSP, as well as a few bug fixes. The latest stable version is still 1.18.0, which was released in April. The difference between these two release streams is that the mainline branch is where new features are added, while the stable branches receive only security and bug fixes. This gives the stable releases a fixed feature set, which increases compatibility with third-party modules. DeveloperMay 2020PercentJune 2020PercentChange nginx445,724,55036.00%448,673,48736.63%0.63 Apache315,019,26225.45%304,288,40524.84%-0.60 Microsoft155,042,31112.52%134,874,92811.01%-1.51 Google44,304,8673.58%43,449,2403.55%-0.03

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.000 0.208 0.083 0.165 0.165 2 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.237 0.090 0.179 0.179 3 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.281 0.073 0.147 0.147 4 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.201 0.086 0.171 0.171 5 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.203 0.004 0.021 0.021 6 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.139 0.074 0.148 0.148 7 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.280 0.080 0.163 0.163 8 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.371 0.006 0.033 0.035 9 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.430 0.013 0.027 0.028 10 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.320 0.101 0.201 0.201 See full table In May 2020 EveryCity had the most reliable hosting company site, responding to all of Netcraft's requests with an average connection time of 83ms. For the past nine months EveryCity has appeared in the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites. EveryCity offers cloud hosting solutions and managed third-party services, with its primary data centre located in the heart of London.

In the May 2020 survey we received responses from 1,238,024,212 sites across 261,192,350 unique domains and 9,892,834 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 224,000 computers and 1.10 million domains, but a loss of 8.10 million sites. nginx lost the greatest number of sites, with 14.2 million fewer than in April, but conversely had by far the greatest increases in unique domain names (+1.50 million, +2.02%), and web-facing computers (+137,000, +4.43%) this month. OpenResty, which is based on nginx, also saw a large 237,000 domain count increase to reach 7.15 million – the second largest increase in domains for any vendor this month. Apache had losses in most metrics, dropping 244,000 domains. It did, however, come away with 6.88 million more sites and 45,000 more computers this month than last. Apache still leads in the active sites, computers, and top one million sites metrics. Microsoft lost out on all metrics this month, dropping by 5.08 million sites and 175,000 unique domains. Both Apache and Microsoft have been on slow long-term downward trends in most metrics. Although they have both increased their count of web-facing computers over time, nginx has seen much stronger growth in comparison. Despite running on a 17.9% share of domain names and 16.4% share of computers, Microsoft holds a much smaller 4.72% share of active sites. LiteSpeed currently serves 4.20 million domains, giving it a 1.61% market share. It has a slightly higher 1.88% share amongst the top one million sites. LiteSpeed has seen consistent growth, and has had a 23.3% domain count growth over the last 12 months. Vendor News Nginx released a new stable version of the nginx web server. nginx version 1.18.0 incorporates additional features which have been introduced in the mainline 1.17.x nginx versions over time. Nginx also released version 1.17.0 of the Nginx Unit application server. LiteSpeed released new 1.6.13 and 1.7.1 versions of their OpenLiteSpeed web server, introducing bug fixes, security features, updates from their LSQUIC library, CentOS 8 support, and more. DeveloperApril 2020PercentMay 2020PercentChange nginx459,886,78836.91%445,724,55036.00%-0.90 Apache308,143,70824.73%315,019,26225.45%0.72 Microsoft160,121,86512.85%155,042,31112.52%-0.33 Google42,648,7483.42%44,304,8673.58%0.16

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