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"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
You have a checkout flow. You have 40 tests. They're green. Now: what happens when a payment webhook arrives after the user cancels? What happens when a retry lands on a session that already expired? What happens on the fourth failed attempt when autoRenew is off and the period boundary has already passed?
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay start by discussing the new logo, the executive urge to redesign everything all the time, and whether new is always better. After that, they get i
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301260 Points: 427 # Comments: 339
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 reaches its end of extended support on July 14, 2026. If you run it on Amazon RDS for SQL Server with user-defined CLR assemblies, you must replace them before you upgrade, because CLR is not supported on SQL Server 2017 and later. This post shows you how to find your CLR dependencies and compares four replacement strategies.
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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible SynthID watermarks
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
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