Comment on this story Comment Elon Musk said Twitter will launch a verification feature with multicolored check marks, just weeks after the botched rollout of its paid-for blue check model, which had to be scuttled when impersonation accounts ran rampant. Musk tweeted Friday that “Verified” will launch in a week, […]
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Swift language plans for 2023 emphasize concurrency and generics
Swift’s plans for 2023 were cited in a Swift.org blog post on November 18. A newly formed language working group is emphasizing progress in concurrency to complete Swift’s support for strict data isolation provided by Sendable and actors. Plans include closing thread-safety holes, such as those around global variables and […]
Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland • The Register
Russia’s most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local interests. Yandex is a sprawling conglomerate often characterized as Russia’s Google. It started as a search company, then moved into advertising, maps, e-commerce, […]