Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Intel, the only American company capable of making advanced chips on U.S. soil, said in a press release that the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company. Intel […]

Bruno Brito (release notes): This update allows you to create custom Git workflows, enabling you to define and enforce the exact workflow that meets your project’s needs.[…]The first step is to define your core branches, i.e., your “trunk” (e.g., main, master) and “base” (e.g., develop, dev) branches so that you can establish the foundational structure […]

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Enjoy staggering performance improvements. Every last part of the app has been thoroughly tuned: Retcon is now incredibly responsive, and easily handles Git histories with hundreds of thousands of commits. No compromise was made to reach these speeds: Retcon still transparently preserves your working directory and stage, offers pervasive undo, a combined stage, […]

Mattt Thompson: In 2014, researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research proposed a radical idea: What if uncertainty were encoded directly into the type system? Their paper, Uncertain<T>: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data introduced a probabilistic programming approach that’s both mathematically rigorous and surprisingly practical. As you’d expect for something from Microsoft […]

Victoria Bampton on 14.3 (Adobe): A new mask selection tool is introduced for Landscape. It works much like the Select People tool, using AI to read the scene and select specific elements[…] […] In the Develop and Photo Merge dialogs, transparency now shows as a checkerboard pattern (just like in Photoshop), making it easier to […]