MarketWatch

Store loyalty programs are taking your personal data and may use it to charge you more. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Open-Sources PostgreSQL Extension for In-Database Durable Execution

Recently open-sourced by Microsoft, pg_durable is a PostgreSQL extension that enables durable workflows to run natively inside the database, eliminating the need for external orchestration systems.
YouTube on MSN

I learned SQL in 15 minutes! Here's how

Learn SQL basics in just 15 minutes with this tutorial focused on using SQL with MySQL. Topics covered include: - What SQL is ...

New Research: SQL Rivals Python as America’s Most In-Demand Programming Language – and It’s Needed Far Beyond Silicon Valley

Coding skills are increasingly mentioned across job ads in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors.Vilnius, ...
The Atlantic

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...
BroadwayWorld

Write Out Loud Will Host Three Programs Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary

On the occasion of the Semiquincentennial (250 Years) of the United States of America, Write Out Loud will join the celebration, bringing three programs to the San Diego region that highlight the ...
WLRN

Writing a way out: Two programs open doors for incarcerated voices

PEN America has been promoting literature and freedom of expression for over a century. Late last year, the U.S.-based organization launched a new program to help incarcerated writers across the ...
The New Yorker

Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...
9to5google

Google’s interactive world builder, Project Genie, will drop you in real places using Street View

Google just announced its world-exploring game, Project Genie, is getting a new feature that drops you in real-world locations, like your own street. Project Genie rolled out at the beginning of this ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...