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Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron pledged "united leadership in support of Ukraine" ahead of their separate meetings with Donald Trump.

They rejected negotiations without Ukraine, amid news that Russia and the US began discussing an end to the war without Kyiv’s input.

Trump is pressuring Ukraine to sign a $500bn minerals deal, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared he would step down if it secured peace or NATO membership.

The UK is preparing to raise defence spending, while new measures target individuals aiding Russia.

Neut is a functional programming language with static memory management.

Its key features include:

• Full λ-calculus support
• Predictable automatic memory management
• The absence of annotations to the type system when achieving both of the above

Neut doesn't use GCs or regions. Instead, it takes a type-directed approach to handle resources.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Maniak-Of_Copy on 2025-02-23 21:03:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Bean_Tiger on 2025-02-23 19:31:02+00:00.

Like there's video AI to enhance video, but podcasts have so many bad connections with guests it's horrible to listen to. They need to run out through an audio AI.

(Don't even get me started on asking the President questions when the fucking helicopter is in the background. Who tf can hear anything?)

They even have a page for Active Robots Exploring Space!

My contribution, winter camping really is fun!

PUBG creator Brendan Green's long-term goal is Project Artemis, an "Earth-scale" open-world sandbox. If you're a fan of No Man's Sky, that might sound a bit familiar. After all, its developer, Hello Games, is currently working on Light No Fire, an open-world sandbox game that's said to give players an area to explore that's "about the size of Earth."

Despite those similarities, however, Greene says that his project - which could still be as much as a decade away - differs from Hello Games' efforts thanks to the technology behind it. When I asked him how he felt about the follow-up to No Man's Sky, he explained that "Light No Fire's procedural." That's as opposed to the machine-learning technology that's shaping Project Artemis, but it also comes down to Greene's design philosophy.

"I don't know their tech stack," he explains, "so I'm not super familiar with the way they generate stuff, but I don't think it's the same goal at the end, which is providing an open-source holodeck. And that's the difference. I think most people are making games. I'm not making a game, I'm building a world."

That world will play host to "games and experiences within that world that take place in the world," but its the creators of those experiences that are important to Greene. "I don't want to make games for people, I want to make games with people." It's that kind of emergent, user-generated content that he says will shape his game - "if you give the player or the community the means to generate their own experiences, they'll go ham."

Of course, there's also the nature of the two games. Hello Games has already revealed the fantastical side of Light no Fire, while Greene and his team is aiming for a much more "realistic" game.

For now, the difference between the two projects is somewhat moot. Light No Fire currently has no release date, though it's likely to launch before Project Artemis. Greene says that could still be more than a decade away, and while Hello Games hasn't offered a launch window for its game, it does seem to be a bit further along than that.

"If we can do it… This will be something groundbreaking": PUBG creator Brendan Greene is five years into making a 10,000km "realistic Minecraft" – but there's still a decade to go.

Sounds like vaporware!

I posted here recently about Libresprite, a fork of the last FOSS release of Asesprite before they switched away from GPLv2.

However in the comments of that thread, @Tingly3771@beehaw.org mentioned Pixelorama as a more developed alternative.

I'd heard of it when it was released 5 years ago, but never looked into it until now. After testing it, I'm insanely impressed with not only how good the program is right now, but also with how fast development seems to be. There are a handful of things Aseprite does that Pixelorama doesn't yet, but by the next major release, it should be at feature parity for the most part.

If you do pixel art at all, definitely worth checking out!

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A contentious Trump administration proposal to give the U.S. $500 billion worth of profits from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, indicating a more equitable deal is in the works.

Zelenskyy had earlier declined a U.S. draft agreement on exploitation of his country’s valuable minerals such as lithium used in the aerospace, defense and nuclear industries because it did not contain security guarantees and came with the $500 billion price tag.

“The question of $500 billion is no longer there,” Zelenskyy told a news conference at a forum of government officials in Kyiv marking the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian leader said considering aid as a debt to be repaid would be a “Pandora’s box” that would set a precedent requiring Kyiv to reimburse all its backers.

“We do not recognize the debt,” Zelenskyy said. “It will not be in the final format of the agreement.”

No further details were given on the state of negotiations. Ukraine has insisted on security guarantees that it needs to deter any potential Russian aggression in the future.

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Summary

The Trump administration has blocked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant review meetings by halting their required Federal Register submissions, effectively freezing medical research funding in apparent violation of a judge’s order.

The NIH’s actions defy a court ruling mandating an end to funding pauses. Experts warn the delay could cost $1 billion every three days and disrupt life-saving research.

Scientists suspect the move is a covert attack on medical science. If the administration continues to defy court orders, officials could face contempt charges.

The NIH did not provide an explanation for the cancellations.

Summary

Democratic Senator Jack Reed accused Trump of “surrendering to the Russians” as his administration pushes for U.S.-Russia talks over Ukraine.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff suggested Ukraine’s NATO ambitions provoked the war and declined to blame Russia.

Zelenskyy, under pressure, said he would step down for peace if Ukraine gained NATO membership.

The Trump administration denies favoring Russia and claims its strategy brings peace closer without criticizing Putin’s invasion.

Stolen from https://doomscroller.social/notes/a4llcbrv8ewa160o

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/19747430

A sequel to https://startrek.website/post/14985611