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Adrian Marius Popa

@mapopa.bsky.social
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Game developer Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/mariuz Blog : mapopa.blogspot.com Threads : www.threads.net/@popa_adrian_marius Mastodon : mastodon.social/@mariuz

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 1h
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario
"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens"
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 22m
Open source: absolutely! bsky.app/profile/just...
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 7h
The last time building software sped up ~10x (early 2000s, the agile movement), a massive interest in automated testing followed almost immediately (unit tests, TDD, XP etc) Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14h
E-trucks are booming in China. That's helping the country cut emissions, strengthen energy security and dominate another green transition sector. bloom.bg/4yiF9vH 📷️: Gilles Sabrié/Bloomberg
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 8h
This is also because very few cyclists use social media while riding. Car drivers stuck in traffic, on the other hand...
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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 23/09/2026
🔎 Explore everything that’s new in the full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/139 Happy coding! 💙
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VS Code v1.139
New release
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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 28/09/2026
🆕 Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now generally available in @code with GitHub Copilot! Built for everyday coding tasks, it matched Sonnet 5 in early testing while using fewer steps, tokens, and tool calls. ⚡️ Give it a try today! 🚀 github.blog/changelog/20...
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Claude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for well-scoped everyday work like building features and fixing bugs. In our early…
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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 22h
📣 GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available in @code with GitHub Copilot. Built for agentic coding and terminal workflows, with strong multistep coding performance and fewer tokens and steps in early testing. ⚡️ Give it a try today! 🚀 github.blog/changelog/20...
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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 29/09/2026
Why did VS Code choose Electron? 🤔 The team wanted a lightweight editor with the rich language support and debugging tools developers need, while keeping the same web technologies across platforms. 🍿 Watch The Story of VS Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3... #vscode #storyofvscode
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Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is cute :) Slide from : AWS re:Invent 2022 - Revitalize your security with the AWS Security Reference Architecture (SEC203) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFrj...
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Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know AWS is using React :)
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026
I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
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The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The latest phase of the Xbox Reset discussed on the latest DF Direct Weekly along with Halo going to Activision, Silent Hill Townfall tests, next-gen TFLOPs and a very nice 007 path tracing performance upgrade: youtu.be/19qyGXz5FUU
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DF Direct Weekly #283: Halo Moves To Activision, Next-Gen TFLOPs, Silent Hill Townfall Tested!
YouTube video by Digital Foundry
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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 28/09/2026
With the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s global Workers platform, including upcoming support for Tokio async. cfl.re/4hlHSNC #BirthdayWeek
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Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen
With the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s global W...
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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 28/09/2026
Vite+ 1.0 is here 🚀 A single `vp` CLI for managing your Node.js runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. Built on top of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and tsdown. All with a single config. Free and open source under the MIT license. Start with `vp create` or migrate with `vp migrate`.
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Announcing Vite+ 1.0
Vite+ 1.0 is here. One CLI manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
Mikhail Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister launches “The Army of Robots”. This is the promo video. In his LinkedIn post he writes “Make robots fight instead of people.”
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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 26/09/2026
Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.
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Meeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Book of the Day: Programming: Principles and practice using C++ (3rd edition) by Bjarne Stroustrup meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp
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Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition), aka PPP3, is an introduction to programming for people who have never programmed before
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 25/09/2026
Can you spot the boat traffic?👀 Venice's story has always been written on water. In this IRIDE image, boat wakes criss-cross the Venetian Lagoon while shifting shades of blue reveal changing water conditions. Beyond the city, wetlands and salt marshes support wildlife. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
False-colour satellite image of Venice and its lagoon. The city appears as a pink-orange island surrounded by turquoise waters marked by boat wakes, with nearby wetlands, channels and barrier islands visible across the lagoon.
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Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What You Need To Know About Russia's New Geran-4 Drone www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYaj... #ukraine
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What You Need To Know About Russia's New Geran-4 Drone
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The shower hair graph remains one of my favourite dataviz out there. In reality the visual shows the paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over. Science is beautiful. Source: buff.ly/2n3Q7mx
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 24/09/2026
There’s a guy in Denmark with 15 cars (probably a sorry Toyota dealer) who I think would like to get into that deal as well.
Graph of hydrogen cars in the Danish car fleet
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuel cost of running an electric vehicle vs petrol was always significant, now factor of 9 for diesel New EVs inevitably flow into second-hand market where ££ savings are made by all societal segments UK Govt plans to dilute the mandate for EVs will stop that www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 24/09/2026
The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 24/09/2026
⚡ OpenAI is giving Ukraine access to its Daybreak tool to protect power plants and hospitals from cyberattacks. united24media.com/world/openai...
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OpenAI Gives Ukraine Daybreak Cyber Tool to Defend Critical Infrastructure From Cyberattacks
OpenAI will provide Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation access to the Daybreak cyber defense program and GPT-5.6 Sol to protect key infrastructure.
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We went from "Humans code" to "LLMs code but humans need to verify the code" to "LLMs code but its unclear whether humans are required to verify, up for discussion" and now I am hearing "In the future why should humans even pretend they could be smart enough to verify what AI will code".
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Guillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev · 24/09/2026
Text-to-speech has reached a whole new level of quality and personalization. With Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, you can design custom voices from text prompts, steer delivery nuances (whispers, pacing, emotion), and clone voices. And you can do it all in #Java! 🧵👇
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
”The plans include ramping up renewable energy from 55% to 80% of electricity generation by 2030, with an additional 12GW of onshore wind, and a target of 215GW of solar energy by 2030.” It’s good to keep in mind that transport uses a fossil fuel called oil. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045
Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality
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Sébastien Roblin @sebastienroblin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great analysis of options to stand up a dedicated counter-drone squadron, landing in favor of the L-39 as the most efficient option (the available turboprop aircraft not being fast enough to keep pace with jet-Shaheds.) Poland's new FA-50s could prove of unexpected value to this mission too...
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Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Russian forces pose a greater, albeit better understood threat to Western air capabilities than pre-2022, and Chinese counter-air capabilities are on another level entirely. Long read by me on the key changes to track since 2020: www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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The Evolution of Russian and Chinese Air Power Threats
Russian and, particularly, Chinese capabilities now pose greater threats to Western air power than in 2020.
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Philip Jägenstedt @foolip.org · 23/09/2026
This is the best explanation of the interplay of specs, tests, and implementations that I've read. The point of both specs and tests is interoperable implementations, but that doesn't mean that implementations are always right when they agree.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fascinating new figures confirming old EVs with a lot of miles on the clock are much more reliable than their petrol and diesel equivalents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536166...
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Study: High mileage EVs more reliable than petrol equivalents
Analysis of 47.4 million MOTs finds electric cars are around 25 per cent less likely to fail than petrol models as mileage climbs
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Gus @gusthema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm glad that the slowdown of AI development finished today with the release of Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna! Now that all the safety issues are fixed, we can continue to move forward!
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 13/09/2026
This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...
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Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here’s a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that …
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/09/2026
Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision models simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/...
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling “System One models” (I’m with Maggie Appleton, I think “decision models” …
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/09/2026
Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna - plus comparison grids of pelicans by the different model families at different reasoning levels simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/...
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It’s …
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Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seems that now in Europe we have access to Muse spark , good for open source or hobby projects
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EU companies are now helping Chinese rivals expand in in their home market Europe - partly to learn to how to be competitive, writes Joe Leahy in this column as.ft.com/r/ff462fb4-1...
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Why EU companies are helping their Chinese rivals
Many multinationals seem to be adopting an approach of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Four panel comic. Panel 1: two guys playing basketball outside. Guy 1 looks off to the side and asks, “is someone in the window?” Panel 2: a creepy ghost woman stands in the upstairs window of a house, watching them. Panel 3: Guy 2 calls up to the creepy ghost, “you wanna hoop?” Panel 4: the ghost is outside playing basketball with them. She bricks a shot from the free throw line. Guy 2 says, “that’s H-O-R.”
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 23/09/2026
"Volkswagen itself appears to have been surprised by this momentum. Management had based its 2026 production planning on a slower ramp-up" As a happy (electric) VW driver, I can confirm that the built-in navigation system has a preference for dead-end streets and keeps trying to turn around.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FT: "“I had thought that it was perhaps only towards 2030 that China would get up close to 40 per cent,” said Eskelund. “That of course also means that the imbalances are growing very, very considerably.”" www.ft.com/content/51c4...
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China’s share of global container exports soars to 40%
Rapid rise underscores economy’s reliance on trade and threat to trading partners, EU chamber says
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