9. Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (blog.maximeheckel.com)

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.

11. How to make your text look futuristic (typesetinthefuture.com)

We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie’s timeframe. But if Eurostile isn’t enough, there’s more you can doΒ to clarify yo…

14. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)

DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging from bulk operations to small transactions.

15. Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare (www.eff.org)

Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of β€œborder security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst sequel, Bill C-22, aka The Lawful Access Act, is trying it again.

17. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (www.insidehighered.com)

Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance β€œthat no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.”

25. Coursera and Udemy are now one company (blog.coursera.org)

Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

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