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- 1Rikers Island set to miss closure deadline●New York's notorious Rikers Island jail, long criticized for unsanitary and violent conditions, is set to miss a deadlin
New York's Rikers Island jail, long criticized for unsanitary and violent conditions, is set to miss the deadline set for closing the vast complex. Activists who pushed for its shutdown have expressed disappointment at the delay, renewing scrutiny of conditions inside the facility and the city's failure to meet its own timetable.
- 2Reckoning With Disney's Most Controversial Film, Song of the South●Song of the South released in 1946 Just How Racist Is ‘Song of the South,’ Disney’s Most Notorious Movie? Source: https:
Disney's 1946 film Song of the South is back under scrutiny, with renewed discussion of just how racist the studio's most notorious movie really is. The film, which has never been released in full on home video in the United States, has long been criticised for its romanticised portrayal of the plantation-era South and its depiction of Black characters in the years after slavery.
- 3Fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text rendering●Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text
Google's Noto font project, whose name comes from 'no tofu' — the slang for missing-character boxes — has been working on correcting a long-standing problem in rendering Myanmar script, where unsupported or malformed characters appear as dotted circles. The issue affects how Burmese and related languages display on screens, and the latest write-up explains the technical causes and the fixes involved.
- 4Hacker Hijacks Calamity Mod's 250,000-Member Discord for Crypto Scam●Notorious Hacker Steals 250,000 User Discord Server For Infamous Terraria Mod Calamity, Immediately Uses It To Pump And
A notorious hacker seized control of the Discord server serving the Calamity mod community, one of the most popular mods for Terraria, and used it to promote a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme. The server, home to around 250,000 members, was reportedly taken over before being repurposed to shill a coin, a growing tactic in gaming community hacks.
- 5Dresden street photo carries 'make art, not war' message●Make art, not war. #streetphotography #photography #dresden #art #saynotowar
A street photographer in Dresden shared an image tagged 'make art, not war', pairing scenes of the city with an anti-war statement. The post, flagged under art and photography hashtags including saynotowar, is drawing small but positive attention. Dresden, heavily damaged in the Second World War and later a centre of peace protests, gives the message particular resonance.
- 6Noto font fixes broken Myanmar text rendering●Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text https://www.datocms.com/blog/handling-less-common-scripts #
A technical write-up explains how the Noto font project got its name — short for 'no tofu', the boxes shown when a font lacks a glyph — and digs into fixing dotted-circle rendering problems in Myanmar script. The piece covers why less common scripts are so hard to display correctly and what it takes to make complex text layouts work properly across platforms.