Not exactly the same, but in Japan (where obviously many of the great games of the 80s and 90s were authored) there's a mechanism to acquire a license from the government to publish abandonware. The government collects a royalty from the new distributor that it holds in case a valid copyright holder comes forward.
Little Samson, a late-era NES game that because of its rarity can sell for thousands, was developed by a now-defunct company and is getting a re-release next year using this process.
Fair enough, but these were solutions that worked without js, and they weren't dynamically rendering maps on the front or back end. They were just showing squares of pre-rendered bitmap, and the square boundaries were fixed. If your point of interest was near an edge it could be quite annoying, like trying to navigate somewhere in the gutter of a paper atlas.
Even if they'd had an API that took a viewport, the result would have been stitched together from bitmap tiles because that's what they had.
It seems like the "invention" of tiles for maps must have happened as soon as anyone starting using a computer to render maps to bitmaps. The Ordnance Survey wouldn't at any point have rendered the entire UK to a single bitmap (at least not a map with any detail). It would have always been tiled.
Edited to add: Actually, the invention was much earlier than that. Paper maps were tiled before computers were a thing. And this would naturally have carried over to computer-rendered maps.
It is probably a bit easier to start from a language you are familiar with. That image intentionally is a mismatch of random arrows and operators that don't necessarily align to the semantics of real code.
I think that's one of the things Fira Code's Readme [1] does a better job at than Berkeley Mono's page. The top big image breaks down the ligatures in high level categories or the programming language they are most associated with, side by side the version with a ligature. Further down the Readme you can several real examples from programming languages with the ligatures called out, giving you the context clues of what it looks like in a language you may be already familiar with.
> They used stolen identity information to make false unemployment insurance claims in other people’s names.
I don't think "they," meaning Epoch Times, did the actual identity theft / unemployment insurance fraud. The indictment says they "purchased" the debit cards, and there are no charges related to those crimes.
It sounds like Epoch Times found a platform where such fraudsters were offloading their phony unemployment debit cards at a discount (this started in 2020, when I presume there was a huge boom in unemployment fraud) and tried to flip them around as legitimate donations and subscription revenue for an easy profit.
> It sounds like Epoch Times found a platform where such fraudsters were offloading their phony unemployment debit cards at a discount [...] and tried to flip them around as legitimate donations and subscription revenue for an easy profit.
Just to be clear, since the framing here doesn't make it clear if you understand: that is textbook money laundering. "I didn't know where the money on these cards came from I was just buying them as a product" is not remotely a defense. AML/KYC laws apply to all financial transactions, not just to banks, and yes, "buying millions of dollars of pre-paid debit cards for real money" is quite clealy a "financial" transaction.
Just to clarify for people who don't read it, the article isn't claiming this was trained on the voice of someone doing a Scarlett Johannson impression. It says it was trained on the natural voice of someone who sounds similar to Johannson's, hired months before Altman reached out to her.
> I was able to confirm in the Windows NT4 source code that he originally wrote some of the code for the format dialog on 2-13-95.
That was a dry Monday, not a rainy Thursday. It's possible he wrote the code Thursday, but didn't get to check it in until Sunday (though Thursday was dry too), but I know I couldn't tell you the what the weather was for code I wrote last month.
Both immigration rates and population gain were halved between 2024 and 2025.