Ruby 4.0: A lot of restructuring under the hood, few new features

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for ...

A copper covered call ETF, Freehold Royalties, Constellation and more. Your year-end questions answered

A – You’re referring to the Global X Copper Producer Equity Covered Call ETF ( CPCC-T -0.55% ), which started trading on Dec.
Wenatchee World

Washington’s ‘constantly squeezed’ dairy farms find cheer in eggnog

More than 200 pairs of eyes turned to Larry Stap when he stepped into his dairy farm, Twin Brook Creamery, to check on the ...
Wenatchee World

The best albums of 2025 from Washington artists

In keeping with the time-honored tradition of December list-making, each year The Seattle Times asks a consortium of local ...
Morningstar

Var Energi ASA VAR

Morningstar Quantitative Ratings for Stocks are generated using an algorithm that compares companies that are not under analyst coverage to peer companies that do receive analyst-driven ratings.

‘Stranger Things 5’ Volume 2 Spoiler Interview: Duffer Brothers Explain the Upside Down’s Origins, Will’s [SPOILER], That Breakup and Why Eleven Might Not Get a Ha…

After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season, ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...
NPR

Global Health

December 28, 2025 • TikToks are everywhere (well, except countries like Australia and India, where they've been banned.) We talk to the creators of some of the year's most popular reels from the ...