Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release ...
The Next Web

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...
Telegraph Herald

Utah canyon BASE jump kills 2, including extreme athlete who performed with Madonna

A weekend BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, ...

This Proposal Came Right on Time, and With a Watch

When Rory Corr’s future wife asked him to marry her, she presented him with the Max Bill chronograph he had wanted for years.