Subatomic speed, math misadventures, and the biggest fraud trial in history

California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going?

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that allows scientists to see how electrons move by mapping their positions in an atom. Learn more here and here.

As Ben says, speaking of things that are difficult to observe and don’t make a lot of sense, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for a historically huge amount of fraud. Follow the live trial blog from Wired or check out their explainer.

Starting next year, Unity is charging developer fees. We explore the back and forth as they try to find a solution that works for the company and the community.

Shoutout to user vasco, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to test abstract class in Java with JUnit?.