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Undersea 'hybrid warfare' threatens security of 1B, NATO commander warns

theguardian.com
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Xi Orders China's Biggest Military Reorganization Since 2015

bloomberg.com

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Apple Ordered to Remove WhatsApp, Threads, Signal from the App Store in China

theverge.com
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I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract

thehandbasket.co

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Florida ban on Chinese buying property goes to U.S. appeals court

nikkei.com

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Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore

ycombinator.com
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Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE

medium.com

If you’re here from the Cemetech or Sonic Retro threads, then you probably already know the...
If you’re here from the Cemetech or Sonic Retro threads, then you probably already know the gist of this post. I’ve ported Sonic 2 to the TI-84+ CE.This post is more about how I ported the game, rather than telling people that I did it. If you just want to try it out on your graphing calculator, click here.Now that ...

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Measuring personal growth

huyenchip.com

My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth...
My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think about how to get to $10M ARR. If they have 1,000 users today, they think about how to get to 10,000 users. This made...
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Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' mimicking the human brain

livescience.com
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Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?

ycombinator.com
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Simplifying the Xz Backdoor

wordpress.com

I’m not a security expert, however I’m an expert at simplifying. Throughout my career I’ve simplified...
I’m not a security expert, however I’m an expert at simplifying. Throughout my career I’ve simplified many things others thought impossible, and I’ve done so by following a simple strategy few engage in: never surrender. My past successes gave me the confidence to give a try to simplify one aspect of the xz backdoor...
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IBM and the Holocaust

wikipedia.org

2001 book by Edwin Black This article is about the book. For the historical background, see...
2001 book by Edwin Black This article is about the book. For the historical background, see IBM during World War II. IBM and the Holocaust IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which d...
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A POI database in one line

dbreunig.com

This week, the Overture Maps Foundation released a handy command-line tool for downloading a subset of...
This week, the Overture Maps Foundation released a handy command-line tool for downloading a subset of the Overture dataset. Usage is simple: $ pip install overturemaps $ overturemaps download --bbox=-71.068,42.353,-71.058,42.363 -f geojson --type=building -o boston.geojson This command downloads a GeoJSON file cont...
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Llama 3 70B tied with GPT-4 for first place on LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard

twitter.com
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Why are there so many beetle species?

knowablemagazine.org
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Epigenetic age oscillates during the day

wiley.com
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Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)

grogsgamut.blogspot.com

When I was working in the Cairns Casino I’d often arrive on the floor to replace...
When I was working in the Cairns Casino I’d often arrive on the floor to replace a guy who had been in the industry as long as casinos had been in Australia. He had started back at Wrest Point in a time when people would dress up to go to the casino, and the penalty rates for dealers were so outrageous that some use...
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JEP draft: Exception handling in switch

openjdk.org

Enhance the switch construct so that its block can handle exceptions thrown by the selector (the...
Enhance the switch construct so that its block can handle exceptions thrown by the selector (the e in switch (e) ...). Alongside a previous enhancement to handle null selectors, this makes switch even more useful for pattern matching. This is a preview language feature. Goals Allow switch to perform case analysis ov...
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Meta.ai Oh My

tbray.org
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Copyleft licenses are not "restrictive"

drewdevault.com
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Drive-Through Car Wash Was Too Much for Tesla Cybertruck

gizmodo.com

This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles...
This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he par...

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Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal

washingtonpost.com
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Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

dailynous.com

death philosopher
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Guy callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming

nautil.us

On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar—a rangy, soft-spoken steam engineer, who had turned...
On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar—a rangy, soft-spoken steam engineer, who had turned 40 just the week before—stood before a group of leading scientists, members of the United Kingdom’s Royal Meteorological Society. He had a bold idea to share: Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warme...
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