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March 10

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)

ploum.net
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March 10

Stock Market Today: Dow, Nasdaq Fall After Trump Doesn't Rule Out Recession

wsj.com
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March 10

The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)

morrick.me

When it arrived by post a couple of weeks ago, I joked on Twitter: Loving my...
When it arrived by post a couple of weeks ago, I joked on Twitter: Loving my new 11-inch iPad Pro! It turns out it was only half a joke. This Mac really invites you to treat it as a pro tablet + keyboard. It’s very compact, it’s very light (1.08 kg), it’s still a thin machine by 2018 standards, it has a long-lasting...
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March 10

What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America's Largest Oxygen Provider

propublica.org

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Lincare, a giant respiratory-device supplier with a long history of fraud settlements and complaints about dismal service, is facing its latest legal challenge: a lawsuit that cl...
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March 10

Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials

cyberinsider.com

A newly discovered class of malicious browser extensions, dubbed polymorphic extensions, can impersonate legitimate extensions such...
A newly discovered class of malicious browser extensions, dubbed polymorphic extensions, can impersonate legitimate extensions such as password managers in real time, tricking users into handing over sensitive credentials. Security researchers at SquareX Labs uncovered this technique, which allows attackers to clone...
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March 10

We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

interviewdb.io

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March 10

3dfx, So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

abortretry.fail

In 1988, Silicon Graphics made a series of workstation computers that were based upon two pieces...
In 1988, Silicon Graphics made a series of workstation computers that were based upon two pieces of technology: the MIPS CPU and the IRIS graphics system. The latter included both a hardware 3D graphics accelerator and the IRIS GL API. IRIS GL would later become OpenGL. These machines all ran IRIX (a derivative of S...
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March 10

Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors

exclusivearchitecture.com

In optics, focus describes the point at which incoming light rays converge and it is used...
In optics, focus describes the point at which incoming light rays converge and it is used synonymously as a concept of sharpness. Autofocus, by contrast, is a technology to automatically focus the lens at a desired subject. The autofocus detection system inside the camera determines the ideal focusing lens position ...
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March 10

The Chromecast 2's device authentication certificate has expired

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March 10

PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel Overview (2015)

ramblingcookiemonster.github.io

When I first started using PowerShell, I preferred sending data to Excel, where I could comfortably...
When I first started using PowerShell, I preferred sending data to Excel, where I could comfortably filter, sort, and work with data. One of my first functions was a modification of Export-XLSX found on the Internet. That same code sits in a few places in production today; looking at old code is scary. Nowadays, I p...

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March 10

Quantum Milestones, 1964: John Stewart Bell Rings in New Era of Quantum Theory (2022)

aps.org
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March 10

How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

noemamag.com

Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to...
Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk is 36 feet around and its canopy stretches for almost three bus-lengths. Its broad, bowl-shaped crown is propped up by a ring of metal columns, like walking sticks measured t...
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March 10

From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions

restate.dev

You can give the game a try at cyoa.dev with the code open sourced at https://github.com/essencevc/cyoaIn...
You can give the game a try at cyoa.dev with the code open sourced at https://github.com/essencevc/cyoaIn this article, we’ll explore how to take a single user prompt and generate an entire Choose Your Own Adventure game from it using Restate.On the surface, this seems simple - just a simple series of story branches...
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March 10

Longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea

cnn.com

Descending up to 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea, the world’s longest immersed tunnel will link...
Descending up to 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea, the world’s longest immersed tunnel will link Denmark and Germany, slashing journey times between the two countries when it opens in 2029. The first tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel was inaugurated June 17 by King Frederik X of Denmark, in what was a milesto...
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March 10

European Cloud Computing Platforms

european-alternatives.eu
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March 10

Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Artificial intelligence commonly refers to the science and engineering of...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Artificial intelligence commonly refers to the science and engineering of artificial systems that can carry out tasks generally associated with requiring aspects of human intelligence, such as playing games, translating languages, and driving cars. In recent years, there have b...
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March 10

Real Chilling Effects

substack.com

Normally I record the classes I teach. It gives students who miss class a chance to...
Normally I record the classes I teach. It gives students who miss class a chance to catch up. I also make space in my classes to talk about what is happening in government right now. A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their wo...
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March 10

Go European: Discover European products and services

goeuropean.org
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March 10

You are witnessing the death of American capitalism (YouTube)

youtube.com

science & technology
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March 10

Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025

yaps.chat

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March 10

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

bbc.com

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent•BBCPallabBBCAs a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent...
Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent•BBCPallabBBCAs a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft's essential Global Positioning System (GPS) suffered an unexplained interference, triggering an emergency diversi...
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March 10

Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)

ecosia.org

When I founded Ecosia a few years ago, I made two promises: 1. I will never...
When I founded Ecosia a few years ago, I made two promises: 1. I will never sell Ecosia. 2. I will never take profits out of the company. I made these promises because my goal for Ecosia has always been to make the world a greener, better place – not to get rich. I also wanted to prove that there is a more ethical...

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March 10

Another late-night Claude Code post

twitter.com
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March 10

2600 Magazine's Twitter account locked for posting info of DOGE employees

bsky.app
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