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Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their Nests

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Show HN: I built a Figma plugin for quick data calculations

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AMD's Strix Halo – Under the Hood

chipsandcheese.com

Hello you fine Internet folks,At CES 2025 I got the chance to sit down with Mahesh...
Hello you fine Internet folks,At CES 2025 I got the chance to sit down with Mahesh Subramony, AMD Senior Fellow, to talk about AMD's upcoming Strix Halo SoC which is a brand new type of product for AMD and is the big iGPU SoC that many of us have been waiting for from AMD for a long while.The transcript below has be...
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Brave wants court to endorse scraping of News Corp content

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Brave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the...
Brave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the browser maker's auto-generated AI summaries of articles published by Rupert Murdoch's media empire. More specifically, the software house this week requested [PDF] a declaratory judgment from a federal judge in San Francisco against t...
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My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster

bentasker.co.uk

At the beginning of the year, a spate of very similar mails appeared in my spam-box....
At the beginning of the year, a spate of very similar mails appeared in my spam-box. Although originating from different addresses (and sent to different recipients), they all appeared to be the opener for the same romance scam campaign. Romance fraud is increasingly common and campaigns can extort large sums from v...

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OpenAI calls on U.S. Government to let it freely use copyrighted material

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I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox

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What is VRAN: Virtualize Your Radio Access Network

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SQL queries don't start with SELECT (2019)

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Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

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Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2

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Fansubbers use complex methods and algorithms to replicate the style of onscreen texts in their...
Fansubbers use complex methods and algorithms to replicate the style of onscreen texts in their subtitles, so as to make the result look genuine for the viewer. These are not really subtitles, they’re titles, but I’ll be calling them “subtitles” from here on, since they are part of the subtitle file. In the firs...

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The Evolution of the Color Pink

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Show HN: MCPGod: Fine-grained control over MCP clients, servers, and tools

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Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs

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The government has delivered its demands to Columbia University

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These Are the 10 Doge Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

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The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are...
The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the agency.In a Tuesday meeting, United States DOGE Service administrator Amy Gleason told staff that Musk-affiliated engineers and some legacy USDS workers would be headed to SSA to improve “identity proofing,” say ...
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ATProto Isn't What You Think

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This post is about ATProto, Bluesky, and to a certain extent All The Other ATProto Apps....
This post is about ATProto, Bluesky, and to a certain extent All The Other ATProto Apps. I want to take the opportunity to look at things from a different angle and share how my view of ATProto has changed over time. Wait!! First I want to address the elephant in the room: your title for this post is really click ba...

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Calendar.org

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Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode

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Font Generator is an online tool that lets you input simple text and convert it into...
Font Generator is an online tool that lets you input simple text and convert it into over 180 fancy text styles. To make your text look fun and stylish it utilizes thousands of cool symbols from Unicode and combines them to create fonts for you. This enables you to write in bold, underlined, cursive, or italic style...
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TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish

varnish-software.com

An introduction to a KVM-based single-process sandboxHey All. In between working on my PhD, libriscv and...
An introduction to a KVM-based single-process sandboxHey All. In between working on my PhD, libriscv and an untitled game (it’s too much I know), I also have been working on a KVM sandbox for single programs. A so-called userspace emulator. I wanted to make the worlds fastest sandbox using hardware virtualization, o...
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The Church FAQ

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Posted on March 13, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi 12 Comments A few years ago, we...
Posted on March 13, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi 12 Comments A few years ago, we bought a church building. Since then, every time I mention it online and/or on social media, someone always responds, “wait, you bought a church, what” and then asks some standard questions. At this point it makes good sense to offer up a...
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BlenderMCP: Blender Model Context Protocol Integration

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The web browser as an enabler of minority platforms

utoronto.ca
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'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos

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