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British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

theguardian.com

A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration...
A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border.Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington whe...
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers

matduggan.com

open-source rant
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Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

arstechnica.com
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STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming [pdf]

tinlizzie.org
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People are just as bad as my LLMs

wilsoniumite.com

Last year I created a fun little experiment where I asked a bunch of LLMs to...
Last year I created a fun little experiment where I asked a bunch of LLMs to rank 97 hackernews users using their comment history based on whether they would be good candidates for the role of “software engineer at google”. (you can read part 1 and part 2 but they are long). In it, I had a persistent problem of bias...
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Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

github.com
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X outage: Hacker group claims it took down former Twitter platform

syracuse.com

X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has gone down due to multiple outages...
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has gone down due to multiple outages Monday.According to Downdetector.com, X first saw widespread issues around 5:40 a.m. ET Monday. Some users said they were unable to load X posts or received error messages like “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”X resume...

@topstory
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Reversing Samsung's H-Arx Hypervisor Framework (Part 1)

dayzerosec.com

In many ways, mobile devices lead the security industry when it comes to defense-in-depth and mitigation....
In many ways, mobile devices lead the security industry when it comes to defense-in-depth and mitigation. Over the years, it has been proven time and again that the kernel cannot be trusted to be secure. As such, there has been effort put into moving secrets (ie. encryption keys) and other sensitive data out of the ...
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A modest proposal for destigmatizing America's favorite bad decisions

substack.com

Decriminalization and destigmatization are practical approaches that aim to reduce the real-world harms of drug use...
Decriminalization and destigmatization are practical approaches that aim to reduce the real-world harms of drug use by removing penalties and social barriers that prevent people from seeking help.The idea is that people engaged in harmful activity will do so anyway, so let’s make their life a little easier and event...
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Washington Post editor resigns after accusing CEO of killing column

nbcnews.com

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned Monday after accusing the paper's CEO and publisher of killing...
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned Monday after accusing the paper's CEO and publisher of killing her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' latest editorial edict.Marcus, an associate editor and columnist with The Post's opinion section, is leaving the paper where she's been employed since 1984."We’re gra...
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Study finds bullies have more children than non-bullies

phys.org
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What We've Learned from 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes

morningstar.com

This month marks five years since the covid market downturn.Though the initial downturn on March 9,...
This month marks five years since the covid market downturn.Though the initial downturn on March 9, 2020, was dramatic—the US stock market lost nearly 8% in one day—the US stock market ultimately recovered from that crash in just four months, making it the fastest recovery of any market crash over the past 150 years...
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I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

jagilley.github.io
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The Einstein AI Model

thomwolf.io
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Sigint in Fiction

siginthistorian.blogspot.com

I had an articled published last month in the John Buchan Journal (unsurprisingly, the journal of...
I had an articled published last month in the John Buchan Journal (unsurprisingly, the journal of the John Buchan Society). It is about the way that John Buchan drew on his First World War experience as a customer of Sigint to use cryptanalysis in one of his books and in a short story to advance the narrative, and t...
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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

arstechnica.com

Unsurprisingly, Google's remedy position is light-years away from the Justice Department's. "DOJ’s sweeping proposals continue to...
Unsurprisingly, Google's remedy position is light-years away from the Justice Department's. "DOJ’s sweeping proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court’s decision and would harm America’s consumers, economy, and national security," said a Google spokesperson. As expected, Google did not change its suggested reme...
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Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]

analog.com
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Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off

scroll.in

On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department predicted an unusually hot day for Mumbai. The mercury soared...
On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department predicted an unusually hot day for Mumbai. The mercury soared to 37 degrees, about 3.4 degree higher than the average temperature for early March. At 3 pm, Suvarna Bandagale sat on a cement block on a footpath to catch some respite from the scorching afternoon heat. A...

how to beat the heat?india india climate change india heatwave mumbai heat action plan
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Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir

d-gate.io

beam concurrency elixir fault tolerance nodejs
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Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown

ft.com
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Ariane 6 performs first commercial flight with launch of CSO-3 satellite

arianespace.com

The first commercial flight of Ariane 6, operated by Arianespace, placed the CSO-3 Earth observation satellite...
The first commercial flight of Ariane 6, operated by Arianespace, placed the CSO-3 Earth observation satellite in orbit for the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) and the French space agency (CNES) for the French Air and Space Force’s Space Command (CDE). CSO-3 is the third CSO (Composante Spatiale Optique – Op...
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YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients

github.com
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Ceramic powders with Archimedean shapes resist extreme heat and oxidation

phys.org
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)

charlespetzold.com

programming visual studio
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