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How a Gag Order Made 'Careless People' a Bestseller

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Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams stands behind former Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Mark Zuckerberg in...
Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams stands behind former Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Mark Zuckerberg in 2014. Photo: Oscar Siagian/Getty Images Sarah Wynn-Williams can’t do interviews. She can’t post on social media or go on tour or give a talk. Her family can’t speak on her behalf, and her friends a...
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I'm so proud to be deported from the USA

dorseteye.com

Some of you might have come across posts on the UK Subs’ website featuring photos and...
Some of you might have come across posts on the UK Subs’ website featuring photos and videos of an unfamiliar line-up performing with Charlie at a Los Angeles punk festival over the weekend. Understandably, you may be wondering, ‘How did that happen?’ Well, here’s the truth: Stefan, Marc, and I were all denied entry...
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IETF setting standards for AI preferences

ietf.org

27 Feb 2025 The newly-chartered AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group will work on standardizing building blocks...
27 Feb 2025 The newly-chartered AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group will work on standardizing building blocks that allow for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model development, deployment, and use. The use of Internet content for training ...
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Blue Ghost lander captures sunset shots on moon before falling silent

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Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight

bbc.co.uk
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Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend

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NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s...
NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot without special equipment and a trained eye.“The glare from the sun makes it really, really difficult to see,” said Michell...

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Authorization Bypass in Next.js Middleware

github.com
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Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch

bjango.com
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France hits hydrogen jackpot: largest reserve valued $92B found

interestingengineering.com

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Amazon wants a product safety regulator declared unconstitutional

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One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone

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The Cybernetic Teammate

oneusefulthing.org

Over the past couple years, we have learned that AI can boost the productivity of individual...
Over the past couple years, we have learned that AI can boost the productivity of individual knowledge workers ranging from consultants to lawyers to coders. But most knowledge work isn’t purely an individual activity; it happens in groups and teams. And teams aren't just collections of individuals – they provide cr...
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Locks, leases, fencing tokens, FizzBee

surfingcomplexity.blog

FizzBee is a new formal specification language, originally announced back in May of last year. FizzBee’s...
FizzBee is a new formal specification language, originally announced back in May of last year. FizzBee’s author, Jayaprabhakar (JP) Kadarkarai, reached out to me recently and asked me what I thought of it, so I decided to give it a go. To play with FizzBee, I decided to model some algorithms that solve the mutual ex...
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Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]

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Differential Geometry: A First Course in Curves and Surfaces [pdf]

uga.edu
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Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers

github.com
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Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective

github.com
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PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog

ezyang.com

This post is a long form essay version of a talk about PyTorch internals, that I...
This post is a long form essay version of a talk about PyTorch internals, that I gave at the PyTorch NYC meetup on May 14, 2019. Hi everyone! Today I want to talk about the internals of PyTorch. This talk is for those of you who have used PyTorch, and thought to yourself, "It would be great if I could contribute to ...
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Elon tells Tesla employees not to sell TSLA stock as board and execs are dumping

electrek.co
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Improved ways to operate a rude crawler

marginalia.nu

This text is satirical in nature.Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their...
This text is satirical in nature.Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt. In my opinion, if this is all the AI startups can muster, they’re losing their touch. wget can do this. You need to up your game, get that crawler really rolling coal. Flagrant disregard for e...
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Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks

github.com
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When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH

tinyhack.com

Let’s first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other...
Let’s first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux and how to recover from that. The easy solution for everyth...
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Coding Theory and Cryptography [pdf]

ualberta.ca
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The New Three-Tier Application

dbos.dev
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