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Government spyware is another reason to use an ad blocker

techcrunch.com

Ad blockers might seem like an unlikely defense in the fight against spyware, but new reporting...
Ad blockers might seem like an unlikely defense in the fight against spyware, but new reporting casts fresh light on how spyware makers are weaponizing online ads to allow governments to conduct surveillance. Spyware makers are reportedly capable of locating and stealthily infecting specific targets with spyware usi...
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Best way to display photorealistic 3D in the browser?

ycombinator.com
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Citizenship Privilege Harms Science

nature.com

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Are Flying Cars Here?

newyorker.com

At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities...
At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities to urban hospitals, or sightseers to the Bay Islands. “It’s only eighty kilometres from Brisbane to the Gold Coast,” he said. “It should only take an hour by car, but on a busy weekend it can take two.” Out of cur...

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Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program

bleepingcomputer.com

Medium is banning AI-generated content from its paid Partner program, notifying users that the new policy...
Medium is banning AI-generated content from its paid Partner program, notifying users that the new policy goes into effect on May 1, 2024. Stories entirely generated using AI will be taken off paywalls and might even result in users getting kicked out of the monetization program. "We are writing to notify you of pol...

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Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

theregister.com
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Tesla Cybertruck Production Halted Due to Unintended Acceleration

barrons.com
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Emacs Info Expressions

susam.net
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Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica

wsj.com
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Tesla Allegedly Pauses Cybertruck Deliveries

theautopian.com

All eyes remain on the Tesla Cybertruck. It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for the silvery...
All eyes remain on the Tesla Cybertruck. It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for the silvery wedge since finally making its long-overdue debut on the market, with glitches including videos depicting difficulty in dealing with snow, corrosion worries despite its stainless-steel skin, and sidewall-eating wheel covers ma...
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Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce

bbc.co.uk
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FBI Opens Criminal Investigation into Baltimore Bridge Collapse

apnews.com

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Framework's software and firmware have been a mess, but it's working on them

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021,...
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we've generally been fans of the company's modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops. Not that the company's hardware releases to date have been perfect—each Framework Laptop 13 model has had quirks and flaws that ran...
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Recall.ai (YC W20) Is Hiring Engineer #4 (Rust and Large Scale Infra)

workatastartup.com
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Travelling with Tailscale

mrkaran.dev

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Getting the Grid to Net Zero

ieee.org

It’s late in the afternoon of 2 April 2023 on the island of Kauai. The sun...
It’s late in the afternoon of 2 April 2023 on the island of Kauai. The sun is sinking over this beautiful and peaceful place, when, suddenly, at 4:25 pm, there’s a glitch: The largest generator on the island, a 26-megawatt oil-fired turbine, goes offline. This is a more urgent problem than it might sound. The wester...

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Optical Tweezers

wikipedia.org

Scientific instruments A photograph of a nanoparticle (diameter 103 nm) trapped by an optical tweezer. The...
Scientific instruments A photograph of a nanoparticle (diameter 103 nm) trapped by an optical tweezer. The nanoparticle can be seen as the tiny bright spot in the middle. For additional control two copper electrodes are placed above and below the particle. Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient for...
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Lucky vs. Repeatable

collabfund.com

Luck plays such a big role in the world. But it’s hard to talk about. If...
Luck plays such a big role in the world. But it’s hard to talk about. If I say you got lucky, I look jealous. If I tell myself that I got lucky, I feel diminished. Maybe a better way to frame luck is by asking: what isn’t repeatable? Lucky implies random events you could not see coming. What isn’t repeatable is diff...
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Control Linux based distros using hand gestures using OpenCV, GTK, Mediapipe

github.com
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EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values

autonews.com
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The Tiny Ultrabright Laser That Can Melt Steel

ieee.org

In 2016, the Japanese government announced a plan for the emergence of a new kind of...
In 2016, the Japanese government announced a plan for the emergence of a new kind of society. Human civilization, the proposal explained, had begun with hunter-gatherers, passed through the agrarian and industrial stages, and was fast approaching the end of the information age. As then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put ...

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Python is Actually Portable (2022)

ahgamut.github.io

Blog Needs a NameUpdate (2022-07-27) : This post describes a proof-of-concept Python executable (2.7.18 and 3.6.14)...
Blog Needs a NameUpdate (2022-07-27) : This post describes a proof-of-concept Python executable (2.7.18 and 3.6.14) built on Cosmopolitan Libc, which allows it to run on six different operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD). It’s been more than a year since I put this together, and now Pyth...
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Why No IPv6?

whynoipv6.com
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Builder's remedy was supposed to 'Manhattanize' the Bay Area

mercurynews.com

For over a decade, developer Forrest Linebarger has tried to build new multifamily housing on two...
For over a decade, developer Forrest Linebarger has tried to build new multifamily housing on two half-acre parcels in Los Altos Hills. The city has done all it can to stop him. Then early last year, he employed a largely untested tool — the builder’s remedy. The provision penalizes cities that have failed to get st...
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