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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

theguardian.com

We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian...
We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X (formerly Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.This is somethin...
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Play Dialog: A contextual turn-taking TTS model like NotebookLM Playground

play.ai
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Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers (San Francisco)

ycombinator.com
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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

bloomberg.com
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Squeezed through the eighth dimensional portal (2008)

wordpress.com

Yesterday, my one month occupancy of the Rezzable Visions sim came to an end. At the...
Yesterday, my one month occupancy of the Rezzable Visions sim came to an end. At the end of September, RightAsRain Rimbaud (of Rezzable) challenged me to make my vision a reality. Thus began October 2008, the most frantic, yet productive month of my Second Life. My vision was to give the world a glimpse of something...
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Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto

burner.pro

Burner is a small, secure computer that keeps your digital assets and identities safe. It’s based...
Burner is a small, secure computer that keeps your digital assets and identities safe. It’s based on the same secure chips used in big, complicated and expensive hardware wallets. However, unlike hardware wallets, you don’t need to be a crypto expert to use it.You can use Burner with just a browser, there’s no app t...
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FBI seizes Polymarket CEO's phone, electronics

nypost.com

business fbi gambling online gambling trump
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New Level of Interview Hell

reddit.com

ruby
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Elite Overproduction

wikipedia.org

More aspirants of high status than society can sustain A university graduation ceremony in Ottawa, Canada...
More aspirants of high status than society can sustain A university graduation ceremony in Ottawa, Canada (2016) Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that is producing too many potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the po...
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Teens learn a new conspiracy theory every week on social media

fastcompany.com
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British and Exotic Mineralogy

c82.net
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Show HN: Xfer, a data-transfer language

github.com
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Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English

amylhowe.com

Nov 12 2024 The Supreme Court turned down a plea from Mark Meadows, who served as...
Nov 12 2024 The Supreme Court turned down a plea from Mark Meadows, who served as chief of staff to Donald Trump during his first term in office, to transfer his Georgia election interference prosecution to federal court. The announcement came as part of a list of orders released on Tuesday morning from the justices...
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Trust no one: why we can't trust most stats about the cybersecurity industry

ventureinsecurity.net

Welcome to Venture in Security! Before we begin, do me a favor and make sure you...
Welcome to Venture in Security! Before we begin, do me a favor and make sure you hit the “Subscribe” button. Subscriptions let me know that you care and keep me motivated to write more. Thanks folks!If you didn’t get a copy of my best selling book “Cyber for Builders: The Essential Guide to Building a Cybersecurity ...
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The Art of Manually Editing Hunks

kennyballou.com

Let's walk through an example of staging some changes, and manually editing a hunk to stage...
Let's walk through an example of staging some changes, and manually editing a hunk to stage them into the patches we want. Create a temporary Git repository, this will be a just some basic stuff for testing. % cd /tmp % git init foo % cd foo From here on, we will assume the working directory to be /tmp/foo. Inside t...
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A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard

ohrg.org
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Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress

npr.org

Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us...
Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology?Those are among the questions members of Congress discussed Wednesday in a joint ...
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The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor

eclecticlight.co

One of the most frequently quoted measurements in Activity Monitor is % CPU. When the fans...
One of the most frequently quoted measurements in Activity Monitor is % CPU. When the fans blow, or a Mac becomes sluggish, it’s often the first figure to look at and wonder why that process is pulling over 100%. That’s the first thing you learn: here, per cent doesn’t mean out of 100, but the sum of the real percen...
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

shopify.engineering
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Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without parallel'

theguardian.com

An enigmatic stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor that was previously thought to be a...
An enigmatic stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor that was previously thought to be a medieval animal pen has been found to be 4,000 years older – and unique in Europe.The rectangular monument was built not in the early medieval period to corral livestock, as recorded by Historic England, but rather in the middle...
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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

openai.com
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)

computerhistory.org

Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’...
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. Thousands of software developers have written these apps for Apple’s “iOS” mobile platform. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have ...
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Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR

twitter.com
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