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Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
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UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
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the Guardian
UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online
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Savvy Punditry Isn’t Smart
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Rottin' in Denmark
Savvy Punditry Isn’t Smart
“Is Cate Blanchett a good actress or is she just tall?”
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The hard men removing squatters in Spain
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Bbc
The hard men removing squatters in Spain
Some squatters in Spain demand cash before leaving - so eviction firms have arisen to handle the talks.
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Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
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Scientific American
A Deep Math Dive into Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
The size of certain infinite sets has been a mystery. Now, it turns out, each one is different than the next, and they can all be ordered by size
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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
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the Guardian
Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca Solnit
Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action
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T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
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WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50 Million Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’
John Binns said he managed to pierce T-Mobile’s defenses after discovering in July an unprotected router exposed on the internet. The 21-year-old said he did it to gain attention: “Generating noise was one goal.”
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Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?
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The Mozilla Blog
The ancestors of the blue hyperlink
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
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Google
Why we’re committing $10 billion to advance cybersecurity
Today, we are announcing that we will invest $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen cybersecurity.
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Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga
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Ars Technica
Study: Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga
Caltech scientists used X-ray imaging to capture physics of underground anthills.
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FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
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New York Post
Exclusive | FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
A computer glitch in a software program, Palantir, used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year.
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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)
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The wild pizzas of southern Italy
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Bloomberg
The Wild Pizzas of Southern Italy Have to Be Seen to Be Believed
A restaurant critic and two chefs go on a pie-in-the-sky adventure to find exactly how far you can stretch the idea of pizza.
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An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship
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The MIT Press Reader
An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship
Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.
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Adding Optimistic Locking to an API
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Modern Treasury
Designing the Ledgers API with Optimistic Locking
Optimistic Locking is a control method that assumes multiple transactions can complete concurrently without conflict. We built our ledgers API with concurrency control semantics to better manage transaction volume.
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CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions
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Tibetan Review
70th party anniversary publication calls China’s Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’21) – China has called its policies in occupied Tibet not only a great success but also an exemplar for other minority regions in a major publication released on Aug 26 to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist…
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On the proliferation of try, and soon, await (2020)
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Swift Forums
On the proliferation of try (and, soon, await)
Back when we were introducing error handling for Swift, I raised the concern that the rule requiring a try label on every potentially-throwing statement was too indiscriminate. It's not that requiring a try label is always a mistake, I argued—in fact, in…
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Data protection ‘shake-up’ takes aim at cookie pop-ups
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BBC News
Data protection 'shake-up' takes aim at cookie pop-ups
A new head has been appointed to the UK data regulator amid a plan to drive the economy using data.
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Google has killed Discord's best music bot
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PC Gamer
Google has killed Discord's best music bot
Say goodbye to Groovy on August 30.
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Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection
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PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
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Purism
PureOS - a pure Linux phone experience – Purism
The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default. This page explains why that is important. An operating system in your best interests The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default, not Android. It is the only smartphone on the market today to ship with a fully-free…
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