When Bulgaria tried to save communism with the kids.

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How platforms mess with our tastes.

Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests(tm), probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models…

Energy Safe Victoria (ESV) has concluded the Victorian Big Battery (VBB) fire most likely resulted after a cooling system leak caused a short circuit in an electrical component in a Megapack.

The independent energy safety regulator delivered its findings…

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An ACCC inquiry into the advertising technology (or ‘ad tech’) sector has identified significant competition concerns and likely harms to publishers, advertisers and, ultimately, consumers. The report, published today, concludes that enforcement action under…

This article is about the recently published security advisory for a pretty popular software, fail2ban (CVE-2021-32749). It is about a bug that may lead to Remote Code Execution.

Dreading returning to the corporate environment? Take some advice from the brethren who lived, worked and died with their colleagues

This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Here is a potentially familiar scene. You are exhausted after working…

After losing a suit for sales fraud in China, Tesla wants all evidence of the case taken down

A massive study on over 1.1 million blood samples found that half of American kids under the age of 6 could have lead in their blood.

Australia has lost about 30% of its koalas over the past three years, hit by drought, bushfires and developers cutting down trees, the Australian Koala Foundation said, urging the government to do more to protect the creature's habitat.

A key backer of a 2018 Oakland law to rein in tools like automated license plate readers says the city is not following the rules.

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