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MLAT order from Luxembourg for Signal user data
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Signal Messenger
MLAT order from Luxembourg for Signal user data
Signal still knows nothing about you, but the government still continues to ask us if we do.
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The Goiânia Accident (1987)
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Blind People Won the Right to Break eBook DRM. Time to Make It Permanent
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Wired
Blind People Have Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM—for Now
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.
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Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData
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Hewell | Your Tour Guide to the World
Hewell is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your home town.
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Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
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A look at the die of the 8086 processor (2020)
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Righto
A look at the die of the 8086 processor
The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month, 1 so I made some high-res die photos of the chip to celebrate. The ...
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Ancient bees found in Blenheim palace estate
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Oxfordshire Natural Beekeeping Group
ONBG meeting, July 2021 – Blenheim wild bees
We were priviliged and excited to have the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes tour of wild bee colonies at Blenheim Palace led by Filipe Salbany, an internationally experienced bee expert who emit…
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The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
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Fastware
What is the new LZ4 TOAST compression in PostgreSQL 14, and how fast is it?
Haiying Tang takes you on a tour of LZ$ TOAST, the new column opton compression in PostgreSQL 14, and shows the speed and compression ratio gains.
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Six Palestinian human rights defenders hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
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Front Line Defenders
Six Palestinian human rights defenders hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
On 19 October 2021, Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, announced the designation of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “terrorist organizations” under Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law 2016. The groups…
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When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (2000)
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The Search for Alien Tech
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Aeon
The search for alien tech
There’s a new plan to find extraterrestrial civilisations by the way they live. But if we can see them, can they see us?
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iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
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Mysk Blog – In-Depth Cybersecurity & Mobile App Privacy Research
iPhone Apps Can Tell Many Things About You Through the Accelerometer
Nearly every modern smartphone is equipped with an accelerometer, which, as the name implies, is a sensor that measures acceleration. It's most commonly used for detecting the device's orientation. It also has many other uses, whether as a game controller…
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Beg Bounties
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Troy Hunt
Beg Bounties
When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago, I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They'd left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged…
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A recruiter lined me up an interview. With the employer that just fired me
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Firr
I'm currently unemployed. A recruiter lined me up an interview. ...With the employer that just fired me. I wish I was making that up
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A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath
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The New Yorker
A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath
The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.
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A comprehensive guide to ‘go generate’
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W die shots
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Blogspot
Raspberry PI Zero 2W: What does the silicon contain??
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
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Bloomberg.com
All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
CEO Anne Wojcicki wants to make drugs using insights from millions of customer DNA samples, and doesn’t think that should bother anyone.
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Why is Tcl syntax so weird (2013)
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wiki.tcl-lang.org
Why is TCL syntax so weird
Tclers wiki
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I just want to run this one Python noscript
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die-welt.net
I just want to run this one Python noscript
So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems…
Ever had a noscript that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic
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Denuvo game DRM forgets to renew domain, breaks games
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Alex Buckland
@PlanetZooGame @shadowofwargame your DRM provider has let their domain name lapse, and it's killed your game startup... along with multiple other games I imagine.
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