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Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare
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Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare
After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."
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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best (2012)
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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best
When you buy a USB charger, how do you know if you're getting a safe, high-quality charger for your money? You can't tell from the outside...
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Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks
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Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy
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Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy
Before resigning in protest of the policy, Brian Birmingham was fired.
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Dissolution Foretold: A neurosurgeon on the reality of his diagnosis
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Literary Hub
Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis
I worked as a neurosurgeon for over forty years. I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. Like all doctors, I had to find a balance between compassion and detachment. Th…
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How Equifax Became a Private IRS
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BIG by Matt Stoller
How Equifax Became a Private IRS
At a Goldman Sachs conference in December, Equifax CEO Mark Begor told investors that his company has a monopoly in an obscure but important area - selling data about your salary to third parties.
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ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
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ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
The bot’s performance on the test has “important implications for business school education," wrote Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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Emulating Win32
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Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system
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Bloomberg.com
Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System
A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee that he felt didn’t deserve it in order to fill a quota.
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Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
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Almost Secure
Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
Bitwarden is a hot candidate for a LastPass replacement. Looking into how they encrypt data, it doesn’t do things that much better however.
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Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
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Meta Newsroom
Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
We’re introducing more features, like chat themes, into our end-to-end encrypted experience on Messenger.
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The Disappearance of the Ashtray
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The Disappearance of the Ashtray
These things used to be pieces of furniture
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Antique Roman Dishes – Collection (1993)
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Why the infosec community is ahead of the curve and rationalists and nihilists
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IOC.exchange
INVISV (@invisv@ioc.exchange)
Some security thoughts on a super strange topic: how rationalists and nihilists have it wrong, and why the infosec community is ahead of the curve.
This is going to be a weird thread tying together an epic James Mickens USENIX Security keynote, Ken Thompson's…
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Investor sends letter to Google demanding more people fired and pay reduced
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International domain names: where does
https://meßagefactory.ca
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Daniel Lemire's blog
International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?
Originally, the domain part of a web address was all ASCII (so no accents, no emojis, no Chinese characters). This was extended a long time ago thanks to something called internationalized domain name (IDN).
Today, in theory, you can use any Unicode character…
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Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying?
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Browser-extension: 17 browsers support, Vite fast builds
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GitHub - Debdut/browser-extension: Browser Extension Template with ESbuild builds, support for React, Preact, Typenoscript, Tailwind…
Browser Extension Template with ESbuild builds, support for React, Preact, Typenoscript, Tailwind, Manifest V3/V2 support and multi browser build including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave. - Deb...
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Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives
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Build security with the assumption it will be used against your friends
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Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
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Minimal cross-platform graphics
Exploring how to use 2D graphics in various desktop operating systems, the old-school way. In this part we learn how to create an empty window under Linux, macOS and Windows.
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