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Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show
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TechCrunch
Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show | TechCrunch
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Kenya first instructed Worldcoin to stop collecting personal data in May.
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Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush your ability to stand up to them
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Techdirt
With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them
For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that…
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Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger
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ABC7 San Francisco
VIDEO: Driverless Cruise car struck by SF firetruck, injuring passenger, company says
One of the SFFD firefighters involved in the accident claims the Cruise vehicle "lurched" at the intersection and did not yield to their truck approaching with lights and sirens.
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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
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the Guardian
Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
Guidelines on Diet Coke ingredient from consultants tied to alleged industry front group an ‘obvious conflict of interest’, report says
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A 100GW phased laser array for interstellar lightsail propulsion
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Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed
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() for Tomorrow
Sargablock
Sargablock is a construction material made from sargassum seaweed, brown algae that washes up on Caribbean beaches and costs a fortune to the tourism industry. Interest has spread from Mexico to countries around the Caribbean and beyond.
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane
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Abbrev: A hidden Ruby gem
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Write Software, Well
Abbrev: A Hidden Ruby Gem
Use the Abbrev module in Ruby's standard library to calculate all possible unique abbreviations of one or more strings.
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Deja Vu: The FBI Proves Again It Can’t Be Trusted with Section 702
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Deja Vu: The FBI Proves Again It Can’t be Trusted with Section 702
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702.
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Ask vs. Guess Culture
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Substack
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
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Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model
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The BMJ
Cancer mortality after low dose exposure to ionising radiation in workers in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States…
Objective To evaluate the effect of protracted low dose, low dose rate exposure to ionising radiation on the risk of cancer.
Design Multinational cohort study.
Setting Cohorts of workers in the nuclear industry in France, the UK, and the US included in…
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Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
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Dan Cowell
Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job.
When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
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Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (c. 2002)
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ftp.gnu.org
22.5 su: Run a command with substitute user and group id
su allows one user to temporarily become another user. It runs a command (often an interactive shell) with the real and effective user id, group id, and supplemental groups of a given user. Synopsis:
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C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
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Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Opted Out
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The Intercept
Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with police.
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Tell HN: Gmail rate limiting emails from AWS SES
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Future Intel CPUs May Dump Hyper-Threading for Partitioned Thread Scheduling
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HotHardware
Future Intel CPUs May Dump Hyper-Threading For Partitioned Thread Scheduling
An Intel patent describes an interesting technique that could spell the end for Hyper-Threading.
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The ancient technology keeping space missions alive
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Bbc
How decades-old PCs run space missions
Some of the most famous space missions have been running for decades. The technology helping to keep them aloft is anything but space age.
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Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-15/News and notes
In 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the first grants of a "Knowledge Equity Fund" created in June of the previous year. This involved about a million dollars of WMF funds being given, in the form of grants, to a number of external charitable and advocacy…
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Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next
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Nature
Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July and what comes next
Nature - The planet has warmed 1.2 ºC on average, but that’s enough to produce big extremes.
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Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
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Business Insider
The fight over 'return to office' policies has a dirty downside
Companies bragging about their climate goals are ending remote work and forcing employees back to the office, which will exacerbate global warming.
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