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China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
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China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to tear down journal paywalls — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt its policies.
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Serial Port SDR
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Hackaday
Your USB Serial Adapter Just Became a SDR
To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio spect…
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Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
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Twitter
One of the ways #AABill gets access to systems is by commandeering employees of companies to write backdoors. But they’re not even allowed to tell their employer, or face jail time.
I went through the mechanics of this, and realised how out of touch Canberra…
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A well-known URL for changing passwords
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WICG/change-password-url
A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords. Contribute to WICG/change-password-url development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dear Tumblr: Banning "Adult Content" Won't Make Your Site Better But It Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
Social media platform Tumblr has announced a ban on so-called “adult content,” a move made, it seems, in reaction to Tumblr’s app being removed from the Apple app store. But while making the app more
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Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people
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the Guardian
Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people
In interview, Mark S Luckie describes irony of letter’s removal for violating ‘community standards’ before it was reinstated
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Ride-Hailing Firm Lyft Inc Files for IPO
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Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory
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MIT Technology Review
Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory
An algorithm that remembers previous explorations in Montezuma’s Revenge and Pitfall! could make computers and robots better at learning how to succeed in the real world.
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State of web browsers in 2018
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Medium
The State of Web Browsers
Late 2018 edition
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Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
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Electrek
Tesla's giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, report says
Neoen, the owner of the giant Tesla battery system in South Australia, released a new report for the first full year...
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Communicating Sequential Processes (1978) [pdf]
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Deep-comparing two 5GB JSON files 3X faster by ditching the code and using jq
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Genius Engineering
Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing two 5GB JSON files 3X faster by ditching the code
As part of our recently announced deal with Apple Music
[https://genius.com/a/genius-gets-smart-with-apple-music], you can now view
Genius lyrics for your favorite music within the Apple Music app.
We deliver our lyrics to Apple via a nightly export of newline…
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O2 outage: 31m mobile customers unable to get online
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the Guardian
O2 outage: more than 30m mobile customers unable to get online
Users of Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile also hit as O2 blames supplier’s software glitch
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Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
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Windows Experience Blog
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source…
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StateOfTheArt.ai
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Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. Most of the language ...
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5th December 1978: Acorn Computers Ltd Formed in Cambridge, UK
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www.computinghistory.org.uk
Acorn Computers Ltd formed in Cambridge, UK - Computing History
On 5th December 1978 Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper founded Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd, known as CPU Ltd, later they would change the name to Acorn Computers Ltd and launch the Acorn...
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Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language
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GitHub
GitHub - kocircuit/kocircuit: Ko: A generic type-safe language for concurrent, stateful, deadlock-free systems and protocol manipulations
Ko: A generic type-safe language for concurrent, stateful, deadlock-free systems and protocol manipulations - GitHub - kocircuit/kocircuit: Ko: A generic type-safe language for concurrent, stateful...
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The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best
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GQ
The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain, According to Those Who Knew Him Best
Chefs, artists, and loved ones pay tribute to the late culinary icon.
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Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use
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Show HN: Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda
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GitHub
GitHub - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda: Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions
Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda
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