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Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
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Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
Google’s phone, text, and data service relies on infrastructure provided by T-Mobile and Sprint. A Motherboard investigation found both telcos selling customers’ location data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters.
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The Weight I Carry
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The Atlantic
My 460-Pound Self
What it’s like to be too big in America
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The Dark Side of Zero Knowledge: Undetectable Backdoor in Zk-SNARK
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Medium
The Dark Side of Zero Knowledge: Undetectable Backdoor in zk-SNARK
When using a zero-knowledge proof protocol from the SNARK family, you never know the rules of the game. The rules are set by the…
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How the Internet Is Broken: Big Questions and Bad Answers
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The Next Bison: Social Computing and Culture
How the Internet is Broken: Big Questions and Bad Answers
What if, though, the internet is better at helping people to ask big questions than at getting them to correct answers?
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Poland arrests Huawei worker on allegations of spying for China
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the Guardian
Poland arrests Huawei worker on allegations of spying for China
Polish national is also being held, risking further tension between China and the west
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Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct
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South Korea Raised Taxes in Bid for Growth. So Far, It’s Not Working
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NY Times
South Korea Raised Taxes in Bid for Growth. So Far, It’s Not Working.
In contrast to President Trump, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has embraced a pro-labor program of higher wages and taxes. The early results have been discouraging.
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Maybe its time to accept that Huawei is a Chinese intelligence front
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Spectator USA
Maybe it’s time to accept that Huawei is a Chinese intelligence front | Spectator USA
Theres nothing absurd about the idea that Huawei engages in espionage on behalf of China, as Polish counterintelligence indicates
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Michael Atiyah has died
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Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997
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GitHub
GitHub - klaussilveira/qengine: Retro game engine for creating games like it's 1997
Retro game engine for creating games like it's 1997 - klaussilveira/qengine
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Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1984) [pdf]
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Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
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ruben.verborgh.org
Re-Decentralizing the Web, For Good This Time
Originally designed as a decentralized ecosystem, the Web has undergone a significant centralization in recent years. In order to regain control over our digital self, over the digital aspects of our lives, we need to understand how we arrived at this point…
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EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing
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Boing Boing
Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that's so stupid, it's a whole new kind of wrong
Last month, I published a post discussing the mountains of abandoned Bird Scooters piling up in city impound lots, and the rise of $30 Chinese conversion kits that let you buy a scooter at auction,…
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Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee
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NY Times
Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee (Published 2019)
Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.
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I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
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One Mile at a Time
Why I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
I've previously said Google's Project Fi was the best international phone plan. Recent experiences have me withdrawing that endorsement.
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Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensing/actuation network
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GitLab
Gabriel / FarmNet
An open source Lora-based farm sensing and actuation network.
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Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera
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Ars Technica
Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera
Power rules ensure lasers are safe for human eyes—but not necessarily for cameras.
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Google cans the Chromecast Audio
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TechCrunch
Google cans the Chromecast Audio
The Chromecast Audio is no more. Google has decided to stop manufacturing the audio dongle that allowed you to add any “dumb” speaker to your Google Cast setup. If you still want one, you’ll have to hurry — and to entice you to buy a discontinued product…
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Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
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lwn.net
Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
In January 2038, the 32-bit time_t value used on many Unix-like
systems will run out of bits and be unable to represent the current time.
This may seem like a distant problem, but, as Tom Scott recently observed,
the year-2038 apocalypse is now closer to…
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How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
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freeCodeCamp.org
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections
By Sachin Malhotra If you look at the above screenshot closely, you’ll find two important pieces of information: This machine has 2.38 million TCP connections established, and The amount of RAM being used is around 48 Gigabytes. Pretty awesome righ...
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Train ferry
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