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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa Arrested for Cyber Libel
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Rappler
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa arrested for cyber libel
(UPDATED) The arrest is in connection with a story published by Rappler in May 2012 – or 4 months before the law that Maria Ressa and researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr allegedly violated was enacted
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Earnest Capital, funding for bootstrappers, is live
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Earnest Capital
Is Earnest Capital Live Yet? | Earnest Capital
Yep.
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Cable: Malicious USB Cable with WiFi
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Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery
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The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
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Hackaday
The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
Followers of the Church of Elon will no doubt already be aware of SpaceX’s latest technical triumph: the test firing of the first full-scale Raptor engine. Of course, it was hardly a secret. …
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Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb
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CBC
ANALYSIS | Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook | CBC News
This country's managed forest land hasn't been a net carbon sink since 2001. That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn.
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The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)
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WIRED
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
Brazilian satellite hackers use high-performance antennas and homebrew gear to turn U.S. Navy satellites into their personal CB radios. Photo: Divulgação/Polícia Federal CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S.…
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Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
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Electron is flash for the desktop
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Seph
Electron is flash for the desktop
What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not…
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Fast Perfect Hashing
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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
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Tom's Hardware
You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
A new installer lets you put Windows 10 on Arm, including the the Raspberry Pi 3.
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Activision Blizzard Begins Massive Layoffs
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Kotaku
Activision Blizzard Lays Off Hundreds Of Employees
Publisher Activision Blizzard has begun its long-rumored layoff process, informing employees this afternoon that it will be cutting staff. On an earnings call this afternoon, the company said that it would be eliminating 8% of its staff. In 2018, Activision…
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Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes
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ITEP
Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes
Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion the previous year and, once again, didn’t pay a single cent of federal income taxes.
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Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands
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Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof
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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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Quora
How does reCAPTCHA stop bots from clicking the checkbox?
Answer (1 of 62): So, in the middle of expert’s answer, I am going to attempt answering this question.
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The bots are way quicker than humans. These CAPTCHAs are mainly used to prevent DDOS attacks and spams. Say if a bot tries to create thousands…
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Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
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NY Times
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission (Published 2019)
Silent since a giant dust storm last summer, the rover was the longest-lasting robot on another planet ever.
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The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
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Felix Reda
The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
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Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading
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Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton
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Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
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The New Republic
Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
The festival's marketing agency also co-produced the film, resulting in a misleading version of who bears responsibility for the fraud.
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