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Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
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Show HN: Thoughter
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The Lobster Programming Language
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Cog: Use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files
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How Gmail Happened (2014)
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TIME
How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago
Google's email breakthrough was almost three years in the making. But it wasn't a given that it would reach the public at all
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For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs
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Atlas Obscura
For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs Wherever They Went
The small, ornate tomes were big status symbols.
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Microsoft Finds Backdoor in Huawei Laptops
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www.theepochtimes.com
Microsoft Finds Backdoor in Huawei Laptops That Could Give Hackers Access
Researchers at U.S. tech giant Microsoft recently revealed that they discovered a backdoor in certain Huawei laptop models ...
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Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons
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Travel + Leisure
Komodo island is closing to tourists because people are stealing dragons
Komodo dragons are a protected species and considered to be the largest living lizard in the world.
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Programmers and Musicians
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Building Spotify’s New Web Player
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Spotify Engineering
Building Spotify’s New Web Player
Building Spotify’s New Web Player - Spotify Engineering
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540M Facebook Records Exposed
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TechCrunch
Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers | TechCrunch
Security researchers have found hundreds of millions of Facebook user records sitting on an inadvertently public storage server. The two batches of user
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Trinity Nuclear Test Site Open House Sat, April 6
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Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia
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Bbc
The Cold War-era drink that rivals cola
Created as an alternative to Coca-Cola and Pepsi at a time when Western goods were prohibitively expensive, Kofola is now widely popular in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me
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Sergiomattei
Lessons learned from jerks in the Internet
It was a dark, foggy night. In a cozy bed, I laid fast asleep after a long day of university lectures and late-night coding.
Suddenly, a long, annoying noise shook me off my sleep. Crawling to the other side of my bed, I reach my desk and clumsily grab my…
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Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart
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Vox
Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart
One member resigned and two more are under fire. It’s only a week old.
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Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS
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The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?
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APNIC Blog
The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel? | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Content providers are increasingly investing in new submarine cables. Are they forming a cartel?
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Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts
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NY Times
Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts (Published 2019)
Parliament adopted a measure that would criminalize “abhorrent violent material” shared on social media platforms, threatening huge fines for tech companies and jail for their employees.
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When this eBook store closes, your books disappear too
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BBC News
Microsoft's eBook store: When this closes, your books disappear too
The closure of Microsoft's eBook store is a reminder our digital "belongings" rarely belong to us.
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Pipdig Update: Dishonest Denials, Erased Evidence, and Ongoing Offenses
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Wordfence
Pipdig Update: Dishonest Denials, Erased Evidence, and Ongoing Offenses
In last week’s post, we reported on some concerning code identified in the Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. The plugin, which is installed alongside WordPress themes sold by Pipdig, was found to contain a number of suspicious or malicious features. Among these…
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Password checkup: from 0 to 650k users in 20 days
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Elie Bursztein's site
Password checkup: from 0 to 650, 000 users in 20 days
Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware.
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