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A Team at Amazon Is Listening to Recordings Captured by Alexa
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BuzzFeed News
A Team At Amazon Is Listening To Recordings Captured By Alexa
An Amazon spokesperson said that "an extremely small sample of Alexa voice recordings" is annotated.
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A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a Moon landing Thursday
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Ars Technica
A private spacecraft from Israel crashed into the Moon Thursday [Updated]
No private company has ever achieved what SpaceIL is trying to do.
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Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available
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Future Releases
Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Always Connected PCs Now Available
Today, we’re excited to report the availability of our ARM64-native build of Firefox for Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 Always Connected PCs in our beta release channel, a channel aimed at developers or early tech adopters to test upcoming features before…
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Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists
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TechCrunch
Much to Oracle’s chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI cloud contract finalists
Yesterday, the Pentagon announced two finalists in the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process — and Oracle was not one of them. In spite of lawsuits, official protests and even back-channel complaining to the president, the two finalists are…
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It's Time to Panic About Privacy
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Nytimes
Opinion | It’s Time to Panic About Privacy (Published 2019)
We claim to want it, companies claim to provide it, but we all just accept that, well, you have no privacy online.
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Why Vi Rocks
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DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016
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Ars Technica
DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016
Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued in March says Russian hacking efforts were wide-ranging.
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Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it
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BuzzFeed News
Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It
A transparency tool on Facebook inadvertently provides a window into the confusing maze of companies you’ve never heard of who appear to have your data.
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Thinkers and Drinkers
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Literary Review
Clare Bucknell - Thinkers & Drinkers
Clare Bucknell: Thinkers & Drinkers - The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
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Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
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The Economist
Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-east
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Don’t trust the locals: investigating prevalence of persistent client-side XSS
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Seven-Dimensional Cross Product
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Show HN: Weight Lifting Algorithm Based on 5M Workouts
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Getfitnessai
FitnessAI — Get Stronger, Faster with Artificial Intelligence
Get stronger, faster with A.I. powered workouts. Make the commitment today with a 7-day free trial. FitnessAI's weight lifting algorithm is powered by over 5.9M workouts and 40k people. Users lift 20% more weight on average after their first 30 days...
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Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure
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Announcing Rust 1.34.0
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blog.rust-lang.org
Announcing Rust 1.34.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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EFF Statement on Assange Indictment and Arrest
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Statement on Assange Indictment and Arrest
While the indictment of Julian Assange centers on an alleged attempt to break a password—an attempt that was not apparently successful—it is still, at root, an attack on the publication of leaked
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To save the monarch butterfly, scientists are moving a forest up a mountain
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Los Angeles Times
To save the monarch butterfly, Mexican scientists are moving a forest 1,000 feet up a mountain
In a dramatic last-ditch effort to save the monarch butterfly, scientists in Mexico want to relocate an entire forest 1,000 feet up a mountain.
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‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive
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Nytimes
‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily. The People Have Yet to Arrive. (Published 2019)
A largely empty urban district struggling with billions of dollars in debt demonstrates the breakdown of the Chinese economic growth model.
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French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer
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the Guardian
French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer
Ruling says chemicals giant knew of weedkiller’s dangers but label lacked warning
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Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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NY Times
Moon Landing by Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Ends in Crash (Published 2019)
The spacecraft’s orbit of the moon was a first for a private effort, but the landing failure highlighted the risks of fast and cheap approaches to space exploration.
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You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him
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The Atlantic
You Don’t Have to Like Julian Assange to Defend Him
The effort to extradite and prosecute the WikiLeaks founder threatens the free media.
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