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EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Victory! EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security
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Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other
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BuzzFeed.News
Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At One Another
Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be.
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Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China
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NY Times
Huawei Is a Target as Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear (Published 2019)
The administration also announced that it had placed the company on a list of firms prevented from buying American parts and technologies without seeking approval.
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Cambridge scientists create living organism with redesigned DNA
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the Guardian
World’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA created
Researchers create altered synthetic genome, in move with potential medical benefits
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Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
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RNZ
Tech companies and 17 govts sign up to Christchurch Call
New Zealand and global investors worth more than $NZ5 trillion are uniting to put pressure on companies who have signed up to the Christchurch Call.
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Resilience engineering: Where do I start?
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GitHub
resilience-engineering/intro.md at master · lorin/resilience-engineering
Resilience engineering papers. Contribute to lorin/resilience-engineering development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The global trade in junk and trash
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Discard Studies
Adam Minter: In the flow of things
Discard Studies interviews writer Adam Minter, author of ‘Junkyard Planet’ and journalist for Bloomberg about his next book, ‘Secondhand’
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U.S. blacklists China's Huawei
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Reuters
U.S. blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration hit Chinese telecoms giant Huawei with severe sanctions on Wednesday, adding another incendiary element to the U.S.-China trade dispute just as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would visit China soon…
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Mysterious groups of archaea stir debate about the origin of complex creatures
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Nature
The trickster microbes that are shaking up the tree of life
Mysterious groups of archaea — named after Loki and other Norse myths — are stirring debate about the origin of complex creatures, including humans.
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SpaceX Is Launching 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Tonight
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TechCrunch
Watch SpaceX’s 60-satellite Starlink launch tonight right here
SpaceX's launch tonight is being performed for a very important client: itself. Yes, the Falcon 9 that will lift off at 7:30 PM Pacific time is loaded not with government or commercial payloads, but the first of SpaceX's own Starlink orbital communications…
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
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Zapier
Free Dropbox accounts only sync to three devices—here's what to do | Zapier
Do you use a free Dropbox account? As of March 2019, you can only connect Dropbox with three devices. Here's how to work around the limit.
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Grocery Outlet S-1
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Racket 7.3
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Protothreads: Lightweight Stackless Threads in C
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European Court of Justice: EU employers must track working time in detail
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DW
ECJ: EU employers must track working time
Employers in the European Union must implement a system to record time worked daily by their employees, according to a new ECJ ruling. The decision stemmed from a lawsuit in Spain against Deutsche Bank.
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Kik and the SEC: What’s Going on and What Does It Mean for Crypto?
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Andreessen Horowitz
Kik and the SEC: What’s Going On and What Does It Mean for Crypto? - Andreessen Horowitz
Kik, the Tencent-backed messaging app, raised $150 million in August 2017 in an initial coin offering (ICO). Weeks before that, the SEC issued guidance that ICOs may constitute illegal securities offerings, so it was no surprise to learn Kik was …
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Sexy weasels in Renaissance art
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The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
Sexy weasels in Renaissance art
Exploring the sexual symbolism hidden in paintings of weasels in Renaissance art
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The moon may be tectonically active, and geologists are shaken
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Science
The moon may be tectonically active, and geologists are shaken
A new look at Apollo-era seismic data revealed that the moon's insides might be warmer than scientists thought possible.
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Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations
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The Curse of Genius
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The Economist
The curse of genius
We see exceptional intelligence as a blessing. So why, asks Maggie Fergusson, are so many brilliant children miserable misfits?
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Scientists Created Bacteria with a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?
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NY Times
Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life? (Published 2019)
In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.
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