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Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter
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NY Times
Are These Teenagers Really Running a Presidential Campaign? Yes. (Maybe.) (Published 2019)
The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt — or the future of politics.
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The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
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WIRED
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
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Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
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MIT News
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
MIT researchers have developed a “photonic” artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that computes using light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process — to run massive neural networks millions of times more efficiently…
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ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures
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Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies
Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life. Microsoft's Windows operating system was ascendant, and
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Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM
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blog.npmjs.org
npm Blog Archive: Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by the npm security team
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
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AP NEWS
Spain: Unfinished Gaudí church gets permit after 137 years
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Property owners have a new yardstick by way of Spain for measuring frustration over building permit requests they suspect got lost in a local government bureaucracy. Barcelona City Hall finally has issued a work permit for the unfinished…
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Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
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NY Times
Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law this month that bans the cameras. It takes effect in September, but police departments have already started dismantling the devices.
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iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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9to5Mac
iOS 13 now shows a map of where apps have been tracking you when requesting permission
Apple continued its intense focus with the announcement of iOS 13 this week with a handful of new location permissions. Here's what you need to go.
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Huawei Accused of Technology Theft
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To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich
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Atlas Obscura
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich
It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.
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Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
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research.google
Introducing Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
Posted by Karol Kurach, Research Lead and Olivier Bachem, Research Scientist, Google Research, Zürich The goal of reinforcement learning (RL) is ...
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PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app
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ArsTechnica Reporter Peter Bright Arrested for Soliciting Sex with Children
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The Daily Dot
Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online
Prominent tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online. He was employed by Ars Technica until recently.
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Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds
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Ars Technica
Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds
Comcast deception leads to refunds and $9M fine, a fraction of the amount sought.
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The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform
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rtl-sdr.com
The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform Consisting of a Raspberry Pi, RPiTX, 2.4 GHz Crazyradio and an RTL-SDR
Circle City Con is a yearly conference that focuses on information security talks. At this years conference Josh Conway presented an interesting talk noscriptd "SigInt for the Masses Building and Using a Signals Intelligence Platform for Less than $150". Josh's…
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Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
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Engadget
Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
Tesla is removing Standard Model 3 owners' access to the Standard Plus features they didn't pay for in the next few days.
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What is a coder's worst nightmare?
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Quora
What is a coder's worst nightmare?
Answer (1 of 1345): You have an issue that's hard to reproduce but you finally find the trigger, then determine the root cause and put in a fix for it and the fix works! You're a genius!
You commit the fix. QA tests it out and they're happy. You've squashed…
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The Open Source Seed Initiative
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Open Source Seed Initiative
Open Source Seed Initiative - Home of the OSSI Pledge
Are you a plant breeder, seed company, farmer, gardener, or interested eater who wants to join the Open Source Seed Community?
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Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
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TechCrunch
Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition, Anne Evans, who accuses CEO John Riccitiello of sexual harassment. The sexual harassment allegedly took many forms — ranging from…
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Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
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The Economist
Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
Workers keen to buy more luxury goods keep toiling away
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