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Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
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the Guardian
Monzo urges 480,000 customers to change their pin numbers
Digital bank says ‘bug’ meant unauthorised staff had access to numbers for six months
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Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers
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Science
Europe’s record heat melted Swiss glaciers
After snowy winter, an unusually rapid melt
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
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Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Hard Drive Reliability in 2019: Failure Rates of 108,461 Drives
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 108,461 hard drives in use at Backblaze's data centers.
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Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
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Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
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Anish Athalye
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.
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Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain
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VICE
Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free
A quirk of copyright law means that millions of books are now free for anyone to read, thanks to some work from the New York Public Library.
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Toni Morrison Has Died
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WSJ
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Dies at 88
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer of modern American literature who wrote about race and the pursuit of freedom in transcendent prose, died Monday night after a brief illness, her family said through publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
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Yelp Is Sneakily Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
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Vice
Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
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Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
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bioRxiv
Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans
The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social…
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Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
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Health insurance companies are useless. Get rid of them
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Los Angeles Times
Column: Health insurance companies are useless. Get rid of them
Private health insurers contribute nothing to healthcare except costs. It's time to throw them out.
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Decentralized DNS Is Here
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Privacy News Online by Private Internet Access VPN
Private Internet Access users can now resolve internet names with the Handshake Naming System (HNS)
Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected
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Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery
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Seamus Blackley
Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist @drserenalove and Microbiologist @rbowman1234, I went to Boston’s MFA and @Harvard’s @peabodymuseum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. Today, I baked with some of it...
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‘I don’t smell ’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
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the Guardian
‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead – and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them
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Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired 70k years ago
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phys.org
Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago
A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern ...
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Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
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Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem
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Nature
Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil animal trophic groups and associated ecosystem functioning in a northern agricultural…
Scientific Reports - Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil animal trophic groups and associated ecosystem functioning in a northern agricultural field
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Being basic as a virtue
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Nadia Eghbal
Being basic as a virtue
Silicon Valley is a coal mine for ideas. There’s something special about it: unlike a coal miner, you get to keep and sell what you extract from the ore deposits, and I feel lucky to have the setup that I do. But it is work.
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Open list of GDPR fines so far
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GitHub
lknik/gdpr
Contribute to lknik/gdpr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
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AnandTech
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
Today at Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba is debuting a new form factor for NVMe SSDs that is small enough to be a removable alternative to soldered-down BGA SSDs. The new XFMEXPRESS form factor allows for two or four PCIe lanes while taking up much less space…
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Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail trannoscripts and Chrome Extension texting
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Android Police
Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail trannoscripts and Chrome Extension texting
Google Voice takes your phone subnoscription to the next level, thanks to advanced features such as voicemail trannoscription and web texting and calling. The
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