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Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
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ZDNet
Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
Two years after Firefox Quantum's release, Mozilla devs said they fixed Firefox's battery-draining problem.
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Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
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Quartz
Real-time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
Volunteer-created and crowdsourced, these help protesters and bystanders alike navigate fast-changing and often chaotic situations.
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Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health
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Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat boom: Good for the environment but not for your health
Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey says while he thinks plant-based meat companies are more "ethical" than regular meat companies, he does not endorse meat alternatives for health due to their "highly processed" ingredients.
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Regex Crossword
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Regex Crossword
A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions. Earn achievements completing puzzle challenges. Easy tutorials for people new to regular expressions.
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Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
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South China Morning Post
Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill, sets up platform to examine protest causes
Chief executive finally agrees to one of protesters’ five demands after weeks of insisting bill would not be withdrawn.
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Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
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grsecurity.net
grsecurity - Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
An in-depth analysis of the journey of a Spectre fix into the upstream LTS kernels that left its users with nothing more than a false sense of security.
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
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BBC News
How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?
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Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice
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TNW
Fraudsters deepfake CEO’s voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000
Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds.
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Monadic parsing in Haskell (1998) [pdf]
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A history of Tetris randomizers (2018)
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simon.lc
The history of Tetris randomizers
In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov released Tetris to the public. This fun and highly addictive game challenged players to fit...
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Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed
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Andy Hunt
Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed, which killed their EBS serversl, which took all of our data with it. Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it. Reminder: The cloud is just a computer in Reston with…
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Camera sales are falling sharply
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On my Om
Camera sales are falling sharply
Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The latest data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows them in a swoon befitting a Bollywood roadside Romeo. All four bi…
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I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore (2017)
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Medium
I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore
I still love coding, but I hate this industry
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Exploit Market ‘Flooded’ with iOS Vulnerabilities
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9to5Mac
Report: Exploit market ‘flooded’ with iOS vulnerabilities, driving down their value
A new report dives deeper into the current state of the security industry, and how the number of iOS exploits continues to grow
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TypeScript vs. ReasonML – A Comparison
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blog.dubenko.dev
TypeScript vs ReasonML – A Comparison
Want some types in your javanoscript?
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Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
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Brave Uncovers Google’s GDPR Workaround
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Brave
Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround | Brave
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
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A closer look at recent HTTP/2 vulnerabilities affecting Kubernetes and others
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Randy Westergren
A Closer Look at Recent HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities Affecting K8s and Other Implementations - Randy Westergren
A couple of weeks ago, Netflix disclosed a number of resource exhaustion vulnerabilities (identified by Jonathan Looney) present in many third party HTTP/2 implementations. Notably, this directly affected h2 endpoints in Kubernetes (GoLang libraries net/http…
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China’s internet warriors going to battle over Hong Kong
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South China Morning Post
China’s internet warriors going to battle over Hong Kong protests
How young mainland Chinese are leaping the Great Firewall to get their patriotic messages across as protests rock Hong Kong.
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Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
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The Irish Times
Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers
Evidence submitted to Irish regulator accuses tech giant of ‘exploiting personal data’
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How U.S. Banks Took Over the World
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WSJ
How U.S. Banks Took Over the World
A decade after fueling a crisis that nearly brought down the global financial system, America’s banks are ruling it, earning the majority of global investment-banking fees, merger fees and stock commissions last year.
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