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Maintaining the Kernel's Web of Trust
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lwn.net
Maintaining the kernel's web of trust
A typical kernel development cycle involves pulling patches from over 100
repositories into the mainline. Any of those pulls could conceivably
bring with it malicious code, leaving the kernel (and its users) open to
compromise. The kernel's web of trust…
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‘Ecological grief’ grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier Reef’s decline
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Nature
‘Ecological grief’ grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier Reef’s decline
Studying ecosystems affected by climate change takes an emotional toll on researchers.
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Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law
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Ars Technica
Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken Calif. privacy law
The assemblywoman said her husband's job has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Milton’s notes on Shakespeare appear to have been found
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the Guardian
When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been found
Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful annotations on his edition of Shakespeare’s plays
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Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G
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The New Daily
Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study
Australia is the only country with a 4G network that is faster than the 5G network, as shown in a new report.
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Rustler is a library for writing Erlang NIFs in safe Rust code
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GitHub
GitHub - rusterlium/rustler: Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions - rusterlium/rustler
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YC and Ginkgo Bioworks announce new partnership for synthetic biology startups
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Y Combinator
YC and Ginkgo Bioworks announce new partnership for synthetic biology startups
Ginkgo Bioworks was the first bio company YC funded, back in summer 2014, which makes us especially delighted to announce a new partnership between YC and Ginkgo. Ginkgo Bioworks programs cells. They program them to produce flavors, fragrances, cannabinoids…
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100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
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Mozilla Foundation
A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web
Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, an ambitious initiative to empower individual creators and galvanize an alternative business model for online content
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Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
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NY Times
Opinion | Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry (Published 2019)
The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them.
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Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
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Observer
Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
And the shopping platform has plans to take on Amazon next.
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Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
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Twitter
Julien Chaumond
Apple, are you trying to bankrupt us? At ~500 MB per average model download, 90k hits (Apple's IP addresses are the 17. block) translate to ~45TB of downstream bandwidth… which starts being costly for us. Your new ML platform Overton (https://t.co/ZUnVXeMNzv)…
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GraalVM: The holy graal of polyglot JVM?
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Transposit
GraalVM: the holy graal of polyglot JVM?
A blog post from the makers of Transposit.
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Against Against Pseudoaddiction
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Slate Star Codex
Against Against Pseudoaddiction
I. “Pseudoaddiction” is one of the standard beats every article on the opioid crisis has to hit. Pharma companies (the story goes) invented a concept called “pseudoaddiction”…
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Sauropod Neck Posture
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Wikipedia
Sauropod neck posture
subject debated among scientists
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Nearly 90 percent of Peruvians want members of Congress to step down
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Latin America Reports
Peruvians demand dissolution of Congress
Nearly 90 percent of Peruvians want members of Congress to step down.
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Tilde.club
is giving accounts to waitlist
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life
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Square Wants to Be a Bank but Doesn’t Want to Be Taxed Like One
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WSJ
Square Wants to Be a Bank But Doesn’t Want to Be Taxed Like One
Square has lent billions to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license, but it says it isn’t a financial company.
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The Crane Wife
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The Paris Review
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
July 16, 2019 – Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.
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Richard M. Stallman resigns from MIT CSAIL over “a series of misunderstandings”
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The We Company reportedly will put its public offering on hold
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TechCrunch
Under pressure, The We Company now only says it expects to go public ‘by the end of the year’
The We Company, beleaguered parent of the short-term real estate property management and development company WeWork and other We-related subsidiaries, has issued a statement that says it “expects” to complete its initial public offering by the end of the…
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