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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
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Nytimes
How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters (Published 2019)
Twitter took down nearly 1,000 accounts that it said were part of a state-directed effort to undermine protests. Here is a look at their activities.
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Modern C, Second Edition
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Modern C, Second Edition
A new edition of the book Modern C and much more are now available under a CC license via the following page This edition is the result of a collaboration with Manning, and improves a lot ove…
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Going Fast Slowly
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Welcoming Semmle to the GitHub Family
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The GitHub Blog
Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family
Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
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Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates
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Vice
This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It
Repo men are passively scanning and uploading the locations of every car they drive by into DRN, a surveillance database of 9 billion license plate scans accessible by private investigators.
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Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API
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The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation
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How the Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation
San Francisco-based non-profit is archiving billions of web pages in a bid to preserve web history
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ImageNet Roulette
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Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
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Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
C-section babies pick up more hospital bacteria than those born vaginally, research shows
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How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork
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WSJ
How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’
His entrepreneurial vision and risk-taking, plus tequila and marijuana, helped fuel We Co.’s breakneck growth. Those qualities are piling up as potential liabilities as the company prepares to go public.
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Trump strips California of power to set auto emission standards
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California barred from setting own emission rules
The US president says the move will cut car prices, but California vows to fight the move.
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The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
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Scientific American
The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
As the fourth anniversary of the first detection approaches, the field continues to mature—with a bright future ahead
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A Reflection on the Departure of RMS
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Medium
A reflection on the departure of RMS
So Richard Stallman has resigned from his guest position at MIT and as President of the Free Software Foundation. You can easily find out…
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Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
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Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life (Published 2019)
Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and ennoscriptd. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?
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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
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Tashian
At Dynamicland, The Building Is The Computer
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
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Talk to People on the Telephone
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The Atlantic
Talk to People on the Telephone
It’s time to start calling your friends again.
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Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information
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SWI swissinfo.ch
Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information
A year ago, Switzerland began to pass on data on the bank accounts held by foreigners in Swiss banks to around 30 countries.
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Google Fi Unlimited Plan
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Google
Unlimited, Flexible & Group Phone Plans & Rates - Google Fi Wireless
Discover Google Fi Wireless phone plans that work best for you and your family including unlimited data, group, flexible, international and more.
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Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves
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We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF
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Medium
130,000 Reasons Why Data Science Can Help Cleanup San Francisco
What can 130,000 pieces of litter teach us about our urban environment?
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Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook
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Smart TVs sending private data to Netflix and Facebook
Two studies find devices share information on location and usage with advertisers
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