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Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women
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AlgorithmWatch
Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin - AlgorithmWatch
An exclusive investigation reveals that Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women, shaping the behavior of content creators and the worldview of 140 millions Europeans in what remains a blind spot of EU regulations.
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Popular Pirate Sites Slowly “Disappear” from Google’s Top Search Results
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Torrentfreak
Popular Pirate Sites Slowly 'Disappear' From Google's Top Search Results * TorrentFreak
Pirate sites have started to 'disappear' from Google. This goes beyond normal takedown notices and is not without collateral damage.
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Facebook, Kaggle face backlash after disqualifying “Deepfake Detection” winners
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Synced | AI Technology & Industry Review
Facebook and Kaggle Face Backlash After Disqualifying Apparent ‘Deepfake Detection Challenge’ Winner | Synced
Facebook and Kaggle are facing an online backlash after the apparent winners of the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) were disqualified.
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Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
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Mothership
Woman in China, 45, made S$589,800 by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
To avoid getting caught, she used over 20 other identities to take out the insurance.
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Anonymous, secure, modern, open source WebRTC group video chat and bg blur
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brie.fi
Briefing - Start a secure video chat
Briefing - Start a secure anonymous video chat
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MuseScore 4. Moving from notation software to composition software
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Show HN: Collection of animated algorithms and data structures
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Chrislaux
Learn Algorithms and Data Structures through animated graphics
Visual explanations of Algorithms and Data structures
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Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015
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GitHub
vibhoothiiaanand/CNotepad
A GUI Notepad completely made from scratch using C++ native library and Graphics library coupled with mouse events as part my 12th Grade Project in 2015 - vibhoothiiaanand/CNotepad
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Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning
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Aceso Under Glass
Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning
My goal was to come up with a system for reading a book. I eventually identified that as the wrong goal, but came up with a pretty great system for doing the much better goal of “how do I answer a …
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Bypass kernel lockdown/UEFI secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 with ACPI SSDT injection
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Warn HN: Heroku: certificate expiry in 7 days for .herokuapp.com
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Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel
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GitHub
Excalidraw
Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. - Excalidraw
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How Can You Help the Internet Archive?
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Osborning the Mac, or not
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Medium
Osborning The Mac. Or Not.
by Jean-Louis Gassée
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Hackers use an ordinary light bulb to spy on conversations 80 feet away
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Forbes
How Hackers Use An Ordinary Light Bulb To Spy On Conversations 80 Feet Away
What if a hacker could use an ordinary, dumb, old-fashioned light bulb to spy on your conversations from afar? Here's the bad news.
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Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
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Protocol
Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson spent two decades telling anyone who would listen that remote work really could work. Now that a pandemic proved them right, they're shouting about email instead.
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U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections
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Reuters
In landmark ruling, Supreme Court bars discrimination against LGBT workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights and a defeat for President Donald Trump’s administration by ruling that a longstanding federal law barring workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender…
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Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
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guix.gnu.org
Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% — 2020 — Blog — GNU Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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20-year-old lost 700k on Robinhood options, takes life
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MarketWatch
Rookie trader kills himself after seeing a negative balance of more than $700,000 in his Robinhood account
The stock market, particularly in its current state, is no place for amateurs. Sullimar Capital analyst Bill Brewster delivered that message to followers in...
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The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light”
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Strangepaths
The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” ::
Strange Paths
Physics blog quantum computation
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Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
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