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Ransom gangs increasingly outsource their work
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Krebs on Security
Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work
There's an old adage in information security: "Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure." Many organizations that do hire professionals to test their network security posture unfortunately tend to focus on fixing…
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House of Representatives say Facebook Oculus login requirement anticompetitive
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VR Final
Report from the House of Representatives may suggest that the Facebook login requirement for the Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive.
A recent report from the US House of Representatives subcommittee on antitrust laws suggests that the requirement for all Quest 2 users to login via a Facebook account may be anticompetitive.
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The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland
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The New York Review of Books
The FBI Team Sent to ‘Exploit’ Protesters’ Phones in Portland | by Mattathias Schwartz | The New York Review of Books
The FBI’s Washington, D.C., headquarters sent agents from its “Fly Team,” an elite counterterrorism unit, to Portland this summer during the second weekend in July. Their task was to interview arrested protesters and carry out the “initial exploitation of…
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ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]
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So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000)
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Memcmp being wrongly stripped like strcmp
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I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)
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Slate Magazine
I Built the Feature That Tells You When Someone’s Typing in a Chat. And I’m Not Sorry.
How do you feel about the typing indicator—“David is typing”—that appears on your buddy’s screen while you’re composing a message in chat? Does it make...
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AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
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The Wall Street Journal
WSJ News Exclusive | AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
A deal between the rival chip makers could be worth more than $30 billion and mark the latest big tie-up in the rapidly consolidating industry.
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Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
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CNBC
Facebook is a social network monopoly that buys, copies or kills competitors, antitrust committee finds
The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee determined Facebook wields monopoly powers in social network and has maintained its position by acquiring, copying or killing its competitors, according to a report released by the subcommittee on Tuesday.
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Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing
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Vice
Google Contractors Say Their Work Is Being Shipped to Poland After Unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board issued a formal complaint against Google contractor HCL, alleging that the company has repeatedly violated union members' rights.
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Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs
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Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVa: Steel Yourself
This week, we continue our four(and a half)-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week, we looked at how a blacksmith reshapes our iron from a spo…
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unicode-org/last-resort-font: Last Resort Font
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GitHub
GitHub - unicode-org/last-resort-font: Last Resort Font
Last Resort Font. Contribute to unicode-org/last-resort-font development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dendrite (next-gen Matrix server) is entering beta
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The Machine Learning Engineering Book
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (2018) [pdf]
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Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives
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The Economist
Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives
A new study finds that incumbent parties lose votes after their citizens get online
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2020
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NobelPrize.org
Nobel Peace Prize 2020
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger…
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Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network
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The Guide to Visual Storytelling
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Medium
The Ultimate Guide to Visual Storytelling
A step-by-step playbook for the skill of the future
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Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
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Peta Pixel
NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls
NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality.
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