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Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records
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National Security Archive
Archive, Historians, CREW Sue White House, Seek to Preserve
Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2020 – The National Security Archive, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, and the Citizens for Responsibility and
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Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
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The Citizen Lab
Running in Circles
Circles is a surveillance firm that reportedly exploits weaknesses in the global mobile phone system to snoop on calls, texts, and the location of phones around the globe, and is affiliated with NSO Group, which develops the oft-abused Pegasus spyware. Using…
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Kubernetes is deprecating Docker support
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GitHub
kubernetes/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.20.md at master · kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management - kubernetes/kubernetes
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MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities
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Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen
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The Counter
Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen. Big Booze wants to keep it that way.
The alcohol industry regularly spreads misinformation to obscure booze’s cancer link. Public health groups are demanding label warnings to give consumers clarity.
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Do not sign a contract with Snowflake
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The Founder’s Guide to Actually Understanding Users
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South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
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BBC News
South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn and 20 win
Twenty ticketholders win in South Africa after the unusual sequence, sparking claims of fraud.
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A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old
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NY Times
This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises. (Published 2020)
A mochi seller in Kyoto, and many of Japan’s other centuries-old businesses, have endured by putting tradition and stability over profit and growth.
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UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category
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ABC News
UN agency removes cannabis from strictest drug category
The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry
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Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection
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vector.dev
Vector v0.11.0 Release Notes | Vector
Vector v0.11.0 - Kubernetes Pipes - Release Notes
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Urbit Precepts Discussion
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urbit.org
Precepts: Discussion • Blog
The precepts aren’t arguments. We discuss and justify them here.
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How the CCP Does Job Promotions
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Substack
How the CCP Does Job Promotions
"We cadres can't be Bodhisattvas." How the system makes it hard for anyone to do the right thing.
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Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
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Quanta Magazine
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a new force of nature.
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Taking PHP Seriously
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slack.engineering
Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it…
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NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
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Nandgame
NandGame - Build a computer from scratch.
An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.
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Winamp Skins Collection
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Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
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Our World in Data
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
In most places, power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.
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Siteswap
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Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52M
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The Verge
Reddit reveals daily active user count for the first time: 52 million
Reddit wants to be like all of the other social media companies.
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Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science [pdf]
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