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John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89
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BBC News
John le Carré: Espionage writer dies aged 89
The renowned Cold War novelist, author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, died following a short illness.
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SolarWinds supply chain attack exploits SUNBURST backdoor
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Google Cloud Blog
SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Uses SUNBURST Backdoor | Google Cloud Blog
A highly evasive attacker leverages a supply chain attack trojanizing SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute SUNBURST malware.
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Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?
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In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
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Al Jazeera
In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
Plastic production surged in the last 50 years, and we could be ingesting equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week.
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WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore
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projectwaves.net
Waves Movement
Waves is a community ISP focused on providing high quality, high-availability, transparent internet to the Baltimore community in a scalable, cost-effective manner.
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Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements
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VR Final
Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) has announced that they are opening formal abuse proceedings against Facebook after the introduction of their new login requirements for the Quest 2.
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Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why (2019)
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WUWM
Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying And Nobody Knows Why
A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other species.
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Blabrecs
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Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)
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Quantcast
Death by 1000 layers: The Perils of Over-Abstraction in Java
Tips on how to get your thousand-layer Javanoscript down to a manageable few, improving velocity.
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Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary (by Internet Archive)
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books-search.typesense.org
Instantly Search OpenLibrary Books with Typesense
Search through 28M books from the OpenLibrary database (from Internet Archive) with Typesense
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Lambda School Is the Biggest Mistake I Made This Year
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reddit
r/LambdaSchool - Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
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37 votes and 28 comments so far on Reddit
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Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
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Singularity Hub
Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
Crops will grow in stacks 14 layers high and will use more than 20,000 LED lights. Robots on wheels will deliver seeds to the growing shelves.
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Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
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Sentiatechblog
AWS re:Invent 2020 Day 3: Optimizing Lambda Cost with Multi-Threading
Amazon has released support for up to 10 GB memory and 6 vCPUs for your Lambda functions. In this article we will explore how these new memory configuration options can drive down costs and execution
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We need legal controls on web advertising
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The Register
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
We need regulations on web advertising
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Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
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AppleInsider
Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
Over the summer of 2020, a six-year-old spent over $16,000 in the App Store, on in-app purchases for the iPad version of Sega's "Sonic Forces."
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Google Outage
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Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
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www.privacytools.io
PrivacyTools.io - Fight Mass Surveillance with Encryption
The most reliable source for privacy tools since 2015. Software and services to counter surveillance with encryption for better internet privacy.
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For Apollo 11 he wasn’t on the moon, but his coffee was warm (2019)
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NY Times
For Apollo 11 He Wasn’t on the Moon. But His Coffee Was Warm. (Published 2019)
Michael Collins kept an orbital vigil during Neil’s and Buzz’s moonwalk, but he really didn’t feel that lonely.
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Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work?
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EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1bn
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BBC News
EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1bn
Games giant Electronic Arts is set to acquire the British game-maker, beating an earlier rival offer.
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A Defer Mechanism for C
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Jens Gustedt's Blog
A defer mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…
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