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FFmpeg is 20 years old today
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FFmpeg
This is probably as close to a 20th Birthday as we can get. Here's to 20 more years of open source multimedia!
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Lode Runner
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Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point
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Outlook Zen
Meritocracies Are Unfair – And That’s The point
When your father suffers a heart attack and needs emergency surgery, who would you rather have operating on him? An inspiring doctor who lost an arm in a tragic car accident, and still heroically m…
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Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez
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SciTechDaily
Scientists Warn of Likely Massive Oil Spill: Abandoned Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil As the Exxon Valdez
A paper to be published in Frontiers in Marine Science on December 15 is calling for action to remove the oil from a decaying and inactive tanker in the Red Sea that holds approximately one million barrels of oil – four times the amount of oil contained in…
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An obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
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Ars Technica
How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer.
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Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
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Substack
Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted.
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Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
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Li's Newsletter
Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?
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Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
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VentureBeat
At NeurIPS 2020, researchers proposed faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
Backpropagation has led to impressive gains in AI and machine learning. But it has limitations researchers are attempting to move beyond.
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Hackers last year conducted a 'dry run' of SolarWinds breach
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Yahoo News
Hackers last year conducted a 'dry run' of SolarWinds breach
Hackers who breached federal agency networks through software made by SolarWinds appear to have conducted a test run of their broad espionage campaign last year, sources with knowledge of the operation said.
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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Medium
Operation Elop
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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How and why I stopped buying new laptops
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LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
As a freelance journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I have always believed that I should regularly buy a new laptop. But older machines offer more quality for much less money.
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Security expert warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access server
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Business Insider Australia
A security expert reportedly warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access the company's update server with the password 'solarwinds123'
A security researcher said he warned SolarWinds in 2019 that the IT company’s update server could be accessed by using the password “solarwinds123,” according to a Tuesday Reuters report.
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Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
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The Citizen Lab
The Great iPwn
Government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, including one operator MONARCHY that we attribute…
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A medical hoax leads to a 50-year mistruth about MSG (2019)
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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware
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the Guardian
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using Israeli firm's spyware
Citizen Lab researchers say cyber-attack using NSO Group software likely ordered by Saudia Arabia and UAE
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Autism and Invention Are Connected
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WSJ
How Autism and Invention Are Connected
Our unique ability to analyze patterns is at the root of a psychological disability and the talent that drives human development
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Play is so important that nature invented it long before it invented us
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Nautilus
Why It Pays to Play Around
The 19th-century physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared his progress in solving a problem to that of a mountain climber “compelled…
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Kivy: Cross-Platform Python Framework for UI Development
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kivy.org
Kivy: Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI
Open source Python framework for rapid development of applications
that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.
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More challenging projects every programmer should try
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Austinhenley
More challenging projects every programmer should try
More challenging projects every programmer should try.
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On the Graying of Gnome
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Et tu, Cthulhu
On the Graying of GNOME - Et tu, Cthulhu
The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though?
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