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The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns.

A German-led police sting has taken down the \

Colleges are turning against the history of military conflict. But we forget these lessons at our peril.

Tether printed two billion dollar-backed tokens last week, a new record for the leading stablecoin project.
Over 24.6 billion tethers now circulate across Ethereum, Tron and Bitcoin’s Omni Layer, per data from Coin Metrics, up from 4.8 billion one year ago. …

It's happening. macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support. Expect a fun early bring-up stream tomorrow. Time to get a few hours of sleep.

In this article, we analyze the runtime, energy usage, and performance of Tensorflow training on an M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100. .

Following Trump’s Twitter ban, Polish government wants to protect posts that do not violate nation’s laws

Portable, Serverless & Lightweight SQLite-based Graph Database in Arturo - arturo-lang/grafito

"C’est extraordinaire que j’aie une voix aussi traînarde, jamais je l’aurais cru ! On ne s’entend pas, absolument !" Dans ce document unique en son genre, un Parisien réagit à l'écoute de son propre accent, celui du 14e arrondissement, en 1912. Il est interviewé…

zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth noscripting language for embedded systems - zevv/zForth

The bureaucrats are running the asylum

Social media censorship in the US fails to tackle the rising trend of ‘disinformation-for-hire’ cyber troops.

Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication…

Last year, TCL announced a new screen technology called NXTPAPER. This tech has been in development for a couple of years and the first commercially viable product will be coming out in April. This eight inch tablet will have an 8 inch screen and be running…

Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them.

After analyzing 1000+ Y-Combinator Companies, I discover there's a huge market need for more engineering-focused data practitioner roles.