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How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions
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Washington Post
How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions
For decades Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google gobbled up their competition to become behemoths of the tech industry, which has drawn attention from Congressional leaders and other critics who claim they’ve stifled innovation in the industry.
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In Singapore, Covid vs. privacy is no contest
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Lowy Institute
In Singapore, Covid vs privacy is no contest
The pandemic has shown how easily most people accept surveillance, and the government’s enthusiasm for new forms of it.
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Efficiency Is the Enemy
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Farnam Street
Efficiency is the Enemy
If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.
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Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google
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Ars Technica
Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google
Google's embattled Stadia division loses one of its highest-profile executives.
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Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
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No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people
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Rest of World
No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people
The country’s Covid-19 vaccination plan rests on a digital identification system that has systematically excluded minority groups.
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Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
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therecord.media
Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix a 12-year-old vulnerability that exposes systems to attacks.
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Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
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An NFT That Saves Lives
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CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020)
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MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review
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Announcing Rome Tools Inc, an open source first company
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Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]
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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and the Hard Problems of Loneliness
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Substack
On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness
My father’s father was by all accounts a really bitter-hearted sort of person.
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Your Car Is Spying on You, and a CBP Contract Shows the Risks
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The Intercept
Your Car Is Spying on You, and a CBP Contract Shows the Risks
A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.
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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache
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The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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Signal
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives. This isn’t exactly a secret,…
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
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Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021 | Hard Drive Failure Rates
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.
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The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks
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Hakai Magazine
The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks | Hakai Magazine
From unappetizing “fishbricks” to cultural darlings, the 1950s convenience food has enjoyed a winning streak—no less so than during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Reddit Outage
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Redditstatus
Elevated error rates
reddit's Status Page - Elevated error rates.
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Observable Plot
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Observable
Introducing Observable Plot
We are thrilled to announce Observable Plot, a new open-source JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization.
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