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Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe
A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 2,107 posts.
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CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
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Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
Facebook is acquiring tbh, another burgeoning social network; regulators erred in allowing the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, but there is no better place to start enforcing the law than now.
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Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built…
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TSA Master Keys
Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys. It’s now blurred out of the Washington Post story, but the image is still floating around the Internet. The whole thing neatly illustrates one of the main problems with backdoors…
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Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to…
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Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit
Let's transform an old airport site into a Traditional City.
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A Solarpunk Manifesto
Solarpunk, Permaculture, Sociocracy
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A new approach to China: an update
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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FBI Harassment
Obligatory Disclaimer: Personal or political views presented within this post absolutely do not reflect those of my employer(s), client(s), and/or legal counsel.
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Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
This article was updated on September 3, 2026. For a more comprehensive and up-to-date tally of ALPR abuse, check out IJ’s database of ALPR abuse. […]
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Sana'a
The scariest thing I'll see in Yemen looms up at me before the plane has even landed. I have dozed my way from Abu Dhabi across most of the Arabian Penninsula, including the Empty Quarter, that vast uninhabitable sandbox in the interior were they didn't even bother to put in borders until fifteen years ago. That just…
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in…
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Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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“It’s Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission”
Grace Hopper? Cardinal Barberini? Earl of Peterborough? David Hernandez? Helen Pajama? St. Benedict? Anonymous?
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Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
Was GitHub down more after Microsoft acquired them? We analyzed their status page and found a 41% increase in disruptions.
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I was wrong, we need crypto
To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes. There's just so much to oppose: Bitcoin's grotesque energy consumption, the…
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To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots
You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical…