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Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs
Today is Global Encryption Day, a day to highlight why encryption is critical for a safe, private internet.
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Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have no other choice but to delete the websites I developed for learning Java, PHP, C#, Scala, HTML, Linux etc.
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The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
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It was all downhill after the Cuecat
Sometime in 2001, I walked into a Radio Shack on San Francisco's Market Street and asked for a Cuecat: a handheld barcode scanner that looked a bit like a cat and a bit like a sex toy. The clerk handed one over to me and I left, feeling a little giddy. I didn't have to pay a cent.
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Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, the criminal legal system is incapable of admitting its mistakes
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AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
Peng-Jen Chen is well aware of how language barriers can affect people’s ability to communicate. Chen grew up in Taiwan speaking Mandarin Chinese, but his father, Sheng-Jiang Chen, a 70-year-old retired factory lead technician, hails from Southern Taiwan, where Taiwanese Hokkien is widely spoken. Though the two…
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We're Drowning
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
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The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons
The Kroger-Albertsons supermarket deal is uglier than you might expect. The "special cash division" of $4 billion may be intended to get around antitrust enforcers.
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75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12.
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2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)
It's quite well known that Dutch children cycle to school and it's increasingly well known that the freedom of Dutch children is a good p...
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Microsoft Full Circle
Microsoft has come full circle from the company that cared more about Windows than Office; the retirement of the Office name is possible precisely because Microsoft gave up on Windows and went to t…
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No Congress 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and Camp 2023
The CCC sees no other option than to cancel the Chaos Communication Congress again this year. Instead, we call on local groups for decentralized and independent alternative events. The Chaos...
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AI Data Laundering
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
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Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)
Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? By Adara Liao | October 13, 2019
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The case for energy optimism
I’ve been working on a few more involved projects but thought it would be good to put down my thoughts on recent energy developments.
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Web 3.0 – The Great Con
I'll say it - web 3.0 is a meaningless buzzword, and blockchain and cryptocurrency is nothing more than a giant fraud.
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US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
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Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC
A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”
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Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros
Zur Verbindung mit dem Gesundheitsdatennetz „Telematik“ sind in deutschen Arztpraxen spezielle Router vorgeschrieben. Nach nur fünf Jahren Laufzeit soll nun ein Gerätetausch alternativlos sein – so...
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Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
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On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage.
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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Wesley Faulkner’s story
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Meta Meets Microsoft
Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?