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Microsoft, I Forgive You
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,691 posts.
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Will boiling water ruin green tea?
A common myth regarding green tea is that it shouldn't be prepared with boiling water.
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A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
Expiry of key LFP battery patents in 2022 reshaped the EV sector—open access to tech is driving global strategy shifts as old IP barriers fall.
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How much do hedge fund traders earn?
Hedge fund trading may be the highest paying job in the world, so to learn more, we spoke with a former manager at one of the world’s leading hedge funds.
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Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search
Today we’re announcing a variety of new policies and updates to help keep kids and teens safe as they spend more time online.
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How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only…
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
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You Don't Need the Cloud
Thymer is a beautiful editor to write, outline and plan at the speed of thought. Real-time multiplayer, malleable with plugins and themes, open to your agents through plain files. End-to-end encrypted, on web, desktop and mobile.
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Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010)
A physicist explains why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste.
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Bing Image Creator
Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. We’ve seen…
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Precursor
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for…
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Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
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Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise
On August 4, 2022, Twilio identified accounts of employees who were compromised by a social engineering attack. The attacker then gained access to data for a limited number of customers.
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So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)
Vinyl Cache (formerly known as “Varnish Cache”) is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Vinyl Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300-1000×…
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
Artificial intelligence, like machine learning before it, is making big money off what I call the “sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ scam.” The scam works as follows. Build a sy…
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JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final
Issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. These warnings aim to prepare developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default by restricting final field mutation, which will make Java programs safer and potentially faster. Application developers can avoid both current warnings…
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Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions
Safari is adopting a web-based API for browser extensions similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions API making it easy to build once and port to multiple browsers. Developers
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Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions
This update brings Payments 2.0 for all Telegram chats, Scheduling and Mini Profiles for Voice Chats, new versions of Telegram Web for your browser, and more.
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Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education
Perspectives is an opportunity for Fellows and others to share their ideas in short, accessible essays. IPE/BC Fellows hold a range of views and interests relative to public education.
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Managing mental health while running a startup
Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all startup founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.
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How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies
How Fathom Analytics build a totally GDPR compliant website analytics without cookies.
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20 Years of Haiku
Dedication asks each of its adherents to have faith even as time and energy pass through from one year to the next. Dedication brings with it a variety of challenges, but also rewards. Dedication is something most people claim to have, but few …
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
Updates & fixes, dev contributors, and the new COSMIC App Store.