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Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
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GitHub: October 21 Incident Report
At 10:52 pm Sunday UTC, multiple services on GitHub.com were affected by a network partition and subsequent database failure resulting in inconsistent information being presented on our website.
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AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
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EtherPad Open Source Release
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
The Great Return: From Digital Abundance to Analog Meaning
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Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
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GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa
Money always helps, but for the poorest, one large lump sum can last a long time. A long-term universal basic income also looks promising.
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Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.
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U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages
The Supreme Court issued an important ruling today in the long-running patent battle between Apple and Samsung. The appeal involved some of Apple’s infamous design patents on rounded corners. The Federal Circuit had ruled that Apple was entitled to all of Samsung’s profits from the infringing...
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Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
As part of Apple’s commitment to fostering a healthier planet through innovation, its global facilities are powered with 100 percent clean energy.
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Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. AWS has continuously expanded its services to support virtually any cloud workload. It now offers over 200 fully featured services for…
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Send money to debit cards
Learn about Custom connected accounts. Custom connected accounts are deprecated, so don't use them for new integrations.
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
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Google to acquire Motorola
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Update on Omicron
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for…
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Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
University of Surrey research finds solar is now the lowest cost electricity source in sunniest regions. Discover what this means for the global energy future.
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
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EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
UPDATE (as of Sept 2021): This post seems to be the de facto clearing house for people receiving these threats from Fechner and crew all over the world. Here is everything you need to know: You can ignore it Nobody has actually been sued We recently received a copyright notice…
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Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
LLC vs C Corps. Get valuable insights and learn how to protect your business from unwanted legal liabilities. Be ahead of the competition.
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YC 120
[https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/wordpress/2019/01/yc120-v1.png] The world is shaped by people with intelligence, drive and vision. At YC, we’ve learned a lot about cultivating a network of such people — and we believe that having a strong network is such a force multiplier that it is one of the most…
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Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
We're introducing Marketplace, a convenient destination on Facebook to discover, buy and sell items with people in your community.
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Google Cloud products in 4 words or less
If you are just getting started, the 4 words or less developer’s cheat sheet is a great resource that gives you a quick overview of all that is available to you on Google Cloud.
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EU copyright reform: the facts
Ahead of the crucial EU copyright vote on 12 Sept., we set the facts straight and explain exactly what the new rules will mean for the internet in Europe.