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Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
The search engine features some revolutionary ideas and is now the default search engine in Linux Mint 12.
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If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time
Forget Suze Orman. Time, not money, is your most precious resource. Spend it wisely.
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Right to Repair Fight
Manufacturers of vehicles, electronics, appliances, and more are making it tough for independent shops and DIYers to make repairs. Shouldn’t you be able to get stuff you own fixed where and how you want?
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H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it.
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz
The Jazz of Physics: Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had a lot in common. The so-called “Coltrane circle” or “Circle of Fifths,” but incorporates Coltrane’s own innovations. Coltrane gave the drawing to saxophonist and professor Yusef Lateef in 1967, who included it in the Repository of Scales and
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
(Update: we've added a few engineers who asked to sign on right as the letter was going out; the final count is 96 signatures) Today, 87 prominent Internet engineers sent a joint letter the US Senate Judiciary Committee, declaring their opposition to the "Combating Online Infringement and...
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Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill
The proposed infrastructure bill will place restrictions on investment options. Act now to protect your self-directed IRA.
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Votes could be counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically…
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Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State
Greenpeace Nordic and Natur og Ungdom (Young Friends of the Earth Norway) secured a historic win against the Norwegian State
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Some thoughts about the reports of supposed evidence of election irregularities
The Internet lit up on Monday over the news, reported in New York Magazine , that a team of computer scientists and lawyers had reported to the Clinton campaign that “they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. ”
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Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya
Mozilla Fellows Odanga Madung and Brian Obilo reveal that Kenyan journalists, judges, and other members of civil society are facing coordinated disinformation campaigns on Twitter — and the site is doing very little to stop it.
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On Let's Plays – That Dragon, Cancer
I've been sitting here this morning paralyzed at what to say in response to this... The last few months since we launched That Dragon, Cancer have been pretty incredible. The mainstream culture, the gamer culture, and others have all embraced our story and been willing to listen to our heart a
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The Document Foundation on City of Munich’s discussion on returning to Microsoft
The Document Foundation is an independent, charitable entity and the home of LibreOffice. We have followed the developments in Munich with great concerns and like to express our disappointment to see a minority of politicians apparently ignoring the expert advice for which they’ve sought. Rumours of the City of Munich…
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A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka
The cheapest way to save lives may be tackling a means of suicide you've never even heard of.
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We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla
(image) If you like crime stories, you’ll love this. ‘True Crime: Hammersmith’ is the story of a deranged criminal organisation […]
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Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.
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Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards
A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called...
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Finland: New surveillance law threatens fundamental rights (2015)
Finnish EDRi member Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) is gravely concerned over a draft law on Internet surveillance. The bill that the country’s current government is in the process of preparing will grant the military and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) the authority to conduct electronic mass…
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Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports
A bill headed to the Senate floor in Utah would require officers to disclose if a police report was written by generative AI. The bill, S.B. 180, requires a department to have a policy governing the use of AI. This policy would mandate that police reports created in whole or in part by generative...
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What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces
This Old City is your guide to smarter homeownership, offering useful advice for buying, selling, and maintaining your property with confidence.