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We’ve all heard the stories of seemingly trivial patents being used to mug technology companies. There was the patent on the “Interactive Web” which a troll named Eolas used to extract $521 million from Microsoft--until a jury in East Texas threw out the patents . There are the four patents Lodsys is using to send…
Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers
People tend to date people who are just as attractive as they are. And thanks to the rise of online dating, that is only becoming more true.
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Op 8 juli 2019 start het Rijksmuseum Operatie Nachtwacht, het grootste en meest veelzijdige onderzoeks- en restauratieproject van Rembrandts meesterwerk in de geschiedenis. Operatie Nachtwacht heeft tot doel het schilderij optimaal te behouden voor de toekomst.
We removed seven Pages, three Groups and five Facebook accounts as part of a small network that originated in China and focused on Hong Kong.
Apple introduced their News app at WWDC, and the other day they sent me an e-mail saying they want to include this blog in News.
In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?
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About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter. Though I’d been thinking about it for a while, ultimately leaving was a snap decision for me. Lately I’ve been reflecting on why I hate Twitter so much.
A while back at the awesome maintainerati Ichatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big opensource projects, and how github forc...
If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…
To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball …
August 18, 2019 @ 12:31 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Decipherment , Language and history , Language and literature , Language and politics
Hi! I’m Steve Feldman, Senior Ad Ops Manager at Stack Overflow. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by advertising. Even as a kid, I wondered what a company was trying to tell me by using one word instead of another in an ad. Over time, I developed a strong (read: subjective) opinion of what makes an ad ’good,’ and…
I hate to have my first blog post after over a year be a negative one, but I feel like these guys need calling out. I recently received an email from a company, Honestly.com, that…
Starting today, LibraryThing is free to all! We’re dropping all membership fees and limits.
This is deranged, each nation’s boomers and reactionaries attempting to outdo the others: “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” … th…
Avoided emissions seem like a (well-intentioned?) shell game
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security
