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Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC

arstechnica.com

It's been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data...
It's been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data caps, and the docket is filling up with comments from users who say they shouldn't have to pay overage charges for using their Internet service. The docket has about 190 comments so far, nearly all from individual broadb...
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San Francisco to pay $212M to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

arstechnica.com

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks. The Muni Metro’s Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) has required 5¼-inch floppy disks since 1998, when it was installed at San Francisco’s Market Street subway statio...
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iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos

macrumors.com

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Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings

matthieulc.com
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The Company Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care

propublica.org

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Dialing for Dollars: America’s largest insurers hire EviCore to make decisions on whether to pay for care for more than 100 million people. “The Dial”: EviCore uses an algorithm ...
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Simplifying, stabilizing, and scaling continuous-time consistency models

openai.com
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Fast and scalable dataset preparation and curation tool from Nvidia

github.com
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Tesla Q3 2024 Financial Results [pdf]

tesla.com
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DawVert – a DAW project file converter

github.com
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Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure

cloudflare.com

BastionZero joined Cloudflare in May 2024. We are thrilled to announce Access for Infrastructure as BastionZero’s...
BastionZero joined Cloudflare in May 2024. We are thrilled to announce Access for Infrastructure as BastionZero’s native integration into our SASE platform, Cloudflare One. Access for Infrastructure will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls in front of their servers, databases, network devices, Kubernet...

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Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?

substack.com

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the world that my two daughters...
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the world that my two daughters — both under the age of three— will inhabit when they’re adults. Last night, I was surprised to find that my older daughter Yara was able to recognize a 1980s-style tape deck in a picture book we were reading (“this… a… music box,...
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Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

simonwillison.net
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TLA from First Principles

buttondown.com
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The last issue of The Embedded Muse (#500)

ganssle.com
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Show HN: Srcbook – Self-hosted alternative to AI app builders

github.com
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Show HN: Open-source low-code email editor

github.com
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Playstation Vita Architecture (Part 1)

copetti.org
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GitButler: Fearless Rebasing

gitbutler.com

I have a confession to make. For most of my Git life, I have been a...
I have a confession to make. For most of my Git life, I have been a merger.I have been asked countless times if it's better to merge or to rebase and while I never want to stir up a hornet's nest, I have always advocated merging over rebasing. Not only that, but I have nearly always done so myself when working on a ...

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Bail Bond Insurers Are Lobbying to Keep People in Jail

jacobin.com
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Best Practices for Bulk Optimization of Queries in PostgreSQL

substack.com
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WasmGC and the future of front-end Java development

infoworld.com

JavaScript is the clear choice for front-end development today, but there is a longstanding push to...
JavaScript is the clear choice for front-end development today, but there is a longstanding push to be able to use Java on the front end. Among other things, Java brings a vast ecosystem of libraries, frameworks, and application code, which can be exposed via its APIs. Java and languages like it also offer performan...
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Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO2 from the air as a tree

latimes.com

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of...
A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. Now scientists at UC Berkeley say they can do the same job with less than half a pound of a fluffy yellow powder.The powder was designed to trap the greenhouse gas in its microscopic pores, then release ...

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Amazon adds gasoline discounts for Prime members

techcrunch.com
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Shanghai Before the Foreigners

jaapgrolleman.com

Written: August 2022 — Updated: August 2024Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll...
Written: August 2022 — Updated: August 2024Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll probably read something condescending along the lines of “Shanghai was a backwater fishing village until the foreigners came in the 19th century.” And it evokes a visual image of fishermen on the banks of an empty y...
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