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RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

arstechnica.com
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It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life, and we can do much more of it

ourworldindata.org
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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

arstechnica.com

If that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the...
If that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to list...
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GCVR (YC W22) Is Hiring Lead Technical Artist

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Play basketball in virtual reality$185K - $240K / 0.20% - 0.40%Connect directly with founders of the...
Play basketball in virtual reality$185K - $240K / 0.20% - 0.40%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›SUMMARY Gym Class is the top rated game on the Meta Quest platform (58K ratings, 4.9 stars). Millions of players globally have downloaded GC to make friends, explore social worl...
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SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at Susecon

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Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats

hackers.town
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FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money

techcrunch.com

Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general,...
Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general, and the Treasury Department have all requested that the bank freeze accounts of several nonprofits and state government agencies. The accounts were frozen in February, but the new documents make public details that had ...
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Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says Foxconn

ft.com
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Owl: Optimized Workforce Learning for multi-agent collaboration

github.com
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Cwtch – Privacy Preserving Messaging

cwtch.im
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Kerning, the Hard Way

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'Microlightning' in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds

theguardian.com

Charles Darwin thought it started in a warm pond. Others point to comets that ploughed into...
Charles Darwin thought it started in a warm pond. Others point to comets that ploughed into Earth. And some suspect a bolt from the blue, a lightning strike into the ocean.How life started on Earth may forever be a mystery, but new research proposes a radical idea: that crashing waves and waterfalls may have kicked ...
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The magical applications of zero-sized types in Rust

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Abuse at the Max-Planck Institutes in Germany

dw.com

There was rarely a meeting with the director that didn't feel destabilizing. "He was hitting his...
There was rarely a meeting with the director that didn't feel destabilizing. "He was hitting his table, yelling at me to the point that I could see him spitting," says Gabriel Lando, a theoretical computational physicist from Brazil and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of ...
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The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else (2021)

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The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else Updated: April 30, 2021 Normally, I tried...
The Plasma desktop is miles ahead of everything else Updated: April 30, 2021 Normally, I tried to avoid bombastic articles with WOWSERS! type of titles. The hype is usually directly proportional to the level of disappointment by the time you're done reading. But my recent escapades in the Linux desktop space prompte...
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Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?

ycombinator.com
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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

techcrunch.com

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun...
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a T-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an event last year. Gr...
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Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation

nanonets.com

Interest in the field of OCR document processing has grown significantly with back-to-back releases from new...
Interest in the field of OCR document processing has grown significantly with back-to-back releases from new market entrants. The latest being Mistral releasing its OCR model with the claim of being cheaper and more accurate than older players and Andrew NG releasing an agentic document extraction product. However, ...
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The Internet of Beefs (2020)

ribbonfarm.com

You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems,...
You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human v...
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East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago

substack.com

I have never thought I’d be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat...
I have never thought I’d be involved in science. I assumed you needed a lab coat and years of certification. My strange and accidental journey into science began on a hike in the Andean mountains of Peru when I was 17. It was my first solo trip to South America, and after arriving in Cuzco I noticed some of the loca...
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AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lead to AGI

newscientist.com

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Germanwings A320. Novel Theory of the Crash

avherald.com

Crash: Germanwings A320 near Barcelonnette on Mar 24th 2015, first officer alone in cockpit, initiated rapid...
Crash: Germanwings A320 near Barcelonnette on Mar 24th 2015, first officer alone in cockpit, initiated rapid descent, aircraft impacted terrainBy Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Mar 14th 2025 13:21Z, last updated Friday, Mar 14th 2025 13:40ZGene Kranz, NASA Mission Manager of Apollo 13, said: "Failure Is Not An Opti...

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Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

theguardian.com

An Oregon legislator has moved to ban the use of leaded fuel at a racetrack in...
An Oregon legislator has moved to ban the use of leaded fuel at a racetrack in Portland following community outcry and a Guardian investigation.Leaded fuel has been banned for use in regular automobiles for decades, due to the toxic and irreversible impact of lead on the human brain and body as particles are emitted...
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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

arstechnica.com

Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of...
Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like Yahoo News rather than original publisher sites. This occurred even in cases where publishers had formal licensing agreements with AI companies. URL fabrication emerged as another significant ...
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