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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

google.com

ExtensionPrivacy & Security38,000,000 usersFinally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely...
ExtensionPrivacy & Security38,000,000 usersFinally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site "ublock.org". uBlock Origin is not an "ad blocker", it's a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature. *** Out of the bo...
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Wealthy Colleges Fight to Protect Their Riches from Taxation

bloomberg.com
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A technical history of Acorn Computers

mcmordie.co.uk

These pages contain a fairly brief technical history of Acorn Computers. I have decided to focus...
These pages contain a fairly brief technical history of Acorn Computers. I have decided to focus on the technology because that is where my interests lie. Only very major non-technical events in Acorn's history have been included. If anyone finds any inaccuracies in the following pages please contact me using the li...
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Jet fuel spills into North Sea after tanker collision

bbc.co.uk
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Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?

isitdownrightnow.com
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Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

arstechnica.com

But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told...
But David Seubert, who manages sound collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara library, told Ars that he frequently used the project as an archive and not just to listen to the recordings. For Seubert, the videos that IA records of the 78 RPM albums capture more than audio of a certain era. Research...
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Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM

kuzudb.com

Chang Liu DevOps Engineer & Co-founder of Kùzu Inc. Semih Salihoğlu CEO of Kùzu Inc. &...
Chang Liu DevOps Engineer & Co-founder of Kùzu Inc. Semih Salihoğlu CEO of Kùzu Inc. & Associate Prof. at UWaterloo We’re excited that members of our community are already building applications with the WebAssembly (Wasm) version of Kuzu, which was only released a few weeks ago! Early adopters to integrate Kuzu-Wasm...
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Show HN: Editable Games

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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)

ploum.net
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Stock Market Today: Dow, Nasdaq Fall After Trump Doesn't Rule Out Recession

wsj.com
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The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)

morrick.me

When it arrived by post a couple of weeks ago, I joked on Twitter: Loving my...
When it arrived by post a couple of weeks ago, I joked on Twitter: Loving my new 11-inch iPad Pro! It turns out it was only half a joke. This Mac really invites you to treat it as a pro tablet + keyboard. It’s very compact, it’s very light (1.08 kg), it’s still a thin machine by 2018 standards, it has a long-lasting...
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What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America's Largest Oxygen Provider

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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. Lincare, a giant respiratory-device supplier with a long history of fraud settlements and complaints about dismal service, is facing its latest legal challenge: a lawsuit that cl...
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Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials

cyberinsider.com

A newly discovered class of malicious browser extensions, dubbed polymorphic extensions, can impersonate legitimate extensions such...
A newly discovered class of malicious browser extensions, dubbed polymorphic extensions, can impersonate legitimate extensions such as password managers in real time, tricking users into handing over sensitive credentials. Security researchers at SquareX Labs uncovered this technique, which allows attackers to clone...
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We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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3dfx, So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

abortretry.fail

In 1988, Silicon Graphics made a series of workstation computers that were based upon two pieces...
In 1988, Silicon Graphics made a series of workstation computers that were based upon two pieces of technology: the MIPS CPU and the IRIS graphics system. The latter included both a hardware 3D graphics accelerator and the IRIS GL API. IRIS GL would later become OpenGL. These machines all ran IRIX (a derivative of S...
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Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors

exclusivearchitecture.com

In optics, focus describes the point at which incoming light rays converge and it is used...
In optics, focus describes the point at which incoming light rays converge and it is used synonymously as a concept of sharpness. Autofocus, by contrast, is a technology to automatically focus the lens at a desired subject. The autofocus detection system inside the camera determines the ideal focusing lens position ...
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The Chromecast 2's device authentication certificate has expired

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PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel Overview (2015)

ramblingcookiemonster.github.io

When I first started using PowerShell, I preferred sending data to Excel, where I could comfortably...
When I first started using PowerShell, I preferred sending data to Excel, where I could comfortably filter, sort, and work with data. One of my first functions was a modification of Export-XLSX found on the Internet. That same code sits in a few places in production today; looking at old code is scary. Nowadays, I p...

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Quantum Milestones, 1964: John Stewart Bell Rings in New Era of Quantum Theory (2022)

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How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

noemamag.com

Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to...
Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk is 36 feet around and its canopy stretches for almost three bus-lengths. Its broad, bowl-shaped crown is propped up by a ring of metal columns, like walking sticks measured t...
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From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions

restate.dev

You can give the game a try at cyoa.dev with the code open sourced at https://github.com/essencevc/cyoaIn...
You can give the game a try at cyoa.dev with the code open sourced at https://github.com/essencevc/cyoaIn this article, we’ll explore how to take a single user prompt and generate an entire Choose Your Own Adventure game from it using Restate.On the surface, this seems simple - just a simple series of story branches...
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Longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea

cnn.com

Descending up to 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea, the world’s longest immersed tunnel will link...
Descending up to 40 meters beneath the Baltic Sea, the world’s longest immersed tunnel will link Denmark and Germany, slashing journey times between the two countries when it opens in 2029. The first tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel was inaugurated June 17 by King Frederik X of Denmark, in what was a milesto...
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European Cloud Computing Platforms

european-alternatives.eu
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Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Artificial intelligence commonly refers to the science and engineering of...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:Artificial intelligence commonly refers to the science and engineering of artificial systems that can carry out tasks generally associated with requiring aspects of human intelligence, such as playing games, translating languages, and driving cars. In recent years, there have b...
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