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Senate Bill 21, Establishing the Texas Bitcoin Reserve

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Lucky young couple lands gig taking care of uninhabited Irish island

cbc.ca

Catherine Zhu | CBC Radio | Posted: March 7, 2025 11:08 PM | Last Updated: 5...
Catherine Zhu | CBC Radio | Posted: March 7, 2025 11:08 PM | Last Updated: 5 hours agoThe caretaker position will run from April 1 to September 30 Image | Camille and James Caption: Camille Rosenfeld and James Hayes are the lucky duo who will work and live on Ireland's Great Blasket Island starting in April. (Submit...
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Bill could redefine self-defense in California

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A game of learning your homelab into a cyberpunk mystery adventure

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Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama

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Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR

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Establishment of the strategic Bitcoin reserve and US digital asset stockpile

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background. Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin protocol permanently caps the total supply of bitcoin (BTC) at 21 million coins, and has never been hacked. As ...
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Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship

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Deeplinks Blog by Rindala Alajaji | March 7, 2025
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Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired

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A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's...
A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer's systems – and he's now facing a potential ten years behind bars. Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was a seasoned coder employed by power-management biz Eaton Corporation between November 2007 to October 2019. In his...
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Portable MRI Scans Patients for Signs of Stroke

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According to the World Health Organization, strokes are the second most common cause of death worldwide....
According to the World Health Organization, strokes are the second most common cause of death worldwide. Of the 15 million patients annually, one-third die and another third are left with permanent disabilities. A new design for a portable MRI scanner has the potential to make a major impact on those numbers.Medical...

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The intent paradox of AI generated code

bearblog.dev
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Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory

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Europe's largest battery site goes live in Scotland, boosting UK energy grid

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What just happened? Zenobē, an owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on Britain's transmission network, has...
What just happened? Zenobē, an owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on Britain's transmission network, has launched commercial operations at Europe's largest battery site in Blackhillock, Scotland. This project marks a crucial milestone in the nation's clean energy transition by addressing grid congestion and ...

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Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

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Virtual Punch Card Creator

masswerk.at

Type and download your personal punch cards — the Web2.0 of “big iron” age! “The Virtual...
Type and download your personal punch cards — the Web2.0 of “big iron” age! “The Virtual Keypunch” is a free service related to Google60 – Search Mad Men Style. Get yourself a “real business” card, or even print gift-cards for your geeky friends. Scan and parse a card-image at The Virtual Card Reader! New: Batch pun...
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Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding

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Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130...
Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first, a $25 million seed investment, was led by Sequoia Capital and CRV. The latter firm also co-led the subsequent $105 million S...

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Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen

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Image generated by DALL-E, OpenAI Procedural generation is everywhere—you’ve probably encountered it without even realising. It’s...
Image generated by DALL-E, OpenAI Procedural generation is everywhere—you’ve probably encountered it without even realising. It’s what gives in-game worlds their rolling hills, jagged cliffs, and winding cave systems. And at the heart of it all is Perlin noise: a special kind of randomness that isn’t entirely random...
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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure...
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents in...
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How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?

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Many new science orgs are looking to pursue research that has the positive aspects of both...
Many new science orgs are looking to pursue research that has the positive aspects of both “applied” research and “basic” research. To me, this is a very reasonable approach. After all, the “applied vs. basic research” distinction has always been a rather arbitrary one.Some research projects feel like they are squar...
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Uber users in Austin are getting matched with Waymo robotaxis

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Uber users in Austin now have a choice between a Waymo robotaxi and a human driver....
Uber users in Austin now have a choice between a Waymo robotaxi and a human driver. The two companies officially launched Tuesday the “Waymo on Uber” robotaxi service in Austin as part of a partnership that has deepened in recent months. The launch comes just days before SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and comed...
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Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?

palaiologos.rocks

I wrote this blog post to answer a frequent question that I receive from strangers on...
I wrote this blog post to answer a frequent question that I receive from strangers on the internet: why do I choose to implement codecs in C? The answer is far from straightforward; if you are interested in the details, please read on. Introduction to Rust⌗ There are many places from which you can learn a lot about ...

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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

cybercultural.com

GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial...
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web. By Richard MacManus | March 7, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 1995 Beverley Hills Internet in 1995, before being renamed GeoCities. By ...
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Analyzing Soft Errors in Linux on Cots SoCs Under Proton Irradiation

arxiv.org
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Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant

nature.com
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