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Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money

torrentfreak.com

Most people know that pirating movies, live sports, and music is against the law. Despite this...
Most people know that pirating movies, live sports, and music is against the law. Despite this awareness, millions do so daily. Norway is no exception. The country offers consumers plenty of legal options, including many streaming platforms. However, that might actually be part of the problem. Those who want the ful...
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Large Chainsaw Model

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How to give a senior leader feedback (without getting fired)

weskao.com

👋 Hey, it’s Wes. Welcome to my weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, and standing...
👋 Hey, it’s Wes. Welcome to my weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, and standing out as a higher performer. For more, check out my new intensive course on Executive Communication & Influence.Read time: 7 minutesToday’s newsletter is sponsored by Uptempo. Planning season hits hard—with months of...
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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

righto.com

I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where...
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of doped silicon (gray), isolated from ...
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China's Hacking Reached Deep into U.S. Telecoms

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks ...
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Stack Analyser: detect technologies used inside a repo

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9elements Takes over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable Skylake Support Within Coreboot

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Fusion power is getting closer

economist.com
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S3 Express Append has issues

astradot.com
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Marshall Brain has passed away

wral.com
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Music as Language (2019) [pdf]

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Time-series forecasting through recurrent topology

nature.com
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Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform

pluralistic.net

Today's links Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform (permalink) A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD...
Today's links Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform (permalink) A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION Supposedly, these lines were included in a 1979 internal presentation at IBM; screenshots of them routinely go viral: https://twitter.com/Swift...
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Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D

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The tech utopia fantasy is over

avas.space
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The Physics of Butterfly Wings

wordpress.com

Some butterflies have shiny, vividly colored wings. From different angles you see different colors. This effect...
Some butterflies have shiny, vividly colored wings. From different angles you see different colors. This effect is called iridescence. How does it work? It turns out these butterfly wings are made of very fancy materials! Light bounces around inside these materials in a tricky way. Sunlight of different colors winds...
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The mind-bending new science of measuring time

ft.com
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School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

arstechnica.com

The Harrises also claim that school officials engaged in a "pervasive pattern of threats, intimidation, coercion,...
The Harrises also claim that school officials engaged in a "pervasive pattern of threats, intimidation, coercion, bullying, harassment, and intimation of reprisals." But Levenson concluded that the "plaintiffs provide little in the way of factual allegations along these lines." While the case isn't over, the rejecti...
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Linux CoC Announces Decision Wrt Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs)

kernel.org
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AI Data Centers May Consume More Electricity Than Entire Cities

cnbc.com

Data center campuses power artificial intelligence and cloud computingThe campuses could grow so large that finding...
Data center campuses power artificial intelligence and cloud computingThe campuses could grow so large that finding enough power and suitable land to accommodate them becomes increasingly difficult.Renewable energy alone won't be sufficient anytime soon to meet their power needs.Natural gas will have to play a role,...

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Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

aviacionline.com

Half of the Airbus A320/A321neo aircraft operated in Russia are out of service due to technical...
Half of the Airbus A320/A321neo aircraft operated in Russia are out of service due to technical issues. Out of a total of 66 aircraft of this family, 34 have been grounded, and up to 20 of them may never return to operation, according to sources cited in a report by the Russian newspaper Kommersant.The engines on th...
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Twitter's heir apparent isn't X or Threads – it's Bluesky

theverge.com

Bluesky feels like the big winner right now.I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my...
Bluesky feels like the big winner right now.I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. I’ve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didn’t ha...
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A silly science prize changed my career

nature.com

How to win a Nobel prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?

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Size and albedo of the largest detected Oort-cloud object

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable...
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable in at least three respects: (i) it was discovered inbound as far as ~29 au from the Sun (with prediscovery images up to ~34 au); (ii) it showed cometary activity already at almost 24 au...
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