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Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair
When the DMCA passed in 1998, the DRM landscape was very different from today. Section 1201 was intended to stop copyright “pirates” from defeating DRM in order to make and use copies of creative work...
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down
Updated Oct. 12, 2016 8:12 p.m. ETWells Fargo & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive John Stumpf, under fire for the bank’s sales-tactics scandal and his own handling of its fallout, is stepping down...
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Fullstack Academy (YC S12) is hiring developers who love teaching
Fullstack Academy is the premier software development school located in the Financial District of Manhattan. Y Combinator backed and named “Best Coding Bootcamp of 2015” by SkilledUp, our school has...
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Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again
“This will be the month where we close the chapter on all that stuff, we move past it and we launch the future of the company,” Mr. Sacks said.Yet Mr. Sacks’s efforts to resurrect Zenefits highlight...
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Google, Facebook to Invest in U.S.-China Data Link
Updated Oct. 12, 2016 11:39 p.m. ETFacebook Inc.FB0.13% and Google owner Alphabet Inc.GOOGL0.27% will join with a little-known Chinese company to lay an ultrafast internet cable between Los Angeles...
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Handheld DIY EMP Generator can destroy phones
Taking a break from his book, “How to Gain Enemies and Encourage Hostility,” [FPS Weapons] shows us how to build our own handheld EMP generator which can be used to generate immediate dislike from...
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Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?
Pez Owen was joyriding in her Cessna airplane when she first spotted a giant X etched in the desert. "It's not on the [flight] chart. There just wasn't any indication of this huge cross," she says....
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OpenBSD vmm enabled
vmm enabledContributed by phessler on Wed Oct 12 08:57:19 2016 (GMT)from the turtles-all-the-way-down dept. With a small commit, OpenBSD now has a hypervisor and virtualization in-tree. This has been a...
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Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors
The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The...
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Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity
Joi Ito, Scott Dadich, and President Barack Obama photographed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on August 24, 2016.Photographs by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos for WIREDIT’S HARD TO think...
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It's time to reconsider going on-prem
Oct 12, 2016 by Taylor WakefieldIntroductionThere is no doubt that going “on-prem” is a big decision for a SaaS company. The prevailing wisdom is to avoid going on-prem or at least wait as long as...
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Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
README.mdTesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images. (Demo)Tesseract.js works with script tags, webpack/browserify, and node. After you install it, using...
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It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android
October 12, 2016John BlancoAndroid, Announcement, This week marks my final week of working on Android. I’ve had my ups and downs with it, but I’m excited to retire from Google’s mobile platform.Very...
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Lime Text – A powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go
Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text. Lime has a few frontends (QML, command-line...
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Piketty’s rising share of capital income and the US housing market
A key observation in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty 2014) is that the share of aggregate income accruing to capital in the US has been rising steadily in recent decades...
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In-Depth UN Analysis of 4chan's /pol/ and Its Effect on the Internet [pdf]
(Submitted on 11 Oct 2016)Abstract: Although it has been a part of the dark underbelly of the Internet since its inception, recent events have brought the discussion board site 4chan to the forefront...
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Alibaba Cloud Service To Use AMD Graphics Chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., struggling to re-establish its data center chip business, said Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to provide cloud-computing services based on its graphics...
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Cooled Nikon D5500a Chills the Sensor for Clearer Star Photos
An Italian astrophotography company called PrismaLuceLab has launched a modded version of the Nikon D5500 DSLR. Called the “D5500a Cooled,” the camera uses a special cooling system mounted on the back...
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Guile security vulnerability with listening on localhost and port
Guile security vulnerability w/ listening on localhost + port (with fix) [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]From: Christopher Allan WebberSubject: Guile security...
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