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Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward
A former Deutsche Bank AG risk officer said he was refusing an $8.25 million reward from the Securities and Exchange Commission for blowing the whistle on the lender overvaluing a derivatives...
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Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells
Zika in the adult brain: Illumination of the fluorescent biomarker in green revealed that Zika can infect the adult mouse brain in a region full of neural progenitor cells, which play an important role...
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Kubernetes the Hard Way
This tutorial will walk you through setting up Kubernetes the hard way. This guide is not for people looking for a fully automated command to bring up a Kubernetes cluster. If that's you then check out...
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Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
Bio Felix Klock is a research engineer at Mozilla, where he works on the Rust compiler, runtime libraries, and language design. He previously worked on the ActionScript Virtual Machine for the Adobe...
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Data points that Facebook uses to target ads
Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.Maybe your mother’s birthday is coming up, and...
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All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta
Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but the company is also making a major update to its low-cost...
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Decommissioning Otto (HashiCorp)
Last September we announced Otto as a single solution to develop and deploy any application. Otto provides a high-level Appfile which describes an application, and leverages the rest of the HashiCorp...
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Preparing for the War on Cash
We want our stories to go far and wide; to be seen be as many people as possible, in as many outlets as possible. Therefore, unless it says otherwise, copyright in the stories on The Long + Short...
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A suggestion on how to spend a day at home
Or: A Breakfast ManifestoHere's what you do:Wake up in the morning, put on a comfy sweater, and make a pot of tea (or coffee if you're into that). Make yourself a light breakfast -- biscotti or a...
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Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores?
A sign of a new phase came early this summer. Bandcamp hired a smart staff to create about 20 times the amount of editorial content that had been there previously, writing about music that had just...
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Mutt 1.7.0 released
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: mutt-users Subject: mutt 1.7.0 released From: "Kevin J. McCarthy" <kevin () 8t8 ! us> Date: 2016-08-18 16:52:07 Message-ID:...
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The Cuban CDN
On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate...
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Eat This Giraffe Before it Melts. 🍬🍬This month's shipment was a box containing four items. This shipment will likely arrive around the end of November. The contents featured gum so sour that I fainted,...
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Sad Trombone exoplanet reality check
Some people on the internet are getting very excited at the (unconfirmed) reports of an "Earth-like" exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a mere 4.25 light-years away from Earth. If correct, the planet...
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Evidence for Africans in Britain from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period
The degree to which pre-modern Britain included people of African origin within its population continues to be a topic of considerableinterest and some controversy. Previous posts on this site have...
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Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', study finds
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Noodles can be exchanged for goods and services, the research foundRamen noodles have overtaken tobacco to become the most valuable commodity in US prisons, a...
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Major Mobile US Networks Pass 50% IPv6 Threshold for IPv6-Enabled Hosts
In our year-end blogpost in December of 2015 we highlighted the enormous progress that IPv6 deployment had made in 2015 by obtaining aggregated data from our sources for the four major US mobile...
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Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software
Open MCT can be adapted for planning and operations of any system that produces telemetry. While Open MCT is developed to support space missions, its core concepts are not unique to that domain. It can...
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The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City
Manhole cover designed by Lawrence Weiner in Union Square (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)A manhole cover is generally deemed successful if its round shape keeps pedestrians from plummeting...
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SOLID Go Design
This post is based on the text of my GolangUK keynote delivered on the 18th of August 2016.How many Go programmers are there in the world? Think of a number and hold it in your head, we’ll come back to...
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