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Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
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Microsoft News
Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
It's waiting for Godot and eventually gives up.
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Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"
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Ars Technica
Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk
Short seller publishes report detailing allegations about Backblaze’s financials.
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Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws
It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying that he would use the law to
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Knowledge-based society, my ass
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mihaiolteanu.me
Knowledge-based society, my ass
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic
fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've
never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even
to this day, fifteen…
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Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink
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CNBC
Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Elon Musk's Starlink
After the first launch was postponed due to weather, Amazon's Kuiper satellites are off to space.
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Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014)
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Vanity Fair
Why This Movie Perfectly Re-Created a Picasso, Destroyed It, and Mailed the Evidence to Picasso’s Estate
When you want to feature a famous painting in a movie, you can't simply slap a poster of a Monet or a Picasso in a frame and yell, “Action!”—nor can you cart the real thing from its space on a museum wall to the set
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LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
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librelingo.app
an experiment to create a community-owned language-learning
platform
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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
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The Verge
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
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A single line of code cost $8000
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Pietrasiak
One line of code that did cost $8,000
Due to a simple bug, Screen Studio app did generate over 2 petabytes of network traffic
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Try Switching to Kagi
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Daring Fireball
Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
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Requirements change until they don't
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Buttondown
Requirements change until they don't
Requirements, phase changes, and formal methods.
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Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"
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Ars Technica
Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”
Major power facilities require power to operate, and there’s lots of unmet demand.
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Packed Data Support in Haskell
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Arthi-chaud
Packed Data support in Haskell
Packed Data x Haskell = Portable(Type-safety + performance)
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Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals
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CNBC
Oracle engineers caused dayslong software outage at U.S. hospitals
Oracle engineers triggered a five-day outage at several Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based records.
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Dear "Security Researchers"
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The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025)
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GitHub
GitHub - fail0verflow/hbc: The Homebrew Channel - open source edition
The Homebrew Channel - open source edition. Contribute to fail0verflow/hbc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)
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The Public Domain Review
Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)
Diagrams of inventive machines from a copy of Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*.
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Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
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The Register
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim
: 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'
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Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
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Punchbowl News
Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
Amazon will soon display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs — right next to the product’s total listed price.
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Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?
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