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Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes

harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education

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A Reddit bot drove me insane

posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain

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Google is winning on every AI front

thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front

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But what if I want a faster horse?

rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse

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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html

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Apache ECharts

echarts.apache.org/en/index.html

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Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan

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Bored of It

paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored

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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

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How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack

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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website

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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

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xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312

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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

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Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed

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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151

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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)

oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten

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France rejects backdoor mandate

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate

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I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

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Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones

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GIMP 3.0

testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released

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Milk Kanban

brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html

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Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update

us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571

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OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html

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Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

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A 10x Faster TypeScript

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port

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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

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US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-support-for-ukrainian-f-16s-but-french-mirages-will-be-salvation-forbes

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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

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Mistral OCR

mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

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Apple M3 Ultra

apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme

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Apple's Software Quality Crisis

eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality

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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html

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I Went to SQL Injection Court

sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia

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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html

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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719

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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9

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All Kindles can now be jailbroken

kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak

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Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2

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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead

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Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210

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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com

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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say

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Paper Apps

gladdendesign.com/collections/paper-apps

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CDC data are disappearing

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531

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OpenAI O3-Mini

openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini

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JavaScript Temporal is coming

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us

404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us

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DeepSeek-R1

github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

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TikTok goes dark in the US

techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s

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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam

romanzipp.com/blog/no-you-cant-use-your-6299-canon-camera-as-a-webcam

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No Calls

keygen.sh/blog/no-calls

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Nobody cares

grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

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Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

matduggan.com/stop-trying-to-schedule-a-call-with-me

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I've acquired a new superpower

danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282609173316415488-1jdb

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How I program with LLMs

crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms

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uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension

old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hr6xjc/ubo_quick_filters_list_being_stolen_by_team

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