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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2019/rga--ripgrep-for-zip-targz-docx-odt-epub-jpg/
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Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
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Kubernetes is deprecating Docker runtime support
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354
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https://jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-cargo-ship-filled-w-1845784581
352
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Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/02/microsoft-apologises-productivity-score-critics-derided-workplace-surveillance
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A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old
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South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
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Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/running-in-circles-uncovering-the-clients-of-cyberespionage-firm-circles/
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TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs
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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B
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Google partners with SkyWater to enable open source manufacturing of ASICs
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Experimental drug reverses age-related memory and cognitive decline in mice
https://neurosciencenews.com/age-cognition-reversal-drug-17347/
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Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
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Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/31/crab-blood-to-remain-big-pharmas-standard-as-industry-group-rejects-substitute
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UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category
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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand
https://onezero.medium.com/the-modern-world-has-finally-become-too-complex-for-any-of-us-to-understand-1a0b46fbc292
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Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
https://sacra.com/research/front-inside-the-startup-slackifying-email/?
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Teardown of the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/teardown-of-dishy-mcflatface-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal/
157
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Observable and Creative Coding
https://observablehq.com/@makio135/creative-coding
156
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Do not sign a contract with Snowflake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25281061
155
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National parks of New Zealand in 3D
https://felixpalmer.github.io/new-zealand-3d/
150
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Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization
https://amnesia.openaire.eu/
142
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Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room
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https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/
133
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Winamp Skins Collection
https://archive.org/details/winampskins
5
Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapses, Ending an Era of World-Class Research
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940767001/arecibo-observatory-telescope-collapses-ending-an-era-of-world-class-research
124
Win by Segfault and Other Notes on Exploiting Chess Engines
https://chess.resistant.tech/
202
How the CCP Does Job Promotions
https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/how-the-ccp-does-job-promotions
120
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Archive and historians sue White House, seek to preserve presidential records
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia/2020-12-01/archive-historians-crew-sue-white-house-seek-preserve-presidential-records-during-transition
119
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Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits
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116
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Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
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No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time
110
Siteswap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap
109
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Google Poly is shutting down
https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635
108
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Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen
https://thecounter.org/public-health-groups-alcohol-label-warnings-carcinogen-cancer-link-awareness-prop-65/
105
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Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-american-airline/boeings-upgraded-737-max-completes-first-flight-with-media-onboard-idUSKBN28C1LV
42
Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/2/pakistans-new-regulations-aim-to-silence-the
101
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Four Types of Kanji (2019)
https://learnjapanesebest.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/the-four-types-of-kanji/
98
22
Who Is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Bugs in Optimized Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13994
97
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Canada to apply GST/HST to short-term rentals booked online
https://thinkpol.ca/2020/12/01/airbnb-asked-canada-for-a-bailout-canada-slapped-airbnb-with-a-tax/
34
The Chrome Root Program
https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/3Q36J4flnQs/m/VyWFiVwrBQAJ
89
67
Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350
88
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Using Topology to Classify Labelled Graphs
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/topology_graphs/
11
Roger Penrose: Beauty above all
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81
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Messenger API Updates for Europe
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75
How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
https://durmonski.com/psychology/escape-the-modern-rat-race/
73
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Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection
https://vector.dev/releases/0.11.0/
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