Dont upload these images to iCloud as Apple will assume its Child Porn (drive.google.com)
1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults (1password.community)
Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion” (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free (www.sciencemag.org)
The Apple Psi System [pdf] (www.apple.com)
Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable (crypto.stackexchange.com)
When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software (reason.com)
Object Detection in an Hour (www.strayrobots.io)
Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation (spectrum.ieee.org)
Trevor Moore has died (en.wikipedia.org)
Why I Wrote PGP (1999) (philzimmermann.com)
The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades (www.atlasobscura.com)
Powering the Lunar Base (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
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Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Why Captcha Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing (clivethompson.medium.com)
Very fast rocket (makc.github.io)
Sci-Hub future plans and donation request (sci-hub.do)
With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment (www.statnews.com)
Framework Patterns (2019) (blog.startifact.com)
After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him (www.morningbrew.com)
What it was like developing for NES back in 1990 (twitter.com)
Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf] (i.blackhat.com)
Bug in Lynx' SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI (www.openwall.com)
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information (www.economist.com)
The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000% (www.bloomberg.com)
Body mapping study suggests chronic pain comes in nine distinct types (www.sciencealert.com)
Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016) (www.cmpod.net)
Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast (papertime.app)
Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill (techcrunch.com)
The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy (karl-voit.at)
An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning (github.com)
Fooling Neural Networks [pdf] (slazebni.cs.illinois.edu)
Looking into Zig (ayende.com)
Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
Learning APL (xpqz.github.io)
Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence (www.nzz.ch)
In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features (9to5mac.com)
Open-source A/B testing framework (github.com)
Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks (reggit.bubbleapps.io)
Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes (www.greenmatters.com)
The smart home is flailing as a concept (www.fastcompany.com)
Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office (theintercept.com)
Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities (www.governing.com)
“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.” (twitter.com)
Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view (blog.quintarelli.it)
The CIA’s outsourced torture is lost to history (foreverwars.substack.com)
The Problem with Perceptual Hashes (rentafounder.com)
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Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study (www.reuters.com)
Dating in Delhi when you're poor (www.reuters.com)
Visualizer for High Level System Design (honzaap.github.io)
Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult (ianvanagas.com)
CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative (calyxos.org)
Semver doesn't mean MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, it means FAILS.FEATURES.BUGS (twitter.com)
New UUID Formats – IETF Draft (datatracker.ietf.org)
A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out (www.nature.com)
Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com)
Letter from Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection to Facebook (www.ftc.gov)
Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people (news.ycombinator.com)
Beware of 'shrinkflation,' inflation's devious cousin (www.npr.org)
Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020) (iism.org)
Give to Thunderbird (give.thunderbird.net)
Postgres.app (postgresapp.com)
Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (www.nature.com)
An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology (appleprivacyletter.com)
Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One (edwardsnowden.substack.com)
On Apple's “Expanded Protections for Children” - A Personal Story (areoform.wordpress.com)
LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences (lovr.org)
Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research (www.reuters.com)
Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter (www.sciencemag.org)
HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse (portswigger.net)
Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf] (i.blackhat.com)
Visualizing a Codebase (octo.github.com)
How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design (blog.timescale.com)
SAML Is Insecure by Design (joonas.fi)
Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today (theconversation.com)
Firefox: Performance in Progress (blog.mozilla.org)
How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda (www.bbc.co.uk)
Apple's Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Life (www.eff.org)
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream (doi.org)
Expanded Protections for Children (www.apple.com)
EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (emacsconf.org)
Giraffes have been misunderstood and are just as socially complex as elephants (edition.cnn.com)
In Praise of PostgreSQL (drewdevault.com)
Mario Paint Masterpiece (www.charlieharrington.com)
Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021 (thedorkweb.substack.com)
Affinity 1.10 (affinity.serif.com)
Ethereum just activated its ‘London’ hard fork (www.cnbc.com)
EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library (github.com)
Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job (www.cnn.com)
Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules (www.marketwatch.com)
Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery (www.ft.com)
Kid Pix as a JavaScript App (kidpix.app)
The insides of pro bowling balls (www.popsci.com)
The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound (www.aalto.fi)
Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship (www.axios.com)
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech (foundation.mozilla.org)
Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report (nypost.com)
Use Phoenix Channels (info.codecast.io)
China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor (spectrum.ieee.org)
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (www.wired.co.uk)
Comma Three [video] (www.youtube.com)
Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi (www.jeffgeerling.com)
A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017) (www.npr.org)
Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity (gameworldobserver.com)
Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow (twitter.com)
Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong (blog.mozilla.org)
Airyx OS (airyx.org)
Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit (news.sky.com)
Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (developer.nvidia.com)
Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com)
Full-time open source with Andrew Kelley (corecursive.com)
Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing (news.ycombinator.com)
The Real Story of Pixar (spectrum.ieee.org)
Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names (www.domainlanguage.com)
Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk (www.latimes.com)
NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings (nypost.com)
The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games (www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads (www.dailydot.com)
Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date (github.com)
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org)
AdObserver Blocked by Facebook (twitter.com)
Early Retirement (2006) (philip.greenspun.com)
Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes (github.com)
Cheap material converts heat to electricity (www.sciencemag.org)
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Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble (www.reuters.com)
GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs (www.unite.ai)
Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020) (www.gkogan.co)
PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter (www.reddit.com)
The surreal experience of my first developer job (bennuttall.com)
Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster (www.eff.org)
Computational algebraic geometry for high school students (www.solidangl.es)
GitHub Copilot is ‘unacceptable and unjust,’ says Free Software Foundation (www.infoworld.com)
Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe (bermudapost.com)
Docker container security cheat sheet (blog.gitguardian.com)
Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them (www.bostonglobe.com)
NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf] (media.defense.gov)
Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen (berthub.eu)
Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory (www.reuters.com)
This Can’t Go On (www.cold-takes.com)
Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity (blues.io)
Use Spreadsheets Everywhere (www.simplethread.com)
Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012) (www.righto.com)
Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code (jfrog.com)
Where are the robotic bricklayers? (constructionphysics.substack.com)
Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? (marker.medium.com)
South Korea: The only middle power of its kind (nationalinterest.org)
How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works (hacks.mozilla.org)
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China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies (www.reuters.com)
Archegos was too busy for margin calls (www.bloomberg.com)
My small revenge on Apple (javierantonsblog.blogspot.com)
New Leadership at Blizzard (news.blizzard.com)
Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video (www.notebookcheck.net)
$28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices (eyeoftheflyer.com)
Tesla CEO berated employees, investors and tried to get rid of safety measures (www.gq.com)
A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags (web.archive.org)
Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds (www.vice.com)
The 5-Hour CDN (fly.io)
Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat (retrohacker.substack.com)
Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes (bugs.chromium.org)
A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch (github.com)
Activision Blizzard Sued Over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture, Harassment (news.bloomberglaw.com)
CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust (www.vox.com)
Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture? (news.ycombinator.com)
We Switched to Mattermost (netfoundry.io)
Amazon should redo union election over improprieties, NLRB officer recommends (www.bloomberg.com)
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (github.com)
MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows (github.com)
AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design (www.phoronix.com)
Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000) (www.norvig.com)
Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S. (nextcity.org)
Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m (www.bbc.com)
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist images (www.rmg.co.uk)
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription (calpaterson.com)
FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization (www.npr.org)
SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night (arstechnica.com)
Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework (lists.wikimedia.org)
The UK’s delta surge is collapsing (nymag.com)
Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien (www.quantamagazine.org)
How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion (blog.azuki.vip)
OpenBSD Router Guide (2020) (openbsdrouterguide.net)
WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel (lists.zx2c4.com)
Life before smartphones (mattruby.substack.com)
Six Years of Professional Clojure (engineering.nanit.com)
Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3 (www.psycopg.org)
Why is China smashing its tech industry? (noahpinion.substack.com)
Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible (newengland.com)
The Push for a “PBS for the Internet” (www.axios.com)
Winnebiko (microship.com)
Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen (www.businessinsider.com)
Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours (takano.house.gov)
Apple is now an antifragile company (tidbits.com)
Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% (www.phoronix.com)
Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text (2020) (arxiv.org)
Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal (www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
L0phtcrack 7 will be released as open source (twitter.com)
Todo apps are meant for robots (blog.frantic.im)
The rise of never-ending job interviews (www.bbc.com)
Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B (squareup.com)
Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces (utcc.utoronto.ca)
GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer (goaccess.io)
Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (www.vox.com)
Widevine decryption with Ghidra stymied by transform complexity (github.com)
Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story (eji.org)
Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era (www.latimes.com)
I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time (www.expatsoftware.com)
U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds (www.nationalgeographic.com)
You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance (medium.com)
Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work (arstechnica.com)
Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq (til.simonwillison.net)
Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus (arkadiyt.com)
CO2 battery could make wind and solar dispatchable at a lower price (www.rechargenews.com)
How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils (hastyreader.com)
Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission (mwcampbell.github.io)
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) (www.raptitude.com)