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US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf]

courtlistener.com
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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back

mataroa.blog

Published on May 10, 2025 I love Linux. I use Linux. It has its advantages. It’s...
Published on May 10, 2025 I love Linux. I use Linux. It has its advantages. It’s responsive—sometimes. Some things just work plain better. Settings being stored in actual config files instead of opaque registries? That’s an accessibility win. When something breaks, you don’t have to reinstall the whole OS like you w...
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There's a National Egg Crisis, and One Company Is Making a Lot of Money

wsj.com
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QueryLeaf: SQL for Mongo

github.com
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React Three Ecosystem

react-three.org
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Huawei's Kirin X90 may be the company's 'Apple Silicon' moment

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: Huawei) Yesterday, Huawei unveiled its Matebook Pro 2025 laptops, powered by HarmonyOS, the firm's...
(Image credit: Huawei) Yesterday, Huawei unveiled its Matebook Pro 2025 laptops, powered by HarmonyOS, the firm's newly developed operating system, independent of Linux and Android, breaking free from Microsoft's shackles. At the event, Chinese enthusiasts had a go with the machine. They discovered it reportedly fea...
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EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs

github.com
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Sunlight: A certificate transparency implementation built for scalability, ease

letsencrypt.org

Let’s Encrypt is proud to introduce Sunlight, a new implementation of a Certificate Transparency log that...
Let’s Encrypt is proud to introduce Sunlight, a new implementation of a Certificate Transparency log that we built from the ground up with modern Web PKI opportunities and constraints in mind. In partnership with Filippo Valsorda, who led the design and implementation, we incorporated feedback from the broader trans...
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Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

insideclimatenews.org

It’s a voluntary program launched during a Republican administration, endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S....
It’s a voluntary program launched during a Republican administration, endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S. consumers, who have saved an estimated $500 billion over the past 33 years guided by its familiar blue label. But President Donald Trump’s administration has decided the Energy Star program has...
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Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions

embracergamesarchive.com
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Intel: Winning and Losing

abortretry.fail

This article continues a lengthy series. You may be interested in the start of silicon valley,...
This article continues a lengthy series. You may be interested in the start of silicon valley, Fairchild, the founding of Intel, the start of the x86 architecture, Intel’s pivot to become a processor company, the i960 and i486, the Intel Inside campaign, the FDIV bug and the Pentium Pro, MMX, the Pentium II, and the...
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The Deathbed Fallacy

hjorthjort.xyz

“Lord Byron on his Death-bed” by Joseph Denis Odevaere This topic has bothered me for years....
“Lord Byron on his Death-bed” by Joseph Denis Odevaere This topic has bothered me for years. So now, in a moment of inspiration instigated by Wait But Why1 and drinking a glass or two of bourbon, I want to hash it out. It is something I call the Deathbed Fallacy. What is the Deathbed Fallacy? People on their deathbe...
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Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern ACHé

cell.com
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Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

theguardian.com

Towards the end of 1915, as he became increasingly unwell, Henry James revised his will. He...
Towards the end of 1915, as he became increasingly unwell, Henry James revised his will. He left Singer Sargent’s portrait of him, made two years earlier for his 70th birthday, to the National Portrait Gallery. He cut one nephew out of his will – the son of his brother Bob had published an anti-war pamphlet of which...

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The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism

petrapalusova.com

The digital age brings a new economic epoch. Many say that traditional capitalism is ending, and...
The digital age brings a new economic epoch. Many say that traditional capitalism is ending, and by many, I mean plenty. It is said to be a result of the change of the social fabric and advance of technology – intertwined. The core of this is happening in the digital domain, or better said informational domain and t...
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Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)

jeffgeerling.com

...with caveats. TL;DR The Radxa Orion O6 is an Arm ITX motherboard with up to 12...
...with caveats. TL;DR The Radxa Orion O6 is an Arm ITX motherboard with up to 12 cores, 64 GB of RAM, and Armv9.2 support, starting just over $200 USD The board has a SystemReady SR-certified BIOS, which allows running Windows on Arm and many Linux arm64 ISOs unaltered The firmware still has many quirks, enough tha...
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The Cult of Doing Business

commonwealmagazine.org
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LTXVideo 13B AI video generation

ltxv.video
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Elizabeth Holmes' partner raises millions for new biotech testing startup

npr.org

The partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has raised millions of dollars for an artificial intelligence...
The partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has raised millions of dollars for an artificial intelligence startup hoping to introduce a product that can be used in medical testing and other settings, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the endeavor who could not speak publicly because the company ...
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US Government considering suspending habeas corpus

bbc.com

White House's Stephen Miller: 'It depends on whether the courts do the right thing'Donald Trump's administration...
White House's Stephen Miller: 'It depends on whether the courts do the right thing'Donald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said.Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief ...
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Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US

smithsonianmag.com
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Sam Altman teaches a masterclass of wielding power again

rajiv.com

Thanks to my friend and mentor Professor Jeff Pfeffer at Stanford GSB shared his thoughts on...
Thanks to my friend and mentor Professor Jeff Pfeffer at Stanford GSB shared his thoughts on an early draft of this post. Jeff’s wisdom on power dynamics, which I’ve been fortunate to absorb through years of friendship and through guest-lecturing in his famous “Paths to Power” class at Stanford GSB, has profoundly s...
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How much information is in DNA?

substack.com

https://press.asimov.com/articles/dna-informationThis is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could...
https://press.asimov.com/articles/dna-informationThis is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could publish it here and also humored my deep emotional need to use words like “Sparklepuff”.Do you like information theory? Do you like molecular biology? Do you like the idea of smashin...
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CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana

healthimaging.com
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