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Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app
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Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks
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Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result
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The sinkhole that saved the internet: Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak
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Curious about consciousness? Ask the self-aware machines
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One of Sweden's richest families is investing its billions into artificial intelligence
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Apple pushes a silent Mac update to forcibly remove hidden Zoom web server
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With 2.5 million third-party sellers, Amazon is the largest employer who bars employees from using courts for complaints
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Testing Picture-in-Picture for videos in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition
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Headed on vacation? You're apt to encounter a robot
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Inside Instagram's war on bullying
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Google’s 4,000-word privacy policy is a secret history of the internet
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Pinboard is ten years old
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Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space
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Firefox 68 released
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Microsoft admitted to private Linux developer security list
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What would you include in a women-in-tech event for students?
Everyone loves the idea of “Yes, let’s teach girls and young women about technology careers!” However, too often I see people put their attention on “What do I want to say?” rather than “What does...
Everyone loves the idea of “Yes, let’s teach girls and young women about technology careers!” However, too often I see people put their attention on “What do I want to say?” rather than “What does it actually help them to hear?"
Let's say you are planning to hold a school event to encourage more girls to get into STEM careers. What, explicitly, would you include on the agenda? How would the agenda differ based on age or grade level? What metrics would you use to judge whether the event was a success?
I’d like to hear from people who have personally been involved in such events, as organizers, sponsors, and attendees. If you attended: What should have been included, that you later wished someone told you?
I’m writing a feature article in which I aim to provide a checklist of “what to include” for those who plan these sort of events. So please let me know how to refer to you in the article.
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The Mac client for Zoom (video-conferencing app) allows any site to enable your camera and connect you to a call, and leaves a web server running on your machine even if you uninstall it
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Raspberry Pi Foundation confirms faulty USB-C design on Pi 4, plans to fix it in a future board revision
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Debian 10 "Buster" released
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Google faces contempt charge for failing to remove defamatory reviews
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The fight for the future of YouTube
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Burial at sea: The fall of Maddox, the internet’s first “outsider” celebrity
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Hitting The Wall: watch together website rabb.it is shutting down
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UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
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How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
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Can Racist Algorithms Be Fixed?
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iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen
@schukin: How iOS 13 FaceTime Attention Correction works: it simply uses ARKit to grab a depth map/position of your face, and adjusts the eyes accordingly. Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. https://t.co/U7PMa4oNGN
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YouTube now bans instructional hacking and phishing
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Kuo: Apple will include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
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Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
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Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall
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Reinventing Firefox for Android: a Preview
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Eleven great mechanical keyboards for coders — updated for 2019
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User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
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The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
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The global Cloudflare outage today was caused by a bad regex in a firewall rule that spiked CPU usage to 100% on all machines
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China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border
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Can the left win YouTube?
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Hey anybody here want to be on a panel about labor rights and tech contracting?
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting. Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how...
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting.
Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how they are effected by contracting.
Anybody interested or have experience with the subject?
In case I forget to check Tildes (I joined and then I always forget to check it) my email is aslan@jackalope.tech
We've also got a couple of other panels brewing on the subject of unionization in tech and another on the recent controversies between tech workers and their companies over social issues (such as google walkout over sexual harassment, wayfair's walkout over selling beds to ICE etc)
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Sony and Microsoft to explore strategic partnership, collaborate on new cloud-based solutions for gaming experiences and AI solutions
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Becoming a data scientist: The career path for job changers
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Creator of DeepNude, app that undresses photos of women, takes it offline
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Mobilizon reaches its funding goal with 10 days left
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Having issues setting goals and sticking with them? I’m working on a solution
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking. I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an...
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking.
I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an hour” or “work on Percent Done for four hours.”
I also like Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain” method. For example, Apple Watch shows you how many days you have completed your exercise circle and tells you that you have been keeping at it for x days.
Percent Done is a marriage of these two concepts. It allows you to set goals and track the time you spend on them, as well as how many days in a row you have consistently completed them. For example, you can add a goal that says “write for an hour every day,” and Percent Done will notify you every day to write for an hour. You will be able to tap on this goal and Percent Done will start counting back from one hour. You will also be able to see how many days in a row you have written for an hour.
You can also add one-time goals to Percent Done with or without time tracking, so it is a task management tool as well.
You can play with the design prototype here: Percent Done design prototype
I would really love to get your feedback on this. If you are interested in being a beta tester, feel free to reply to this topic or e-mail me at "hi at evrim dot io."
By the way, this is almost completely a self-promotion post. If it is against the rules, I'd be happy to remove this.
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Has Wine begun to remove the need for linux software?
I started using wine in about 2013 and I remember back then it was quite patchy and only worked on some programs/games. I used to have a rule that I stuck hard to that I would not buy any games...
I started using wine in about 2013 and I remember back then it was quite patchy and only worked on some programs/games. I used to have a rule that I stuck hard to that I would not buy any games that did not have a linux version. But now in 2019 I have found that everything I have tried to run in wine has been so seamless and close to flawless that I hardly know its running in wine. I semi regularly buy games that only have windows version because I am mostly sure it will work and can get a refund if it doesn't.
What does everyone else think about this?
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G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism This statement was reportedly an initiative of the Australian Prime Minister.
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How to speak Silicon Valley: Fifty-three essential tech-bro terms explained
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Twitter announces a plan to apply click-through "notices" to future tweets from politicians that violate Twitter rules but are "in the public interest"
18 votes