Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun — I fought the PayPal and I won — and We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

Issue #941 — November 05, 2022

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Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun techcrunch.com \| points: 907 \| comments: 1890

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I fought the PayPal and I won jessesingal.substack.com \| points: 811 \| comments: 308

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We’ve filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot githubcopilotlitigation.com \| points: 688 \| comments: 717

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ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service 3lib.net \| points: 646 \| comments: 457

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Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com \| points: 461 \| comments: 227

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Tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework tinygrad.org \| points: 376 \| comments: 134

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Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021) rsapkf.org \| points: 299 \| comments: 142

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Twitter to start layoffs -internal email reuters.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 542

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UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities ncsc.gov.uk \| points: 244 \| comments: 148

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Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent dirtybubblemedia.substack.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 186

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Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords bugzilla.redhat.com \| points: 236 \| comments: 191

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Low Energy Chest Fridge notechmagazine.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 331

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Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain news.mit.edu \| points: 227 \| comments: 130

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Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee layoffs with proper techcrunch.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 248

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Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs gsb.stanford.edu \| points: 195 \| comments: 166

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Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ cnbc.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 72

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Blurhash: A compact representation of a placeholder for an image github.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 47

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Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category limnology.co \| points: 183 \| comments: 68

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Robinhood cuts losses after transaction revenue drops wsj.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 159

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New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use software everyone can see therecord.media \| points: 176 \| comments: 199

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