Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls — and Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides

Issue #944 — November 08, 2022

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Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls ipde.com \| points: 777 \| comments: 263

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Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides rogermexico.bearblog.dev \| points: 639 \| comments: 321

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Barilla passive cooker barilla.com \| points: 537 \| comments: 497

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Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial bbc.com \| points: 411 \| comments: 109

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Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week wsj.com \| points: 383 \| comments: 391

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Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing blakewatson.com \| points: 369 \| comments: 155

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Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable quillette.com \| points: 359 \| comments: 345

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Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house tylercipriani.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 136

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Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max apple.com \| points: 325 \| comments: 386

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Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013) harthur.wordpress.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 350

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India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN economictimes.indiatimes.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 228

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US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road justice.gov \| points: 276 \| comments: 231

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Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) twitter.com \| points: 269 \| comments: 398

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We’ve hit 1M monthly active users mastodon.social \| points: 240 \| comments: 140

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Show HN: textshader.com textshader.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 19

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Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” blog.adacore.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 306

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Blessed.rs – An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem blessed.rs \| points: 217 \| comments: 77

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Bankruptcy court gave blanket immunity to executives in 9 out of 10 major cases reuters.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 53

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Signal Introduces Stories signal.org \| points: 193 \| comments: 213

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