FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year — and Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

Issue #1141 — May 24, 2023

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FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year theregister.com \| points: 532 \| comments: 173

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Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption wired.com \| points: 518 \| comments: 288

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Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) slate.com \| points: 499 \| comments: 679

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Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA macrumors.com \| points: 484 \| comments: 206

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The Open Buddhist University buddhistuniversity.net \| points: 388 \| comments: 120

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Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber blog.waymo.com \| points: 378 \| comments: 337

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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era arxiv.org \| points: 332 \| comments: 167

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SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago rockpapershotgun.com \| points: 302 \| comments: 226

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Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts news.ycombinator.com \| points: 300 \| comments: 101

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More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library torrentfreak.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 102

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Ableton Push 3 ableton.com \| points: 290 \| comments: 253

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Microtiming in Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” (2014) metalintheory.com \| points: 271 \| comments: 209

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How to start a Go project in 2023 boyter.org \| points: 260 \| comments: 109

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Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software kanboard.org \| points: 255 \| comments: 89

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Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift academictorrents.com \| points: 245 \| comments: 250

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I Block Ads coryd.dev \| points: 236 \| comments: 205

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Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns nytimes.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 406

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Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M techcrunch.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 138

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Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs seattletimes.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 261

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Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture boston.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 39

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