Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web — and Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API

Issue #1204 — July 26, 2023

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Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web arstechnica.com \| points: 997 \| comments: 418

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Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API github.com \| points: 817 \| comments: 292

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Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow infosec.exchange \| points: 779 \| comments: 197

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The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? arxiv.org \| points: 720 \| comments: 473

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The Fall of Stack Overflow observablehq.com \| points: 645 \| comments: 737

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Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed httptoolkit.com \| points: 470 \| comments: 353

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At this company, we are family pboyd.io \| points: 465 \| comments: 278

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Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices invoicedragon.com \| points: 431 \| comments: 136

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OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy decrypt.co \| points: 349 \| comments: 190

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Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote blog.spatial.chat \| points: 330 \| comments: 366

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A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation nature.com \| points: 325 \| comments: 262

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People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017) atlasobscura.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 123

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What We Know About LLMs willthompson.name \| points: 305 \| comments: 133

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Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? alicegg.tech \| points: 291 \| comments: 350

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Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft themessenger.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 436

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A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2 brev.dev \| points: 271 \| comments: 50

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From Python to Elixir Machine Learning thestackcanary.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 76

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PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language github.com \| points: 244 \| comments: 125

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Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer pirg.org \| points: 236 \| comments: 169

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Python: Overlooked core functionalities erikvandeven.medium.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 169

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