Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium — Google vs. the Open Web — and Sinead O’Connor has died

Issue #1205 — July 27, 2023

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Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium github.com \| points: 1196 \| comments: 771

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Google vs. the Open Web interpeer.io \| points: 511 \| comments: 174

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Sinead O’Connor has died irishtimes.com \| points: 479 \| comments: 166

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Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be science.org \| points: 475 \| comments: 163

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Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification vivaldi.com \| points: 468 \| comments: 309

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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible stackdiary.com \| points: 460 \| comments: 445

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Mold 2.0 github.com \| points: 342 \| comments: 84

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Treemaps are awesome blog.phronemophobic.com \| points: 312 \| comments: 66

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Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset overturemaps.org \| points: 287 \| comments: 68

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Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web github.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 155

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Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 techcrunch.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 108

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Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture texastribune.org \| points: 215 \| comments: 196

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Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight arstechnica.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 168

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Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools theguardian.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 231

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A world where people pay for software 1sub.dev \| points: 204 \| comments: 408

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“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract teamster.org \| points: 199 \| comments: 170

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Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia 9to5google.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 189

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Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning timdettmers.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 113

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Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette openculture.com \| points: 194 \| comments: 325

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Florida ocean temps surge to 100F; mass coral bleaching event is found in reefs cnn.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 183

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