Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For — and A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Issue #1213 — August 04, 2023

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Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For techdirt.com \| points: 963 \| comments: 373

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A list of recent hostile moves by Google’s Chrome team mastodon.social \| points: 948 \| comments: 540

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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase taylor.town \| points: 774 \| comments: 525

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Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O arxiv.org \| points: 749 \| comments: 356

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Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features electrek.co \| points: 586 \| comments: 552

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Netscape Meteors erynwells.me \| points: 365 \| comments: 108

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Tell HN: I think I found Toyota’s battery news.ycombinator.com \| points: 344 \| comments: 131

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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons wiki.alopex.li \| points: 336 \| comments: 170

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Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security arstechnica.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 150

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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face newsroom.ibm.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 72

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FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl docs.fcc.gov \| points: 278 \| comments: 233

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A New Mode of Cancer Treatment science.org \| points: 274 \| comments: 178

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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware meta.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 218

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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language destroyallsoftware.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 33

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SMS traffic pumping fraud support.twilio.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 175

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The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free? wired.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 176

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The Cartel That Controls the US Food System statecraft.beehiiv.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 149

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Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres hydra-so.notion.site \| points: 202 \| comments: 58

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Disables WebEnvironmentIntegrity feature and origin trials github.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 116

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Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic cofense.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 77

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