Cisco Acquires Splunk — and UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users

Issue #1262 — September 22, 2023

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Cisco Acquires Splunk splunk.com \| points: 731 \| comments: 406

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UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users eff.org \| points: 618 \| comments: 371

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Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV japantimes.co.jp \| points: 516 \| comments: 216

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Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives lemm.ee \| points: 393 \| comments: 116

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Insider trade on Splunk acquisition? twitter.com \| points: 379 \| comments: 291

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Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix matrix.org \| points: 376 \| comments: 168

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Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes theatlantic.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 385

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Install Windows the Arch Linux Way christitus.com \| points: 305 \| comments: 131

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Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn’t suck hardfault.life \| points: 296 \| comments: 122

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Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal harlequin.sh \| points: 293 \| comments: 57

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Terry Tao’s generals (2012) web.math.princeton.edu \| points: 279 \| comments: 129

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Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study medicalxpress.com \| points: 263 \| comments: 242

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Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work arstechnica.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 229

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Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup github.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 57

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Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account defcon.social \| points: 242 \| comments: 258

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Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot) gist.github.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 68

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How Equifax Was Breached in 2017 blog.0x7d0.dev \| points: 231 \| comments: 108

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Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake adityabaradwaj.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 185

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OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud undeadly.org \| points: 219 \| comments: 124

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Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released erlangforums.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 67

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