Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard — AirPods Max — and AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

 
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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

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AirPods Max

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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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Chuck Yeager has died

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Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects
 

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GitHub Releases Dark Mode

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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH

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Qt 6.0

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Hexagonal Grids (2013)

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Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
 

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San Mateo County Health Officer Statement on Bay Area Stay-at-Home Orders

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How to Escape a Sinking Ship

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CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

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SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states

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Expanding Fuchsia’s open source model
 

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CSS in GitHub Readmes

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Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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German court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor

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SpaceX Starship Users’ Guide [pdf]

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Ask HN: What’s the best paper you’ve read in 2020?
 

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