European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication — and Npm audit: Broken by Design

Issue #457 — July 08, 2021

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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication patrick-breyer.de \| points: 895 \| comments: 387

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Npm audit: Broken by Design overreacted.io \| points: 717 \| comments: 186

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Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study cardiff.ac.uk \| points: 428 \| comments: 126

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Haiti’s President Is Assassinated nytimes.com \| points: 423 \| comments: 373

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Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising vivaldi.com \| points: 382 \| comments: 205

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Psilocybin repairs ’brains cells damaged by depression’ in mice: study leafie.co.uk \| points: 369 \| comments: 301

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Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night sixthtone.com \| points: 353 \| comments: 380

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What Does My Site Cost? whatdoesmysitecost.com \| points: 353 \| comments: 284

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A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013) minimizedistraction.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 134

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How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? quora.com \| points: 271 \| comments: 192

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Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively libimobiledevice.org \| points: 270 \| comments: 70

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The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review asc-csa.gc.ca \| points: 247 \| comments: 144

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AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones mashable.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 102

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What really happened to Jack Ma? forbes.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 166

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Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969) fermatslibrary.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 37

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An Intern’s Guide to Trading nasdaq.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 42

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Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains bloomberg.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 329

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First new VAX in 30 years? mail-index.netbsd.org \| points: 182 \| comments: 67

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Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing quantamagazine.org \| points: 174 \| comments: 66

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A new brain implant automatically detects and kills pain in real time singularityhub.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 160

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All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot — and We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments

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Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable — Poisson's Equation — and Linux Rust Support

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