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Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free sciencemag.org \| points: 612 \| comments: 84

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A street snack that has baffled botanists atlasobscura.com \| points: 449 \| comments: 181

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After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him morningbrew.com \| points: 394 \| comments: 312

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Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does clivethompson.medium.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 340

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Why I Wrote PGP (1999) philzimmermann.com \| points: 390 \| comments: 160

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Space Station incident demands independent investigation spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 367 \| comments: 118

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Very fast rocket makc.github.io \| points: 360 \| comments: 96

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1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults 1password.community \| points: 257 \| comments: 169

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Apple’s New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Bruteforceable crypto.stackexchange.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 78

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Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion” rockpapershotgun.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 177

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30 years on from introducing the Web to the World w3.org \| points: 216 \| comments: 69

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I’m reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929 roaring20s.substack.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 165

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Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection cell.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 177

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Screw You, Microsoft Edge charlespetzold.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 107

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Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse bombthrower.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 108

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Trevor Moore has died en.wikipedia.org \| points: 169 \| comments: 47

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Once an Addict, Always an Addict? deprocrastination.co \| points: 165 \| comments: 268

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FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes nytimes.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 42

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When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software reason.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 26

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Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1 highscalability.com \| points: 154 \| comments: 40

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