Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink — Wearable Microphone Jamming — and Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

Issue #558 — October 17, 2021

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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink bleepingcomputer.com \| points: 768 \| comments: 383

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Wearable Microphone Jamming sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu \| points: 308 \| comments: 113

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Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity danluu.com \| points: 297 \| comments: 163

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Dislike button would improve Spotify’s recommendations news.cornell.edu \| points: 272 \| comments: 220

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Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes theguardian.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 124

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1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001) gamedeveloper.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 70

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Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant esghound.substack.com \| points: 165 \| comments: 141

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How to Safely Think in Systems lethain.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 25

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Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform github.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 51

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NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018) rousette.org.uk \| points: 159 \| comments: 113

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Implementing Hash Tables in C andreinc.net \| points: 156 \| comments: 99

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Functional Algorithms, Verified functional-algorithms-verified.org \| points: 154 \| comments: 39

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Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement appleinsider.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 191

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California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures wsj.com \| points: 145 \| comments: 230

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UK to put nuclear power at heart of net zero emissions strategy ft.com \| points: 145 \| comments: 113

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The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video] youtube.com \| points: 142 \| comments: 82

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Git Command Explorer gitexplorer.com \| points: 139 \| comments: 35

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Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning research.nccgroup.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 78

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Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program medium.com \| points: 115 \| comments: 46

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Tether Discussion featuring Bennett Tomlin and George Noble grant-williams.com \| points: 115 \| comments: 111

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