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Missing authentication in fgfmd daemon allows remote execution of arbitrary code (fortiguard.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | fortiguard.com | newest

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Why Don't We Have More Privacy When We Use a Credit Card? (aclu.org)

4 months ago | ColinWright | aclu.org | newest

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'As if someone tuned the radio': Why are more adults being diagnosed with ADHD? (sky.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | sky.com | frontpage

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Prisoners riddle: Can I demonstrate if Veritasium is right? [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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60 years ago, a jet-powered tricycle shattered the land speed record (npr.org)

4 months ago | ColinWright | npr.org | newest

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'Digital afterlife' is here. How do we navigate the risks? (monash.edu)

4 months ago | ColinWright | monash.edu | newest

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Graph Theory Lectures by Reinhard Diestal – The Trailer [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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List of aspect ratios of national flags (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Europa Clipper took off Here's an outline of its mission (mathstodon.xyz)

4 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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The internet is being overrun by ads (theweek.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | theweek.com | newest

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The last turntable ferry has a clever design [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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One way to pack equal-sized balls in 4D so that each touches 24 others (mathstodon.xyz)

4 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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SpaceX launches Starship rocket and catches booster in giant metal arms (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | newest

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Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo (jvns.ca)

4 months ago | ColinWright | jvns.ca | best

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The Clock of the Long Now (longnow.org)

4 months ago | ColinWright | longnow.org | newest

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The Importance of Illustration for Mathematical Research [pdf] (ams.org)

4 months ago | ColinWright | ams.org | newest

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The Climate Clowns (statuskuo.substack.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | substack.com | newest

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Shenzhen I/O: A great game to learn electronics and programming (gog.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | gog.com | frontpage

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Back in the day, people had to cook a hard-boiled egg for a computer mouse (2020) (boredpanda.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | boredpanda.com | frontpage

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Every change breaks someone's workflow (2013) (xkcd.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | xkcd.com | best

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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (pluralistic.net)

4 months ago | ColinWright | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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Mobile Twitter on the Blackberry (2008) how times have changed (shkspr.mobi)

4 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online (openculture.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | openculture.com | best

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A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas (theregister.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | theregister.com | newest

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AI still has some problems

4 months ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Shenzhen I/O: a great game if you have a thing for electronics and programming (gog.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | gog.com | frontpage

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Facial Recognition Expt with Meta's Smart Glasses Is a Terrifying Vision (gizmodo.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | gizmodo.com | newest

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Discussing the Neptunian desert, savanna, and ridge (mathstodon.xyz)

4 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | frontpage

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What counting cards at blackjack can teach you about VC investing (fastcompany.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | fastcompany.com | newest

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Height hunt – low bridges in the UK, and their signs (adamtownsend.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | adamtownsend.com | frontpage

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Rebranding math: Researchers came together to create France's first math museum (euronews.com)

4 months ago | ColinWright | euronews.com | newest

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GNUnet: Build secure, decentralized, privacy-preserving distributed apps (gnunet.org)

5 months ago | ColinWright | gnunet.org | frontpage

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Test Your Intuition 56: Fifteen Boxes Puzzle (gilkalai.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | wordpress.com | newest

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Words on the screen – the rise and (relative) fall of text-based social media (davidallengreen.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | davidallengreen.com | newest

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Has my mobile security advice changed? (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

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Griefbots and the Perils of Digital Immortality (forkingpaths.co)

5 months ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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Linux/4004 [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Is saying “like” a lot a bad thing? Actually, no. (vox.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | vox.com | newest

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Philip Henslowe's Card Trick (aperiodical.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | aperiodical.com | newest

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Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law (eaftan.github.io)

4 months ago | ColinWright | github.io | frontpage

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I can name your polynomial (somethingorotherwhatever.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | somethingorotherwhatever.com | newest

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The Palindromic Hat-Trick (somethingorotherwhatever.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | somethingorotherwhatever.com | newest

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Intel rolls out 'final' microcode fix for Raptor Lake CPUs (theregister.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | theregister.com | newest

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How to Speak Whale–A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, T. Mustill (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Testing ways of using citizen math, proof assistants, automation tools, and AI (mathstodon.xyz)

5 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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The mystery of 0.86602540378443864676372317075293618347... (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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How to think in graphs: An illustrative intro to Graph Theory and applications (medium.com/free-code-camp)

5 months ago | ColinWright | medium.com | newest

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iPhone: Anglesey widower's battle for wife's photos for funeral (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Social Media Blocking Has Always Been a Lie (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

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Sounds of the Mandelbrot Set [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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The Twisted Mind of the Security Professional (2008) (schneier.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | schneier.com | newest

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Windmills Are Not Like Dams [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT (theregister.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | theregister.com | newest

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AI chatbot shows promise in talking people out of conspiracy theories (science.org)

5 months ago | ColinWright | science.org | newest

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Conspiratorial Conversations (debunkbot.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | debunkbot.com | newest

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The centrality of stupidity in mathematics (mathforlove.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | mathforlove.com | best

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Inna Zakharevich – Computing with Paper – G4G15 February 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI (reuters.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | reuters.com | frontpage

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Poll: How much programming do you do?

5 months ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Monoidal Categories for Modelling Physical Systems and Language – G4G15 Feb 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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[dupe] Terence Tao: creative strategies, this aspect of LLM tools is still weak (mathstodon.xyz)

5 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | best

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Titan sub disaster: Five key questions that remain (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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HP blocks printing with non-HP inks

5 months ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Not everyone is as good at reading and writing as you are (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Fortinet confirms data breach after hacker claims to steal 440GB of files (bleepingcomputer.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | bleepingcomputer.com | newest

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A mind-boggling device changed economic history (ft.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | ft.com | frontpage

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Donald Trump and the "Banality of Crazy" (forkingpaths.co)

5 months ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021) (icemoonprison.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | icemoonprison.com | best

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UK Shops can refuse to take cash even though it's legal tender (2023) (fullfact.org)

5 months ago | ColinWright | fullfact.org | frontpage

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EU court rules Google must pay €2.4B fine (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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curl – Download/Export Public Google Spreadsheet as TSV from Command Line (stackoverflow.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | stackoverflow.com | newest

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Flying electric ferry will cut travel time in half for Stockholm commuters (fastcompany.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | fastcompany.com | newest

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If Trump wins the election, it will doom our efforts to slow climate disaster (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | newest

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'Groups' Underpin Modern Math (quantamagazine.org)

5 months ago | ColinWright | quantamagazine.org | newest

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NASA Evaluates Deployed Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (nasa.gov)

5 months ago | ColinWright | nasa.gov | newest

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Study: We Can (and Must) Teach Kids to Think Critically (skepchick.org)

5 months ago | ColinWright | skepchick.org | frontpage

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Yet another AI Racism example (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Remote Unauthenticated Code Exec'n Vulnerability in OpenSSH Server (RegreSSHion) (cisco.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | cisco.com | newest

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The "Need for Chaos" Voter (forkingpaths.co)

5 months ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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Day, 47 years ago, Voyager 1 launched into space (nasa.gov)

5 months ago | ColinWright | nasa.gov | frontpage

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Classic HN: Itappmonrobot (2007) (thedailywtf.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | thedailywtf.com | newest

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Strive for Balance (penzba.co.uk)

5 months ago | ColinWright | penzba.co.uk | newest

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Moon Time Is a Thing Now–Here's Why It Matters (atlasobscura.com)

5 months ago | ColinWright | atlasobscura.com | newest

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German air traffic control agency confirms cyberattack, operations unaffected (therecord.media)

5 months ago | ColinWright | therecord.media | newest

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Comparing Embeds from Short-Form Social Media Sites (shkspr.mobi)

5 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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We face the erosion and possible collapse of our life-support systems (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Everything in Moderation (penzba.co.uk)

6 months ago | ColinWright | penzba.co.uk | newest

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Fragquiz: Test your IP fragmentation knowledge (valerieaurora.org)

6 months ago | ColinWright | valerieaurora.org | newest

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Terence Tao at IMO 2024: AI and Mathematics [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | frontpage

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Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, MS tries to launder responsibility (pivot-to-ai.com)

6 months ago | ColinWright | pivot-to-ai.com | frontpage

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Replace Twitter Embeds with Semantic HTML (shkspr.mobi)

6 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

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Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, MS tries to launder responsibility (awful.systems)

6 months ago | ColinWright | awful.systems | newest

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They've made a new antimatter hypernucleus (mathstodon.xyz)

6 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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'Model collapse'? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom (theconversation.com)

6 months ago | ColinWright | theconversation.com | frontpage

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Replacing Twitter Embeds with Images (shkspr.mobi)

6 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Search Bing for "Waterstones", top item shown is for Amazon (solipsys.co.uk)

6 months ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Is "Dollar Cost Averaging" a Bad Idea? (shkspr.mobi)

6 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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So you're thinking about getting ChatGPT to write something for you (fediscience.org)

6 months ago | ColinWright | fediscience.org | frontpage

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Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number! (shkspr.mobi)

6 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

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The Innumeracy of the Rulers (someweekendreading.blog)

6 months ago | ColinWright | someweekendreading.blog | newest