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The 'Obfuscated C Code' Competition returns (thenewstack.io)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | frontpage

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Elon Musk Is the Top Player of a Popular Video Game (politicalwire.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | politicalwire.com | newest

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The Complete Text of "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" (jgc.org)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | jgc.org | frontpage

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As Russian losses in Ukraine mount, Putin faces devastating demographic timebomb (kyivindependent.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | kyivindependent.com | frontpage

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Steve Jobs Hosts Macintosh Software Dating Game with Bill Gates – 1983 [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | youtube.com | newest

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How Chinese Hackers Graduated from Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons (msn.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | msn.com | frontpage

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Ukraine launches surprise operation in Russia's Kursk region (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | theguardian.com | newest

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The Year in Open Source Hardware: Car Things and OpenWrt One (thenewstack.io)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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Who is Tommy Robinson and why does Elon Musk want him freed from jail? (nbcnews.com)

5 months ago | MilnerRoute | nbcnews.com | newest

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The car must not become an octopus? The Kraken won (searls.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | searls.com | newest

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2024's ten top-grossing films were all sequels or prequels (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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International Obfuscated C Code Contest relaunches, celebrating 40th anniversary (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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'Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were freaking out' (npr.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | npr.org | frontpage

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The oversavers: Older Americans who wish they'd worked less, vacationed more (businessinsider.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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Kubernetes, Rust, Linux and DOS? The year in Open Source (thenewstack.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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NPR and PBS stations brace for funding battle (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | nytimes.com | newest

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The Right to Repair and Air Quality Monitors (airgradient.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | airgradient.com | frontpage

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Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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'Like Kennedy I recovered from heroin addiction. Don't agree with his approach.' (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | nytimes.com | newest

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'How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you?' (cnn.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnn.com | newest

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Russian airports disrupted after 'massive' overnight drone exchange with Ukraine (go.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | go.com | newest

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House Democrat says Republicans protecting Elon Musk's Chinese investments (reuters.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | reuters.com | newest

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Key Fed inflation measure shows 2.4% rate in November, lower than expected (cnbc.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnbc.com | newest

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25 Years of Dillo (dillo-browser.github.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | github.io | newest

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Firesign Theatre: greatest satirists of 20th-century media's techno-romanticism? (mindplex.ai)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | mindplex.ai | newest

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Before shooting, Brian Thompson worried about UnitedHealth's negative image (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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She took a DNA test. Police used it to charge her grandma with a 1997 murder (cnn.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnn.com | frontpage

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25 years ago today: Slashdot parodied by Suck.com (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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The online 'gray tribe' philosophy of UnitedHealthcare killer Luigi Mangion (independent.co.uk)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | independent.co.uk | frontpage

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Two prominent real estate brokers and brother charged in sex trafficking case (cnn.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnn.com | newest

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Luigi's Reviews: 'What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions' (goodreads.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | goodreads.com | newest

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How Bruce Perens hopes to help 'Post Open' developers get paid (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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'Shame on Google for Their Description of Google Messages's Encryption Support' (daringfireball.net)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | daringfireball.net | frontpage

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'I was wrong': reactions to Google's retrofit of spatial memory safety onto C++ (thenewstack.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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The Case Against OSI's Open Source AI Definition (thenewstack.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever (mashable.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | mashable.com | frontpage

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Putin-controlled aircraft deported Ukrainian children, U.S. research alleges (reuters.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | reuters.com | frontpage

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Tesla has been slow to make its chargers accessible to other EVs (financialpost.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | financialpost.com | frontpage

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Student among three young adults killed in Tesla Cybertruck crash in Piedmont (yahoo.com)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | yahoo.com | newest

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Oxford's word of the year: "brain rot" (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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Amazon selects their favorite fake customer reviews (slashdot.org)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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When prompt injections attack: Bing and AI vulnerabilities (thenewstack.io)

6 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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Is There New Evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case? (slashdot.org)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade (cloudflare.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | cloudflare.com | newest

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[flagged] NATO, Ukraine hold emergency talks after Russia's new hypersonic missile attack (apnews.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | apnews.com | frontpage

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Biden allows Ukraine to use U.S. arms to strike inside Russia (cnbc.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnbc.com | newest

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Onion CEO: We won InfoWars auction, can't wait to relaunch, fun still to come (bsky.app)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | bsky.app | frontpage

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What comes after Open Source? Bruce Perens has some ideas (thenewstack.io)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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Eight Escaped Monkeys Remain at Large, Now Joined by Two Fugitive Emus (slashdot.org)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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Threads grew by a Bluesky this month (theverge.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | theverge.com | newest

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Project: Verdad – tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 (simonwillison.net)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | simonwillison.net | frontpage

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SysLinuxOS, a Linux Distro for System Administrators (thenewstack.io)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft' (slashdot.org)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | frontpage

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China Faces a Dilemma with North Korean Troops Pouring into Russia (msn.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | msn.com | newest

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Can the 'Safe C++' proposal copy Rust's memory safety? (thenewstack.io)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | frontpage

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Idaho public health dept. restricted from giving Covid-19 vaccines in 6 counties (cbsnews.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | cbsnews.com | frontpage

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For some elite athletes, neurodivergence can be a super strength (washingtonpost.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Inflation gauge falls to its lowest level since early 2021 (apnews.com)

7 months ago | MilnerRoute | apnews.com | newest

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Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome (omgubuntu.co.uk)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | omgubuntu.co.uk | newest

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Walmart, the largest US retailer, accused of endangering Californians for years (sfgate.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Ukraine is striking deeper inside Russia – and reshaping the war (msn.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | msn.com | frontpage

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Bitwarden makes changes to address concerns over Open Source licensing (slashdot.org)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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Jeffrey Snover remembers the fight to launch PowerShell (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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New GitHub features for Issues tracking – and memories of its past (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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'Welcome Solar Protons' (xkcd.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | xkcd.com | newest

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Former Las Vegas-area politician gets 28 years in prison for killing journalist (apnews.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | apnews.com | frontpage

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A Message to Election Officials from CISA Director Jen Easterly [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | youtube.com | newest

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$5,000 AI pants: this company wants to rent hikers an exoskeleton (slashdot.org)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | newest

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Secret documents show Hamas tried to persuade Iran to join its Oct. 7 attack (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | nytimes.com | newest

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Climate change significantly boosted Milton's destructive winds, scientists say (apnews.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | apnews.com | frontpage

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Mojo's Chris Lattner on making programming languages evolve (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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North Koreans deployed alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, sources say (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Tesla shares drop 9% after Cybercab robotaxi reveal 'underwhelmed' investors (cnbc.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnbc.com | newest

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CISA Video: 'Bomb Threat Awareness for College Students' (youtube.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | youtube.com | newest

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CISA Live Presents: People's Republic of China Cyber Threats (youtube.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | youtube.com | newest

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'CS50 changed my life': professor David Malan reflects on his path to teaching (thecrimson.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thecrimson.com | newest

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Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks (torquenews.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | torquenews.com | best

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Hacker successfully runs Linux on a CPU from the early 1970s (linux-magazine.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | linux-magazine.com | newest

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Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | best

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Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories collide with election misinformation (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | theguardian.com | newest

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Tech allies on track to raise $100M for Kamala Harris from Silicon Valley (cnbc.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnbc.com | newest

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Blowout US employment report reinforces economy's resilience (reuters.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | reuters.com | newest

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Behind the Scenes at the JavaScript Registry (thenewstack.io)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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[flagged] Watch as Tesla burns in flooded Florida garage days after Hurricane Helene (heraldtribune.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | heraldtribune.com | newest

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Why Meta's Threads is opening up to other social networks (washingtonpost.com)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA law (electrek.co)

8 months ago | MilnerRoute | electrek.co | frontpage

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Tesla catches fire after garage floods during Hurricane Helene (wtsp.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | wtsp.com | newest

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McDonald's and supermarkets failed to spot slavery (bbc.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | bbc.com | frontpage

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Cheech and Chong sue California over new marijuana regulation (sfchronicle.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | sfchronicle.com | frontpage

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Oakland's last home game ever – scenes from the Coliseum (10zenmonkeys.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | 10zenmonkeys.com | newest

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Russ Cox's next act: AI-powered help agents for Open Source projects (thenewstack.io)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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From Open Source to proprietary license? RedMonk data shows minor impact (thenewstack.io)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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A Bay Area boy was kidnapped from a park in 1951. He's just been found alive (sfgate.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Ukrainian Drones Just Blew Up 2k Tons of Ammo in Southern Russia (forbes.com/sites/davidaxe)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | forbes.com | frontpage

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In the US opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt. Its global counterparts make millions (washingtonpost.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | washingtonpost.com | best

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Trump Media shares slide with DJT sale restrictions set to lift (cnbc.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | cnbc.com | newest

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Tech Stocks Lead S&P 500 to Record High After Fed Cuts Rates (investopedia.com)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | investopedia.com | newest

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Deno 2 Arrives with Long-Term Support, npm Compatibility (thenewstack.io)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | thenewstack.io | newest

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JavaScript creator Brendan Eich: Oracle should free JavaScript's trademark (twitter.com/brendaneich)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | twitter.com | newest

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Original Flappy Bird creator disavows new version – and its possible crypto ties (slashdot.org)

9 months ago | MilnerRoute | slashdot.org | frontpage