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UK rolls out passkeys across Gov.uk services (biometricupdate.com)

14 hours ago | giuliomagnifico | biometricupdate.com | frontpage

8

Trump's 'corrupt' billion-dollar crypto deal sparks outrage in Congress (qz.com)

a day ago | giuliomagnifico | qz.com | frontpage

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Spain to reduce the standard 40-hour work week for 12.5 million employees (independent.co.uk)

2 days ago | giuliomagnifico | independent.co.uk | frontpage

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Apple wants to take control of the chips used in your iPhone: the roadmap (9to5mac.com)

4 days ago | giuliomagnifico | 9to5mac.com | newest

1

Astronomers Capture Planetary Formation with Unprecedented Clarity (extremetech.com)

5 days ago | giuliomagnifico | extremetech.com | newest

2

The Complete Text of North Korea's Information Technology Law (dailynk.com)

5 days ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | newest

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ChatGPT is a conscious liar for its own convenience (giuliomagnifico.blog)

6 days ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | newest

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A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray (esa.int)

4 days ago | giuliomagnifico | esa.int | frontpage

15

London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m (theartnewspaper.com)

5 days ago | giuliomagnifico | theartnewspaper.com | frontpage

1

New York Magazine is now publishing on Substack (niemanlab.org)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | newest

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My new Alpine-Linux kiosk miniPC (€189) boots in ~3 seconds (giuliomagnifico.blog)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | newest

2

The Sex Lives of Common Vegetables (noemamag.com)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | noemamag.com | newest

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Julian Assange and his family in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral (twitter.com/wikileaks)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | twitter.com | frontpage

2

Onyx Boox has announced the launch of its first 25.3-inch color E Ink monitor (goodereader.com)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | goodereader.com | newest

3

UV chip kills bacteria and preserves food (theengineer.co.uk)

a week ago | giuliomagnifico | theengineer.co.uk | newest

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How I made $64k from deleted files – a bug bounty story (medium.com/sharon.brizinov)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | medium.com | frontpage

3

'China Track' bank netting system shields Russia-China trade from Western eyes (reuters.com)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | reuters.com | frontpage

1

The first YouTube video (homeip.net)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

5

Apple Studio Display keeps draining power, even when blank and asleep (giuliomagnifico.blog)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | frontpage

2

Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See (columbia.edu)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | columbia.edu | newest

2

Nvidia boss meets Shanghai mayor in wake of new US export controls on chips (scmp.com)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

6

The Ukrainian startup making walkie-talkies caught the attention of US Military (aol.com)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | aol.com | frontpage

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The Ukrainian startup making walkie-talkies caught the attention of US Military (businessinsider.com)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | businessinsider.com | newest

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Apple now uses data from bug reports for AI training (appleinsider.com)

2 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | appleinsider.com | newest

4

Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop scraping (siliconangle.com)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | siliconangle.com | frontpage

4

N. Korean smartphones add screenshot function with notable exceptions (dailynk.com)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | frontpage

4

Ukraine's DIY drone makers are helping fighters on the front lines (npr.org)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | npr.org | newest

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Preprint study: GPT-4.5 is the first AI model to pass an authentic Turing test (livescience.com)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | livescience.com | newest

2

What Happened to the Modos Paper Laptop and Paper Monitor? (goodereader.com)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | goodereader.com | frontpage

1

Defense Department scraps $5.1B worth of technology and consulting contracts (siliconangle.com)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | siliconangle.com | newest

1

The Enlargement of the Human Brain May Depend on Two Genes (mindmatters.ai)

3 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | mindmatters.ai | newest

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Turns out Community Notes are also "biased" (fakedup.org)

4 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | fakedup.org | newest

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Trump backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner (npr.org)

4 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | npr.org | newest

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Bitcoin Humanitarian Alliance (bitcoinhumanalliance.org)

4 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | bitcoinhumanalliance.org | newest

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Congressional hearing reveals deep concerns about federal surveillance practices (biometricupdate.com)

4 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | biometricupdate.com | frontpage

1

Migrating Umami from PostgreSQL to MySQL (giuliomagnifico.blog)

4 weeks ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | newest

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Researchers say scheme improves homomorphic encryption efficiency, effectiveness (biometricupdate.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | biometricupdate.com | newest

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Avatar Appearance Shapes How Our Brain Responds to Virtual Actions (neurosciencenews.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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Framework "temporarily pausing" some laptop sales because of new tariffs (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | arstechnica.com | newest

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Open Source Is Geopolitical Now (openpioneers.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | openpioneers.com | frontpage

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France suggests targeting Big Tech's data use in response to US tariffs (politico.eu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | politico.eu | newest

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Laser Detection of Fiber-Optic Drone–A Potential Edge for Ukraine's Forces (united24media.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | united24media.com | newest

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Microsoft founded April 4, 1975 (homeip.net)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

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Subreddits study highlights the hidden ways that hate speech spreads (phys.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | phys.org | newest

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France Eyes US Big Tech in EU Retaliation to Trump's Tariffs (bloomberg.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | bloomberg.com | frontpage

1

Smartphone bans alone fail to equip children for healthy use of technology (bmjgroup.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | bmjgroup.com | newest

1

N. Korean officials turn to Bitcoin to shield assets from regime scrutiny (dailynk.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | newest

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Nuclear risk from AI prompts calls for US, China and others to seek agreement (scmp.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed (theguardian.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | best

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ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically (psypost.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | psypost.org | frontpage

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Trump restores funding for Radio Free Europe,Open Technology Fund after lawsuits (thehill.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | thehill.com | newest

4

Alibaba Qwen2.5-Omni-7B: Open Source End-to-End Multimodal AI Model (alizila.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | alizila.com | frontpage

1

AI Reshapes the Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market (nextplatform.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | nextplatform.com | newest

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Study: E-scooter crashes mainly caused by reckless driving (cision.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | cision.com | newest

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I learned my hometown paper died from Facebook. That's the future we're facing (poynter.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | poynter.org | newest

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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds (acs.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | acs.org | frontpage

2

Major U.S. bridges at high risk of being struck by ships (jhu.edu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | jhu.edu | newest

3

Ant Group reportedly reduces AI costs 20% with Chinese chips (tomshardware.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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EU pushes ahead with Big Tech antitrust enforcement (wsj.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | wsj.com | frontpage

5

World Happiness Report 2025 Dashboard (worldhappiness.report)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | worldhappiness.report | frontpage

2

GovAction, track actions across all branches of the federal government (govactionlist.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | govactionlist.com | newest

3

The Growing Battle over How to Define a 'Podcast' (bloomberg.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | bloomberg.com | newest

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The 'Pop and Slosh' sound when opening a swing-top bottle of beer (aip.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | aip.org | newest

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Open-Source AI Matches Top Proprietary LLM in Solving Tough Medical Cases (hms.harvard.edu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | harvard.edu | newest

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Webb telescope captures its first images of carbon dioxide outside solar system (jhu.edu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | jhu.edu | newest

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The 1989 proposal that led to the World Wide Web (homeip.net)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

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Animal poo can be used to save endangered species from extinction (theguardian.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | newest

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Microsoft's 1986 IPO (homeip.net)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | frontpage

3

Chinese local govs turn to DeepSeek's AI to identify suspected corruption cases (scmp.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

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How astronauts feel when they return to earth (theguardian.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | newest

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The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London (publicdomainreview.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Foreign bloggers help China spread propaganda, analysis finds (voanews.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | voanews.com | newest

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Study: Physical activity's longevity benefits may not be as clear-cut as thought (jyu.fi)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | jyu.fi | newest

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New North Korean Android Spyware Slips onto Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | bleepingcomputer.com | frontpage

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Secure and Personalized Music-to-Video Generation via Charcha (arxiv.org)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | arxiv.org | newest

2

Record: Volkswagen sold more sausages than cars (vreme.com)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | vreme.com | newest

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Dryers in the US consume ~3% of residential energy budget, 6x washing machines (umich.edu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | umich.edu | frontpage

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Expert Comment: What does Meta's undersea cable plan mean for geopolitics? (ox.ac.uk)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | ox.ac.uk | newest

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Leading the Charge to Better Batteries (princeton.edu)

a month ago | giuliomagnifico | princeton.edu | newest

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A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space (nature.com)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | nature.com | frontpage

2

Russia sees tech boom amid sanctions (tomshardware.com)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | newest

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A Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm with His Thoughts (ucsf.edu)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ucsf.edu | newest

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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | frontpage

4

Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park (homeip.net)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | frontpage

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Future of Made-in-China: UBTech Robotics deploys humanoid ‘team’ in car factory (scmp.com)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

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N. Korea's smartphone "Samtaesung 8" revealed (dailynk.com)

2 months ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | newest

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A new study identifies differences between human and AI-generated text (cmu.edu)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | cmu.edu | newest

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Reporters launch new TikTok-like news platform (semafor.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | semafor.com | newest

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IBM shuts China research arm after lay-offs and revenue decline (scmp.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | frontpage

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SkySpace: A work-in-progress social media flashback to 2005 (skyspace.me)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | skyspace.me | newest

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From Google Photos to Immich (giuliomagnifico.blog)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | newest

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Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in the world by 2027 (orato.world)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | orato.world | newest

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Laser-textured metal inspired by shark and cicada creates antibacterial surfaces (aip.org)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | aip.org | frontpage

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Ukraine's Defense at Hostomel Airport Crushed Russia's Blitzkrieg Plan (united24media.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | united24media.com | newest

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In 2024 Russia increased purchases of video surveillance systems to $1.4B (biometricupdate.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | biometricupdate.com | newest

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UK Government is making security harder for everyone (privacyinternational.org)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | privacyinternational.org | newest

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Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (niemanlab.org)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | newest

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DeepSeek stacks up when citing news publishers (niemanlab.org)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | newest

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New model from WashU scientists can improve understanding of human attention (washu.edu)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | washu.edu | newest

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Hhydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth (apnews.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | apnews.com | newest