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Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢 www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

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Now would be a good time to consider freezing your credit with the three credit bureaus because of gestures wildly reasons.

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Glorious. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

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we need an associate to join the firm as soon as possible. various reasons inc. half the fed gov't being fired. employment, civil rights, a bit of suing Elon Musk, some other stuff. Virginia bar required. I'll get around to posting something formal but email me a resume if you want to apply.

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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This supposedly complimentary story about one of Musk's greasy goons embodies one of the core problems of DOGE: they were so incompetent they didn't do basic version control or backups, and so lost all their work. Such people are unfit to be anywhere near critical government infrastructure.

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

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My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.

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And, there it is: Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman is terminating "all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS, effective immediately." Including CISA cybersecurity advisory committee.

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And we're up, our first episode of this year, this time with video (thankfully not of me): Carole House and the Biden Cybersecurity Everything Bagel. youtu.be/Pqw0W2crQiM securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/20/b...

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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

submitted 39 days ago • 67 comments

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

submitted 40 days ago • 1031 comments

We blogged again! This time about our Data Safety Levels framework, which was inspired by the CDC/WHO Biosafety Levels system and Laboratory Biosafety Manuals. Like biological agents, we also don't want sensitive data to be exposed to humans or escape. code.cash.app/dsl-framework

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I've decided to do a little live-streamed #curl presentation on twitch next week: "curl from start to end". For free of course, no signup. Just show up. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01...

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This story going inside the ‘tower’ that controls the DeKalb Interlocking is incredible — gothamist.com/news/driving...

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Tour of WebAuthn by Adam Langley: www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebaut...

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Chinese hackers (actually, cyber operators) gained control to shut down U.S. ports, power grids, and other critical infrastructure. Intrusions were severe, with key details lost permanently due to erased logs and inadequate tracking. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

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CFP for uASC 25 is still open. We have rolling reviews, and 1 submission is already accepted. If you have interesting results on microarchitecture security (incl. weak threat models or reproducing prior work), check out the CFP at uasc.cc The CFP closes Jan 28

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info

submitted 52 days ago • 42 comments

National Cryptologic Foundation event about accelerating post-quantum crypto adoption features some NSA speakers: cryptologicfoundation.org/news-events/...

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The amateur poster panics and rushes to clarify his original post when the replies begin misconstruing it. Whereas the veteran does nothing because he is already working on his next post. His enemies are forever arguing with the wind

submitted 57 days ago • 70 comments

New Bedlam3

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I love that Apple is trying to do privacy-related services, but this just appeared at the bottom of my Settings screen over the holiday break when I wasn’t paying attention. It sends data about my private photos to Apple.

submitted 59 days ago • 41 comments

I used to think I didn’t like panettone. It turned out I’d never tried the good stuff. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Happy holidays / Merry Christmas everyone!

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The NORAD Santa Tracker is an apex achievement, the reason a nation becomes a superpower.

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Judge Liman has denied a request for an injunction to stop congestion pricing. Loss for Truckers, UTF, Lower Manhattan residents and Andrew Fine and NYers Against Congestion Pricing who were suing because they don't want to pay to drive to the Hamptons PDF: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

It’s the time of year in NYC when people are still buying Christmas trees but some are already on the curb 🎄

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It looks like Tisch is getting to clean house over at 1PP: 1) gothamist.com/news/new-nyp... 2) www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/18/h... 3) www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/19/n...

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"Manhattan prosecutors investigating corruption allegations against Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the chief adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, have presented evidence to a grand jury and could seek an indictment as soon as this week, people with knowledge of the matter said." -- www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

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Hot off the presses! Our 2nd blog post on how we do app-layer encryption in our back-end services for Cash App: code.cash.app/encryption-u...

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An important message from Global Tetrahedron's CEO @brycetetraeder.bsky.social about InfoWars. In short: "Your role will soon become clear. Stand by."

submitted 74 days ago • 71 comments

Great writeup on zero trust to assess where you are and how to navigate

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A new era of innovation has arrived for NYC outdoor dining 💅

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In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

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a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

submitted 80 days ago • 322 comments

La Tulipe, by Jack Bertoli [OC] r/brutalism

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The 1988 apocalyptic cult classic “Miracle Mile,” starring Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Denise Crosby, and Mykelti Williamson, is now streaming for free in the United States on Kanopy (you just a public library card or an affiliated university login to create an account at www.kanopy.com/en).

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

Want to help build Binary Ninja this summer? Our 2025 summer internship application process is live!

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Big development in economics: "Much of the behavior motivating our most important behavioral theories of risk derive from complexity-driven mistakes rather than true risk preferences." The full paper by Ryan Opera is in the link below. #EconSky

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Hi guys! Important note! If you want to get the Christmas Edition of The Onion before Christmas, please sign up by tomorrow at noon! Our 25% off sale ends then! This month's issue includes 16 extra pages of Onion wrapping paper. Including... this guy. Subscribe here: membership.theonion.com

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