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Transcription of a talk given by Cory Doctrow in 2011

See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.

New California law limits cash to crypto at ATM machines at $1000 per day per person and also the fees that can be imposed by the machines....

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The woman is reportedly in critical condition....

The app was written in Python and started out for the HP-45 (ROM is included) but finally included also the HP-35 and the HP-80, as well as three others. For macOS and Windows you could just run the included executables, or with the Python code, this will run fine on Linux if you have Python installed. Nice thing is that you can...

Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.

Devon O’Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google’s browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name....

"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.

cross-posted from !aistuff

I want to get back into creative writing, and for work I prefer to take handwritten notes (I have my own weird shorthand and it helps with retention). I’d also like the ability to write at night and not disturb my partner....

Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....

Google is among the most pervasive and corrupt tools of the empire to suppress freedom and promote endless war and money printing for Wall Street. As Julian Assange points out, Google gets lucrative military cloud contracts, then turns around puts the regime’s pro-war propaganda on the front page. This article’s data on the...

The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence...

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....