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The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump

The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump

Oversight Democrats released a new trove of Epstein pictures on Dropbox and left the comments on.

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Home Alone, Updated for the Age of Surveillance

Kate McCallister realizes that her son Kevin didn’t make it with them to the airport on their way to Paris for the holidays. She frantically pulls out her phone and calls him up. KEVIN: Hello? MOM: Kevin! KEVIN: Mom? MOM: I’m so sorry you’re home alone! Your sister accidenta...

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The Jets Are Stuck On The Tarmac

The Jets Are Stuck On The Tarmac
The good news is that the Winnipeg Jets have their cornerstone goalie, Connor Hellebuyck, back in the lineup and apparently at full strength after missing a month due to knee surgery. The bad news is the Jets can't win any games no matter who's in net if they don't score goa...

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ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees

The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat.

WIRED
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Don't Miss This Kindle Sale: Paperwhite, Colorsoft, and Accessories

If your favorite reader is the one left on your Christmas list, good news: Several Kindles and Kindle accessories are on sale right now for your last-minute shopping.

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Listening to Jay Graber on the latest Revolution.Social. Rabble continues to do a great job of interviewing folks from across the social web. I think we’re all better off when we’re aware of what other platforms are doing, and so we can come from a point of potential collaboration, not competition.

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Humanist Plumbing

What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling

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GCDB’s Guide to Gift Card Tampering Scams

gcdb.com.au/article/gift-card-scams/

Gift Card Database (GCDB) has a guide to spotting tampered gift cards: Whilst it may seem unusual, you should tear open this version of Apple gift card before you purchase it so that you can inspect the redemption code. Look for missing or scratched off characters (it ma...

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Seeing videos of the new Samsung trifold phone has convinced me that foldables are good enough now. I don’t want a trifold, but I’m looking forward to Apple’s take on this. I’d prefer super thin at all costs, no outside screen, minimal battery and camera.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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The Smart Path to MISRA C++:2023 Compliance

Airplane flying above a runway navigation system

The systems we rely on are inherently complex. Everything from advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and sophisticated medical devices to

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Lucy Liu

The child of Chinese immigrants, Liu grew up in Queens where she spoke Mandarin at home and didn't learn English until she was 5. She returns to the language in her new film, ‘Rosemead.’ It’s about a terminally ill mother grappling with her teenage son’s escalating mental health crisis and the impossible choices she faces to help him. Liu spoke with Tonya Mosley about rejection, representation, and the first time she heard her name in OutKast’s hit “Hey Ya.”

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4 Data Architecture Decisions That Make or Break Agentic Systems

Person in red sneakers trying to decide which way to go. Yellow arrow points ahead.

Data teams that thrived in the last wave of Software as a Service (SaaS) platform scale weren’t the ones that

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Bluesky thread viewer

Lab Notes 019: a new thread viewer for Bluesky posts, both as embeds within posts, and in the quotes / mentions section!

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Your Office Holiday Parties

Listeners call in to share what makes a fun office holiday party, and share stories from parties, either from this year or in the past. 


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Tim Sweeney in a tweet about the new App Store rules for Japan:

Apple was required to open up iOS to competing stores today, and instead of doing so honestly, they have launched another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people of Japan.

I’ve already spent half an hour reviewing the terms and comparing them to the EU. It’s such a waste of time for everyone, including Apple.

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Creator Of Athletic Director Simulator Supremely Chill About ESPN Copying His Idea

Creator Of Athletic Director Simulator Supremely Chill About ESPN Copying His Idea
Say at least this much for Matt Brown, writer of the college sports-focused Extra Points newsletter: He is a fair-minded guy. You can safely bestow unto him the Ceremonial Scepter of Good Duderdom. Tuesday, Brown learned that ESPN, the all-powerful behemoth astride sports me...

WIRED
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The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams

Capable of creating “nearly perfect” face swaps during live video chats, Hoatian has made millions, mainly via Telegram. But its main channel vanished after WIRED's inquiry into scammers using the app.

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Arsenal Is Heading For A Title That Only A Gooner Could Love

Arsenal Is Heading For A Title That Only A Gooner Could Love
These are heady days for Arsenal fans. After three consecutive years as the Premier League's designated nearly men, the Gunners finally look poised to win the title, ending a dry spell that has lasted more than 20 years now. Though dominant domestic campaigns are often accom...

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Apple is opening up third-party marketplaces to Japan, similar to the expansion in the EU. Slow and good progress for the App Store, but on first reading looks like there are still junk fees.

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ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”