Why are we so obsessed with lawns?
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Microsoft has oh-so-quietly extended its offer of extended security updates for consumer users of Windows 10. The Windows giant ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, when it stopped shipping fixes and updates –...
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ON CALL Supporting IT and keeping it secure is a serious endeavor. Which is why The Register lightens up Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your tales of tech support...
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“I Love Gay People” I once had a coworker I’m going to call Maggie. And Maggie loved gay people. I know that, because she explicitly told me when she learned I was gay, probably six months into working together. Up to that...
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In October 1962, with Soviet missiles 80 miles from Florida and his generals demanding airstrikes within days, John F. Kennedy did something his advisors found almost unbearable. He waited. While his advisers urged invasion,...
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Right now, I have 628 unread emails in my work inbox. That’s in addition to seven unread Signal messages, a few unopened Telegrams, dozens of texts coming in (both personal and professional), and a whole separate Google work...
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Martin brings experience from Coinbase, Palantir, Amazon, and the U.S. Army to lead Uber’s cybersecurity and enterprise security organization. The post Philip Martin Joins Uber as Chief Information Security Officer...
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Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/no-one-escapes-the-permanent-underclass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682016 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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Article URL: https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681949 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Chinese cybersecurity vendor Qihoo 360 claims it’s built an AI bug-finder that’s better than Anthropic’s Mythos model. CEO Zhou Hongyi revealed the model in a speech at the 14th Beijing Cybersecurity Conference, which Qihoo 360...
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In structures like photovoltaic cells there is only a limited spectrum of wavelengths that can perform useful work, with the remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation effectively wasted. If the energy of such...