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Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

techcrunch.com

A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of...
A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check...
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My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area

lettersofnote.com

The following exchange can be found in the second volume of Letters of Note. Reprinted by...
The following exchange can be found in the second volume of Letters of Note. Reprinted by kind permission of the Reagan Library. The picture of Ronald Reagan peering into a child’s messy bedroom—which I’m now realising, as I type, is mildly sinister?—is in fact, believe it or not, two photos mashed together. Both ar...
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Google is combining its Android and hardware teams – and it's all about AI

theverge.com

AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try...
AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big ways to try to make it happen even faster. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called “Platforms and Devices” that will oversee all of Google’s Pixel products, all of ...
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TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas

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Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account

neowin.net

Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new Release Preview update for Windows Insiders who are still...
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new Release Preview update for Windows Insiders who are still using Windows 10. Build 19045.4353 does not contain anything all too exciting, but there is one change that might raise a few eyebrows. Microsoft is now testing new banners in the Settings app to make users with loc...
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Keeling Labs (YC W23) –RL for Battery Optimization–Is Hiring a Senior Data Eng

keelinglabs.com
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You Need a "WTF Notebook"

simplermachines.com

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New Assistant: Meta AI, Built with Llama 3

fb.com

Built with Meta Llama 3, Meta AI is one of the world’s leading AI assistants, already...
Built with Meta Llama 3, Meta AI is one of the world’s leading AI assistants, already on your phone, in your pocket for free. And it’s starting to go global with more features. You can use Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger to get things done, learn, create and connect with the things that matter...
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All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record

latimes.com

Southern California home prices hit a record in March amid sky-high mortgage interest rates, a combination...
Southern California home prices hit a record in March amid sky-high mortgage interest rates, a combination that’s creating the most unaffordable housing market in a generation.The average for the six-county region reached $869,082 in March, according to Zillow. That’s up 9% from a year earlier and 1% higher than the...
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Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China

bloomberg.com

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Nintendo Reveals Tears of the Kingdom's Biggest Problem and How It Was Solved

ign.com

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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

nlnet.nl

dnsmasq fr en nl BlueHats prizes is an initiative by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate. They...
dnsmasq fr en nl BlueHats prizes is an initiative by the French Interministerial Digital Directorate. They are awarded to maintainers of critical free and open source projects. In 2024 four prizes of € 10 000 each will be given out. We are happy to announce the winner of the first 2024 BlueHats prize is Simon Kelley...
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Meta Llama 3

meta.com
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Ask HN: What is it like working for Mozilla Labs these days?

ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Can anyone suggest few open source projects for SaaS Boilerplate?

ycombinator.com
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Tesla risks losing its lead without an inexpensive EV

techcrunch.com

Elon Musk’s decision to green-light a robotaxi over an affordable EV might cost the company its...
Elon Musk’s decision to green-light a robotaxi over an affordable EV might cost the company its lead. Last week, Musk reportedly canned the effort in favor of a robotaxi, the sort of pie-in-the-sky project that defined his first decade at the helm. There’s an argument to be made that the company is where it is today...
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Ask HN: Is there a way to customize the stories on Hacker News?

ycombinator.com
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Tesla pushes for $56B pay deal for Elon Musk

bbc.com
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Employers feel the side effects of drugmaker control over Wegovy, Ozempic costs

politico.com
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OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework

github.com
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Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs

github.com
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Chinchilla Scaling: A Replication Attempt

arxiv.org
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A Rarely Used Technique Could Double U.S. Grid Capacity

oilprice.com

By Felicity Bradstock - Apr 13, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT Advanced reconductoring involves replacing existing power...
By Felicity Bradstock - Apr 13, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT Advanced reconductoring involves replacing existing power lines with cables made from state-of-the-art materials, significantly increasing the grid's capacity. The technique is faster, cheaper, and less disruptive than building new power lines and doesn't require reg...

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Post Office urged by external lawyers to 'suppress' key document, inquiry hears

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The Post Office was urged by its external law firm to “try and suppress” disclosure of...
The Post Office was urged by its external law firm to “try and suppress” disclosure of a key document for “as long as possible” as branch owner-operators tried to mount legal action against the state-owned postal company, a public inquiry has heard.Rodric Williams, a senior in-house lawyer at the Post Office, giving...
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