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Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality

Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jennifer Combs had never gotten so much as a speeding ticket. On May 8, police in Trinidad, Texas, arrested her on a state jail felony charge for writing a Facebook post about the town’s water supply. The post said residents had been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water. The city says that claim was false. So they sent cops to her door. The charge is felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 42.06, a statute designed for people who call…
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Leinster 19-41 Bordeaux Beagles: ‘A very high mountain’ as the wait for Leinster continues

Leinster 19-41 Bordeaux Beagles: ‘A very high mountain’ as the wait for Leinster continues

🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Leinster traveled to Bilbao dreaming of a fifth European star to add to their badge.They were hoping to make amends in the Basque city, site of their last Champions Cup win in 2018, where they could wash away the pain of their previous four defeats.However, having been caught off guard by Bordeaux's impressive first-half performance, this will arguably hurt more than most. Players and staff spoke of the "fine margins" of previous final defeats, but on Saturday the gulf was much clearer. Tommy O'Brien played…
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JWT is a scam and your app doesn’t need it — Dusan Malusev

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I am tired of pretending JWT is fine. It isn't. It's a cargo cult. It solves a problem your app almost certainly does not have, it creates four or five problems your app definitely does have, and a generation of backend developers has been bullied into shipping it because some blog post in 2014 said "stateless" like it was a virtue instead of a tradeoff. Every Laravel app I started with tymondesigns/jwt-auth I eventually ripped it out of. Every JWT-based system I've audited has the…
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Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public again, and I have questions

Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public again, and I have questions

🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,IPO,nuclear power,Deep Fission,nuclear fission 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: One of the news headlines this week had a whiff of déjà vu on the subject. Nuclear energy startup Deep Fission has gone public, hoping to garner investor support to build underground reactors to power artificial intelligence data centers. Wait, didn't I already write that story? I could have sworn I did it. Oh right, I did. Last September, Deep Fission said it had become a public company through a reverse merger with Surfside Acquisition, a Delaware shell company, a deal…
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Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments. Spacelab was controlled by a French-built minicomputer, called the Mitra 125 MS. Unlike modern computers, this computer didn't contain a microprocessor chip. Instead, its 16-bit processor was constructed from several boards of chips. In this article, I reverse-engineer one of the processor boards, shown below, part of the computer's Arithmetic/Logic Unit (ALU). The Mitra 125 MS computer, built by CIMSA,…
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These special phone features and apps can help protect you from spyware

These special phone features and apps can help protect you from spyware

✨ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Android,Apple,Google,hackers,hacking,WhatsApp,Spyware,Meta,cybersecurity,NSO Group,Intellexa,Paragon Solutions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders and political dissidents are no longer rare or unusual. In early 2025, WhatsApp informed nearly 90 users – many of them journalists and members of civil society across Europe – that they had been targeted by Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions. Months later, Apple sent threat notifications to a new group of iOS users; Forensic analysis confirmed that two of them, both journalists, were attacked by Paragon's Graphite spyware using a zero-click attack, meaning they did…
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Lisp in Vim – Susam Pal

Lisp in Vim – Susam Pal

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: By Susam Pal on 07 Dec 2019 Introduction Fifteen years ago, writing Lisp code in Vim was an odd adventure. There were no good plugins for Vim that assisted in structured editing of Lisp s-expressions or allowed interactive programming by embedding a Lisp Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) or a debugger within the editor. The situation has improved a lot since then. In the last ten years, we have seen active development of two Vim plugins named Slimv and Vlime. Slimv is over 10 years old now. Vlime…
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Ferrari uses IBM’s AI to create unique Formula 1 fans

Ferrari uses IBM’s AI to create unique Formula 1 fans

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,AI,IBM,Apps,formula one,Exclusive,f1 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Two years ago, IBM realized there was one glaring omission in its list of sports partnerships: Formula One. Formula 1 has become one of the most popular sports in the world, especially in the United States, where the Netflix film "Drive to Survive" documented the working lives of Formula 1 drivers and turned them into mainstream celebrities. The technology-focused sport has also become a hot ticket for technology companies like AWS, Oracle and Anthropic, which are collaborating with teams to vision sponsorships and provide…
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z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is the fifth installment of the 80386 series. The FPGA CPU is now far enough along to run real software, and this post is about how it works. z386 is a 386-class CPU built around the original Intel microcode, in the same spirit as z8086. The core is not an instruction-by-instruction emulator in RTL. The goal is to recreate enough of the original machine that the recovered 386 control ROM can drive it. Today z386 boots DOS 6 and DOS 7, runs protected-mode programs…
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Dyson commemorative vacuum offers: V15 Detect, Gen5Detect and PencilVac for sale

Dyson commemorative vacuum offers: V15 Detect, Gen5Detect and PencilVac for sale

🔥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Gear / Products / Home,Suction Sale 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Shopping for The Dyson vacuum is an experience. There are many models to navigate and serious price tags on most of them. As someone who tests vacuums for a living, I have to admit that Dyson destroys most other vacuums. There are a few cheaper models that I'll continue to own (see my complete guide to cordless and robot vacuums for more recommendations), but if you're dreaming of a Dyson, this weekend is a good time to…
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