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Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inaction

Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inaction

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Today, because of the expiry of the ePrivacy derogation enabling the use of technology to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM), Europe risks leaving children across the globe less protected from the most abhorrent harm. This concern is shared by a group of almost 250 child rights organizations and many others.For years, a number of technology companies have taken voluntary action to detect, remove and report CSAM including, where appropriate, through hash-matching technology โ€” a widely utilized tool to prevent and disrupt real, ongoing harm…
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Retiring the beta site – Meta Stack Overflow

Retiring the beta site – Meta Stack Overflow

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Thank you for listening to the community here. The direction that the Beta wanted to take the site(s) was a significant point of contention for many, and I must admit, I am pleased that that path is no longer the plan. I also want to say thank you to the Staff Members that voiced the same concerns within the company and finally those that listened to them and that the decision was that the direction of travel was, in fact, the wrong one. This, I…
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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use โ€” firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use โ€” firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Microsoft used to push its AI services towards its user base, especially with the launch of the Copilot+ PC, but it seems that even the company itself does not trust its creation. According to the Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, which was updated in October last year, the AI large language model (LLM) is designed for entertainment use only, and users should not use it for important advice. While this may be a boilerplate disclaimer, itโ€™s quite ironic given how hard the company wants people…
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EPAโ€™s Aaron Szabo Once Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Methane Rules โ€” ProPublica

EPAโ€™s Aaron Szabo Once Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Methane Rules โ€” ProPublica

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. Aaron Szabo, an assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, is listed in PDF metadata as the author of a January 2022 comment letter objecting to proposed controls on methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. The letter was submitted to the EPA by the American Exploration…
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USB IR Transceiver | Iguanaworks (now out of business)

USB IR Transceiver | Iguanaworks (now out of business)

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: USB device to send and receive IR: have your computer send IR signals to your DVR; receive IR signals from a remote control. Works under Linux and Windows. Our standard USB IR Transceiver can send and receive infra-red (IR) signals. It comes in 3 different variations. Common to all versions: Receive Standard 38 kHz IR Signals Transmit IR Codes at (25 โ€“ 125 kHz carrier frequency) USB device works under Linux and Windows The difference between the three version are how IR is transmitted…
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Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11

Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: While Linux has long been associated with lightweight performance and breathing life into aging machines, Canonicalโ€™s release notes for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS signal a clear evolution towards modern computing workloads. The company is quietly bumping its minimum memory requirements for the Linux distroโ€”a widely-used open-source operating system and a beginner-friendly gateway into the Linux world. Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough A slow climb from 1GB to 6GB The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS code named โ€˜Resolute Raccoonโ€™ raises the baseline memory to…
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The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Imagine you're a new assistant professor at a research university. You just got the job, you just got a small pot of startup funding, and you just hired your first two PhD students: Alice and Bob. You're in astrophysics. This is the beginning of everything. You do what your supervisor did for you, years ago: you give each of them a well-defined project. Something you know is solvable, because other people have solved adjacent versions of it. Something that would take you, personally, about a…
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JuliusBrussee/caveman: ๐Ÿชจ why use many token when few token do trick โ€” Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman ยท GitHub

JuliusBrussee/caveman: ๐Ÿชจ why use many token when few token do trick โ€” Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: why use many token when few token do trick Install โ€ข Before/After โ€ข Why A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman โ€” cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy. Based on the viral observation that caveman-speak dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing technical substance. So we made it a one-line install. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Normal Claude (69 tokens) "The reason your React component is re-rendering is likely because you're creating a new object reference on each render cycle. When you…
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Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: The Grief & Relief after Leaving Social Mediaย 

Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: The Grief & Relief after Leaving Social Mediaย 

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œA chestnut rolls past me in the garden. I follow it with my eyes. It stops, staying put, looking like a small carapace. Determined to prevent anyone from entering, I take a step forward. Stretch out my hand, but hesitate. If I want to reach the fruit, it will prick me. Leave it be. Iโ€™ll not harm it. Yet I know that sometime its protective casing will crack. The husk lying there is just an advance guard. If the chestnut is to become a tree,…
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MidstallSoftware/aegis: Open source FPGA silicon ยท GitHub

MidstallSoftware/aegis: Open source FPGA silicon ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Aegis is a fully open-source FPGA, from the silicon up. Existing open-source FPGA efforts either reverse-engineer proprietary architectures (Project IceStorm, Apicula) or build tooling around closed silicon (Yosys, nextpnr). The silicon itself has always been proprietary. Aegis starts at the other end: the fabric design is open, the toolchain is open, and the path to real silicon goes through open PDKs and shuttle services like wafer.space. The project generates parameterized FPGA devices with LUT4, BRAM, DSP, SerDes, and clock management tiles, along with everything needed…
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