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Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
Google outage – resolved
various services are broken<p>- youtube returning error<p>- gmail returning 502<p>- docs returning 500<p>- drive not working<p>status page now reflecting outage: <a href="https://www.google.com/appsstatus" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/appsstatus</a><p>--------------<p>services look to be restored.
New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
If-then-else had to be invented
The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants
Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
I know the policy doesn't really exist anymore, but I still like the idea a lot in principle (for large and financially secure startups, say 1k developers and up). Just wondering what Xooglers and others think about it.
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
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