Mornington Crescent

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Mornington Crescent is a complex strategy game (level H8) named after a London Underground station on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line, between Euston and Camden Town in Travelcard Zone 2. Mornington Crescent station is situated at the southern end of Camden High Street, where it meets Hampstead Road and Eversholt Street. Closed […]

FCC gets tough: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen

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The FCC’s updated reporting requirements mean telcos in America will have just seven days to officially disclose that a criminal has broken into their systems. After releasing a proposed rule in early January and giving the industry 30 days to respond, the FCC’s final rule was published today. It solidifies what the agency proposed a […]

US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster

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(InvestigateTV) — It’s been one year since a train derailment in Ohio thrust the issue of rail safety back into the national spotlight. Congressional lawmakers immediately introduced legislation designed to protect Americans and hold rail companies accountable. But the longest-serving woman in Congressional history says little has changed since the disaster. U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur, […]

VDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU

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A vDPA device is a type of device that follows the virtio specification for its datapath but has a vendor-specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on the hardware or emulated by software. A small vDPA parent driver in the host kernel is required only for the control path. The main advantage […]

On the Proposed California SB 1047

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California Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduces SB 1047 to regulate AI. I have put up a market on how likely it is to become law. “If Congress at some point is able to pass a strong pro-innovation, pro-safety AI law, I’ll be the first to cheer that, but I’m not holding my breath,” […]

Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox

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Introduction James Stroud had a problem. The evolutionary biologist had spent several years studying lizards on a small island in Miami. These Anolis lizards had looked the same for millennia; they had apparently evolved very little in all that time. Logic told Stroud that if evolution had favored the same traits over millions of years, […]

Nango (YC W23, open-source product integrations) is hiring a back end engineer

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The Product Nango simplifies the process for engineers to integrate their software with external APIs. Our open-source platform acts as a one-stop solution for all product integrations. Despite companies investing $2B annually in creating product integrations, they often miss out on significant revenue due to the absence of crucial integrations. With Nango, businesses can integrate […]

The Ultraviolet Myth

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Abstract:It is very common to introduce quantum physics in an historical context. Though there are advantages to this, it is a problem that many of the stories that have become central to the physics lore are mere pseudo-histories far detached from the real events. It is about time that we stop uncritically copying these stories […]