Month: October 2020

    • Seattle-based Temporal, which is building an open source, stateful microservices orchestration service, raises $18.75M Series A led by Sequoia (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Temporal, which is building an open source, stateful microservices orchestration service, raises $18.75M Series A led by Sequoia  —  Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised … Seattle-based Temporal, which is building an open source, stateful microservices orchestration

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    • Google details how it is using AI to improve search, including indexing individual passages from webpages, allowing searches for songs by humming, and more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google details how it is using AI to improve search, including indexing individual passages from webpages, allowing searches for songs by humming, and more  —  During a livestreamed event this afternoon, Google detailed the ways it’s applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience. Google details how it

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    • Ajit Pai says FCC will start a rulemaking to clarify the meaning of Section 230, and social media doesn't have "special immunity denied to other media outlets" (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Ajit Pai says FCC will start a rulemaking to clarify the meaning of Section 230, and social media doesn’t have “special immunity denied to other media outlets”  —  – Agency chief says it will conduct rulemaking Trump sought  — Social media doesn’t have special immunity, Chairman Pai says Ajit Pai says FCC will start

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    • Source: Robinhood estimates that ~2,000 accounts were compromised in a recent hack; Robinhood said a "limited number" were affected by personal email breaches (Sophie Alexander/Bloomberg)

    Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg: Source: Robinhood estimates that ~2,000 accounts were compromised in a recent hack; Robinhood said a “limited number” were affected by personal email breaches  —  – A fake Arizona ID offers clue on how a hacker accessed funds  — Some clients dispute assertion that email accounts to blame Source: Robinhood estimates that

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    A rocket booster and a dead satellite might collide tonight, illustrating the ‘ticking time bomb’ of space debris

    If it happens, the collision would likely produce thousands of pieces of space debris, the most since an active communications satellite operated by Iridium and a dead Russian satellite crashed into each other in 2009. A rocket booster and a dead satellite might collide tonight, illustrating the ‘ticking time bomb’ of space debris Source: Washington

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    • A group of Ukrainian operatives, including one sanctioned by US Treasury, used Facebook to spread conspiracy theories about the Bidens for more than a year (Christopher Miller/BuzzFeed News)

    Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News: A group of Ukrainian operatives, including one sanctioned by US Treasury, used Facebook to spread conspiracy theories about the Bidens for more than a year  —  Facebook may have throttled the reach of the New York Post story.  But these men are celebrating all the same.  —  Copy A group

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    Handheld Pong on a 6502

    Recreating the arcade smash hit Pong in a device small enough to plug into a home television was a considerable technical challenge back in 1975. Of course, a big part of that was the fact that it needed to be cheap enough that consumers would actually buy it. But had money been no object, the

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