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A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators and some on the Wikimedia Foundation board after a prolific, long-serving administrator was banned for a year (Joseph Bernstein/BuzzFeed News)

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators and some on the Wikimedia Foundation board after a prolific, long-serving administrator was banned for a year  —  The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators

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Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship and bias, shows how these misleading attacks can be successful (The Verge)

The Verge: Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship and bias, shows how these misleading attacks can be successful  —  James O’Keefe’s stunt playbook keeps giving conservative lawmakers ammunition, even if the evidence is all phony Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship

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Tic-Tac-Toe, In TTL

We’ll all be familiar with Tic-Tac-Toe, or Noughts and Crosses, a childhood pencil-and-paper diversion which has formed the basis of many a coding exercise. It’s an easy enough task to implement in software, but how many of us have seen it done in hardware alone? That’s just what [Warren Toomey] has done using TTL chips,

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Trump says he will allow sales of US equipment to Huawei, where there are no national security issues, for now; US will not impose new tariffs on China (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Trump says he will allow sales of US equipment to Huawei, where there are no national security issues, for now; US will not impose new tariffs on China  —  U.S. agrees to halt additional tariffs on Chinese goods for now  —  OSAKA, Japan—President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed … Trump

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