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Black-market wildlife ads have increased on Facebook despite the company's steps to combat them, as experts say ad takedowns prematurely alert criminals (Rene Ebersole/National Geographic)

Rene Ebersole / National Geographic: Black-market wildlife ads have increased on Facebook despite the company’s steps to combat them, as experts say ad takedowns prematurely alert criminals  —  llegal wildlife ads have increased on Facebook despite its steps to combat animal trafficking.  Crime watch groups are calling for broad legal reforms. Black-market wildlife ads have

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Stellar Jewel Box

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603, a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way about 20,000 light-years away, reveals stages in the life cycle of stars. Stellar Jewel

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Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy property management software provider RealPage for $9.6B, a 31% premium to its closing price on Friday (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy property management software provider RealPage for $9.6B, a 31% premium to its closing price on Friday  —  Private-equity firm reaches deal with provider of technology platform used by owners and managers of rental properties Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy

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Pine Labs, which makes POS software and provides last-mile retail transaction tech for merchants, raises $75M-$100M at a $2B valuation (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: Pine Labs, which makes POS software and provides last-mile retail transaction tech for merchants, raises $75M-$100M at a $2B valuation  —  Pine Labs is currently India’s third largest fintech startup after Paytm and PhonePe.  It counts Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia India, Temasek, Mastercard, Paypal and Actis LLP as among its investors. Pine

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A look at some of the designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors, and labor activists working to shift the insular gaming world culture towards inclusivity (New York Times)

New York Times: A look at some of the designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors, and labor activists working to shift the insular gaming world culture towards inclusivity  —  Designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors and labor activists have been working to make gaming more inclusive. A look at some of the designers, competitors, streamers, voice actors,

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Profile of Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer and SVP of global affairs who helped it fend off antitrust probes in 10+ countries including India and UK (Rob Copeland/Wall Street Journal)

Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: Profile of Kent Walker, Google’s chief legal officer and SVP of global affairs who helped it fend off antitrust probes in 10+ countries including India and UK  —  With antitrust challenges intensifying, longtime executive Kent Walker is now big man on company campus Profile of Kent Walker, Google's chief

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Splash droplet photos

Water droplets are beautiful things, though photographing them can prove difficult without a little help. Precise timing is key, and that’s what led [Alex Pikkert] to build a timing controller to help nail the perfect shot. It’s a job that’s ideally suited for the average microcontroller. In this case, [Alex] chose the venerable Arduino Uno.

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Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG's antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking (Daisuke Wakabayashi/New York Times)

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG’s antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking  —  Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google … Profile of Dina Srinivasan,

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How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data

In the past few years, researchers have shown growing interest in the security of artificial intelligence systems. There’s a special interest in how malicious actors can attack and compromise machine learning algorithms, the subset of AI that is being increasingly used in different domains. Among the security issues being studied are backdoor attacks, in which a

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