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There are parallels between Facebook's response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft's response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago (Benedict Evans)

Benedict Evans: There are parallels between Facebook’s response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft’s response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago  —  – There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months … There are parallels between Facebook's response to

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Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation (Emma Haruka Iwao/Google Cloud Blog)

Emma Haruka Iwao / Google Cloud Blog: Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation  —  Try GCP  —  Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months.  —  Free Trial  —  TM title , and the first time the

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Profile of Peter Szulczewski, co-founder of Wish, the most downloaded shopping app worldwide with a valuation of $8.7B+, and a revenue of $1.9B last year (Parmy Olson/Forbes)

Parmy Olson / Forbes: Profile of Peter Szulczewski, co-founder of Wish, the most downloaded shopping app worldwide with a valuation of $8.7B+, and a revenue of $1.9B last year  —  n a sun-filled San Francisco afternoon, Peter Szulczewski is climbing the stairs to the top of a Sansome Street skyscraper … Profile of Peter Szulczewski,

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NES on RISC-V

RISC architecture might change the world, but it runs an NES emulator right now. That’s thanks to MaixPy, the new MicroPython for the K210, the recently released RISC-V microcontroller that’s making waves in the community. [Robot Zero One] has the tutorial and [Other Dave] of EEVBlog has a video of the thing in action. The

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How supply-chain management software from companies like SAP optimizes for production needs but can create a bullwhip effect on factory workers from a distance (Miriam Posner/New Yorker)

Miriam Posner / New Yorker: How supply-chain management software from companies like SAP optimizes for production needs but can create a bullwhip effect on factory workers from a distance  —  This past December, the workers’-rights organization China Labor Watch published a report about conditions in Chinese toy factories. How supply-chain management software from companies like

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Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers  —  Around this time of year, Google shares how many “bad ads” it killed the year before.  And every year, the number grows.  But not this

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