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Interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum on creating a programming language in the 1980s, the draw for developers, Python's evolution, and its future — Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions …
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Uber imposes hiring freeze on engineering teams in the US and Canada, canceling scheduled interviews with job applicants this week — Uber isn't letting tech workers join the ride, at least for now. — The ride-hailing giant has been canceling scheduled on-site interviews for tech roles this week … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher: robocall-blocking apps like Truecaller and Hiya send user or device data to third-party data analytics companies without users' explicit permission — Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls. But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be?
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AMD CEO talks about plans to quickly ramp up production of EPYC server chips, launched this week, and sustaining the advantage created by Intel's stumbles — With Intel struggling to get to the next generation of chipmaking technology, AMD has an opportunity to gain some ground on its longtime rival.
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| Joel Stein / Bloomberg: |
A reporter describes trying to regain privacy by hiding from Silicon Valley using a slew of location-altering, signal silencing, face-masking gadgets — As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I'm hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north … | Jane Manchun Wong: |
Twitter's web app code suggests that the company is working on a search feature for Direct Messages — As Twitter users, we often have to scroll through the numerous Direct Messages just to find the past conversations we want to recall. The older the message, the longer it takes to scroll, up to minutes if you are lucky.| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
8chan users who are migrating to 08chan, an unofficial site hosted on ZeroNet, inadvertently lose anonymity because the P2P network exposes users' IP address — An unofficial new version of the hate-filled forum isn't as anonymous as its users might hope. — Refugees from the anonymous 8chan forum …
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FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker — The long-awaited portable Sonos speaker could arrive this fall — One of two devices recently filed by Sonos with the FCC is a portable Bluetooth speaker, The Verge can confirm. In the filing for product model S17 … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS — Huawei's long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official. At today's Huawei Developer Conference …
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| Brianna Wu / Washington Post: |
Video games don't cause violence, but toxic gamer culture, which has become a fertile recruitment ground for white supremacists and misogynists, does — For some players, advocating violence became a free-speech virtue — I was 22 when politicians started blaming video games for mass shootings.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: WH explored ways to predict mass shootings by scanning social media posts, at a meeting with Facebook, Twitter, and others, who raised privacy concerns — Top officials in the Trump administration expressed interest in tools that might anticipate mass shootings or predict attackers …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
At its Unpacked event, Samsung showed off PlayGalaxy Link, a new feature to stream games directly from a PC to the Galaxy Note10 — One of the more interesting news tidbits from yesterday's Unpacked event got a bit drowned out in all of the noise. Understandably so … Sponsor Posts
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