February 2021 Archive
5041.
The evolution of Covid is not random (rationaloptimist.com)
5042.
China’s treatment of Uighur minority under scrutiny (msnbc.com)
5043.
Ethical and Technical Concerns about the Netblocks Internet Observatory (netblocked.org)
5044.
Tesla invest $1.5B in Bitcoin plans to accept BTC as payment (bloomberg.com)
5045.
Show HN: I built a tool to blur license plates (noplate.me)
5046.
Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World (reason.com)
5047.
How to make your downstreams happy (drewdevault.com)
5048.
People fighting to keep Urdu alive online (restofworld.org)
5049.
LibHunt – trending open-source projects and their alternatives (libhunt.com)
5050.
GPU Mining Farms Are Causing Power Outages in Iran (videocardz.com)
5051.
GNU: Watch “Fight to Repair,” demand the right to repair (fsf.org)
5052.
(Gitlab) Out of the office: How the world adapted to working remotely in 2020 (about.gitlab.com)
5053.
Uceprotect is enabling people to take down entire ASNs via spoofed masscans (twitter.com)
5054.
Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack (bleepingcomputer.com)
5055.
State of Independent SaaS 2021 (stateofindiesaas.com)
5056.
Speller100: Zero-shot spelling correction at scale for 100-plus languages (microsoft.com)
5057.
The Elon Markets Hypothesis (bloomberg.com)
5058.
Google, Facebook tell SCOTUS it should be harder for you to sue them (arstechnica.com)
5059.
Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine, dies at 78 (cnn.com)
5060.
Google’s advertising system allowed discrimination against nonbinary people (themarkup.org)
5061.
Air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers (theguardian.com)
5062.
Bitcoin mining energy mix is 73% renewable energy [PDF] (Dec. 2019) (pd.coinshares.com)
5063.
The first CMOS microprocessor: RCA CDP 1802 (spectrum.ieee.org)
5064.
How to build an invention machine – why Amazon's system will outlast Bezos (firstround.com)
5065.
In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her (polygon.com)
5066.
Britney Spears' father loses bid to retain control of delegating her investments (nbcnews.com)
5067.
Glass/Machine: Listening to the Technology of Philip Glass (culturexchange1.wordpress.com)
5068.
Walker Evans (metmuseum.org)
5069.
Miami Pushes Crypto with Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin (finance.yahoo.com)
5070.
VLC 4.0 coming this year with new interface for the popular video player (theverge.com)