August 2021 Archive
8491.
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant (theatlantic.com)
8492.
Pittsburgh introduces 'Dark Sky' legislation to reduce light pollution (triblive.com)
8493.
iCloud+ custom email domains now available in beta (9to5mac.com)
8494.
Lucid: Electric car drove 445 miles from LA to SF without charging,besting Tesla (businessinsider.com)
8495.
Afghan all-girl robotics team members land in Mexico (aljazeera.com)
8496.
Clearview AI Offered Free Facial Recognition Trials to Police Around the World (buzzfeednews.com)
8497.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Decentralized Internet (electronicbeats.net)
8498.
California Accuses Activision Blizzard of Shredding Abuse Evidence (kotaku.com)
8499.
An evidence review of face masks against Covid-19 (pnas.org)
8500.
Free and open source Linux games – part 1 (github.blog)
8501.
Apache Iceberg (iceberg.apache.org)
8502.
Everyone from Texas to Florida on alert for possible Gulf Coast hurricane (lite.cnn.com)
8503.
Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021 (9to5mac.com)
8504.
OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects (openshot.org)
8505.
New State of Climate Report Confirms 2020 Was Among 3 Warmest Years on Record (ncei.noaa.gov)
8506.
China’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid (spectrum.ieee.org)
8507.
I replaced Google Analytics with a web server running on my phone (lbrito1.github.io)
8508.
Smallholders grow 33% of the world’s food, less than half what's often claimed (ourworldindata.org)
8509.
Facebook Said to Consider Forming an Election Commission (nytimes.com)
8510.
Git Worktrees Step-by-Step (infrequently.org)
8511.
Anchors: Self Adjusting Computations in Rust (github.com)
8512.
Belarusian dictator pwned by “cyber-partisans” (pluralistic.net)
8513.
Reddit Moderators Demand the Platform Take Action Against Covid Disinformation (forbes.com)
8514.
Karmada 0.7: Next-Gen Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration (infoq.com)
8515.
Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels that last decades (newscientist.com)
8516.
Hannah Montana Linux is a Unix-like Linux Operating System based on Kubuntu (hannahmontana.sourceforge.net)
8517.
A message to web developers, from a screen reader user (bighack.org)
8518.
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement on the Web (smashingmagazine.com)
8519.
Chinese Threat: Taiwan’s Largest VC Plans Semiconductor Fund (techtaiwan.com)
8520.
China's Microsoft Hack May Have Had a Bigger Purpose Than Just Spying (npr.org)