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1. A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation
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... is a seasoned legislator with a good track record -- she co-sponsored "Aaron's Law", which would have reformed the parts of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that were used to unjustly target Aaron Swartz ...

2. Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank
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On November 13, noted vampire capitalist Peter Thiel gave a speech to donors at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research conservative think-tank on "The End of the Computer Age." Over the course of ...

3. What happens when a neural network tries to write a bad sex scene
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Yves Peirsman had the brilliant idea to take this a step further. He ran this year's nominated passages through the Write with Transformer AI Neural Network, just to see what kind of steamy computer action ...

4. Vaporwave overalls
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In Control clothing offeres these computer glitch overalls, perfect for a vaporwave Christmas. [h/t Jeff] Read the rest Read all  ...

5. Putin signs law requiring Russian apps on smartphones, TVs and PCs
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that bans the sale of smartphones, computers and Smart TVs without Russian apps pre-installed. The law will come into force on July 1st of next year, ...

6. I Ditched My PC For Raspberry Pi 4 Model B For A Week: Review
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fossbytes: The Raspberry PI 4 Model B Single Board Computer (SBC) is a great computing device Read all  ...

7. Amazon removes Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

You can sell anything on Amazon, until you get noticed, and in the age of computer-generated copycats it can pretend not to even know what's for sale there. So it comes to pass that Amazon has now removed ...

8. This Welsh password generator might keep you safe from hackers, but definitely from dragons
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Inspired by XKCD's classic diceware strip, a programmer named Alice created an open-source algorithm to randomly generate secure passphrases in Welsh. As difficult as it would be for any human or computer ...

9. Cyber Monday MediaWorld: tanti sconti e promozioni
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Per il Cyber Monday MediaWorld offre ai suoi clienti tantissimi sconti su smartphone, console, computer e molto altro ancora. The post Cyber Monday MediaWorld: tanti sconti e promozioni appeared first ...

10. Cyber Monday Amazon 2019: offerte antivirus
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Iniziano gli sconti del Cyber Monday di Amazon; tra i prodotti in saldo le suite antivirus di Norton per difendere il proprio computer. The post Cyber Monday Amazon 2019: offerte antivirus appeared first ...

11. Timekpr-nExT Is A Linux Parental Control Program For Limiting Computer Usage
(English/Linuxtoday)

LinuxUprising: Timekpr-nExT is graphical parental control tool for Linux, useful if you want to limit child activity on a computer. Read all  ...

12. Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Cards Against Humanity asked Spencer Kelly to teach a computer to write mean, funny joke-cards for a new, AI-based expansion pack to the game; Kelly trained the popular GPT-2 generative language model ...

13. The Organelle music computer is nearly $100 off this weekend
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Here's a sweet deal on a gift that could make sense for the more adventurous music-makers in your life. Critter & Guitari is running a sale on the Organelle M that drops the price from $595 ...

14. Black Friday Unieuro: offerte e sconti
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Unieuro lancia il suo Black Friday: sino al 2 dicembre tantissimi sconti su smartphone, televisori, computer, monopattini elettrici e molto altro. The post Black Friday Unieuro: offerte e sconti appeared ...

15. Black Friday Amazon 2019, le offerte sui computer
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Una panoramica delle migliori offerte sui computer disponibili su Amazon in occasione del Black Friday 2019. The post Black Friday Amazon 2019, le offerte sui computer appeared first on Webnews. Read ...

16. Black Friday MediaWorld: sconti ed offerte
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MediaWorld lancia ufficialmente gli sconti per il Black Friday: sino al 2 dicembre tante offerte su smartphone, computer, TV, console e molto altro ancora. The post Black Friday MediaWorld: sconti ed ...

17. Rescue weasel likes to play with human at computer
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Brace for maximum cuteness. This cute little weasel sure enjoys playing with their human's hand on that computer mouse. Such a cute little fuzzy dude. His name is Ozzy. I love that his name is Ozzy. Cute ...

18. Podcast: The Engagement-Maximization Presidency
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... Peter Watts’s 2002 novel Maelstrom illustrates a beautiful, terrifying example of this, in which a mindless, self-modifying computer virus turns itself into a chatbot that impersonates patient zero in ...

19. Tidal’s My Video Mix creates video playlists based on your listening habits
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Tidal is launching a new twist on the usual computer-generated playlists we've seen from the likes of Spotify and Google. And it's doing so with a video-focused feature called My Video Mix. Like ...

20. Highlights from the Red Bull Rubik’s Cube World Cup
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... solves the Rubik’s Cube with only one hand; Re-Scramble - pits competitors trying to replicate a computer generated pattern from another cube as fast as possible and; 3x3 Female - a track exclusively for ...

21. Zorin OS 15 Lite Release: Good Looking Lightweight Linux
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Zorin OS 15 Lite is designed to work on older computers with low hardware configuration. Read all  ...

22. Educational Insights Artie 3000 review
(English/the-gadgeteer)

... imagination and creativity and with today’s children, computers, coding, and Artificial Intelligent/Smart devices have become the norm. … Educational Insights Artie 3000 review Read More Read ...

23. Russia bans the sale of devices without Russian software
(English/engadget)

Earlier this month, Russia signed a law giving it the power to censor the internet. Now, it has passed another law banning the sale of smartphones, computers and smart TVs that don't have Russian ...

24. Here's how to make a "computer on a card" from the 1960s
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... school in Northern Ontario got a bunch of them. But they are all but impossible to find now, so here is the next best thing." The CARDIAC Instructable presented here is not a computer, it's a device to ...

25. Amazon Black Friday Week, le migliori offerte
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Partono ufficialmente le offerte di Amazon per il periodo del Black Friday con sconti su molteplici prodotti come smartphone, computer, televisori e altro. The post Amazon Black Friday Week, le migliori ...