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Given the two possible outcomes: 1. Jury verdict is "NO" to CFAA violations. 2. Jury verdict is "YES" to CFAA violations and the jury award $0. Is option (2) worse for Ryanair because it more negatively impacts any appea
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It appears the latest opinion may not yet be published for this case 20-cv-01191-LPS, Ryanair DAC v. Booking Holdings Inc. et al, United States District Court of Delaware. This is the first opinion on the case from 2021 which denied Bookin
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by dhx 2y ago
If this is of interest, Wikidata contains a huge amount of data on file formats. For example, [1] is a huge list of file formats and [2] is a list of documentation or source code (structs etc) describing file formats. Other data includes li
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by dhx 2y ago
Coupon codes have existed before the Internet as a privacy-preserving way for businesses to track conversions for advertising. If a buyer quotes "MAGAZINE5" when purchasing to obtain a 5% discount, the seller knows the magazine ad
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It is important to be aware that >64 bit supercookies ("impressions") are now being stored outside of the cookies subsystem in their own PrivateAttribution.sqlite database.[1] The implications are numerous: 1. There is no user
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by dhx 2y ago
The Linux ecosystem is by far the largest market for enthusiasts volunteering their time to develop a new browser. It makes sense this community would only care about building a browser for their own needs (Linux support only). Additionally
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Another news organisation notes the model is SR520BLSTC.[1] The SR520BLSTC user manual states R600a (isobutane) is used as the refrigerant.[1] Isobutane has a boiling point of -12oC. There are numerous case studies of people dieing from iso
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Typo fixed
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News reports indicate a single alleged offence per 18 U.S. Code § 793 (g)[1] for conspiring with at least one other person in the conduct of an offence described in (a) through (f). By way of comparison, the former US president who is also
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Mountpoints are explicitly/hardcoded to never be umountable and removable via tmpfiles.d specification.[1] Possibly because such mountpoints are generally expected to be systemd .mount units, and as such unmounting and removal of paths
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/home is specified as a path to create if it doesn't already exist.[1] Despite the name "tmpfiles", there is nothing necessarily temporary about /home being created.[2] Think of a system such as a mobile phone that
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Some sections of interest for HN: "Working from Home" has the following statistics on the proportions of employees working full-time from home: 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 7% 22% 19% 16% It is also stated th
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Thanks for the description. The article was confusing as to whether the CPU's stated 24x PCIe 5.0 lanes included those required for the chipset. Given that the same AM5 socket is used and X870E is similar to the X670E, this appears to
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How are the 24x PCIe 5.0 lanes (~90GB/s) of the 9950X allocated? The article makes it appear as: * 16x PCIe 5.0 lanes for "graphics use" connected directly to the 9950X (~63GB/s). * 1x PCIe 5.0 lane for an M.2 port conne
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A timely reminder that 9/11 hijackers communicated in the clear. Examples: “The semester begins in three more weeks. We've obtained 19 confirmations for studies in the faculty of law, the faculty of urban planning, the faculty of
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Some other less-cited reasons home ownership may increasingly be considered expensive: - Increasing density in older cities requires infrastructure upgrades that are much more complex and expensive to retrofit than it was to plan and build
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The site is located approximately a 250 metre walk from both Microsoft's CYS data centre campus and the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center[1] and not too much further from electricity substations that at least partially supply Francis
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Other than the trademark and brand recognition, is there anything remaining that a US company would want to purchase and be able to use and support? Is the source code written in English? Is TikTok using operating systems, software, scripts
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N3E still has a +9% logic transistor density increase on N3 despite a relaxation to design rules, for reasons such as introduction of FinFlex.[1] Critically though, SRAM cell sizes remain the same as N5 (reversing the ~5% reduction in N3),
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M2's Neural Engine had 15TOPS, M3's 18TOPS (+20%) vs. M4's 38TOPS (+111%). In transistor counts, M2 had 20BTr, M3 25BTr (+25%) and M4 has 28BTr (+12%). M2 used TSMC N5P (138MTr/mm2), M3 used TSMC N3 (197MTr/mm2, +43
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Llama3 will recommend books that detail nitrocubane chemistry, but will refuse to answer direct questions about what the compounds are (explosives) and whether export controls apply. It gets a bit more chatty when confused and the questions
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Thanks to these technology laggards, a significant and growing number of Internet users are now participating in a sort of mix network [1] through their residential ISP or mobile carrier, who are using CGNAT/464XLAT at scale. As a resu
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A rooted phone would be enough to gain access without needing to brute force guess passwords. The rooted phone could just force a prompt for the user to supply their password again for an application such as Teams, and this password could t
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Microsoft don't require TOTP for access to their corporate e-mail accounts and systems, or do they have an unpatched vulnerability where the requirement for TOTP can be bypassed?
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There is an underlying "tragedy of the anticommons"[1] problem that will be exasperated even if kids and young adults stop consuming mass media. For example, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia communities almost refuse to believe any
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A few more reasons, at least for Australia: - The easiest land is developed first, with further expansion and in-fill occurring for land that in the past was deemed too hard or too expensive to develop on. - Homes are larger and more comple
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For fun, let's assume you are a supplier, whatever that means. Let's say you are Autodesk, and you've been told you need to create a SBOM for AutoCAD in CycloneDX. You have to complete "manufacturer", "supplier
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The TLDR tangible outcome appears to be: 1. Stop charging for audit logs for Exchange Online's MailItemsAccessed activity[1]. On this point, Microsoft announced in July 2023[2] and added it to their roadmap in October 2023[3] that they
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Ugly and broken build systems are most of the reason why Gentoo's 'sandbox' feature and equivalent for other distributions exists.[1] These sandboxing features have mostly been used in the past to prevent an ugly shell script
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And the number of public holidays (for respective countries[1]) the accounts were active in each of a selection of timezones. AE_Asia/Dubai 11 AL_Europe/Tirane 15 AR_America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires 15 AT_Europe&

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