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The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available (discuss.systems)
Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (devblogs.microsoft.com)
FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security (ftc.gov)
Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year (dillonshook.com)
Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1 (serd.es)
API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value (devblogs.microsoft.com)
LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (social.kernel.org)
China is the manufacturing superpower (cepr.org)
Microsoft Download Center Archive (legacyupdate.net)
We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes (pavpanchekha.com)
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (osec.io)
A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (usenix.org)
We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality (lore.kernel.org)
Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install (infosec.exchange)
Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017) (cadlag.org)
Large language models, small labor market effects [pdf] (bfi.uchicago.edu)
The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (blog.exe.dev)
Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation (ctvnews.ca)
Writing into Uninitialized Buffers in Rust (blog.sunfishcode.online)
An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma (cfr.org)
Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007) (web.mit.edu)
Mipmap selection in too much detail (pema.dev)
Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf] (web.ist.utl.pt)