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RSS is undead

RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. Now, with Facebook’s scandal over Cambridge Analytica, there is a whole new…

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Thousands of cyclists remark London’s knife crime epidemic

Thousands of youngsters rode through central London yesterday on BMXs and mountain bikes to protest against the capital’s knife crime epidemic. Today, social media users have reacted to the protest with praise. The demonstration called #BikesUpKnivesDown was led by the #BikeStormz movement and aimed to bring attention to the rise of gang violence and increasing…

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Syria airfield ‘struck by missiles’ days after alleged chemical strike kills forty civilians

A military airfield in Syria has come under missile attack, the country’s state media has reported – days after the government of Bashar al-Assad was accused of launching a chemical weapons strike that left 40 dead. At least 14 people were killed in the missile strikes on the Tiyas airport near Homs, known as T4, including some…

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Whistleblower exposes ATO ‘cash grab’ concentrating on tiny agencies

Posted April 09, 2018 19:01:30 The toxic culture inside the Australian Taxation Office and the taxpayers who are fighting back. Two Australian Taxation Office whistleblowers have told a joint Four Corners and Fairfax investigation about a toxic internal culture where vulnerable small businesses and individuals are deliberately targeted to help meet revenue goals. They allege…

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Ought to we be jumpy about ‘killer robots’?

Campaigners are renewing calls for a pre-emptive ban on so-called « killer robots » as representatives of more than 80 countries meet to discuss the autonomous weapons systems.  The use of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) is « a step too far », said Mary Wareham, the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. « They cross a moral…

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The C64 Mini overview: Nostalgia’s now not adequate

Hardware The C64 Mini is a shrunken-down version of the original, although its keyboard and casing is just for show. Basically, it’s a hunk of plastic that’s been cut and painted to look like the real deal, even if the icons on the underside of the keys are missing. If you aren’t planning on using…