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#plastic : having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter

- French: plastique

- German: das Plastik

- Italian: plastica

- Portuguese: plástico

- Spanish: plástico

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Trump admin pauses $175M in federal funding to UPenn over inclusion of trans athletes in women's sports (Paulina Dedaj/Fox News)

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[$] Better CPU vulnerability mitigation configuration

Modern CPUs all have multiple hardware vulnerabilities that the kernel needs to mitigate; the 6.13 kernel has workarounds for 14 security-sensitive CPU bugs just on x86_64. Several [...]

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Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s

A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a …read more
#hacking #projects
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Man arrested in Florida for chilling threats against Trump including a challenge to 'fight me naked to the death' (Emily Goodin/Daily Mail)

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Brain’s bedroom chemistry unlocked in mouse sex study, could treat premature ejaculation

A recent study sheds light on the brain chemicals that control different stages of sexual...
#engineering #technology
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Tesla crash victims’ families worried about Musk’s influence over investigations

The families of seven victims urge the Department of Transportation to keep a crash reporting rule in effect.



Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1

A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...
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Google briefly delays Pixel 9A release to investigate ‘component quality issue’

Google isn’t yet taking preorders for a phone it just announced, which is unusual. A “small number” of early devices exhibited the unspecified issue.



Four​.Meme suffers second hack in as many months

March 18, 2025
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Turkish police detain Erdoğan's main political rival (Financial Times)

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Improvements in Brute Force Attacks

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#cybersecurity



Kari Lake Accosted Ruben Gallego at a Posh D.C. Club (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

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