Articles by thisislife2
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Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)

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France Refuses Rafale Source Codes to India (defencesecurityasia.com)

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Modi Government's Digital Censorship Regime (thewire.in)

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White House Renamed 'Epstein Island' on Google Pixel Phones (washingtonpost.com)

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Apple Is Set to Put Ads in Apple Maps in Services Push (bloomberg.com)

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Cuba rejects US embassy's 'shameless' request for diesel (thehill.com)

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The Iran War Is Destroying Something More Valuable Than Oil (houseofsaud.com)

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Saudi Arabia takes Indian startup's help for satellite images (thehindubusinessline.com)

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Lancet paper released on medicinal cannabis effectiveness (ama.com.au)

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I Know Which Country the U.S. Will Invade Next (2018) (truthdig.com)

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We now know why some people had blood clots after Covid shots (thehindu.com)

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Apple Blocks US Users from Downloading ByteDance's Chinese Apps (wired.com)

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Free beginner-level Russian language online course (gw2ru.com)

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Photography helped the British empire classify India (bbc.com)

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DRDO cracks the code for GaN technology, boosting India's defence (theweek.in)

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DRDO cracks the code for GAN technology, boosting India's defence (theweek.in)

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Roman slavery and American slavery – how were they different? (beardyhistory.com)

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India orders social media firms to remove unlawful content within three hours (bbc.com)

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Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface (kotaku.com)

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Taking an Ultrasound in Antartica, from Delhi (theprint.in)

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India: Supreme Court Questions Meta and WhatsApp over Privacy Policy (livelaw.in)

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India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI (theguardian.com)

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AI grounds Boeing 787-8 plane after pilot reports fuel switch malfunction (thehindu.com)

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What is the Salman Khan personality rights case? (thehindu.com)

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Iran presidency releases names of those killed in anti-government protests (middleeastmonitor.com)

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Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee (wired.com)

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Pale Moon – Cloudflare discussion thread (palemoon.org)

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[flagged] How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path (nitishastra.substack.com)

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Hollywood Try to Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through Indian Court (torrentfreak.com)

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SEO Firms Begin to Advise Clients to Ignore Google (webmasterworld.com)

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Pale Moon v34: Release Notes (palemoon.org)

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Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs (theverge.com)

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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid (semafor.com)

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Polymarket rocked by perfectly timed $630k bets on Maduro's arrest (newsinterpretation.com)

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Macromedia Flash, from an Animator's Standpoint (2022) (medium.com/nehochupechatat)

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Calcutta High Court questions IndiaMART exclusion from ChatGPT results (indianexpress.com)

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Building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing memory modules and soldering them (tomshardware.com)

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Russia 2025: How the military industry became a war machine (bulgarianmilitary.com)

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PhotoWorks 16.0: New Photo Editor to Bite the Big Mac (petapixel.com)

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Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K (cbc.ca)

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SoftBank's $5.8B Nvidia stake sale stirs fresh AI bubble fears (thehindu.com)

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Banks to have 'bank.in' internet domain name, non-banks 'fin.in': RBI (thehindu.com)

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A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul (nytimes.com)

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Tech billionaires back startup on gene-edited 'designer babies' despite US ban (nypost.com)

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41. Asterix in Lusitania (asterix.com)

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Create an ultra quality HEVC video pipeline with hardware cost of less than $500 (github.com/airensoft)

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Russians Used an Unknown Drone with a Closed Wing Against Ukraine (militarnyi.com)

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A parasitic wasp saved South India's Tapioca crops (thehindu.com)

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Genes might predict if you'll get hooked on weed (newatlas.com)

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Netanyahu says social media Israel's new 'weapon' after TikTok acquisition (newarab.com)

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Airlines Sell 5B Ticket Records to the Government for Warrantless Search (404media.co)

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iPhone buyers in India prefer non-Pro models and 128GB storage (indianexpress.com)

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People Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement (futurism.com)

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Why opposing Israel's genocide got me arrested for terrorism (middleeasteye.net)

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Ask HN: Has there been an increase in online censorship due to AI search's rise?

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Book Review: 'ADHD Does Not Exist' by Richard Saul – 'The ADHD Explosion' (wsj.com)

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Russia-backed Nayara taps Indian IT firm after Microsoft suspends service (reuters.com)

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Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024) (automaton-media.com)

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I Left the U.S. for India and Built a $23M Burrito Business [video] (youtube.com)

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Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone (androidauthority.com)

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Tell HN: Apple has now begun testing ads on iPhone through the Wallet app

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James Bond owners say name battle is 'assault' on 007 franchise (theguardian.com)

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DigiPin: India's new digital address system (indiapost.gov.in)

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Russia steers Shahed drones in Ukraine via Telegram messenger (bulgarianmilitary.com)

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Drinking your sugar is more problematic for health than eating it (byu.edu)

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Does employee happiness create value for firm performance? (nature.com)

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The Sega Master System is still being made and sold in Brazil 36 years later (xda-developers.com)

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Indian Programmers Work the Longest Hours (reddit.com)

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In push for made-in-India browser, a mandate to trust government encryption (thehindu.com)

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ADHD misinformation on TikTok is shaping young adults' perceptions (ubc.ca)

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Cloudflare Verification Loop Issues (palemoon.org)

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Bengaluru doctors pioneer device that can diagnose cancer in 2 minutes (thesouthfirst.com)

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'White colonizers': Pro-Israel AI account turns against Zionism (middleeasteye.net)

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Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization (nytimes.com)

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A 'designed in India' 5G chip, fabbed at TSMC, is facing fund crunch (indianexpress.com)

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Mumbai court issues contempt notice to Sundar Pichai over YouTube non-compliance (barandbench.com)

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Zomato CEO advertises an unpaid Chief of Staff position requiring ₹20 lakh fee (reddit.com)

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India's central bank plans to create a cloud platform for financial firms (reuters.com)

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Apple put the power button on the bottom of the new Mac mini, so I fixed it (reddit.com)

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India's antitrust body probe finds Zomato, Swiggy breached antitrust laws (indiatimes.com)

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Before the Election, Tech C.E.O.s Were Quietly Courting Trump (nytimes.com)

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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds (bbc.com)

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Global Book Banning Statistics (wordsrated.com)

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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza (washingtonpost.com)

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India's Supreme Court clarifies that not reporting child porn content is a crime (twitter.com/indianexpress)

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Building an application to predict flash floods, like in Wayanad, to send an SOS (reddit.com)

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CCI Finds Samsung, Xiaomi Colluding with Amazon, Flipkart: Report (business-standard.com)

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Delhi High Court issues contempt of court notice to Wikipedia (barandbench.com)

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Doesn't Amazon's ₹6k cr loss in India smell of predatory pricing, asks Piyush (thehindubusinessline.com)

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Study reveals three edible bug species in North-East India (deccanherald.com)

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Amazon Is Fumbling in India (techcrunch.com)

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IT workers gather in large numbers to protest 14-hour workday proposal (thehindu.com)

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Stack Exchange Supports Israel (politics.stackexchange.com)

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Watching child porn online is not a crime: Indian High Court (indiatimes.com)

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Consumer court imposes penalty on Uber after driver refuses to complete trip (barandbench.com)

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Ola snaps ties with Microsoft Azure in stand against Western tech (indiatimes.com)

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Apple blatantly rips off 2008 LG phone ad in latest iPad commercial (boingboing.net)

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Toyota Earns About Rs 40k per Fortuner – Dealer Rs 100k, Govt Rs 1,800,000 (rushlane.com)

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Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI (theregister.com)

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Telegram Creator on Elon Musk, Resisting FBI Attacks, and Getting Mugged (youtube.com)