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aa_is_op··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
TL,DR: They steal from businesses that take card payments with giant commissions.

You're welcome!

aa_is_op··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Plagiators are having a fit these days
aa_is_op··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
If I remember correctly, this is the hack that Fico tried to blame on Ukraine, even if the hackers were a known Russian ransomware crew that literally posted in their Telegrams about their support for Russia... right?
aa_is_op··on Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)
The guy that invented spent years bed-ridden because of it... yet he still went to trade shows to show it off
aa_is_op··on How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker
They can start by supporting more standards. It's getting harder and harder to view any modern site on this engine and the page load times are insane when compared to a Chromium stepchild like Vivaldi
aa_is_op··on SpaceX ties Musk compensation to Mars colonization goal
The trick here is that Musk doesn't depend on that compensation at all. This is just another PR trick to show that super-brain musk is here to advance the human race when he actually dgaf
aa_is_op··on Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
>Does anyone feel that the jig is almost up? Surely the returns aren’t anywhere close to what investors expect with the sheer amount of cash at this point in time.

It's only a matter of time until they crash the market. Nobody is making any money, even if the White House is dumping billions in their tools.

aa_is_op··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
This was posted inside a private group, so I doubt this applies. He should get a good lawyer.
aa_is_op··on MCP is dead; long live MCP
Can an MCP server be legitimately secured? Asking out of curiousity
aa_is_op··on USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot
You get what you vote for. Enjoy!
aa_is_op··on We were right about Havana syndrome
These things happen next to Russian embassies and everyone goes... I wonder who could it be...
aa_is_op··on Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
I've heard this before... get ready to pay for it yourself through local taxes... if you don't die from cancer or thirst first
aa_is_op··on 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time
Metric system when?
aa_is_op··on We urgently need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans
Which is why we're not gonna get it. There's reporting that AI companies are firing staff opposing using their tools to create nudes. They're not gonna ban AI from impersonating humans... like ever!
aa_is_op··on Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
Imagine organizing an anti-government movement on the platform of a guy who sponsored said government.
aa_is_op··on Android’s desktop interface leaks
Is this meant to replace ChromeOS or will it actually be open-source for real?
aa_is_op··on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
Isn't this actually illegal?
aa_is_op··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
imagine reporting comments on HN because you're butthurt your political idol raped children
aa_is_op··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
I'm keeping an eye on SteamOS. I love how it's much better at running games than Windows, the platform those games were designed for.
aa_is_op··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
Plz make a Windows version :)))
aa_is_op··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
By the time the idiot EU bureaucrats get to do something, they'll be replaced by right-wing loonatics sponsored by US tech giants: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants...
aa_is_op··on European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal
Well, a lot of countries are switching their supply chains to LATAM and Africa for this exact reason. I think the damage might have been already done
aa_is_op··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
This country is turning into a meme
aa_is_op··on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
We have Trump blabbering about EU censorship, but here's the US oligarch's social network doing it at his orders.

The "bastion of free speech" is exporting its censorship to other countries... If I'm an EU lawmaker, I'd honestly use this to just ban Zuckerberg's entire social media sites and get it over with

aa_is_op··on Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
The US literally exposed RT employees as FSB agents that carried out hacking operations... what do you think?
aa_is_op··on SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink satellite, with no sign of slowing down
Does it operate 10k satellites? or is this just a launch tally and many of those have now been decommissioned
aa_is_op··on Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States
Well... taking into account that Trump was screaming and swearing at Zelenskyy to surrender to Russia or Putin will destroy Ukraine just yesterday... I don't see why the Dutch would stop sharing intel with the US

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aa_is_op··on YouTube seems to be down
It now loads, but errors everywhere
aa_is_op··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus has been dead for years. Haven't seen it used on a legitimate blog or news sites since it was bought out. This was kinda expected. It's the Digg rot at work.
aa_is_op··on Major EoT/HoT vulnerability can bring trains to sudden stops
Canada and Mexico
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