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artekon The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

Roman Giertych is the attorney and Ewa Wrzosek is the prosecutor whose smartphones were hacked.

artekon Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)

I highly recommend Turing's biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” from which this story is taken. It's a great book. Very detailed and well researched. Author dives into many topics related to Turing's work like math, ai, cryptography.

artekon Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting

According to WSJ [1] the issue was that the ads were autoplaying with sound on. Just auto playing by itself isn't considered intrusive by the industry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hostilities-rise-inside-g-o-med...

artekon Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

I recommend http://nautil.us/

artekon Firefox 58

I hope they address the issue with battery drainage on macOS.

artekon The “Auschwitz concentration camp personnel” database

The motivation behind publishing this database is interesting. It's a response to the western media using the term "Polish Death Camps", which enrages polish public. Personally I didn't think it was a big issue until I saw Obama use that term.