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  • That's what made me wonder. Do they just assume applicants use their real name on social media, and when they don't find anything online the person seems sus?

    Do they ask for a police record like companies here would do sometimes?

    I'm not familiar with that term unless you work with critical infrastructure and such, so I assumed they might just want to see some online behaviour from the past years with some proof that applicants have experience as admins.

  • Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly
  • So you admit you're only reading headlines and base your opinion on it?

    Did the thought cross your mind that all the billion dollar companies behind for-profit browsers might have an interest in Firefox failing?

  • What do you think the Great Filter is?
  • If there really is a cosmic web and information flows through it, the other solar system will know that we're coming to destroy another world, but it will have developed defensive techniques against a known disease, humans. The same our immune systems does to known viruses.

    I went a bit creative with this one.

  • New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion
  • You don't need much content or many comments to achieve the goal, when you have thousands of votes behind it for the good placement.

    You may only need a couple hundred though. Reddit's algorithm is particularly broken and once a post is on hot it's unstoppabe.

  • Chat control vote postponed
    www.patrick-breyer.de Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!

    Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice

    Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!
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    China tells WHO it has no 'unusual or novel diseases' amid spike in illness among children
    www.abc.net.au Leading scientists urge caution over new pandemic fears amid pneumonia clusters in China

    Chinese health authorities have provided data requested by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children.

    Leading scientists urge caution over new pandemic fears amid pneumonia clusters in China

    The data showed an increase in hospital admissions of children due to diseases including bacterial infection, RSV, influenza and common cold viruses since October.

    Leading scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced the spike signalled the start of a new global outbreak.

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    The standard wording of the alert echoed the first-ever notice about what would become COVID-19, sent on December 30, 2019: "Undiagnosed pneumonia — China (Hubei)."

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    US-Canada bridge blast: 'No indication of terrorism' – DW – 11/23/2023
    www.dw.com US-Canada bridge blast: 'No indication of terrorism' – DW – 11/23/2023

    The FBI says the border crossing between the two countries has been closed after a vehicle exploded on the bridge near Niagara Falls. New York Governor Kathy Hochul confirmed the death of two people due to the blast.

    US-Canada bridge blast: 'No indication of terrorism' – DW – 11/23/2023

    US-Canada bridge blast: 'No indication of terrorism' The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Wednesday it was looking into a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the United States and Canada, located near Niagara Falls.

    The explosion took place near a security booth at the bridge’s US entrance.

    Officials said two people were killed in the incident, according to US media reports [...]

    "There is no evidence at this time that this was terrorist activity," Hochul told a briefing. "(It was) a horrific incident, a crash, an explosion... but at this time no known terrorist connection." 

    The two victims' identities were not yet public.  

    Hochul said their vehicle may have been from western New York state. 

    [...]

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    Binance and CEO plead guilty to federal charges in $4 billion resolution
    www.irs.gov Binance and CEO plead guilty to federal charges in $4 billion resolution | Internal Revenue Service

    November 21, 2023 — Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the entity that operates the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.com, pleaded guilty today and has agreed to pay over $4 billion to resolve the Justice Department’s investigation into violations related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA...

    Binance and CEO plead guilty to federal charges in $4 billion resolution | Internal Revenue Service

    Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the entity that operates the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.com, pleaded guilty today and has agreed to pay over $4 billion to resolve the Justice Department's investigation into violations related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), failure to register as a money transmitting business, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

    Binance's founder and chief executive officer (CEO), Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian national, also pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program, in violation of the BSA and has resigned as CEO of Binance.

    Binance's guilty plea is part of coordinated resolutions...

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    Far-right outsider Milei wins Argentina presidential run-off election
    www.bbc.com Far-right outsider Milei wins Argentina presidential run-off election

    Ex-US President Donald Trump congratulates Javier Milei, saying he will "Make Argentina Great Again".

    Far-right outsider Milei wins Argentina presidential run-off election

    Mr Milei's rival, economy minister Sergio Massa, called him to concede.

    Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would "Make Argentina Great Again!".

    The election comes at a difficult time for Argentina with rising inflation and an economy in crisis on peoples' minds.

    Mr Milei's proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change...

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    Will QAnon cultists snap out of it?
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    What using the Internet in 2023 is like
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