Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable(androidcentral.com)

376 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 436 comments

Android Central news article on leaked renders of the Fairphone 6 showing a new design focused on sustainability and repairability.

Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?(ifixit.com)

454 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 453 comments

iFixit teardown article examining the Fairphone 5 smartphone and whether it maintains a perfect 10/10 repairability score.

FSF announces Librephone project(fsf.org)

1435 points by g-b-r 1 year ago | 583 comments

Free Software Foundation news announcement of Librephone, a project to develop fully free software for mobile phones.

FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges(worthrises.org)

944 points by Avshalom 2 years ago | 408 comments

Worth Rises press release on the FCC's unanimous vote to cap prison phone and video call rates and ban related fees, estimated to save families $500 million annually.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal(arstechnica.com)

614 points by nobody9999 1 year ago | 75 comments

Ars Technica article on a court rejecting Verizon's claim that selling customer location data without consent was legal, amid a circuit split with AT&T's case.

FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations(docs.fcc.gov)

702 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 280 comments

FCC news release from December 11, 2024 announcing that the entire 6 GHz band is opened to very low power device operations.