Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

from the sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh dept This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mamba with a response to a failed “fact check” by another commenter: Hey twinkle farts, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to authorize the government to detain enemy aliens. Further, the executive […]

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How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)

While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I personally think that Stripe’s most interesting strategy work is also among its most subtle: its willingness to significantly prioritize API stability. This strategy is almost invisible externally. Internally, discussions around it were frequent and detailed, but mostly […]

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Will Starlink and other sat companies eventually rival cell carriers?

Andrew Grush / Android Authority Starlink has truly opened our eyes to the power of satellite technology, delivering speeds that rival cable internet in areas previously lacking high-speed options. But Starlink isn’t just about traditional internet use. Earlier this year, T-Mobile and Starlink introduced emergency satellite-to-cell features, including full texting, to mobile phone users for […]

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ToyMaker Uses LAGTOY to Sell Access to CACTUS Ransomware Gangs for Double Extortion

Apr 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the activities of an initial access broker (IAB) dubbed ToyMaker that has been observed handing over access to double extortion ransomware gangs like CACTUS. The IAB has been assessed with medium confidence to be a financially motivated threat actor, scanning for vulnerable systems and deploying […]

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A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: 1 Brilliant AI Stock Down 23% to Buy Before It Soars, According to Wall Street

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon (AMZN 1.35%), recently told analysts artificial intelligence (AI) was “probably the biggest technology shift and opportunity in the business since the internet.” That alone puts investors in front of a significant opportunity. However, Amazon stock has declined 23% from its record high, pulling the price-to-earnings ratio down to its cheapest […]

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Iris Flower Prediction using Machine Learning 🌸

Install Key Python Libraries for Machine Learning PANDASSKICIT-LEARNMATPLOTLIB Download the Iris dataset from Kaggle code: OUTPUT: DENSITY_PLOTS HISTOGRAM WORKING IN TERMINAL TO PUSH IN THE GITHUB: BRANCHES ADDED AND COMMIT CHANGES Finally we have pushed in to the GitHub and 2 branches is created and the commit changes has been updated. GitHub link: https://github.com/Dhanushyavenkatrajan/24MCR017 Source […]

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Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX

Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor. Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN. Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare. Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. […]

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