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English Heritage Hiring a Head of Stonehenge at £64K+

English Heritage has posted an opening for Head of Stonehenge, a permanent 36-hour-per-week role based at the Wiltshire World Heritage Site. The job pays from £

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supply-chainpolicy

EU-Banned Pesticides Return via Imported Food in 'Toxic Boomerang' Loop

Foodwatch lab tests on 64 rice, tea, and spice products sold in the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany found pesticide residues in 49 samples, with 45 co

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policytech-culture

Federal judge strikes down Trump's $100K H-1B visa fee as unlawful tax

A federal judge in Massachusetts vacated the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, ruling that the policy violated the Administrati

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open-sourcetech-culture

GentleOS: A Hobby OS for Vintage 32-bit PCs With a Retro GUI

GentleOS/32 is a hobbyist operating system built for tinkering with vintage 32-bit hardware. It runs on machines as modest as an i386 with 4MB of RAM and a VGA

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open-sourcedevops

Getting Started with Dune: An OCaml Build System Primer

OCamlPro continues its onboarding series with a hands-on introduction to Dune, the dominant build system in the OCaml ecosystem. Using a minimal toy project cal

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open-sourcedevops

Gitdot: Rust-built open-source GitHub alternative debuts on Show HN

A new project called Gitdot is pitching itself as a leaner, open-source replacement for GitHub, with its codebase written entirely in Rust. The launch surfaced

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Intuned launches AI-generated Playwright automations with self-healing scrapers

Y Combinator S22 alum Intuned has launched a platform that turns natural-language prompts into production Playwright code for scrapers, crawlers, and RPA workfl

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privacypolicy

Massachusetts passes privacy law banning sale of precise location data

The Massachusetts House voted 146-0 to pass the Consumer Data Privacy Act, mirroring an earlier unanimous Senate vote from September. Once the two chambers reco

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supply-chaincybersecurity

Microsoft pulls 70+ GitHub repos after attackers plant credential stealers

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its open source GitHub repositories after attackers compromised the projects and injected malware designed to harvest pas

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tech-culturepolicy

Morningstar Pegs SpaceX IPO as Overvalued Ahead of Listing

Morningstar analysts argue the upcoming SpaceX public offering is priced above what the underlying business fundamentals justify. The piece pushes back on the p

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tech-cultureopen-source

Music Decoy: A Tiny macOS App That Stops Apple Music From Auto-Launching

Music Decoy is a lightweight macOS utility that prevents the system Music app from opening when the Play key is pressed, a Bluetooth headset connects, or a call

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One World Flag: A Transparent Banner With a Blue Dot for Planet Earth

The One World Flag is an art and identity project centered on a simple design: a blue sphere representing Earth set against a transparent background that takes

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