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French supermarket chain, Carrefour, is pressuring suppliers such as Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Unilever to reduce their prices by placing price warnings on products that have shrunk in size but cost more. The company is aiming to rally consumer support as negotiations between retailers and major brands approach. Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard has criticized consumer goods […]
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horcrux is a tool that allows users to split their files into encrypted horcruxes, eliminating the need for remembering a passcode. The tool has two commands: split and bind. Splitting involves specifying the number of horcruxes and the minimum number required to resurrect the original file. The horcrux files are then created and can be […]
Google, facing one of its biggest challenges to date, is currently in the midst of a major antitrust trial launched by the US Justice Department. The government argues that Google has maintained its search engine dominance through coercive deals, while Google claims it is being punished for its success. The trial, which began with a […]
The author recalls making a virus back in 1990 and reflects on the experience. They left a comment on a Nostalgia Nerd YouTube video sharing this information, which became their most upvoted comment. They received funny replies from viewers, including one person accusing them of breaking the law. The author explains that they made the […]
The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final rule that establishes a beneficial ownership information reporting requirement for corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities in the United States. This rule is in line with the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and aims to crack down on illicit finance and improve […]
Kopia is an open-source backup software that offers fast and secure backups for both small laptops and large servers. The software supports pluggable encryption and compression, ensuring the protection and efficient storage of data. It provides a command-line interface as well as a user-friendly desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it easy to […]
WIRED is the go-to place for keeping up with the future. Its content serves as a vital resource for understanding and making sense of a rapidly evolving world. WIRED shines a light on how technology is revolutionizing every facet of our lives, be it in culture, business, science, or design. The articles and discussions on […]
In this web content, the author shares their experience working on a project at Uber called “Crystal Ball.” They were tasked with building a tool to automate the process of running data science models on a large scale. The author encountered challenges, including a circular reference issue in Excel that they had to solve in […]
In this web content, the author provides a small program that calculates when the US Dollar was at its highest against the Euro. The program uses various tools, such as curl, gunzip, and sqlite3, to download, decompress, and query the historical data published by the European Central Bank. The author also highlights the process of […]
The ARPS Syndicate Subdomain Center has developed a research project that combines various tools, including Apache’s Nutch, Calidog’s Certstream, OpenAI’s Embedding Models, and some of their own proprietary tools, to uncover an extensive number of subdomains. In order to prevent misuse, they have implemented a limit of three requests per minute. They also acknowledge that […]