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NSA: Tales of the Krypt (KRYPTOS Society news letters 1994-2003)[pdf]

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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

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In 2003, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. There was a new technology making waves at the time. The torrent was created in September 2003 and will turn 20 years old in a few days. The film was shot by a group of New Zealand friends. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old

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When The Pirate Bay first came online, in the second half of 2003 , the ‘internet’ looked nothing like it does today. That honor goes to “The Fanimatrix” , which was created in September 2003 and, after being previously resurrected, continues to be available today with more than 100 people seeding.

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The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

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During the summer of 2003, Swedish pro-culture organization PiratbyrĂĄn was making a name for itself; sharing news and educating people on how they could share media online. Like many other people mesmerized by the unbridled ability to share files over the Internet, the new BitTorrent protocol caught PiratbyrĂĄn’s eye.

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Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype

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And it certainly didn’t appear in the news.” The blaze had allegedly been kicked off by an electric scooter that was connected to a charger on the premises, according to reporting by the investigative tech news site Rest of World. Two days ago, I passed one on the highway, and the fire engines were just getting there.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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In 2003 Joe Pedott donated his business records to the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History. Finally, I learned quite a bit about Pedott’s entrepreneurial spirit and philanthropy through various news stories covering his life, including articles in the Jewish News of Northern California.

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SQuARE: Towards Multi-Domain and Few-Shot Collaborating Question Answering Agents

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In particular, we fine-tune a re-ranker model using only the relevant feedback from each query and obtained large performance gains in multiple domains, including news and COVID. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here and receive the latest news every Thursday. Biographies Iryna Gurevych (Ph.D.