Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07816

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Why Don’t Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?
https://eand.co/what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-from-itself-58ae28cefd23

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Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)
https://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savings-into-bitcoin/

(submitted by bemmu)

IRS Wealth Statistics Paint Fascinating Picture of Top One Percent
https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/irs-wealth-statistics-paint-fascinating-picture-top-one-percent/

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Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer
https://tyil.nl/articles/funding-yourself-as-free-software-developer.html

(submitted by mabynogy)

Nordic authors whose works enter public domain in 2018
http://runeberg.org/search.pl?dead=1947

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New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/

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Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
http://dustingmixon.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/partisan-gerrymandering-with-geographically-compact-districts/

(submitted by mathfan)

U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-northkorea/u-s-blames-north-korea-for-wannacry-cyber-attack-idUSKBN1ED00Q

(submitted by wybiral)

Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. Of Words Like ‘Evidence-Based’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-trump-banned-words.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

(submitted by matt4077)

Senate Democrats to force vote on FCC net neutrality repeal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-vote/senate-democrats-to-force-vote-on-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-idUSKBN1E92TC

(submitted by MilnerRoute)

Harry Potter: Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash (A.I. Written Chapter)
http://botnik.org/content/harry-potter.html

(submitted by rubyn00bie)

Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03280

(submitted by jasonjmcghee)

How to Create Web Traffic “Out of Thin Air”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet

(submitted by pulisse)

Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/13/accident-forgiveness-comes-to-gplv2/

(submitted by szczys)

Awesome Open Source Indie – A curated list of small open source products
https://github.com/shime/awesome-open-source-indie

(submitted by shime)

Internet protocols are changing
https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/12/internet-protocols-changing/

(submitted by nmjohn)

The Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out of Its Casino
https://www.wired.com/story/the-las-vegas-resort-using-microwaves-to-keep-guns-out-of-its-casino/

(submitted by kyleblarson)

High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/12/11/high-level-problems-with-git-and-how-to-fix-them/

(submitted by jordigh)

"The Information" Doesn’t Want to Be Free
https://traffic.piano.io/2017/12/11/the-information-doesnt-want-to-be-free/

(submitted by kawera)