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Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

In homes across America, engineered stone countertops are a common sight. However, a hidden danger lurks in the production of these popular kitchen features.

CBS · 1 sources

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Business 11 stories

  1. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  2. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

    thebureau.news · 1 outlets

  3. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

    stract.com · 1 outlets

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  1. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

    missionlocal.org · 1 outlets

  2. Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

    ir.yandex · 1 outlets

  3. Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. A startup allegedly 'hacked the world', then came censorship, and now backlash

    wired.com · 1 outlets

Sports 4 stories

  1. Tailwind color palette generator

    tints.dev · 1 outlets

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  1. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

    philosophygeek.medium. · 1 outlets

Technology 155 stories

  1. Relativistic Spaceship

    dmytry.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died

    scanalyst.fourmilab.ch · 1 outlets

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  1. A reasonable configuration language

    pkl-lang.org · 2 outlets

  2. SQL for data scientists in 100 queries

    gvwilson.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Google has another secret browser

    matan-h.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

    christianselig.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

    scrollprize.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

    oneminutefocus.com · 1 outlets

  2. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

    finance.yahoo.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model

    github.com · 1 outlets

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