May 22nd, 2023 | The Billion-Dollar Blow: EU Hands Meta a Record $1.3bn Privacy Fine

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023.(00:36): Memory AllocationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029087(02:02): Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028845(03:41): Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code,  models for 1000+ languagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36034211(05:16): Severance payments at Wikimedia FoundationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029115(06:49): Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029020(08:20): Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36034929(09:51): Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying upOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36033151(11:19): Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36027522(13:05): Polar NightOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029032(14:25): Black holes might be defects in spacetimeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030959This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: [email protected]