Articles by AndrewDucker
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Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (ccc.de)

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Scientists uncover why mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger heart inflammation (sciencedaily.com)

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Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance (wired.com)

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6 years after too much crypto (bfswa.substack.com)

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Getty Images vs. Stability AI: High Court Ruling on AI, Copyright and Trademarks (technollama.co.uk)

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Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's $1T Pay Package (wired.com)

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Ask HN: Can people please stop commenting on whether a submission is AI?

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A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm (2024) (theregister.com)

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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web (anildash.com)

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Amazon apologises to customers impacted by AWS outage (bbc.co.uk)

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Where are we on X Chat security? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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The pivot (antipope.org)

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The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (microsoft.com)

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One of the worst case scenarios for ID age verification is already here (pcgamer.com)

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Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it (technollama.co.uk)

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First-class merges and cover letters (fanf.dreamwidth.org)

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Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 (blog.mozilla.org)

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Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo (eurogamer.net)

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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs (dw-news.dreamwidth.org)

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How to Get Internet Feedback Without Going Insane (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

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Volunteer exposes single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history (arstechnica.com)

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Tesla handed Elon Musk $30B in shares after he threatened to quit (inews.co.uk)

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AI and Copyright in the UK (technollama.co.uk)

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[flagged] JSON is not a YAML subset (2022) (john-millikin.com)

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Open Source Maintenance Fee (github.com/wixtoolset)

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SV AI Startups Are Embracing China's Controversial '996' Work Schedule (wired.com)

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Facebook: Combating Unoriginal Content (facebook.com)

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Nicholas Nethercote – I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job (nnethercote.github.io)

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How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models (technollama.co.uk)

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The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin and Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared (patreon.com)

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The web just got a little harder to trust (fullfact.org)

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Ossification and the Internet (potaroo.net)

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The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

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A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite (wired.com)

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I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (philmckinney.substack.com)

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AI Angst (tbray.org)

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Beating the Fastest Lexer Generator in Rust (alic.dev)

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Why does Windows have trouble finding Win32 resource with an accented character? (microsoft.com)

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Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default (infosecurity-magazine.com)

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Why did Windows 7, for a few months, logon slower if you had a color background? (microsoft.com)

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Russia's secret war in UK waters (thetimes.com)

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Firefox – Use the sidebar to access tools and vertical tabs (support.mozilla.org)

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DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge (arstechnica.com)

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Rust is indeed woke (diziet.dreamwidth.org)

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Marked Variation in Mating Tendencies of Northern California Males Aged 23-29 (rawandferal.substack.com)

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The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income (codinghorror.com)

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Important 2025 Plex Updates (plex.tv)

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VW is testing its robotaxis in snowy, icy Norway (arstechnica.com)

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Does Linus think Rust causes Linux breakage? (lwn.net)

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UK Government Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (citizenspace.com)

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What's going on with AI copyright authorship? (technollama.co.uk)

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Mecha Comet Linux Handheld (youtube.com)

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Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright? (technollama.co.uk)

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When should we require that firmware be free? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

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UK's Online Safety Act comes into force (ofcom.org.uk)

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The return of Steam Machines? Valve rolls out new "Powered by SteamOS" branding (arstechnica.com)

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Against /Tmp (fanf.dreamwidth.org)

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Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains (technologynetworks.com)

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Tetris: US teen claims game's first ever 'rebirth' (bbc.co.uk)

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This month in Servo: Android nightlies, right-to-left, WebGPU, and more (servo.org)

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Unbackslash (tbray.org)

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Hunger Games' studio Lionsgate announce AI video deal (bbc.co.uk)

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Nintendo sues 'Pokémon with guns' video game firm (bbc.co.uk)

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A short guide to the Copyright Wars (technollama.co.uk)

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Gravity Storage 101: Why Pumped Hydro Is the Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage (cleantechnica.com)

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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests (hechingerreport.org)

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Nvidia plunges almost 10% (bbc.co.uk)

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What it's like administering the Hugo Awards (fromtheheartofeurope.eu)

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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media (joel.is)

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British tech tycoon: I only got justice because I'm rich (bbc.co.uk)

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CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over global outage (bbc.co.uk)

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A modest proposal on avoiding international computer failures (andrewducker.dreamwidth.org)

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Samsung expects profits to jump by more than 1,400% (bbc.co.uk)

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Rust Needs [Throws] (diziet.dreamwidth.org)

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Modular reactors supported by ideology alone (2023) (reneweconomy.com.au)

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The questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications (br.de)

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What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023) (rootsofprogress.org)

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The Monopoly Case Against Ticketmaster (404media.co)

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Dispatches from the Media Apocalypse (werd.io)

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Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year (bbc.co.uk)

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Sudon't (fanf.dreamwidth.org)

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Photointegrity (tbray.org)

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Devices with awful default passwords now illegal in the UK (arstechnica.com)

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Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist (wired.com)

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Elon Musk says X will start charging a 'small fee' to interact with posts (inews.co.uk)

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Fast Development in Rust, Part One (sdf.com)

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Adobe's 'Ethical' Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (bloomberg.com)

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The getting-punched-in-the-face theory of efficient markets (reprog.wordpress.com)

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How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching? (microsoft.com)

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Long-term leisure computer use 'linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk' (independent.co.uk)

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Next-gen battery tech: Reimagining every aspect of batteries (arstechnica.com)

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What to Learn from the Video Game Recession. and Do It Quickly (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

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Sweetened drinks linked to increased risk of irregular heartbeat (independent.co.uk)

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Why can't I trigger a blue screen crash by injecting the magic key sequence? (microsoft.com)

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If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (microsoft.com)

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Weird POV Effect [video] (youtube.com)

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Looking for recommendations for smart heating systems (andrewducker.dreamwidth.org)

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Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge (bbc.co.uk)

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Remote Work Hurts Innovation Among Work Teams New Study Finds (businessinsider.com)