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The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

4 days ago | AndrewDucker | gwern.net | newest

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

6 days ago | AndrewDucker | wired.com | frontpage

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

a week ago | AndrewDucker | substack.com | best

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AI Angst (tbray.org)

a week ago | AndrewDucker | tbray.org | best

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

a month ago | AndrewDucker | alic.dev | newest

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

a month ago | AndrewDucker | microsoft.com | newest

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

a month ago | AndrewDucker | infosecurity-magazine.com | newest

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

a month ago | AndrewDucker | microsoft.com | newest

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

2 months ago | AndrewDucker | thetimes.com | frontpage

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

2 months ago | AndrewDucker | mozilla.org | newest

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

2 months ago | AndrewDucker | arstechnica.com | newest

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Rust is indeed woke (diziet.dreamwidth.org)

2 months ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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

3 months ago | AndrewDucker | substack.com | newest

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

3 months ago | AndrewDucker | codinghorror.com | best

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Important 2025 Plex Updates (plex.tv)

3 months ago | AndrewDucker | plex.tv | frontpage

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

3 months ago | AndrewDucker | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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

4 months ago | AndrewDucker | lwn.net | newest

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

4 months ago | AndrewDucker | citizenspace.com | newest

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

4 months ago | AndrewDucker | technollama.co.uk | frontpage

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Mecha Comet Linux Handheld (youtube.com)

5 months ago | AndrewDucker | youtube.com | newest

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

5 months ago | AndrewDucker | technollama.co.uk | newest

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

6 months ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | best

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

6 months ago | AndrewDucker | mit.edu | newest

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

6 months ago | AndrewDucker | ofcom.org.uk | best

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

6 months ago | AndrewDucker | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Against /Tmp (fanf.dreamwidth.org)

8 months ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | frontpage

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

8 months ago | AndrewDucker | technologynetworks.com | newest

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

8 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

8 months ago | AndrewDucker | servo.org | frontpage

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Unbackslash (tbray.org)

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | tbray.org | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | technollama.co.uk | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | cleantechnica.com | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | hechingerreport.org | newest

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

9 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

10 months ago | AndrewDucker | fromtheheartofeurope.eu | newest

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

10 months ago | AndrewDucker | joel.is | newest

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

10 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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

10 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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

11 months ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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

11 months ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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

12 months ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | reneweconomy.com.au | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | br.de | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | rootsofprogress.org | best

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The Monopoly Case Against Ticketmaster (404media.co)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | 404media.co | frontpage

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Dispatches from the Media Apocalypse (werd.io)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | werd.io | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | best

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Sudon't (fanf.dreamwidth.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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Photointegrity (tbray.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | tbray.org | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | wired.com | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | inews.co.uk | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | sdf.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | wordpress.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | microsoft.com | best

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | independent.co.uk | frontpage

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | arstechnica.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | substack.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | independent.co.uk | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | microsoft.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | microsoft.com | best

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Weird POV Effect [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | youtube.com | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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

a year ago | AndrewDucker | businessinsider.com | newest

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The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps (nsa.gov)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | nsa.gov | newest

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High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can proceed (technollama.co.uk)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | technollama.co.uk | best

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Is Autism a Biological Entity? (nih.gov)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | nih.gov | newest

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So How Long Until My Business Just Dies? (Also, the Unity Debacle) (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | substack.com | newest

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Elon Musk and X a year on: Four problems he needs to fix (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Large language models and copyright, what next? (technollama.co.uk)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | technollama.co.uk | newest

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FPGA N64 (ultrafp64.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | ultrafp64.com | best

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China requires all new Wi-Fi kit to run IPv6 (theregister.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | theregister.com | newest

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Defending abuse does not defend free software (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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New York's Airbnb Ban Is Descending into Pure Chaos (wired.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | wired.com | frontpage

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Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes (themarkup.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | themarkup.org | best

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How to Compete with Patreon (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | dreamwidth.org | newest

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Mastodon 4.2 (joinmastodon.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | joinmastodon.org | frontpage

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New Extraction Technique Revolutionizes Lithium Production (scitechdaily.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | scitechdaily.com | newest

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High-energy membrane-free nonaqueous lithium-based organic redox flow batteries (nature.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | nature.com | newest

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Student’s device detects sport concussions in 10 seconds (independent.co.uk)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | independent.co.uk | newest

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[flagged] Musk: Twitter takeover driven by 'woke mind virus' that infected trans daughter (telegraph.co.uk)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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Mystery of the Missing Skin Tone (plover.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | plover.com | newest

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Tim Bray: Mastodon Status Check (tbray.org)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | tbray.org | best

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Bored Apes investors sue Sotheby's, Paris Hilton, etc. as NFT prices collapse (cnn.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | cnn.com | frontpage

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Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | technologyreview.com | newest

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Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia (whathifi.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | whathifi.com | best

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How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested (nnethercote.github.io)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | github.io | newest

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Twitter’s legal letter to Meta: a guided tour of a weak litigation letter (davidallengreen.com)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | davidallengreen.com | best

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Happy 50th Birthday Ethernet (potaroo.net)

a year ago | AndrewDucker | potaroo.net | newest

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Blockchain Node Engine – Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | google.com | newest

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Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition (inews.co.uk)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | inews.co.uk | newest

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We Shouldn’t Hold Referendums (timharford.com)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | timharford.com | newest

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Should Be Regulated (davidallengreen.com)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | davidallengreen.com | newest

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Amazon adds Thread to the Echo smart speaker and brings Matter to its iOS app (theverge.com)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | theverge.com | newest

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Apple, Google partner on industry specification to address Bluetooth tracking (apple.com)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | apple.com | frontpage

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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers (github.com/ripienaar)

2 years ago | AndrewDucker | github.com | frontpage