Articles by MBCook
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People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn't Open (bloomberg.com)

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We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. [video] (youtube.com)

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Trmnl – 2025 in Review (usetrmnl.com)

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Please learn how to use your computer (niemanlab.org)

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Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Flags Hegseth's War Crimes (abovethelaw.com)

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Debugging CALayers in ChatGPT (oskargroth.com)

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Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3 (swift.org)

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A wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower (giovanh.com)

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Cards Against Humanity lawsuit forced SpaceX to vacate land on US/Mexico border (arstechnica.com)

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Model 3 Turn Stalk Retrofit (tesla.com)

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If you buy more than two new games a year, you're in the minority (eurogamer.net)

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Apple, Google, Meta must face lawsuits over casino-style gambling apps (reuters.com)

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EU investigates Apple, Google, and Microsoft over handling of online scams (arstechnica.com)

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ESP32-based boundary wire signal generator for Robomow RX/RT mowers (github.com/eelcogg)

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Racintosh Plus – custom rack mounted classic Mac (identity4.com)

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating copies of its characters (theverge.com)

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Wired, Business Insider Duped by 'AI' Using 'Journalist', Made Up Towns, People (techdirt.com)

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Apple Demands Suppliers Switch to Robotics for Manufacturing (macrumors.com)

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YouTube tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators (arstechnica.com)

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Tesla in NHTSA probe for not properly reporting crashes involving Autopilot/FSD (electrek.co)

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Amazon to launch drone delivery service in Kansas City before holiday season (kshb.com)

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Swift for the Web (nicksloan.com)

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna (latimes.com)

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Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video] (cnn.com)

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KDE Linux (kde.org)

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Storing data on a bird – converting PNG to birdsong, teaching it to a starling (tomshardware.com)

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FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection (newatlas.com)

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The Android Workgroup (swift.org)

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Intel to Apple Silicon Transition for Mac Was Announced Five Years Ago (macrumors.com)

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The JAWS shark is public domain (ironicsans.ghost.io)

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How and Why We Fulfill In-House (usetrmnl.com)

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Insufficiently festive cookies and other stories of ridiculous micromanagement (askamanager.org)

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Elon Musk Battled Apple over Satellite Features (macrumors.com)

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Acronis True Image Costs Performance When Not Used (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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A Swift Cloud (culturedcode.com)

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Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away (chrbutler.com)

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The State of SSL Stacks (haproxy.com)

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Native Cross-Platform Swift Apps (skip.tools)

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Mario Kart $80 price isn't that high, historically (arstechnica.com)

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Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last (arstechnica.com)

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FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm's privacy promises for genetic data (arstechnica.com)

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After borking my Pixel 4a battery, Google borks me, too (arstechnica.com)

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 (arstechnica.com)

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RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats (arstechnica.com)

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Lumon MDR Simulator for Raspberry Pi (github.com/andrewchilicki)

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The Unbrickable Pledge (usetrmnl.com)

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Get FortiRekt, I Am the Super_Admin Now – Fortinet FortiOS Authentication Bypass (watchtowr.com)

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If OpenSSL Were a GUI (smallstep.com)

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One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps (daringfireball.net)

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Things I Learned in 2024 (kenthendricks.com)

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I thought I found a bug (os2museum.com)

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Google FI Still Doesn't Support RCS Either (daringfireball.net)

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The Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule (washingtonpost.com)

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NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git (lwn.net)

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Musk Says He Wants to Save the Planet. Tesla's Factories Are Making It Dirtier (wsj.com)

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CFPB expands oversight of services like Apple Pay, Cash App, PayPal and Zelle (cnbc.com)

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AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says expert (businessinsider.com)

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Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds (roadandtrack.com)

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Kindle Colorsoft owners complain of a yellow bar on the e-reader's screen (theverge.com)

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Without Knowledge or Consent (propublica.org)

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Cracked Skull, Fractured Bones Show Danger for Rivian Factory's Workers (bloomberg.com)

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CAE showcases immersive pilot training solution built for Apple Vision Pro (cae.com)

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Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked (arstechnica.com)

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Driving Under the Cognitive Influence of Covid: Exploring the Impact (neurology.org)

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Japanese Font Support (brianna.town)

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Major outage: Verizon confirms it's working to restore service (cnn.com)

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LG Smart TVs, including OLEDs, now show screensaver ads (flatpanelshd.com)

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They stole my voice with AI [video] (youtube.com)

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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (theverge.com)

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iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting (arstechnica.com)

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The World We're Designing (gomakethings.com)

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Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos (arstechnica.com)

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Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive (techcrunch.com)

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Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names (politico.com)

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A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (loriemerson.net)

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Intel issues statement on microcode update that addresses CPU instability (tomshardware.com)

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Apple Arcade 2: late payments, stonewalling, no support and Vision Pro (mobilegamer.biz)

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Secret Service flagged as Elon Musk shares AI video of 'Trump murdering Biden' (rawstory.com)

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A few weeks with the Daylight DC-1 tablet: rethinking screen time (theverge.com)

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AT&T Breach Shows Why RCS Can't Be Trusted and the Cons of iOS 18 Adding Support (daringfireball.net)

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The Rabbit R1 has been logging users' chats – with no way to wipe them (theverge.com)

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Redbox will shut down, corporate parent is being liquidated (lowpass.cc)

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Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm (engadget.com)

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Why 1994's Lair of Squid was the weirdest pack-in game of all time (arstechnica.com)

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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (theverge.com)

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The asymmetry of nudges (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Netflix needs only 8mW of power to serve a 4k stream (mastodon.online)

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[flagged] One-third of Americans think political violence is justifiable (thehill.com)

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When we do everything right and it still doesn't solve the right problem (improvingflow.com)

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Google's Find My Device network trackers tested, with disappointing results (androidcentral.com)

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An AI video tool just launched, and it's already copying Disney's IP (theverge.com)

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Google Gemini tried to kill me (reddit.com)

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Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety (nature.com)

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Linux 6.10 Preps a Kernel Panic Screen – Sort of a "Blue Screen of Death" (phoronix.com)

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iOS 18 Gains Emergency SOS Live Video Support (macrumors.com)

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American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman (economist.com)

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Elon Musk Accused of Insider Trading at Tesla (futurism.com)

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Juice Sucking Servers, part trois (phlux.us)

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The USB Cart of Death: Plug and Pray [video] (youtube.com)

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Swift Tooling: Windows Edition (speakinginswift.substack.com)