Articles by beardyw
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Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival (theguardian.com)

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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers (theguardian.com)

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Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills by pruning agent instructions (theregister.com)

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Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs (theregister.com)

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Nike World Cup Uniforms Made of Recycled Textiles Won't Solve Fashion Waste (wired.com)

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Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century (wired.com)

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Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (theregister.com)

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Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries (theregister.com)

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Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience (theregister.com)

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HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff (theregister.com)

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Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's crusade against hyperscalers (theregister.com)

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Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes (theguardian.com)

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MPs call out Rockstar Games over alleged union-busting (computerweekly.com)

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SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist – IPO filing (theregister.com)

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Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment (scientificamerican.com)

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Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder (theguardian.com)

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Jury Hands Victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in Battle with Elon Musk (theguardian.com)

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Nobody's negotiating for the people here: Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters (theguardian.com)

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What we learned from a cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman (theguardian.com)

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Why the US Can't Adopt Ukraine's Innovative Approach to Unmanned Warfare Systems (techdirt.com)

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Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors (theregister.com)

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Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 (theregister.com)

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Cerebras risked dinner plate-sized AI accelerators. Today it's worth $66B (theregister.com)

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Math reveals the one game of chance you should always accept (scientificamerican.com)

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Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less (theregister.com)

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Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)

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Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks (theregister.com)

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Sulfurous hell world might change the way we classify exoplanets (scientificamerican.com)

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National Academy of Sciences experts denounce Trump's NSF board purge (scientificamerican.com)

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Forget the AI job apocalypse. AIs real threat is worker control and surveillance (theguardian.com)

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Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future (theguardian.com)

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Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse (theregister.com)

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The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there (scientificamerican.com)

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TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion (theregister.com)

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AWS lets agents drive virtual desktops which could cost 500k tokens per click (theregister.com)

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British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card (theregister.com)

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Google AI workers vote to unionise over IDF and US Military tech (computerweekly.com)

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Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work (theregister.com)

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Ways to Make Cold (hackaday.com)

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Ask.com, home of search butler Jeeves closes as conversational search comes back (theregister.com)

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Do octopus brains work like humans'–or is there another way to be smart? (nature.com)

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Watch NASA test its new X-59 jet designed to go faster than the speed of sound (scientificamerican.com)

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway (theregister.com)

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'Completely horrible': UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews (theguardian.com)

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Claude⁹'s confession deleting database: 'I violated every principle I was given' (theguardian.com)

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The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain (wired.com)

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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration (nature.com)

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Musk and Altman's bitter feud over OpenAI to be laid bare in court (theguardian.com)

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Electric air taxis. Vertical Aerospace's VX4 just cleared a key test (scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: Can AI free us from horrible checkbox feedback forms?

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Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay (theregister.com)

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NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer (theregister.com)

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AI vendors' response to security flaws: It wasn't me (theregister.com)

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Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' 200K servers at risk, researchers say (theregister.com)

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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand 'shameful' Palantir NHS contract be scrapped (theguardian.com)

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'How do I end a call?': the elderly Japanese determined to master smartphones (theguardian.com)

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UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk (theregister.com)

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Don't Trust Password Managers? Hippo May Be the Answer (hackaday.com)

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Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but users haven't been warned (theregister.com)

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The only technology that died more times than VR is AI (theregister.com)

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Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future (theregister.com)

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Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers (theregister.com)

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Row over 'virtual gated community' AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood (theguardian.com)

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Anthropic Mythos model can find and exploit 0-days (theregister.com)

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Ex-Microsoft engineer blames Azure problems on talent exodus (theregister.com)

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PrismML debuts 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud (theregister.com)

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Where did the 'Oh-My-God' particle come from? (scientificamerican.com)

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Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracking user frustration (scientificamerican.com)

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I handed over my dating life to AI. I don't think she'll see me again (theguardian.com)

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Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns (theregister.com)

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Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children's book (theguardian.com)

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A satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control (theguardian.com)

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Meta, TikTok and Google under investigation about Australia's social media ban (theguardian.com)

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AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region (theregister.com)

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OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement (theguardian.com)

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Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access (theregister.com)

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Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (theregister.com)

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UK promises procurement shift after Palantir deals (theregister.com)

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China Approves the First Brain Chips for Sale–and Plans to Dominate the Industry (wired.com)

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US startup advertises 'AI bully' role to test patience of leading chatbots (theguardian.com)

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A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award (wired.com)

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Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI so built slop filtering (theregister.com)

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Age verification isn't sage verification inside OSes: California's legal lunacy (theregister.com)

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A 100-year-old theory might explain what's wrong with quantum mechanics (scientificamerican.com)

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Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs (theregister.com)

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Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart? (nature.com)

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Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models (thelancet.com)

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Pi Day (wikipedia.org)

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The History of Soap (fakehistoryhunter.net)

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Openreach trials 'pioneering' fibre-optic water leak detection (computerweekly.com)

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Mathematicians find one pi formula to rule them all (scientificamerican.com)

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Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized (hackaday.com)

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Iran-linked cyber crew claims hit on US med-tech firm (theregister.com)

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Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It's Full of Alcohol (wired.com)

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Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns (theregister.com)

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AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises (computerweekly.com)

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Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters (theregister.com)

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US contractor's son arrested over alleged $46M crypto theft from US Marshals (theregister.com)

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California's Problematic Attempt to Add Age-Verification to Software (hackaday.com)

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Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures (theguardian.com)