Articles by beardyw
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Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth (theregister.com)

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Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired Experts (techdirt.com)

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Libxml2 Narrowly Avoids Becoming Unmaintained (hackaday.com)

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Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts (theregister.com)

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King William's College – Isle of Man "The World's Most Difficult Quiz" [pdf] (kwc.im)

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High-Speed On-Chip Photonic Memory and Compute Systems (arxiv.org)

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Meta's SAM bot isolates voices and instruments from audio clips (theregister.com)

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Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal (techdirt.com)

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The Asahi Illusion (futilitycloset.com)

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Christmas code-crackers: GCHQ reveals annual festive card for puzzle fans (theguardian.com)

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UK porn traffic down since beginning of age checks but VPN use up, says Ofcom (theguardian.com)

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How ICE's Plan to Monitor Social Media Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation (techdirt.com)

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Netflix Makes Itself Less Useful, Removes Casting with No Explanation (techdirt.com)

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Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics? (theguardian.com)

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The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI – Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

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Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating (theguardian.com)

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Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store (theguardian.com)

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Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled the Allied March on Berlin (hackaday.com)

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Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry (theguardian.com)

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India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset (theregister.com)

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Samsung reveals its tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode (theregister.com)

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Could Symbolic AI Unlock Human-Like Intelligence? (nature.com)

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'A step-change': tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones (theguardian.com)

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Adolescence lasts into 30s – new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain (bbc.com)

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Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers (theregister.com)

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One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent survey finds (theguardian.com)

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Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff (theregister.com)

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Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away (theregister.com)

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Russia-linked crooks bought themselves a bank for Christmas (theregister.com)

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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats (theregister.com)

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Apple denies 'locking in' iCloud users as £3B legal claim brought by Which? (computerweekly.com)

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Christie's withdraws rare 'first calculator' after French court halts export (theguardian.com)

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Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw (theregister.com)

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Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium (theregister.com)

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Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes (theregister.com)

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Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps (theregister.com)

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OpenAI's viability called into question by reported spending with Microsoft (theregister.com)

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UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean (theguardian.com)

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The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test (scientificamerican.com)

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The Sanskrit Square Root Algorithm (hackaday.com)

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Inside A Texas Church's Training Academy for Christians Running for Office (fortworthreport.org)

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UK's 'deregulatory' AI approach won't protect human rights (computerweekly.com)

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US to demand countries share 'pathogens with epidemic potential' for health aid (theguardian.com)

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BBC '100% fake news', says Donald Trump's press secretary (theguardian.com)

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Gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile (theguardian.com)

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Machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb How will the world use it? (theguardian.com)

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Trump turnabout sees him renominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA (theregister.com)

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Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84 (theguardian.com)

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From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world (theregister.com)

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Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics with Infinitely Intricate Math Structures (wired.com)

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AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with agent Aardvark (theregister.com)

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Trump's Baffling Call for Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests (scientificamerican.com)

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PhantomRaven: NPM Malware Hidden in Invisible Dependencies (koi.ai)

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Virgin Media O2 seals deal with Elon Musk firm to boost UK rural mobile coverage (theguardian.com)

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Nvidia, Cisco look to deepen AI innovation across 6G, telecoms (computerweekly.com)

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US Military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth (theguardian.com)

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Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to (theregister.com)

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Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case (theregister.com)

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Meta in breach of EU law over 'ineffective' system for flagging illegal content (theguardian.com)

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In orbit you have to slow down to speed up (wired.com)

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Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more (theregister.com)

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Donors for Trump's $300M White House Ballroom Include Google, Apple and Palantir (theguardian.com)

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Microsoft threatens to RAM Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem (theregister.com)

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Google Measures 'Quantum Echoes' on Willow Quantum Computer Chip (scientificamerican.com)

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Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with AI helper (theregister.com)

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No evidence Donald Trump said he might buy 'all of England' (fullfact.org)

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Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no (theregister.com)

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Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US's most toxic chemicals (theguardian.com)

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SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition (theregister.com)

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AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane (theregister.com)

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Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode (theregister.com)

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Google cuts funding to Full Fact (fullfact.org)

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Microsoft identifies boardroom cyber awareness as a top priority (computerweekly.com)

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Senators Warn Saudi Arabias Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for Foreign Influence (404media.co)

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Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand (theregister.com)

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Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records (theregister.com)

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Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths (theregister.com)

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Research: Italy's Piracy Shield Is Just as Big a Disaster as Everyone Predicted (techdirt.com)

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Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times (scientificamerican.com)

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More than 30% of this century's science Nobel prizewinners immigrated (nature.com)

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US Congress committee investigates Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres (theguardian.com)

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Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner Lets not pretend otherwise (theregister.com)

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Google Japan Turn Out Another Keyboard, and It's a Dial (hackaday.com)

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Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (techdirt.com)

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Is Dark Energy Born Inside Black Holes? (scientificamerican.com)

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Trump Makes It Clear They Will Turn TikTok into a Right Wing Propaganda Machine (techdirt.com)

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Fake Postmark MCP NPM package stole emails with one-liner (theregister.com)

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Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs (theregister.com)

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'Don't even consider' Microsoft? Gosh (theregister.com)

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AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio (theguardian.com)

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Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime (theregister.com)

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Gun Industry Group Violated Firearm Owners' Rights, Lawsuit Alleges (propublica.org)

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Spy Tech: The NRO and Apollo 11 (hackaday.com)

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Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more (theregister.com)

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Blue Alchemist Promises Rocket Fuel from Moon Dust (hackaday.com)

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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100k fee on H-1B visas (theguardian.com)

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Nvidia to invest $5B in Intel after Trump administration's 10% stake (theguardian.com)

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Meta – first Ray-Ban smart glasses with in-built augmented reality display (theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT developing system to identify under-18 users after teen death (theguardian.com)

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$2,000 Shipping: Sellers Charge Absurd Prices to Avoid Dealing with US Tariffs (404media.co)