Articles by billybuckwheat
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EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears (politico.eu)

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French headquarters of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris cybercrime unit (theguardian.com)

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New fear unlocked: runaway black holes (theconversation.com)

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Is it time to break up with US big tech? [video] (theguardian.com)

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Tesla discontinues Model X and S vehicles as Elon Musk pivots to robotics (theguardian.com)

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Star Trek: Planet of the Titans: The Film That Almost Changed Starfleet History (womansworld.com)

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Sam Altman's make-or-break year: can OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future? (theguardian.com)

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We posted a job. Then came the AI slop, impersonator and recruiter scam (themarkup.org)

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Grains of sand prove people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge rocks (theconversation.com)

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AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he's making pop, not slop (theguardian.com)

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The Identity Industrialists (designobserver.com)

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Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation (theconversation.com)

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Health NZ confirms another major tech outage (rnz.co.nz)

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AI as life coach: experts say what works, what doesn't and what to look out for (theguardian.com)

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Southern New Zealand hospitals experienced major IT outage (rnz.co.nz)

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The ultra-cold temperatures needed for epic nuclear science (bbc.com)

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Welcome Back to the Office. You Won't Get Anything Done (thewalrus.ca)

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NZ universities accepting English proficiency tests through Duolingo (rnz.co.nz)

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Exiting the Billionaire Castle (tante.cc)

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Focus apps claim to improve your productivity. Do they work? (theconversation.com)

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Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025 (restofworld.org)

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How to Use the Linux Uniq Command (With Examples) [video] (youtube.com)

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Time to do more nothing: the art of deep hanging out (positive.news)

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A scientist explains the chemistry of a Christmas pudding (theconversation.com)

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When disasters strike, home batteries could be a lifeline (theconversation.com)

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What the hyperproduction of AI slop is doing to science (theconversation.com)

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Let yourself (and the kids) be bored (rnz.co.nz)

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The Genius Effects of Old Movies [video] (youtube.com)

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US puts £31B tech 'prosperity deal' with Britain on ice (theguardian.com)

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How your lost bag ended up for sale in Alabama (bbc.com)

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De-anonymization attack on geolocated data (2014) (sciencedirect.com)

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Convenience store socks became Japan's coolest souvenir (bbc.com)

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26,000 NZers' devices infected with malware, cyber security agency warns (rnz.co.nz)

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Why does New Zealand take such a long summer holiday break? (rnz.co.nz)

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Internet became 'enshittified' – and how to fix it (rnz.co.nz)

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Neanderthal 1: the discovery that rewrote history [video] (bbc.com)

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ChatGPT's Biggest Foe: Poetry (nautil.us)

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What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones? (theconversation.com)

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Has the freedom of hybrid work made us happier? (rnz.co.nz)

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Does 'Laziness' Start in the Brain? (theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT Turns 3 (restofworld.org)

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The contradiction at the heart of the trillion-dollar AI race (bbc.com)

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Scientists can now watch metal crystals grow inside liquid metal (theconversation.com)

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NZ's draft science curriculum favours rote learning over critical thinking (theconversation.com)

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Rolls-Royce tests how to limit damage to jet engines (bbc.com)

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Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen (jasonpargin.substack.com)

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The California lab that shows contradictions at the heart of the AI race (bbc.com)

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What AI Is For (chrbutler.com)

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What's all the buzz about this retro keychain camera? (rnz.co.nz)

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Can Trump (or anyone) stop the momentum of the EV revolution? (anthropocenemagazine.org)

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Winter Is Coming: Build a Solar Powered Foot Stove (lowtechmagazine.com)

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Forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis by taking knowledge hostage (theguardian.com)

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Does life have to be a never-ending workout? (rnz.co.nz)

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I'm never going back to Microsoft Word after mastering this OSS self-hosted tool (xda-developers.com)

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Being bilingual delays ageing, but being multilingual is better – study (rnz.co.nz)

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How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee (lowtechmagazine.com)

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Is AI coming for our jobs and wages? Past predictions offer some clues (rnz.co.nz)

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What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms (theguardian.com)

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Can you talk to the dead using AI? (rnz.co.nz)

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Will quantum be bigger than AI? (bbc.com)

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Please stop using NotebookLM as a note-taking app (xda-developers.com)

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We're ill-prepared to combat the threat of space terrorism (rnz.co.nz)

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Failure shaped our relationship with the North Pole (bbc.com)

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Five Moments in the History of Chinese Cybernetics (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Will AI mean the end of call centres? (bbc.com)

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What Nuclear Testing Does to the Earth–and Us (nautil.us)

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Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe? (bbc.com)

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The AI job cuts are here – or are they? (bbc.com)

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Can We Beam Away Our Space Junk Problem? (nautil.us)

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Letting your mind wander can reset your brain (rnz.co.nz)

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In Praise of Useless Robots (mitpress.mit.edu)

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What happens in your brain when you change your mind? (rnz.co.nz)

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What's the difference between passwords and passkeys? (theconversation.com)

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Don't be fooled. the US is regulating AI – just not the way you think (theguardian.com)

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The Path to Digital Sovereignty: Why an Open Ecosystem Is the Key for Europe (redhat.com)

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Do we need to be saying 'please' and 'thanks' to AI? (rnz.co.nz)

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The internet just had another major global outage. Why does this keep happening? (rnz.co.nz)

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What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains (theconversation.com)

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Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number (rnz.co.nz)

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The 1960s show that was the original Black Mirror (bbc.com)

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Canadian man fined for submitting AI hallucinations as part of legal defense (theguardian.com)

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Do you need to buy a new laptop? When to upgrade – and when to hold off (theguardian.com)

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Billions of bacteria lurk in your shower – should you be worried? (bbc.com)

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How to Deploy Lightweight Language Models on Embedded Linux with LiteLLM (linux.com)

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Do we still need to write by hand? Use a compass? Read a map? (rnz.co.nz)

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Safeguarding Content Quality Against AI "Slop" (iil.com)

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A man who's never owned a cellphone (rnz.co.nz)

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NZ universities give up using software to detect AI in students' work (rnz.co.nz)

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Older workers reaping benefits from AI (rnz.co.nz)

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The most powerful rocket built is set for its next test. Experts are worried (rnz.co.nz)

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The City of the Future (thenewatlantis.com)

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Apple has trained its AI to respond to Trump's nonsense: report (mobilesyrup.com)

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The Kodak Charmera Is a Tiny Digital Keychain Camera (petapixel.com)

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A simple guide to finding the right blogging platform (kangminsuk.com)

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Wirecard (wikipedia.org)

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The "Data" Narrative eats itself (tante.cc)

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US taxpayers to pay billions in fuel subsidies thanks to Big Beautiful Bill (wired.com)

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How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media (theconversation.com)

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With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere (publicbooks.org)

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ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen's death (rnz.co.nz)