Articles by billybuckwheat
60

Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes (rnz.co.nz)

4

Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens (bleepingcomputer.com)

4

Meta ordered to pay US$375M over child exploitation, user safety claims (rnz.co.nz)

5

A city that wasted nothing [video] (aeon.co)

8

Whatever Happened to NFTs? (rnz.co.nz)

7

What was DOGE? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government (theguardian.com)

6

These aren't AI firms, they're defense contractors (theguardian.com)

10

What happens if OpenAI or Anthropic fail? (reuters.com)

121

Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)

4

Keyboard jamming: sneaky way to make your boss think you're working from home (theguardian.com)

16

Anthropic sues US Government for calling it a risk (bbc.com)

8

Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests (theguardian.com)

8

'Our consciousness is under siege': On chatbots, social media and mental freedom (theguardian.com)

7

The 5am myth: Waking early won't make you more successful (rnz.co.nz)

4

AI is creeping into election campaigns. NZ's rules aren't ready (rnz.co.nz)

3

'Enshittification' blamed for fewer NZers feeling positive about the internet (rnz.co.nz)

4

AI can slowly shift an organisation's core principles (rnz.co.nz)

4

Congress finds data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars (themarkup.org)

6

Leave big tech behind How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more (theguardian.com)

6

Data center developers asked Trump for an exemption from pollution rules (grist.org)

4

Anthropic touts new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout (reuters.com)

4

The Chinese AI app sending Hollywood into a panic (bbc.com)

3

What is burnout? And do you have it? (rnz.co.nz)

5

California tried to protect students' data. Tech companies found loopholes (themarkup.org)

3

Does open source have an AI slop problem? [video] (youtube.com)

4

Wired for power: The geopolitics of subsea cables in the South China Sea (rnz.co.nz)

5

Stone parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data (theguardian.com)

10

Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations (reuters.com)

4

Do you need an admin party to get your life back in order? (rnz.co.nz)

5

OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of "free-riding" on American R&D (restofworld.org)

6

'Another way to gamble money': prediction markets prompt confusion and concern (theguardian.com)

3

Are AI replicas of the dead an innovative medical tool or an ethical nightmare? (rnz.co.nz)

3

Apple and Google agree app store changes to appease UK regulator (reuters.com)

21

US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses (theguardian.com)

5

Fake NZ news pages are swamping Facebook with AI slop (rnz.co.nz)

3

What you need to know to avoid multi-million-dollar subscription traps (rnz.co.nz)

13

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

6

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

3

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

3

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

11

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

4

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

5

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

4

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

5

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

4

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

3

The Identity Industrialists (designobserver.com)

6

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

3

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

3

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

3

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

4

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

6

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

7

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

6

Exiting the Billionaire Castle (tante.cc)

4

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

4

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

3

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

6

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

5

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

3

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

6

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

3

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

4

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

6

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

5

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

3

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

3

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

5

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

5

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

5

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

4

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

5

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

4

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

3

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

16

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

6

ChatGPT Turns 3 (restofworld.org)

4

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

3

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

5

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

3

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

9

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

6

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

4

What AI Is For (chrbutler.com)

3

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

5

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

3

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

10

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

4

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

4

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

4

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

3

How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee (lowtechmagazine.com)

5

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

4

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

5

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

4

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

4

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

5

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

3

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