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A GitHub Co-Founder's Next Commit (opensourcepledge.com)

7 hours ago | coloneltcb | opensourcepledge.com | newest

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Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room (fastcompany.com)

14 hours ago | coloneltcb | fastcompany.com | best

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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights (wired.com)

a day ago | coloneltcb | wired.com | newest

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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing (theguardian.com)

a day ago | coloneltcb | theguardian.com | newest

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ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones (forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap)

a day ago | coloneltcb | forbes.com | best

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Epstein Birthday Letter with Trump's Signature Revealed (wsj.com)

2 days ago | coloneltcb | wsj.com | frontpage

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Apple Plans AI Search Engine for Siri to Rival OpenAI; Google-Siri Talks Advance (bloomberg.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | newest

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LLM traffic: What's happening and what to do about it (hendersonmatthew.substack.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | substack.com | newest

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Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn't Given Up on Print–Or Buying Infowars (wired.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | wired.com | newest

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Inertia aims to turn a nuclear fusion breakthrough into a power plant (fastcompany.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | fastcompany.com | newest

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Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos (fuckupmysite.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | fuckupmysite.com | best

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CDC stopped actively tracking 6 foodborne infections amid budget cuts (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Inertia: Commercializing Fusion Energy (inertia.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | inertia.com | newest

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Twilio Founder's Inertia Enterprises Launches to Commercialize Fusion Energy (businesswire.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | businesswire.com | newest

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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles (pressgazette.co.uk)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | pressgazette.co.uk | frontpage

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Eric Adams Advisor Handed a Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Chips (thecity.nyc)

3 weeks ago | coloneltcb | thecity.nyc | newest

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Making cash off 'AI slop': The surreal business of AI video (washingtonpost.com)

3 weeks ago | coloneltcb | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Crypto exchange Gemini reveals lower revenue and wider loss in US IPO filing (reuters.com)

3 weeks ago | coloneltcb | reuters.com | newest

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Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs (theverge.com)

4 weeks ago | coloneltcb | theverge.com | frontpage

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Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame (rollingstone.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | rollingstone.com | frontpage

2

Algorithm and Blues: How Streaming Discourages Active Listening (harmonic.fm)

a month ago | coloneltcb | harmonic.fm | newest

2

Built with Borrowed Hands (cra.mr)

a month ago | coloneltcb | cra.mr | newest

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Rate My Prompt (ratemyprompt.dev)

a month ago | coloneltcb | ratemyprompt.dev | newest

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HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA (hhs.gov)

a month ago | coloneltcb | hhs.gov | best

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Google is breaking websites to save a few bucks (washingtonpost.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | washingtonpost.com | newest

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New Statue Appears on Easter Island: How Many Moai Are There? (popularmechanics.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | popularmechanics.com | frontpage

435

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (cpb.org)

a month ago | coloneltcb | cpb.org | best

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Private Equity in the Hospital Industry (2021) (ssrn.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | ssrn.com | newest

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TSA facial recognition scans are optional on paper, mandatory in practice (washingtonpost.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 (simonwillison.net)

a month ago | coloneltcb | simonwillison.net | newest

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Unlocked Recordings (archive.org)

a month ago | coloneltcb | archive.org | newest

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Leaked List Shows Which Sites Shaped Anthropic's AI (businessinsider.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | businessinsider.com | newest

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Julian LeFay, "the father of The Elder Scrolls," has passed away at 59 (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Ozzy Osbourne Dead: Black Sabbath Frontman Was 76 (variety.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | variety.com | newest

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In Praise of Zines (buttondown.com/blog)

a month ago | coloneltcb | buttondown.com | newest

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The Game Genie Generation (tedium.co)

a month ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | best

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Apple sues Jon Prosser for his iOS 26 YouTube leaks (9to5mac.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | 9to5mac.com | newest

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GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | newest

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Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons with Price Plunge (wsj.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | wsj.com | frontpage

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Anthropic Hires Back Two Coding AI Leaders from Cursor Developer Anysphere (theinformation.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | theinformation.com | newest

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David Lynch's Sony Camcorder (obsoletesony.substack.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | substack.com | frontpage

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I Tried Grok's Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat (wired.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | wired.com | newest

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The Rushed Development of MiniDisc (obsoletesony.substack.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | substack.com | newest

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Don't Call It a Substack. Newsletters Have Been Here for Years (typebarmagazine.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | typebarmagazine.com | newest

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Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart (techcrunch.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects (theatlantic.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | theatlantic.com | newest

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Fell in a Hole, Got Out (medium.com/the-coach-life)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | medium.com | newest

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Don't Rank Grok (runtime.news)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | runtime.news | newest

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Buried Ships of San Francisco (nps.gov)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | nps.gov | newest

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Grok 4 (simonwillison.net)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | simonwillison.net | best

3

Reaper – An open-source SDK for finding dead code (sentry.io)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | sentry.io | newest

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Marking It Up (and Down) (byk.im)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | byk.im | newest

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Agora Built an Empire by Hawking Bad Financial and Health Advice on Facebook (forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | forbes.com | newest

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Sony Gave a Machine a Soul (obsoletesony.substack.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | substack.com | newest

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HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News (josh.ing)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | josh.ing | best

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There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed (musicradar.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | musicradar.com | newest

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Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans (pnas.org)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | pnas.org | newest

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Jim Parkinson, 1941–2025 (typographica.org)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | typographica.org | newest

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The Principle of LII (buttondown.com/blog)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | buttondown.com | newest

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Asana Picks Launch Darkly CEO Dan Rogers to Replace CEO Dustin Moskovitz (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | cnbc.com | newest

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After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is "made in the USA" (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Scale AI exposed sensitive data from clients like Meta, xAI in public Google Doc (businessinsider.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | businessinsider.com | newest

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Media Matters Sues FTC over Advertising Investigation (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Finding Peter Putnam (nautil.us)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | nautil.us | newest

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AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members (nationalobserver.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | nationalobserver.com | newest

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Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career (sopghreporter.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | sopghreporter.com | best

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Internet Relay Chat Protocol (1993) (ietf.org)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | ietf.org | newest

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FaultOrdering: Open-source tool to speed up iOS app launch (sentry.io)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | sentry.io | newest

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Perhaps last of its kind 1966 RCA control panel found in family garage (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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MLB removes A's 'reverse boycott' game broadcasts from digital archive (sfgate.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Apple's $20B Ticking Time Bomb (bigtechnology.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | bigtechnology.com | newest

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1999 email from Jef Raskin helped me think about Apple's WWDC (fastcompany.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | fastcompany.com | newest

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Caldwell and Buchheit Are Leaving YC to Start a New Series A Fund (forbes.com/sites/richardnieva)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | forbes.com | newest

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Brian Wilson has died (pitchfork.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | pitchfork.com | best

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Google Offers Buyouts to US-Based Employees on Marketing, Comms Teams (businessinsider.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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Sly Stone, Family Stone Leader Who Fused Funk, Rock and Soul, Dead at 82 (rollingstone.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | rollingstone.com | newest

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We should fund the software we use, not just the software we see (opensourcepledge.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | opensourcepledge.com | newest

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Jony Ive's LoveFrom helped design Rivian's first electric bike (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Top Billing (2024) (99percentinvisible.org)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | 99percentinvisible.org | newest

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Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul (theregister.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | theregister.com | best

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Vanta bug exposed customers' data to other customers (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

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Arizona's Water Is Vanishing Before AI Gets a Crack at It (bloomberg.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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PBS sues Trump administration over funding cuts (axios.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | axios.com | frontpage

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The New York Times and Amazon Ink AI Licensing Deal (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk's X (wired.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | wired.com | frontpage

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Congress Just Took a Sledgehammer to the EV Industry. Here's What It Means (insideevs.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | insideevs.com | frontpage

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OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent, shelling out millions (reuters.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | reuters.com | frontpage

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Verizon tries to get out of merger condition requiring it to unlock phones (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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The Onion's Ben Collins Knows How to Save Media (vanityfair.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | vanityfair.com | frontpage

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An AI-generated guide to summer books that don't exist published in 2 newspapers (dankennedy.net)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | dankennedy.net | newest

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Computational Public Space [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | youtube.com | newest

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Markdown Is Unformatted Formatting (buttondown.com/blog)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | buttondown.com | newest

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The Onion has opened a creative agency (marketingbrew.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | marketingbrew.com | newest

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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder (eff.org)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | eff.org | best

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Tesla has yet to start testing Austin robotaxi service weeks before launch (electrek.co)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | electrek.co | frontpage

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They expect us to keep changing (benv.ca)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | benv.ca | newest

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How Sony Solved the Discman's Biggest Problem (obsoletesony.substack.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | substack.com | newest

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Cartoon Network's Last Gasp (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | newest

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Ticketmaster will show the full price of your ticket up front to comply with law (theverge.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | theverge.com | frontpage

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Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | newyorker.com | newest