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Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales (roelsworld.eu)

a day ago | coloneltcb | roelsworld.eu | best

11

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics (popular.info)

a day ago | coloneltcb | popular.info | frontpage

2

Spyware distributed through Amazon Appstore (mcafee.com)

2 days ago | coloneltcb | mcafee.com | newest

16

So, Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem (tedium.co)

3 days ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | frontpage

3

UnitedHealthcare's Optum left an internal AI chatbot exposed to the internet (techcrunch.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

1

The Spanish city where water defies gravity (2022) (bbc.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | bbc.com | newest

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Threads rolls out its own version of Bluesky's 'Starter Packs' (techcrunch.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

2

The Death of Developer Relations (leebriggs.co.uk)

a week ago | coloneltcb | leebriggs.co.uk | newest

3

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is the Apotheosis of Bag Culture (defector.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | defector.com | newest

1

Analyzing 424 Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday Movies (nytimes.com)

a week ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | newest

1

Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps (techcrunch.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

13

The Rage and Glee That Followed a CEO's Killing Should Ring All Alarms (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | frontpage

10

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime (cbsnews.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | cbsnews.com | frontpage

17

CEO of UnitedHealthcare Is Killed in Midtown Manhattan (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | frontpage

5

Judge confirms decision to sink Musk's $56B package despite shareholder vote (techcrunch.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | frontpage

5

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires (techcrunch.com)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

3

Issues of '50s Magazine Galaxy Science Fiction (archive.org)

2 weeks ago | coloneltcb | archive.org | frontpage

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[flagged] Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager to Be America's Top Censor (techdirt.com)

3 weeks ago | coloneltcb | techdirt.com | frontpage

4

Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma (pocoo.org)

3 weeks ago | coloneltcb | pocoo.org | newest

4

Age Verification Laws Are Just a Path Towards Full Ban on Porn, Proponent Admits (techdirt.com)

4 weeks ago | coloneltcb | techdirt.com | frontpage

3

Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany (wired.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | wired.com | newest

2

How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (openculture.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | openculture.com | newest

3

Bigmood.blue: Bluesky firehose in real-time (bigmood.blue)

a month ago | coloneltcb | bigmood.blue | newest

2

The Network Serves Us (tedium.co)

a month ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | newest

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The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | best

52

An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016) (gq.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | gq.com | frontpage

7

Meta to introduce ads on Threads in early 2025, the Information reports (reuters.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | reuters.com | frontpage

2

Stanley Kubrick's Annotated Copy of Stephen King's the Shining (openculture.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | openculture.com | frontpage

3

Nokia acquires Rapid, the API company once valued at $1B (techcrunch.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

3

A New Kind of Mitochondria (nature.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | nature.com | frontpage

1

Free Samples: Better for Consumers or Marketers? (tedium.co)

a month ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | newest

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Ben Horowitz's Cozy Relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department (techcrunch.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

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[dupe] After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | best

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Idaho health district abandons Covid shots amid flood of anti-vaccine nonsense (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

2

The First Automatic Rice Cooker's Unlikely Inventor (ieee.org)

a month ago | coloneltcb | ieee.org | newest

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Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf] (uscourts.gov)

a month ago | coloneltcb | uscourts.gov | best

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Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source (gazetteer.co)

a month ago | coloneltcb | gazetteer.co | frontpage

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Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals (theconversation.com)

a month ago | coloneltcb | theconversation.com | best

1

Beyond Reasoning: Anthropic's Agent (jlowin.dev)

a month ago | coloneltcb | jlowin.dev | newest

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Future of Internet in the Age of AI (crazystupidtech.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | crazystupidtech.com | newest

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Apple Watch owners praise Vitals for predicting sickness (appleinsider.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | appleinsider.com | newest

3

Pitchfork Alumni Launch New Music Publication, Hearing Things (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | newest

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Remains of Sandy Irvine believed found on Everest after 100 years (nationalgeographic.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | nationalgeographic.com | newest

2

I Do Not Care About Impediments to a Creepy Growth Hacking Technique (pxlnv.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | pxlnv.com | newest

2

Interest Analogues: When Algorithms Force You into Weird Niches (tedium.co)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | newest

2

Rockets, the Long Arm of History, and the Future of Space Access (longshotspace.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | longshotspace.com | newest

4

Workday Billionaire 'Bored Silly' of Retirement Chases a Third IPO (bloomberg.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | frontpage

2

Fisker's abandoned HQ has hazardous waste, clay models left behind (techcrunch.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

2

Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial (arstechnica.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (rollingstone.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | rollingstone.com | best

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma (techcrunch.com)

2 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | best

5

Cerebras S1 (sec.gov)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | sec.gov | newest

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Open Source can learn from universities to fix its funding (kvinogradov.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | kvinogradov.com | newest

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Kris Kristofferson has died (rollingstone.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | rollingstone.com | best

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OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

BBC Sound Effects Library (bbcrewind.co.uk)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | bbcrewind.co.uk | newest

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Supabase, a Postgres-centric developer platform, raises $80M Series C (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

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Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | best

2

Over the AI Rainbow (observablehq.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | observablehq.com | newest

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Rear Projection TV History: The Giant Screen Nobody Wants Anymore (tedium.co)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | newest

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Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk (cahsuesmusk.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | cahsuesmusk.com | newest

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National Police Index (cpdp.co)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | cpdp.co | newest

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The Art of Good Software (retool.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | retool.com | frontpage

2

Adam Neumann's Climate Company Flowcarbon Is Issuing Crypto Token Refunds (forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | forbes.com | newest

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Open source confronts its midlife crisis (2018) (dtrace.org)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | dtrace.org | newest

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AI Startups Can't Keep Up with Big Tech's Spending Spree (bloomberg.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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ADHD drug gets 23.5% production boost from DEA amid shortage (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Open source is code escrow on the cheap (mooreds.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | mooreds.com | newest

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Teen 3D Printed a Working Boombox "Soundwave" Transformer [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | coloneltcb | youtube.com | newest

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Apple in talks to invest in OpenAI as ChatGPT comes to iOS 18 (9to5mac.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | 9to5mac.com | frontpage

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Dynamicland's new documentation space will go online on Sept 4 (twitter.com/worrydream)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | twitter.com | newest

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Apple in Talks to Join New OpenAI Funding Round (wsj.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | wsj.com | frontpage

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[flagged] X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe' (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | best

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Zuckerberg's Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News to Enable False Narratives (techdirt.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | techdirt.com | newest

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Teenage Maurice Sendak illustrated his teacher's 1947 pop-sci book (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Justice Department Sues RealPage for Alleged Antitrust Violations (ct.gov)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | ct.gov | newest

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J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit (variety.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | variety.com | newest

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Texas Attorney General Sues GM for Unlawful Collection and Sale of Drivers' Data (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | texasattorneygeneral.gov | frontpage

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Indiana Parcel Forfeiture (ij.org)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | ij.org | newest

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Copyright infringement case against Stability AI will proceed [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | courtlistener.com | newest

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Apple's permissions features are out of balance (sixcolors.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | sixcolors.com | newest

2

Yosemite National Park Is a Mess (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Yelp's lack of transparency around API charges angers developers (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | coloneltcb | techcrunch.com | newest

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Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | arstechnica.com | newest

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A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee (phys.org)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | phys.org | frontpage

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FTC Non-Compete Ban Upheld (ftc.gov)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | ftc.gov | frontpage

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The fractured ways people hear about big news in 2024 (niemanlab.org)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | niemanlab.org | newest

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Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech's climate claims (technologyreview.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | technologyreview.com | newest

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Meta won't bring future multimodal AI models to EU (axios.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | axios.com | newest

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What Messing with Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AI (nymag.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | nymag.com | newest

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The Post-Valkey World (redmonk.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | redmonk.com | newest

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Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Fortune to Swing 2024 Race (bloomberg.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | newest

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Glacial Climate Intervention [pdf] (uchicago.edu)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | uchicago.edu | newest

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OpenAI Partners with Los Alamos to Test AI's Value for Scientific Research (bloomberg.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | bloomberg.com | newest

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Lacking official sources, some Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages (twitter.com/bbqbryan)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | twitter.com | frontpage

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Flight Tracking in Messages (and Anywhere Data Detectors Work) (daringfireball.net)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | daringfireball.net | frontpage

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Nutrition Science's Most Preposterous Result (theatlantic.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Compact Discs with Hidden Pregap Tracks: How Did They Do It? (tedium.co)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | tedium.co | newest

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Wora: Open-Source FLAC Player (github.com/hiaaryan)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | github.com | newest

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AI Conundrums (redmonk.com)

5 months ago | coloneltcb | redmonk.com | newest