Articles by cpeterso
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Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app (theverge.com)

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DeepMind spent years trying to break away from Google (2021) (businessinsider.com)

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Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027 (businessinsider.com)

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Arc Raiders and the Ethical Use of Generative AI in Games (aiandgames.com)

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Receipts: A brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web (zeldman.com)

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Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027 (pcgamer.com)

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Time Programming for Lawyers and Jurors (specbranch.com)

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Why Doesn't Google Maps Work in South Korea (cnn.com)

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Perplexity just launched Comet, an AI web browser (theverge.com)

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Lightpanda raises pre-seed to develop first browser built for machines and AI (lightpanda.io)

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Chicago Paper Publishes 'Summer Reading List' of Fake Books Created with AI (gizmodo.com)

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Dijkstra on Ada (craftofcoding.wordpress.com)

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54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a bug, created an existential crisis (inverse.com)

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Open source project curl is sick of users submitting "AI slop" vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)

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Everything Made by an AI Is in the Public Domain (2023) (pluralistic.net)

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Why training AI can't be IP theft (giovanh.com)

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Rethinking Extension Data Consent: Clarity, Consistency, and Control (blog.mozilla.org)

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A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks' (pewresearch.org)

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Open Bar for Beta Testers, Drunk User Testing (newyorker.com)

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New nonprofit wants to be a sustainable landing spot for local news outlets (niemanlab.org)

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Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump (cnn.com)

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The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement (popsci.com)

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Assessing IT Project Success: Perception vs. Reality (acm.org)

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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps (arstechnica.com)

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WPT Web Platform Tests: An Overview and History (bocoup.com)

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Mozilla: DOJ's Plan for Chrome Risks Hurting Smaller Browsers (pcmag.com)

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To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork (theregister.com)

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Ecosia and Qwant, European search engines, join forces on European search index (techcrunch.com)

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'We Were Wrong': An Oral History of WIRED's Original Website (wired.com)

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To Gen Z, Google is just a relic – not a verb anymore (bgr.com)

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Automated reasoning often makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain (amazon.com)

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Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto–Again (wired.com)

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Halo Studios: New Name, New Engine, New Games, New Philosophy (xbox.com)

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CD Sales Are Up and Merch Tables May Be the Reason (billboard.com)

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The Vatican's First-Ever Hackathon (2018) (wired.com)

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Lumigator: An MVP for Simplifying AI Model Selection (lumigator.mozilla.ai)

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Hot mess theory AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently (sohl-dickstein.github.io)

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Helium Implicated in Weird iPhone Malfunctions (arstechnica.com)

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Vint Cerf: Future of Internet doesn't include an IPv7 (2011) (networkworld.com)

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Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs (popsci.com)

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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (1996-2023) (jeffhuang.com)

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Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug (theverge.com)

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Student Athlete Concussions Associated with Improved Cognitive Performance (futurism.com)

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Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons and Dragons (futurism.com)

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Microsoft Office 2024 to disable ActiveX controls by default (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible (2022) (acm.org)

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Coating clothes with this simple material could cool your body up to 8 degrees (cnn.com)

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Lego plans to ditch oil in its bricks for pricier renewable plastic (cnn.com)

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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone 'Hellscape' to Defend Taiwan (wired.com)

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SpaceX is about to send four people on a risky mission into the radiation belts (cnn.com)

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Why is the BCrypt text "OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt" (security.stackexchange.com)

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What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech disrespect for democracy (theguardian.com)

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Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016) (urchin.biz)

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Sonos delays two new products as it races to fix buggy app (theverge.com)

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Puppeteer Support for Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Mass Bungie Layoffs Draw Fury from 'Destiny 2' Fans, Past and Present Employees (forbes.com/sites/paultassi)

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Apple Maps launches on the web in new public beta (9to5mac.com)

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Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually – but lowers it collectively (techcrunch.com)

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CCP Games CEO Discusses Decision to Make EVE Online Platform Open Source (mmorpg.com)

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Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app (techcrunch.com)

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McDonald's pulls AI ordering from drive-thrus – for now (cnn.com)

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Indie Postmortem 1: Geneforge 2 – Infestation. Funding and Building (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

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Implementation for MatMul-Free LM (github.com/ridgerchu)

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Neuralink Compression Challenge (neuralink.com)

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Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield (theregister.com)

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Google now offers 'web' search – and an AI opt-out button (theverge.com)

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Mozilla Firefox Adds Support for AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video (nvidia.com)

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Product Management at Meta vs. Google or How to Evaluate Your Google,Meta Offer (ddmckinnon.com)

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How big is the Flutter team? (hixie.ch)

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit (techcrunch.com)

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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK (theguardian.com)

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Streaming and texting on the Moon: Nokia and NASA are taking 4G into space (cnn.com)

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Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months (theguardian.com)

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Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64 (nightly.mozilla.org)

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Does code review speed matter for practitioners? (springer.com)

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The Quiet Danger of Noise-Canceling Headphones (gizmodo.com)

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Privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition (sydney.edu.au)

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How a board game like Catan is created (cnn.com)

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ChatGPT might get its own dedicated personal AI device – with Jony Ive's help (techradar.com)

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Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG's future (wargamer.com)

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Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for self-driving car future (popsci.com)

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Google's self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi "like the Bermuda Triangle" (arstechnica.com)

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Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness (browserbench.org)

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Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich: Common Crawl's Impact on Gen AI (foundation.mozilla.org)

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Surviving Software Dependencies: Software reuse is here but comes with risks (acm.org)

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What goes right and wrong when games like Diablo 3 take a decade to make (2019) (polygon.com)

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Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort() (openwall.com)

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Peter Thiel Backs Doping-Friendly Olympics Rival – The 'Enhanced Games' (forbes.com/sites/roberthart)

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Enhanced Games, the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing (enhanced.org)

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Elon Musk says Neuralink startup has implanted a chip in its first human brain (cnn.com)

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Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people's PCs (arstechnica.com)

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iOS Sideloading in Europe Will Still Involve App Review and Fees (macrumors.com)

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Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

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Google will let EU users select which services share their data, thanks to DMA (theverge.com)

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Salesforce and Slack to pause all hiring in technology and product (fortune.com)

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Samsung debuts the first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024 (engadget.com)

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How Well Does Apple's Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) Model Work? (2012) (forbes.com/sites/quora)

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The World of Web Browsers Is in a Bad Way (hackaday.com)

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This Year in LLVM (2023) (npopov.com)

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SAGE: The Most Important Computer You've Never Heard Of (getpocket.com)