Articles by devonnull
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AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock's Larry Fink (theguardian.com)

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India's outsourcing industry is worth $300B. Can it survive AI? (bbc.com)

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Thiel's secretive Rome conference draws Church attention (reuters.com)

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Current and former Block workers say AI can't do their jobs (theguardian.com)

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AI Isn't as Powerful as We Think [video] (youtube.com)

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SoftBank eyes up to $40B loan to fund OpenAI investment (reuters.com)

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AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: What's Happening with Opensource.net?

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Teacher vs. chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI (theguardian.com)

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Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK's net emissions (theguardian.com)

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Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic in battle over AI use (bbc.com)

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Anthropic says it 'cannot in good conscience' allow Pentagon to remove AI checks (theguardian.com)

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Ads are coming to AI. Does that have to be such a bad thing? (theconversation.com)

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Canada probes OpenAI for not alerting police after school shooter account ban (theguardian.com)

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Move over stoics Why we should all embrace nihilism (theguardian.com)

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Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regs (floodlightnews.org)

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Escape the AI junk crowding your social media and music streams (apnews.com)

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How the sound of sport is being reimagined for deaf fans (bbc.com)

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AI film school trains next generation of Hollywood moviemakers (reuters.com)

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Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation (msn.com)

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'I am never off the clock': inside the booming world of Gen Z side hustles (theguardian.com)

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'We feel it in our bones': Can a machine ever love you? (bbc.com)

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$800 Satellite Dish Intercepts Government Data [video] (youtube.com)

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The cybersecurity mistakes tech startups make, according to an expert (proton.me)

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The Singularity Is Always Near (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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From 'nerdy' Gemini to 'edgy' Grok: how developers are shaping AI behaviours (theguardian.com)

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The world is trying to log off U.S. tech (restofworld.org)

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Yi-Ling Liu on finding freedom in China's digital margins (reuters.com)

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back (theguardian.com)

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How to make Google put trusted sources up top when you search (bbc.com)

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'AI mirrors' are changing the way blind people see themselves (bbc.com)

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Crypto criminals stole $700M from people – often using age-old tricks (bbc.com)

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AI in daily life: 10 examples and how to protect your privacy (proton.me)

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Grok's biggest danger isn't what it says – it's where it lives (restofworld.org)

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The surprising benefits of standing on one leg (bbc.com)

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Why being a 'loner' could be good for you [video] (bbc.com)

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Key open source challenges in developing countries (2023) (opensource.com)

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Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to more happiness? (theguardian.com)

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Apple reportedly cuts production of Vision Pro headset after poor sales (theguardian.com)

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Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI (theguardian.com)

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The showers and baths keeping data centre tech cool (bbc.com)

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Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he's moving to kill it (grist.org)

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Worst Technology Flops of 2025 (technologyreview.com)

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Digital detox: how to switch off without paying the price (theconversation.com)

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Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros? To copy, not kill, traditional TV (theconversation.com)

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Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens (theconversation.com)

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OSPO Book from the Todo Group (todogroup.org)

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Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators (theguardian.com)

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Chatbots can sway political opinions but are 'substantially' inaccurate: study (theguardian.com)

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Cassette tapes are making a comeback? (theconversation.com)

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'It's the golden age of spreadsheet geekery' (bbc.com)

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The AI bubble isn't new – Karl Marx explained it nearly 150 years ago (theconversation.com)

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Can bigger-is-better 'scaling laws' keep AI improving forever? (theconversation.com)

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The Penicillin Myth (asimov.press)

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Meta is helping fraudsters scam you and doesn't care (proton.me)

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Hollywood's dark era: where did all the colour from movies go? (theguardian.com)

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'Invisible' microplastics spread in skies as global pollutant (asahi.com)

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'Self-host it' is not the answer (2022) (neilzone.co.uk)

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What US Tech Did to Ireland (thedial.world)

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White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Grokipedia (theguardian.com)

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What a decade of research reveals about why people don't trust media (theconversation.com)

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New laser treatment could stop blindness before it starts (sciencedaily.com)

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Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient growing rapidly (pnas.org)

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Why tech giants are offering premium AI tools to Indians for free (bbc.com)

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Educating the Next Generation of Open Source Project Contributors [video] (youtube.com)

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The scramble for Greenland's rare earths (bbc.com)

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The mind-boggling valuations of AI companies (theguardian.com)

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BYOD Security Solutions Explained (proton.me)

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OpenAI says hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not engineering flaws (computerworld.com)

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Character.ai bans users under 18 after being sued over child's suicide (theguardian.com)

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AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction (theguardian.com)

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I tried OpenAI's new Atlas browser but I still don't know what it's for (technologyreview.com)

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The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain (bbc.com)

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Rescuing Democracy from the Quiet Rule of AI (noemamag.com)

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AWS outage: Are we relying too much on US big tech? (bbc.com)

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Markupstandards.org (markupstandards.org)

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Smart jab can shrink head and neck cancer tumours within six weeks, trial finds (theguardian.com)

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Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule (theguardian.com)

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Why big tech's nuclear plans could blow up (bbc.com)

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Body can be a portable gym: how to ditch member fees and expensive equipment (theconversation.com)

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AI tools churn out 'workslop', but 'the buck' should stop with bosses (theguardian.com)

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Reasons virtual machines still matter (2023) (opensource.com)

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The century-long search for the Loch Ness Monster (bbc.com)

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Privacy-first inbox organization tips (proton.me)

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AI is reshaping childhood in China (restofworld.org)

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The Rise and Unraveling of America's Science Pact (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Why burnout is a growing problem in cyber-security (bbc.com)

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Shizuki Tadao: The Interpreter Who Shaped Japanese Scientific Language (tokyoweekender.com)

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Speak Sylheti? Tamajaght? Klingon? Inside the Festival for Endangered Languages (theguardian.com)

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Explaining how a touchscreen works with a sausage [video] (bbc.com)

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TextJam: The multi-player AI editor (textjam.com)

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The new phishing: How to spot email scams in 2025 (fastmail.com)

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Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers (restofworld.org)

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Password1: Scammers exploit variations of your logins (theguardian.com)

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Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? (2024) (mojeek.com)

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Wired Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer (wired.com)

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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why [video] (youtube.com)

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Facial recognition technology: When your face becomes a commodity (proton.me)

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Where are you being recorded? Almost everywhere (proton.me)

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US tech rules the European market (proton.me)