Articles by fortran77
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The Free Market Is Failing: The Terrifying Reality (hollymathnerd.substack.com)

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New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk, company says (axios.com)

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Musician Mattias Krantz Taught an Octopus to Play Piano (washingtonpost.com)

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The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course (nytimes.com)

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The Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist (theatlantic.com)

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America's elite colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem (theatlantic.com)

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An AI Startup Looks Toward the Post-Transformer Era (wsj.com)

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They Found Relatives on 23andMe–and Asked for a Cut of the Inheritance (wsj.com)

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Get Your Kid a Watch (theatlantic.com)

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How Workplace Fashion Has Changed over the Decades (wsj.com)

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The fewest items of clothes to never repeat an outfit [video] (youtube.com)

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Burt Meyer, Inventor of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and Other Hit Toys, Dies at 99 (wsj.com)

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Meta Execs Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Court Filing Shows (nationalreview.com)

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Walmart Is Exploring Bringing Ads to Sparky, Its New AI Shopping Agent (wsj.com)

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AI Investors Want More Making It and Less Faking It (wsj.com)

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What happens when even college students can't do math anymore? (theatlantic.com)

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Crypto Stablecoins Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis (theatlantic.com)

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Most of the Dark Web is Fake [video] (youtube.com)

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The First Portable Touchscreen – Casio If-8000 [video] (youtube.com)

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The Death of Government Tax Filing (wsj.com)

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iPhone Pocket (apple.com)

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Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared (theatlantic.com)

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Resurgence of an old-timey film format is creating headaches on movie sets (wsj.com)

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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One (wsj.com)

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Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's $1T Pay Package (wsj.com)

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Ethernet Sends Data [video] (youtube.com)

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HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector (powerdevicecorp.com)

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Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can (theatlantic.com)

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Fountain Pens Are More Popular Than Ever–and Purists Are Fuming (wsj.com)

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Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging on to Employees (wsj.com)

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The Amazonification of Whole Foods Is Finally Here (wsj.com)

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Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon (open.space)

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Why Every Family Needs a Code Word (wsj.com)

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The Feds Who Kill Blood-Sucking Parasites (newyorker.com)

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ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon (newyorker.com)

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The Hidden Cost of 'Affordable Housing' (theatlantic.com)

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Behind the Curtain: How an AI job apocalypse unfolds (axios.com)

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No One Knows What a Moon Is (theatlantic.com)

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I Tried the Robot That's Coming to Live with You. It's Still Part Human (wsj.com)

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Some People Can't See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound (newyorker.com)

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We Are the Slop (afterbabel.com)

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Will AI stretch our minds–or stunt them? (theatlantic.com)

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Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? (newyorker.com)

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Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread? (newyorker.com)

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The Robots That Handle Your Amazon Orders (wsj.com)

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Amazon Web Services Outage Hits Major Sites and Apps (wsj.com)

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Job Interviews Are Broken (theatlantic.com)

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Our Faces No Longer Belong to Us (wsj.com)

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor (theatlantic.com)

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The Death Spiral of San Francisco's Most Storied Mall (wsj.com)

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Something Weird Is Happening with Halloween Chocolate (theatlantic.com)

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My Life in Ambigrammia (theatlantic.com)

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Pianists Can Shape Piano Timbre Through Touch (neurosciencenews.com)

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South Bay (Cupertino) Whole Foods reopens after 2 months from rodent infestation (mercurynews.com)

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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It (newyorker.com)

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YouTube to Pay $24.5M to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump (wsj.com)

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Astrocat Félicette in Photos: The Story of the First Cat Launched into Space (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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Pizza (1949) (theatlantic.com)

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How I drank my way to sobriety (thefp.com)

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Is It Time to Go Internet Sober? (thefp.com)

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What It's Like to Get Really, Really High (newyorker.com)

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Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic (wired.com)

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The Hacker Who Helped Score a $243M Verdict Against Tesla (pcmag.com)

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The Expensive, Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks (theatlantic.com)

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Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends (newyorker.com)

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AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators (theatlantic.com)

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Why Do Rodents Flourish? A Human-Like Thumb Helps (wsj.com)

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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business (theatlantic.com)

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Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (microsoft.com)

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The History of the Vocoder [video] (youtube.com)

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I Posted on X. The British Police Arrested Me (thefp.com)

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Flying a Plane Is Fun Until You Enter Restricted Airspace (wsj.com)

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Taco Bell Rethinks Future of Voice AI at the Drive-Through (wsj.com)

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Tesla challenges $243M verdict in Autopilot death trial (techcrunch.com)

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Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers (wsj.com)

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Tech Is Good, AI Will Be Different [video] (youtube.com)

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Making a Wacky Sound Generator from a Speak and Spell from Start to Finish [video] (youtube.com)

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Don't Pay This AI Family to Write You a Song [video] (youtube.com)

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FDA issues warning over possible radioactive shrimp (livescience.com)

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Big Tech Pledged Billions for Housing. The Results Aren't Living Up to the Hype (wsj.com)

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AI Drives Rise in CEO Impersonator Scams (wsj.com)

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Google's AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam (yahoo.com)

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What Musk, Altman and Others Say About AI-Funded 'Universal Basic Income' (wsj.com)

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Why Hasn't Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? (newyorker.com)

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Is This the Hardest Physical Contest in the World? (theatlantic.com)

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AI Robs My Students of the Ability to Think (wsj.com)

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[flagged] I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI (twitter.com/keithsakata)

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What Happened to General Electric? [video] (youtube.com)

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An Unusual Way to End Up with a Whole Lot of Gold (theatlantic.com)

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Titan Submersible Implosion Was Preventable Disaster, Coast Guard Concludes (wsj.com)

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AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say (wsj.com)

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The Pain of Perfectionism (newyorker.com)

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FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime (reason.com)

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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline (theatlantic.com)

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How to Extract $400M from a Billionaire: Use a Gilded Age Family Name (wsj.com)

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Man awarded $12,500 after Google Street View captured him naked in his yard (cbsnews.com)

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American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms (fortune.com)

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Your Favorite YouTube Channel Is (Probably) Owned by Private Equity (youtube.com)

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War on hidden motors goes undercover (reuters.com)

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MetaMask extension bug causes 100s of GBs of extraneous data to be written (tomshardware.com)