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Russian Bitcoin Exchange BTC-E Co-Founder to Be Freed by the U.S. (wsj.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Why do AI chatbots have such a hard time admitting 'I don't know'? (wsj.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, hints that Pat Gelsinger exited too soon (tomshardware.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | tomshardware.com | newest

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Botched Alerts Turned This L.A. Neighborhood into a Fiery Death Trap (wsj.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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EU Consumer Group Calls Out Safety of Temu Products (wsj.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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ADHD's Sobering Life-Expectancy Numbers (theatlantic.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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An early-career lesson in bureaucracies and budgeting makes me skeptical of DOGE (wsj.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Why the Deep State Loves Tariffs (thefp.com)

8 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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CDC Data Is Disappearing (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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Legal Weed Didn't Deliver on Its Promises (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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The "Exciting Business Opportunity" That Ruined Our Lives (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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Elon Musk reveals Elon Musk was wrong about Full Self-Driving (techcrunch.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Some Say AI Is the Greatest Invention of All Time. I Don't Get It (thefp.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | frontpage

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The Reevo Hubless Bicycle Is a Total Nightmare [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | newest

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What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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Your Light Bulb Is Lying to You: Why so many LEDs look so bad (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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AirPods with cameras still a priority for Apple's computer vision goals (appleinsider.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | appleinsider.com | newest

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C Is Legal Again (twitter.com/lcamtuf)

9 months ago | fortran77 | twitter.com | frontpage

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Screens Have Taken over Classrooms. Even Students Have Had Enough (wsj.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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'Severance' and the Trauma of the Bullshit Job (thefp.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | frontpage

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The Folly of Freeing Ross Ulbricht (thefp.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | frontpage

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The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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The Georgia Tech Library retroTECH retro technology collection (gatech.edu)

9 months ago | fortran77 | gatech.edu | frontpage

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First chatbot, ELIZA, resurrected from 60-year-old computer code (techxplore.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | techxplore.com | newest

2

Biden's Billion-Dollar Broadband Boondoggle (thefp.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low (axios.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | axios.com | best

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Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.'S Fires (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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TSMC Arizona allegedly now producing AMD's Ryzen 9000 and Apple's S9 processors (tomshardware.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | tomshardware.com | newest

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The Price History of Campbell's Tomato Soup (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | blogspot.com | newest

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The Challenge for Made-in-America Bikes? Made-in-China Parts (wsj.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Monomaterial Bamboo Projectile Weapon (core77.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | core77.com | frontpage

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AI Robots Are Entering the Public World–With Mixed Results (wsj.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Do Insects Feel Pain? (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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Why Can't You Just Deal with It? (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds (newyorker.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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The Elusive Crime Boss Linked to Billion-Dollar 'Pig Butchering' Scams (wsj.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Popeye and Tintin will soon lose copyright protection (axios.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | axios.com | frontpage

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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? (newyorker.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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How Tortillas Lost Their Magic (theatlantic.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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Scammers Are Using AI This Holiday Season to Steal Your Money (wsj.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33M (thefp.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks (theatlantic.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State (theatlantic.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit (thefp.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | frontpage

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When a Telescope Is a National Security Risk (theatlantic.com)

10 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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The Triumph of the Post-Thanksgiving Sandwich (newyorker.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | newest

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How a French Whale Made $85MM Off Election Win on Polymarket (thefp.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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The Case Against Spinning Off Chrome (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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US prosecutors demand Google divest Chrome to end search monopoly (reuters.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | reuters.com | frontpage

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The Best Time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems (securityweek.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | securityweek.com | best

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Why NSA Rules Say No to Smartphones, No to Texting, Yes to Podcasts (newyorker.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Canada's School Smartphone Ban Is Not Going Well (macleans.ca)

11 months ago | fortran77 | macleans.ca | newest

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We Can't Give Up Paper Checks, and That's a Gold Mine for Scammers (wsj.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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An Interview with the Target and Home Depot Hacker (krebsonsecurity.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | krebsonsecurity.com | newest

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There's No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America's Reading Crisis (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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AI Can Save Humanity or End It (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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A 14-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself to Get Closer to a Chatbot (wsj.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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Software on Paper – 1985 Cauzin Softstrip [video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | newest

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Sandwiches of History (atlasobscura.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | atlasobscura.com | newest

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America Has an Onion Problem (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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An Adventurer Thought He Found Amelia Earhart's Plane. Now He Says It Was a Rock (wsj.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Security Bulletin: Nvidia GPU Display Driver – October 2024 (custhelp.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | custhelp.com | newest

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Building a real pawn that transforms into a queen, automatically [video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | frontpage

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New Warning as Gmail 2FA Attacks Ongoing (forbes.com/sites/daveywinder)

11 months ago | fortran77 | forbes.com | newest

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A Week of Failing to Pay with Bitcoin in El Salvador (reason.com)

11 months ago | fortran77 | reason.com | frontpage

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Fitness app Strava gives away location of World Leaders, French newspaper says (independent.co.uk)

12 months ago | fortran77 | independent.co.uk | newest

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How Las Vegas Became the Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Futuristic City in America (gq.com)

12 months ago | fortran77 | gq.com | newest

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Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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The backlash against the world's most hated font may be ending (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed (nationalreview.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | nationalreview.com | frontpage

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Polavision: The Product That Killed Polaroid [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | newest

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UK Radio Scanner Law Lands Listener Five Years in Jail [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | newest

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Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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The PONG of Nostalgia [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | newest

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The AI Boom Has an Expiration Date (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Intel, AMD Create Advisory Group to Shape Future of x86 Architecture (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Inside the Carjacking Crisis (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX's Flying Skyscraper (thefp.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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Life's Short. So Stop Trying to Perfect It (thefp.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble (thefp.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster (newyorker.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | best

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This Will Be Your New Favorite Podcast. The Hosts Aren't Human (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | newest

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Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | best

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You Can't Opt-Out of A.I. Online (newyorker.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | best

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Factory Workers Are Dying Because Machines Aren't Being Turned Off (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage

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A computer for your face–now with AI. What could go wrong? (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | newest

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Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? (newyorker.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | newyorker.com | best

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"An informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits." (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | fortran77 | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off To Reveal What It Really Is (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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The World's Underwater Fiber Optic Cables (core77.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | core77.com | newest

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California Lawmakers Think They Can Outsmart AI (reason.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | reason.com | newest

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The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009) (vintagecalculators.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | vintagecalculators.com | best

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The People Who Rage Against the Machine (thefp.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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I Built a Paper Tape Reader from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | youtube.com | frontpage

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Collecting Batteries (ericwrobbel.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | ericwrobbel.com | newest

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The Lost Art of Waiting (thefp.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | thefp.com | newest

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The Kids Who Didn't Know Their Parents Were Russian Spies (wsj.com)

a year ago | fortran77 | wsj.com | frontpage