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Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you (arstechnica.com)

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Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company (nytimes.com)

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Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive (arstechnica.com)

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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets (arstechnica.com)

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Why Crypto's Slide Is Rattling Wall Street (nytimes.com)

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Politicians Need to Understand This Computer Science Concept Better (2016) (nautil.us)

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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)

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Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used Its A.I. In Online Attack (nytimes.com)

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Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature (arstechnica.com)

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Creating a database of motivated proofs (gowers.wordpress.com)

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Creating a database of motivated proofs – Gowers's Weblog (gowers.wordpress.com)

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The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware (arstechnica.com)

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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises (arstechnica.com)

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes (arstechnica.com)

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Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records (arstechnica.com)

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How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? (nytimes.com)

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OpenAI's Plan to Embed ChatGPT into College Students' Lives (nytimes.com)

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Vlastimil Hort, a Memorably Selfless Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com)

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The AI that sparked tech panic and scared world leaders heads to retirement (arstechnica.com)

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Study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don't yet live up to their billing (arstechnica.com)

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Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired (arstechnica.com)

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Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps (arstechnica.com)

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The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at Chi 2025 (microsoft.com)

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Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI's frustrating security hole (arstechnica.com)

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Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn't use LLMs (arstechnica.com)

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Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs (nytimes.com)

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Intel's CEO hasn't turned the company around, and now he's no longer CEO (arstechnica.com)

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AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious Is It? [video] (youtube.com)

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Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took 4 Decades (nytimes.com)

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Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

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[dupe] In Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize (arstechnica.com)

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Meta pays the price for storing passwords in plaintext (arstechnica.com)

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When Computers Go Dark (nytimes.com)

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At 5, She Picked Up Chess as a Pandemic Hobby. At 9, She's a Prodigy (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] Nvidia Becomes Most Valuable Public Company, Topping Microsoft and Apple (nytimes.com)

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Can a technology called RAG keep AI models from making stuff up? (arstechnica.com)

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Steve Albini, Influential Producer of '90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (nytimes.com)

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GenAI is to data visibility what absolute zero is to a hot summer day (computerworld.com)

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Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist (wired.com)

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Review of 'Is College Worth It?' (insidehighered.com)

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USB-C explained: How to get the most from it (and why it keeps getting better) (computerworld.com)

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Europe's A.I. 'Champion' Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S. (nytimes.com)

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Computer Theorist Wins $1M Turing Award (nytimes.com)

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Is AI driving tech layoffs? (computerworld.com)

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An A.I. Researcher Takes on Election Deepfakes (nytimes.com)

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McDonald's serves up a master class in how not to explain a system outage (computerworld.com)

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AI garbage is already polluting the internet (nytimes.com)

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Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction (arstechnica.com)

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From Error to Entry: Cracking the Code of Password-Spraying Tools (trustedsec.com)

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Tabletop Games Based on Math Problems –| Math ∩ Programming (jeremykun.com)

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Why should Apple trust Epic Games? (computerworld.com)

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The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have "near-human" abilities (arstechnica.com)

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A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green (nytimes.com)

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A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs (nytimes.com)

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How would an AI turn out if you raised it like a child? (arstechnica.com)

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Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018) (scottaaronson.blog)

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David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85 (nytimes.com)

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Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities (nytimes.com)

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

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Quantum computing startup says it will beat IBM to error correction (arstechnica.com)

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A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind [video] (youtube.com)

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Homograph Homophone Venn Diagram (wikipedia.org)

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Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video] (youtube.com)

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The Race to Dominate A.I (nytimes.com)

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Where do non-primitive recursive functions come up naturally? (computationalcomplexity.org)

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The Engineer and the Computer Scientist (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Kurt Gödel in the Movies (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

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Math: Large Numbers [video] (youtube.com)

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MadMath: The Iron Law of Stack Exchange (madmath.com)

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Amid Sextortion’s Rise, Computer Scientists Tap A.I. To Identify Risky Apps (nytimes.com)

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When is a computer proof a proof? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

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Active Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms [pdf] (hope.edu)

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Ian Hacking has died (nytimes.com)

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Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died (ieee.org)

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What Makes Mathematicians Believe Unproved Mathematical Statements? [pdf] (mxphi.com)

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (ieee.org)

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Gordon E. Moore, the Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 (nytimes.com)

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William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83 (nytimes.com)

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Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I (nytimes.com)

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IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now (computerworld.com)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Mathematics (2022) [pdf] (pitt.edu)

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The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About (nytimes.com)

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Why do A.I. chatbots tell lies and act weird? Look in the mirror (nytimes.com)

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Does mathematics need a philosophy? (logicmatters.net)

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Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

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Duolingo’s AI learns what you need to learn (ieee.org)

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Artificial intelligence just lost a leader (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

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Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight (nytimes.com)

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Why Study Logic? (wpcomstaging.com)

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ChatGPT tried to write an obit for Martin Davis. What it got right, wrong (computationalcomplexity.org)

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ChatGPT for Educators (docs.google.com)

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Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

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Last year marked the end of an era in spaceflight–here’s what we’re watching (arstechnica.com)

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Martin Davis Passed Away on Jan 1, 2023 (computationalcomplexity.org)

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What's Next for Quantum Computing (technologyreview.com)

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Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring (scottaaronson.blog)

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Video Game Workers Get a Union Foothold at Microsoft (nytimes.com)

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A.I. Will Change Education. Don’t Let It Worsen Inequality (nytimes.com)

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A pattern for responsive canvas illustrations (jgibson.id.au)

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Quantum Circuits in the New York Times (wpcomstaging.com)