Articles by ggm
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Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

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Earliest fire-making dating back 400k years unearthed in Suffolk, England (nhm.ac.uk)

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US demands digital concessions in return for EU steel tariff relief (politico.eu)

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Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines: how marine life thrives on dumped weapons (theguardian.com)

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Mysterious drones spotted at airports across Europe. How worried should we be? (bbc.com)

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Willpower doesn't exist. Why so much of your health isn't your fault (bbc.com)

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Planet Unveils 'Owl' Satellite Fleet with 1M Class Imagery (aviationweek.com)

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Google won't reveal if it lobbies Trump about YT's inclusion in OZ under-16s ban (theguardian.com)

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They shoot cats, don't they? Why AI could arm fight against ferals (smh.com.au)

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All fluffed up: why modern balls spark injury worries and frustration in tennis (theguardian.com)

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Geolocation and Starlink (apnic.net)

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Mad 4 1T: obsessive collectors who pay big money for personalised number plates (theguardian.com)

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CTA on brain health as dementia is leading cause of death in Australia (abc.net.au)

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RU 'Doomsday Radio' speaks again;UVB-76 broadcasts names, numbers, & phrases (indiatimes.com)

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Oregon Routeviews now has a looking glass (routeviews.org)

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CPanel's IPv6 Overhaul (apnic.net)

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Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time (theatlantic.com)

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I put the Married at First Sight 'experiment' to the test. The results are stark (theguardian.com)

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Hyundai faces legal action over car that can be stolen 'effortlessly in seconds' (theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Bots or grunt labour in HN comments

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[flagged] The Reason Zelenskyy Doesn't Wear a Suit (politico.com)

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Apple needs Google now, more than (androidcentral.com)

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Doge Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government Is Wildly Dangerous (techpolicy.press)

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[flagged] Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study (theguardian.com)

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The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit (theatlantic.com)

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Ask HN: How did "US presidents in order" result on Google happen?

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Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity (thelancet.com)

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Arthur C Clarke on computers in the home, from abc Australia (1974) (instagram.com)

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Archibald Low's ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions come true, mostly (theguardian.com)

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Consciously uncoupling: what drives rates of animal divorce? (theguardian.com)

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Sonic Hedgehog Protein (wikipedia.org)

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The Art of Failure Analysis (ieee.org)

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A $60B-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers (motherjones.com)

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Ask HN: Tablet Portrait or Landscape by Default?

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Ask HN: Why does Chrome Android not support extensions/plugins?

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Recaro: The Aircraft Seating Giant Building Southwest Airline's New Seat (simpleflying.com)

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US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash: daughter agreed Uber Eats terms (theguardian.com)

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Trump and other insiders can now sell shares of DJT, just as stock hits new low (cbsnews.com)

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Lucky You! Musings from an oldster for today's generation (Douglas Hofstadter) (theatlantic.com)

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Arrests across Australia police target "Ghost" app allegedly used by criminals (theguardian.com)

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Deluge of abuse sent on X to prominent UK politicians in election period (theguardian.com)

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US conservative influencers 'victims' of Russian disinformation campaign (theguardian.com)

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Factory Monster: YouTube of KR industrial and manufacturing processes at scale (youtube.com)

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The wellness drink for sober people that some say they can't stop drinking (theguardian.com)

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FreeBSD-rustdate, a reimplementation of FreeBSD-update (over-yonder.net)

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Elon Musk's X reveals investors in court filing (msn.com)

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Australia's digital identity trust exchange to launch by end of year (biometricupdate.com)

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Death of a Pig, an Essay by E.B.White (1948) (theatlantic.com)

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Popular Prescription Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Uncommon Blinding Condition (massgeneralbrigham.org)

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Havana Syndrome: Putting the Myth to Rest (realclearscience.com)

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Ask HN: Why is font boosting a thing and still not tunable by the user?

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Frank Duckworth, co-founder of cricket's Duckworth-Lewis method, dies aged 84 (abc.net.au)

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Treacherous ancestry An extraordinary hunt for the ghosts of SARS-CoV-2 (protagonist-science.com)

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Craig Wright Assets Frozen by UK Judge to Prevent Him Evading Court Costs (coindesk.com)

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"Bollocks:" Toyota ignored EVs expecting a lithium shortfall. There is a glut (thedriven.io)

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Overhaul – RT London Bus Overhaul Documentary – British Transport Films – 1957 (youtube.com)

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Craig Wright's Legal Battle over Satoshi's Identity Unravels in Court (forbes.com/sites/digital-assets)

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Apple says UK could 'veto' global privacy tools (bbc.com)

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Andrew Scott halted Hamlet soliloquy after theatregoer used laptop to email (theguardian.com)

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Noam Chomsky turns 95: paved the way for AI. Does it keep him up at night? (theconversation.com)

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The weird, secretive world of crisp flavours (theguardian.com)

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Call the Routing Police (apnic.net)

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Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot's Usefulness (bloomberg.com)

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The high optical brightness of the BlueWalker 3 satellite (nature.com)

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What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? A war game in London to find out (theguardian.com)

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Ukraine is building an army of drones. For now, improvised with tape and bombs (apnews.com)

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I rented a Tesla for a month. It was a giant pain in the a* (abc.net.au)

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SpaceX’s Starship grounded pending improvements after launch explosion (theguardian.com)

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Bots on X worse than ever: analysis of 1M tweets during first primary debate (theguardian.com)

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Fukushima: Wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday (theguardian.com)

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Australia eyes UK online bill in fight with tech companies (theguardian.com)

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News Corp’s AI-generated stories filled with mistakes and bizarre language (crikey.com.au)

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A-level students in England may miss out as stricter grading returns (theguardian.com)

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Weight-loss drug heart benefit 'significant' (bbc.com)

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US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (theguardian.com)

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News Corp using AI to produce 3k Australian local news stories a week (theguardian.com)

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Why Meta’s Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet (theconversation.com)

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Nvidia's shares surged almost 200% on an AI boom. But will they stay there? (abc.net.au)

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Australia tops coronavirus consumer panic (unsw.edu.au)

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Do life hacks work? We’ll never know (theguardian.com)

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Melbourne transport card readers wont accept credit cards or mobiles until 2025 (theguardian.com)

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The Revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT (newstatesman.com)

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Expert reaction to Geoffrey Hinton quits Google over risks posed by AI (sciencemediacentre.org)

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The Iona and Peter Opie Archive (opiearchive.org)

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I called for more research on Covid ‘lab leak theory.’ Here’s what I found out (latimes.com)

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‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, US intelligence says (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk overstated Tesla’s autopilot and self-driving tech, new lawsuit says (theguardian.com)

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My company has been virtual for 18 years. Remote working is tough (Gene Marks) (theguardian.com)

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A Single Person Filed 23,000 Complaints over Dublin Airport Last Year (simpleflying.com)

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S.A. council forced to dispel ‘bizarre’ claims of Musk using mind-control chips (theguardian.com)

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Tate Modern viewing platform invades privacy of flats, Supreme Court rules (theguardian.com)

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What’s the true value of crypto? It lays bare the lies of libertarians (theguardian.com)

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‘This song sucks’: Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song in style of Nick Cave (theguardian.com)

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Twitter sued over $136,260 in unpaid rent after Elon Musk takeover (theguardian.com)

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Confessions of an Econocrat-Watcher (insidestory.org.au)

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What Would Plato Say About ChatGPT? (Zeynep Tufekci) (nytimes.com)

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In searching safe, low-cost big batteries, old Oz invention gets attention (cosmosmagazine.com)

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Eli Lilly and Co apologises after fake Twitter account says insulin is free (abc.net.au)

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The comparative recency of the proximal ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 (virological.org)

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Let's order strange things from NIST (twitter.com/tubetimeus)