Articles by ilamont
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$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? (nytimes.com)

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India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for AI training; lobbying group protests (techcrunch.com)

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Edelweiss triples prices charged to publishers after acquisition (publishersweekly.com)

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Former Mozaic Payments CEO arrested, charged with defrauding PE investor (reuters.com)

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Lost Vegas: inside America's most flailing destination city (slate.com)

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How America's "truck-driver shortage" (freightwaves.com)

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Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system (mbta.com)

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Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50% (electrek.co)

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Dutch chipmaker Nexperia urges Chinese units to help restore supply chain (reuters.com)

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Cree syllabics still used today (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)

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Ancestry and the NRS: when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly (scottishgenes.blogspot.com)

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Who's Next? Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at Odds over AI Music (thetimes.com)

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Navy Cuts Constellation-Class Frigate Program Short as Shipbuilding Delays Mount (gcaptain.com)

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Indian detained in Shanghai airport is detained and told "You're Chinese" (indiatimes.com)

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97 'peace walls' still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down? (thetimes.com)

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Saudi Arabia widens alcohol sales for expats (semafor.com)

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The console age is ending – even PlayStation's former CEO says so (polygon.com)

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China-linked hackers hijack Asus routers (scworld.com)

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I have a BMW EV and the app notifications are 100% random sales spam (twitter.com/kane)

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Wall Street Is Paywalling Your Kids' Sports (levernews.com)

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WhatsApp Owns India (theindianotes.com)

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Nomura Economist: China's Export Engine Exposes Structural Economic Strains (caixinglobal.com)

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The Role of Single-Family Rentals in the U.S. Housing Market (stlouisfed.org)

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Imperiled Astronauts Illustrate the Dangers of Space Debris (time.com)

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ELD loopholes fueling trucking fraud, driving good carriers out of business (freightwaves.com)

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EU ministers agree faster crackdown on China parcels that could hit Shein, Temu (reuters.com)

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GM wants parts makers to pull supply chains from China (reuters.com)

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Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame (npr.org)

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Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement (writerbeware.blog)

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Sony has sold 84.2M PlayStation 5 units since launch (engadget.com)

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Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (engadget.com)

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Altman and Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra (corememory.com)

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IndieChina Film Festival shut down after harassment from Chinese authorities (hrw.org)

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iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead (nytimes.com)

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Book Publishing and Technology: The ONIX 3 Debacle (thefutureofpublishing.com)

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Cengage to close 3 offices, transition 4k employees to remote work (boston.com)

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Taiwan's Machine Tool Makers Struggle to Survive (cw.com.tw)

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What happened when Trump met Xi? (brookings.edu)

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Marines offer tech-savvy recruits $15,000 to enlist (taskandpurpose.com)

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Arena BioWorks, funded with $500M, folds less than 2 years after launch (fiercebiotech.com)

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Feds allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat in ransomware attacks (cyberscoop.com)

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Top Substack writers depart for Patreon (niemanlab.org)

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Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman (theverge.com)

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What it's like to be traded in the NFL (nytimes.com)

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Reconfiguring Soviet-era "TM" mines into smart mines (thedefender.media)

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China's AI Strategy: Encircling the Cities from the Countryside (sinification.com)

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Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost (arstechnica.com)

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Buying old TV shows on DVD and the quality is poor (bogleheads.org)

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Game AI's Existential Crisis (aiandgames.com)

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In Ancient Spain, a Nail Through the Skull Could Mean Enmity, or Honor (nytimes.com)

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Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon 'likely written' by AI (theguardian.com)

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Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties (npr.org)

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Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked (pcmag.com)

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AI drones in Ukraine – this is where we're at (kyivindependent.com)

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Developer finds a formula for building lots of housing in Vermont's small towns (vtdigger.org)

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Best Practices for Recycling Laptops? (bogleheads.org)

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Veterans built an interactive map of Afghanistan to record 20 years of war (taskandpurpose.com)

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U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families (nytimes.com)

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X-ray table allegedly used in poker scam linked to mafia, NBA (usatoday.com)

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GM plans to launch eyes-off driving, Google Gemini in vehicles by 2028 (cnbc.com)

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VW says production pauses planned, denies chip crunch as reason (reuters.com)

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Army of Bots: Deeper into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams (writerbeware.blog)

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"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney (lawfaremedia.org)

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U.S. Army tightens standards for its basic training prep course (taskandpurpose.com)

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Harvard Cuts Science PhD Seats by over Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles (thecrimson.com)

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HelloFresh Fined NZ$845,000 for Misleading Subscription Reactivations (subscriptioninsider.com)

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Futureverse dumps blockchain after raising $54M, switches to AI (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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Spotify's Audiobook Listeners Grew 36% in Second Year of Service (bloomberg.com)

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Philly's LOVE skatepark rebuilt in Malmö (nytimes.com)

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Student's alleged torture death by Cambodia scammers sparks turmoil in S. Korea (theguardian.com)

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Death by Valuation: The Amazon Aggregator Autopsy (marketplacepulse.com)

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Slowing Electric Vehicle Sales Will Cost G.M. $1.6B (freep.com)

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Carbonized 1,300-Year-Old Bread Loaves Unearthed in Turkey (ancientist.com)

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Long Beach mandates staffing ratios at self-checkout lanes (latimes.com)

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The International Fixed Calendar, 1923-1937 (wikipedia.org)

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Idiot Plot (wikipedia.org)

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What Japan Taught Me About American Trains (persuasion.community)

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China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following Huawei report (cnbc.com)

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Shein's arrival at BHV in Paris sparks outrage among store's suppliers (lemonde.fr)

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State (nytimes.com)

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Inside the Chinese AI threat to security (politico.com)

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Passkey is still too confusing to use (bogleheads.org)

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Blackstone weighs options for Ancestry.com, including sale or IPO (reuters.com)

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Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per theft video for AI training (techcrunch.com)

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Anthropic Copyright Settlement Database for Authors Launched (anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com)

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Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams (patreon.com)

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Audible's New Royalty Model: Let's Show the Math (riyria.blogspot.com)

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Gmail discontinuing support for Gmailify, POP syncing in January 2026 (support.google.com)

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Tribunal upholds 'catastrophic' Ancestry request to access Scottish records (whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com)

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Delta Replaces 90% of A320 APUs to Address Toxic-Fume Surge in Cabins (msn.com)

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Search traffic to the FT down 25-30%, Daily Mail down 89% (theguardian.com)

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Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK (hotminute.co.uk)

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Rethink Robotics shuts down again (therobotreport.com)

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Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company' (engadget.com)

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Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures Sue Chinese AI Company (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Malaysia reins in data centre growth, complicating China's AI chip access (reuters.com)

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Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting? (foreignpolicy.com)

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Ohio bill would let utilities throttle customers' thermostats and water heaters (woub.org)

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Korean companies admit skirting US visas, say they had no choice (ft.com)

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China's social platforms rush to abide by AI-generated content labelling law (scmp.com)