Articles by ilamont
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What Is Authorship When Machines Can Write? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)

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Air Force can't quit the A-10 Warthog, extends service into 2030 (taskandpurpose.com)

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The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900% (twitter.com/mediagazer)

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USPS Inspector General Issues Alert on Counterfeit Postage (ecommercebytes.com)

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Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (malwarebytes.com)

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Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (reuters.com)

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Amazon sellers boycott ads in policy change revolt (cnbc.com)

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V&A Museum deletes maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing from publications (theguardian.com)

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For the first time ever, Amazon is cutting old Kindles off from the Kindle Store (arstechnica.com)

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The Iran war took a toll on the Air Force's Reaper fleet (taskandpurpose.com)

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Practical Advice to Avoid Getting Pwned by a State Actor Using AI (choosingvictory.com)

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Report: Apple has shifted 40% of planned MacBook production capacity to Vietnam (twitter.com/dnystedt)

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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? (2023) (news.mit.edu)

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Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem (platformer.news)

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Senator proposes to widen US ban on Chinese autos (reuters.com)

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Eleven Days (thewirechina.com)

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Toyota CEO Warns Top Suppliers: 'Unless Things Change, We Will Not Survive' (autonews.com)

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Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later (familytreedna.com)

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China's intervention on Meta's Manus rattles founders, VCs eye 'China shedding' (cnbc.com)

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China detains Panama-flagged ships after cancellation of canal concession (semafor.com)

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Nantucket diner sells fifth million-dollar lottery prize in the last 2 years (nantucketcurrent.com)

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JCal – Jeffrey Epstein's Activities Recreated in Google Calendar (jmail.world)

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Air Force tanker tore up asphalt at Alaska airport with engine test (taskandpurpose.com)

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Is Creativity a Young Person's Game? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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People don't like wearing things on their faces and don't trust those who do (nealstephenson.substack.com)

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Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession (taskandpurpose.com)

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Estate of Mike Lynch ordered to pay £920M to Hewlett-Packard (theguardian.com)

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Hong Kong book shop staff arrested over 'seditious' publications (hongkongfp.com)

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Ubisoft's death by a thousand cuts (thegamebusiness.com)

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Parent sues over likely worthless 'bond' meant to prop up troubled school (universalhub.com)

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Why AI startups and founders now use "taste" to describe their products (newyorker.com)

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TSMC chair dismisses Chinese robots as useless (taiwannews.com.tw)

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The year of four million books (shush.substack.com)

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U.S. Book Output Rose 32.5%, Topped Four Million in 2025 (publishersweekly.com)

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How 411 directory assistance worked in 1978 [video] (twitter.com/gbharchives)

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Ig Nobel award ceremony moving to Zurich due to concern over U.S. travel visas (swissinfo.ch)

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Gaming journalists sacked and misleadingly replaced with AI writers (pressgazette.co.uk)

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As China's economy slows, some young people buy cheap apartments to 'retire' (apnews.com)

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Hazard Cascade (nationalgeographic.org)

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Massachusetts State Police are on a drone surveillance shopping spree (binj.news)

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TSMC's N2 Node Is Almost Booked Out for the Next Two Years (culpium.com)

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Settlement reached in harassment case tied to eBay executives (wbur.org)

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Zimbabwe bans all raw mineral exports (semafor.com)

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Meta's AI sending 'junk' CSAM tips to DOJ (theguardian.com)

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That time the US military burned down one of its own bases with a 'bat bomb' (taskandpurpose.com)

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Stock Slide and Slow Sales: What's Happening in China's E.V. Market? (nytimes.com)

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Pulp Fiction Writer: 'Impossible' to Get Movies Made Without 'AI' Company (variety.com)

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Alternatives to Amazon, and who has stopped using it entirely? (bogleheads.org)

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Estée Lauder sues Walmart over counterfeit products from 3rd party sellers (cnbc.com)

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Polymarket sues Massachusetts in federal court over state betting law (universalhub.com)

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What They Copied (prndlcars.com)

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IRS taps HR, IT staff to handle returns amidst hiring crunch (govexec.com)

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Communiqué 102: Substack lost its way (readcommunique.com)

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Twix Is OK but Granola Isn't as States Deploy New Food Stamp Rules (nytimes.com)

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AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen (theregister.com)

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Meta's Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a 'VR winter' (cnbc.com)

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Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save U.S. Airlines $580M per Year (nytimes.com)

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Validation Economy: How Western Creators Monetize South Asia's Need to Be Seen (skift.com)

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AI Weiwei: 'You in the West Can't Compete with China' (thetimes.com)

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The Dream of the Universal Library (asteriskmag.com)

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OpenAI to Buy Pinterest? A Strategic Analysis (nekuda.substack.com)

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Making New IP (grumpygamer.com)

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The Strange Odyssey of USS Stewart (warfarehistorynetwork.com)

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U.S. Patent Law and Perpetual Motion Machines (2011) (ipwatchdog.com)

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Open Letter to the SFWA and Community about new AI award rules (file770.com)

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Authors Guild Raises Concerns About Kindle's New "Ask This Book" AI Feature (authorsguild.org)

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Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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Do Bison Understand Death? Bison Funerals Suggest They Might (cowboystatedaily.com)

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Inmates could escape jail on drones, warns top prison governor (sky.com)

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Back-of-the-Envelope Math on Payouts in Bartz vs. Anthropic Settlement (authorsalliance.org)

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Why U.S. sports tickets have gotten so expensive (nytimes.com)

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The Army once considered a nuclear-powered tank built by Chrysler (taskandpurpose.com)

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Amazon is prospective tenant for data center developer rocked by stock plunge (businessinsider.com)

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Why Not Make All Car Brakes Like Hybrid Car Brakes (bogleheads.org)

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The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb (thesling.org)

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UC Berkeley professor used secret camera to catch PhD student sabotaging rival (msn.com)

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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)