Articles by ilamont
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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)

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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)