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China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage (restofworld.org)

a year ago | ilamont | restofworld.org | frontpage

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Small Press Distribution ceases operations effective immediately (spdbooks.org)

a year ago | ilamont | spdbooks.org | newest

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Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books (futurism.com)

a year ago | ilamont | futurism.com | newest

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Some private universities will cost $90k this fall (bostonglobe.com)

a year ago | ilamont | bostonglobe.com | newest

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How Will AI Change Life for Literary Translators? (publishersweekly.com)

a year ago | ilamont | publishersweekly.com | newest

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Boston built a ton of lab buildings. Now many are empty (boston.com)

a year ago | ilamont | boston.com | frontpage

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Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, CEO says (twitter.com/kenrickcai)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | best

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My Wikipedia page is being deleted because I'm no longer notable enough (techbroiler.net)

a year ago | ilamont | techbroiler.net | newest

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Brazil probes Chinese dumping as cheap goods flood global markets (semafor.com)

a year ago | ilamont | semafor.com | frontpage

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Former Sam Adams brewery employees suing to overturn noncompete agreements (boston.com)

a year ago | ilamont | boston.com | frontpage

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I analyzed 5M freelancing jobs to see what jobs are being replaced by AI (bloomberry.com)

a year ago | ilamont | bloomberry.com | newest

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Nigeria invited, then detained Binance's compliance head and Africa manager (coindesk.com)

a year ago | ilamont | coindesk.com | newest

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1 in 5 of China's EV Owners Wouldn't Buy Another Due to Charging Problems (caixinglobal.com)

a year ago | ilamont | caixinglobal.com | newest

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Can Cities Drive SUVs Off Their Streets? (reasonstobecheerful.world)

a year ago | ilamont | reasonstobecheerful.world | newest

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China's Zhenhua Denies Modems Installed in Its Cranes Pose a Security Threat (caixinglobal.com)

a year ago | ilamont | caixinglobal.com | frontpage

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Sand dune made to protect beachfront homes in Mass. washes away in 3 days (msn.com)

a year ago | ilamont | msn.com | newest

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Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines (wsj.com)

a year ago | ilamont | wsj.com | newest

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Win Brands Group had its third round of layoffs in 12 months (modernretail.co)

a year ago | ilamont | modernretail.co | newest

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Cerberus Capital Management hospital debacle puts focus on private equity (axios.com)

a year ago | ilamont | axios.com | newest

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Workshopper Beware: Navigating the Risky Waters of Writing Classes and Retreats (janefriedman.com)

a year ago | ilamont | janefriedman.com | newest

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Tesla China Shipments Plunge to Lowest in More Than a Year (caixinglobal.com)

a year ago | ilamont | caixinglobal.com | newest

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Substack Is Both Great and Terrible for Authors (janefriedman.com)

a year ago | ilamont | janefriedman.com | newest

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Google's AI problems expose deeper industry dilemma (semafor.com)

a year ago | ilamont | semafor.com | newest

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Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects (web3isgoinggreat.com)

a year ago | ilamont | web3isgoinggreat.com | newest

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When science fiction meets political fact (chinamediaproject.org)

a year ago | ilamont | chinamediaproject.org | newest

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Response to Etsy's "Strengthening New-Shop Onboarding to Keep Community Safe" (indiesellersguild.org)

a year ago | ilamont | indiesellersguild.org | newest

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Anybody use OpenID to log in here? (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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Lawyer fined for legal filings that included 'hallucinated' AI citations (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | best

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Atlas Obscura looks to raise $10M at a $24M valuation (digiday.com)

a year ago | ilamont | digiday.com | newest

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Can AI count hate crimes? (semafor.com)

a year ago | ilamont | semafor.com | newest

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Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion (file770.com)

a year ago | ilamont | file770.com | newest

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PRC State-Sponsored Actors Maintain Access to U.S. Critical Infrastructure (cisa.gov)

a year ago | ilamont | cisa.gov | best

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The Life Model (penkilnburn.com)

a year ago | ilamont | penkilnburn.com | newest

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Quantum computer with 5-qubit chips launched (taipeitimes.com)

a year ago | ilamont | taipeitimes.com | newest

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2024 iPhone shipments likely to decline significantly by about 15% (medium.com/mingchikuo)

a year ago | ilamont | medium.com | newest

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HubSpot conducts jobs cuts, mainly among content-design roles (bizjournals.com)

a year ago | ilamont | bizjournals.com | newest

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Shein's marketplace is littered with gray-market products from top brands (modernretail.co)

a year ago | ilamont | modernretail.co | newest

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Boston hospital to use piloted drones for medicine delivery (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit (easygenie.org)

a year ago | ilamont | easygenie.org | best

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Vanguard Not Allowing Bitcoin ETFs (bogleheads.org)

a year ago | ilamont | bogleheads.org | newest

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eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | best

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The problems with Oxman's dissertation are way worse than reported (twitter.com/melancholyyuga)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset (prospect.org)

a year ago | ilamont | prospect.org | frontpage

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Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content (theintercept.com)

a year ago | ilamont | theintercept.com | best

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Amazon Layoffs Expand to Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios (variety.com)

a year ago | ilamont | variety.com | newest

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Taiwan apologizes for missile alert, blames mistranslation of "satellite" (twitter.com/taiwanplusnews)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter (joins.com)

a year ago | ilamont | joins.com | best

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18 Minutes to Evacuate a Burning Plane: Success Story or Cautionary Tale? (wsj.com)

a year ago | ilamont | wsj.com | frontpage

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America Loves Chinese Restaurants, but Michelin Gave Just One a Star (sfstandard.com)

a year ago | ilamont | sfstandard.com | frontpage

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Thermo Fisher halts DNA collection kit sales in Tibet (axios.com)

a year ago | ilamont | axios.com | newest

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The airman who eliminated 'tedious' tasks for colleagues stuck in paperwork hell (taskandpurpose.com)

a year ago | ilamont | taskandpurpose.com | newest

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FBI charge two in elaborate "U visa" immigration scheme (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022) (cfenollosa.com)

a year ago | ilamont | cfenollosa.com | best

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China Sanctions US Company, Two Researchers over Xinjiang Work (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | ilamont | bloomberg.com | newest

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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (theguardian.com)

a year ago | ilamont | theguardian.com | best

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Internet Archive appeals, says judge Koeltl "misapplied the fair use factors" (publishersweekly.com)

a year ago | ilamont | publishersweekly.com | best

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Dropbox states it wont train models without consent, opted in to OpenAI anyway (twitter.com/kortizart)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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Online retailer Zulily sues Amazon for "bullying" behavior (axios.com)

a year ago | ilamont | axios.com | newest

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GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety (motortrend.com)

a year ago | ilamont | motortrend.com | newest

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Inside Foxconn's Struggle to Make iPhones in India (restofworld.org)

a year ago | ilamont | restofworld.org | newest

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Ford cutting F-150 Lightning production by half in 2024, suppliers told (autonews.com)

a year ago | ilamont | autonews.com | frontpage

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China offers Taiwan colonel US$15M to defect via CH-47 Chinook (taiwannews.com.tw)

a year ago | ilamont | taiwannews.com.tw | newest

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Civitai founder champions open source, downplays AI deepfake porn (venturebeat.com)

a year ago | ilamont | venturebeat.com | newest

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Online recipe website could be on hook for $300k in online-tracking lawsuit (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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Feds Enlist Hunters to Kill Half a Million Invasive Owls in the PNW (fieldandstream.com)

a year ago | ilamont | fieldandstream.com | newest

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SCMP pulls its own op-ed over inability to 'verify the author's credentials' (hongkongfp.com)

a year ago | ilamont | hongkongfp.com | newest

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Craft beer sales are falling off a cliff (twitter.com/roblabonne)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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United resumes Dulles-Beijing flight that costs $8,612-$47,493 round trip (twitter.com/kennedycsis)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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Did Hamas Make Millions Shorting Israeli Shares Before October 7 Massacre? (haaretz.com)

a year ago | ilamont | haaretz.com | newest

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Investors snagged 1 in 5 homes for sale in Boston area, worsening housing crisis (bostonglobe.com)

a year ago | ilamont | bostonglobe.com | best

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My experience with the FBI: a wake-up call to public-facing crypto people (twitter.com/alexmasmej)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | best

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Nobody wants U.S. Treasury bonds (semafor.com)

a year ago | ilamont | semafor.com | frontpage

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Hollywood Franchises Must 'Take a Breather and Let Audiences Get Excited Again' (variety.com)

a year ago | ilamont | variety.com | newest

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My Book Earned Out in Two Years and Nothing Happened (electricliterature.com)

a year ago | ilamont | electricliterature.com | newest

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Baby boomers are buying up all the houses (boston.com)

a year ago | ilamont | boston.com | newest

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Raft exploited for $3.3M, then hacker screws up (web3isgoinggreat.com)

a year ago | ilamont | web3isgoinggreat.com | newest

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Amazon and Meta bringing stripped down Amazon detail pages to Facebook/Instagram (marketplacepulse.com)

a year ago | ilamont | marketplacepulse.com | newest

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Some AI vendors say they'll defend users from IP lawsuits. Others, not so much (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | ilamont | techcrunch.com | newest

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Andreessen Horowitz wants everyone to stop talking about AI's copyright issues (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | ilamont | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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What ultimately led to the fall of esports startup FaZe Clan (digiday.com)

a year ago | ilamont | digiday.com | newest

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Nike laces up for sneaker patent lawsuit against New Balance (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | ilamont | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Amazon earned $1B from secret pricing algorithm, FTC alleges (ft.com)

a year ago | ilamont | ft.com | frontpage

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Starlink plans to launch texting service in 2024, voice/data in 2025 (theverge.com)

a year ago | ilamont | theverge.com | best

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Fannie Mae keeps a secret condo blacklist. Why? (boston.com)

a year ago | ilamont | boston.com | newest

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The Money Has Stopped Flowing in Commercial Real Estate (wsj.com)

a year ago | ilamont | wsj.com | newest

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Chinese Yuan Edges Out Euro as Second-Most Used Currency in Global Trade (caixinglobal.com)

a year ago | ilamont | caixinglobal.com | best

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Air Force and Space Force raise top age for new recruits to 42 (taskandpurpose.com)

a year ago | ilamont | taskandpurpose.com | frontpage

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Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders (blog.google)

a year ago | ilamont | blog.google | best

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China's Age of Malaise (newyorker.com)

a year ago | ilamont | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Addicted to Scarcity–Book Publishing's Retail Price Problem (brookewarner.substack.com)

a year ago | ilamont | substack.com | newest

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Northeast sheep population could grow from 200k to 300k as solar spreads (lancasterfarming.com)

a year ago | ilamont | lancasterfarming.com | newest

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Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | ilamont | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Sam Adams brewer sues former manager, citing NDA and noncompete (universalhub.com)

a year ago | ilamont | universalhub.com | newest

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Scorsese and Film Budgets (twitter.com/musezack)

a year ago | ilamont | twitter.com | newest

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SPAC seeking to buy Truth Social tells SEC audited financials no longer reliable (sec.gov)

a year ago | ilamont | sec.gov | newest

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Made-For-Advertising sites (MFAs): "lucrative grift shows no signs of abating" (digiday.com)

a year ago | ilamont | digiday.com | newest

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Federal judge gives man 8 year sentence for running unlicensed Bitcoin exchange (apnews.com)

a year ago | ilamont | apnews.com | newest

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Telco chiefs ask EU to make Big Tech pay ‘fair share’ for networks (siliconrepublic.com)

a year ago | ilamont | siliconrepublic.com | newest