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Scientists Found a 520M-Year-Old Miracle: A Fossil with Brains and Guts Intact (popularmechanics.com)

18 hours ago | isaacfrond | popularmechanics.com | newest

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Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns (2020) [pdf] (martindemaine.org)

a day ago | isaacfrond | martindemaine.org | frontpage

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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark (apnews.com)

20 hours ago | isaacfrond | apnews.com | frontpage

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Reading for Fun Is Plummeting in the US, and Experts Are Concerned (sciencealert.com)

5 days ago | isaacfrond | sciencealert.com | newest

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4chan/Kiwi Farms Lawsuit (documentcloud.org)

5 days ago | isaacfrond | documentcloud.org | frontpage

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Website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o (venturebeat.com)

a week ago | isaacfrond | venturebeat.com | newest

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Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work (nature.com)

a week ago | isaacfrond | nature.com | newest

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Scientists find tiny new moon around Uranus with the James Webb Space Telescope (space.com)

a week ago | isaacfrond | space.com | newest

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs (techcrunch.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco (theverge.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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ChatGPT chief Nick Turley doesn't want you too attached to AI (theverge.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature (theverge.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Linus Torvalds blasts kernel dev for making the world worse with garbage patches (zdnet.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | zdnet.com | frontpage

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Scientists discover brain layers that get stronger with age (sciencedaily.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | sciencedaily.com | newest

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ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated (techcrunch.com)

2 weeks ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law (politico.com)

3 weeks ago | isaacfrond | politico.com | newest

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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds (nytimes.com)

4 weeks ago | isaacfrond | nytimes.com | newest

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code (venturebeat.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | venturebeat.com | frontpage

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The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam's abrupt adult game ban (theverge.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Why do some AI chatbot subscriptions cost more than $200? (wired.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | wired.com | frontpage

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'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle (torrentfreak.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Facebook Rigorously Removes News Articles Mentioning Pirate Service "MagisTV" (torrentfreak.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | frontpage

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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse (theverge.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training (torrentfreak.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions (theguardian.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | newest

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Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (theverge.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Conspiracy theorists don't realize they're on the fringe (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Songscription launches an AI-powered 'Shazam for sheet music' (techcrunch.com)

2 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in Akamai CloudTest (xbow.com)

2 months ago | isaacfrond | xbow.com | newest

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Left-Handed Creativity Myth Debunked (neurosciencenews.com)

2 months ago | isaacfrond | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity (quantamagazine.org)

2 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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NASA+ Is Coming to Netflix This Summer (nasa.gov)

2 months ago | isaacfrond | nasa.gov | newest

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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Microsoft planning 'major' Xbox layoffs next week (theverge.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Researchers discover how caffeine could slow cellular aging (phys.org)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | phys.org | newest

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RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | gizmodo.com | newest

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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers' malicious text anyway (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Trump to extend TikTok deadline for third time, another 90 days (cnbc.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | cnbc.com | newest

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Google-DeepMind/formal-conjectures repository: formalized conjectures (github.com/google-deepmind)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | github.com | newest

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Brain Cells Tune to Multiple Rhythms Like a Neural Radio (neurosciencenews.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories (wired.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | wired.com | newest

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Scientists detect light passing through entire human head for brain imaging (medicalxpress.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | medicalxpress.com | frontpage

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ChatGPT Tells Users to Alert the Media That It Is Trying to 'Break' People (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | gizmodo.com | newest

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An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories (wired.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | wired.com | newest

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Canva now requires use of AI during developer job interviews (theregister.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | theregister.com | newest

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New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers with One Qubit (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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The Core of Fermat's Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | newest

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen (space.com)

3 months ago | isaacfrond | space.com | frontpage

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LaLiga: Precise Cloudflare blocks cut piracy 40-60% with no collateral damage (torrentfreak.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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German court convicts 4 ex-Volkswagen managers of fraud in emissions scandal (apnews.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | apnews.com | newest

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YouTube Processed 2.2B Content ID Copyright Claims in 2024 (torrentfreak.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals genetic history (nieuws.kuleuven.be)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | kuleuven.be | frontpage

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Trump admin bars Harvard from enrolling international students (npr.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | npr.org | newest

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Therapeutic video game shows promise for post-Covid cognitive recovery (psypost.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | psypost.org | frontpage

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X Reveals Grok System Prompt: Told to Push 'White Genocide' in All Replies (ai-futures.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | ai-futures.org | newest

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Spain blocks more than 65,000 Airbnb holiday rental listings (reuters.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | reuters.com | newest

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Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store after a 5-year hiatus (twitter.com/timsweeneyepic)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | twitter.com | newest

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AI is more persuasive than people in online debates (nature.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | nature.com | frontpage

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Labor dispute erupts over AI-voiced Darth Vader in Fortnite (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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Europe's effort to block kids from social media gathers pace (politico.eu)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | politico.eu | newest

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Wrong Logo, No Piracy Proof: French Court Rejects DNS Piracy Blocking Bids (torrentfreak.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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AI-Powered News Piracy Site Blocked by ISPs After Court Sides with Publishers (torrentfreak.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Protein Differences Between Sexes Aren't All Genetic (neurosciencenews.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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What Meta's dispute in Nigeria means for its users (restofworld.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | restofworld.org | newest

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The Fastest Way yet to Color Graphs (quantamagazine.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | newest

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The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories (quantamagazine.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (artnet.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | artnet.com | best

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Official Google response to Apple's May 7 press reports about Search traffic (blog.google)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | blog.google | newest

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Real ID now required in US after nearly 20 years of delays (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Don't need much sleep? Mutation linked to thriving with little rest (nature.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | nature.com | newest

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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal How One Family Tried to Save Themselves (archaeology.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | newest

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Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS (npr.org)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | npr.org | frontpage

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NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky (nasa.gov)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | nasa.gov | frontpage

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Mark Zuckerberg says ads will soon be handled by AI (theverge.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Freepik releases an 'open' AI image generator trained on licensed data (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Spotify has an app ready to test Apple's new rules (theverge.com)

4 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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A swan won't prevent a hurricane; Google AI hallucinates meaning and sources (simonwillison.net)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | simonwillison.net | newest

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AI helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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MPA and RIAA Want to Be Heard in Crucial DMCA Subpoena Appeal (torrentfreak.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Hidden Algorithms of the Mammalian Brain (singularityhub.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | singularityhub.com | newest

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Scientists create largest functional map of a mouse brain visual cortex (indiatimes.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | indiatimes.com | newest

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AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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U.S.'s AI lead over China rapidly shrinking: Stanford report (axios.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | axios.com | frontpage

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A Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory (quantamagazine.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Did an LLM help write Trump's trade plan? (garymarcus.substack.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | substack.com | frontpage

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Training AI Using 'Pirated' Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue (torrentfreak.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | frontpage

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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain parts as natural languages (pnas.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | pnas.org | newest

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Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial (archaeology.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | frontpage

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With new Gen-4 model, Runway has achieved consistency in AI videos (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | arstechnica.com | newest

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The 50 Best Things Microsoft has ever made (theverge.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | theverge.com | newest

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Researchers Identify First Wine Residues from Troy (archaeology.org)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | archaeology.org | newest

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Earth AI's algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | techcrunch.com | newest

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[flagged] 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US (bbc.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | bbc.com | best

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Anthropic Will Begin Sweeping Offices For Hidden Devices (cnbc.com)

5 months ago | isaacfrond | cnbc.com | newest

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The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain (quantamagazine.org)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Anthropic Scores First Victory in AI-Copyright Clash Against Music Companies (torrentfreak.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | torrentfreak.com | newest

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Software maker SAP unseats Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company (msn.com)

6 months ago | isaacfrond | msn.com | newest