Articles by jnord
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Intel CEO says company will make GPUs, popularized by Nvidia (reuters.com)

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Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study (theguardian.com)

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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a satellite constellation to power it (arstechnica.com)

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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked (arstechnica.com)

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Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey (go.dev)

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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)

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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)

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Scientists found a way to cool quantum computers using noise (sciencedaily.com)

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The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K (arstechnica.com)

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Wikipedia Faces a Generational Disconnect Crisis (ieee.org)

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Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50B in OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

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Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves (quantamagazine.org)

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Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's – this protein helps explain why (nature.com)

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There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address (arstechnica.com)

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? (quantamagazine.org)

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Turns out I was wrong about TDD (martinalderson.com)

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Startup will send 1k people's ashes to space, affordably, in 2027 (techcrunch.com)

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The great graduate job drought (ft.com)

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How Animals Build a Sense of Direction (quantamagazine.org)

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AI company Eightfold sued for helping companies score job seekers (reuters.com)

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Half of CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows (theguardian.com)

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cURL removes bug bounties (etn.se)

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The secret consultant: Your first steps to independence (bitfieldconsulting.com)

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The Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (sciencealert.com)

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Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think (martinalderson.com)

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The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture (wsj.com)

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Asus Confirms It Won't Launch Phones in 2026, May Leave Android Altogether (pcmag.com)

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Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf] (wa.gov)

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Trump wants tech companies to foot bill for new power plants due to AI (cnbc.com)

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NCSA: The unsung hero of Internet history (homeip.net)

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Just Get a Better Job (idiallo.com)

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US gov't: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk (arstechnica.com)

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String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy (quantamagazine.org)

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Why do so many students have ADHD? (unherd.com)

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Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical" (arstechnica.com)

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America's biggest power grid operator has an AI problem – too many data centers (msn.com)

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Great Green Wall 2.0: China is geoengineering deserts with blue-green algae (scmp.com)

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The Coming AI Compute Crunch (martinalderson.com)

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Scientists tried to break Einstein's speed of light rule (sciencedaily.com)

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America is falling out of love with pizza (msn.com)

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Italy Fines Cloudflare for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS (torrentfreak.com)

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Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS (gizmodo.com)

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Tech companies increasingly defeated by communities opposed to data centers (apnews.com)

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People of dubious character are more likely to enter public service in China (economist.com)

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How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down (idiallo.com)

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The Butterfly That Swallowed the Dragon (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Some of your cells are not genetically yours (nature.com)

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The Graphics Chip Chronicles (electronicdesign.com)

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The dumbest things that happened in tech this year (techcrunch.com)

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China accuses Netherlands of making 'mistakes' over chipmaker Nexperia (cnbc.com)

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Poor sleep health is associated with older brain age (thelancet.com)

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Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in (martinalderson.com)

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RF over Fiber: A New Era in Data Center Efficiency (ieee.org)

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DHS Changes Process for Awarding H-1B Work Visas to Protect American Workers (uscis.gov)

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Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Dumped to a Tarball (discuss.systems)

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AI coding is now everywhere but not everyone is convinced (technologyreview.com)

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2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war (theverge.com)

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James Webb Space Telescope confirms first 'runaway' supermassive black hole (space.com)

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Trump commits to Moon landing by 2028, followed by a lunar outpost 2 years later (arstechnica.com)

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Paying for the rides I took 8 years ago (idiallo.com)

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Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy (theverge.com)

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Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content (krebsonsecurity.com)

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WikiFlix shows us what Netflix would have been like 100 years ago (toolforge.org)

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PayPal Applies to Become a Bank as US Loosens Regulatory Reins (bloomberg.com)

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LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation (tomshardware.com)

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Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages (techcrunch.com)

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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS (martinalderson.com)

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Amazon copyright protection changed for Kindle Direct's self-published e-books (techcrunch.com)

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Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri (bbc.com)

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Claude Code is coming to Slack (techcrunch.com)

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'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis (bbc.com)

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Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)

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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool (arstechnica.com)

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A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test (wired.com)

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Admins and defenders gird themselves against max severity server vulnerability (arstechnica.com)

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Russian astronaut kicked out of the U.S. for stealing proprietary SpaceX designs (behindtheblack.com)

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37signals open-sources Kanban tracking tool Fizzy (github.com/basecamp)

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The Structural Limits of Global Central Banking (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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The Algorithm That Exposed the AI Industry's Circular Financing Scheme (substack.com)

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The Sleep-Age Paradox (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (nbcnews.com)

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Five Years of Structural Deficit Broke the Silver Market (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished (msn.com)

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Nexperia crisis: Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit (cnbc.com)

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Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 (cybertec-postgresql.com)

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Russia's Hydrocarbon Revenue Crisis and the Mathematics of State Exhaustion (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (arstechnica.com)

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[flagged] DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts (arstechnica.com)

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MIT Student Awed Top Economists with His AI Study Then It All Fell Apart (msn.com)

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Long lost Moon-forming planet formed in the inner Solar System (euronews.com)

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Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Reveals the Fatal Architecture of AI Economics (shanakaanslemperera.substack.com)

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How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery (ieee.org)

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What you should know from a trove of ChatGPT conversations we analyzed (yahoo.com)

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Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China (arstechnica.com)

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The Rise of "Mindless" TV: Quantifying a New Way of (Kinda) Watching Television (statsignificant.com)

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Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved (phys.org)

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The growing problem with China's unreliable numbers (ft.com)

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New Axial Flux Motor Power Density is Three Times Tesla’s Best (ieee.org)

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The surprising benefits of giving up (nautil.us)

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Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] (nber.org)