Articles by latexr
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Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox (theverge.com)

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Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam (theverge.com)

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Chat Control Twist: Commissioner Sides with Parliament over Governments (patrick-breyer.de)

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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)

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Livestream: MEPs Question Commissioner Brunner on Chat Control (europa.eu)

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Bad Dye Job (daringfireball.net)

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Elon Musk is on a racist posting spree again (theverge.com)

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Apple security bounties slashed as Mac malware grows (9to5mac.com)

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UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B (theregister.com)

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New EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (pluralistic.net)

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OpenAI just made another circular deal (theverge.com)

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When Playdate Stopped Being Fun (gingerbeardman.com)

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Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized (patrick-breyer.de)

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Apple Event – November 20 (Spoof) [video] (youtube.com)

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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs (arstechnica.com)

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Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed with AI? (pcmag.com)

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EU governments are removing Chat Control from today's COREPER agenda (digitalcourage.social)

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Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit (theguardian.com)

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Chat Control Still Poses High Risks Despite Removal of Mandatory Scanning (patrick-breyer.de)

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Urban Myth of 5-7-5 (graceguts.com)

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Apple Peelings (warnercrocker.com)

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She was hanging from the Bataclan's window. He caught her hand (lemonde.fr)

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Chat Control is close to being adopted, and its worse (mastodon.social)

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Chat Control one step closer to being adopted (hachyderm.io)

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Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents (house.gov)

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EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR (noyb.eu)

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Hilarious Finalists from the 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (popsci.com)

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George R.R. Martin Wins First Battle in Game of Thrones Copyright Lawsuit (screenrant.com)

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The curl project on GitHub has reached zero open issues (github.com/curl)

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Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software (builtinboston.com)

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The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy [video] (youtube.com)

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Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI (noyb.eu)

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Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology (mcsweeneys.net)

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Cirrus Labs Enforces Its Fair Source License (tart.run)

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Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids' data, Austrian regulator finds (therecord.media)

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Noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children (noyb.eu)

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OpenAI wasn't expecting Sora's copyright drama (theverge.com)

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The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption (joanwestenberg.com)

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A Responsibility to the Industry (lmnt.me)

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[flagged] Disney+ Subscribers Face a Wave of Cancellations (techbook-magazine.com)

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When Cats Came to My California Prison (prisonjournalismproject.org)

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Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag (scalzi.com)

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Root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover (theregister.com)

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The UK's war on Apple encryption is back (theverge.com)

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First mushroom-powered toilet could replace stinky porta-potties (popsci.com)

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YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement (theverge.com)

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Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped (eff.org)

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Affinity (owned by Canva) is closing their public forums and using Discord (serif.com)

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Whitebridge.ai: your personal data is for sale to you and anyone (noyb.eu)

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Losing Your Voice to AI – An End-of-Semester Ramble [video] (youtube.com)

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GitHub-hosted copycat Mac app malware scam proliferates (lapcatsoftware.com)

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A Critique of Dictionary Websites and Apps (bit-101.com)

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Noyb WIN: Austrian authority forbids unlawful credit scoring by KSV1870 (noyb.eu)

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Apple Stops Signing iOS 18.6.2, iOS 26 Downgrades Now Impossible (macrumors.com)

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Pokémon Cards CSS Holographic Effect (simey.me)

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macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls (underpassapp.com)

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Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies (futurism.com)

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The psychology of fixing bugs, Part 2: Google (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Budget Cuts Paralyse Austrian DPA: NGO Complaint to the EU Commission (noyb.eu)

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Tariffs Kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest's Best Bridge to Apple Home (theverge.com)

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Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee (9to5mac.com)

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When You're No Longer One of Us (gibber.blog)

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How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs (anildash.com)

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Tim Cook, how low will you go? (ljpuk.net)

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The CoPilot Productivity Paradox (marginalia.nu)

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996 Working Hour System (wikipedia.org)

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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features (theregister.com)

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Tell HN: Top 3 GitHub Community Discussions of the Past Year Are Critical of AI

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The Top 3 GitHub Community Discussions of the Past Year Are All Critical of AI (github.com/orgs)

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Backdoors Could Become a Routine Problem for Open Source Projects Because of AI (techdirt.com)

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Snark, Ironic Detachment, Authenticity (marginalia.nu)

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Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we're pivoting to AI (davidgerard.co.uk)

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The Psychology of Fixing Bugs (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Imgur Users Rebel Against MediaLab (digitalinformationworld.com)

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Attorneys General to AI Companies: You Will 'Answer for It' If You Harm Children (404media.co)

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Apple wants a sysdiagnose for a feature request (lapcatsoftware.com)

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EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives (transportenvironment.org)

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Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI over Siri Partnership, App Store Charts (9to5mac.com)

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Imgur users are protesting en masse against the website's owner, MediaLab AI (imgur.com)

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Teen faces trial for allegedly selling boyfriend to fraud compound (chinadaily.com.cn)

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The Pixel 10 Pro puts generative AI right inside the camera (theverge.com)

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What's the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it? (reddit.com)

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AI slop attacks on the curl project [video] (youtube.com)

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US Government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says (arstechnica.com)

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Curl: A Future Off HackerOne? (curl.se)

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DOGE's "Efficiency" Theater: Wasted $21.7B While Destroying Life-Saving Programs (techdirt.com)

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Noyb survey: only 7% of users want Meta to use their personal data for AI (noyb.eu)

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Tim Cook vs. Steve Jobs (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Some third-party Mac apps I use (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Steve Icon (1983) (folklore.org)

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EU Commission presents guidelines and age verification app prototype (europa.eu)

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SVG can do that? – talk by Sarah Drasner [video] (youtube.com)

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It's the Moustache That Matters (1980) (folklore.org)

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Swift Android Workgroup (swift.org)

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Apple Using Bug Reports with Sensitive Information to Train AI Models (hachyderm.io)

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Apple Wallet showing ads in notifications (mastodon.social)

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Disney, Universal Launch AI Legal Battle, Sue Midjourney over Copyright Claims (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Verizon bought $10M in ads on X to avoid lawsuit from Musk, report says (arstechnica.com)

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macOS Tahoe 26 Beta Release Notes (developer.apple.com)

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Xcode 26 Beta Release Notes (developer.apple.com)