Articles by latexr
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (theatlantic.com)

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CEO Pleads with AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor (futurism.com)

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FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Giant Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate (pcmag.com)

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Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release (osnews.com)

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A narrow majority voted to reinstate Chat Control 1.0 (howtheyvote.eu)

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Chat Control 1.0 vs. 2.0 (fightchatcontrol.eu)

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Democratizing Abandonware (geopjr.dev)

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EPP spreading false claims on Chat Control (digitalcourage.social)

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Italy warns against Chat Control mass surveillance, but votes in favour of it (digitalcourage.social)

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Cepis Warns EU Against "Backdoor" Chat Monitoring in Child Protection Debate (cepis.org)

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EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime (euronews.com)

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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned from Site for 'Canvassing' (404media.co)

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Apple Raises Refurbished Mac and iPad Prices After New Product Hikes (macrumors.com)

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App Store Personalized Recommendations and Keylogging (mjtsai.com)

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The Lorem Ipsum Mystery [video] (youtube.com)

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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)

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Apple's A12 and A13 Chips Facing New Unpatchable Exploit (macrumors.com)

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Safari Technology Preview's self-destructive macOS support policy (lapcatsoftware.com)

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More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you down. (twitter.com/awscloud)

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Apple made a request to the EC to be exempted from interop obligations under DMA (europa.eu)

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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (404media.co)

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Nordic Media Giant Schibsted Switches to "Pay Or (noyb.eu)

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Misguided JavaScript API: Origin Private File System (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Noyb success: ORF.at must correct misleading cookie banner (noyb.eu)

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Trump Sued Himself and Walked Away with a $100M Tax Debt Erased (techdirt.com)

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Mac App Store: What's in a Name? (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Green Bay Packers: "Your AI slop bores us" (twitter.com/i)

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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading (theverge.com)

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The NY Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre (pxlnv.com)

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Darkest Dungeon devs will "never, ever" use GenAI to replace narrator Wayne June (rockpapershotgun.com)

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New US counterterror strategy focuses on cartels but omits right-wing extremism (pbs.org)

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US Counterterrorism Strategy 2026: "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You" [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)

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UCF Commencement Speaker Booed When Calling AI Next Industrial Revolution (youtube.com)

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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise (pudding.cool)

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Chinese court rules firms can't lay off workers on AI grounds (fortune.com)

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Politico leak on open disputes in the ChatControl negotiations (digitalcourage.social)

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Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)

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'Me Fail English? That's Unpossible': Studying Literature with 'The Simpsons' (nytimes.com)

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Warning over threat to birds after rat seen on Mousa (shetnews.co.uk)

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Advocacy groups issue US travel advisory ahead of World Cup (washingtonblade.com)

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James Broadnax Executed After Being Sentenced to Death Based on Rap Lyrics (rollingstone.com)

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No action taken against PimEyes: noyb lawsuit against Hamburg DPA (noyb.eu)

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Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

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Apple's lobbying effort saves it from new App Store rules (appleinsider.com)

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EU Commission seeks feedback on measures to ensure interoperability with Android (europa.eu)

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Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can't (osnews.com)

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AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video] (youtube.com)

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Hackers breach Anthropic's 'too dangerous to release' Mythos AI model (euronews.com)

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Kei Urana on Manga Piracy (xcancel.com)

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Digital Omnibus reality check: 83.5% of access requests not properly answered (noyb.eu)

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Ads on Apple Maps (ads.apple.com)

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Chicken Nuget (haxx.se)

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Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going (yahoo.com)

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Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness (2022) (terrypratchett.com)

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Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality (worseonpurpose.com)

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Statement by von der Leyen on the digital age verification app (europa.eu)

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Open Letter: EU lawmakers must safeguard the AI Act (edri.org)

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril (wired.com)

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Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft begins removing Copilot from Notepad on Windows 11 but the AI persists (windowscentral.com)

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (nature.com)

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Prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking (aresluna.org)

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Not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans (euobserver.com)

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The Devil's Dictionary of Vibe Coding (gist.github.com)

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The Hacker News Tarpit (joanwestenberg.com)

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Notes from Setting Up New Apple Devices (mjtsai.com)

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The browser extension API setUninstallURL violates user privacy (lapcatsoftware.com)

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[flagged] NY Times publishes headline claiming the "A" in "NATO" stands for "American" (xcancel.com)

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Apple releases iOS 18 security updates for iOS 26 holdouts (sixcolors.com)

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Cindy Cohn of the EFF Interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show [video] (youtube.com)

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Tom Scott is back on YouTube [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now (joanwestenberg.com)

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Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under national security law (bbc.com)

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EPP wants to overturn and force new vote for indiscriminate Chat Control (digitalcourage.social)

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App Store developers: suggest your small ideas for improvement (lapcatsoftware.com)

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EU: 'Digital Omnibus' reflects key lobbying messaging from large tech companies (business-humanrights.org)

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End of "Chat Control": Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection (patrick-breyer.de)

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AI can 'same-ify' human expression – can some brains resist its pull? (nature.com)

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Conseil d'État upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine (noyb.eu)

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"I've spent so many hours wasted on plugins" (musicradar.com)

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"This Is Not the Computer for You" Debunked (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Safari web browser bugs: A year in review (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Upcoming Vote on Chat Control: Renew Deal Is Worse Than Rejected Draft Report (patrick-breyer.de)

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Foreign-funded lobby groups outside EU are pushing ChatControl with propaganda (digitalcourage.social)

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iOS 26.4's new setting lets you disable another Liquid Glass effect (9to5mac.com)

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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Art Historical Objects (thisiscolossal.com)

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I've never parented a 6-year-old. But I've dealt with macOS system updates (ihnatko.com)

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GDPR Omnibus: EU "simplification" far removed from real business needs (noyb.eu)

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Tahoe pull-down buttons are misaligned (aresluna.org)

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The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art (engadget.com)

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Software Can Be Finished (rosswintle.uk)

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Why Apple's move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power (anildash.com)

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A.I. Isn't People (todayintabs.com)

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Happy Map (pudding.cool)

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Accidental UI Calming (aresluna.org)

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I don't care what tools you use. But – and this is a big but (mad-scientist.club)

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On Software Quality (pxlnv.com)

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Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs (theregister.com)

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Mastodon Engagement Viewer (leeholmes.com)

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[flagged] US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables (futurism.com)