Articles by mindracer
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McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash (bbc.co.uk)

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Retracted: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup (sciencedirect.com)

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Datacenters in space aren't going to work (taranis.ie)

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Oura ring deal raises valid concerns about users' health data security (weekinsecurity.com)

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Will AI mean better adverts or 'creepy slop'? (bbc.co.uk)

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Celebrating 9 Years of Bear (bear.app)

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Ring CEO says his cameras can almost 'zero out crime' within the next 12 months (theverge.com)

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Happy birthday to the NES, companion to Nintendo childhoods (theguardian.com)

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Grepping the Linux kernel is peak entertainment (kami.bearblog.dev)

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Offline: A Pacific island was cut off the internet (theguardian.com)

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Woman admits UK Bitcoin fraud charges after ' largest' crypto seizure (theguardian.com)

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Instagram's 'pay or consent' approach to ads is coming to UK (theverge.com)

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Neon pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms (techcrunch.com)

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Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement (theguardian.com)

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Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man (theguardian.com)

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Happiest Countries in the World for 2025, According to a New Report (forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom)

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Contactless card payments could become unlimited (bbc.co.uk)

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Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow (bbc.co.uk)

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Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed (guard.io)

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Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users (theregister.com)

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The rise of couples location sharing (theguardian.com)

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Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report (theguardian.com)

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That Revolutionary May Day in 1976 When California Wines Bested France's Finest (smithsonianmag.com)

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WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user's number (theguardian.com)

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Should We Embrace Boredom? (theguardian.com)

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Pentagon pizza monitor predicted 'busy night' ahead of Israel's attack on Iran (theguardian.com)

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Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything (rollingstone.com)

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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead (404media.co)

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Lowering bad cholesterol may cut risk of dementia by 26%, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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Bees have died this year. "the worst bee loss in recorded history," (cbsnews.com)

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'Don't call it zombie deer disease': infections spread across the US and globe (theguardian.com)

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Ghost releases ActivityPub beta support for their hosted service (ghost.org)

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Xbox's new hardware plans begin with a gaming handheld set for later this year (windowscentral.com)

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Cheap Hackable Smart Ring Gets a Command Line Client (hackaday.com)

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Are noise-cancelling headphones impairing our hearing? (theguardian.com)

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Captain America: Brave New World is a mess-but the '5D' version I saw was a mess (polygon.com)

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Eating from plastic takeout containers can increase heart failure risk (theguardian.com)

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Netflix to raise prices as new subscribers soar (bbc.co.uk)

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Working from home 'not proper work' – ex-Asda boss (bbc.co.uk)

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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future? (theguardian.com)

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'Virtual employees' could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says (theguardian.com)

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Barm vs. cob: Why Britain has so many names for a bread roll (bbc.com)

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'It feels like admin': why are people falling out of love with dating apps? (theguardian.com)

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Photographer Captures Mysterious Blue Light During Avalanche (petapixel.com)

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Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school (arstechnica.com)

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Apple facing near-£3B UK lawsuit over cloud storage 'monopoly' (theguardian.com)

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Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who (bbc.co.uk)

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Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space (theguardian.com)

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As Trump Takes a Victory Lap, the Crypto Faithful Kiss the Ring (wired.com)

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2024 will be hottest year on record, EU scientists say (reuters.com)

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After non-endorsement, 250k subscribers cancel The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)

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Apple will pay security researchers up to a million to hack its private AI cloud (techcrunch.com)

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TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project (bbc.co.uk)

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Netflix raises prices as password boost fades (bbc.co.uk)

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An Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices (theguardian.com)

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Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is 'paedophile hellscape' (theguardian.com)

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MS lost billions of dollars on HoloLens its IVAS military contract is in trouble (businessinsider.com)

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Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming (bbc.co.uk)

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror (theguardian.com)

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US officials say 40 airlines may be using Boeing 737s with suspect rudder parts (theguardian.com)

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OpenAI planning to become for-profit company, say reports (theguardian.com)

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The great divied: are office workers more productive than those at home (theguardian.com)

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'All good here': Titan sub's last messages before implosion (bbc.com)

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Email in the Terminal: Configuring Neomutt (2020) (gideonwolfe.com)

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The deepfake porn crisis engulfing Korean schools (bbc.co.uk)

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Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds (theguardian.com)

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Blockbuster Chinese video game tried to police players (bbc.co.uk)

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Send2ereader – A service for sending ebooks to a Kobo or Kindle ereader (github.com/daniel-j)

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1000-Mile Long Storm Showed the Horror of Life in the Dust Bowl (2017) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Running a Fediverse instance on a seven year old blackberry nuggetphone (randomivysaur.bearblog.dev)

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X to Close Flagship San Francisco Office (nytimes.com)

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Crushing it: why people still can't stop playing Candy Crush (theguardian.com)

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Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland (theguardian.com)

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iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue (techcrunch.com)

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Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers (securityweek.com)

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SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence (github.com/smicallef)

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The baby bust: how Britain's falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy (theguardian.com)

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Iron Giant - One of America's great machines comes back to life (2012) (theatlantic.com)

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Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following Twitch ban allegations (rockpapershotgun.com)

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FAA investigates after Southwest plane drops to 'within 400ft' of Pacific Ocean (theguardian.com)

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Hailstorm causes major damage to nose, cockpit windows of Austrian Airlines plan (go.com)

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DMM Bitcoin warns that hackers stole $300M in Bitcoin (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Tesla shareholder group opposes Musk's $46B pay, slams board "dysfunction" (arstechnica.com)

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Scarlett Johansson 'shocked' by AI chatbot imitation (bbc.co.uk)

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'Scary': public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify (theguardian.com)

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Dell warns of data breach, 49M customers allegedly affected (bleepingcomputer.com)

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The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what's next? (sixcolors.com)

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Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections (theguardian.com)

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Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem (theguardian.com)

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Rapidly rising levels of TFA 'forever chemical' alarm experts (theguardian.com)

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WhatsApp scam: More than 100 arrested in Spain for 'son in trouble' fraud (bbc.co.uk)

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Docker repos found pushing malware, phishing sites (bleepingcomputer.com)

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iPhones stolen instead of scrapped; Apple accused of shredding usable devices (9to5mac.com)

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North Koreans Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say (wired.com)

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The Game Boy at 35: a portal to other magical worlds (theguardian.com)

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Cybercriminals pose as LastPass staff to hack password vaults (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Climate crisis: average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050 (theguardian.com)

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Undersea 'hybrid warfare' threatens security of 1B, NATO commander warns (theguardian.com)

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Rachel Carson (wikipedia.org)

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Spotify to hike UK subscription prices in May (standard.co.uk)