Articles by nickthegreek
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Rackintosh Plus Is the Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For (hackaday.com)

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The Underground Trade of 'Flipper Zero' Tech to Break into Cars (404media.co)

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Vibe-uppercase: Transform strings to uppercase with AI-powered precision (npmjs.com)

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China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market (arstechnica.com)

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Blu-ray Won, but at What Cost? (hackaday.com)

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Moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct (simonwillison.net)

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Dupe: Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Phone Number Linked to a Google (404media.co)

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23andMe seeks new bids after $305M offer from its co-founder (yahoo.com)

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IRS Direct File on GitHub (chrisgiven.com)

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Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates' go-to streaming device (arstechnica.com)

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A UV Meter for the Flipper Zero (hackaday.com)

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Startup Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf (wired.com)

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Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training (theverge.com)

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DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover (techcrunch.com)

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Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps (arstechnica.com)

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Doge Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants (wired.com)

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How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests (wired.com)

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Nearly $1B of DOGE 'savings' vanish overnight (independent.co.uk)

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FCC chief targets Comcast-owned outlets over 'news distortion' (thehill.com)

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Alleged Anna's Archive Operator Dropped from U.S. 'Scraping' Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

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Hands-on: Handwriting recognition app brings sticky notes into the 21st century (arstechnica.com)

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Trump delays TikTok ban again (theverge.com)

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PSA pauses card grading submissions from outside the US (theverge.com)

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Musk will stay on as an adviser post-DOGE, Vance says (axios.com)

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Can I interest you in an app that tracks your driving behavior? (theverge.com)

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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (theverge.com)

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Dupe: Elon Musk's XAI Acquires X, Because of Course (wired.com)

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Keep Tabs on Your Vehicle's Needs with LubeLogger (hackaday.com)

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Discord is planning an IPO this year, and big changes could be on the horizon (arstechnica.com)

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White House to DOGE employees: Preserve your Signal records (politico.com)

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How secure is Signal? Cyber experts weigh in on Trump admins use of the app (politico.com)

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Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' chatbot often disagrees with him (washingtonpost.com)

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OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI models (techcrunch.com)

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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the Fediverse (techcrunch.com)

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Elon Musk's X Secures $1B in New Funding, Valued at $32B (wallstreetpit.com)

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Plex Pass is going up in price – and now you'll need it for remote playback (theverge.com)

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Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data (wired.com)

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Key House Republican Warns Trump on TikTok (politico.com)

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The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year (theverge.com)

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[flagged] 'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S. (404media.co)

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Mark Rober's Tesla video was more than a little weird (theverge.com)

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Microsoft accidentally wipes out Copilot in latest Windows 11 update (theverge.com)

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Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo (resetera.com)

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[flagged] These Are the 10 Doge Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration (wired.com)

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[flagged] Musk Retweet: Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People, Public Sector Workers Did (meidasnews.com)

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Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism (gizmodo.com)

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White House prepares high-profile purchase of Tesla auto (politico.com)

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M3 Ultra Mac Studio Review (with r1 q4 local performance) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Tesla protests are getting bigger – and rowdier (theverge.com)

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TikTok hasn't negotiated with prospective buyers as deadline looms (axios.com)

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Nintendo Easily Kills 4,238 Switch Emu Repos on Yuzu Lawsuit Anniversary (torrentfreak.com)

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Nintendo says legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry" (eurogamer.net)

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Tesla for Sale: Buyer's Remorse Sinks in for Elon Musk's E.V.-Owning Critics (nytimes.com)

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BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform (theverge.com)

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Bezos changes at Wapo lead to mass subscription cancellations – again (npr.org)

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Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion (deadline.com)

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Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump "spread misinformation" (theverge.com)

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US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink services over minerals, say sources (reuters.com)

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US Gov Removing EV Chargers from Fed Buildings as They Are Not Mission Critical (gizmodo.com)

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Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him (gizmodo.com)

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Meta Says It Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books (torrentfreak.com)

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China Looks to Use Tesla FSD Rollout as Leverage in Trade Negotiations (gizmodo.com)

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Doge Targets FOIA Requests at Agency Under Its Purview (bloomberg.com)

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Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Map Decision (ghacks.net)

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OpenAI removes certain content warnings from ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)

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Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App (bloomberg.com)

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Trump reveals his plan to revive TikTok (politico.com)

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An Animated Walkthrough of How Large Language Models Work (hackaday.com)

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Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life (arstechnica.com)

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Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable (theverge.com)

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Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting Election from All Directions (wired.com)

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Nvidia's design flaw with Blackwell AI chips now fixed, CEO says (reuters.com)

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Adobe made its painting app free to take on Procreate (theverge.com)

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[dupe] The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership (theverge.com)

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Garmin Fenix 8 review: only kind of smart (theverge.com)

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Dookie Demastered (dookiedemastered.com)

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WordPress co-founder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him (theverge.com)

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NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power (nasa.gov)

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Pink Floyd Sell Catalog and Name/Likeness Rights for $400M (stereogum.com)

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Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer (ghacks.net)

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Meta Ray-Ban's updated with real-time AI video, reminders, QR scanning (techcrunch.com)

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Llama 3.2 Release (github.com/meta-llama)

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Molmo: The Most Capable Open Source AI Model yet Could Supercharge AI Agents (wired.com)

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OpenAI's new models 'instrumentally faked alignment' (transformernews.ai)

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Palmer Luckey Uses Anime-Inspired Trailer to Announce New Cruise Missile (gizmodo.com)

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Releasing Re-LAION 5B: Transparent Iteration with Additional Safety Fixes (laion.ai)

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Dinosaur Footprints on Either Side of the Atlantic Are Matching Sets (gizmodo.com)

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Neuralink says it may have fixed its brain implant problem (engadget.com)

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Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down for DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations (torrentfreak.com)

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Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles (torrentfreak.com)

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Online sports betting hurts consumers (slowboring.com)

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How to stop X from using your posts to train its AI (theverge.com)

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Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (salon.com)

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Identity Verification Used by X, TikTok, and Uber Exposed Driver's Licenses (gizmodo.com)

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Hackers Claim They Have Access to a Hoard of Rabbit R1 User Data (gizmodo.com)

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Biden Admin Wins Supreme Court Case on Requests for Social to Delete Posts (gizmodo.com)

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Cash-strapped Stability AI raises $80M with new CEO and board (reuters.com)

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Tesla Cybertruck recalled again, this time over faulty wiper and trim (theverge.com)

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Leading chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda (axios.com)

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Sonos draws more customer anger – this time for its privacy policy (theverge.com)