Articles by pseudolus
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European Space Agency, China achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites (theregister.com)

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Scientists discover how falling cats almost always make perfect landings (phys.org)

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AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention, new report shows (techcrunch.com)

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Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons (arstechnica.com)

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Teenagers are getting far less sleep now than they did in late 2000s, new study (medicalxpress.com)

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Since 1960, the world has lost languages – and gained thousands (asteriskmag.com)

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California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files (tomshardware.com)

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NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun (sciencenews.org)

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Taara Brings Fiber-Optic Speeds to Open-Air Laser Links (ieee.org)

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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on Résumé (arstechnica.com)

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China's 792M kWh compressed air energy station now operational (interestingengineering.com)

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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence [pdf] (sanity.io)

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China's students used to chase tech, finance jobs. Now, choosing manufacturing (businessinsider.com)

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Chinese industry call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools (tomshardware.com)

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Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? (quantamagazine.org)

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Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than 'speed of thought' (theguardian.com)

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Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2B deal (theregister.com)

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People Really Are More Likely to Commit Crimes After a Cancer Diagnosis (vice.com)

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White-Collar Workers Are Not Okay (macleans.ca)

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The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' (honest-broker.com)

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An EV Prediction That Came 100 Years Too Soon (ieee.org)

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When I lost my university email, my identity as scientist took an unexpected hit (science.org)

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AI cracks Roman-era board game (phys.org)

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The trap Anthropic built for itself (techcrunch.com)

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[flagged] The war against PDFs is heating up (economist.com)

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Claude hits No 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection (cnbc.com)

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Hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated Pentagon's showdown with Anthropic (washingtonpost.com)

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'Truly spectacular' drug for sleeping sickness raises hopes for eradication (science.org)

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Perhaps People Are Cynical About Success in the Creative Arts for a Reason (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Finance techie says cloned Bloomberg's $30k/year Terminal with Perplexity (tomshardware.com)

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The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier (bigthinkmedia.substack.com)

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Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults (jamanetwork.com)

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The Man Who Stole Infinity (quantamagazine.org)

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How to Close a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories (thewalrus.ca)

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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)

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Land Grab for Data Centers Is One More Obstacle to Much-Needed Housing (wsj.com)

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Sliderule Emulator with Equation Solver (amateurradio.com)

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Why laws named after tragedies win public support (phys.org)

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)

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China's brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead (techcrunch.com)

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Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds (quantamagazine.org)

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EVs are making your air cleaner (grist.org)

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TikToker Khaby Lame's $975M deal is riding on a crashing stock (businessinsider.com)

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Trump plans 10% global tariff, says refund fights may take years (reuters.com)

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The battle over Scott Adams' AI afterlife (businessinsider.com)

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Laser-Written Glass Could Store Data for Millennia (ieee.org)

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From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round (arstechnica.com)

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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)

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How the Visa Debate for Foreign Workers Fuels Racism Against South Asians (nytimes.com)

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There Is No Great Millennial Novel (magazinenongrata.com)

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ChatGPT's Translation Skills Parallel Most Human Translators (ieee.org)

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A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later (arstechnica.com)

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Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (bbc.com)

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Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor and 'Godfather' mainstay, dead at 95 (cnbc.com)

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Administration may force data center builders like Meta to 'internalize' costs (cnbc.com)

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Why Google just issued a rare 100-year bond (cnn.com)

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Fake job recruiters hide malware in developer coding challenges (bleepingcomputer.com)

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On Tilt – America's new gambling epidemic (harpers.org)

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Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal's Tanks with Trunks (nytimes.com)

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CEO of Digital Asset Company SafeMoon Sentenced to 100 Months in Prison (justice.gov)

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Dijkstra's algorithm won't be replaced in production routers any time soon (theregister.com)

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Trump revokes basis of US climate regulation, ends vehicle emission standards (reuters.com)

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When AI Tools Train on AI Output: Model Collapse in Daily Workflows (acm.org)

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AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks (theregister.com)

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How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End (ieee.org)

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Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE (techcrunch.com)

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'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better (reason.com)

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Instagram is internally testing a new Snapchat rival app (businessinsider.com)

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Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of semiconductor capacity to US (tomshardware.com)

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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm (theregister.com)

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Study of 400 children in five societies finds culture shapes how kids cooperate (phys.org)

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Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

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The Invisible Labor Force Powering AI (acm.org)

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Researchers find brain mechanism behind 'flashes of intuition' (medicalxpress.com)

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket (nytimes.com)

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Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case (arstechnica.com)

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AI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics (ieee.org)

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America's Cows Are Making Too Much Butterfat (theatlantic.com)

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Open-source AI program can answer science questions better than humans (science.org)

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AI 'slop' is transforming social media – and a backlash is brewing (bbc.com)

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Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World (quantamagazine.org)

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ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters (arstechnica.com)

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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights (theregister.com)

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Pinterest CEO fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs (cnbc.com)

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Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so (phys.org)

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Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery (sciencealert.com)

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Majority of books in Amazon's 'Success' self-help genre likely written by AI (san.com)

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At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve (ieee.org)

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TikTok's popular influencer sold company for $975M to company doing $6M revenue (reddit.com)

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EIA: 99%+ of new US capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind and storage (electrek.co)

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Anticipating aging-related mental decline using saliva samples and AI (medicalxpress.com)

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Disgraced Crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon with Republican Pivot (gizmodo.com)

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AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it's happening (theconversation.com)

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Developers say AI coding tools work–and that's precisely what worries them (arstechnica.com)

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Name it to tame it: Researcher discovers technique to reduce cigarette cravings (medicalxpress.com)

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Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure (theregister.com)

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Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say (reuters.com)

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Having that high-deductible health plan might kill you, literally (arstechnica.com)