Articles by pseudolus
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How iPhones Became Birth Control (spectator.com)

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DOE wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI (acm.org)

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Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case (theguardian.com)

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Knowledge Collapse (bostonreview.net)

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Dealership revoked offer to buy back customer's BMW, blaming wayward AI chatbot (cbc.ca)

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An Early Step on the Long Road to Photosynthesis (quantamagazine.org)

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Experts struggle to understand new list of political jobs at science agencies (science.org)

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The End of the Coder? (acm.org)

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How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science (ieee.org)

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Ottawa's bill regulating social media, AI expected to include age restrictions (cbc.ca)

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Leading supplier of research monkeys declares bankruptcy (science.org)

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[flagged] Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump (techcrunch.com)

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Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee is unlawful, US judge rules (reuters.com)

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The lost social infrastructure of work (science.org)

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Wonderwerk Cave bones reveal possible fire use by human ancestor 1.79M years ago (phys.org)

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NY lawmakers vote to ban 'surveillance pricing,' but digital price tags survive (gothamist.com)

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Are Memories Transferable – Or Edible? (quantamagazine.org)

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The brain can unlock true multitasking after intensive training (medicalxpress.com)

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Why Aren't We Measuring How AI Affects Humans? (ieee.org)

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Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension (nih.gov)

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Jury finds for Star Trek legend's family in wrongful death lawsuit (redshirtsalwaysdie.com)

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"Steve Jobs in Exile" is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT (arstechnica.com)

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Short videos may hinder learning by fragmenting attention and memory, study (phys.org)

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Jared Diamond's Collapse, Chaco Canyon, Why Agency Matters to Understand History (greysidewalk.substack.com)

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'Bots have now passed human traffic online,' Cloudflare boss laments (tomshardware.com)

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Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity (quantamagazine.org)

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Do you really want that computer-science degree? (economist.com)

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Tim Hayward: I built the Jaguar E-Type of computer keyboards (ft.com)

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Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI (arstechnica.com)

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Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground (science.org)

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Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds (phys.org)

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Crypto Security Pioneer: 'I Now Consider All of DeFi Unsafe' (gizmodo.com)

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Superhuman Fantasies – Nietzsche versus the techno-optimists (thepointmag.com)

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Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it (theregister.com)

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Student astronomer discovers 'Rosetta Stone' for mysterious cosmic signals (phys.org)

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An Elephant Who Demonstrated That Her Species Might Be Self-Aware, Dies at 55 (smithsonianmag.com)

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Stephen Hawking's father worried his son 'does not study much', diaries reveal (theguardian.com)

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Genomic test could spare millions of breast cancer patients chemotherapy (theguardian.com)

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Study finds AI chose nuclear signalling in 95% of simulated crises (kcl.ac.uk)

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AI can chart a course to disaster faster than humans can notice (thebulletin.org)

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Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good (ieee.org)

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New Intel Bureau Eyes AI Data Center Critics (kenklippenstein.com)

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Omissive Bias: Benchmarking LLM Answers to Ethical Decision-Making (arxiv.org)

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AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims (theregister.com)

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Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit (phys.org)

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The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I (newyorker.com)

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (ieee.org)

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Love Language – The undying dream of Esperanto (harpers.org)

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Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics from the Ground Up (quantamagazine.org)

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Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term (cnbc.com)

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Friend or foul? Exploring the ancient bond between pigeons and people (phys.org)

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Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)

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Necropolis in Spain is forcing rethink of who built Europe's first great tombs (sciencex.com)

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A 4K-year-old city became more equal as it became more successful (phys.org)

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The missing men of the American marriage market (npr.org)

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A prize-winning story published in Granta was (likely) written by AI (lithub.com)

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On reading Iain M. Banks (matiasseidler.substack.com)

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The Silver Swan (thebowesmuseum.org.uk)

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Casimir raised $12M for chip that allegedly extracts net energy from the vacuum (reddit.com)

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Why reality is more than the sum of its particles (aeon.co)

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WHO declares major outbreak of Ebola virus species an international emergency (science.org)

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Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale (ieee.org)

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American Jobs with AI Exposure Are Starting to Disappear, Data Show (gizmodo.com)

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Unmanned lab opens with robots at work as researchers push AI, automation (japantoday.com)

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On Road to Canterbury-Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer's Classic (lithub.com)

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'A' grades are suddenly everywhere since the arrival of ChatGPT (msn.com)

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Chatbots' Downward Spiral (acm.org)

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eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover bid (cnbc.com)

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Language Models Can Autonomously Hack and Self-Replicate [pdf] (palisaderesearch.org)

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Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted backdoor into Daemon Tools in attack (techcrunch.com)

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AI Is Starting to Build Better AI – Recursive self-improvement is emerging (ieee.org)

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The emerging cancer treatment that's exciting scientists (theguardian.com)

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24/7 AI-powered radio station. Generates music, writes hosted breaks,speaks them (github.com/keltokhy)

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Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism (2023) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Rare Look Inside California's Last Nuclear Power Plant (kqed.org)

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Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement (ohio.news)

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AI Is Starting to Build Better AI (ieee.org)

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A mega-deal will transform the lift (elevator) industry (economist.com)

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OpenAI didn't respect Canadian privacy law when it trained ChatGPT:investigation (cbc.ca)

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Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)

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The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)

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Almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins, new research finds (phys.org)

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AI tools could enable bioterrorism (economist.com)

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FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe (nytimes.com)

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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? (newyorker.com)

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Plaster-making technique attributed to Romans appears 8K years earlier in Motza (phys.org)

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AI Companies Learn the Word No (reason.com)

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Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)

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Why the Ideal Magnet Remains Out of Reach (ieee.org)

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Family data reveal two genetic paths to childhood depression and anxiety (medicalxpress.com)

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The wild life and brutal death of a crypto hustler (thelogic.co)

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Trump blocks wind farms on national security grounds (telegraph.co.uk)

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The Fog, a New Encrypted Cloud Platform, Rolls In (ieee.org)

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Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study (sciencex.com)

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Why eldest siblings are brainier (economist.com)

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Leading journal finds AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work (phys.org)

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The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind (thewalrus.ca)

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What Software Engineers Can Learn from the Aviation Industry (mwalterskirchen.dev)

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The Road to a Billion-Token Context (acm.org)

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AI actors and writers will be ineligible for Oscars (reuters.com)