Articles by pseudolus
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Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege (reuters.com)

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The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into (mitpress.mit.edu)

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How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg (france24.com)

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The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age (mitpress.mit.edu)

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What's Lost When Stars Disappear from View (ieee.org)

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ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Tsunami Prediction Simulation (acm.org)

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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (nytimes.com)

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The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California (lithub.com)

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Deep Fission Plans to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground (ieee.org)

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Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS (theguardian.com)

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CDC Changes Webpage to Say Vaccines May Cause Autism, Revising Prior Language (msn.com)

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Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts (theguardian.com)

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U.S. employee well-being hit new low in 2024, survey reveals (phys.org)

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Study: Kids' drip paintings more like Pollock's than those of adults (arstechnica.com)

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Why a foreign language sounds like a blur to non-native ears (medicalxpress.com)

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The New AI Consciousness Paper (astralcodexten.com)

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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe (quantamagazine.org)

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VoIP Brings Back Old-Fashioned Pay Phones to Rural Vermont (ieee.org)

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Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking (economist.com)

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Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were 'unable to operate autonomously' (techcrunch.com)

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One of America's most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes (washingtonpost.com)

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Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay (theguardian.com)

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New magnetic component discovered in Faraday effect after nearly two centuries (phys.org)

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Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fuel (world-nuclear-news.org)

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Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds (theregister.com)

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Colleges Are Surrendering to AI (persuasion.community)

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DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor (techcrunch.com)

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Old 'Ghost' Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback (quantamagazine.org)

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The Social Cost of Being a Morning Person (theatlantic.com)

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Zillow disrupted the real estate industry (cnbc.com)

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NetChoice sues Virginia to block its one-hour social media limit for kids (theverge.com)

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'Buy now, pay later' is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone (techcrunch.com)

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Global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year (freedomhouse.org)

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AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire from US Lawmaker (pcmag.com)

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High blood pressure rates in children nearly doubled in 20 years, global review (theguardian.com)

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Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians (science.org)

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Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress Nginx isn't worth saving (theregister.com)

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Solar and wind are covering all new power demand in 2025 (electrek.co)

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Speaking more than one language may help the brain stay younger (phys.org)

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AI's Impact on Mental Health (acm.org)

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Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down (quantamagazine.org)

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That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I (newyorker.com)

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US stablecoin power-play could epically backfire (reuters.com)

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The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board (arstechnica.com)

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Edible Robots: Safe and Biodegradable Tech (ieee.org)

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Why home insurance is unaffordable, even in places without wildfires, hurricanes (npr.org)

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What if the aliens come and we just can't communicate? (arstechnica.com)

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AI at the speed of light just became a possibility (techxplore.com)

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Has Airbnb reached its peak? (economist.com)

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Researchers Are Hiding AI Prompts in Their Papers (acm.org)

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In Praise of Useless Robots (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The fantastical roots of "scientific racism" (theatlantic.com)

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The chess federation accuses a former champion of harassing a rival who died (npr.org)

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Airbnb rival Sonder abruptly shuts down, orders guests to leave (cbsnews.com)

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New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities (quantamagazine.org)

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An explosion 92M miles away just grounded Jeff Bezos' New Glenn rocket (arstechnica.com)

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We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here's what people use it for (washingtonpost.com)

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'Ghost job' postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to jobs picture (cnbc.com)

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Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence (acm.org)

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AI Country Song Rollicks to the Top of US Sales Chart (barrons.com)

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How HR Took over the World (economist.com)

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Star Trek 50 Part I – Original Series Effects (2016, 1967) (theasc.com)

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DARPA and Texas Bet $1.4B on Unique Foundry -3D heterogeneous integration (ieee.org)

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Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks (apnews.com)

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Edward Burtynsky's Warning (theatlantic.com)

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James Watson: Titan of science with tragic flaws (science.org)

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Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage (tomshardware.com)

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Many would-be buyers are frozen out of the housing market (npr.org)

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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence (arstechnica.com)

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Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated (ox.ac.uk)

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What can AI reveal about Bob Dylan's songs? Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind (aeon.co)

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How to trade your $214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell (arstechnica.com)

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Long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes (phys.org)

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Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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43% of Gen Z Prefer YouTube and TikTok to Traditional TV and Streaming (variety.com)

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How Your Brain Creates 'Aha' Moments and Why They Stick (quantamagazine.org)

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Peeling Apart Plywood to Understand How It Works (christopherschwarz.substack.com)

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Habsburg family's Florentine diamond found in bank vault after a century (euronews.com)

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Rapa Nui's catastrophic deforestation: Rats, not just humans, may be to blame (phys.org)

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How much wealth would be destroyed by an AI stockmarket crash? (economist.com)

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Inside Hyundai's Massive Metaplant (ieee.org)

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Star-eating black hole unleashes record-setting energetic flare (reuters.com)

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Astronomers may have found the first stars that formed after the Big Bang (phys.org)

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Nvidia Sends a Powerful GPU to Space (ieee.org)

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EV Sales Plummet in October After Federal Tax Credit Ends (caranddriver.com)

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LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore's Grab (theregister.com)

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Ether Crashes 9% After $100M DeFi Hack Triggers Crypto Selloff (techbuzz.ai)

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Misread Arabic tale misled historians about the Black Death's rapid spread (phys.org)

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DOJ accuses US ransomware negotiators of launching their own ransomware attacks (techcrunch.com)

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LLMs show a "highly unreliable" capacity to describe own internal processes (arstechnica.com)

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The Slow Death of Special Education (theatlantic.com)

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The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement (newyorker.com)

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International Criminal Court Kicks Microsoft Office to the Curb (theregister.com)

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Senators announce bill that would ban AI chatbot companions for minors (nbcnews.com)

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Why It's Time to Sunset the Turing Test (acm.org)

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In 1953, the Ford X-100 Concept Car Had It All (ieee.org)

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Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane (arstechnica.com)

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Beloved bodega cat killed by driverless Waymo robotaxi: 'People loved him' (nypost.com)

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Fake Views: Victorian Spirit Photography and Its Critics (historytoday.com)

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In a First, AI Models Analyze Language as Well as a Human Expert (quantamagazine.org)