Articles by riffraff
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Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays (mas.to)

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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data (politico.com)

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Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok due to nonconsensual sexual content (cnbc.com)

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Git-pkgs: explore your dependency history (nesbitt.io)

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Italy watchdog orders Meta to halt WhatsApp terms barring rival AI chatbots (reuters.com)

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Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500M over manga piracy (japantimes.co.jp)

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The third AI Math Olympiad Progress Prize has now launched (mathstodon.xyz)

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The Rockchip calendar used by the RK808 counts November with 31 days (2015) (github.com/torvalds)

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Pheasant Island (wikipedia.org)

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Big week for unions at Blizzard as Hearthstone team also votes to unionize (aftermath.site)

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What is going on with all this radioactive shrimp? (consumerreports.org)

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Kyaml (github.com/kubernetes)

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New EHT Images Reveal Unexpected Polarization Flips at M87 (eventhorizontelescope.org)

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A months of ad-free OSNews: closing in on the fundraising and we need you help (osnews.com)

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WaterDrop Meets Ruby's Async Ecosystem: Lightweight Concurrency Done Right (mensfeld.pl)

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An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With (andrewkelley.me)

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Global Privacy Control (GPC) (w3c.github.io)

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ETF Slop: How Wall Street Flooded the Market with Gimmick Funds (etf.com)

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Bounce Beta Now Live (anew.social)

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Struggling fusion power company General Fusion gets $22M lifeline from investors (techcrunch.com)

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The Illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity (dragas.net)

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About That Japan Deal (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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A Master of Surrealist Fiction and a Bard for Anxious Times (nytimes.com)

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America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI (reuters.com)

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The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet (theguardian.com)

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Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice (pcgamer.com)

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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (csic.es)

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LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends (libredirect.github.io)

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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood X hashtags as Thorn cuts ties (nbcnews.com)

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Switch2 fastest selling, ex-marketing leads say this is abetting price hike (gamesradar.com)

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OxCaml is Jane Street's branch of OCaml (bsky.app)

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Online Media Is at a Fork in the Road, So We're Removing Ads for Members (theautopian.com)

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Delivery Hero, Glovo hit with $376M EU antitrust fine (reuters.com)

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[flagged] White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations (nytimes.com)

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The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career (dragas.net)

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Coinbase says customers' personal information stolen in data breach (techcrunch.com)

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Lexical Elaboration Explorer (charleskemp.com)

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Säkkijärven Polkka (wikipedia.org)

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Klarna flips from AI to hiring people, survey reveals most AI fail to deliver (fortune.com)

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Migrating Sidekiq Background Jobs to Temporal in Ruby on Rails (release.com)

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Doge Moves from Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records (404media.co)

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The shebang/hash-bang magic (in-ulm.de)

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Ariane 6 – First Commercial Flight [video] (youtube.com)

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NASA Continuing Efforts to Contact, Command Lunar Trailblazer (nasa.gov)

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Doge accounting of savings is mostly incorrect (twitter.com/electricfutures)

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Marriages in China Crash, Portending Deeper Demographic Woes (cfr.org)

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Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon (werd.io)

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France's biggest game industry union 'Grève Bundle' to support striking workers (pcgamer.com)

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Fit Irregular Shapes with 'Ticking Sticks' (popularwoodworking.com)

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White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of policy on Gulf name (apnews.com)

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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy (earth.com)

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The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars (exurbe.com)

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A Little science about copper and tin (vintagefrenchcopper.com)

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ReproductiveRights.health is a copy of the now defunct ReproductiveRights.gov (reproductiverights.health)

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Sewell's Pump (eliwhitney.org)

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Probability Probably Doesn't Exist (scientificamerican.com)

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Pointing and Calling (wikipedia.org)

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Terence Tao's Update on Equational Theories Project Results (mathstodon.xyz)

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Bridfy Fed: Bridging the new social internet (brid.gy)

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Egypt is certified malaria-free by WHO (who.int)

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Exoplanet found in the star system closest to the Sun (aanda.org)

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NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition (mastodon.social)

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X will soon make your public posts visible to accounts you've blocked (techcrunch.com)

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The terminfo rant, long version (twoot.site)

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The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head (bbc.com)

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Hydrogel can play pong and get better at it (theguardian.com)

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IBM Audible Random Timer (oldbytes.space)

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ITER fusion reactor hit by decade-long delay and €5B price hike (physicsworld.com)

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EDF to redraft small modular reactor design amid cost, technology concerns (reuters.com)

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Kamifusen (wikipedia.org)

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The first tooth-regrowing drug has been approved for human trials (engadget.com)

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OpenAI removes "Her" voice after Scarlett Johansson complaint (bbc.com)

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Fossil fuels generated less than a quarter of the EU's electricity in April (euronews.com)

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Barcelona bus route removed from map apps to tackle tourist overcrowding (theguardian.com)

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Google's "Pricing Knobs" (quintarelli.it)

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Keeler's Theory of Plot (xavier.edu)

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EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60 year low (theguardian.com)

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The Exploration Company Begins CNES Backed Rocket Engine Development (europeanspaceflight.com)

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The official Rails job board is live (rubyonrails.org)

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ArchieML a structured text format optimized for human writability (archieml.org)

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NuScale, UAMPS terminate small modular reactor project in Idaho (utilitydive.com)

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Scientists claim finding remnants of ancient planet that collided with Earth (cnn.com)

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Leica M11-P Review: As Authenticated as They Come (petapixel.com)

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Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports (fosstodon.org)

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Sampuru, Replica food making experience (thesoupspoon.com)

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All TypePad feeds are failing (ooh.directory)

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UK auction secures no offshore windfarms (theguardian.com)

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Anatomical Machines (wikipedia.org)

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IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release (arstechnica.com)

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Reddit claims “fewer than 100 bots” exceed API limits, allowlists moderator ones (reddithelp.com)

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Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct (arstechnica.com)

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Batten Down Fix Later (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

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The EU Digital Identity Architecture and Framework on GitHub (github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet)

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Google's Chatbot Panic (pluralistic.net)

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Leaving the Basement (hachyderm.io)

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China fines Kenya for SGR loan default (businessdailyafrica.com)

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Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built (theregister.com)