Articles by rolph
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So you've heard these AI terms and nodded along; let's fix that (techcrunch.com)

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Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores (theverge.com)

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Physical Media Is Making a Comeback. The Next Console Generation Might Kill It (wired.com)

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Notable Properties of Specific Numbers (mrob.com)

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NPR maintains the most complete database and visual archive of J6 prosecutions (npr.org)

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On The Death of RCP8.5 (theclimatebrink.com)

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Anita Calculators: The Technology Explained (anita-calculators.info)

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How Google Is Becoming the New AOL(2014) (raventools.com)

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Brilliant Polymaths, and the Advice They Left Behind(2017) (bigthink.com)

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At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)

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Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 JH2 close encounter: 18 May 2026 (virtualtelescope.eu)

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A Single-Molecule Spin-Photon Interface (arxiv.org)

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Molecules emerge as a new kind of building block for quantum computers (science.org)

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The hantavirus outbreak is reviving some of the worst Covid conspiracies (scientificamerican.com)

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Lawful access bill could lead to exit from Canada, major VPN provider says (globalnews.ca)

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Review of Surgery (operativereview.com)

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Plato's Cave and the Rise of the Highly Educated Radical (thefp.com)

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Drone Mishap with XM183 MiniBlast Redacted (documentcloud.org)

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Countdown to Apophis Close Approach–Cascading Hazards from Asteroid Impacts (usgs.gov)

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Anthropic's Computer Use API: How AI Is Navigating Your Desktop Now (aigridnews.com)

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Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the ' mouse cursor(2024) (arstechnica.com)

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Studio Kylemcdonald.net (kylemcdonald.net)

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Want to track the apocalypse? One theory: Follow the billionaires' jets (adn.com)

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Nonlinearities in Vacuum Tubes, Bipolar and, Field-Effect Transistors(2024) (till.com)

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Why do tubes sound different than transistors? (allforturntables.com)

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Coloradan can plug his brain into a computer (denverpost.com)

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No more Access Denied – I am TrustedInstaller(2023) (fourcore.io)

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After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one's for you, Ned (adn.com)

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DiscordServerCloner (github.com/seregonwar)

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Linux 7.1: Kicinski Called It 'LLM-Pocalypse.' Then Deleted 138,000 Lines (canartuc.medium.com)

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OpenAI violated Canadians' privacy, watchdogs say in call for legal reform (globalnews.ca)

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Hantavirus explained: Symptoms, transmission and treatment (ufl.edu)

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Orthohantavirus (expasy.org)

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I stopped OneDrive from taking over my files with these settings (xda-developers.com)

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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)

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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a 'depressing' new record (scientificamerican.com)

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Microsoft is hiding Windows 11's 'eyes' (tomsguide.com)

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Sick of Copilot? You Can Uninstall Microsoft's AI, but It's Tricky (pcmag.com)

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Proprietary Microsoft Software Breaks Itself, Similarly Bad Ideas for GNU/Linux (tuxmachines.org)

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Alaska House advances bill regulating autonomous vehicles (alaskabeacon.com)

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Abusing Science(2020) (nih.gov)

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Alaska woman sues troopers, TV network exploiting role as confidential informant (alaskabeacon.com)

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YouTube has demonITised us. Here's what's next.[video; comments] (nadeko.net)

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Ubuntu's AI plans have Linux users looking for a 'kill switch' (theverge.com)

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Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them (bbc.com)

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Higher temperatures spur Alaska's invasive pike to eat more, bad sign for salmon (alaskabeacon.com)

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Are landline phones making a comeback? [video] (bbc.com)

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The legal showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman begins today (cbsnews.com)

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The AI Guy [Google_made_an_Ooopsie] (nadeko.net)

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Legislature weighs law change to give Alaskans 'right to repair' electronics (adn.com)

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The Spinor Genus and the Distinguishing Lattice Isomorphism Problem(2024) (iacr.org)

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How to remove One UI from a Samsung device?(2025) (tinygrab.com)

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Foundational aspects of spinor structures and exotic spinors(2025) (arxiv.org)

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What happened to Omegle? rise and fall of internet's favorite stranger danger (mashable.com)

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Quantum 'Jamming' Explores the Fundamental Principles of Nature (quantamagazine.org)

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Microsoft must face $2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences (reuters.com)

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Pete Hegseth scraps mandatory flu shots for U.S. service members (cbsnews.com)

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Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation(2021) (sciencedirect.com)

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Did Fortnite Ever Exist? (orbispatches.com)

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Trolling with AI is too much fun(2024) (reddit.com)

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Anandamide's Effects on the Brain Exploring the 'Bliss Molecule'(2024) (neurolaunch.com)

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We Might Have Found the Worst Gaming Set Ups of All Time(2018) (gamebyte.com)

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Converting VBA Macro to Basic LibreOffice Macro (libreoffice.org)

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Efficiently Transfer Files to LibreOffice Calc: A Step-by-Step Guide (shunspirit.com)

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Introductory Biology: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives (umn.edu)

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History[pdf] (archive.org)

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Do you remember when Canada had its own digital music store? What happened to it (globalnews.ca)

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New CDC pick may face "threat to follow ideology over evidence," ex-official say (cbsnews.com)

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Instrumental Insemination of Honey Bee Queens (wsu.edu)

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ICE Smashed Her Car Windows on the Way to the Doctor. She's Fighting Back[TORT$] (motherjones.com)

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867-5309: Famous '80s song phone number now directs to cancer support line (thehill.com)

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The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (johndcook.com)

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Human Accelerated Regions (wikipedia.org)

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In this U.S. hot spot for data centers, voters have turned against them (adn.com)

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German Dog Commands (fluentu.com)

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List of World Naked Bike Rides (worldnakedbikeride.org)

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Monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop (bbc.com)

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Hnterm (terminaltrove.com)

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Hacker News CLI (2014) (pythonhosted.org)

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Behind fiery attack on OpenAI's Altman, a growing divide over AI (adn.com)

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People are pretending to be AI chatbots – for fun (npr.org)

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Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications (sciencedirect.com)

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The Poop on Doorstep Prank Name and Why People Still Fall for It (locotheme.com)

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Private Cellular Network (privatecellularnetwork.com)

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Building Your Own 4G LTE Base Station(2024) (hackaday.com)

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Roblox to introduce age-based accounts in latest effort to shore up safety (cbsnews.com)

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What's the most painful sting in the world? (bbc.com)

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Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy (npr.org)

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Wizards of the Coast Announces the Return of D&D Modules (dungeonsanddragonsfan.com)

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The Military Ration Museum Archives (rationmuseum.com)

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MREInfo (mreinfo.com)

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Bouncing Spins Flip Direction(2009) (physicsworld.com)

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Earth's climate swings increasingly out of balance (wmo.int)

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Fact Check: Alec and Kaleb Are Alive and Well (shrinerschildrens.org)

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At a CNY class, locally-developed tech lets students hear earthworm brain waves (localsyr.com)

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An enormous brain in a jar? NASA's best space telescope saw something real weird (skyatnightmagazine.com)

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A Brain in a Jar, in a Computer(2024) (ajpaganiv.substack.com)

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DIY: Enigma Machine from a Toilet Paper Tube (flyingpenguin.com)

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Tunneling Nanotube (wikipedia.org)

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In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a game-world(2022) (cell.com)