Articles by rurp
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Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)

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Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI (economist.com)

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Microsoft dive spoils Mag 7 earnings enthusiasm (cnbc.com)

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Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up (axios.com)

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Meta blocks posts sharing database of ICE agents (politico.com)

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CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT (politico.com)

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Microsoft turns Copilot chats into a checkout lane (axios.com)

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AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow (meta.stackexchange.com)

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Predictions Markets and the Suckerfication Crisis (maxread.substack.com)

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Senator Cotton blocks effort to make daylight saving time permanent (politico.com)

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Ron Conway Resigns Salesforce Foundation over Benioff's National Guard Comments (politico.com)

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Apple's streaming service gets harder to tell apart from its streaming app, box (arstechnica.com)

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ChatGPT and the End of Learning (theargumentmag.com)

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Amazon Experiences Drop in Google Search Visibility (searchenginejournal.com)

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GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from an Experiment (nber.org)

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Cyberattack on Russian airline causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights (politico.com)

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[dupe] Linda Yaccarino resigns as CEO of X (Twitter) (politico.com)

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[dupe] Explosion at Starbase, No Injuries Reported (theborderchronicle.com)

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Another one for the graveyard: Google to kill Instant Apps in December (arstechnica.com)

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The Gmail app will now create AI summaries (arstechnica.com)

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Dragonflies Embark on an Epic, Multi-Generational Migration Each Year (smithsonianmag.com)

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Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem (economist.com)

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Doge Attempting the "Lost Cause" Narrative Takes a Lot of Balls (imightbewrong.org)

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Subaru Just Increased Prices on Nearly All Its Models (motor1.com)

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YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player, but users hate the new design (androidauthority.com)

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Tesla admits "political sentiment" may hurt the company (axios.com)

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Cybertruck sales drop by 50% in 2025 Q1 (yahoo.com)

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Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress (nytimes.com)

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Trump orders investigations into 2 DHS officials from his first term (axios.com)

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As Social Security services are cut back, seniors face long drives (axios.com)

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Musk blames Ukrainians for cyberattack on X. Experts aren't convinced (politico.eu)

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Marvell plunges 19% as outlook falls short of high expectations (cnbc.com)

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[flagged] Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending (economist.com)

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Constitutional Crisis Spiking on Google Trends (trends.google.com)

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Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked (newrepublic.com)

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DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to Pedophilia and the KKK (muskwatch.com)

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OPM sued over privacy concerns with new government-wide email system (thehill.com)

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Ann Hodges, first known survivor of meteorite strike (wikipedia.org)

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Why is Mark Zuckerberg vice-signaling? (maxread.substack.com)

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OpenAI #10: Reflections (thezvi.substack.com)

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Thermometers Are Hot Garbage (theatlantic.com)

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Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem (thefp.com)

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What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024 (noahpinion.blog)

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You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire (propublica.org)

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Sam Altman Emails Elon Musk (techemails.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the App" (2011) (techemails.com)

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[dupe] Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison (wsj.com)

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'RuPavel Durov's arrest upends Kremlin military comms (politico.eu)

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The lame AI meme election (axios.com)

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Why AI is no substitute for human teachers (axios.com)

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The cheapest Tesla Cybertruck is $99,990; promised $60K model canceled (arstechnica.com)

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Google Olympics ad sparks new ire over generative AI (axios.com)

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The unlikely alliance bringing the tech giants to heel (politico.com)

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Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business (bloomberg.com)

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Tesla reportedly delays highly anticipated robotaxi event, stock tanks (axios.com)

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The Washington Post debuts AI chatbot (axios.com)

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Behavioral Sink (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Is Substacks AI disclaimer valid?

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Norway's oil fund to vote against Musk's $56B Tesla pay award (marketwatch.com)

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GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says (arstechnica.com)

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Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund (axios.com)

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Google's AI summaries cause headaches and spawn memes (axios.com)

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OpenAI: Exodus (thezvi.substack.com)

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The death (again) of the internet as we know it (noahpinion.blog)

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"Everyone is in complete shock": Tesla cuts Supercharger employees (axios.com)

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California lawmakers rein in bill to limit car speeds (politico.com)

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Go to a State School (natesilver.net)

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Google fires more employees over protest of cloud contract with Israel (axios.com)

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Tesla cutting 10% of workforce as sales disappoint: reports (axios.com)

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Tesla settles fatal autopilot crash lawsuit (axios.com)

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"Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in (arstechnica.com)

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Google's AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse (nypost.com)

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Buggy software is dogging the switch to electric cars (axios.com)

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Judge voids Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation package (axios.com)

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Tesla posts underwhelming financial results for Q4 2023 (arstechnica.com)

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Ford pushes the off-road button with F-150 Lightning Switchgear (arstechnica.com)

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Netflix won't have a Vision Pro app, compromising the device's appeal (arstechnica.com)

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Hertz is selling 20k used EVs due to high repair costs (arstechnica.com)

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Universities Are Not on the Level (joshbarro.com)

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Netflix is down for many users (variety.com)

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Elon Musk to advertisers boycotting X: "Go fuck yourself" (axios.com)

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IBM suspends advertising on X as Musk faces antisemitism backlash (axios.com)

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The short shelf life of immersive attractions (axios.com)

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Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says "yes" (arstechnica.com)

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G/O Media shutters Jezebel, lays off 23 people (axios.com)

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[flagged] The game theory of the Republican speakership crisis (natesilver.net)

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NASA asteroid sample parachutes safely onto Utah desert (reuters.com)

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Elon Musk and X face 2,200 arbitration cases (axios.com)

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Zoom updates terms of service to clarify that it won’t use calls to train AI (arstechnica.com)

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Next roadblock for electric cars: Early adopter era is over (axios.com)

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Embarrassed about paying Musk for Twitter Blue? You can hide the checkmark now (arstechnica.com)

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Spotify adds record number of new active users (axios.com)

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Microsoft puts a price tag on AI for business (axios.com)

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Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90M bill (arstechnica.com)

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The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown (economist.com)

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SCOTUS affirmative action decision's impact on corporate America (axios.com)

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Scientists on Twitter Head for the Exit (axios.com)

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Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready (arstechnica.com)

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AWS us-east-1 down

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[dupe] Amazon to pay over $30M for Ring and Alexa privacy violations (axios.com)