Articles by samizdis
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London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool (theregister.com)

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The rise and fall of snake oil (historytoday.com)

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Jonathan Swift's Last Joke (newyorker.com)

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18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later (sciencedaily.com)

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Roll your own local AI coding agents to save money (theregister.com)

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The Illuminati in the United States (historytoday.com)

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AI vendor lock-in bites back (theregister.com)

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Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure" (arstechnica.com)

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US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks (theregister.com)

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Dark matter could be black holes from a different universe (theconversation.com)

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Hungary's Magyar Myth Makers (historytoday.com)

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The power of headwear and 'hatiquette' in early modern England (theconversation.com)

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You Can't Escape the AI Tax (theatlantic.com)

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Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' (theregister.com)

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Android keyboard ditches keys predicts what you mean (theregister.com)

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The US and Israel are making the Islamic republic stronger (aljazeera.com)

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Rock Star: Reading the Rosetta Stone (historytoday.com)

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Cannabis Through the Ages (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The mathematical crimes of the Young Sherlock Holmes series (theconversation.com)

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Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' (phys.org)

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Donald Trump's Melian Dialogue (historytoday.com)

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Welcome to the Block Universe (nautil.us)

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AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming (theregister.com)

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AI world models need to understand cause and effect (ft.com)

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Trump class 'battleship' revives Navy's railgun project (twz.com)

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New F1 regulations take bravery out of the sport, drivers say (reuters.com)

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Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer's Mistakes (loweringthebar.net)

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Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants (theregister.com)

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Alex Gerko funds telescope showing 'cartography of the universe' (ft.com)

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OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code (wired.com)

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SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed (theregister.com)

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Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics (theregister.com)

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Lloyds strives to be 'UK's biggest fintech' by selling more customer data (ft.com)

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Lise Meitner's Nuclear Vision (historytoday.com)

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Amazon Appears to Be Down (arstechnica.com)

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Anthropic launches AI job destruction detector (axios.com)

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SpaceX: The Final Frontier of IPOs (ft.com)

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Whuppity Scoorie: the Scottish spring ritual bringing a town together (theguardian.com)

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The Vanishing Giants [Coaling Towers] of America's Steam Age (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Hornby sells slot car racing brand Scalextric for £20M (theguardian.com)

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Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index (axios.com)

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Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher (newyorker.com)

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When Mao's Mango Mania Took over China (jstor.org)

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Rumors of AGI's arrival have been greatly exaggerated (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Semantic ablation renders AI writing generic, boring and dangerous (theregister.com)

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Resistance Infrastructure (profgalloway.com)

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Understanding the hazard potential of the Seattle fault zone (phys.org)

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Olympic curling: The science behind sweeping (axios.com)

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Giant 'blobs' of rock influence Earth's magnetic field (theconversation.com)

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'Kessel Run' Air Force software development division (wikipedia.org)

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Geoengineering options to prevent Thwaites Glacier collapse (theatlantic.com)

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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or just want Claude to think so? (arstechnica.com)

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Code is a liability (not an asset) (pluralistic.net)

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India's government plans to launch zero-commission rideshare platform (theregister.com)

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Canada can become a nation of jailbreakers (pluralistic.net)

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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended (newyorker.com)

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Forrester warns AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027 (theregister.com)

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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (pluralistic.net)

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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower (arstechnica.com)

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Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects (theatlantic.com)

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How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam (phys.org)

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A history of the Internet, part 2 (arstechnica.com)

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Orwell on the Future (1949) (newyorker.com)

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Can Tim Cook stop Apple going the same way as Nokia? (economist.com)

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Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality (axios.com)

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"Black hole universe" offers alternative to Big Bang cosmic origins (theconversation.com)

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'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1 (theregister.com)

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Adam Riess and the Hubble tension (theatlantic.com)

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Switzerland's 370,000 Nuclear Bunkers

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Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral (newyorker.com)

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The key to a successful egg drop experiment? Drop it on its side (arstechnica.com)

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Frigate USS Stein Was Attacked by a Squid (oldsaltblog.com)

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3D model shows Parthenon as it was 2,500 years ago (openculture.com)

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West Nile virus found in the UK (theconversation.com)

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How Java changed the development landscape as code turns 30 (theregister.com)

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Self-hosting is having a moment (arstechnica.com)

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AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics (theregister.com)

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Google's AI tools are the culmination of its hubris (arstechnica.com)

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AI agents will do the grunt work of coding (axios.com)

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Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it (theregister.com)

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How the World Became Awash in Synthetics (theatlantic.com)

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Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon (arstechnica.com)

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The Hottest Thing in Clean Energy (theatlantic.com)

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Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors (theguardian.com)

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The curious history of cannabis as a health product (theconversation.com)

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Trump and Musk's Takeover of NASA (newyorker.com)

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Millwall Brick (wikipedia.org)

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Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge (newyorker.com)

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It's Time to Rethink 6G (ieee.org)

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Browser Game That Explains How the Internet Went Wrong (theatlantic.com)

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Lenticular Cloud Formations over the UK (bbc.co.uk)

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Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination (theguardian.com)

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How Britain got its first internet connection (2015) (theconversation.com)

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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision (ieee.org)

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Covid caused cancer tumours to shrink in mice (theconversation.com)

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AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design (ieee.org)

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Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals (theregister.com)

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Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress (npr.org)

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Cicada cycles, math and the nature of reality (phys.org)

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Handcrafting Whisky Stills in Scotland (theguardian.com)