Articles by samizdis
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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)

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Sticky paper on bumpers reveals scale of bee deaths due to car collisions (phys.org)

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NASA fuel cell pioneer's UK home gets blue plaque (theguardian.com)

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How the Occult Gave Birth to Science (nautil.us)

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Warhammer 40k should be considered a great work of science fiction (theconversation.com)

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Pollutants from gas stoves kill 40k Europeans each year (theguardian.com)

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The Big Bang is a mirror, hiding another universe behind it (iai.tv)

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Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets (theconversation.com)

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Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters (axios.com)

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Standing desks are bad for your health – study (theconversation.com)

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Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh (theatlantic.com)

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Spider in the Telescope: The Mechanization of Astronomy (jstor.org)

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A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed (theatlantic.com)

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Be Using an RSS Reader (pluralistic.net)

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High-potency cannabis use leaves a distinct mark on DNA (theconversation.com)

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Strolls with stops use more energy than continuous walking (theguardian.com)

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Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages (arstechnica.com)

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LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest (arstechnica.com)

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The Merchants of Venice – In Code (jstor.org)

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Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed (bbc.co.uk)

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The First Transistor Radio (ieee.org)

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Thread Form at the Crystal Palace (tandfonline.com)

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London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly (arstechnica.com)

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Kuiper Belt appears to be substantially larger than we thought (arstechnica.com)

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The darker side of human rights for great apes (theconversation.com)

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France's 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue ends (theguardian.com)

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Systems used by courts and governments across US riddled with vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com)

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The First Transistor Radio (ieee.org)

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In the Stereoscope, Another World (jstor.org)

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U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)

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When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid (jstor.org)

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Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra? (phys.org)

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Drivers Won't Yield to Pedestrian in Chicken Suit (loweringthebar.net)

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What's your mathematical style? [Quiz] (arstechnica.com)

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Don't buy DRM-infected products, they aren't fit for purpose (pluralistic.net)

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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the CrowdStrike disaster (pluralistic.net)

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Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts (phys.org)

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Researchers investigate 'wash trading' on crypto exchanges (phys.org)

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Three fun paradoxes created by Ancient Greek philosophers (theconversation.com)

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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (pluralistic.net)

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The structure of sound: Network insights into Bach's music (phys.org)

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ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years (arstechnica.com)

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One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life (theatlantic.com)

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Bicycles of World War II (theatlantic.com)

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Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures (theguardian.com)

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Artistic fantasy world apartment gets listed status (bbc.co.uk)

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NASA to create lunar-centric time reference system (theguardian.com)

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Google agrees to delete private browsing data to settle Incognito mode lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

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New ideas might make active shielding viable (arstechnica.com)

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Anthropic's Claude 3 Test Responses Prompt Metacognition (arstechnica.com)

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Meta's AI Watermarking Plan Is Flimsy, at Best (ieee.org)

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How to study and improve a corrupted information environment (thebulletin.org)

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The Problem with Anonymity (pluralistic.net)