Articles by smurda
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Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce (wired.com)

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FBI seizes RAMP cybercrime forum used by ransomware gangs (bleepingcomputer.com)

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After 34 years, Linux community has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds (tomshardware.com)

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California tech CEO and electric vehicle pioneer arrested, accused of murder (sfgate.com)

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New-wave reactors: The face of an American nuclear Renaissance. Experts alarmed (cnn.com)

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Sucking up CO2, refrigerator-sized machine makes gasoline out of thin air (popsci.com)

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Weight-loss pills could fuel airline savings (travelweekly.com)

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Autodesk cuts 7% of workforce (~1k jobs) to redirect investments to AI, cloud (yahoo.com)

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Blue Origin plots 6 Tbps satellite network (telecoms.com)

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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark (arstechnica.com)

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Electric Macan outsold gas in 2025, but Porsche commits to gas for some reason (electrek.co)

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Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year Than Gas-Powered Models (electrek.co)

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Revolutionary imaging of black hole to prove they're not 'evil vacuum cleaners' (theguardian.com)

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Nearly 5M Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban (nytimes.com)

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Predator Spyware Turns Failed Attacks into Intelligence for Future Exploits (securityweek.com)

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Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere (nytimes.com)

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PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)

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White-Collar Workers Shouldn't Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change (wsj.com)

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Students are choosing community college or certificates over four-year degrees (cnbc.com)

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Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12M Homes (nytimes.com)

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EV roadside repairs easier than petrol or diesel, new data suggests (am-online.com)

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A Times Reporter Goes Inside a Cyberscam Center in a War Zone (nytimes.com)

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NASA, Department of Energy to Develop Lunar Surface Reactor by 2030 (spaceanddefense.io)

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Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue (theverge.com)

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Microsoft on AI data center revolt: cover all power costs and reject tax breaks (geekwire.com)

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European firms hit hiring brakes over AI and slowing growth (dw.com)

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Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads (electrek.co)

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Streamer Spend to Top $100B for First Time in 2026 – Report (deadline.com)

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Smart Glasses Would Adjust Focus on the Fly Based on Your Eye Movements (cnet.com)

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Nvidia CEO: AI doomerism has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society (businessinsider.com)

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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (notebookcheck.net)

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Is Orion's heat shield safe? New NASA chief's review on eve of flight (arstechnica.com)

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The gap between premium and budget TV brands is quickly closing (theverge.com)

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Rubin Observatory spots an asteroid that spins fast enough to set a record (geekwire.com)

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South Korea's president identifies a new enemy: baldness (msn.com)

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German dentists' pension fund sues advisers after $1.77B loss (oralhealthgroup.com)

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Nvidia's new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level (arstechnica.com)

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Flu Is Relentless. CRISPR Might Be Able to Shut It Down (wired.com)

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Jurassic Park Was Right: Mosquitoes Can Carry Libraries of Animal DNA (sciencealert.com)

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'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics from Laundry Waste (sciencealert.com)

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Tesla releases video of Tesla Semi electric truck charging at 1.2 MW (electrek.co)

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OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products (arstechnica.com)

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Reading is a vice: US student reading abilities and habits are declining (msn.com)

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Asus officially announces price hikes from January 5, right before CES 2026 (videocardz.com)

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Iran offers to sell advanced weapons systems for crypto (ft.com)

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European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale (theregister.com)

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Global coal demand has reached a plateau and may well decline slightly by 2030 (iea.org)

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Last Orders, London? A fifth of London's pubs have closed in the last 20 years (nytimes.com)

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Future of space exploration depends on better biology (economist.com)

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Finland seizes ship from Russia suspected of breaking telecom cable to Estonia (reuters.com)

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The countries where digital ID already exists (sky.com)

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Why Private-Equity Millionaires Love South Dakota (wsj.com)

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Researchers make "neuromorphic" artificial skin for robots (arstechnica.com)

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Father rescues abducted daughter by tracking her cell phone after kidnapping (nypost.com)

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Racist AI fakes are now a business – and a political tool (axios.com)

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Toll roads are spreading in America (economist.com)

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Vietnam's EV champion is bleeding cash (economist.com)

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Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers (economist.com)

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Trust Wallet Chrome extension hack tied to millions in losses (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

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AI toys spark privacy concerns as US officials urge action on data risks (thenationaldesk.com)

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LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled "60 Minutes" segment (arstechnica.com)

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Children's Holiday Letters to Satan (newyorker.com)

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John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against major AI companies (techcrunch.com)

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ByteDance plans $23B AI spending spree to keep pace with US rivals (ft.com)

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Fraudsters use AI to fake artwork authenticity and ownership (ft.com)

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Protect us from Russian sabotage drone firm begs Labour: maybe Russian phishing (telegraph.co.uk)

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Trump admin to hire 1k specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI projects (cnbc.com)

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Skybridge: TypeScript Framework for ChatGPT Apps (github.com/alpic-ai)

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Rust's Vision Doc: Recommendations to help Rust scale across domains and usage (rust-lang.org)

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Australia's biggest pension fund to cut global stocks allocation on AI concerns (ft.com)

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We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher (cam.ac.uk)

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Uber is hiring more engineers because AI is turning them into 'superhumans' (businessinsider.com)

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James Webb Space Telescope confirms first 'runaway' supermassive black hole (space.com)

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RAM and SSD prices are still climbing (arstechnica.com)

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Board Oversight of AI-Driven Workforce Displacement (law.harvard.edu)

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Video game hardware sales had historically bad November: Cost of hardware rising (theverge.com)

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Bursting AI bubble may be EU's "secret weapon" in clash with Trump, expert says (arstechnica.com)

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Microsoft will kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc (arstechnica.com)

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FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK (fbi.gov)

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Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs (techrepublic.com)

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Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids (arstechnica.com)

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Uber pulls back from electric cars, slashing incentives for drivers (financialpost.com)

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Wells Fargo CEO: More job cuts coming at the bank, as AI prompts 'efficiency' (charlotteobserver.com)

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In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars (arstechnica.com)

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RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes (phys.org)

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MIT researchers "speak objects into existence" using AI and robotics (news.mit.edu)

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Australian children just lost access to social media (cnn.com)

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NeurIPS 2025 Top Paper Breakdown: LLMs Are Collapsing into Artificial Hivemind (interviewready.io)

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Iran cyber intelligence officer promised to reveal country's secrets disappeared (theatlantic.com)

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Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant (theregister.com)

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A new study investigated why left-handers are better in some sports (psychologytoday.com)

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Jaguar Land Rover Extends Shutdown After Cyber Attack (slashdot.org)

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Nexus: Securing MCP Tool Sprawl (grafbase.com)

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Testing Next.js app router API routes (arcjet.com)

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Visualize and improve OTel collector configurations (github.com/dash0hq)

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Investors shake up VC market by raising money to buy out startups (ft.com)

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Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole and Populist Antitrust (law.harvard.edu)

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We implemented serverless full-text search in Rust (grafbase.com)

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Getting Started with Rust and WebAssembly (grafbase.com)