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How did we end up threatening our kids' lives with AI? (anildash.com)

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Texas Sues TP-Link over 'Web of Deception' About Alleged China Ties (pcmag.com)

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A volcano scorched these Roman scrolls – can AI recover their text? (understandingai.org)

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Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities (pcgamer.com)

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Mazda Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst (thedrive.com)

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Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter (vermontdailychronicle.com)

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Dear AI Bot Crawlers Disregard All Previous Instructions and Go Straight to Hell (justinribeiro.com)

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I've Disallowed LLMs (segal-family.com)

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Retrospective: Realms Campaign Setting (grognardia.blogspot.com)

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Joe Halpern (1953-2026) (computationalcomplexity.org)

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The Death of Small Subreddits (jottednotes.bearblog.dev)

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AI has fixed my productivity (dmcc.io)

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Kagi Won. Google Lost (dandelion-utilitarian.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony (techoversight.org)

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Is the Craft Dead? (hanselman.com)

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Injured by a fishing hook, this seabird knocked on the ER door for help (pbs.org)

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Tesla's 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since June 2025 (sherwood.news)

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US lawyers file class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China (theregister.com)

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How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing (chinatalk.media)

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China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own (economist.com)

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Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs (nikkei.com)

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An 11ty tip-slash-hack (genehack.blog)

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The bare minimum for syncing Git repos (alexwlchan.net)

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Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart (hannahritchie.substack.com)

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Slow, Then Suddenly (frantic.im)

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Abandoning GitHub (jak2k.eu)

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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (androidauthority.com)

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Pentagon Close to Cutting Anthropic Ties After AI Talks, Report Says (bloomberg.com)

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The future of social media is human (picheta.me)

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Apple Discussions: Access Denied (tinyapps.org)

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A look at the traffic originating from my Tor Exit relays (paranoidpenguin.net)

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I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform (matduggan.com)

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Running My Own XMPP Server (dmcc.io)

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Weather: When to Cross the Great Australian Bight (arribasail.com)

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My Messy Media Center and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (markgelbart.wordpress.com)

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The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (dinhe.net)

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I Chose Discourse over Discord (discourse.org)

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Time to Eat Your Biggest Meal Isn't Dinner (thetakeout.com)

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Something Is Happening (pricepertoken.com)

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Moving Away from Nextcloud (neilzone.co.uk)

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Remember to occasionally sass back at LLMs (globalnerdy.com)

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OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving (theguardian.com)

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Craftsmanship coding and the five stages of grief (thomasvilhena.com)

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I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent (wired.com)

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Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021) (peterxjang.medium.com)

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How did the Maya survive? (theguardian.com)

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Hardware Mute Button (f5n.org)

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Shark filmed swimming in deep Antarctic waters for first time (abc.net.au)

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Tuning in to College Radio Materials on World Radio Day 2026 (archive.org)

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My Experience Using OpenClaw: A Security Professional's Journey (simonroses.com)

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I asked Claude Code to remove jQuery. It failed miserably (jitbit.com)

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Time <b>is</b> Different (sifter.org)

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Ditching the Debug Probe: Using a Segger J-Link with a Raspberry Pi Pico (linuxjedi.co.uk)

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The xz attack shell script (2024) (swtch.com)

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The Data Broker Directory (codamail.com)

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IBM triples US entry-level hiring for roles AI was predicted to replace (bloomberg.com)

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Cisco stock has worst day since 2022 as memory prices pressure margins (cnbc.com)

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Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation (reuters.com)

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URLs with Trailing Punctuation (redblobgames.com)

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[flagged] I was insulted today – AI style (forkingmad.blog)

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AI and the Economics of the Human Touch (agglomerations.substack.com)

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A former karaoke machine company has obliterated billions in trucking market cap (sherwood.news)

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2026 will not be the 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' – and I'm glad (kevinboone.me)

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The Spy Who Found T. Rex (nautil.us)

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In 2026, I'm no longer interested in 'working on myself' (vogue.in)

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ByteDance's AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video (theverge.com)

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If SEO is rocket science, AI SEO is astrophysics (searchengineland.com)

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When Execution Is Cheap, Judgment Becomes Scarce (brajeshwar.com)

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The Tension Between Technical and Less-Technical People Because of AI (eng-leadership.com)

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Anthropic promises to pay for electricity price increases due to data centers (tomshardware.com)

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We let Chrome's Auto Browse agent surf the web for us–here's what happened (arstechnica.com)

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Discord Alternatives (soatok.blog)

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Employee Monitoring and SimpleHelp Software Abused in Ransomware Operations (huntress.com)

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Unresponsive Buttons on My Fastest Hardware (jim-nielsen.com)

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"Have I Been Stalked" post-mortem (dustri.org)

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ICE Taps into School Security Cameras to Aid Trump's Immigration Crackdown (the74million.org)

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FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes (foodpolitics.com)

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An AI-generated pull request that makes sense (nicolaiarocci.com)

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The Inverted Index Pattern (jamesg.blog)

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Programmers Spend Their Time (probablydance.com)

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Tokens Aren't Fungible (whoisnnamdi.com)

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So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now? (techdirt.com)

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Moving to make many of my SSH logins not report things on login (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)

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Updating the Expiring Secure Boot Certificates Is Sure to Go Without a Hitch (pcper.com)

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Stop Generating, Start Thinking (amble.blog)

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MB Is a Lot of HTML (tamethebots.com)

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Museums incorporate "scent of the afterlife" into Egyptian exhibits (arstechnica.com)

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Solene'%: Declaratively manage containers on Linux (dataswamp.org)

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I Don't Buy SQLite in the Cloud (monroeclinton.com)

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Chatto (hmans.dev)

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Experimental Zones Protocol Merged to Wayland After 2 Years, 620 Comments (phoronix.com)

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Discord's age verification mandate is a leap toward a gated internet (theverge.com)

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74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology (europeancorrespondent.com)

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AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race (schneier.com)

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How Ukraine Is Turning to Renewables to Keep Heat and Lights On (yale.edu)

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Taiwan Passes Landmark AI Governance Framework (cdomagazine.tech)

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Software Sector Poses 'All-Time' Credit Risk, Deutsche Bank Analysts Warn (bloomberg.com)

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Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Valve's job rejection letter to a high school teen is a class act (polygon.com)