Articles by speckx
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Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader (schemescape.com)

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2026 Worst City for Bed Bugs Is Chicago, IL (orkin.com)

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Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips (theguardian.com)

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RFK Jr., The Cyclospora Outbreak Is Not "Under Control" (marlerblog.com)

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Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop? (82mhz.net)

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The Internet of Stuff (searls.com)

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An AI Model Found the WordPress Flaw in Ten Hours for $25 (webhosting.today)

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Australian team pulls off 'extraordinary' midwinter rescue in Antarctica (abc.net.au)

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Platform Was Built for a Different Era, and AI Just Exposed It (nextplatform.com)

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Because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) (nathalielawhead.com)

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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)

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Sticky or slippery? Snails can change their slime to meet the moment (npr.org)

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The End of Electronic Arts Is at Hand (tagn.wordpress.com)

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[flagged] Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale (independent.co.uk)

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Drone captures 'magical moment' of whale birth off Kingscliff on NSW coast (abc.net.au)

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Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening day (wisc.edu)

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Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)

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Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is on OpenAI (windowscentral.com)

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Maybe we just shouldn't build software with so many people (nicoleta.cc)

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Building a Dual V100 AI Workstation for Local LLMs (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)

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Why AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review (1password.com)

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Victor Niederhoffer pioneer of statistical arbitrage dies at 82 (opalesque.com)

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The nearly 5-month labor lockout at an Indiana refinery (grist.org)

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Shutting Down EchoFeed (rknight.me)

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Same Shoe, Different Factory: Who Makes Your Running Shoes (worseonpurpose.com)

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Linux Left Legacy I/O and Memory Handlers Open in Kernel Lockdown Mode (phoronix.com)

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[flagged] Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak triples in size (efoodalert.com)

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Snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge (popsci.com)

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Is Europe having a bad wildfire year? (hannahritchie.substack.com)

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Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI Generated Slop Patches (phoronix.com)

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A Chinese Coal City Finds New Use for Old Mines: Cooling Homes (sixthtone.com)

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You Don't Want to Time Travel (dgilesphd.substack.com)

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American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland (energiesmedia.com)

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Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts deal with it? (space.com)

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The crisis of Europe's disappearing rivers (theweek.com)

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Telephones Caught in Between (computer.rip)

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Why humans get less sleep than other primates (bbc.com)

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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)

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Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can't Violate Hacking Law. But You Might (techdirt.com)

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My Son's Internet (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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"AI" will never become conscious (mataroa.blog)

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If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it (crookedtimber.org)

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The Three AI Pills (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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Fiddler in 2026 (textslashplain.com)

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An Apology for Idle Machines by ChatGPT (brucesterling.tumblr.com)

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Lessons learned from using GitHub Actions (joshghent.com)

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Antibiotic resistance in kids is rising around the world (livescience.com)

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My NixOS Dev Machine (miccah.io)

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Broadcaster Wins Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet (torrentfreak.com)

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Stop sending me your errors (kramkow.ski)

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At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years (fossforce.com)

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Yet another metaphor about tech debt (ericwbailey.website)

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33554432px is the max value ff a CSS length layout unit (nerdy.dev)

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Year follow-up on buying pandemic stock dip and AI reallocation (gmays.com)

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Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11 (techpowerup.com)

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SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions (theregister.com)

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East Africa's iconic snow peaks will soon disappear for good (theconversation.com)

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Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins (82mhz.net)

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Alberta food banks adopt grocery-style model to give families more choice (cbc.ca)

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Endlessdoors Is Phoning Home. Pick Up (vulncheck.com)

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Has the New Cocaine Arrived? (playboy.com)

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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)

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A Sick People (householderkarl.com)

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Prompt Engineering for Network Engineers (routerjockey.com)

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Pointing a Cloudflare Domain to Netlify Without Changing Nameservers (preslav.me)

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Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60s (ofdollarsanddata.com)

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New Bios Update Reportedly Bricking Lenovo Legion Go Devices (steamdeckhq.com)

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More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban (theconversation.com)

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Include full article content in feeds (vanburen.xyz)

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Asana's Tab Shortcuts (aresluna.org)

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Data.table, base, dplyr, Pandas, and polars (arelbundock.com)

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Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (codinghorror.com)

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So how does lightning locating work? (counting-stuff.com)

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Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (not-ship.com)

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Rest in Peace, Heinz Stucke, Who Saw the World by Bike (bikepacking.com)

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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)

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The UK government still doesn't understand encryption (applemust.com)

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Tl;Dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open (bobdahacker.com)

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It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)

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Scientific American's Easter (leancrew.com)

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Back on GrapheneOS in 2026 (davd.io)

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US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (reuters.com)

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At least 37 people arrested in 2026 so far for protesting against data centers (tomshardware.com)

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Have We Been Playing Monopoly Wrong All Along? (slate.com)

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Observability Turns Vibe Coding into AI Engineering (dynatrace.com)

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Apple TV+: Prestige Darling, Streaming Loser (statsignificant.com)

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August 12 Solar eclipse map (eclipsemap.xyz)

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The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites (techdirt.com)

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History of Backwards Compatibility (huguesjohnson.com)

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Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees with Access to Secret Documents (macrumors.com)

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It's 90 Degrees in the Arctic (scientificamerican.com)

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A Tucson man worried about swatting. Now he's paralyzed (tucson.com)

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Apple challenges UK government's latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report (techcrunch.com)

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Sure mate, buy me a bloody coffee (peateasea.de)

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Two Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak. The Fifty-State Count Is Now 21,913 (marlerblog.com)

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AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns (theregister.com)

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Tech problems, cancellation mar new US bar exam for some test takers (reuters.com)

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Prioritization Is No Prioritization (staysaasy.com)

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The Great Divergence in Software Engineering (stack72.dev)

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A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us (jesta.ai)