Articles by speckx
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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)

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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)

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Samsung Says It's Banning Smart TV Apps That Expose Users' Internet Connections (engadget.com)

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AI news without using X (manton.org)

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Please Don't Make Spreadsheets Pretty (thisismylast.bearblog.dev)

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A DNS Record Now Flags Domains for Sale. Adoption Is Up to Registrars (webhosting.today)

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Data centers offer to buy Loudoun County homes, homeowners looking to cash out (wusa9.com)

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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)

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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days (marlerblog.com)

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Setting Up and Using the Pi Coding Agent (deepakness.com)

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Energy and the Matter Problem (fojournal.org)

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Volunteer cyber experts are helping protect rural water systems (cybersecuritydive.com)

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The clever hack I used to translate my Résumé (leroy.sh)

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Fix Your Analog Life First (katherinemartinko.substack.com)

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Why Our Future Starts on Venus, Not Mars (virebent.art)

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Tether bought 14T of gold for USDT reserves in second quarter (mining.com)

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30 years of CPUs at Tom's Hardware – looking back on three decades of processors (tomshardware.com)

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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (wired.com)

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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming (sciencedaily.com)

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Math helps explain the delicate patterns of dragonfly wings (2018) (sciencenews.org)

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Why Curiosity May Be the Most Underrated Career Skill (forbes.com/sites/rodgerdeanduncan)

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Cancelling Cursor (jitbit.com)

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The myth of Snow Leopard (rubenerd.au)

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AI and the iPod Test (psychologytoday.com)

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An OPML list of (most) blogs participating in Blaugust (82mhz.net)

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The Wild Wild West of Lego Datacenters (semianalysis.com)

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AI-Powered Container Standardization (medium.com/capital-one-tech)

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Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey (gamingonlinux.com)

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Capital One closed Trump Org's accounts after anti-money laundering probe (reuters.com)

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From now on, companies across the EU must be clear about their use of AI (europa.eu)

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I refuse to bow to our AI overlords (2023) (grugq.substack.com)

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Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis (theguardian.com)

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CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting (censys.com)

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Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices (npr.org)

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Old Concrete Was Better (jimgrey.net)

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Tesla Spyware (ma.tt)

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A directory of people who love RSS (andrewshell.org)

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[flagged] I Fired My AI Assitant (chreke.com)

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AI Questions Spoil Book and Movie Heat on 'Call Me, I'll Hide the Body' Novel (deadline.com)

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Disabling Blocking on Dual Pi-Hole DNS Servers with a Shell Script (justinribeiro.com)

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Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts (asymco.com)

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Australia's Social Media Ban for Under-16s Has Had Limited Impact So Far (engadget.com)

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AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive (wheresyoured.at)

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The Conductor Developer (martinfowler.com)

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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (jeffgeerling.com)

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The Database Is Not the Data Model (practicaldatamodeling.substack.com)

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Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)

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AI Data Center Turbines, Backlogged for Years, Are Suffering Early Deaths (investors.com)

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The anti-IMAX populist backlash (patreon.com)

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Claude won't let me talk about the Gaza genocide (evanp.me)

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Why in Building Protocols, Like Code, Starting over Is Dumb (lowentropy.net)

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Why AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner is selling all stocks (cnbc.com)

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Starbucks bet big on an AI tool; 9 months later, it pulled the plug (fastcompany.com)

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Firedome (fire-dome.com)

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Concrete Is Damaging the Planet, While Defending It from Climate Change (bloomberg.com)

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Diffuse puffs of "missing" matter surround most galaxies (news.mit.edu)

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Un-Employ Us All (thunkpoorly.bearblog.dev)

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Price Was Set by an Algorithm (niemanlab.org)

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Google Search on Firefox Without AI (chsxf.dev)

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Just brute force your embeddings (softwaredoug.com)

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Winamp Plans Comeback with New Deezer Partnership (cnet.com)

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Programming is dead, we're all code engineers now (benbyford.com)

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AMD Posts Linux Patches for HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR (phoronix.com)

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My Email Hygiene (matanabudy.com)

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Programming as Art (noumenalnotions.space)

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Father of Apalachee school shooter has been sentenced to 15 years in prison (wsbtv.com)

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Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't (ti.org)

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Handling environment variables in Emacs on OS X and Linux (seds.nl)

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The Joy of Obsidian (jackbodine.com)

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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)

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North Korea's elite hackers turned on their own government – and got caught (bitdefender.com)

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Soaking in the Slop (moodywarlock.net)

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Toot.community is shutting down (jorijn.com)

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Debian CVE Fixes over Time (sigwait.org)

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Formality Considered Harmful (2022) (joshmpollock.com)

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'parasite' went from a laughing matter to a serious biological threat (npr.org)

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More than 18,200 cyclosporiasis cases now suspected in US (thehill.com)