Articles by speckx
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Are Google navigation services getting worse? (ilearnt.com)

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BND should be allowed to hack IT giants and monitor internet nodes more closely (heise.de)

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Approvals Are a Security Wet Blanket for AI Agents (tiberriver256.github.io)

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AI isn't coming for your job, it's coming for your justification (thenextweb.com)

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Hiring in an era of fake candidates, real scams and AI slop (themarkup.org)

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Amazon Found 'High Volume' of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data (bloomberg.com)

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Hard-stopping AI agent pipelines with prompt-level kill switches (lukaszolejnik.com)

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Should You Resign? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs on Linux with VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR (phoronix.com)

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Finding My Childhood Motherboard (rubenerd.com)

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Nobody cares about your idea (invertedpassion.com)

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Unicorns Exist (erikkroes.nl)

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AI will not solve world hunger (thomasrigby.com)

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Meta's crawler made 11M requests to my site in 30 days (reddit.com)

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Coleman Laws (kcoleman.me)

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I'm back to building my own digital music collection (hidde.blog)

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[flagged] New books aren't worth reading? (atlaspress.co)

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Eating Our Own Dogfood: What Running Report URI on Report URI Taught Us (scotthelme.co.uk)

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We named them after the humans they were replacing (zeldman.com)

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South Carolina tops Texas measles outbreak record–with no end in sight (arstechnica.com)

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Apple, Suppliers Are Counting the Cost of iPhone Air Failure (culpium.com)

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For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal (rollingstone.com)

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Two Cities Under Siege (radleybalko.substack.com)

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I've Stopped Learning Programming Languages (danielcorin.com)

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Social media addiction trials unsealed docs show platforms designed to hook kids (techoversight.org)

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Despite AI chip boom and record high stock price, ASML to lay off employees (tomshardware.com)

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Google searches per U.S. user fell nearly 20% YoY (searchengineland.com)

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Trump's acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)

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Almost every second private PC in Germany still runs on Windows 10 (igorslab.de)

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Linux kernel community has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds (github.com/torvalds)

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Costco removing RAM from display units (reddit.com)

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Everyone's Mad at Airbnb. This Map Explains What We Should Blame Instead (laurenleek.substack.com)

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AI at work is anti-labor by design (henry.codes)

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ReliCSS: A Tool for Front-End Archaeology (alwaystwisted.com)

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B-21 and Fighters Prepare for Disruptive Software-Led Change (2020) (aviationweek.com)

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Stop Using Pseudo-Types (f2r.github.io)

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RAM shortage is raising prices on Samsung's cheapest phones (9to5google.com)

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Why the Next Recession Will Be the Catalyst for Depression (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Zotac warns component shortages threaten the 'survival' of GPU manufacturers (tomshardware.com)

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General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer (atredis.com)

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A CEO, Captured (om.co)

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Nudify apps found on Google and Apple's app stores (theverge.com)

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Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores (techcrunch.com)

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Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. (leventhalmap.org)

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Let me help you get to Inbox 0 with Gmail (2024) (kau.sh)

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The Craftsman and the Factory (survol.fr)

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Vibe coding is a moving target (so don't marry the tool) (nothingeasyaboutthis.com)

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Ralph Wiggum Loop (beuke.org)

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Bigfoot Sightings Map (eamer.dev)

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A proposal to prevent job losses from AGI (invertedpassion.com)

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Newegg stock price falls 17.7% after Chinese owner is detained by authorities (tomshardware.com)

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Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once (matuzo.at)

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The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland (newrepublic.com)

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Dead Code (underlap.org)

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Letting Yourself Catch Up (nik.art)

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Is almost everyone wrong about America's AI power problem? (epochai.substack.com)

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When do most people have the day off? (not-ship.com)

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What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis (2025) (statsignificant.com)

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The Year Of The Linux Desktop (for fitness games) (steele.blue)

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Agents Are About to Change Software (solomon.io)

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Do savings accounts lose money to inflation? (shkspr.mobi)

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I'm Swearing Off APIs (daverupert.com)

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Exploring the Myers Diff Algorithm in ColdFusion (bennadel.com)

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FOSS maintenance as emotional labor: software stewardship mimics librarianship (hughrundle.net)

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Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year (yale.edu)

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An anecdote about backward compatibility (plover.com)

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Why Over-Privileged AI Agents Are the Next Enterprise Blind Spot (linuxinsider.com)

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Evolution of the Plastic Bottle (lumafield.com)

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Microsoft Keeps Adding Windows Features, but Trust Keeps Eroding (ghacks.net)

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Stop Killing Games verified count for EU petition is just under 1.3M (gamingonlinux.com)

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Lawsuit against ex-RuneScape dev accused of stealing $700K in player gold (massivelyop.com)

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SiteBuilder: Edit Web Content with Natural Language (kiessling.net)

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I Want to Use LLMs in 2026 (soap.coffee)

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What do we mean when we talk about pollution and toxicity in online spaces? (thoughtshrapnel.com)

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Waiting for the Power to Go Out (daverupert.com)

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Printing things in colour is not simple (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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BGP Vortex: Internet Routing Vortices Create Outages by Preventing Convergence (internetsociety.org)

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Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare: Microsoft says some PCs might not boot (windowscentral.com)

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Generative AI is not trained on "data" (deniz.aksimsek.tr)

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Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday (windowscentral.com)

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(Open) Widevine support added to the Chromium port (undeadly.org)

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EFF calls Daybreak a copyright bully over its EverQuest emulator lawsuit (massivelyop.com)

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Combating AI coding atrophy with Rust (kau.sh)

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My local news site redirects you to a third party website for ad blockers (clintmcmahon.com)

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Redditor discovers card skimmer script on Canadian retailer checkout page (videocardz.com)

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Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea (theverge.com)

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I Replaced Grammarly with This AI Prompt (Tested on Copilot) (canro91.github.io)

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Interesting facts I've learned about wildfires over the years (madole.xyz)

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Exposing Privileged Ports with Podman (2024) (jdboyd.net)

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Listening to Devices with Libudev (2022) (fnune.com)

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Back to Bash (rgoswami.me)

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How to Solve Santa Claus Concurrency Puzzle with a Model Checker (wyounas.github.io)

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Deleting Code for Performance (dbushell.com)

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Dependency Churn and You (turnerhallow.co.uk)

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Why the return of the MP3 player is a mini vinyl revival in the making (loudersound.com)

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Teaching Economics to the Machines (nber.org)

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Apple Silicon Approaches AMD's Laptop Market Share Only Five Years In (techpowerup.com)

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Kioxia's memory is sold out for 2026, prolonging a high-end and expensive phase (arstechnica.com)

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Meta wants to block social media use, mental health in child safety trial (wired.com)

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Microsoft updates Notepad and Paint with more AI features (bleepingcomputer.com)