Articles by spenvo
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Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission (modernretail.co)

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AI Boom Threatens to Suck Resources Away from Road, Bridge Work (bloomberg.com)

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The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy (ceodinner.substack.com)

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SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade (nature.com)

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Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients (washingtonpost.com)

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Show HN: a deterministic chess variant with cheat resistance and tons of variety (argonchess.com)

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Privacy loophole: don't even "Dismiss" the "How is Claude doing this session?" (keydiscussions.com)

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Assume that "How is Claude doing this session?" is a privacy loophole (keydiscussions.com)

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YouTube reinstating creators banned for Covid-19, election content (thehill.com)

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OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring (wsj.com)

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Microsoft tries to poach Meta AI talent with multimillion-dollar pay packages (businessinsider.com)

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Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's "I am a failure" comments (businessinsider.com)

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Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026 (9to5google.com)

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (techcrunch.com)

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The Making of Dario Amodei (bigtechnology.com)

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Despite deepfake audio tech, banks, ISPs push voice print authentication (2021) (keydiscussions.com)

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iOS 26 beta 4 adds more 'liquid' back to Liquid Glass design (9to5mac.com)

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Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say (washingtonpost.com)

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Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12 and older in the App Store (platformer.news)

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Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding (reuters.com)

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[flagged] Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler" (twitter.com/goodside)

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AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate – but that's not the whole story (techcrunch.com)

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X Will Deploy AI to Write Community Notes, Expand Fact-Checking (bloomberg.com)

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Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' (wired.com)

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Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)

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Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents (techcrunch.com)

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Key Senators Strike Deal to Pause State AI Laws for Five Years (bloomberg.com)

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AI Killed My Job: Tech Workers (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Sam Altman takes his 'io' trademark battle public (theverge.com)

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AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [video] (youtube.com)

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Anthropic bags fair use win but faces trial for using pirated works (aifray.com)

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Trump Planning to Extend TikTok Deadline–Again (wsj.com)

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TechCrunch rocks industry with European shutdown: 'A gut punch to the ecosystem' (sifted.eu)

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Trump to launch branded crypto trading application (citationneeded.news)

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Apple to Debut Dedicated Gaming App Within Days of Switch 2's Arrival (bloomberg.com)

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US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting (politico.com)

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Meta shuffles AI team to compete with OpenAI and Google (axios.com)

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Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Blow to Nonconsensual Porn Ecosystem (404media.co)

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Am I hot or not? People are asking ChatGPT for the harsh truth (washingtonpost.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back? (bloomberg.com)

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It Might Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google Says (decrypt.co)

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Stack Overflow is almost dead (pragmaticengineer.com)

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At Google I/O, everything is changing and normal and scary and chill (platformer.news)

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Epic Games' Fortnite back up on Apple App Store in US after nearly 5 years (reuters.com)

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Apple to Open AI Models to Developers, Betting That It Will Spur New Apps (bloomberg.com)

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House bill advances from Budget Committee with state AI regulation ban included (cnn.com)

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AI job interview: Job hunting was already hard. Then came glitching HR robots (slate.com)

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Severed Fingers and 'Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite (wsj.com)

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Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent (washingtonpost.com)

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Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws (bloodinthemachine.com)

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CFPB Kills Rule to Shield Americans from Data Brokers (wired.com)

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Nintendo Switch 2: final tech specs and system reservations confirmed (eurogamer.net)

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Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office backfired (theverge.com)

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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain (techcrunch.com)

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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation into Budget Reconciliation Bill (404media.co)

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An $8.4B Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado (wired.com)

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Musk's Grok AI was specifically instructed not to say he spread misinformation (the-independent.com)

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Trump set to raise millions from crypto and meme coin this month (cnbc.com)

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The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked (micahflee.com)

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Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool (semafor.com)

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[dupe] The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked (404media.co)

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An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked (techcrunch.com)

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OpenAI tests watermarking for ChatGPT-4o Image Generation model (bleepingcomputer.com)

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DeepSeek releases their latest DeepSeek v3 model, now featuring an MIT license (simonwillison.net)

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A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 (oneusefulthing.org)

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Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT can get it very wrong (about your product) (keydiscussions.com)

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AI vision startup Metropolis buys Oosto (formerly AnyVision) for just $125M (techcrunch.com)

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Unofficial Barron Trump memecoin rose to $460M market cap before crashing 95% (theblock.co)

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Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business (axios.com)

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Apple starts pushing AirPods owners into Transparency mode, with no easy opt out (keydiscussions.com)

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Apple opts AirPods owners into Loud Sound Reduction, nixing a Noise Control mode (keydiscussions.com)

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OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search Features to All Users (bloomberg.com)

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Google Debuts New Quantum Chip, Error Correction Breakthrough, Roadmap Details (hpcwire.com)

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Set a custom image as a menu bar icon for each of your Mac's Spaces (currentkey.com)

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Example of running a tech pod episode into NotebookLM; it picked AI as its theme [video] (youtube.com)

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Devs will have their mailing addresses posted in EU App Store, thanks to the DSA (currentkey.com)

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Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI (wired.com)

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Napkin math suggests Bitcoin will perish unless its mining incentives change (keydiscussions.com)

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Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos (washingtonpost.com)

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Insecure Trump Lies, Claims Harris Crowd Was Manipulated with AI (rollingstone.com)

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Researcher Discovers yet Another Flaw in Georgia's Voter Cancellation Portal (propublica.org)

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Scoop: X sues major brands, ad industry group for antitrust (axios.com)

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Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon (searchengineland.com)

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Elon Musk's Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit (nytimes.com)

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[dupe] FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users' real-time location data (arstechnica.com)

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It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis – and they're awesome (businessinsider.com)

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Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers? (nytimes.com)

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Intel Debuts Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator: Going Bigger and Aiming Higher in AI Market (anandtech.com)

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The Black Market That Delivers Elon Musk's Starlinks to U.S. Foes (wsj.com)

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[flagged] Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same basic challenges (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Dexcom's first-ever over-the-counter glucose monitor patch gets FDA clearance (cnbc.com)

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Elon Musk's X has already backed off its new anti-trans hate policy (mashable.com)

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Lawmakers Demand Elon Musk Provide SpaceX Internet to US Military in Taiwan (forbes.com/sites/davidjeans)

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Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks (keydiscussions.com)

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Apple Vision Pro hands-on: Immersive Video, Disney+ app, floating keyboard, more (engadget.com)

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Journalists, Podcasters Booted from X in Latest Banning Spree (gizmodo.com)

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Researchers create first logical quantum processor (news.harvard.edu)

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OpenAI Says Board Can Overrule CEO on Safety of New AI Releases (bloomberg.com)

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Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: Quorbo 2.0, a word game using AI art derived from a daily quote (quorbo.com)