Articles by thm
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The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley (restofworld.org)

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EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)

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Behind the scenes at Wirecutter for an epic duel of air purifiers (niemanlab.org)

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eBay Rejects GameStop's $55B Takeover Bid (nytimes.com)

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People Who Don't Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions (theatlantic.com)

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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (reddit.com)

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Byron Allen Is Buying BuzzFeed, Will Become CEO (variety.com)

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Landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area (arstechnica.com)

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BuzzFeed (Still Exists) Missed a Debt Payment, Could Default (amediaoperator.com)

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I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care (telegraph.co.uk)

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Noyb: "LinkedIn locks GDPR rights behind a paywall" (heise.de)

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Native Instruments Acquired by InMusic (native-instruments.com)

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

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David Sacks, The Venture-Capital Populist (theatlantic.com)

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AI Is Forcing CEOs to Make a Stark Choice: Lay Off Workers or Make Them Do More (wsj.com)

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DeepSeek nears $45B valuation as China's 'Big Fund' leads investment talks (ft.com)

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Apple to let users choose rival AI models across iOS 27 features (reuters.com)

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I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did. (wsj.com)

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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (nytimes.com)

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The Biggest Animal Migration–and Few Outsiders Have Seen It (wsj.com)

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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat (wired.com)

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The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of 'Podslop' (bloomberg.com)

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One photographer's passion project of capturing local newsrooms (apnews.com)

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You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry (wsj.com)

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Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl over Unauthorized Use (newsmediaalliance.org)

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Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass (nytimes.com)

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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)

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In Praise of Tech Troublemakers (ft.com)

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Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated (404media.co)

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Meta Is Preparing to Have to Undo Its Manus Acquisition After China Ban (wsj.com)

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XChat, X's standalone messaging app, now available (9to5mac.com)

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The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere (restofworld.org)

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A Full Apple Ecosystem Now Costs Less Than a MacBook Pro (macrumors.com)

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Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform (petapixel.com)

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OpenAI turns on cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT (digiday.com)

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How Cybercrime Became a Leading Industry in 'Scambodia' (wsj.com)

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Could AI's leading men become as powerful as Ford or Rockefeller? (economist.com)

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Our Long Love Affair with Gold (wsj.com)

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YouTube finally gives you a way to kill Shorts (androidpolice.com)

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Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases (semafor.com)

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The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)

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Teens' Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat (pewresearch.org)

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Wall Street's Elite Team of Coffee Tasters Who Keep the Global Market Running (wsj.com)

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The Gemini app is now on Mac (blog.google)

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'No more excuses': Von der Leyen says EU age checking app is ready (politico.eu)

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Apple Launches New All-in-One Apple Business Platform (macrumors.com)

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Kraken Refuses Extortion Demands After Criminal Group Films Internal Systems (blockhead.co)

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OpenAI's oddly socialist hypocritical new economic agenda (vox.com)

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Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions (pewresearch.org)

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How Fake People Became Real Influencers (theatlantic.com)

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How AI Is Reimagining the Game of Golf–For Both Players and Courses (wsj.com)

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For Artemis II, Returning to Earth May Be the Most Dangerous Part of the Mission (nytimes.com)

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Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself (theverge.com)

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How much of success is luck? (asmartbear.com)

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Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo (macrumors.com)

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Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying (theverge.com)

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FDA had already warned the self-proclaimed 'fastest growing company in history' (drugdiscoverytrends.com)

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Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children's book (theguardian.com)

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The Epic 50-Year Story of Apple, Told Through the WSJ Archive (wsj.com)

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A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia (niemanlab.org)

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Prediction Markets Make a Bet Against Public Health (undark.org)

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Tim Cook (Still) Believes in Crazy Ideas (esquire.com)

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Italy delays coal phase-out by over a decade (beyondfossilfuels.org)

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All Google users in the US can now change their Gmail address (engadget.com)

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California to impose new AI regulations in defiance of Trump call (theguardian.com)

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See How Hollywood's Job Market Is Collapsing (wsj.com)

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Event Wagers Face $143M Insider Problem as War Bets Boom (bloomberg.com)

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Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it (9to5mac.com)

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The SEO parasites buying, exploiting and ultimately killing online newsbrands (pressgazette.co.uk)

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Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles (theverge.com)

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OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot (engadget.com)

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The Social-Media Shakedown Begins (wsj.com)

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Is AI Conscious? It Depends What Consciousness Is (wsj.com)

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Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models from Google's Gemini (macrumors.com)

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I Let AI Plan My Seaside Break and Wound Up Swimming in the North Sea (wsj.com)

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The EU Trips Itself Up in the AI Race (wsj.com)

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25 years of Mac OS X (apple.com)

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The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep (wired.com)

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Crunchyroll probes breach after hacker claims to steal 6.8M users' data (bleepingcomputer.com)

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[dupe] The machine didn't take your craft, you gave it up (davidabram.dev)

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[flagged] OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 (reuters.com)

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Steve Jobs Talks iBook, AirPort, and More in Newly Surfaced 1999 Video (macrumors.com)

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Apple Store External Storage Prices Spike Amid AI-Driven Shortage (macrumors.com)

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The Myspace Dilemma Facing ChatGPT (theatlantic.com)

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The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives (wsj.com)

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Polymarket Says It Deals Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled with Falsehoods (nytimes.com)

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DoorDash's New Paid Tasks Turn Couriers into AI and Robot Trainers (bloomberg.com)

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Search Referral Traffic Down 60% for Small Publishers, Data Shows (searchenginejournal.com)

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Math in the AI Era (3quarksdaily.com)

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Apple's Cheap AI Bet Could Pay Off Big (wsj.com)

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How to Future (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training (reuters.com)

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The Age of Eerie A.I. Political Ads Is Here (nytimes.com)

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Russia Shuts Off Internet in Moscow as It Tests Nationwide Censorship System (wsj.com)

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Largest German gym for humanoid robots being built in Munich (heise.de)

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Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans (wired.com)

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Patrons of Journalism (hamiltonnolan.com)

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Gilmour's 'Black Strat' Sells for $14.55M, the Most Expensive Guitar Ever Sold (rollingstone.com)

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Dreaming of a Ten-Year Computer (alexwlchan.net)

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AI Isn't Lightening Workloads. It's Making Them More Intense (wsj.com)