Articles by alphabettsy
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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (alexellis.io)

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Meta Says Porn Stash Was for 'Personal Use,' Not Training AI Models (gizmodo.com)

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Grok says its 'skeptical' about Holocaust death toll, blames 'programming error' (techcrunch.com)

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B2 Overdrive: Terabit-Speed Throughput for AI/ML and HPC Workloads (backblaze.com)

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Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk" (arstechnica.com)

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Trump administration's blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher (wired.com)

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Private Credit: Replacing Banks for Business Loans? (conversableeconomist.com)

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Browse your Mac's log with LogUI (eclecticlight.co)

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Increasingly Insecure in Sequoia (eclecticlight.co)

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Faster Go Maps with Swiss Tables (go.dev)

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Mac mini M4 Pro first impressions, cores and more (eclecticlight.co)

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JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch (jeffgeerling.com)

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iCloud has changed in Sequoia: pinning and more (eclecticlight.co)

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Tandem OLED is OLED's latest weapon in holding off MicroLED, QDEL (arstechnica.com)

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End of cash bail in Illinois has not resulted in more crime, has impacted courts (cbsnews.com)

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Refuting: "US gov data" confirms "143,233% rise in cancer due to Covid vaccine" (sciencebasedmedicine.org)

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One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days (bsky.app)

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Backpage co-founder sentenced to five years in prison (theverge.com)

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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)

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Lyft follows in Uber's footsteps with a rider verification program (techcrunch.com)

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Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found (muckrock.com)

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Trump announces The DeFiant Ones, a new cryptocurrency platform (theverge.com)

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Chicago Police Made Nearly 200k Secret Traffic Stops Last Year (boltsmag.org)

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Redbox app axed, dashing people's hopes of keeping purchased content (arstechnica.com)

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Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices (daringfireball.net)

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Three women contract HIV from dirty "vampire facials" at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)

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Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests (olegkutkov.me)

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Speedy SD Express cards have gone nowhere for years, Samsung could change that (arstechnica.com)

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[flagged] Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs for Cover After Acorn Falls on Car (jalopnik.com)

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Android malware Chameleon disables Fingerprint Unlock to steal PINs (bleepingcomputer.com)

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New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days (schneier.com)

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UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users' accounts (arstechnica.com)

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Updates to Location History and new controls coming soon to Maps (blog.google)

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Qi2 wireless charging spec is here, offering speed boosts and magnets (arstechnica.com)

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Tuta Is an Independent Company and Not Linked to Five Eyes Secret Services (tuta.com)

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Government Surveillance Reform Act of '23 Seeks to End Warrantless Police Spying (wired.com)

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USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector (theverge.com)

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Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe (arstechnica.com)

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St. Louis Cop Sabotaged His Own Cases to Undermine a Prosecutor (propublica.org)

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American Airlines Shakes Up Airport Gating with Automation (wsj.com)

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Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop (jeffgeerling.com)

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People were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown (technologyreview.com)

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Enhanced Google Play Protect real-time scanning for app installs (googleblog.com)

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Forcing PCI Express Gen 3.0 speeds on the Pi 5 (jeffgeerling.com)

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Lumber prices down 11% YoY (calculatedriskblog.com)

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Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens (theverge.com)

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When Tail Lights Lose Touch with Reality (hackaday.com)

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Wyze webcam might have let other owners peek into your house (theverge.com)

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Twitter, now X, took over the x handle without warning or compensating its owner (techcrunch.com)

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What the Apple Watch Ultra taught me about multiband GPS and failure (theverge.com)

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Before His Killing Tech Exec Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs (wsj.com)

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[dupe] Amazon discontinues AmazonSmile charity donation program amid cost cuts (cnbc.com)

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Woman uses AirTag to track down luggage lost by United Airlines (imore.com)

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Musk Kills Twitter Audio Feature After Talk with Journalists (gizmodo.com)

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Dangerous “Kids Online Safety Act” Does Not Belong in Must-Pass Legislation (eff.org)

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Twitter suspends ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up (arstechnica.com)

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Advanced Data Protection for iCloud – Platform Security Guide (support.apple.com)

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Apple launches end-to-end encryption for iCloud data (techcrunch.com)

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F-150 Lighting Evidently Bricked While Charging at Electrify America Station (carscoops.com)

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Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Triggered by iPhone Satellite SOS (alaska.gov)

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Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut (theverge.com)

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Elon Musk Bans Remote Work at Twitter in First Email to Staff (gizmodo.com)

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Twitter will add ‘official’ badge to high-profile accounts (techcrunch.com)

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External Hard Drive 11TB Portable Hard Drive USB 3.1 Portable Hard Drive - $80 (amazon.com)

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Food Prices Soar, and So Do Companies’ Profits (archive.org)

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Comcast wanted $210k for Internet–so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP (arstechnica.com)

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What’s Wrong with NFTs (kaspersky.com)

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Does the iPhone 14 Pro Crash Detection Work? – Car Accident Experiment

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Planning Go 1.20 cryptography work

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Plex imposes password reset after hackers steal data for 15M users

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TuSimple reportedly tried to pass off a selfdriving truck crash as ‘human error’