Articles by beardyw
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The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward (wired.com)

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Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage (theregister.com)

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Trump made $1.4B from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him? (theguardian.com)

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Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers (scientificamerican.com)

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Datacentres need to consider alternatives to grid connection (computerweekly.com)

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The New York nurses replaced by AI: 'It should concern every patient who cares' (theguardian.com)

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Telstra CEO 'deeply sorry' for outage, admits risk of time-keeping failure known (theguardian.com)

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Chasing new skills, going back to basics: how software engineers adapting to AI (theguardian.com)

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T. rex fossil could become most expensive dinosaur ever sold (bbc.co.uk)

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To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate the Neurochemistry (github.com/smithandrewjohn)

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El Niño Is Wreaking Havoc on Pacific Fisheries (wired.com)

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International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour (scientificamerican.com)

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Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain for spreading lies? (theguardian.com)

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GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues (theregister.com)

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AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top (theregister.com)

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Wikipedia Banned Its Co-Founder Because Its Rules Mostly Work (techdirt.com)

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Meta's AI 'Perv Glasses' Now Come with Stupid Comcast-Esque Usage Restrictions (techdirt.com)

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Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town (wired.com)

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US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (theguardian.com)

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Ancient cave paintings can harbor human DNA for millennia, scientists find (scientificamerican.com)

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Companies Are Making Claude, Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AIs Soaring Costs (404media.co)

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The EU Wants to Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible (techdirt.com)

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AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them (theregister.com)

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Stop Killing Games Pivots to Amending Digital Fairness Act in EU After Loss (techdirt.com)

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The brain was never just a language model (computerweekly.com)

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Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state's child social media ban (theguardian.com)

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US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive (theregister.com)

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Google found liable for bad AI Overview results Let's play Truth Or Consequences (theregister.com)

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Starmer to announce 'Australia plus' ban on social media for under-16s in UK (theguardian.com)

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Google's DiffusionGemma uses diffusion tech to speed text generation (theregister.com)

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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones (theguardian.com)

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Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts (theregister.com)

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First wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China (theguardian.com)

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GitHub nukes 70 Microsoft repos, breaks pipelines, suspected worm infections (theregister.com)

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Grid connection requested for US fusion power plant (world-nuclear-news.org)

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A Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea (theguardian.com)

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Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way's black hole (scientificamerican.com)

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How Do You Feel About Electronic Shelf Labels? (hackaday.com)

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UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract (theregister.com)

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Google Is Quietly Buying Code from Play Store Developers to Train AI (404media.co)

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I spent $2k.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making? (theguardian.com)

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Hackers trick Meta AI support bot to infiltrate Obama White House Instagram (theguardian.com)

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Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival (theguardian.com)

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Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers (theguardian.com)

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Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills by pruning agent instructions (theregister.com)

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Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs (theregister.com)

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Nike World Cup Uniforms Made of Recycled Textiles Won't Solve Fashion Waste (wired.com)

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Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century (wired.com)

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Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (theregister.com)

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Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries (theregister.com)

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Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience (theregister.com)

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HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff (theregister.com)

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Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's crusade against hyperscalers (theregister.com)

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Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes (theguardian.com)

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MPs call out Rockstar Games over alleged union-busting (computerweekly.com)

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SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist – IPO filing (theregister.com)

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Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment (scientificamerican.com)

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Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder (theguardian.com)

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Jury Hands Victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in Battle with Elon Musk (theguardian.com)

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Nobody's negotiating for the people here: Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters (theguardian.com)

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What we learned from a cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman (theguardian.com)

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Why the US Can't Adopt Ukraine's Innovative Approach to Unmanned Warfare Systems (techdirt.com)

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Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors (theregister.com)

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Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 (theregister.com)

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Cerebras risked dinner plate-sized AI accelerators. Today it's worth $66B (theregister.com)

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Math reveals the one game of chance you should always accept (scientificamerican.com)

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Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less (theregister.com)

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Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)

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Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks (theregister.com)

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Sulfurous hell world might change the way we classify exoplanets (scientificamerican.com)

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National Academy of Sciences experts denounce Trump's NSF board purge (scientificamerican.com)

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Forget the AI job apocalypse. AIs real threat is worker control and surveillance (theguardian.com)

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Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future (theguardian.com)

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Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse (theregister.com)

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The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there (scientificamerican.com)

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TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion (theregister.com)

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AWS lets agents drive virtual desktops which could cost 500k tokens per click (theregister.com)

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British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card (theregister.com)

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Google AI workers vote to unionise over IDF and US Military tech (computerweekly.com)

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Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work (theregister.com)

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Ways to Make Cold (hackaday.com)

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Ask.com, home of search butler Jeeves closes as conversational search comes back (theregister.com)

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Do octopus brains work like humans'–or is there another way to be smart? (nature.com)

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Watch NASA test its new X-59 jet designed to go faster than the speed of sound (scientificamerican.com)

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway (theregister.com)

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'Completely horrible': UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews (theguardian.com)

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Claude⁹'s confession deleting database: 'I violated every principle I was given' (theguardian.com)

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The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain (wired.com)

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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration (nature.com)

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Musk and Altman's bitter feud over OpenAI to be laid bare in court (theguardian.com)

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Electric air taxis. Vertical Aerospace's VX4 just cleared a key test (scientificamerican.com)

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Ask HN: Can AI free us from horrible checkbox feedback forms?

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Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay (theregister.com)

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NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer (theregister.com)

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AI vendors' response to security flaws: It wasn't me (theregister.com)

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Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' 200K servers at risk, researchers say (theregister.com)

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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand 'shameful' Palantir NHS contract be scrapped (theguardian.com)

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'How do I end a call?': the elderly Japanese determined to master smartphones (theguardian.com)

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UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk (theregister.com)

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Don't Trust Password Managers? Hippo May Be the Answer (hackaday.com)