Articles by fidotron
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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56 (france24.com)

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Canada's AI strategy is set to fail before it even launches (theglobeandmail.com)

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CRTC to require streamers pay 15% of annual rev to support Canadian content (nationalpost.com)

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Fairlight CVI (Computer Video Instrument) Demo Video (1984) (youtube.com)

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(Canada) Facing backlash, Anandasangaree says tech cos 'misinterpreting' bill (cbc.ca)

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Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M for wave-powered AI (geekwire.com)

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Tribe v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain, Predicting Neural Responses (atmeta.com)

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Tumbler Ridge families seek US$1B in OpenAI lawsuit (ctvnews.ca)

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AI slop videos aimed at babies are 'garbage,' says pediatrician (cbc.ca)

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UK game development suffers its 'sharpest recorded decline' (videogameschronicle.com)

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High-performance JSON library for Elixir via Rustler NIFs, powered by sonic-rs (github.com/lpgauth)

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My HP 9000 712/60 "Gecko" Workstation Featuring HP "Color Recovery" (2005) (bytecellar.com)

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Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to accelerate open frontier models (mistral.ai)

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Native meshtastic client for HP Jornada 720/728 Win CE (github.com/northpole-code)

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FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text (old) (figlet.org)

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Family of child injured in Canada school shooting sues OpenAI (bbc.com)

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Canada's AI minister blames OpenAI for 'failure' after mass shooting (politico.com)

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Perplexity Computer (perplexity.ai)

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Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved (2024) (nytimes.com)

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Razer Made Its AI Gaming Assistant into a Waifu Hologram (gizmodo.com)

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Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company (kennethkuhn.com)

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Explained: You can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10 (windowslatest.com)

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Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time (d4rt-paper.github.io)

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Google Now (2012) (techradar.com)

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How the Economy Organizes Itself in Space: A Survey of Economic Geography (1996) (santafe.edu)

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Unity and Epic Games Together Advance the Open, Interoperable Future (unity.com)

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Valve Announces Steam Frame, a "Streaming-First" Standalone VR Headset (uploadvr.com)

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Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit to launch startup, FT reports (reuters.com)

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Rebalancing the Gut: How AI Solved a 25-Year Crohn's Disease Mystery (ucsd.edu)

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Olimex: ESP32-C5-DevKit-Lipo, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter (olimex.wordpress.com)

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Google and Epic reach proposed settlement to open Android app store access (pocketgamer.biz)

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Project Cybersyn: How a government almost controlled the economy from a room (sustema.com)

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Major US online retailers remove listings for prohibited Chinese electronics (reuters.com)

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Logitech offers customers a coupon for bricking their Pop smart home buttons (arstechnica.com)

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Halt and Catch Fire (Computing) (wikipedia.org)

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$30 a month for Ultimate – I don't think Game Pass is worth it anymore (windowscentral.com)

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The Mythical Man-Month (wikipedia.org)

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Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading (9to5google.com)

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Meta reportedly buying RISC-V AI GPU firm Rivos (tomshardware.com)

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EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by [private equity] for $55B (ea.com)

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New Quasi-Moon Discovered Orbiting Earth, but It's Been Around for Decades (explorersweb.com)

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RVV benchmark Tenstorrent Ascalon X (camel-cdr.github.io)

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Air-Guard – ESP32 Based Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection System (github.com/razvan-radutoiu)

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The Haruhi Problem (mathsci.fandom.com)

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Navy chief caught installing unauthorised satellite receiver (2024) (independent.co.uk)

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NASA bans Chinese nationals from working on its space programs (bbc.com)

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Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide (cisa.gov)

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Nvidia at Hot Chips 2025 Pushes Blackwell to Power Neural Rendering (techpowerup.com)

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GoDaddy extends backorder deadline by 60 days (domainnamewire.com)

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Pykrete (wikipedia.org)

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A generative deep learning approach to de novo antibiotic design (cell.com)

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Once an AI world leader, Canada is now losing the AI startup race (theglobeandmail.com)

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Kodak DCS 425 – Digital Nikonos (2010) (nikonweb.com)

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Fitch Downgrades Intel's IDR to 'BBB'; Outlook Negative (fitchratings.com)

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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession (japanesenostalgiccar.com)

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Two-hour screen time limit for children being considered by government (UK) (sky.com)

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Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo (theverge.com)

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Sonos Appoints Tom Conrad as Chief Executive Officer (sonos.com)

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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech (bbc.com)

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Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs (bbc.com)

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Amiga OutRun (reassembler68k.itch.io)

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Belkin Wemo Discontinuation of Service (consumerrights.wiki)

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Meta Leak Suggests Smart Glasses with Display Is Nearing Launch (roadtovr.com)

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Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 available now at $4 (raspberrypi.com)

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Olimex RP2350pc board features RP2350B MCU, HDMI/DVI video output, 4x USB ports (cnx-software.com)

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The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set (folklore.org)

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Pro-Palestinian Activists Break into RAF Brize Norton (bbc.com)

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Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over 'low' usage (theverge.com)

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Microsoft Kin (wikipedia.org)

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Introducing Dispatch (2020) (netflixtechblog.com)

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4D Gaussian Splatting Built on Top of the PlayCanvas Engine (4dv.ai)

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Series C and scale (cursor.com)

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(Canadian) Brigadier-General Cook: We need to be prepared for war by 2028-2030 (spaceq.ca)

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HPE Superdome (wikipedia.org)

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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java (swift.org)

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[flagged] Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App (winaero.com)

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Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown (2013) (bjk5.com)

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The computer revolution hasn't happened yet [video] (1997) (youtube.com)

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Rock, paper, scissors showdown (luduxia.com)

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Which Way Round – test your ability to follow object rotations (luduxia.com)

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Bell users experience widespread outage across Ontario, Quebec (cbc.ca)

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Push – A 64Kb Demo for the Acorn Archimedes (github.com/bitshifters)

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Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of Activity (1987) [pdf] (aaai.org)

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Toshiba Sparc LT (openpa.net)

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ESP WebRTC Solution Release v1.0 (github.com/espressif)

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Mario Kart 64 decompiled documentation (n64decomp.github.io)

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The Acorn Archimedes talk (2019) [video] (ccc.de)

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Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API (foundationdb.github.io)

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Alliance Ouvrière Bloque L'entrée D'Amazon Web Services à Varennes (noovo.info)

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Video shows 1975 military jet landing on motorway (bbc.com)

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Meta lays off Reality Labs employees while continuing to hire hundreds more (businessinsider.com)

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Glad not to be the Intel CEO (2014) (montrealrampage.com)

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Mypy – an optional static type checker for Python (mypy-lang.org)

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Aerial Minesweeping (2021) (historynet.com)

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Absolute Capture Timestamp RTP header extension (ietf.org)

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QuiCK: A Queuing System in CloudKit [pdf] (foundationdb.org)

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LiveKit's Series B: Building the all-in-one platform for voice AI agents (livekit.io)

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Reporters launch new TikTok-like news platform: Noosphere (semafor.com)

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Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)

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AheadComputing Welcomes Jim Keller to Board of Directors (aheadcomputing.com)