Articles by fortran77
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Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm (theatlantic.com)

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My Year of OCD (newyorker.com)

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Imagine Every AI Agent on Earth Buying the Same Cheap Paper Towels (theatlantic.com)

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The Memory Shortage Comes for Schools (theatlantic.com)

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The Tiny Sewer-Crawling Robot Designed to Solve an Underground Crisis (wsj.com)

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The Space Force Showed Us Its Weapons Used in Iran and Venezuela (wsj.com)

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German police seize humanoid robot that alleged groped teen girl (cbsnews.com)

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Bank of America fined $1.2B for money laundering and sanctions violations (cnn.com)

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Spy implant found in Ledger Flex bought at Singapore airport [video] (youtube.com)

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Choose Your Overlord: Musk vs. Bezos (theatlantic.com)

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Unboxing a new Ledger from the store and finding spy device in it (twitter.com/0xjohannes_)

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Back to School with High-Speed Attack Drones (wsj.com)

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How I Became a Lock Picker (newyorker.com)

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The 100-Year-Old Math Miscalculation That Broke the Colorado River (wsj.com)

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How Long Until AI Hacks Everything? (theatlantic.com)

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I Sent Facebook a DMCA Takedown Letter – and It Worked [video] (youtube.com)

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Are Refurbished Phones Dangerous? (wsj.com)

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View-Master Went from a Weapon Against Kodak to "Just a Toy" [video] (youtube.com)

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Startup Founders Are Working Harder Than Ever to Keep Up with Their AI Agents (wsj.com)

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America's Colleges Are Hurtling Toward an Enrollment Cliff (wsj.com)

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Are You a Human? Prove It (newyorker.com)

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Americans Love the Roar of a V-8 Engine–and They Don't Want to Give It Up (wsj.com)

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Where Has All the Testosterone Gone? (theatlantic.com)

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The StubHub Customers Who Battled for Tickets–and Battle Harder for a Refund (wsj.com)

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A California Home That Rotates 320 Degrees Takes a Spin on the Market (wsj.com)

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The Color Recession May Be Permanent (theatlantic.com)

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Move 37 Is the Moment AI Changes Everything. It's Suddenly Happening Everywhere (wsj.com)

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Supersonic Trebuchet [video] (youtube.com)

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Release: Rep. Khanna Introduces Data Center Bill of Rights (house.gov)

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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)

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I Didn't Realize How Addicted I Was to My Phone–Until I Went to Prison (wsj.com)

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Airlines Don't Want You to Buy Their Cheapest Tickets (wsj.com)

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One Man's Cure for Loneliness Started a Movement (wsj.com)

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MouthPad turns your tongue into a wireless trackpad (newatlas.com)

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The Best Parenting Hack Is Being Rich (theatlantic.com)

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The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI from China (wsj.com)

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AI Images Are Everywhere. Here's What They Do to Our Brains, and What We Can Do (wsj.com)

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Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools (theatlantic.com)

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The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI–and Just Took a Job at OpenAI (wsj.com)

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YC Startup Guaranteed Job Interviews for People Getting Company Logo Tattoo (wsj.com)

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What would it mean to see a new color? (newyorker.com)

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Could the Most Radical Plane Design Since the Concorde Take on Boeing? (wsj.com)

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Scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline (wsj.com)

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They Tried to Put Me Back in Jail [video] (youtube.com)

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Scanwheel, a miniature mechanical TV [video] (youtube.com)

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When Abraham Lincoln Fought a Duel:The Astonishing Saber Duel of Abraham Lincoln [video] (youtube.com)

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Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea (newyorker.com)

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A mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] (youtube.com)

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'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple? (nytimes.com)

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Ransomware attack forces Coca-Cola to suspend US production at dairy unit (cybersecuritydive.com)

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White Sands National Park and the Birth of the Atomic Bomb [video] (youtube.com)

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The Attention-Span Class Divide (theatlantic.com)

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The Fastest-Growing Risk to Air Travel Is Probably in Your Pocket (wsj.com)

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How View-Master Created 3D Worlds Before Computers [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet Is Dead and Nobody Cares [video] (youtube.com)

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When A.I. is a member of the family (newyorker.com)

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The Most Expensive Dinosaur Just Sold for $50.1M (wsj.com)

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Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff (theverge.com)

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Meta Is Flooding the Market with Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms (wsj.com)

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Apple's 'Thermonuclear' Response to the OpenAI Threat (wsj.com)

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The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications–and Rejects 99.9% (wsj.com)

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A Plan to Stop Solar Storms from Sending Us Back to the Stone Age (wsj.com)

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Bricks and Minifigs Tried to Get Me Arrested to Stop This Video (youtube.com)

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Counterfeit Air-Bags Are Killing U.S. Drivers–and the Government Can't Stop It (wsj.com)

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Why Did Goose Die Ejecting in Top Gun, but Maverick Didn't in Top Gun Maverick [video] (youtube.com)

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How America Celebrated Its Previous Big Birthday in 1976 (wsj.com)

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Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI' (variety.com)

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Google Must Pay Nearly $2B to Klarna in Antitrust Case (wsj.com)

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Europe Is Hot as Hell. Why Doesn't It Want Air Conditioning? (wsj.com)

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[flagged] Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall (wsj.com)

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Can a $60 Plastic Cube Solve Our Screen-Time Crisis? (wsj.com)

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New York's War on Compute (city-journal.org)

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Remember SCANTRON? How did that work? [video] (youtube.com)

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I'm Building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine [video] (youtube.com)

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How a Star Wars Lego Dispute Triggered an Armed Police Raid in Utah (wsj.com)

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Is AI Good at Stock-Market Timing? A New Study Casts Doubt (wsj.com)

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Ranch Dressing: America's Greatest Food Export (theatlantic.com)

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Does the war on "ultra-processed foods" make any sense? (theatlantic.com)

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The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride (newyorker.com)

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I'd Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast (theatlantic.com)

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See How Owning a Home Is Getting More Expensive in Every Way (wsj.com)

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The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole (theatlantic.com)

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We Did the Math on Why the iPhone 18 Pro Could Cost $1,299 (wsj.com)

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Eight Crew Members Believed Dead in B-52 Bomber Crash at California Air Base (wsj.com)

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How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Powering Cyberattacks (wsj.com)

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The Millions of Songs Mashed into AI-Generated Music (theatlantic.com)

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For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony (newyorker.com)

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Over 900 Arch Linux Packages Infected with infostealers and rootkits (archlinux.org)

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The Nerdy Escorts Cashing in on Silicon Valley's AI Boom (forbes.com/sites/annatong)

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You Have No Idea What a Trillion Dollars Is–and We Have Proof (wsj.com)

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"The only cassette mechanism being made" myth BUSTED [video] (youtube.com)

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Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It (newyorker.com)

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$3.6M an Hour–and Other Ways to Measure Elon Musk's Fortune (wsj.com)

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Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? (newyorker.com)

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Army 'Jailbreaks' Its Own Weapon Systems to Counter Drone Threats (wsj.com)

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University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT (wsj.com)

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Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents (wsj.com)

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The math world is losing its mind over the new AI solution to an Erdős problem (wsj.com)

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AI is causing a crisis of agency (theatlantic.com)

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Should You Automate Your Life? (newyorker.com)