Articles by gostsamo
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight (acoup.blog)

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Serious Weaknesses in the EU Age Verification App (twitter.com/intcyberdigest)

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Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians (acoup.blog)

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ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency (reuters.com)

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Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter (universetoday.com)

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The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms (bbc.com)

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Spacecraft Heat Shields Could Violently "Burst" in Alien Atmospheres (universetoday.com)

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Why China insists on internal unity and international harmony (aeon.co)

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Spacecraft Heat Shields Could Violently "Burst" in Alien Atmospheres (universetoday.com)

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Apple's last tower topples and the others will follow (theregister.com)

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Trump signature to appear on US currency, ending 165-year tradition (reuters.com)

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[dupe] Meta ordered to pay $375M in New Mexico trial over child exploitation (reuters.com)

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Apple to bring paid ads to maps to US, Canada this summer (reuters.com)

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Broadcasters urge EU to tighten rules for Big Tech in smart TV standoff (reuters.com)

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Musk found liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44B takeover (reuters.com)

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Mystery AI model revealed to be Xiaomi's following suspicions it was DeepSeek V4 (reuters.com)

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Pathways to a fair technological future [pdf] (forbrukerradet.no)

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)

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Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief says (reuters.com)

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[flagged] Microslop Manifesto (microslop.com)

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Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx (aeon.co)

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In the late 1800s alien 'engineers' altered our world forever (aeon.co)

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Cosmic version 1 to hit desktops on December 11 (theregister.com)

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Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings (apnews.com)

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Elephant Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century (salutemmundo.wordpress.com)

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The Day Grok Told Everyone About 'White Genocide' (theatlantic.com)

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ECB hopes to have political deal on digital euro by early 2026 (reuters.com)

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TikTok charged with breaching EU online content rules (reuters.com)

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RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox (theregister.com)

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OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial (reuters.com)

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The Truth about Atlantis (2019) (talesoftimesforgotten.com)

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US judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies (reuters.com)

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US SEC officials push back as Musk's DOGE seeks broad access (reuters.com)

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In sudden change of course, Trump lowers tariffs for most countries (reuters.com)

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Italy pursues payment from Meta, X and LinkedIn in landmark tax case (reuters.com)

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Apple loses German antitrust fight, faces greater scrutiny (reuters.com)

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Brave wants court to endorse scraping of News Corp content (theregister.com)

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Apple, Meta likely to face modest fines over DMA breaches, sources say (reuters.com)

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Apple Readies Dramatic Software Overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac (bloomberg.com)

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Europe's Ariane 6 deploys spy satellite in first full mission (reuters.com)

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Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight (theregister.com)

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Diversity: The U.S. Military's Not-So-Secret Weapon ( (angrystaffofficer.com)

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German regulator charges Apple with abuse of power over app tracking tool (reuters.com)

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Meta to show rival ads providers on Marketplace after EU antitrust fine (reuters.com)

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Diversity: The U.S. Military's Not-So-Secret Weapon (angrystaffofficer.com)

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Tech drags global shares lower on China's AI push (reuters.com)

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Microsoft Joins Cispe (theregister.com)

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The Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus (acoup.blog)

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Europe's Maiaspace steps up effort to counter SpaceX with reusable rocket (reuters.com)

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Extra virgin olive oil is the flavour of mechanisation (aeon.co)

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Brazil lifts ban on Musk's X after it pays $5M fine (bbc.com)

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Foreign operators may be using Boeing 737s with suspect rudder control parts (reuters.com)

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Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking (reuters.com)

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Dozens arrested as crime message network dismantled (bbc.com)

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EU court rules Google must pay €2.4B fine (bbc.com)

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Appeals court revives TikTok 'blackout challenge' death suit (theregister.com)

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Microsoft resurrects Windows Recall for upcoming preview (theregister.com)

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Disney drops bid to stop allergy death lawsuit over Disney+ terms (bbc.com)

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OpenAI unveils cheaper small AI model GPT-4o mini (reuters.com)

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Gitlab Explores Sale (reuters.com)

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EU charges X with deceiving users via blue checkmark, draws Musk's ire (reuters.com)

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Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight (esa.int)

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Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe (reuters.com)

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How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II (acoup.blog)

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How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I (acoup.blog)

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No more chicken Big Macs – EU court rules against McDonald's in trademark case (reuters.com)

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Missing Cryptoqueen's murky links to Bulgarian underworld (bbc.com)

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Early Medieval International Relations: Part 1 – Notions of Nations (salutemmundo.wordpress.com)

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Colombia begins exploring 'holy grail of shipwrecks' (bbc.com)

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On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II (acoup.blog)

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On fake medieval devices – both torture and sexual (going-medieval.com)

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The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part I (acoup.blog)

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Tell HN: Anthropic Now Available in the EU

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Probing single electrons across 300-mm spin qubit wafers (nature.com)

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Amazon breaks into Europe 5G networks with Telefonica cloud deal (reuters.com)

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42 Balloons: New musical follows man who flew over LA in a garden chair (bbc.com)

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Device Bound Session Credentials Explainer (github.com/wicg)

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Governments and business like to offload risk to individuals (aeon.co)

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Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications (theregister.com)

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Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander (acoup.blog)

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NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft (nasa.gov)

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Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn announces plan for €25M giveaway (bbc.com)

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Discovering Malmesbury's 'gangster' medieval monk (bbc.com)

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Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics (acoup.blog)

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Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and Not a Spear? (acoup.blog)

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Known Unknowns: The Major Sources for the Battle of Tours (salutemmundo.wordpress.com)

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More than argument, logic is the structure of reality (aeon.co)

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Alaska Air pilot in aborted flight said he used magic mushrooms, documents show (reuters.com)

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Elon Musk says X to have two new premium tiers (bbc.com)

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Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization (acoup.blog)

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Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed (theregister.com)

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EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle (theregister.com)

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In search of better error handling for Go (orsinium.dev)

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The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e (acoup.blog)

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LogicMonitor customers hit by hackers, because of default passwords (techcrunch.com)

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West Point time capsule: Coins and medal found in mysterious box (bbc.com)

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SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope to map the 'dark universe' (space.com)

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The Marian Reforms Weren’t a Thing (acoup.blog)

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Who Were ‘The Celts’ and How Did They (Some of Them) Fight? (acoup.blog)

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Firefox 113.0 Release Notes (mozilla.org)