Articles by jbegley
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How 'Handala' Became the Face of Iran's Hacker Counterattacks (wired.com)

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Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware (techcrunch.com)

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What the CIA's "Queen of Torture" did next (newstatesman.com)

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Aperture, by Tailscale (tailscale.com)

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Show HN: Subway – The Fastest NYC Train App (apps.apple.com)

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Vit: Git for Video Editing (github.com/lucashjin)

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The Authority of Thought (harpers.org)

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Electricity is eating the world. Is it time for an American Shenzhen? (darkmatter.blog)

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The Dark Matter of Hardware Engineering (darkmatter.blog)

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We're All Just 'Monitoring the Situation' (bloomberg.com)

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Transference in the Afternoon (granta.com)

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On the Clock (harpers.org)

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One of the Thousands Missing (wired.com)

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What Do Coders Do After AI? (anildash.com)

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Data Centers Are Military Targets Now (theintercept.com)

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US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks (wired.com)

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

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What 81,000 people want from AI (anthropic.com)

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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years (nytimes.com)

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Confer is bringing foundational AI privacy to Meta (confer.to)

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In Search of Banksy (reuters.com)

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From CIA to CEO, Spies Step Out of the Shadows and into the Boardroom (bloomberg.com)

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My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler (theatlantic.com)

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Foreign hacker compromised Epstein files held by FBI (reuters.com)

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says (nytimes.com)

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A Mysterious Code Is Being Broadcast on Shortwave Radio. Is It Iran? (theatlantic.com)

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From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War's 'Playbook' (wired.com)

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GPT 5.4 is Launching (twitter.com/sama)

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How Anonymous Bettors Cashed in on the Iran Strike, Hours Before It Happened (nytimes.com)

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CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack (washingtonpost.com)

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How Trump Decided to Go to War (nytimes.com)

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Elevated Errors on Opus 4.6 (claude.com)

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The Forever Wars of 1984 (junot.substack.com)

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Junot Diaz on George Orwell (thesirennews.com)

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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash (nytimes.com)

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Jemini Deep Research (twitter.com/jmailarchive)

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Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff (nytimes.com)

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Prediction Marketing (ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com)

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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance (wired.com)

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They Fought for the CIA in Afghanistan. In America, They're Living in Fear (nytimes.com)

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DHS Will Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry (washingtonpost.com)

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How AI is transforming freelance journalism (niemanlab.org)

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FBI 'Asset' Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years (wired.com)

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Pentagon-Anthropic battle pushes other AI labs into major dilemma (axios.com)

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Inside The Birthplace of Your Favorite Technology (nytimes.com)

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Show HN: XDL – A Twitter Video Downloader with No Ads (xdl.vercel.app)

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Show HN: XDL Video Downloader (xdl.vercel.app)

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Modern Treasury (moderntreasury.com)

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The Newest Old Tech in Warfare: Balloons (wsj.com)

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Cloudflare Reports Issues as X and Amazon Web Services Are Disrupted (nytimes.com)

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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections (nytimes.com)

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Navalny Killed by Frog Toxin, European Governments Say (nytimes.com)

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How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files (nytimes.com)

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Anthropic's Chief on A.I.: 'We Don't Know If the Models Are Conscious' (nytimes.com)

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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either (newyorker.com)

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Anthropic Puts $20M into a Super PAC to Counter OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon (nytimes.com)

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Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown (nytimes.com)

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Cubans Sent to U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Are Returned to Cuba (nytimes.com)

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Private Inference (confer.to)

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Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure (nytimes.com)

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What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work (medium.com/aglaforge)

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ICE expands power of agents to arrest people without warrants (nytimes.com)

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Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (nytimes.com)

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Apple’s new security feature limits network collection of precise location data (techcrunch.com)

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ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans (kenklippenstein.com)

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TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] Secret ICE Programs Revealed (kenklippenstein.com)

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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane (nytimes.com)

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Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows (nytimes.com)

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Why Does A.I. Write Like…That? (nytimes.com)

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Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know? (wired.com)

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Watched, Tracked, Targeted: Life in Gaza Under Surveillance Regime (nymag.com)

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India Orders a Tracking App to Be Installed in All Smartphones (nytimes.com)

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I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain (nytimes.com)

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The Most Likely AI Apocalypse (vox.com)

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Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found (zeteo.com)

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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels (nytimes.com)

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What the Look of Your Favorite Podcast Is Trying to Tell You (nytimes.com)

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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves (schneier.com)

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Digital Blackface Is Back in the Form of Black AI Influencers (teenvogue.com)

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Faking Receipts with AI (schneier.com)

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Who Wrote that headline? Maybe a Robot (nytimes.com)

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JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures (nytimes.com)

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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business with Its Bomb-Makers (theintercept.com)

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Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela (nytimes.com)

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Nanochat (twitter.com/karpathy)

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Can OpenAI build a social network? (maxread.substack.com)

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OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse) (nytimes.com)

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Great hack that led to an even better email exchange (twitter.com/phalgooon)

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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders (nytimes.com)

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Intel Said to Seek Investment from Apple (nytimes.com)

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US-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says (nytimes.com)

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Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop (e-flux.com)

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A Nighttime Raid (nytimes.com)

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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says (nytimes.com)

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How ChatGPT Surprised Me (nytimes.com)

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The internet wants to check your ID (newyorker.com)

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Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza (washingtonpost.com)

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U.K. Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood in September, Barring Cease-Fire (nytimes.com)