Articles by jethronethro
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Meta fined $25B for 'lies' over user data privacy (bbc.com)

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Google's selfie video sign-in puts your face on its servers (proton.me)

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Musk pledges to give a share of his SpaceX company to 'every kid in America' (apnews.com)

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What it felt like when I was interviewed by an AI assistant (theguardian.com)

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Google must pause Finnish data center construction due to environmental concerns (posteo.de)

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Amazon is tracking you. Here's how to stop it and what to use instead (proton.me)

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CRTC allows Canadian carriers to lock phones again, with a catch (mobilesyrup.com)

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Alberta's AI data centre gamble: Big investment or local burden? (financialpost.com)

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If Apple sends you a push notification about a spyware attack, take it seriously (techcrunch.com)

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Intelligence CIOs Warn AI Agents Could Accelerate Cyberattacks (govciomedia.com)

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SpaceX plan for rocket launch site on Louisiana coast sparks backlash (theguardian.com)

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Cashing in on SpaceX: 'Every chance I get, I'll sell a little more' (bbc.com)

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Billionaire Shopify CEO thinks poor Canadians shouldn't be able to vote (mobilesyrup.com)

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Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms (theguardian.com)

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Duress Codes and How to Use Them (2024) (safeescape.org)

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Tesla's profits slide despite growing revenue as it pivots to robotics and AI (theguardian.com)

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Trend Has Russian Men Smashing Their iPhones for a Manlier Look (odditycentral.com)

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After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch (androidauthority.com)

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Student's £30 device 'translates in real time' (bbc.com)

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Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)

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Global scammers use US tech to fleece people (apnews.com)

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Doubt that Elon Musk 'earned' his trillion? (theguardian.com)

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Baidu shares jump 7% as AI chip arm said to target $50B Hong Kong IPO (cnbc.com)

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Stanford graduates rethink their futures as AI transforms tech (bbc.com)

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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked fastest (theguardian.com)

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Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits (reuters.com)

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The Technical Realities of Email Privacy (ivpn.net)

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UK social media ban for children: the privacy problems Australia exposed (proton.me)

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Paul Krugman breaks down problems with SpaceX valuation [video] (youtube.com)

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British media will be able to prevent content from feeding Google AI search (voz.us)

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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement (documentfoundation.org)

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The real-world cost of AI (rnz.co.nz)

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US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says (militarytimes.com)

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`A sense of trusting one's self': how to start building confidence (theguardian.com)

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Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

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San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar (theguardian.com)

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Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill (restofworld.org)

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Plain Text. Paper, Less (PTPL) (ellanew.com)

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Dragos Documents First LLM-Assisted Strike on Water Infrastructure in Mexico (smallwarsjournal.com)

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Health advice is all over social media. Here’s how to vet claims (apnews.com)

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Kash Patel Touts AI Overhaul of FBI Crime-Fighting Operations (decrypt.co)

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Agentic AI is giving cyber criminals nation-state-like powers (defenseone.com)

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Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say (apnews.com)

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Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author? (github.com/notepad-plus-plus)

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House panels probe Airbnb, Anysphere over use of Chinese AI models (nextgov.com)

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Is there any proof that scrolling ruins our attention span? [video] (bbc.com)

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The no-go zone paradox: Chornobyl's wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift (theguardian.com)

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Blue Origin rocket grounded after satellite 'mishap' (bbc.com)

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Canada has banned employers from ghosting job candidates (positive.news)

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Comfy.Guide (comfy.guide)

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The Perils of an Over-Optimized Life (redeemingproductivity.com)

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Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2 (electrek.co)

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The brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools (theguardian.com)

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College instructor uses typewriters to curb AI work and teach life lessons (apnews.com)

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'junk': E-waste from rich nations floods local markets in Nigeria (aljazeera.com)

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Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s (theguardian.com)

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My Prodigal Brainchild (nealstephenson.substack.com)

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CDT Europe's AI Bulletin: March 2026 (cdt.org)

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CDox: A Google Docs style editor with no AI training or data extraction (cdox.ca)

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'Invasive' AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts (theguardian.com)

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Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration (bbc.com)

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Now we have proof: dealing with difficult people does age you (theguardian.com)

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Can 'friction-maxxing' fix your focus? (bbc.com)

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Why everyone is reading fantasy (theguardian.com)

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How to Filter a Todo.txt File in Obsidian – Without Plugins (ellanew.com)

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What can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness? (theguardian.com)

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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead (theregister.com)

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AI safety staff departures raise worries about pursuit of profit at all costs (theguardian.com)

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Taiwan's AI-powered economy soars in shadow of bubble fears and China threats (apnews.com)

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How to Tell You're Being Manipulated by a Story (thinkbigpicture.substack.com)

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France Ditches US Tech: Will Europe Follow? [video] (youtube.com)

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Tesla is committing automotive suicide (electrek.co)

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Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors court filing alleges (reuters.com)

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Palantir has no place in UK public services (opendemocracy.net)

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NASA's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission (bbc.com)

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Spaceflight Prematurely Ages Astronauts (nautil.us)

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The Shaggs (wikipedia.org)

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'Tuna King' pays record £2.4M for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction (theguardian.com)

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'They sowed chaos to no avail': the lasting legacy of Elon Musk's DOGE (theguardian.com)

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Tech Billionaires Threaten to Flee California–Again (thenerdreich.com)

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Social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism (technologyreview.com)

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Top six network security best practices to protect your business (proton.me)

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Elon Musk says Doge was 'somewhat successful' but he would not do it again (bbc.com)

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Eddie Slovik (wikipedia.org)

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[flagged] Joe Lonsdale Calls for Public Hangings (thenerdreich.com)

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The Unlikely Afterlife of Big Box Stores (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Volcanic eruption may have triggered Europe's deadly Black Death plague (bbc.com)

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Sam Altman issues 'code red' at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals (theguardian.com)

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It's time to lock in and let your winter arc begin (bbc.com)

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Small changes to 'for you' feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation (theguardian.com)

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Bitcoin isn't anonymous – investigators can trace transactions on the blockchain (boingboing.net)

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Why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing (theguardian.com)

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The US is on a dangerous course without AI regulation (proton.me)

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I Remain a Skeptic Despite Working in Tech (idiallo.com)

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A woman who discovered the first black hole (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

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How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft's AI (proton.me)

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AI will slash headcount by two-thirds – retail boss (bbc.com)

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[flagged] I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT (theguardian.com)

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Calendar.txt Is the Simplest Time Planning System You Will Ever See (ellanew.com)

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OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon (theguardian.com)