Articles by pseudolus
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Why Switzerland is weighing a 10M population limit (msn.com)

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Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes (quantamagazine.org)

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Roman urbanism was bad for health, new study confirms (phys.org)

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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? (newyorker.com)

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NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one (arstechnica.com)

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Instacart's AI-enabled pricing may bump up your grocery costs by as much as 23% (cbsnews.com)

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What Happens When an "Infinite-Money Machine" Unravels (newyorker.com)

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Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras (eff.org)

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Health premiums rose nearly 3x rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years (theconversation.com)

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Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after horse has bolted (theregister.com)

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NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months (airqualitynews.com)

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Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Getting Stronger (gizmodo.com)

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Trump ban on wind power projects overturned by federal judge (cnbc.com)

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Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut (theregister.com)

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Scientists devise method to fight aging at the cellular level (washingtonpost.com)

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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (nytimes.com)

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Rotating structure of galaxies and dark matter is detected (reuters.com)

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Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (nytimes.com)

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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast (theguardian.com)

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Why We're Treating Dogs Like People and People Like Dogs (thewalrus.ca)

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Apple's chief chip architect has reportedly talked to Tim Cook about leaving (tomshardware.com)

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Bermuda Triangle swallowed our reason -Conspiracy culture was born in its depths (unherd.com)

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How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle (smithsonianmag.com)

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Are We Testing AI's Intelligence the Wrong Way? (ieee.org)

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The Rise of ChatGPT and the Industrialization of the Post-Meaning World (lithub.com)

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Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 – lack proper encryption (techradar.com)

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Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 (nytimes.com)

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The Death of the English Language (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

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A full-body MRI can reveal hidden killers. Do we want to know? (washingtonpost.com)

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Netflix Is Trying to Buy Warner Bros Discovery. That Would Be a Disaster (thebignewsletter.com)

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100 years on, quantum mechanics is redefining reality–with us at the center (science.org)

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VCs deploy 'kingmaking' strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy (techcrunch.com)

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San Francisco sues food giants over ultra-processed products (theguardian.com)

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The Curious Notoriety of "Performative Reading" – Now Watch Me Read (newyorker.com)

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Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows (phys.org)

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OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that helps with AI model training (cnbc.com)

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Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa (reuters.com)

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Cats adjust their communication strategy by meowing more when greeting men (phys.org)

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AI's Wrong Answers Are Bad. Its Wrong Reasoning Is Worse (ieee.org)

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I built an open-source CRM after getting frustrated with HubSpot's pricing (reddit.com)

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Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules (arstechnica.com)

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Why We Keep Making the Same Software Mistakes (ieee.org)

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Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say (theguardian.com)

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Netflix drops support for casting to most TVs (arstechnica.com)

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Our Obsession with Statistical Significance Is Ruining Science (reason.com)

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The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI – Rise of the LLeMmings (theatlantic.com)

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The 'Free' World Is Coming for Your Private Messages (reason.com)

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Humans, artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning (phys.org)

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Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Battle over Online Music Piracy (nytimes.com)

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Asteroid loaded with amino acids offers new clues about origin of life on Earth (phys.org)

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What happens when you kick millions of teens off social media? (cnn.com)

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Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Battle over Africa's Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses (msn.com)

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Hong Kong high-rise fire shows how difficult it is to evacuate in an emergency (theconversation.com)

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The Forgotten Roman Ruins of the ‘Pompeii of the Middle East’ (artnet.com)

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Indus River – Scientists may have solved why this ancient civilization vanished (washingtonpost.com)

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The Unlikely Story of How Cats Became Our Pets (scientificamerican.com)

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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania (lithub.com)

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Scam Centers Were Blown Up. Was It All for Show? (nytimes.com)

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Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter (theguardian.com)

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Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon (phys.org)

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism's AI Era (thelocal.to)

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Apple iPhone shipments to beat Samsung for the first time in 14 years (cnbc.com)

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CIA Menu Collection (culinary.edu)

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Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento (eff.org)

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AI agents break rules under everyday pressure (ieee.org)

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Particle Physicists Detect 'Magic' at the Large Hadron Collider (quantamagazine.org)

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Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use (arstechnica.com)

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How 'Stranger Things' Defined the Era of the Algorithm (nytimes.com)

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What Does "Capitalism" Mean, Anyway? (newyorker.com)

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San Diego Zoo's Gramma, a Galapagos tortoise, dies at 141 (npr.org)

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Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose the Race with China (astralcodexten.com)

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FAA probes Amazon after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas (reuters.com)

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Mass Surveillance Is Powering a New Era of Pretextual Traffic Stops (reason.com)

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The gruesome new data on tech jobs (businessinsider.com)

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French authorities investigate alleged Holocaust denial posts on Grok AI (theguardian.com)

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Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing (ieee.org)

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Scientists identify five structural eras of the human brain over a lifetime (medicalxpress.com)

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Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy (wsj.com)

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Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they have an AI hardware prototype (theverge.com)

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Major insurers move to avoid liability for AI lawsuits (tomshardware.com)

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Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health (jamanetwork.com)

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Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time (arstechnica.com)

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A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life (quantamagazine.org)

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An Alarming Number of Teens Say They Turn to AI for Company, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

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Cooperative mammals show lower cancer rates than solitary, competitive species (phys.org)

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Napster Said It Raised $3B from an Investor. Now 'Investor' and 'Money' Are Gone (forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu)

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Solo miner scores a full Bitcoin block worth $270K despite 1 in 180M odds (tomshardware.com)

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The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore (washingtonpost.com)

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You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source (theregister.com)

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A Battle with My Blood – Tatiana Schlossberg (newyorker.com)

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Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator (bbc.com)

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A New Bridge Links the Math of Infinity to Computer Science (quantamagazine.org)

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A Startup's Bid to Dim the Sun (newyorker.com)

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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming (politico.com)

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Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege (reuters.com)

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The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into (mitpress.mit.edu)

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How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg (france24.com)

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The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age (mitpress.mit.edu)

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What's Lost When Stars Disappear from View (ieee.org)