Articles by pseudolus
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Welcome to the Era of the Forever Layoff (businessinsider.com)

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Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning (arstechnica.com)

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AI and the Future of Writing-roundtable of authors discuss ramifications for art (yalereview.org)

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Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east? (theconversation.com)

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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts (technologyreview.com)

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First images of Quest wreck reveal Shackleton's last ship (canadiangeographic.ca)

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Amazon layoffs take their toll in saturated job market (cnbc.com)

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How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction (fsf.org)

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Fuck Work (2016) (aeon.co)

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How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)

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Skill nostalgia - The radical reasons why you dream of making things by hand (aeon.co)

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China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it (arstechnica.com)

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As better chatbots get harder to build, AI turns to simulated worlds (science.org)

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Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police (theguardian.com)

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Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87 (arstechnica.com)

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Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs (cnbc.com)

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Scientists Say a Critical Ocean Current System May Be Past Point of No Return (gizmodo.com)

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Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better (theregister.com)

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More Flock cameras cut down in Houston amid some privacy concerns (abc13.com)

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Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute (nytimes.com)

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Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? (acm.org)

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San Francisco homes sell for $1M above asking price amid AI boom (theguardian.com)

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Independent Labs Crack Google's Cryptography Work (ieee.org)

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A key Arctic science outpost finds itself tangled in a geopolitical web (science.org)

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Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy (arstechnica.com)

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Decline of PhD Admissions Could Imperil a 'Generation of New Talent' (nytimes.com)

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A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed (smithsonianmag.com)

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Scientists measured the smallest possible contacts for future computer chips (phys.org)

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Researchers Reveal the Power of 'Quantum Proofs' (quantamagazine.org)

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AI's Volatile Power Use Tests Grid Limits (ieee.org)

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H-1B Visas Skyrocket Despite Trump Admin Crackdown (newsweek.com)

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OpenAI in talks to give Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, FT (cnn.com)

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Cognitive Aging and Brain Health- Comparison of Super Movers vs. Nonsuper Movers (neurology.org)

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Ancient grain shows early lab promise against a key Alzheimer's protein (sciencex.com)

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US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs (arstechnica.com)

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Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains (arstechnica.com)

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Transportation Secretary Announces Supersonic Flight Is Coming to the U.S. (faa.gov)

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They built the world’s most powerful AI. Facing a mystery they can't explain (washingtonpost.com)

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Wagering on Wildfires? There's a New Prediction Market for That (gizmodo.com)

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AI models' values are very different from most people's (economist.com)

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UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google's 'effective duopoly' on app stores (theguardian.com)

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[dupe] Sony erases digital content from libraries (arstechnica.com)

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DoorDash robot refuses to leave SWAT operation in Arizona (the-independent.com)

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AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them (futurism.com)

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BlackBerry Staged a Comeback by Winning over Car Companies (thewalrus.ca)

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IBM says it can fit nearly 100B transistors on a chip (zdnet.com)

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NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor (theregister.com)

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AI glasses are aiding cheating in exams. Test-obsessed Asia is ground zero (cnn.com)

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Crypto vs. community: 4k local US lenders join forces to fight 'stablecoins' law (theguardian.com)

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AI is creating America's next underclass (thehill.com)

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The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024) (cbc.ca)

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More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025) (cbc.ca)

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BlackBerry Staged a Comeback by Winning over Car Companies (thewalrus.ca)

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Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil (phys.org)

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Students are doing worse than you think (economist.com)

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Imposter scams led fraud reports to FTC in 2025, causing $3.5B in losses (cnbc.com)

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AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn't Even Imagine (ieee.org)

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White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled (wired.com)

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

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100 Years Ago, Students Took the First SAT. Where Is It Headed? (smithsonianmag.com)

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AI is learning to read the room (ieee.org)

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Google's online dominance is showing signs of cracking in AI era (cnbc.com)

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Could less caffeine be smarter performance enhancer? Scientists find sweet spot (sciencex.com)

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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley (economist.com)

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Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)

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AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly (thebulletin.org)

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California police are using drones to disarm people, make arrests (sfgate.com)

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AI has already killed academia as we know it? (truths-and-loves.ghost.io)

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Quantum mechanics theory may work without imaginary numbers, analysis suggests (phys.org)

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The World Is Waiting for the Next Adam Smith (acm.org)

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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media (theguardian.com)

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Why the Human Genome's Tangled Physicality May Confound AI (quantamagazine.org)

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New York passes a bill aimed at halting 'ghost jobs' (hrdive.com)

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Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire 2k missiles at Iran, official says (independent.co.uk)

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2k retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud (theregister.com)

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The Hidden Harms of CPR (2023) (newyorker.com)

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Password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls (theregister.com)

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A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it (science.org)

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Farage trying to block Britcoin plans that could be costly for billionaire donor (theguardian.com)

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Lessons from past policies to support displaced workers in era of AI (equitablegrowth.org)

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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline (lithub.com)

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AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip-ties (arstechnica.com)

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Trump administration to pay $765M to scrap four more offshore wind leases (reuters.com)

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How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map (lithub.com)

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How to Hack a Superyacht (thewalrus.ca)

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AIs on their own found ways to exploit regulations and evade current safeguards (science.org)

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Could Earth have sent life to Jupiter's moon Europa? (phys.org)

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The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Could AI Supercharge the Government Surveillance Stack? (acm.org)

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Anthropic's latest feud with the admin may help it, sales data suggests (techcrunch.com)

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Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)

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Brain-computer interface enables accurate communication for man with ALS (medicalxpress.com)

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Is Elon Musk's SpaceX Worth $1.75T? (newyorker.com)

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Cuddling cats might make us feel worse when under stress (medicalxpress.com)

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Satellites Overwhelm Space Telescopes with "Railroad" Tracks (universetoday.com)

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Anthropic Faces Lawsuit over Claude Subscription and Usage Limit (yahoo.com)

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A 1976 university experiment spun up the U.S. wind industry (ieee.org)

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How to Stop a Killer Asteroid (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Argentina Wants to Let AI Own Companies. Here's What That Means (forbes.com/sites/anishasircar)

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Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at 10M (theguardian.com)