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Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center CD (huguesjohnson.com)

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Modernizing a Visual Basic 6 application using Google Gemini (huguesjohnson.com)

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Meltdown (faduda.ie)

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Stadia Maps Privacy Fail (grepular.com)

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Grammarly cloned me for free; another AI company offered $2k to do the same (pcgamer.com)

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Welcome to the Stockyard of Unaffordability (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Defense workers' morale has plunged under Trump, survey finds (defenseone.com)

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The Ends of AI (disjunctionsmag.com)

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Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? (idiallo.com)

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Turn Left at the Robot (pelicancrossing.net)

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Merging GitHub Repositories (kittygiraudel.com)

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China's Technology Long Game (chinatalk.media)

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You and Your Spinner Can Go to Hell (catskull.net)

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Software in the AI Era (philipithomas.com)

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I Quit Editing Photos (jamesbaker.uk)

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Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart (ohhelloana.blog)

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Tooling Is the New Model (herlein.com)

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Where is your digital home? (bstn.info)

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SSH Key Handling Using the macOS Keychain and 1Password (netmeister.org)

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90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective (mollywhite.net)

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The World Needs Your Great Work (palladiummag.com)

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Chuck Norris Dies at 86 (apnews.com)

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Meme Buildings (misfitsarchitecture.com)

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To AI and Back (rolisz.ro)

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Obsidian and Claude: a match made in heaven (dmcc.io)

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Releasing .htaccess Punk–A Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files (meiert.com)

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How to Land That Job (vinitkumar.me)

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LLM is not going to replace software engineers, here's why (fangpenlin.com)

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AI spam, the latter day internet, force digg.com offline for now (disassociated.com)

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Musings on 'Digital Sovereignty' (neilzone.co.uk)

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Dinner and a show – for one. More Americans are doing things solo (sherwood.news)

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Google declares 'vibe design' is here as Figma's stock price sinks (businessinsider.com)

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The art (and science) of Browser Fingerprinting (centamori.com)

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Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website (searchengineland.com)

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Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (lwn.net)

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Systemd goes AI agent slopware (social.coop)

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I found a hidden library of podcasts (and it's brilliant) (coleslaw.bearblog.dev)

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Stop Using /Init for Agents.md (medium.com/addyosmani)

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Self-hosting our GitHub Action runners (jmduke.com)

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Five more seated Gauls found in Dijon (thehistoryblog.com)

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Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect (alearningaday.blog)

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Why $4 gasoline is the tipping point for EVs (grist.org)

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Self Host Everything (gary.onl)

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Population doomster Paul Ehrlich has died (reason.com)

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Is a random human peer better than a chatbot in reducing loneliness over time? (sciencedirect.com)

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You Might Debate It – If You Could See It (jim-nielsen.com)

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EverQuest lawsuit settlement threats $3.5M in damages against emulator operators (massivelyop.com)

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The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen (xda-developers.com)

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Answer Engine Optimization (juliasolorzano.com)

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Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019) (consequence.net)

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The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets (politico.com)

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Luxembourg High Administrative Court annulled a €746M fine against Amazon (gdprhub.eu)

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Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give (kennethreitz.org)

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Abusing Customizable Selects (css-tricks.com)

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Microsoft considers suing Amazon and OpenAI over $50B deal (sherwood.news)

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Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists (nchagnet.pages.dev)

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I haven't used a mouse for 14 years (axelk.ee)

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AI coding is gambling (visaint.space)

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Is your state becoming uninsurable? We have the latest data (grist.org)

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Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)

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North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim (theregister.com)

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Is Spotify's AI 'killing' Australian music? (theconversation.com)

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How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene (openculture.com)

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Bennett and Brassard Win the Turing Award (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Generative 'AI' Pollutes Search Results (bookandsword.com)

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Scientific American and Friday the 13th (leancrew.com)

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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)

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Fun with the Web (patrickbrosset.com)

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I Used Em Dashes Before AI Made Them Popular (jasoneckert.github.io)

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The Small Web Is Tricky to Find (matduggan.com)

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A flower became the main character of the late Pleistocene (datawrapper.de)

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Cape Town After Coetzee (theatlantic.com)

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YouTube is experimenting with ads visible even after users skip (searchengineland.com)

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At 102 years old, Dean Simes might be Australia's oldest tech-help guy (abc.net.au)

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I deploy my projects to a single VPS with Gitea, Nginx and Docker (rogs.me)

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Computer Science, are you sure? (rohlik.net)

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The Pennsylvania Town Facing a Data Center Boom (yale.edu)

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Three Levels of Nix (simonshine.dk)

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Turkish Coffee? Since the 16th Century, It's in the Water (sprudge.com)

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Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt (undark.org)

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Hedley Davis Has Died (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

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Researchers develop biodegradable, plant-based packaging from natural fibers (theconversation.com)

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The Agentic Artisan (christoph-rumpel.com)

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Attackers using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses to possibly obfuscate their attack (sans.edu)

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Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week (tomshardware.com)

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Mystery orcas from afar thrill Seattle-area whale watchers (kuow.org)

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A Rant about Resolutions (brixit.nl)

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A New Magnetic Material for the AI Era (tohoku.ac.jp)

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Wife who wrote book on grief after husband's death found guilty of murdering him (theguardian.com)

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The Bar for Joining the Technical Workforce Is Skyrocketing (justinmath.com)

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I've added human.json to my website (sethmlarson.dev)

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Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955. End of a 500-Year Tradition (openculture.com)

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How to Lose the AI Arms Race (thefp.com)

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Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban (theregister.com)

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AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed (bryanl.dev)

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How to read books again, backed by neuroscience (fastcompany.com)

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What Is Agentic Engineering? (dbushell.com)

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The Over-Engineering Method (ashfurrow.com)

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The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me)

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Trump tariffs cost automakers more than $35B since 2025 (autonews.com)