Articles by speckx
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[dupe] Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (the-independent.com)

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Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones (theregister.com)

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Why LLMs Will Not Have Your Next Big Idea (albertsikkema.com)

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Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)

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Lufthansa Asked for My Credit Card (yashgarg.dev)

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Open Letter to Compassionate, Left-Leaning, AI-Hating, Animal-Loving Meat Eaters (brennan.day)

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The Illusion of Ownership – It's yours until it isn't (yashgarg.dev)

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Richard Scolyer, Cancer Expert Who 'Became His Own Subject,' Dies at 59 (nytimes.com)

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The Industry Mourns the Loss of Bruce Clay – The Father of SEO (seroundtable.com)

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[dupe] Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (bbc.com)

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Europe's largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering (theguardian.com)

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If your blog doesn't have an RSS feed, then it's not a blog (martinschuhmann.com)

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Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years (gamingonlinux.com)

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Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign (cookie.engineer)

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Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Patrick Moore Says Otherwise (notesfromtheroad.com)

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Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings (florio.dev)

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Hate "The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For (eff.org)

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Rising RAM prices are taking a toll on PCs, tablets, game consoles, and more (liliputing.com)

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All Roads Lead to Om (ma.tt)

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Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees (theregister.com)

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Memory Price Hikes Will Become a New Norm, Claims Lenovo (techpowerup.com)

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My memories of what life was like before the Internet (vintagecomputing.com)

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The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Why the Café Gratitude Family Left Veganism (altaonline.com)

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Portland reps query $600M gift to Blazers owner; he says be glad he pays taxes (fieldofschemes.com)

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The Data-Center Divide (harpers.org)

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Intervention No. 1 "Quantum" performed by a cello that's played by two robots [video] (youtube.com)

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Why a Good Idea Takes 13 Years to Arrive (2022) (medium.com/medium-handbook)

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Ultrasound may boost survival after a stroke by clearing brain debris (newscientist.com)

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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia saved lives (lithub.com)

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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Em Dash Counter: A browser extension that counts em dashes (mattnite.net)

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Using Claude Code makes you a worse developer, but a slightly better manager (evgeniipendragon.com)

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Getting Back into Blogging (alexhyett.com)

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Fried Chicken Street Vendors in Boston (passionatefoodie.blogspot.com)

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"Your role has been made redundant" (aayushsahu.com)

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The Dumb House: In Praise of an Analog Home (architecturaldigest.com)

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Frankenstein Was a Warning, Not a Blueprint for AI (ideatrash.net)

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Why iPhones Prices Don't Change (asymco.com)

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The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition (neuburger.substack.com)

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YouTube Video ID Allowance (michaelchadwick.info)

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How to Design Arrows (pangrampangram.com)

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The Agent Is Not the Scanner: Making AI Security Agents Better (shad0wmazt3r.github.io)

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The sorry state of skill distribution (trailofbits.com)

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Iran: Israel Killed "Handala" Head Hacker (c14news.com)

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GLM-5.2, not Mythos, is the real security emergency (joshuasaxe181906.substack.com)

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"Carspreading" to Wipe Out Up to 14% of On-Street Parking in European Cities (cleantechnica.com)

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Human Dignity (nubero.ch)

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I am obsessed with these two ads (Interconnected) (interconnected.org)

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Toxic Tempeh: Death by Bongkrekic Acid (naturespoisons.com)

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The girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (avas.space)

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Utah wildfires: Here's a breakdown of all 6 fires burning in the state (sltrib.com)

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Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators, Now There's Proof (gadgetreview.com)

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Man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease (fox8live.com)

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Anything LLMs Can Do, I Can Do Better (danhon.com)

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GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io (infosec.exchange)

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Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit (theregister.com)

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Requesting wildcard SSL certificates via DNS with Sympl (dracos.co.uk)

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Elon should remain focused on Mars; diverting to the Moon would be a mistake (quillette.com)

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China as an Absolute Advantage Economy (yashenghuang.substack.com)

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Nobody Here Wants the Data Center: An Oral History (newrepublic.com)

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Drones are coming for our cities. The tech is cheap, the threat is real (lawfaremedia.org)

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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights (cbc.ca)

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Generate filtered RSS feeds based on your own filter criteria (codeberg.org/ifin)

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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)

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I don't care if web content is AI-generated (kevinboone.me)

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Extreme heat is muddling animals' brains–and even triggering aggression (scientificamerican.com)

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France confirms first Ebola case in doctor returning from DR Congo mission (france24.com)

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How Bod 26-04 Is Coming for Your Vulnerability Management Program (cybrsecmedia.com)

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Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem [pdf] (ox.ac.uk)

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Cybersecurity is no longer about protection. It's about survival (csoonline.com)

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Internet Freedom or Sovereignty? (joncamfield.com)

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Finding a new web host for this blog (schemescape.com)

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Accept cookies or pay? No thanks (danielle.bearblog.dev)

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Build a local voice assistant in 2026 (platypush.tech)

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Yet Another Piece of AI-Pilled Speculative Fiction Has Gone Dangerously Viral (gizmodo.com)

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I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry (zarfhome.com)

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Cheap USB-to-HDMI adapters are terrible, and yet useful (ounapuu.ee)

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My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable (matthewbrunelle.com)

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AI-Generated UI Is Inaccessible by Default (master.dev)

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A History of Menus Is a Menu of History (pudding.cool)

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Utah Is Testing Out AI Doctors–and Actual Doctors Aren't Happy About It (wsj.com)

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Scam Jobs Are Genuinely Disgusting (dartrivity.bearblog.dev)

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How to block Reddit posts linking to a specific URL (willchatham.com)

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I Prefer Jujutsu over Git (schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de)

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I don't want you to summarise the page (kevquirk.com)

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The unlikely upside to age-gating (reedandpickup.com)

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Steam games should be Steam Machine ready (gamingonlinux.com)

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Three Ways to Think About AI and Jobs (theatlantic.com)

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Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's (worksinprogress.news)

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Squadron 42 Release Announcement in October? (nosygamer.blogspot.com)

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The first ticking 'nuclear clocks' are here (scientificamerican.com)

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Quake Turns 30 Today (videocardz.com)

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I'm giving up on tech as a hobby, so done (basic.bearblog.dev)

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AI Raises the Floor, but It Lowers the Ceiling (tilomitra.com)

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FIFA's World Cup Typography Foul: UI Design Learnings (pimpmytype.com)

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What Did the Agent Just Push? Auditing Git for AI Agents (jonnyzzz.com)

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Gold coins help crack a centuries-old shipwreck mystery (popsci.com)

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Cybersecurity for the Paranoid Business Traveller (shkspr.mobi)