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Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration:
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
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16 June 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
Amazon partnership establishes Cornell AI security initiative:
Cornell computer scientists will lead the development of safety protocols to shore up AI agents and the code they produce.
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10 June 2026.
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01 January 1970.
UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban:
No 10 is worried about retaliation from White House over restrictions on under-16s’ internet useMinisters have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban announced by Keir Starmer.
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16 June 2026.
Globally significant volcanic event formed Giant’s Causeway, scientists find:
Geochronologists say basalt columns in Antrim sprang up during volcanic activity over 5.
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16 June 2026.
Amazon has discounted a Lenovo IdeaPad for 73% off, and it's actually worth considering:
Over at Amazon, the Lenovo IdeaPad 1i has dropped to $300, making it one of the best laptop deals available on the platform.
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16 June 2026.
What is El Niño and why could it mean record temperatures?:
Global temperatures are expected to rise in the coming months as El Niño begins.
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11 June 2026.
Anthropic incident leaves confusion about Trump administration's AI regulation:
There's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.
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16 June 2026.
A.I. Boom Ignites Asian Chip Companies:
They make much of the gear that goes into giant data centers.
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16 June 2026.
Never Cross a River Four Feet Deep on Average:
Guest post by Alexander “Sasha” Putilin on an ACX Grants replication attempt of a neuroscience study about alpha-rhythm entrainment and learning.
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16 June 2026.
How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?:
A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.
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16 June 2026.
Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it:
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish.
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16 June 2026.
Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity:
How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished [therepublicofletters.
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16 June 2026.
Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers:
Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to discourage doomscrolling.
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16 June 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice:
An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed.
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16 June 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
Longer term weather forecast
