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01 January 1970.
Going retro: Commodore strips the smartphone back to essentials:
The dumbphone revival has been gathering momentum in recent years, and the newly revived Commodore brand wants in.
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22 June 2026.
ICE: We Don’t Have A Database Of ICE Protesters, Just A Database Of People Who Are *Probably* ICE Protesters:
It’s no secret ICE officers are using their phones and their tech toys to do way more than they’ll openly admit to doing.
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22 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.
AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns:
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI modelPowerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”.
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22 June 2026.
‘Slug sleuth’ farmers in England help develop prediction tool to cut back on pesticide use:
Maps created as part of Defra-funded Slimers project allowed test growers to halve amount of slug pellets usedFarmers believe they have a new weapon in their age-old battle against the slugs that destroy their crops: modern technology.
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22 June 2026.
Best early Amazon Prime Day deals under $25: Top deals on cheap gadgets I've tested:
Check out our curated list of the top cheap Prime Day 2026 device deals, with early discounts of up to 55% off before the event begins tomorrow.
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22 June 2026.
What are UV levels and how can you protect yourself?:
Some UV exposure is essential for our wellbeing, but too much is damaging and can cause skin cancer.
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22 June 2026.
An AI proxy war could reshape Congress — before Congress reshapes AI:
The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.
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22 June 2026.
Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It.:
Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered.
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22 June 2026.
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse:
Heidi Blake reports on how Andrew Tate built a sex-work and influencer empire by coercing women, spreading misogynistic ideology, and turning online notoriety into political influence.
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22 June 2026.
California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both.:
A pilot program is building solar panels over irrigation canals to generate electricity.
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22 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.
Against urban planning:
A critique of urban planning through the lens of SimCity and a college seminar with a former mayor, arguing that the field has become far more complicated in practice than it needs to be.
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22 June 2026.
Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis:
America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years.
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22 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.
Hanging lamp in the form of a sandaled right foot: A 1,600-year-old bronze lamp with multilayered Christian symbolism:
This rare, foot-shaped oil lamp had multiple layers of meaning in early Christianity, including symbolizing enlightenment and Christian pilgrimage.
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22 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.
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