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TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial ScaleFri Apr 18 10:28:26 2025 - permalink -- https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok
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Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software - Eliseo Martelli
The performance issues don't stop at sluggish response times. During these standard use cases, my iPad frequently overheated, making it uncomfortable to hold and raising concerns about potential long-term hardware damageMon Mar 3 15:24:36 2025 - permalink -- https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality
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The world's richest man fakes his skills at a computer game | MetaFilter
The world's richest man fakes his skills at a computer gameSat Feb 22 23:21:11 2025 - permalink -- https://www.metafilter.com/207758/Thie-worlds-richest-man-fakes-his-skills-at-a-computer-game
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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands | The Verge
Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backupsFri Feb 21 18:25:57 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theverge.com/news/617273/apple-removes-encryption-advanced-data-protection-adp-uk-spying-backdoor
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How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction - ScienceDirect
"...our analysis suggests that the corresponding resource-limited production peak will occur soon, between perhaps 2022 to 2025. If then we add tar sands and Orinoco oil, the expected resource-limited total peak occurs around 2030, although there is a major question over whether significantly increased production rates of the latter two classes of oil is possible. Finally, the resource-limited production peak of global ‘all-liquids’ is expected about 2040 or a bit after if the latter liquids are also produced at the maximal rate"Wed Feb 5 11:42:15 2025 - permalink -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049022000524?via%3Dihub#s0105
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Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of development in artificial intelligence, warning the industry is taking a “very risky gamble” on the technologyWed Jan 29 08:34:55 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/former-openai-safety-researcher-brands-pace-of-ai-development-terrifying
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UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.
Examples of wasted potential:Mon Jan 20 18:12:53 2025 - permalink -
Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.
James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.
Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.
These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.
This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.- https://josef.cn/blog/uk-talent
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Tarot, tarantulas and TikTok: exploring our long obsession with predicting the future | Magic | The Guardian
A new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the enduring appeal of divinationSun Dec 8 08:40:27 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/dec/07/tarot-tarantulas-and-tiktok-exploring-our-long-obsession-with-predicting-the-future
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The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ | Media | The Guardian
The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’Fri Nov 15 08:18:20 2024 - permalink -
Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones
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‘The coolest girl in the world’ at 50: Chloë Sevigny’s best films – ranked! | Film | The Guardian
‘The coolest girl in the world’ at 50: Chloë Sevigny’s best films – rankedFri Nov 15 08:08:49 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/14/the-coolest-girl-in-the-world-turns-50-chloe-sevigny-films-ranked
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Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you’re rich enough | Martha Gill | The Guardian
Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you’re rich enoughSun Oct 13 10:04:31 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/13/can-you-resist-all-the-addictions-modern-life-throws-at-you-only-if-youre-rich-enough
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Keanu Reeves spins out at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in pro racing debut | Motor sport | The Guardian
Reeves, who qualified 31st out of the 35 cars, ran as high as 21st and successfully avoided a first lap crash in turn 14. Reeves finished 25thSun Oct 6 10:43:06 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/05/keanu-reeves-pro-racing-debut-toyota-gr-cup
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‘Happiness recession’: UK 15-year-olds at bottom of European satisfaction league | Young people | The Guardian
Zufriedenheit von 15-Jährigen: UK, Polen, Deutschland als Schlusslichter in EuropaThu Aug 29 07:53:12 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/29/uk-teenagers-low-life-satisfaction-europe
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Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller - The Hustle
"Toilet paper is shrinkflation at its absolute worst"Tue Aug 27 19:31:55 2024 - permalink -- https://thehustle.co/news/why-toilet-paper-keeps-getting-smaller-and-smaller
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The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot
The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has searched for and ruled out the existence of dark matter particles with a wide swath of properties, researchers report August 26 at two conferencesTue Aug 27 19:23:53 2024 - permalink -- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz
