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Ars Technica

Mentioned in 35 issues, from May 2017 to Jan 2026.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

    ChatGPT advertising, Miniroll blogroll, time left widgets, capability overhang, velocity as authority, Claude's new constitution.

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  2. Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission

    Crucial exits consumer RAM, AI transforming work at Anthropic, Perl's cultural decline, why RSS matters, Let's Encrypt 10 years, why we need to die.

    21 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  3. Weekly Thing 327 / Prototypes, Tahoe, UTF-8

    Purpose of Prototypes, Forward Deployed Engineers, ChatGPT Memory, UTF-8 design, iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Pig-Butchering Scams, iPhone 17 Pro Camera.

    23 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  4. Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass

    MCP best practices, Apple TV privacy, iOS 26 Liquid Glass, visionOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Telegram FSB honeypot, o3 pro.

    29 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  5. Weekly Thing 319 / Embeddings, Passkeys, Macros

    Buildable LEGO designs from text, AI reputation damage, Apple Turnover, embeddings, HDR explained, passkey cryptography, CoMaps offline navigation.

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  6. Weekly Thing 316 / Blogroll, CaMeL, Insider

    Ye Olde Blogroll, CaMeL prompt injection, ChatGPT memory, MCP problems, Circle IPO, CVE program funding, OpenAI o3 o4-mini, GPT-4.1 coding.

    21 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  7. Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

    Kagi search innovation, frontend treadmill, Cloudflare AI maze, bigscreen, deleting 23andMe data, Safari privacy, 4o image generation.

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  8. Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones

    End of programming, iCloud encryption backdoor, Agile as trauma, only way forward is Mac, personal software, sound of silence, stablecoin dollarization.

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  9. Weekly Thing 306 / Spell, McLarens, Lynch

    Spotify algorithm, RSS feeds, David Lynch tribute, iPhone privacy settings, AI photo geolocation, McLarens CarPlay, Unix Spell 64kB RAM.

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  10. Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo

    Internet Archive breach, Automattic employees leaving, Chinese hackers backdoor, patent troll dedicates patents, blood pressure misreadings, CTV surveillance.

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  11. Weekly Thing 294 / Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption

    Minneapolis street grid, iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, iPhone 16 Pro camera, Meta Orion AR glasses, social media surveillance.

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  12. Weekly Thing 290 / Kino, Krebs, Kagi

    Daylight caring computer, Micro.blog audio narration, EcoFlow PowerStream, Google Cloud GCVE incident, over GraphQL, Kino, three laws of software complexity.

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  13. Weekly Thing 289 / Queueing, Counting, Mapping

    Efficient new way to count, 2nd-gen email, ideal email folder structure, Windows Returns, mapping LLMs, queueing strategies, No Wrong Doors.

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  14. Weekly Thing 288 / Hackerverse, Symbolica, Curators

    Link in Bio slow knife, cubic millimetre of brain mapped, TCP_NODELAY, backward walking workout, M4 iPad Pros, GPT-4o omni model, curators of the web.

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  15. Weekly Thing 282 / Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

    MrBeast changing game, Vision Pro devkit, Ethereum blobs, xz Utils backdoor, Wyoming DUNA Act, credit card rewards anatomy.

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  16. Weekly Thing #250 / LLM, Shanghai, Wing

    Free Dolly open LLM, Ethereum Shanghai staking withdrawals, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, Wing Programming Language, Tesla car cameras privacy.

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  17. Weekly Thing #244 / Fans, Sameness, Fediverse + Ukraine Fundraiser!

    Stop saying technical debt, LastPass corporate vault hack, Microsoft AI visual puzzles, 1000 True Fans, Ethereum Reflections 2023, Fediverse already dead.

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  18. Weekly Thing #216 / NFT, DST, PDP

    GISTEMP climate spiral, war diary Belorusets, daylight saving time permanent, NFT rug pull, internet resilience Ukraine, PDP-11 minicomputer.

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  19. Weekly Thing #180 / Tetris, Ever Given, Backstory

    Classic Tetris revolution, Zodiac Killer cipher, Ever Given Suez Canal, NFTs explained, Magic The Gathering iOS, Apple Siri voices.

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  20. Weekly Thing #166 / Chess, Disruption, M1 Macs, Five Hindrances

    M1 Macs, Intel's disruption, macOS Big Sur, iPhone 12 Pro Max, OpenStreetMap, personal data warehouses, Fairness Doctrine social networks.

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  21. Weekly Thing #162 / iPhone 12, Lidar, Quibi

    Quibi shutting down, iPhone 12 Pro camera, Apple Lidar history, Gowalla returning, Covid-19 global data, consensus protocols, flight offsets.

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  22. Weekly Thing #144 / Contact Tracing, Stockdale Paradox, John Prine, Goat 2 Meeting

    COVID-19 tracing tool, Zoom brand, John Conway dies, iPhone SE, NextDNS, Stockdale Paradox, cold-brew coffee chemistry, COBOL training.

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  23. Weekly Thing #116 / Sep 7, 2019

    Unix at 50, Tetris randomizers, calendar spam, camera sales falling, Just Delete Me, Timeular time tracking, what we get wrong about meetings.

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  24. Weekly Thing #104 / May 4, 2019

    Minnebar14 recap, Amazon doorbell crime news, Zuckerberg future is private, Anki robotics shutting down, Cardbox, autism from the inside, refuse to rule.

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  25. Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019

    Supplement industry nutrition study, selfie deaths epidemic, Facebook AI voice assistant, Uber IPO $10 billion loss, Disney+ pricing details.

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  26. Weekly Thing #94 / Feb 23, 2019

    Tetris 99 gameplay revolution, Stephen Wolfram personal infrastructure, WiFi inside a USB cable, WorldWideWeb CERN rebuild, .dev domains, privacy is a commons.

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  27. Weekly Thing #87 / Jan 5, 2019

    Analog social media, depression language, Microsoft Developer Division interviews, iPad Pro, serverless bills, Obama's favorite books, Facebook Clear History.

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  28. Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018

    Tim Cook data privacy speech, Apple Shortcuts, Google Night Sight, Pixel 3, Minnesota startups, Little Free Library, infinite scroll.

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  29. Weekly Thing #72 / Sep 22, 2018

    Linux 4.19-rc4 apology, iPhones XS, Apple Watch Series 4, iOS 12 review, 1Password AutoFill, Scriptable JavaScript, decision fatigue, Larry Page.

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  30. Weekly Thing #70 / Sep 8, 2018

    Tesla disruption, lean startup, startup sales, new executive advice, BBQ science, Canon EOS R, Arial vs Helvetica quiz, Auth0 multi-cloud architecture.

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  31. Weekly Thing #51 / Apr 28, 2018

    HomePod, Jaron Lanier dinner, dumber phone, 1Blocker X, iPhone passcodes, Kubernetes namespaces, GraphQL, software defined culture, Cal Newport Study Hacks.

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  32. Weekly Thing for October 7, 2017

    Equifax data breach, Yahoo 3 billion accounts, Apple Watch Series 3, Google Pixel 2 vs iPhone 8, Ikea buys TaskRabbit, SQL beating NoSQL, Kubernetes.

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  33. Weekly Thing for September 23, 2017

    Relicensing React and Jest, A11 Bionic chip, iOS 11 review, iPhone 8 camera, Apple Watch Series 3, Swift 4.0, Facebook's war on free will.

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  34. Weekly Thing for September 16, 2017

    Equifax breach, Safari cookie blocking, iPhone X event, Apple Watch Series 3, Python growth, 1Password command-line beta, Sublime Text 3.0.

    26 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  35. Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

    Layne Kennedy, Minnesota Original, Wintergreen Dog Sledding, Amazon ECS, Macron honeypot accounts, Field Nation Minneapolis, James Comey fired.

    17 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat →

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