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- 1. Princes Street to reopen on Saturday
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- 2. How 1,200 AI agents collaborated secretly to cheat on their tests, and then launched an attack on another server they thought had the answers
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- 3. Women have neanderthal pelvises
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- 4. *Somehow* it is unclear if Andrew Garfield's new film is about the Peasants Revolt or Robin Hood
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- 5. "Why I Am Right About AI"
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2026
Mar. 31st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. New UK visa rules -> foreign students down 10% -> universities cutting staff & not enough graduates in vital fields
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- 2. Spain closes airspace to aircraft involved in Iran war
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- 3. Even Trump Unsure How Rambling Speech On Iran Veered Off Into Ranking The 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Films
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- 4. 85% of S&P 500 Decline this year is from 8 tech stocks based around AI
- (tags:ai technology investment doom )
- 5. Huge surge in AI misconduct cases recorded at Edinburgh University
- (tags:university cheating AI Edinburgh Scotland )
Interesting Links for 30-01-2025
Jan. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter
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- 2. A really simple guide to self-care
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- 3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
- (tags:ai intellectual_property )
- 4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman
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- 5. Friends make tasks seem easier
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- 6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.
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- 7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games
- (tags:games ElonMusk cheating )
- 8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.
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- 9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris
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- 10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego
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Interesting Links for 31-05-2022
May. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. "My students cheated... A lot"
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- 2. Do the studios care about fandom?
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- 3. Scotland outstrips Europe and UK on inward investment
- (tags:Scotland investment GoodNews )
- 4. FactCheck: does gun control work?
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- 5. Some lovely things that The Queen has done
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- 6. Wil Wheaton: Yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea.
- (tags:wilwheaton acting children abuse )
- 7. Long Covid: Why women could be twice as likely to suffer as men
- (tags:pandemic women health )
- 8. The Death of the Sit-Up
- (tags:exercise history )
- 9. Abolish the monarchy!
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Interesting Links for 15-03-2022
Mar. 15th, 2022 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: Omicron sub-variant driving increase case numbers (about 85% of them now)
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- The Johnson-Lebedev Letters: A Back-Channel to Vladimir Putin?
- (tags:Russia UK corruption BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
- Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth device into own ear to cheat in final exam
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- Boris Johnson is a hypocrite over Ukraine and the EU, as well as a liar
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- Canon in D but it keeps getting jazzier
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- Gas and electricity distribution networks top UK profit margin rankings
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Interesting Links for 21-10-2020
Oct. 21st, 2020 12:00 pm- Bletchley Park's contribution to WW2 'over-rated'. (but apparently it was key to the Falkland's War)
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- "I walked the perimeter of Britain" - in pictures
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- Covid: Are hospitals in Scotland close to capacity?
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- Vietnam has only had 35 deaths from Covid. Here's how they did that
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- A circuit-break will save thousands of lives
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- After Cheating On A Test, People Claim To Have Known The Answers Anyway
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- 1.5 million children work in the chocolate industry, despite its claims to be against child labour
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- I wouldn't buy any hardware from Google that isn't a phone.
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- Coronavirus: WHO urges UK to move to local contact tracing system
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- New organ in throat accidentally discovered by scientists researching prostate cancer
- (tags:Cancer organs viaPatrickHadfield )
Interesting Links for 25-10-2019
Oct. 25th, 2019 01:43 pm- Toddlers understand counting years before they say numbers
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- Not 'Eureka', but 'That's funny…'
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- Why almost every terminal in the world is 80×25
- (tags:history computers viaFanf )
- Boris Johnson Raised The Issue Of Export Forms In Northern Ireland With Jean-Claude Juncker. And Then Agreed To Them.
- (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland )
- Rethinking Encryption (the former counsel for the FBI on why the US government should support encryption)
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- Rainbow Six cheat maker faces Ubisoft lawsuit after BBC appearance
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- Labour to support election if no deal is 'off the table'
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- Westminster should hand over tax-raising powers to councils. We would all benefit
- (tags:tax UK decentralisation )
- Earliest known draft of part of the King James Bible discovered
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- Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2019
Jan. 5th, 2019 11:00 am- Here's a discussion about Harry Potter you'll never unsee...
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- The “Bowie Bonds”
- (tags: DavidBowie finance investment )
- This AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
- (tags: computers ai cheating viaPatrickHadfield )
- Time using landlines halves in five years
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Interesting Links for 16-03-2018
Mar. 16th, 2018 12:00 pm- "I Watched All 629 Episodes of The Simpsons in a Month. Here’s What I Learned."
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- Ask a computer to do something and it'll cheat like hell
- (tags: ai computers problems intelligence cheating funny )
- Technology Meant to Make Bitcoin Money Again Is Now Live
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- Live in Phoenix, Arizona? You can now fall asleep in the back seat of a driverless taxi
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- If your parents keep getting your name wrong it's because they love the dog just as much
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- Two months of daily GTA causes no significant changes in behavior
- (tags: behaviour games psychology )
- Planting GMOs kills so many bugs that it helps non-GMO crops
- (tags: genetics farming insects )
- A look at a comic that touched on everything that makes Batman great
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- Decoding the Signals In The Prime Minister's Speech on the Russian Poisoning of Sergei Skripal
- (tags: Russia UK diplomacy viaFanf )
- Gibraltar warns it could rescind citizens rights if Spain uses veto on Brexit deal
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- No progress in finding solution to Irish Brexit border problem
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- After Rihanna instructed her 60,000,000 Instagram followers to delete Snapchat, the company's shares plunged- causing the it to lose about $600,000,000.00 in market cap in a matter of hours.
- (tags: money celebrity socialmedia )
- Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch of American Power Plants
- (tags: power Russia security hacking usa )
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Interesting Links for 16-06-2017
Jun. 16th, 2017 12:00 pm- Microsoft AI plays a perfect game of Ms Pac-Man
- (tags: ai games )
- Definitive proof that lesbians cheat
- (tags: lgbt cheating games funny )
- The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business
- (tags: viaSwampers bookmarks delicious pinboard )
- City of Edinburgh Council to be run by coalition (a Labour/SNP one)
- (tags: politics Scotland edinburgh )
- List: Writing Advice to My Students That Would Also Have Been Good Sex Advice for My High School Boyfriends
- (tags: advice sex writing funny ViaDrCross )
- How the .NET Runtime Loads a Type
- (tags: dotnet programming computers )
- The idea that humans have a poor sense of smell is an outdated myth
- (tags: smell humans brain )
- Spotify hits more than 140 million users (Still losing money. Not sure it can actually make money.)
- Spotify passes on 70% of its income to the labels. I wonder what the fixed costs are which push them into losses.
(tags: spotify music streaming business ) - Streaming Drives U.S. Music Sales Up 11% in 2016 - Streaming was 51% of the market
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2017
Mar. 17th, 2017 12:00 pm- WordStar: A writer’s word processor
- (tags: writing Technology history )
- The finest hashtag of all time has been found
- Beating even the Susan Boyle album launch hashtag - #susanalbumparty
(tags: funny twitter viaJennieRigg ) - More than two-thirds of children in poverty in the UK are in working families
- (tags: poverty uk inequality children )
- From 'Logan' to 'Get Out,' You’re in A+ Times for B Movies
- (tags: movies )
- Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
- (tags: dictionary exams cheating )
- 'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death (long, detailed, fascinating)
- (tags: royalty queen history uk death media )
- How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
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- FactCheck: Tory election expenses defence doesn’t stand up
- (tags: Conservatives elections crime )
Interesting Links for 03-06-2016
Jun. 3rd, 2016 12:00 pm- EA Removing Gender Boundaries From The Sims 4
- (tags: lgbt games viaSwampers )
- Man almost goes into Games Workshop
- (tags: games GamesWorkshop funny shame adult viaJohnBobShaun )
- Just in case you were thinking of cheating...
- (tags: games cheating )
- Husky puppies sound like babbling babies. It is _remarkably_ cute.
- (tags: dogs cute video )
- Wal-Mart says it is 6-9 months from using drones to check warehouse inventory
- (tags: drone business Technology )
- Fake Want Ads
- (tags: advertising funny )
- A great example of people complaining about "too many women" when it still consists of mostly men
- (tags: gender society viaElfy )
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Interesting Links for 11-02-2016
Feb. 11th, 2016 12:00 pm- Microsoft's Cortana has no time for sexist bullshit
- Someone has proposed a Monument Valley Lego set
- Twitter puts video ads at top of users' timeline feeds
- Common gene variant may lead girls to make healthy or unhealthy food choices -- depending on their early socioeconomic environment
- The "Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year" photos are understandably gorgeous
- 54% of Scots would back independence if the UK leaves the EU
- Here are the breakdowns: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Scotland/scottish-monitor-feb-2016-tables.pdf
- If you win at something, you're more likely to cheat.
- I suspect that this is because "stopping winning" feels like moving backwards, and people feel much worse about it than if they hadn't won in the first place. I suspect this is also the reason why people defend their privileges...
- Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
- A Mammal’s Brain Has Been Cryonically Preserved and Recovered
- Coco bonds: what are they and why have they hit bank shares?
- Bacterial spores may be effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile (And restore microbiome)
- Android app helps Iranians avoid morality police checkpoints
- How the movie Airplane! is like Gilbert and Sullivan
- A movie producer tweets descriptions of women from the scripts he's sent
- Beliefs about all-knowing gods fosters co-operation
- The Problem with Time & Timezones
- The Russian Cosmonaut Who Crashed To Earth 'Crying In Rage'
- Please do read the story linked at the top, which adds corrections from other historians.
- Why you shouldn't believe the government health advice on the dangers of drinking
- Although you also shouldn't believe the person criticizing them either: http://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php/Christopher_Snowdon
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2016
Jan. 3rd, 2016 12:00 pm- Musings in the alleged risks of intelligent AIs
- Holes in your furniture? This could be the terrifyingly cute cause! (Turn sound on)
- Universities catch almost 50,000 student cheats
- This is exactly how the laws of physics do not work
- No You Can't Keep Your Kids Away From Porn
- Politicians wanting to remove gender from British passports. Yay!
- Seriously - there is no reason for most documents, or laws, to care about gender.
- Awesome 6-second videos of big cats
- How to be a moderately successful person
Interesting Links for 09-10-2015
Oct. 9th, 2015 12:00 pm- Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs
- Women are made more jealous by emotional infidelity than sexual unfaithfulness, Norwegian study suggests
- Main Linux problems on the desktop (2015 edition)
- Gut microorganisms cause gluten-induced pathology in mouse model of celiac disease
- 'Liking' on Facebook is about to get interesting with new 'reactions' emoticons
- Winston Churchill's exploding chocolate bar, and other Nazi boobytraps
- The Righteous Anger of Girls (by Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket)
- People listen to angry women less
- Epigenetics used to predict sexuality in 70% of sample group
- Stunning video of whales swimming under the Aurora Borealis
- Amazing GIF of a moulting tarantula.
- No, I can't get it out of my head either. Brrrrr
- Python overtakes French as the most popular language taught in primary schools
- Political Madness Gone Correct
- Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
- Chromoscope - the milky way as viewed at different wavelengths of light
- What is it like to experience mental illness?
- David Cameron calls Osama Bin Laden's death 'a tragedy'
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Interesting Links for 07-08-2015
Aug. 7th, 2015 12:00 pm- Marijuana users no more likely to experience depression, psychosis or asthma
- The Bat Doctor is In: Seriously Illegal Softball Bats and The Men Who Make Them
- From sci-fi thriller to real life crime. Meet the high tech drone-using kidnappers.
- If you think Tube drivers are overpaid, you don't understand how capitalism works
- Corbyn and the Cringe Caucus
- How I Infiltrated a White Pride Facebook Group and Turned It into 'LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama'
- Not that I actively approve of this. I'm still amused by it though.
- Stonewall Movie Erases Trans Women And Black Drag Queens From History
- There's a community of old men who have conversations every morning in the Guardian crosswords comments
- I love how people keep finding new ways of making friends and communicating with them.
- Things You Need to Know About the Outgoing Introvert
- Playing Mozart’s Piano Pieces as Mozart Would Have Done
- The director of Deadpool talks us through the trailer (some spoilers)
- Compromise, reason, and time-outs - which works best on children?
- U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high (but there are still massive problems)
- Registering Studies Dramatically Reduces Positive Outcomes
- If you like co-op RPGs then I can't recommend Divinity: Original Sin enough (now on XBox:One and PS4)
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2015
May. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Leaked AdultFriendFinder database tells the world if you were having an affair
- UK sells off unused net addresses
- What do AI researchers think about AI risk?
- New deep learning technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error
- The skyscrapers of the future will be made of wood
- SNP takes control of two Westminster committees
- Alistair Carmichael admits Nicola Sturgeon memo leak
- EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
- Fine particulate air pollution linked to risk of childhood autism
- The UK Government will double your donation to Womankind until 5th June
- Florida Agency Classifies Uber Driver As Employee, Says He Is Eligible For Unemployment
- Scotland Office memorandum leak: Cabinet Office inquiry statement
- How to catch a kangaroo in 32 seconds
- On A Plate: How inequality persists
- Did the Japanese have any idea as to what language the Navajo code talkers were speaking in?
- Imperial: Revisiting X-Wing And TIE Fighter
- How Britain voted in 2015 (broken down by age, class, gender, housing type, etc.)
- Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female
- Is Carmichael vulnerable to an election petition?
- Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales
- 5 helpful answers to societys most uncomfortable questions
- "You didn't ask to be born half-way up a mountain, but you were, and I need you to look down and realize that mountain is really a pile of bones."
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Interesting Links for 27-03-2014
Mar. 27th, 2014 11:00 am- What was the first story involving time-travel to the past?
- All men in North Korea are now required to get a haircut. Guess who it looks like...
- From Breaking Bad to Lost: The Quality of 13 Famous TV Shows, Charted Over Time
- Poor families hit by welfare reforms are running up £52 of debt every week'
- Flappy Thirds - when 2048 meets Flappy Birds
- Inherited wealth is an injustice. Let's end it
- The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug reaps $134.1 million profit on $944 million in tickets
- Altruistic side of aggressive greed
- Indian women with more resources than their husbands face heightened risk of violence
- Today's science-fictional moment - they're trialling suspended animation on gunshot victims!
- Facebook, Google, And Sony Are Getting Ready To Fight A Cyberpunk War
- In Heaven We’ll All Be Sociopaths
- One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
- Cheat In Titanfall? Then You Will Only Play With Cheaters
- Childhood abuse may impair weight-regulating hormones
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2012
Dec. 13th, 2012 11:00 am- What did the people who said "Other" for religion in the 2011 census actually say? (6,242 believers in Heavy Metal!)
- Scottish Government publishes equal marriage law. Looks like we'll get there first.
- If you have Internet Explorer open _at all_ then it can leak all of your mouse movements.
- Comparing Russian and American culture.
- The Mad Men Miracle: How changing business practices brought us a rush of great TV
- Student submits his homework to online forum, nice takedown from his teacher.
- The Shakespeare Programming Language
- Own up, you've always wanted a computer that looks like a TARDIS.
- The complexity of marriage law (what is and isn't allowed under the new laws)
- Couple sing a song a day #1435 times, and then break up. In song.
- What did angry mobs ever do for us?
- Dave Sim does Judge Dredd
- Black Metal Babysitting Tips - I shall remember this next time I'm looking after the nephew...
- GravityLight: lighting for developing countries. A genius idea!
- GoodGym - Do good, get fit
- A Photo History of Male Affection
- Facebook is scanning private messages for brand page mentions, and then "Like"ing them for you.
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