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AI-Generated Images Can Perform as Well as Stock PhotographyWhen users don't know an image's provenance, AI-generated photos are judged no less trustworthy than real stock photography; trust depends more on content than on how it was made.
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Pluralistic
Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026)The success of the AI industry relies not just on talent but on historical luck—the coincidence of massive parallel computing and internet data—much like being born on third base.
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Hacker News
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military basesAn expired domain let the author take control of the phone routing for three British territories and accidentally log hundreds of thousands of calls to military bases.
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Platformer
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chiefEven a media company that automates everything it can still hires more humans, because AI trained on past expertise can't handle the unique problems that keep arising.
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阮一峰的网络日志
科技爱好者周刊(第 409 期):程序员的职业未来AI won't eliminate programmers but will change their work, with manual coding becoming increasingly marginal.
阮一峰的网络日志
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipointThe author found that Alibaba's security scripts run WebAudio fingerprinting quietly on the AliExpress homepage, which keeps the computer's audio channel active and causes Bluetooth headphones to fail switching back to the phone.
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of codeAlthough counting lines of code is often mocked, it has become meaningful again in the era of AI-assisted programming, because engineers' cognitive capacity has become the new bottleneck, and conceptual integrity is the biggest hidden risk in AI-generated output.
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