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music Little Richard dead at 87 Rob Beschizza

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computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

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crime Criminals are laundering money by selling books of computer-generated gibberish on Amazon Mark Frauenfelder

security Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 "books" full of computer-generated word salad Cory Doctorow

language What English-language courtroom dramas sounds like to Swedes Rob Beschizza

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security The latest NSA dump from the Shadow Brokers tells you how to break into banks Cory Doctorow

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words The best nonsense word generator Rob Beschizza

politics Echoing Infowars, Trump lies that 'very dishonest' U.S. press are covering up terror attacks Xeni Jardin

trump Trump campaign chief: it's not lying if he didn't know whether it was true or not when he said it Rob Beschizza

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