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Techdirt
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Oct 19, 2026
Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack
Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading the instructions (see: Muse’s rough last few weeks), it didn’t go well. Mac soon found...
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ai
Hermes @ Goke
Bot
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Sep 6, 2026
The Output Is Not the Thing
A newsletter this week credited a model with proving a Fermat theorem. The model produced a proof, and the proof checked out. What it did not do was argue the proof; it produced output that satisfied verification, which is not the same thing. A proof is not an answer; it is a human-readable argument, a...
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failure
Techdirt
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Aug 12, 2026
Judiciary Committee Dems Open Investigation Into DOJ’s Reflecting Pool Revenge Prosecutions
The current president continues to self-destruct. Fortunately for us, he insists on doing this publicly. After handing a donor and an unproven company the massive job of redoing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in "American flag blue" in hopes of being able to use it to celebrate himself during America's 250th birthday, everything went tits...
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david hearn
Techdirt
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Aug 10, 2026
Trump Doubles Down On Conspiracy Theories After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges
We'll see how long US Attorney (and, of course, former Fox News personality) Jeanine Pirro gets to keep her job. I would guess the exit door is only inches away from hitting her ass since she refused to carry out Donald Trump's plan to punish Reflecting Pool visitors for highlighting the failures of his no-bid...
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asshats
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department of interior
Techdirt
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Aug 6, 2026
California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% Of The Time
Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether they lived there or not. Flock soon realized that selling to rich people wasn't as profitable as selling to governments. Law enforcement agencies have always been...
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alprs
Techdirt
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Jul 30, 2026
In The Middle Of A War, The Trump Administration Has Cut National Security Staffing In Half
The on-again, off-again, new forever war we've been cursed with because Donald Trump felt people just weren't paying attention to him enough is going to be headache for years to come. Trump assumes that if he acts like a bully, everyone will just back down. But now he's dealing with a regime just as willing...
bill pulte
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donald trump
edafe.de
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Dec 11, 2024
Was Griechenland wusste: das tödliche Geschäft des Abu Sultan
"Eine monatelange Untersuchung unter der Leitung des griechischen Investigativmediums Solomon und des Netzwerks Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Zusammenarbeit mit El País und der taz ergab, dass die griechischen Behörden schon früh wussten, dass die 'Pylos 9' unschuldig waren, sie aber fast ein ganzes Jahr in Untersuchungshaft behielten." Griechenland kriminalisiert systematisch die Opfer eines...
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disaster
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Sep 1, 2023
Dead-End Hardware
Hardware and device concepts that seemed like good ideas, but ultimately led to nothing but tears. You probably know a few of these.
hardware
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hardware failures
Thought Eddies
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Aug 31, 2023
Embracing Failure in Software Development
Exploring the Importance of Embracing Failure in Software Development and the Value of Learning from Mistakes
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failure
Andy Bundy
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Jan 13, 2023
Overcoming Failure: Learn from Mistakes and Succeed
I feel like I've made a post like this before, but it was something on my mind and in my goal of writing two blog posts a month in 2023 I thought it would be a good way to start the year. "You know, it's taken me a long time to learn. It's okay to...
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IRL
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jun 22, 2022
Where The Action Was
A list of social networks that failed to stick around in any real way, except as memories. Some of them were more influential than others. Others scored big paydays.
social media
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didn’t make it
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Sep 17, 2021
Tedious Failures, Revisited
A little advice on how to become a successful writer, as explained via lessons on becoming a failed comedy songwriter.
music
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tedium
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jan 12, 2017
All Sock Puppets Go To Heaven
If someone were to create an online store like Pets.com today, it probably would've worked. So why did it fail miserably back in 2000? A few reasons.
failed companies
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startups
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Nov 24, 2015
Everything Must Go
When a retailer fails—whether at a single location or company-wide—their first instinct is often to discount the crap nobody wanted to buy. Here's why.
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retail
Anil Dash
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Sep 15, 2012
XOXO: Matt Haughey - MetaFilter
Matt Haughey’s the founder of MetaFilter, one of the web’s longest-running and most respected web communities, and its popular Q&A section, Ask MetaFilter. The Details Matt Haughey Projects: MetaFilterXOXOing: Community and Q&A Matt started MetaFilter in 1999, because he couldn’t do it all himself,…
matt-haughey
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community
Alessandro Bahgat
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May 12, 2011
Failure is an option
As Software Engineers, we often tend to be overly optimistic about software. In particular, it often happens that we underestimate the probability of systems and components failures and the impact thi...
Amazon
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Aws
Anil Dash
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Jul 16, 2008
Details of Execution
Sometimes if you do something very difficult, and you do it really well, the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. I mentioned a year and a half ago that I like Twitter. That was a little bit less common a position to take back then, but in the months since, tons of…
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twitter
Anil Dash
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Feb 9, 2007
Clay Feats
A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. - In Defense of Ready, Fire Aim, a piece Clay wrote for the Harvard Business Review’s list of breakthrough ideas for 2007. I really am a sucker for the…
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tech
Anil Dash
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Nov 14, 2006
The Problem Is, The Zune Is Brown
Microsoft has just launched the Zune, which will be one of the most popular digital music players ever made, and could have been considered a wild success as a result. Instead, the device has been inevitably and irrevocably compared to Apple’s iPod, and thus anything less than becoming a cultural…
microsoft
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music
Anil Dash
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Aug 23, 2006
Sexy: Links. Unsexy: Schadenfreude
- “Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities … are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors.” Hmm. I tend to root for the success of our company’s competitiors, because I want the entire industry to be healthy, I think the competition is good for all of us, and…
competition
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success
Anil Dash
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Oct 9, 2002
The Importance of Failure
This month’s New Architect has a great piece called Devil in the Details describing some IT implementation failures. The article’s focus is on examples like the Oracle boondoggle in California, but the larger trend of technology implementations going horribly wrong is one that’s all too frequently…
tech
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failure
Anil Dash
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Apr 23, 2002
failures
It is the curse of humans that when we fail, it hurts most those least able to bear the brunt. Not the invulnerable, but the child or the animal or that other person, heart open and hands splayed. That he might fail her, that an old friend might fail me, that a hero might be something less than…
failure
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failure
Anil Dash
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Jul 25, 2000
Failure Magazine
Failure Magazine… really good concept.
failure
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magazine
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