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Stephan Miller

@eristoddle

Software Developer and Freelance Writer

 Kansas City, MO
stephanmiller.com
Joined May 2007
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Insects Don’t Swarm at LED Lights | Outside My Window buff.ly/2ooWsY6
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I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext buff.ly/jT88QqS
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Being a kid making games in the early 2000s - Jay Tholen buff.ly/7FTVxYT
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Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network buff.ly/24Wozbo
Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network

Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network

Our new Residential Proxy Observatory shows residential proxy traffic exiting the White House network: 236 times in 30 days, through 28 public proxy services.

layer3intel.com
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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI buff.ly/aJ9ETPv
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

Nobel winner warns the tech could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown

theguardian.com
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Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time | nns.ee buff.ly/Kq6o3Xb
nns.ee

nns.ee

Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog

blog.nns.ee
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North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist buff.ly/wtAvHYJ
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says

theregister.com
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PHP2Shell and AI Put Half the Internet on Edge buff.ly/yFqx60L
PHP2Shell and AI Put Half the Internet on Edge

PHP2Shell and AI Put Half the Internet on Edge

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

spectrum.ieee.org
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Anthropic's internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers buff.ly/6F66NSH
Anthropic's internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers

Anthropic's internal AI use is now worth more than employee pay, at the prices it charges customers

Anthropic's IPO filing reveals a striking milestone: Its internal AI usage is now valued above employee compensation.

businessinsider.com
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The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” buff.ly/lqNCrM0
The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”

The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”

I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …

simonwillison.net
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I want to run Zwicky's morphological analysis on this. Step one only: list the independent parameters of the problem, and for each, the possible values. Do not solve anything yet. buff.ly/XpFbzdC
Stop Asking AI to Fix the Whole Problem

Stop Asking AI to Fix the Whole Problem

Ask a model to fix a problem and you get the answer next door. Take the problem apart first and you get 324. Here's which half the model can do.

stephanmiller.com
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Boy Names That Became Girl Names (and Vice Versa) buff.ly/3MHHQgU
Boy Names That Became Girl Names (and Vice Versa)

Boy Names That Became Girl Names (and Vice Versa)

Explore 125 baby names that shifted between boys and girls, from Leslie to Ashley. See how each one’s split between boys and girls changed from 1936 to 2025.

namedaisy.com
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack buff.ly/3mw2YIB
Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack

Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack

He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide

dfarq.homeip.net
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My City Canceled Flock's Contract. Flock Ignored It, So the Police Chief Unplugged the Cameras buff.ly/0c2dV9W
My City Canceled Flock's Contract. Flock Ignored It, So the Police Chief Unplugged the Cameras

My City Canceled Flock's Contract. Flock Ignored It, So the Police Chief Unplugged the Cameras

Plymouth canceled its contract after Flock cameras wrongly flagged me. A month later, the company still won't say when it'll remove the hardware.

thedrive.com
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Google Loves Forums More Than Authority Sites, Reveals Study buff.ly/9LC2EYt
Google Loves Forums More Than Authority Sites, Reveals Study

Google Loves Forums More Than Authority Sites, Reveals Study

Does Google favor forums over established authority sites? Discover the latest study findings and how user-generated content is winning in search.

stanventures.com
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Obsidian Keeps Reloading on iPad? Find the Plugin Killing It buff.ly/4I6lWkk
Obsidian Keeps Reloading on iPad? Find the Plugin Killing It

Obsidian Keeps Reloading on iPad? Find the Plugin Killing It

My iPad reloaded Obsidian every minute. So I built a two-button plugin to find the culprit. Then the sync broke.

stephanmiller.com
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AI text watermarking and quality loss buff.ly/lfWea0S
AI text watermarking and quality loss

AI text watermarking and quality loss

After the EU AI Act’s transparency guidelines went into effect, and following the announcement that most major AI labs will soon be watermarking their text output to comply, there has been some...

blog.keyvan.net
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AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy buff.ly/wtc2Syo
AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail...

AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail...

It is hoped game testing can provide insight into recent AI agent headlines, good and bad.

tomshardware.com
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I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats buff.ly/zLQVloU
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Altoids Project buff.ly/coBFv87

Altoids Project

My 12-year-old son and I spent about two months on, what we call, the Altoids project. Here is the final product (video):

uvdn7.github.io
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