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1. This is a thread about Horticultural Extrapolation. Not something you're likely to have thought about, but it's time some people did. What is it? It's projecting the mechanics of fruit and veg growing onto the entire food system. It's surprisingly common, and frequently leads people astray. 🧵

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Cleo attack victim list grows as Hertz confirms customer data stolen – and security experts say it won't be the last

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This is a big deal for cyber security (and, consequently, pretty much all of us)

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Westcon-Comstor and Vectra AI launch brace of new channel initiatives

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Who is this for, exactly? People who want to share AI-generated images – from any platform – are already doing so on their existing social accounts. Why set up a new one just to share images from DALL-E or whatever?

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"We're getting there" is just the perfect British Rail in the 80s motto.

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Can anyone explain this discrepancy in stop count? Apple Health thinks I’ve done over 3,000 more steps today than two exercise/fitness apps do, despite them getting their data from Apple Health.

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I just can’t understand the appeal

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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Joining TikTok like your grandma heading to the club

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if the artist had time to draw this picture, he had time to stop the assassination

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Businesses are taking their eye off the ball with vulnerability patching and generative #AI is making things worse www.itpro.com/security/vul... #cybersecurity

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Monday

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Because you have two homes?

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The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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Is it hot enough to be summer outside? Yes. Am I feeding my family a nice warming toad in the hole anyway? Also yes.

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Someone on Vinted is selling an old tailor’s book. The chapter names are wonderful

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If you have a dictionary that you don't show love Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

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Oh my god: the reason for this parliamentary recall is to make plans for British Steel, in order to ward off the threat from Nigel

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Spending a lovely sunny afternoon in the garden with an ice-cold drink reading about maths

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Nothing quite like cycling along an arterial road only to have a spider fly into your face

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When I was a baby journo, I was told to always try to speak to people on the phone and avoid written comment so it wouldn’t be filtered through endless layers of PRs and approval. It seems now you might want to speak to them on the phone to ensure they are actually a real person, not a chatbot.

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I’ll be honest, I thought the endless “become a prompt engineer” career advice had died a death. Apparently not.

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This sounds like an insult delivered by Jame Eagan

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Typical day in the UK right now

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

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Cyber scams cost businesses $1.7 million per year, claims report

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Time to veg out now, yes?

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Is the IT service desk dying out? Find out in the latest ITPro podcast

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Fake it till you make it: 79% of tech workers pretend to know more about AI than they do – and executives are the worst offenders

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"I LOVE this company!" Looking back on 50 years of tech giant Microsoft

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Thanks for that clarification

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My colleague @rorybathgate.bsky.com is heading to Google Cloud Next 2025 this week. Find out what to expect from the event in his pre-conference analysis.

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Reality has a left-wing bias

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