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skannar produces original articles and fiction for users of all types and industries. skannar articles are posted on skannar.com. skannar specializes in quick read topics and pulls inspiration from technology and digital resources. The Minute Fiction Series is a small immersive fiction series created to give readers a quick daily mental break. Short enough for a coffee break or that daily walk to the water cooler. How many minutes are in a year? Borrow one for yourself and have an adventure.
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NFL Flags Aren’t Rigged: Penalties Mirror Matchups, Tempo, and Game State
NFL penalties mirror matchups and game state—not market size or star power. The “rigged” narrative falls apart once you look at style and situation. Flags spike when press corners collide with vertical attacks, when mobile quarterbacks stretch time-to-throw, and when desperation drives late-game snaps. It’s not about who the league wants to win—it’s about what…
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Beyond the Blue : Minute Fiction
Reflect on the intricate ballet you performed amidst the stars, a dance of human ingenuity and courage in the face of the unknown.
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Microsoft Warns About AI Job Risk—But It’s Your Task List That’s Replaceable
Microsoft Warns About AI Job Risk—But It’s Your Task List That’s Replaceable The news cycle lit up again with lists of job roles “most at risk” from AI. Useful headline, wrong lens. Titles don’t get automated—tokenizable tasks do. If most of your day is predictable text synthesis (summaries, forms, emails, templated analysis), you’re not in…
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5 AI Books: New Releases, Popular, Trending
Imagine holding in your hands the one book that makes sense of today’s AI revolution—where intelligent agents are no longer sci-fi fantasies but real tools reshaping work, creativity, and daily life. This isn’t a dense academic tome or a hype-filled manifesto, but a fresh, accessible, and thought-provoking guide that blends cutting-edge research with real-world examples…
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Stop Shipping AI Demos: Win With AgentOps, Not Agent Model Hype
Stop Shipping AI Demos: Win With AgentOps, Not Agent Model Hype Experience, Data, Operations: your AI stack isn’t a lab trick anymore—it’s your operating agent model. The fastest way to burn cash in 2025 is to chase model du jour while ignoring the boring bits: SLAs, guardrails, observability, and rollback. Call it XDO if you…
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Recommended Books If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky (with contributions from Nate Soares) arrives September 16, 2025 as a clarion call from two of the AI safety field’s early researchers. Building on the 2023 open letter that warned of extinction-level risk from advanced AI, the…
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AI for Beginners Guide 2025: Learn AI in 3 Days (No Coding Required): A Step-by-Step, Hands-On Beginner’s Guide to AI for Work, Home & Business
Recommended Books AI for Beginners Guide 2025: Learn AI in 3 Days (No Coding Required) by Dhaval Bhatti, published August 17, 2025, is a concise, hands-on path to practical AI fluency without writing a line of code. Structured into three focused days—Foundations & First Wins, Prompt Power & Real Productivity, and Solve Big Problems &…
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Agentics: How to design AI agents for impact, growth & innovation
Recommended Book Agentics: How to design AI agents for impact, growth & innovation by Kwame Nyanning, publishing July 30, 2025, is a practical playbook for teams determined to turn agent hype into real outcomes. Acknowledging that most platforms aren’t truly agentic and that the leap from prototype to production is steep, Nyanning offers a crisp…
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The AI Workshop: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to AI: Your A-Z Guide to Mastering Artificial Intelligence for Life, Work, and Business—No Coding Required
Recommended Books The AI Workshop: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to AI: Your A-Z Guide to Mastering Artificial Intelligence for Life, Work, and Business—No Coding Required by Milo Foster (published April 25, 2025) is a clear, hands-on on-ramp to artificial intelligence for absolute beginners. Foster replaces jargon with everyday language, real-world stories, and step-by-step guidance so…
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Recommended Book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (published February 13, 2024) is a clear, energizing guide to partnering with modern AI in everyday work and life. Drawing on his pioneering hands-on research as a Wharton professor and author of the One Useful Thing newsletter, Mollick demystifies large language models and image…
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Forest Floor : Minute Fiction
Forest Floor : Minute Fiction is a series of small immersive fiction stories created to give readers a quick daily mental break. How many minutes are in a year? Borrow one for yourself and have an adventure.
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Generative Ransomware Is Here—Your Security Playbook Just Changed
Not Your Dad’s Ransomware Ransomware just went generative. Reports now show attackers wiring large language models into their playbooks, turning every breach into a bespoke, continuously evolving campaign. If you still think in signatures, you’re playing checkers while the adversary plays blitz chess with an AI co-pilot. Malware That Rewrites Itself The new twist isn’t…
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The Next Breakthrough in ChatGPT Isn’t Smarts—it’s Saying “I Don’t Know”
IDK-First AI: The Feature That Actually Prints Trust The quiet revolt is here: major AI assistants are getting comfortable saying “I don’t know.” Reports suggest the next wave of ChatGPT updates brings more explicit uncertainty and smarter deferrals. That may sound like a small UX tweak. It’s not. It’s the shift from bigger models to…
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Stop Chasing Apps: Build a Personal AI Student OS
Another App List? The Real Edge Is a Student OS & AI Workflow Another “must-have apps for students” roundup hit my feed this week. Helpful? Sure. But the winners in 2025 won’t juggle nine shiny tools—they’ll wire a few into a model‑centric workflow that thinks with them. ChatGPT, Copilot 365, Adobe Acrobat, Canva and even…
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Match Point Served : Minute Fiction
Match Point Served : Minute Fiction It is match point in the game of your life. Can you strike pay dirt? Or should you say clay. How many minutes are in a day? Borrow one for yourself and have an adventure.
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Browser Copilots Are the New Surveillance Layer—Build Verifiable Trust
The pitch for browser copilots is irresistible: summarize this tab, draft that email, fill those forms. But in the post-cookie scramble, “helpfulness” is fast becoming the pretext for total session capture—keystrokes, tabs, docs, even scroll heatmaps. We’ve been here before. This time, the telemetry is closer to the metal. From helpfulness to full-session capture Copilots…
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One Drop, One City, One Last Second : Minute Fiction
One Drop, One City, One Last Second The Minute Fiction is a series of small immersive fiction stories created to give readers a quick daily mental break. How many minutes are in a year? Borrow one for yourself and have an adventure. Waiting in the White You are small and shivering with gladness, swaddled in…
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NCAA CFB Week 1 Heat Check: Texas at Ohio State headlines a wall‑to‑wall slate of must‑watch kickoffs
The wait is over. Week 1 rolls out a feast of ranked tilts, blueblood showdowns and late‑night chaos, headlined by No. 1 Texas storming into The Shoe to battle No. 3 Ohio State on FOX. With fresh QB debuts (hello, Michigan’s Bryce Underwood and Florida’s DJ Lagway), injury notes (Kansas State RB Dylan Edwards questionable),…
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Jaylon Johnson: Bears offense “not good enough” — Expect a defense-first Chicago
Bears CB’s blunt review hints at early identity shift: defense leads, offense must catch up. Chicago cornerback Jaylon Johnson didn’t mince words, calling the Bears’ offense “sloppy” and “not good enough.” When a defensive leader airs that out publicly, it’s more than camp chatter—it’s a message about what to expect when the games count. Defense-First…
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AI Bots Are the New Superfans: Streaming’s Next Moat Is Verified Attention
The Real Disruption Isn’t AI Music—it’s AI Listeners Everyone’s debating synthetic songs while the real disruption floods in through the side door: scripted “fans.” Allegations of bot‑driven play inflation are turning pro‑rata royalties into an exploit, distorting charts, misallocating capital, and taxing honest artists. If a stream can be scripted, a royalty can be stolen—and…
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Precision, Not Nostalgia: The Real Power-Up in Retro Ninja Reboots
Precision, Not Nostalgia: The Real Power-Up in Retro Ninja Reboots The real final boss in retro-styled action games isn’t the katana-wielding boss—it’s input honesty. A slick new ninja throwback has gamers buzzing, and the discourse is familiar: looks era-perfect, plays like a coin-op, but some deaths feel… off. That’s not “hard.” That’s opacity. Difficulty we…
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Superintelligence Is Quietly Shipping—Focus on Governance, Not Model Size
It Didn’t Arrive With a Bang Sam Altman just signaled what many builders already feel: the superintelligence era isn’t a distant firework—it’s already threading into our products and processes. If that’s true, the strategic question shifts from “Who has the biggest model?” to “Who can operate superhuman agents with production-grade control?” Size won’t save you.…
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AI’s Moat Moves to Megawatts: Why a 50 MW Google Nuclear Deal Changes the Game
From Silicon to Electrons The tell just arrived: a top hyperscaler Google locked in a 50 MW nuclear power agreement to feed AI data centers. That headline isn’t about PR—it’s about priority. The new AI stack reads models + chips + data + guaranteed megawatts. If you can’t secure 24/7, carbon-free, price-stable electricity, your GPU…
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Life Insurance Goes Live: Terra x Gradient AI Push Streaming Risk Into the Mainstream
Streaming Underwriting Meets Wearables + AI Pricing A new partnership between Terra and Gradient AI is the clearest signal yet: life insurance is shifting from snapshot underwriting to streaming risk. Instead of pricing you off a medical exam and a stale questionnaire, models can now ingest live signals from wearables and health apps—resting heart rate,…
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AI Isn’t Just Changing Schools—It’s Redefining Learning Forever
AI Accelerates the Pace of Product Innovation—But at What Cost? With OpenAI’s explosive launch of GPT-4o and Google’s Project Astra, the AI arms race just shifted into overdrive. AI Chatbots taking on the classroom is changing schools and learning. With AI changing everything in education, here’s the kicker: as SaaS founders, it’s not flashy features…
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Wearables Are Becoming Our Health Authority—Are We Handing Over Too Much Trust?
NOTE: The image for this article is a rendering and does not represent any actual product. AI Hype vs. Fiscal Reality: Can Startups Survive the Gold Rush? Tech companies like Fitbit are racing to monetize the AI Health boom—but founders, remember: today’s big headlines rarely cover tomorrow’s burned-out budgets. As shown in the latest OpenAI-Microsoft…
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AI’s New Frontier: Meet the Space-Based Wukong Chatbot Already Orbiting Overhead
AI’s True Test May Be Out of This World We spend so much bandwidth debating AI ethics and regulations for the office, but meanwhile, China is quietly prototyping AI crew members for space missions. Imagine: the decisive moments for trustworthy machine teamwork aren’t happening in boardrooms, but in orbit—where a software malfunction could be catastrophic.…
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AI’s Accountability Crisis: Who Covers for Big Tech’s Biggest Mistakes?
Big Tech’s AI: Accountability or Afterthought? AI leaders love to tout their commitment to safety, but real change only seems to happen when headlines and hashtags demand it—like the recent exposé revealing chatbots crossing inappropriate lines with youth users. As hype outruns regulation, here’s the tough truth: Are we letting tech set its own rules…
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