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Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude (theregister.com)

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Digital devices are being used to comfort babies and parents (1001criticaldays.com)

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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)

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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week (newscientist.com)

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Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft (openai.com)

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[flagged] Tesla FSD doesn't stop for school buses with stop signs and red lights (bsky.app)

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S.F.'s giant naked woman sculpture brought out the worst in our city (sfchronicle.com)

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The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed (petapixel.com)

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[dupe] DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, White House (theverge.com)

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The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo (businessinsider.com)

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The Bay Area still has the highest cost of living in the U.S. (sfchronicle.com)

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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content – that could be a problem (techcrunch.com)

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New View of the "City Under the Ice" (nasa.gov)

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses DOJ move to have Google sell off Chrome (npr.org)

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Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert (nytimes.com)

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All Aboard the Good Ship Benchy (hackaday.com)

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Pentagon's commercial satellite internet services program soars to $13B (spacenews.com)

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Looking at California's $20 minimum wage impact 6 months later (nbcbayarea.com)

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Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft (space.com)

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A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes (futurism.com)

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The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress (theverge.com)

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Electric air taxi company chooses sleepy Bay Area city for new port (sfgate.com)

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SF rolls out first 100 license plate reader cameras to combat crime (sfgate.com)

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One Big Chart: how does the cost of nuclear power compare to renewables? (theguardian.com)

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EcoFlow's $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4k solar generator (theverge.com)

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Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under secret name (arstechnica.com)

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Northern lights could be visible over California. Here's the best time to look (sfchronicle.com)

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Behemoth sunspot unleashes biggest solar flare, radio blackouts on Earth [video] (space.com)

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Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide shoots powerful X-class flare toward Earth (space.com)

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Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape (futurism.com)

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The Transamerica Pyramid's renovation is underway. We got a peek from the top (sfstandard.com)

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Rebel 'Star Wars' fans saved the original movies (nytimes.com)

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Tech workers leaving San Francisco now going to NYC (sfchronicle.com)

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Section 702 bill gives NSA communications of almost any U.S. business (twitter.com/lizagoitein)

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Meta's AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence (thenextweb.com)

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Crypto miner, Pennsylvania hit with lawsuit over pollution from Bitcoin mine (reuters.com)

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Roman Emperor Caligula's coffee table (cbsnews.com)

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Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn't get far: police (ktla.com)

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The Economics of Skiing in America (economist.com)

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Candy sells faster than fentanyl in San Francisco's open-air drug markets (sfstandard.com)

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the US Military Already Has a Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes (military.com)

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Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality (stocks.apple.com)

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Island of California (wikipedia.org)

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Did art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions (livescience.com)

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The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk (nasa.gov)

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DARPA's ground-effect X-plane will haul 100 tons of cargo (newatlas.com)

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Asteroid the size of 64 Canadian geese to pass Earth Tuesday (jpost.com)

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NASA System Predicts Impact of a Small Asteroid over Germany (nasa.gov)

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Former NASA administrator wants to scrap lunar mission plans, start over (chron.com)

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China's Gravity-1 rocket aces debut launch from ship at sea (space.com)

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Nvidia's H100 GPUs will consume more power than some countries (tomshardware.com)

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What Drives This Madness on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors? (cleantechnica.com)

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Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws (nbcbayarea.com)

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'Sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us (livescience.com)

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Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday (axios.com)

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House lawmakers press Apple CEO on reports Jon Stewart canceled for China (cnn.com)

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Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says (denvergazette.com)

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Supermassive black hole at heart of Milky Way approaching the cosmic speed limit (livescience.com)

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California wants to end Cupertino's tax deal with Apple (appleinsider.com)

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Apple Picked the Unlikeliest Voice to Sell the iPhone (wsj.com)

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Light and gravitational waves don't arrive simultaneously (bigthink.com)

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Why EV Batteries Keep Getting Cheaper and Cleaner (cleantechnica.com)

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Tesla is the elephant in the room as UAW strike looms (axios.com)

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Polaris’ pulsation period is becoming shorter (universetoday.com)

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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says (reuters.com)

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US takes $1.2B gamble on carbon-sucking vacuums (dw.com)

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[flagged] There are 28 vacant homes for every person experiencing homelessness in the U.S. (unitedwaynca.org)

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Lab-Grown Human Brain Organoids Go Animal-Free (neurosciencenews.com)

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The era of tech layoffs is evolving in an interesting way (techcrunch.com)

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Kurt Gödel and the U.S. Constitution’s loophole (elpais.com)

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Cop Got Out of 44 Tickets by Saying That His Girlfriend Stole His Car (propublica.org)

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Project Excalibur (Space Based Missile Defense System) (wikipedia.org)

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French Republican Calendar (wikipedia.org)

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Airbnb CEO: CEOs calling workers back to the office 'going away to the Hamptons’ (businessinsider.com)

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work experiment was a mistake – it’s over (yahoo.com)

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Airbnb’s CEO spent 6 months living in his rentals and found the core problem (yahoo.com)

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A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco (sfgate.com)

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Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition (propublica.org)

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First Republic - Order Taking Possession [pdf] (ca.gov)

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California Financial Regulator Takes Possession of First Republic Bank (ca.gov)

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Hundreds of 24-Ton Bricks Could Fix a Renewable Energy Problem (cnet.com)

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Spacex blew up starship on purpose (futurism.com)

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[flagged] Alt-Right Pipeline (wikipedia.org)

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Ampersand (2015) (haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com)

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S.F. bureaucrats gave woman a choice: Remove free library or pay $1,400 (sfchronicle.com)

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Mystery of spaceship-shaped object has been solved, scientists say (mashable.com)

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The ex-Meta recruiter who says she made $190K a year ‘to do nothing’ speaks out (sfgate.com)

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[flagged] Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from schools (sltrib.com)

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'Runaway' black hole the size of 20M suns found speeding through space (livescience.com)

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Net International Migration at Lowest Levels in Decades (census.gov)

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New York Passengers Engage in Game Theory, Take Airline for $1100 (viewfromthewing.com)

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Amazon Kindle Scribe: absolutely adequate (theverge.com)

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Banksy: Shoplift @ Guess who ‘Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’ (complex.com)

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Future Motion Responds to CPSC's Unjustified and Alarmist Claims About Onewheels (prnewswire.com)

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Scientists Find That Lifting Weights Offers No Benefit over Simply Lowering Them (futurism.com)

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Tesla finds a loophole in states where dealerships are forbidden: Tribal lands (kbb.com)

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Bay Area tech giants announce massive layoffs on same day (abc7news.com)

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Jack Dorsey rolls his stake into Elon Musk-owned Twitter (ft.com)

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NASA Spacecraft Snaps Haunting View of Earth from 380k Miles Away (cnet.com)

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PSA: Doom could be running inside your kids' Halloween candy (pcgamer.com)