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Scientists link oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline (wsj.com)

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They Tried to Put Me Back in Jail [video] (youtube.com)

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Scanwheel, a miniature mechanical TV [video] (youtube.com)

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When Abraham Lincoln Fought a Duel:The Astonishing Saber Duel of Abraham Lincoln [video] (youtube.com)

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Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea (newyorker.com)

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A mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] (youtube.com)

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'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple? (nytimes.com)

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Ransomware attack forces Coca-Cola to suspend US production at dairy unit (cybersecuritydive.com)

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White Sands National Park and the Birth of the Atomic Bomb [video] (youtube.com)

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The Attention-Span Class Divide (theatlantic.com)

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The Fastest-Growing Risk to Air Travel Is Probably in Your Pocket (wsj.com)

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How View-Master Created 3D Worlds Before Computers [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet Is Dead and Nobody Cares [video] (youtube.com)

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When A.I. is a member of the family (newyorker.com)

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The Most Expensive Dinosaur Just Sold for $50.1M (wsj.com)

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Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff (theverge.com)

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Meta Is Flooding the Market with Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms (wsj.com)

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Apple's 'Thermonuclear' Response to the OpenAI Threat (wsj.com)

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The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications–and Rejects 99.9% (wsj.com)

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A Plan to Stop Solar Storms from Sending Us Back to the Stone Age (wsj.com)

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Bricks and Minifigs Tried to Get Me Arrested to Stop This Video (youtube.com)

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Counterfeit Air-Bags Are Killing U.S. Drivers–and the Government Can't Stop It (wsj.com)

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Why Did Goose Die Ejecting in Top Gun, but Maverick Didn't in Top Gun Maverick [video] (youtube.com)

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How America Celebrated Its Previous Big Birthday in 1976 (wsj.com)

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Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI' (variety.com)

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Google Must Pay Nearly $2B to Klarna in Antitrust Case (wsj.com)

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Europe Is Hot as Hell. Why Doesn't It Want Air Conditioning? (wsj.com)

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[flagged] Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall (wsj.com)

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Can a $60 Plastic Cube Solve Our Screen-Time Crisis? (wsj.com)

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New York's War on Compute (city-journal.org)

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Remember SCANTRON? How did that work? [video] (youtube.com)

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I'm Building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine [video] (youtube.com)

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How a Star Wars Lego Dispute Triggered an Armed Police Raid in Utah (wsj.com)

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Is AI Good at Stock-Market Timing? A New Study Casts Doubt (wsj.com)

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Ranch Dressing: America's Greatest Food Export (theatlantic.com)

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Does the war on "ultra-processed foods" make any sense? (theatlantic.com)

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The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride (newyorker.com)

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I'd Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast (theatlantic.com)

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See How Owning a Home Is Getting More Expensive in Every Way (wsj.com)

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The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole (theatlantic.com)

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We Did the Math on Why the iPhone 18 Pro Could Cost $1,299 (wsj.com)

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Eight Crew Members Believed Dead in B-52 Bomber Crash at California Air Base (wsj.com)

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How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Powering Cyberattacks (wsj.com)

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The Millions of Songs Mashed into AI-Generated Music (theatlantic.com)

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For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony (newyorker.com)

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Over 900 Arch Linux Packages Infected with infostealers and rootkits (archlinux.org)

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The Nerdy Escorts Cashing in on Silicon Valley's AI Boom (forbes.com/sites/annatong)

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You Have No Idea What a Trillion Dollars Is–and We Have Proof (wsj.com)

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"The only cassette mechanism being made" myth BUSTED [video] (youtube.com)

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Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It (newyorker.com)

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$3.6M an Hour–and Other Ways to Measure Elon Musk's Fortune (wsj.com)

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Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read? (newyorker.com)

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Army 'Jailbreaks' Its Own Weapon Systems to Counter Drone Threats (wsj.com)

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University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT (wsj.com)

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Nvidia Introduces First PCs Designed for AI Agents (wsj.com)

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The math world is losing its mind over the new AI solution to an Erdős problem (wsj.com)

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AI is causing a crisis of agency (theatlantic.com)

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Should You Automate Your Life? (newyorker.com)

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In 1930 Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-hour weeks. Why was he so wrong? (npr.org)

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42 Years of Darkness: The Horror of Uranus [video] (youtube.com)

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Phoenix AZ Built an Empire of Cubicle Jobs. AI Is Coming to Tear It Dow (wsj.com)

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Artemis II Reference Guide [pdf] (nasa.gov)

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The Stunt Pilot Hunting Russian Drones (newyorker.com)

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The Leader of NASA's Artemis II Mission Is Still Moonstruck (newyorker.com)

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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop (newyorker.com)

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SpaceX's Ambitions Are Intergalactic. Its Business Is Selling You Internet (wsj.com)

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Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees as It Transforms Around AI (wsj.com)

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Apple Is Making Hit Products and High Profits from Imperfect Chips (wsj.com)

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Apollo Comms Restoration: setup operational, perform nav update from Houston [video] (youtube.com)

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The Protein Shortage Is Coming (theatlantic.com)

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The paper scale system is broken [video] (youtube.com)

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Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas platform (nbcnews.com)

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The Tech Jobs That Are Safe from AI (wsj.com)

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SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit (wsj.com)

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Nvidia Is Buying the Chip Supply Chain (wsj.com)

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US Border Spending Spurs Boom in AI-Infused Surveillance (wsj.com)

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Widget (Beer) (wikipedia.org)

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Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn't Use AI (wsj.com)

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The Great 110 Trillion Wealth Transfer Won't Happen Any Time Soon (wsj.com)

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Microsoft's Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs (theverge.com)

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The Secret to Success Is 'Monotasking' (theatlantic.com)

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How Silicon Valley's Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School (wsj.com)

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Tourist dies after being bitten at snake show while on vacation in Egypt (cnn.com)

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California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate (kmph.com)

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What is up with UK bridge height signs? [video] (youtube.com)

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OpenAI CEO Apologizes for Not Flagging Mass Shooting Suspect to Police (wsj.com)

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The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World (theatlantic.com)

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America's Largest Landowner Is Using AI to Digitize the Forest (wsj.com)

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Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Accuses World Liberty of 'Criminal Extortion' (wsj.com)

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How Cybercrime Became a Leading Industry in 'Scambodia' (wsj.com)

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You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them (wsj.com)

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The Art of the Fictional Pop Song (newyorker.com)

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The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea... Right? (theatlantic.com)

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Netflix Chair Reed Hastings to Leave Board in June (wsj.com)

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For Its Next Act, Allbirds Makes an Unlikely Pivot from Shoes to AI (wsj.com)

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Elon Musk's xAI Sued by NAACP over Memphis Data Center (wsj.com)

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PyCon needs 1,146 more hotel nights to meet "hotel minimum bookings." (twitter.com/lundukejournal)

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Satoshi Has the Right to Hide. We Have the Right to Search for Him (thefp.com)

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The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts [video] (youtube.com)

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Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing (wsj.com)