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eBay buys Depop for $1.2B in effort to lure younger shoppers (theguardian.com)

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Trump directs US govt to release files on 'alien and extraterrestrial life' (sky.com)

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Instagram breaks silence on mysterious password reset emails (indy100.com)

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Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman (fb.com)

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An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users (engadget.com)

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Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials (bbc.co.uk)

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The great porn panic: Causal arguments rest on pseudo-science (unherd.com)

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Letterboxd Video Store (a curated rental platform) (letterboxd.com)

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$10k Card Shufflers Hit the Spotlight After NBA Poker Scandal (bloomberg.com)

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Has your iPhone typing accuracy been getting worse? This video may vindicate you (phonearena.com)

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Crypto whale opens new $163M Bitcoin short after $192M win (cryptonews.com)

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Your nose gets colder when you're stressed. These thermal images show the change (bbc.co.uk)

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Legendary Italian designer Giorgio Armani dies (bbc.co.uk)

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Largest sports piracy site shut down by police (bbc.co.uk)

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UK banks brace for losses on loans to broadband challengers (ft.com)

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AI 'deadbots' are persuasive – and researchers say, primed for monetization (npr.org)

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Trump media group in $6B deal to buy Crypto.com tokens (ft.com)

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Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing (theguardian.com)

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Enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches starling to recall file (tomshardware.com)

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Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland (bbc.co.uk)

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UK Deputy Prime Minister asks China to explain blanked-out embassy plans (bbc.co.uk)

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Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show (sky.com)

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Purdue ECE students shatter World Record for fastest Rubik's cube-solving robot (purdue.edu)

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Trump-backed (crypto) project partners with Pakistan govt (thestreet.com)

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Re Miran's tariff justification: "This is insane, no other way to call it." (twitter.com/rnaudbertrand)

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North Korean hackers cash out millions from $1.5B ByBit hack (bbc.co.uk)

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I spent 30 years searching for the secret to happiness – it isn't what I thought (bbc.co.uk)

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Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally (theguardian.com)

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How to Make Millions as a Professional Whistleblower (gq.com)

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Pud's Small Batch Headphones (pud.com)

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What happened when 10 teens gave up their smartphones? (bbc.co.uk)

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Author Clock: a novel way to tell time (authorclock.com)

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Their Diplomas Came with Envelopes of Cash, and a Catch (nytimes.com)

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Fake UK stamps blamed on Chinese-made counterfeits (bbc.co.uk)

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Insomniac: Spider-Man 2 Playstation studio victim of hack (bbc.co.uk)

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Bedbugs: Hotels turn to tech as outbreaks rise (bbc.co.uk)

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Osiris-Rex: NASA reveals first look at 'beautiful' asteroid sample (bbc.co.uk)

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Laura Kuenssberg: Inside the high-stakes soap opera that led to political chaos (bbc.co.uk)

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The US Military Is Getting Smaller, Cheaper and Smarter (bloomberg.com)

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The science behind seeing ghosts (bbc.co.uk)

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Ed Sheeran appears in NYC court for start of copyright trial (bbc.co.uk)

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Rishi Sunak sets up review to tackle 'anti-maths mindset' (bbc.co.uk)

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Oil prices surge after surprise move to cut output (bbc.co.uk)

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Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat (newscientist.com)

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[dupe] High-altitude object shot down over Alaska, US says (bbc.co.uk)

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Egypt archaeology: Gold-covered mummy among latest discoveries (bbc.co.uk)

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Boris Johnson's office receives £1M donation from crypto investor (bbc.co.uk)

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[flagged] BMW I Vision Dee (bmw.co.uk)

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Rishi Sunak wants all pupils to study maths to age 18 (bbc.co.uk)

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Doncaster surgery sends cancer text instead of festive message (bbc.co.uk)

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Moog Synthesizer Co-Inventor Herb Deutsch Dead at 90 (stereogum.com)

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Wordle: The most Googled word globally and in the US in 2022 (bbc.co.uk)

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Online Safety Bill: Plan to make big tech remove harmful content axed (bbc.co.uk)

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2D Rubik’s Cube solution visualization (twitter.com/jagarikin)

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Scale of abuse of [UK] politicians on Twitter revealed (bbc.co.uk)

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Truss's phone hacked by Kremlin so compromised it's locked in 'secure location' (dailymail.co.uk)

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See how much Truss and Kwarteng’s 'mini-budget' is going to cost (kamikwasi.tax)

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Mathematicians suggest the “37% rule” for your life’s biggest decisions

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Crypto Bridge Nomad Offers 10% Bounty After $190M Hack

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Celeb jets to Pelosi’s Taiwan trip, flight trackers – sleeper hit of the summer

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Liz Truss Wants a Pony: A Magic Internet Where No One Ever Says Any Bad Things