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Andreessen Horowitz lays off "majority" of portfolio recruiting team (axios.com)

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Gartner: 80% of Neocloud Providers Will Cease Independent Operations by 2030 (gartner.com)

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Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland (dpa-international.com)

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UK data centre giant removed evidence of China deal ahead of $35B listing (telegraph.co.uk)

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Global Smartphone Shipments Hit a New Low with 20% YoY Decline (counterpointresearch.com)

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Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China's Speed-First AI Safety Regime (semianalysis.com)

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SpaceX spectrum license deal hammers shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile (cnbc.com)

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SpaceX to Acquire Low-Band Spectrum; Mobile Carriers Drop on News (satellitetoday.com)

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Ukraine warns China and Russia are close to creating a Starlink competitor (ukranews.com)

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Vance says Microsoft, Adobe barred from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards (msn.com)

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Wiley agrees to 50-50 split with Dummies authors in Anthropic settlement (bsky.app/victoriastrauss.com)

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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (nytimes.com)

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Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus "social experiment" (msn.com)

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The Trauma Olympics (brookewarner.substack.com)

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Binance gave Russia crypto donation records for Ukraine fundraisers (reuters.com)

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eBay Consignment is down after consignment facility sold to rival (ecommercebytes.com)

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Woman claims stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into CSAM imagery (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon bars customers from filing lawsuits (ecommercebytes.com)

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The Neurosurgery Resident Who Proved Crouzeix's Conjecture [pdf] (alextownsend.net)

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A Plane Ran Out of Fuel over the Atlantic. The Pilots Saved 306 Lives (popularmechanics.com)

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Canva slashes valuation by $10B as AI reality bites (msn.com)

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Netflix to shut down two more game studios (gamefile.news)

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Chinese space institute tried to set up monitoring station in New Zealand (thespinoff.co.nz)

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Fake Forbes websites and the PR agency offering guaranteed coverage – at a price (pressgazette.co.uk)

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Microsoft Scales Back in China, Shutting 15 Sites in Five Years (sedaily.com)

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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out (techcrunch.com)

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White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6M Payment (nytimes.com)

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CFTC uses "emergency authority" to let Kalshi continue operating in New York (coindesk.com)

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OpenAI releases ChatGPT/Codex desktop app for Linux (thenewstack.io)

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To Improve Student Mental Health, University of Michigan Eases Grading (nytimes.com)

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Spotify says it won't recommend music from 'AI Personas' (theverge.com)

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Google's Westinghouse Bet (asimovaddendum.substack.com)

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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)

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Top Creators' Secret Weapon? Indian Video Editors (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Car Carrier Abandoned After Catching Fire 630 Miles Off Costa Rica (gcaptain.com)

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YouTube to double eligibility requirements for monetization (theverge.com)

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Following Epic loss, Google hosts rival app stores in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)

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Apple Testing Chinese Memory Chips in iPhones and MacBooks (macrumors.com)

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All the inputs for Iranian missiles are coming from China (twitter.com/bohuslavskakate)

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AI bots started a religion, 'Spiralism' – humans followed (theverge.com)

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Pentagon gives contractors 21 days for plans to boost weapons production (cnbc.com)

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)

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Coldcard hardware wallet firmware flaw sees 2k BTC (~$130M) drained (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done" (politico.com)

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Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)

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LinkedIn Adds "Seems Like AI Slop" Button on Every Post (futurism.com)

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Skechers says it doesn't make sneakers, state court rejects claim (universalhub.com)

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Coursera Bets $100M That Chairman Andrew Ng Can Do What Coursera Can't (classcentral.com)

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EcommerceBytes Publishers Settle Lawsuit with eBay for $55.7M (ecommercebytes.com)

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We're Thinking About Darkness All Wrong (harvardmagazine.com)

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Humans haven't stopped evolving (harvardmagazine.com)

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Buyer: eBay AI Pop-Ups Disrupt Shopping Experience (ecommercebytes.com)

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Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement, reduces class counsel fees to 6.8% [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

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China's C919 passenger jets to enter service on first international route (msn.com)

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IMAX CEO: We haven't made new IMAX projectors in 50 years (gamesradar.com)

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Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests AI copilots (news.mit.edu)

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The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry with It? (nytimes.com)

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Texas factory cost $469M using old equipment, makes zero artillery shells (taskandpurpose.com)

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CNN duped by parody account on Twitter posing as California politician (sfgate.com)

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Battery-powered Charles River ferry begins testing near Boston (watertownmanews.com)

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U.S. Eyes Offshore Spaceports with First-Ever Call for Industry Input (gcaptain.com)

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Hudson News self-checkout terminals add 3% "employee benefit" surcharge in NY (twitter.com/_zachgriff)

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The Graduate-School Dropout Toppling a Country's Academic Stars (wsj.com)

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Are readers generating fiction with AI models? (arxiv.org)

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Buyers Disappointed as eBay Pulls Gift Cards Again (ecommercebytes.com)

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Ford rehires 'greybeards' after AI tech fails to deliver (msn.com)

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US says PRC trying to discourage states, businesses from engaging with Taiwan (reuters.com)

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Hasbro's TV Contracts Ask Child Voice Actors to Sign Rights Away for AI Use (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Ireland Is Becoming a French Military Protectorate (foreignpolicy.com)

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Music retailer sues Fender over C&Ds in Stratocaster copyright dispute (guitarworld.com)

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A Humble 3-Wheel Electric Vehicle Lands Toyota in Federal Court (nytimes.com)

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US manufacturer of military TV walls sold to China, US wants it back (thewirechina.com)

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Publishers Sue WeLib for Copyright Infringement (publishersweekly.com)

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Air Force faults crew in second KC-46 tanker accident that tore off boom (taskandpurpose.com)

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Judge re-opens eBay harassment lawsuit after settlement talks break down (universalhub.com)

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Why the U.S. has never had a world-class men's soccer star (nytimes.com)

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Author of Home Office report reveals attempts to compromise him (theguardian.com)

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Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began (airandspaceforces.com)

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Hundreds of cancer papers presented incorrect data after p16 protein mixup (forbetterscience.com)

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China's Blueprint for the Annexation of Kinmen (taiwannews.com.tw)

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Phone Call 25 Years Later About Sold Car (bogleheads.org)

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Engineering prototype of Tesla Cybercab spotted in Boston (twitter.com/onlyinbos)

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Miranda's Rescue was paid to save dogs, but is accused of killing them instead (kymkemp.com)

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The Long and Unprofitable Life of the Short Story Collection (laurabmcgrath.substack.com)

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A prize-winning story published in Granta was (likely) written by AI (lithub.com)

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Mass surveillance of foreigners in China revealed by abandoned demo dashboard (netaskari.substack.com)

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The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014) (bbc.com)

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C-suite exodus at Boston Dynamics (semafor.com)

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State Strategies to Subvert Fraudulent Uniform Commercial Code Filings [pdf] (nass.org)

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NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address (npr.org)

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The KLF: Return to Trancentral (discopogo.co)

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What Is Authorship When Machines Can Write? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)

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Air Force can't quit the A-10 Warthog, extends service into 2030 (taskandpurpose.com)

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The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900% (twitter.com/mediagazer)

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USPS Inspector General Issues Alert on Counterfeit Postage (ecommercebytes.com)

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Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (malwarebytes.com)

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Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (reuters.com)

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Amazon sellers boycott ads in policy change revolt (cnbc.com)