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NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission (techcrunch.com)

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AI has granted America new power (economist.com)

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FDA committee recommends a new mRNA flu vaccine (npr.org)

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Rolls-Royce secures deal to build small nuclear reactors for Sweden (euronews.com)

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Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game (pcgamer.com)

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String theory may be inevitable from basic assumptions about the universe (science.org)

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Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70M Takedowns per Week (torrentfreak.com)

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Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged safety lapses (npr.org)

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Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required (quantamagazine.org)

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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false (arstechnica.com)

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NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon's South Pole (wired.com)

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Trump pulls back AI order over fears it could slow US technology (apnews.com)

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What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean? (quantamagazine.org)

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Linux bitten by second vulnerability in as many weeks (arstechnica.com)

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Anthropic's Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator (theregister.com)

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Y Combinator holds $5B stake in OpenAI (simonwillison.net)

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The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (quantamagazine.org)

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Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)

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NetHack 5.0.0 Released (nethack.org)

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Some schools consider eliminating homework (npr.org)

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Elon Musk said OpenAI betrayed him after Microsoft deal (sfchronicle.com)

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GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims (torrentfreak.com)

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Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds (theverge.com)

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What's the deal with Alzheimer's disease and amyloid? (arstechnica.com)

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Linux 7.0 Released with New Hardware Support, Optimizations and Self-Healing XFS (phoronix.com)

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Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time (newscientist.com)

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New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer (quantamagazine.org)

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Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data (sciencedaily.com)

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Startup wants to change how mathematicians do math (technologyreview.com)

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OpenAI "indefinitely" shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)

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Archaeologists may have found the grave of the legendary "fourth musketeer" (arstechnica.com)

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In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far? (quantamagazine.org)

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Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet (arstechnica.com)

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Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything? (quantamagazine.org)

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ULA again fails to launch a satellite; military transfers mission to SpaceX (arstechnica.com)

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A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox (techcrunch.com)

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Archaeologists Use Computer Simulations to Decipher How Romans Played Board Game (archaeology.org)

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China hacked Downing Street phones for years (telegraph.co.uk)

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Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption (pcmag.com)

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X Corp Sues Music Publishers, Alleges Coordinated DMCA Extortion (torrentfreak.com)

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Even Linus Torvalds is vibe coding now (zdnet.com)

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Camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first (theregister.com)

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The Year in Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)

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The Year in Computer Science (quantamagazine.org)

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Supreme Court weighs fight between music industry, ISPs (npr.org)

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US Patent Office issues new guidelines for AI-assisted inventions (reuters.com)

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A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life (quantamagazine.org)

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Apple made a $230 crossbody sock (theverge.com)

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Letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes made Mac calculator's design (arstechnica.com)

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From tango to StarCraft: Creative activities linked to slower brain aging (psypost.org)

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Redditor Convicted Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark Moral Rights Copyright Case (torrentfreak.com)

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Netflix issues GenAI rules:no generative AI in final deliverables (simonwillison.net)

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To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them into a Puzzle (quantamagazine.org)

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China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months (theguardian.com)

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The tallest chip defies the limits of computing: goodbye to Moore's Law? (elpais.com)

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Google's new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season (arstechnica.com)

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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel (simonwillison.net)

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What is a manifold? (quantamagazine.org)

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Human DNA detected in 2B year old meteorite (geekspin.co)

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Apple's Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn't (wired.com)

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The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices (quantamagazine.org)

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New approach to gravitational wave detection opens the Milli-Hz Frontier (eurekalert.org)

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Copper workers' experiments might have helped usher in Iron Age (archaeology.org)

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Dementia Prevention Must Begin in Childhood, Not Just Midlife (neurosciencenews.com)

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Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent (phys.org)

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Scientists Found a 520M-Year-Old Miracle: A Fossil with Brains and Guts Intact (popularmechanics.com)

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Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns (2020) [pdf] (martindemaine.org)

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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark (apnews.com)

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Reading for Fun Is Plummeting in the US, and Experts Are Concerned (sciencealert.com)

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4chan/Kiwi Farms Lawsuit (documentcloud.org)

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Website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o (venturebeat.com)

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Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work (nature.com)

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Scientists find tiny new moon around Uranus with the James Webb Space Telescope (space.com)

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs (techcrunch.com)

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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco (theverge.com)

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ChatGPT chief Nick Turley doesn't want you too attached to AI (theverge.com)

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Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says (theguardian.com)

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Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature (theverge.com)

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Linus Torvalds blasts kernel dev for making the world worse with garbage patches (zdnet.com)

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Scientists discover brain layers that get stronger with age (sciencedaily.com)

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ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated (techcrunch.com)

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Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law (politico.com)

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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds (nytimes.com)

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code (venturebeat.com)

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The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam's abrupt adult game ban (theverge.com)

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Why do some AI chatbot subscriptions cost more than $200? (wired.com)

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'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle (torrentfreak.com)

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Facebook Rigorously Removes News Articles Mentioning Pirate Service "MagisTV" (torrentfreak.com)

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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse (theverge.com)

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Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training (torrentfreak.com)

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Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions (theguardian.com)

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Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (theverge.com)

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Conspiracy theorists don't realize they're on the fringe (arstechnica.com)

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Songscription launches an AI-powered 'Shazam for sheet music' (techcrunch.com)

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XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in Akamai CloudTest (xbow.com)

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Left-Handed Creativity Myth Debunked (neurosciencenews.com)

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Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity (quantamagazine.org)

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NASA+ Is Coming to Netflix This Summer (nasa.gov)

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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training (arstechnica.com)

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Microsoft planning 'major' Xbox layoffs next week (theverge.com)