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50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC (makeuseof.com)

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A Chinese AI model stopped OpenAI's 'unprecedented' cyber attack (cnbc.com)

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China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage (cnbc.com)

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Elon Musk Melts Down over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview (gizmodo.com)

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American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models (npr.org)

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New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed to Produce Any 155mm Parts (twz.com)

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'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now (zdnet.com)

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What Distinguishes the Super Rich from the Rest of Us (insead.edu)

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I ditched LM Studio for llama.cpp and my local LLM doesn't feel like a downgrade (xda-developers.com)

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The Booing Will Continue Until Commencement Speeches Improve (gizmodo.com)

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I let an AI agent loose on my network – it owned my supply chain in 12 minutes (dennysentinel.com)

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My husband and son dived to see the wreck of the Titanic, and never came back (theguardian.com)

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Anthropic latest AI model too powerful for public release and broke containment (businessinsider.com)

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As Meta Flounders, It Reportedly Plans to Open Source Its New AI Models (gizmodo.com)

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The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead (techcrunch.com)

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Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company (apnews.com)

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Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (howtogeek.com)

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The legal engine of progress: from railroads to AI (bigthink.com)

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Not in Our Name (aeon.co)

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[flagged] More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ say they're buying guns out of fear (npr.org)

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America's Baristas Are Brewing Up a Labor Movement (bonappetit.com)

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What does Elon Musk do with all his money? (bbc.com)

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No Exit Strategy: Why Older Americans Expect to Work Indefinitely (money.com)

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Stop asking 'How was school today?' To raise successful, mentally strong kids (cnbc.com)

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What are Amazon's layoffs about? (fastcompany.com)

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Mobsters' own words brought down Philly's mafia (theconversation.com)

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Elon Musk's $1T Tesla pay package: Here are the major caveats (fastcompany.com)

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Ford CEO Jim Farley: The Essential Economy's Productivity Gap Should Worry Us (time.com)

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So Many Unmarried Men (aeon.co)

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[flagged] Alex Karp Wants Silicon Valley to Fight for America (wsj.com)

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Sam Altman: How I use AI in my own everyday life–it's great for 'boring' tasks (cnbc.com)

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LLM-as-Intern: Revisiting the Analogy (medium.com/sahuguet)

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Ever After: Why Large Language Models Aren't Designed for Instant Creativity (thecareertoolkitbook.com)

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AI Is Robbing Jr. Devs (benbrougher.tech)

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Why Do So Many Millennials Look and Seem So Much Younger Than They Are? (vogue.com)

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This is How Many Startup Businesses Fail in the First Year (+Survival Tips) (54collective.vc)

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A neurosurgeon shares his effective strategy for overcoming fears (fastcompany.com)

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Why Nothing Works Anymore (2017) (theatlantic.com)

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The elite billionaires have these several things in common (aol.com)

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Why Talking to Strangers Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Mental Health (melmagazine.com)

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Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at ISS must delay return to Earth yet again (cbsnews.com)

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Seven High-Paying Jobs Most People Don't Want (lifehacker.com)

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Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them (euronews.com)

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Men are struggling. Here's how your philanthropy can help (vox.com)

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From 'Great Resignation' to 'Great Detachment': How U.S. job market has slowed (nbcnews.com)

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Elon Musk's more than $50B pay deal at Tesla was rejected again (npr.org)

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Stupefied (aeon.co)

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Silent but Deadly (slate.com)

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The Misunderstood Reason Americans Stopped Going to Church (2023) (theatlantic.com)

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Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company (aynrand.org)

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Why can't we just launch all of Earth's garbage into the sun? (popsci.com)

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I Learned to Stop Being a "Chill Girl" and Start Being Me (vogue.com)

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The Not-So-Woke Generation Z (theatlantic.com)

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Why gossiping at work is good for you (bbc.com)

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'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men (theguardian.com)

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After Trump's Victory, the 4B Movement Is Spreading Across TikTok (wired.com)

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Physics heresy: Projectiles don't make parabolas (bigthink.com)

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NASA Has Some Bad News for Its Stranded Astronauts (time.com)

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The World of Ethereum Snipers (samchepal.com)

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A Large Scale Study of the Ethereum Arbitrage Ecosystem (usenix.org)

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The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennial Deaths (theatlantic.com)

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'Stuck': Housing market malaise may last for years (politico.com)

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The Coldest Cream (jstor.org)

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Why going to sleep during the 'golden hour' could save your life (telegraph.co.uk)

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'NEETS' and 'new unemployables' – why some young adults aren't working (cnbc.com)

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Beyond longevity: The DIY quest to cheat death and stop aging (inverse.com)

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Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence (scientificamerican.com)

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A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? (wired.com)

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The and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (gq.com)

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A Huguenot philosopher realised that atheists could be virtuous (aeon.co)

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Dreaming of unlimited home computer storage capacity (ballestrini.net)

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Astrophysicist Reveal Major Problem We'll Encounter If Humans Colonize the Moon (inverse.com)

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Why teenagers aren't what they used to be (bbc.com)

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Chasing Utopia, Startup Style (noemamag.com)

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Putin and Xi Are Way Beyond the Rubicon (noemamag.com)

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The corporate / academic / public AI value gap (bpodgursky.com)

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What should Econ 101 courses teach students today? (aeon.co)

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The Uber-wealthy families who control much of the food system (abc.net.au)

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Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Are Alone in the Galaxy (gizmodo.com)

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The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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You Can Set Up a Home Security Camera System Without Using the Cloud (lifehacker.com)

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The brutal business practices of Amazon (vanityfair.com)

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Congress sends Biden a bill that could ban TikTok – after the 2024 election (nbcnews.com)

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If You Think You're a Genius, You're Crazy (nautil.us)

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Distribution Is King (every.to/napkin-math)

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What Sam Altman's Prediction About the $1B One-Person Business Model Means 4 You (medium.com/swlh)

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Why Ukraine Is Losing the War (politico.eu)

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A Dying Man's Lost Recipe Made His Daughter a Multimillionaire (fa-mag.com)

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When Is a Side Hustle Worth It? (thecut.com)

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Secret Code Words You Might Want to Know (mentalfloss.com)

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I'm 60 and wanna live to 100. Is my years of drinking and inactivity a problem? (theguardian.com)

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Tis How Chain Restaurants Feed Customers (thetakeout.com)

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The Dreaded "Tell Me About Yourself" Question During a Job Interview (mentalfloss.com)

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Bring Back the Computer Room (harpersbazaar.com)

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Why The Pentagon wants to build replaceable, AI-enabled drones (vox.com)

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Book Excerpt: How Robots Have Become Trusted Surgical Assistants (undark.org)

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Women with student loan debt face 'multiple financial pressures,' expert says (cnbc.com)

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Tis how to skim a privacy policy to spot red flags (washingtonpost.com)

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People Are Finding Love in Running Clubs (popsugar.com)

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SciFi Romance of the Century Predicted Our Bleak Relationship with Tech (inverse.com)