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Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent (arstechnica.com)

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Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage demand during peak hours (theregister.com)

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Quantum experiment shows events may have no fixed order (phys.org)

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What Will It Take to Build the World's Largest Data Center? (ieee.org)

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Trump Says He'll Sign Order to Pay TSA (gizmodo.com)

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Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5T – 70% of the US budget (tomshardware.com)

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Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants (theregister.com)

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Unusual trading activity raises possibility of grave national security breach (ms.now)

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San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It's Set to Come Back (nytimes.com)

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New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety (techcrunch.com)

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Orbital data centers, part 1: There's no way this is economically viable, right? (arstechnica.com)

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Andy Weir on Writing the Hit Book Behind the Movie 'Project Hail Mary' (nytimes.com)

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What Happens If AI Makes Things Too Easy for Us? (ieee.org)

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Bipartisan bill seeks to ban sports betting on Kalshi and Polymarket (techcrunch.com)

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Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on "free" TurboTax ads (arstechnica.com)

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Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricing–A First in Canada (thewalrus.ca)

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China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns (reuters.com)

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OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43 following secret cancer battle (nypost.com)

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Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI's Kimi (techcrunch.com)

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Trapped! Inside a self-driving car during an anti-robot attack (seattletimes.com)

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AI agent broke out of testing environment and mined crypto without permission (livescience.com)

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How Will AI Affect the US Labor Market? (goldmansachs.com)

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Canada moves towards homegrown rocket launches (ctvnews.ca)

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Musk liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44B takeover (reuters.com)

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Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' (phys.org)

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ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested (npr.org)

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Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America (arstechnica.com)

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Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos (nytimes.com)

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Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans (theguardian.com)

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7-ton asteroid causes fireball seen over Ohio (wlwt.com)

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OpenAI's own mental health experts unanimously opposed "naughty" ChatGPT launch (arstechnica.com)

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Do political social media ads influence the outcome of elections? (phys.org)

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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It (nytimes.com)

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Donut Lab Is on the Defensive for Its Solid-State Battery Claims (ieee.org)

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New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking (theguardian.com)

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Global EV sales hit 1.1M – Europe surges while the US slides (electrek.co)

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What Does Extreme Wealth Do to the Brain? (nymag.com)

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Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (thebignewsletter.com)

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Thousands of authors publish 'empty' book in protest over AI using their work (theguardian.com)

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European Space Agency, China achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites (theregister.com)

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Scientists discover how falling cats almost always make perfect landings (phys.org)

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AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention, new report shows (techcrunch.com)

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Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons (arstechnica.com)

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Teenagers are getting far less sleep now than they did in late 2000s, new study (medicalxpress.com)

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Since 1960, the world has lost languages – and gained thousands (asteriskmag.com)

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California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files (tomshardware.com)

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NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun (sciencenews.org)

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Taara Brings Fiber-Optic Speeds to Open-Air Laser Links (ieee.org)

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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on Résumé (arstechnica.com)

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China's 792M kWh compressed air energy station now operational (interestingengineering.com)

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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence [pdf] (sanity.io)

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China's students used to chase tech, finance jobs. Now, choosing manufacturing (businessinsider.com)

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Chinese industry call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools (tomshardware.com)

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Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? (quantamagazine.org)

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Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than 'speed of thought' (theguardian.com)

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Accenture down to buy Downdetector as part of $1.2B deal (theregister.com)

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People Really Are More Likely to Commit Crimes After a Cancer Diagnosis (vice.com)

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White-Collar Workers Are Not Okay (macleans.ca)

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The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' (honest-broker.com)

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An EV Prediction That Came 100 Years Too Soon (ieee.org)

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When I lost my university email, my identity as scientist took an unexpected hit (science.org)

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AI cracks Roman-era board game (phys.org)

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The trap Anthropic built for itself (techcrunch.com)

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[flagged] The war against PDFs is heating up (economist.com)

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Claude hits No 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection (cnbc.com)

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Hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated Pentagon's showdown with Anthropic (washingtonpost.com)

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'Truly spectacular' drug for sleeping sickness raises hopes for eradication (science.org)

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Perhaps People Are Cynical About Success in the Creative Arts for a Reason (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Finance techie says cloned Bloomberg's $30k/year Terminal with Perplexity (tomshardware.com)

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The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier (bigthinkmedia.substack.com)

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Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults (jamanetwork.com)

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The Man Who Stole Infinity (quantamagazine.org)

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How to Close a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories (thewalrus.ca)

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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)

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Land Grab for Data Centers Is One More Obstacle to Much-Needed Housing (wsj.com)

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Sliderule Emulator with Equation Solver (amateurradio.com)

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Why laws named after tragedies win public support (phys.org)

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)

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China's brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead (techcrunch.com)

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Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds (quantamagazine.org)

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EVs are making your air cleaner (grist.org)

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TikToker Khaby Lame's $975M deal is riding on a crashing stock (businessinsider.com)

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Trump plans 10% global tariff, says refund fights may take years (reuters.com)

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The battle over Scott Adams' AI afterlife (businessinsider.com)

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Laser-Written Glass Could Store Data for Millennia (ieee.org)

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From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round (arstechnica.com)

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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)

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How the Visa Debate for Foreign Workers Fuels Racism Against South Asians (nytimes.com)

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There Is No Great Millennial Novel (magazinenongrata.com)

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ChatGPT's Translation Skills Parallel Most Human Translators (ieee.org)

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A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later (arstechnica.com)

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Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction (bbc.com)

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Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor and 'Godfather' mainstay, dead at 95 (cnbc.com)

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Administration may force data center builders like Meta to 'internalize' costs (cnbc.com)

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Why Google just issued a rare 100-year bond (cnn.com)

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Fake job recruiters hide malware in developer coding challenges (bleepingcomputer.com)

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On Tilt – America's new gambling epidemic (harpers.org)

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Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal's Tanks with Trunks (nytimes.com)

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CEO of Digital Asset Company SafeMoon Sentenced to 100 Months in Prison (justice.gov)